2017 in chess

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Major chess events that took place in 2017 included the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 knockout tournament, the Chess World Cup and the FIDE Grand Prix Series

2017 tournaments

This is a list of significant 2017 chess tournaments:

Tournament	Type	Dates	Players (2700+)	Winner	Runner-up	Third
Tata Steel Chess Tournament	Round Robin	13–29 Jan	14 (13)	Wesley So	Magnus Carlsen	Baskaran Adhiban
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival	Swiss	24 Jan–2 Feb	255 (12)	Hikaru Nakamura	David Antón Guijarro	Yu Yangyi
FIDE Grand Prix 2017 Sharjah	Swiss	18–27 Feb	18 (13)	Alexander Grischuk	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Zurich Chess Challenge	Round Robin	12–27 April	8 (6)	Hikaru Nakamura	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Viswanathan Anand
Women's World Chess Championship 2017	Knockout	10 Feb–5 Mar	64	Tan Zhongyi	Anna Muzychuk	Alexandra Kosteniuk Harika Dronavalli
U.S. Chess Championship	Round Robin	28 Mar–10 Apr	12 (3)	Wesley So	Alexander Onischuk	Fabiano Caruana
FIDE Grand Prix 2017 Moscow	Swiss	12–21 May	18 (14)	Ding Liren	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Hou Yifan
European Individual Chess Championship	Swiss	29 May–10 Jun	402 (9)	Maxim Matlakov	Baadur Jobava	Vladimir Fedoseev
Norway Chess 2017	Round Robin	5–17 Jun	10 (10)	Levon Aronian	Hikaru Nakamura	Vladimir Kramnik
World Team Chess Championship	Team	16–28 Jun	10	China	Russia	Poland
FIDE Grand Prix 2017 Geneva	Swiss	6–15 Jul	18 (14)	Teimour Radjabov	Alexander Grischuk	Ian Nepomniachtchi
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2017	Round Robin	15–23 Jul	8 (5)	Radoslaw Wojtaszek	Vladimir Fedoseev	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Sinquefield Cup 2017	Round Robin	2–11 Aug	10 (10)	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Magnus Carlsen	Viswanathan Anand
Chess World Cup 2017	Knockout	3–27 Sept	128 (40)			Wesley So Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Isle of Man International Masters 2017	Swiss	23 Sept–1 Oct	161 (13)
FIDE Grand Prix 2017 Palma	Swiss	16–27 Nov	18
London Chess Classic 2017	Round Robin	30 Nov–11 Dec

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