2018 in chess

This is a list of significant 2018 chess tournaments:

Tournament	System	Dates	Players (2700+)	Winner	Runner-up	Third
Tata Steel Chess Tournament	Round robin	12–28 Jan	14 (11)	Magnus Carlsen	Anish Giri	Vladimir Kramnik
Gibraltar Chess Festival	Swiss	23 Jan – 1 Feb	276 (12)	Levon Aronian	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave	Hikaru Nakamura
Candidates Tournament 2018	Round robin	10–28 Mar	8 (8)	Fabiano Caruana	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Sergey Karjakin
Grenke Chess Classic 2018	Round robin	31 Mar – 9 Apr	10 (7)	Fabiano Caruana	Magnus Carlsen	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Nikita Vitiugov
Shamkir Chess 2018	Round robin	18–28 Apr	10 (10)	Magnus Carlsen	Ding Liren	Sergey Karjakin
Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (match)	Match	2–20 May	2 (0)	Ju Wenjun	Tan Zhongyi	—
Norway Chess 2018	Round robin	27 May – 7 Jun	10 (10)	Fabiano Caruana	Magnus Carlsen	Hikaru Nakamura
Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2018	Round robin	14–22 Jul	8 (5)	Ian Nepomniachtchi	Anish Giri	Vladislav Kovalev
Biel Chess Festival 2018[1]	Round robin	22 Jul – 1 Aug	6 (5)	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Magnus Carlsen	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Sinquefield Cup 2018	Round robin	18–28 Aug	10 (10)	Magnus Carlsen Fabiano Caruana Levon Aronian	—	—
43rd Chess Olympiad (open event)	Swiss	23 Sep – 6 Oct	teams	China	United States	Russia
43rd Chess Olympiad (women event)	Swiss	23 Sep – 6 Oct	teams	China	Ukraine	Georgia
Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (tournament)	Knockout	2–23 Nov	64
World Chess Championship 2018	Match	9–28 Nov	2 (2)	Magnus Carlsen	Fabiano Caruana	—
London Chess Classic 2018	Round robin	Dec

• Robert Abbott (2 March 1933 – 20 February 2018), American game designer and chess variant creator.
• Peggy Clarke (29 October 1937 – 15 September 2018), British Women's Champion in 1966.
• Roberto Luis Debarnot (5 August 1947 – 25 May 2018), Argentine International Master and three-time Olympian.
• Győző Forintos (30 July 1935 – 5 December 2018), Hungarian Grandmaster, chess writer and six-time Olympian.
• Giam Choo Kwee (7 May 1942 – 13 August 2018), Singaporean International Master, four-time Olympian, and two-time Singapore Chess Champion.
• Ruth Haring (23 January 1955 – 29 November 2018), American chess Woman International Master and five-time Olympian.
• Nino Khurtsidze (28 September 1975 – 22 April 2018), Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, five-time Olympian, Georgian Champion in 1998, and five-time Georgian Women's Champion.
• Stefán Kristjánsson (8 December 1982 – 28 February 2018), Icelandic Grandmaster and five-time Olympian.[2]
• Aloyzas Kveinys (9 July 1962 – 26 July 2018), Lithuanian Grandmaster and eight-time Olympian.
• Milunka Lazarević (1 December 1932 – 15 December 2018), Serbian chess player and journalist.
• Anatoly Lein (28 March 1931 – 1 March 2018), Soviet and American Grandmaster.
• Erwin Nievergelt (29 April 1929 — 4 August 2018), Swiss Olympian in 1954 and 1958.
• Eric Schiller (20 March 1955 – 3 November 2018), American FIDE Master and chess author.
• Philip Short (15 May 1960 – 31 August 2018), Irish FIDE Master and five-time Irish Champion.
• Evgeni Vasiukov (5 March 1933 – 10 May 2018), Soviet Grandmaster and 1995 World Senior Champion.