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2017 in chess

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This article details the year of 2017 with respect to the game of chess. Major chess-related events that took place in 2017 include the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 knockout tournament, the Chess World Cup, the FIDE Grand Prix Series, and the abolishing of the consecutiveness requirement within the fivefold repetition rule.

2017 tournaments

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This is a list of significant 2017 chess tournaments:

Tournament System Dates Players (2700+) Winner Runner-up Third
Tata Steel Chess Tournament Round robin 13–29 Jan 14 (13) United States Wesley So Norway Magnus Carlsen India Baskaran Adhiban
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival Swiss 24 Jan – 2 Feb 255 (12) United States Hikaru Nakamura Spain David Antón Guijarro China Yu Yangyi
FIDE Grand Prix 2017 (Sharjah) Swiss 18–27 Feb 18 (13) Russia Alexander Grischuk France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Zurich Chess Challenge Round robin 12–27 Apr 8 (6) United States Hikaru Nakamura Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi India Viswanathan Anand
Women's World Chess Championship 2017 Knockout 10 Feb – 5 Mar 64 China Tan Zhongyi Ukraine Anna Muzychuk Russia Alexandra Kosteniuk
India Harika Dronavalli
U.S. Chess Championship Round robin 28 Mar – 10 Apr 12 (3) United States Wesley So United States Alexander Onischuk United States Fabiano Caruana
FIDE Grand Prix 2017 (Moscow) Swiss 12–21 May 18 (14) China Ding Liren Azerbaijan Shakhriyar Mamedyarov China Hou Yifan
European Individual Chess Championship Swiss 29 May – 10 Jun 402 (9) Russia Maxim Matlakov Georgia (country) Baadur Jobava Russia Vladimir Fedoseev
Norway Chess 2017 Round robin 5–17 Jun 10 (10) Armenia Levon Aronian United States Hikaru Nakamura Russia Vladimir Kramnik
World Team Chess Championship Team 16–28 Jun 10 teams China China Russia Russia Poland Poland
FIDE Grand Prix 2017 (Geneva) Swiss 6–15 Jul 18 (14) Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi Russia Alexander Grischuk
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2017 Round robin 15–23 Jul 8 (5) Poland Radoslaw Wojtaszek Russia Vladimir Fedoseev France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Sinquefield Cup 2017 Round robin 2–11 Aug 10 (10) France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Norway Magnus Carlsen India Viswanathan Anand
Chess World Cup 2017 Knockout 3–27 Sep 128 (40) Armenia Levon Aronian China Ding Liren United States Wesley So
France Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Isle of Man International Masters 2017 Swiss 23 Sep – 1 Oct 161 (13) Norway Magnus Carlsen India Viswanathan Anand United States Hikaru Nakamura
FIDE Grand Prix 2017 (Palma de Mallorca) Swiss 16–27 Nov 18 (14) Russia Dmitry Jakovenko Armenia Levon Aronian Azerbaijan Teimour Radjabov
London Chess Classic 2017 Round robin 30 Nov – 11 Dec 10 (10) United States Fabiano Caruana Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi Norway Magnus Carlsen
2017 World Rapid Chess Championship Swiss 26–28 Dec 134 (32) India Viswanathan Anand Russia Vladimir Fedoseev Russia Ian Nepomniachtchi
2017 World Blitz Chess Championship Swiss 29–30 Dec 138 (25) Norway Magnus Carlsen Russia Sergey Karjakin India Viswanathan Anand

Deaths

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