2018 in chess

Major chess events that took place in 2018 included the Candidates Tournament, won by Fabiano Caruana, who earned the right to challenge Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2018. Magnus Carlsen won the match on tiebreaks and retained the title of World Chess Champion. There were two Women's [World Chess Championship] events; the first a match held in May between Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi, won by Ju Wenjun, and the second, held in November, a 64-player knockout tournament where Ju Wenjun defended her title.

2018 tournaments

This is a list of 15 significant 2018 chess tournaments:

Tournament

System

Dates

Players

Winner

Runner-up

Third

Round robin

12–28 Jan

Robert Abbott, American game designer and chess variant creator.
Peggy Clarke, British Women's Champion in 1966.
Roberto Luis Debarnot, Argentine International Master and three-time Olympian.
Győző Forintos, Hungarian Grandmaster, chess writer and six-time Olympian.
Giam Choo Kwee, Singaporean International Master, four-time Olympian, and two-time Singapore Chess Champion.
Ruth Haring, American chess Woman International Master and five-time Olympian.
Nino Khurtsidze, Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, five-time Olympian, Georgian Champion in 1998, and five-time Georgian Women's Champion.
Stefán Kristjánsson, Icelandic Grandmaster and five-time Olympian.
Aloyzas Kveinys, Lithuanian Grandmaster and eight-time Olympian.
Milunka Lazarević, Serbian chess player and journalist.
Anatoly Lein, Soviet and American Grandmaster.
Erwin Nievergelt, Swiss Olympian in 1954 and 1958.
Eric Schiller, American FIDE Master and chess author.
Philip Short, Irish FIDE Master and five-time Irish Champion.
Evgeni Vasiukov, Soviet Grandmaster and 1995 World Senior Champion.