2006 in chess

Events in chess in 2006:

Events

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.
December 29 – 44th Indian Chess 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.
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.

In 2006 FIDE awarded the title of Grandmaster to the following players:

In 2006 FIDE awarded the title Woman Grandmaster to the following players:

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