2017 in chess

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

This is a list of significant 2017 chess tournaments:

Tournament

System

Dates

Players

Winner

Runner-up

Third

Tata Steel Chess Tournament

Round robin

13–29 Jan

Deaths

Hans Berliner, American International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and World Correspondence Chess Champion.
Arthur Bisguier, American Grandmaster, United States Champion in 1954, two-time US Junior Champion, three-time US Open Champion and five-time Olympian.
Enver Bukić, Slovenian Grandmaster
Algimantas Butnorius, Lithuanian Grandmaster and 2007 World Senior Champion.
Cristina Adela Foișor, Romanian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, five-time Women's Romanian Champion and fourteen-time Olympian.
Reinhart Fuchs, German International Master and six-time Olympian on the East German team.
Josef Kupper, Swiss International Master, three-time Swiss Champion and four-time Olympian winning the individual silver in 1954.
Viktor Kupreichik, Soviet and Belarusian Grandmaster, two-time Belarusian Champion.
Hillar Kärner, Estonian International Master and seven-time Estonian Champion.
Mirosława Litmanowicz, Polish Woman International Master, five-time Olympian, and Polish Women's Champion in 1968.
William Lombardy, American Grandmaster, seven-time Olympian, World Junior Champion in 1957.
Vladimir Malaniuk, Soviet and Ukrainian Grandmaster and three-time Ukrainian Champion.
Nikolay Minev, Bulgarian International Master and chess writer.
Corvin Radovici, Romanian International Master and three-time Olympian.
Zoltan Sarosy, Hungarian and Canadian chess player, three-time Canadian Correspondence Champion.
Samuel Schweber, Argentine International Master and five-time Olympian.
Raymond Smullyan, American logician and creator of retrograde analysis chess problems.
Vadim Teplitsky, Soviet and Israeli chess historian.
Larissa Volpert, Soviet Woman Grandmaster and three-time Soviet Women's Champion.
Valeri Yandemirov, Russian Grandmaster.
Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Soviet, Russian and Israeli Woman Grandmaster, three-time Soviet Women's Champion, two-time Olympian and 1993 Women's World Senior Champion.
Ljubica Živković, Yugoslav Woman International Master and 1959 Yugoslav Women's Champion.