2006 in chess

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Events in chess in 2006:

Events

May 5 – The world's oldest living Grandmaster, Andor Lilienthal, celebrates his 95th birthday. In his career Lilienthal played World Champions Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, and Mikhail Botvinnik.^[1]

Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) defeats Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) in the 2006 World Championship title unification match to become undisputed world champion.

December 26 – The All India Chess Federation imposes a ten-year ban on Umakant Sharma for using a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap to gain assistance from a chess computer during a FIDE rated tournament in Delhi.^[2]^[3]
December 29 – 44th Indian Chess Championship (National "A" Championship) in Atul won by GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly for the fourth consecutive year with the score 9/13. The tournament format was changed to a 13-round Swiss instead of the 22 player round-robin used previously.^[4]
December 30 – Iranian Chess Championship in Tehran won by GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami at 8.5/11. The women's champion is WGM Shadi Paridar scoring 9.5/11.^[5]

In 2006 FIDE awarded the title of Grandmaster to the following players:^[6]^[7]^[8]

In 2006 FIDE awarded the title Woman Grandmaster to the following players:^[6]^[7]^[8]

January 15 – Herbert Avram (1913–2006), 92, United States.
May 13 - Ratmir Kholmov (1925–2006), 80, Soviet/Russian Grandmaster.
May 13 – Burt Hochberg (1933–2006), 73, chess writer and editor, editor of Chess Life.
May 20 – Wolfgang Unzicker (1925–2006), 80, German Grandmaster, "world champion of amateurs".
July 2 – René Letelier (1915–2006), 91, Chilean International Master.
July 14 – Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963–2006), 43, Polish Grandmaster.
July 23 – Rudolf Teschner (1922–2006), 84, German Grandmaster and chess writer.
July 26 – Jessie Gilbert (1987–2006), 19, English Woman FIDE Master.
August 14 – Adriaan de Groot (1914–2006), 92, Dutch chess master and psychologist.
November 29 – Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska (1931–2006), 75, Polish Woman Grandmaster.
December 5 – David Bronstein (1924–2006), 82, Soviet/Ukrainian Grandmaster and renowned chess writer, challenger in the 1951 World Championship match.

^ Anzikeev, Vladimir (May 2006), "The Last of the Chess Mohicans", 64, retrieved 2008-03-15
^ Keizer, Gregg (27 December 2006), "Chess Player Banned 10 Years For Cheating With Bluetooth, Computer", InformationWeek, retrieved 2008-01-25
^ "Umakant Sharma banned for 10 years", The Hindu, Chennai, India, 27 December 2006, retrieved 2008-01-25
^ Zaveri, Praful (5 January 2007), "Indian National Championship won by Surya Ganguly", ChessBase News, retrieved 2008-01-25
^ Akbarinia, Arash (5 January 2007), "Iranian Chess championships and talents", ChessBase News, retrieved 2008-01-25
^ ^a ^b Titles Approved by FIDE Presidential Board, Al Ain 2006 Archived 2007-08-26 at the Wayback Machine from fide.com
^ ^a ^b Titles approved at 77th FIDE Congress. Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine from fide.com
^ ^a ^b Titles confirmed by the 3rd quarter Presidential Board 2006 Archived 2006-10-18 at the Wayback Machine from fide.com