2017 in chess
Major chess events that took place in 2017 included the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 knockout tournament, the Chess World Cup and the FIDE Grand Prix Series
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2017 tournaments
This is a list of significant 2017 chess tournaments:
Deaths
- Hans Berliner (27 January 1929 – 13 January 2017), American International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster and World Correspondence Chess Champion (1965–1968).
- Arthur Bisguier (8 October 1929 – 5 April 2017), American Grandmaster, United States Champion in 1954, two-time US Junior Champion, three-time US Open Champion and five-time Olympian.
- Algimantas Butnorius (20 February 1946 – 30 October 2017), Lithuanian Grandmaster and 2007 World Senior Champion.
- Cristina Adela Foișor (7 June 1967 – 22 January 2017), Romanian International Master and Woman Grandmaster, five-time Women's Romanian Champion and fourteen-time Olympian.
- Reinhart Fuchs (28 September 1934 – 16 December 2017), German International Master and six-time Olympian on the East German team.
- Josef Kupper (10 March 1932 – 5 June 2017), Swiss International Master, three-time Swiss Champion and four-time Olympian winning the individual silver in 1954.
- Viktor Kupreichik (3 July 1949 – 22 May 2017), Soviet and Belarusian Grandmaster, two-time Belarusian Champion.
- Hillar Kärner (27 July 1935 – 19 February 2017), Estonian International Master and seven-time Estonian Champion.
- Mirosława Litmanowicz (6 September 1928 – 18 August 2017), Polish Woman International Master, five-time Olympian, and Polish Women's Champion in 1968.
- William Lombardy (4 December 1937 – 13 October 2017), American Grandmaster, seven-time Olympian, World Junior Champion in 1957.
- Vladimir Malaniuk (21 July 1957 – 2 July 2017), Soviet and Ukrainian Grandmaster and three-time Ukrainian Champion.
- Nikolay Minev (8 November 1931 – 10 March 2017), Bulgarian International Master and chess writer.
- Corvin Radovici (19 December 1931 – 17 August 2017), Romanian International Master and three-time Olympian.
- Zoltan Sarosy (23 August 1906 – 19 June 2017), Hungarian and Canadian chess player, three-time Canadian Correspondence Champion.
- Samuel Schweber (16 July 1936 – 1 January 2017), Argentine International Master and five-time Olympian.
- Raymond Smullyan (25 May 1919 – 6 February 2017), American logician and creator of retrograde analysis chess problems.
- Vadim Teplitsky (18 June 1927 – 30 April 2017), Soviet and Israeli chess historian.
- Larissa Volpert (30 March 1926 – 1 October 2017), Soviet Woman Grandmaster and three-time Soviet Women's Champion.
- Valeri Yandemirov (11 February 1963 – 16 November 2017), Russian Grandmaster.
- Tatiana Zatulovskaya (8 December 1935 – 2 July 2017), Soviet, Russian and Israeli Woman Grandmaster, three-time Soviet Women's Champion, two-time Olympian and 1993 Women's World Senior Champion.
- Ljubica Živković (25 September 1936 – 13 June 2017), Yugoslav Woman International Master and 1959 Yugoslav Women's Champion.
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