2013 in chess

List of years in chess (table)

Events in chess during the year 2013:

2013 tournaments

This is a list of significant 2013 chess tournaments:

TournamentDatesPlayersWinnerRunner-upThird
2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament12–27 January14 Magnus Carlsen Levon Aronian Viswanathan Anand
2013 Zurich Chess Challenge23 February – 1 March4 Fabiano Caruana Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik
2013 Candidates Tournament15 March – 1 April8 Magnus Carlsen Vladimir Kramnik Peter Svidler
2013 Zurich Grand Prix17 April – 1 May12 Veselin Topalov Hikaru Nakamura Ruslan Ponomariov
2013 Alekhine Memorial20 April – 1 May10 Levon Aronian Boris Gelfand Viswanathan Anand
2013 Norway Chess7–18 May10 Sergey Karjakin Magnus Carlsen Hikaru Nakamura
2013 Thessaloniki Grand Prix21 May – 4 June12 Leinier Domínguez Fabiano Caruana Gata Kamsky
2013 Tal Memorial12–23 June10 Boris Gelfand Magnus Carlsen Fabiano Caruana
2013 Beijing Grand Prix3–17 July12 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov Alexander Grischuk Veselin Topalov
2013 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting26 July – 4 August10 Michael Adams Vladimir Kramnik Arkadij Naiditsch
2013 Chess World Cup10 August – 4 September128 Vladimir Kramnik Dmitry Andreikin Evgeny Tomashevsky
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2013 Sinquefield Cup9–15 September4 Magnus Carlsen Hikaru Nakamura Levon Aronian
2013 Women's World Chess Championship10–27 September2 Hou Yifan Anna Ushenina–
2013 Paris Grand Prix21 September – 5 October12 Fabiano Caruana Boris Gelfand Hikaru Nakamura
2013 Bilbao Chess Masters Final7–12 October4 Levon Aronian Michael Adams Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2013 World Chess Championship6–26 November2 Magnus Carlsen Viswanathan Anand–
2013 London Chess Classic7–15 December16 Hikaru Nakamura Boris Gelfand Michael Adams
Vladimir Kramnik

Key dates

FIDE World Rankings

The FIDE World Rankings as of September 2013 were:[1]

Rank Player Rating
1 Magnus Carlsen 2862
2 Levon Aronian 2813
3 Vladimir Kramnik 2794
4 Alexander Grischuk 2785
5 Fabiano Caruana 2779
6 Viswanathan Anand 2775
7 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 2775
8 Sergey Karjakin 2772
9 Hikaru Nakamura 2772
10 Veselin Topalov 2769
11 Boris Gelfand 2764
12 Michael Adams 2761
13 Leinier Domínguez 2757
14 Ruslan Ponomariov 2756
15 Peter Svidler 2746
16 Gata Kamsky 2741
17 Peter Leko 2740
18 Alexander Morozevich 2739
19 Anish Giri 2737
20 Wang Hao 2736
gollark: Correction: `/etc/motd`.
gollark: Wait, sorry, I'm confused with CC. `/etc/motd.txt` for OC I think.
gollark: `rom/motd.txt`
gollark: But it won't work *natively*.
gollark: There are CC emulators on OC.

References
  1. FIDE: Top 100 Players
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