2020 in chess

The 2020 chess calendar was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but major events that took place included the Tata Steel Chess Tournament, won by Fabiano Caruana, and Norway Chess, won by Magnus Carlsen. The Candidates began in March, but, due to the pandemic, was postponed at the half-way stage with Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave leading.

2020 tournaments
This is a list of significant 2020 chess tournaments:

Deaths

 * 28 February — Gennady Kuzmin
 * 5 March — Stanislav Bogdanovich
 * 20 April — Arsen Yegiazarian
 * 22 August — Miron Sher
 * 24 August — Wolfgang Uhlmann
 * 4 September — Dmitry Svetushkin
 * 1 November — Markus Stangl
 * 17 December — Krzysztof Bulski