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2011 in chess

January 01, 1970

Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2011:

Events edit

January edit

FIDE January 2011 Top Ten
Rank Prev Player Rating Chng
1 2   Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 2814 +12
2 1   Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2810 +6
3 3   Levon Aronian (ARM) 2805 +4
4 4   Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 2784 -7
5 9   Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2776 +16
6 5   Veselin Topalov (BUL) 2775 -11
7 6   Alexander Grischuk (RUS) 2773 +2
8 8   Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) 2772 +9
9 7   Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) 2764 0
10 15   Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2751 +10

February edit

March edit

FIDE March 2011 Top Ten
Rank Prev Player Rating Chng
1 2   Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2817 +7
2 1   Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 2815 +1
3 3   Levon Aronian (ARM) 2808 +3
4 4   Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 2785 +1
5 9   Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) 2779 +15
6 5   Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2776 0
7 6   Veselin Topalov (BUL) 2775 0
8 10   Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2774 +23
9 8   Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) 2772 0
10 7   Alexander Grischuk (RUS) 2747 -26

April edit

May edit

FIDE May 2011 Top Ten
Rank Prev Player Rating Chng
1 1   Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2817 0
2 2   Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 2815 0
3 3   Levon Aronian (ARM) 2808 0
4 4   Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 2785 0
5 5   Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) 2776 -3
6 6   Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2776 0
7 7   Veselin Topalov (BUL) 2775 0
8 8   Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2774 0
9 9   Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) 2772 0
10 11   Vugar Gashimov (AZE) 2760 +14

June edit

July edit

FIDE July 2011 Top Ten
Rank Prev Player Rating Chng
1 2   Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 2821 +6
2 1   Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2817 0
3 3   Levon Aronian (ARM) 2805 -3
4 6   Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2788 +12
5 4   Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 2781 -4
6 8   Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2770 -4
7 5   Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) 2768 -8
8 7   Veselin Topalov (BUL) 2768 -7
9 9   Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) 2765 -7
10 11   Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) 2764 +10

August edit

September edit

FIDE September 2011 Top Ten
Rank Prev Player Rating Chng
1 1   Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 2823 +2
2 2   Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2817 0
3 3   Levon Aronian (ARM) 2807 +2
4 5   Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 2791 +10
5 4   Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2772 -16
6 8   Veselin Topalov (BUL) 2768 0
7 7   Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) 2765 -3
8 10   Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR) 2758 -6
9 13   Alexander Grischuk (RUS) 2757 +9
10 15   Gata Kamsky (USA) 2756 +15

October edit

November edit

FIDE November 2011 Top Ten
Rank Prev Player Rating Chng
1 1   Magnus Carlsen (NOR) 2826 +3
2 2   Viswanathan Anand (IND) 2811 -6
3 3   Levon Aronian (ARM) 2802 -5
4 4   Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 2800 +9
5 13   Teimour Radjabov (AZE) 2781 +29
6 7   Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) 2775 +10
7 6   Veselin Topalov (BUL) 2768 0
8 5   Sergey Karjakin (RUS) 2763 -9
9 17   Alexander Morozevich (RUS) 2762 +25
10 12   Hikaru Nakamura (USA) 2758 +5

December edit

National champions edit

Armenia edit

Azerbaijan edit

Belarus edit

Bulgaria edit

  • Women's – Darena Sikova[10]

Chile edit

  • Men's – Alvaro Valdes Escobar[11]

Croatia edit

Georgia edit

Poland edit

Romania edit

Serbia edit

Turkey edit

United States edit

Deaths edit

References edit

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Below is a list of events in chess during the year 2011 Contents 1 Events 1 1 January 1 2 February 1 3 March 1 4 April 1 5 May 1 6 June 1 7 July 1 8 August 1 9 September 1 10 October 1 11 November 1 12 December 2 National champions 2 1 Armenia 2 2 Azerbaijan 2 3 Belarus 2 4 Bulgaria 2 5 Chile 2 6 Croatia 2 7 Georgia 2 8 Poland 2 9 Romania 2 10 Serbia 2 11 Turkey 2 12 United States 3 Deaths 4 ReferencesEvents editJanuary edit FIDE January 2011 Top Ten Rank Prev Player Rating Chng 1 2 nbsp Magnus Carlsen NOR 2814 12 2 1 nbsp Viswanathan Anand IND 2810 6 3 3 nbsp Levon Aronian ARM 2805 4 4 4 nbsp Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2784 7 5 9 nbsp Sergey Karjakin RUS 2776 16 6 5 nbsp Veselin Topalov BUL 2775 11 7 6 nbsp Alexander Grischuk RUS 2773 2 8 8 nbsp Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE 2772 9 9 7 nbsp Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2764 0 10 15 nbsp Hikaru Nakamura USA 2751 10 January 1 Magnus Carlsen NOR reclaims the top position in the FIDE world rankings with an Elo rating of 2814 1 Viswanathan Anand IND falls to second with a rating of 2810 Sergey Karjakin RUS has the greatest rating change among the top 10 improving 16 points from 2760 to 2776 Hikaru Nakamura USA appears in the world top 10 for the first time with a rating of 2751 displacing Wang Yue CHN January 5 Deep Sengupta IND and Arghyadip Das IND split first at the Hastings International Chess Congress 2 Soumya Swaminathan IND wins the Indian Women s Championship 2 Yannick Pelletier SUI wins the Basel Hilton Open at the Basel Chess Festival 2 January 6 Vugar Gashimov AZE wins the 53rd Reggio Emilia tournament with a score of 6 9 2 January 9 Alexei Shirov ESP wins the Paul Keres Memorial Tournament 2 Loek van Wely NED wins the Berkeley International 2 January 15 Stewart Haslinger ENG wins the 36th Seville Open with a score of 7 5 9 3 January 16 Alexander Areshchenko UKR wins the 9th Delhi Parsvnath International Open 3 January 20 The free chess engine Houdini defeats reigning world computer chess champion Rybka in the Thoresen Chess Engines Competition 4 January 25 Rafael Leitao BRA wins the Antonio Rocha Memorial Tournament with a score of 10 11 5 January 26 Martyn Kravtsiv UKR wins the 3rd Chennai Open Tournament 5 January 30 Hikaru Nakamura wins the newly renamed 6 73rd Tata Steel Chess Tournament with a score of 9 13 half a point ahead of runner up Viswanathan Anand 5 This is Nakamura s first ever win at a super GM event 5 January 31 Zhao Zong Yuan AUS qualifies for the Chess World Cup 2011 by winning the Oceana Zonal 5 7 February edit February 3 Vassily Ivanchuk wins the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival with a score of 9 10 8 Archaeologists discover chess pieces that once belonged to James Madison at the President s Montpelier estate 9 February 6 Atanas Kolev BUL wins the 33rd Bulgarian Open 8 February 7 Vladimir Belous an untitled 18 year old takes first place at the Moscow Open 8 February 19 Le Quang Liem VIE wins the 10th Aeroflot Open in Moscow 10 February 22 Alexei Fedorov BLR wins the 9th Khazar Cup in Iran 10 February 23 Gawain Jones ENG wins the Bunratty Chess Festival 11 March edit FIDE March 2011 Top Ten Rank Prev Player Rating Chng 1 2 nbsp Viswanathan Anand IND 2817 7 2 1 nbsp Magnus Carlsen NOR 2815 1 3 3 nbsp Levon Aronian ARM 2808 3 4 4 nbsp Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2785 1 5 9 nbsp Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2779 15 6 5 nbsp Sergey Karjakin RUS 2776 0 7 6 nbsp Veselin Topalov BUL 2775 0 8 10 nbsp Hikaru Nakamura USA 2774 23 9 8 nbsp Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE 2772 0 10 7 nbsp Alexander Grischuk RUS 2747 26 March 1 Viswanathan Anand retakes the top spot in the FIDE World Rankings with an Elo rating of 2817 12 Hikaru Nakamura has the greatest rating increase gaining 23 points to reach a rating of 2774 12 Alexander Grischuk RUS has the greatest rating decline losing 26 points and falling to 2747 12 March 5 Humpy Koneru IND wins the 6th FIDE Women s Grand Prix tournament qualifying for the Women s World Chess Championship match with Hou Yifan CHN 13 March 6 Jan Smeets NED wins the 71st Noteboom Memorial tournament 13 March 7 Sergei Tiviakov NED wins the 19th Fajr Open in Iran 13 March 9 Gregory Kaidanov USA wins the Saint Louis Invitational qualifying for the 2011 US Championship 14 Ray Robson USA finishes second also qualifying 14 March 11 Levon Aronian wins the Amber chess tournament in Monaco 15 March 14 Irina Chelushkina SRB wins the 43rd Belgrade Women s International tournament 14 March 16 Yuriy Kuzubov UKR wins the Reykjavik Open 16 March 19 The chess team from the University of Texas Dallas competes against six invited Grandmasters 16 The GM team wins the match by a score of 42 5 29 5 16 March 27 Tigran L Petrosian ARM wins the 5th George Agzamov Memorial tournament 15 April edit May edit FIDE May 2011 Top Ten Rank Prev Player Rating Chng 1 1 nbsp Viswanathan Anand IND 2817 0 2 2 nbsp Magnus Carlsen NOR 2815 0 3 3 nbsp Levon Aronian ARM 2808 0 4 4 nbsp Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2785 0 5 5 nbsp Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2776 3 6 6 nbsp Sergey Karjakin RUS 2776 0 7 7 nbsp Veselin Topalov BUL 2775 0 8 8 nbsp Hikaru Nakamura USA 2774 0 9 9 nbsp Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE 2772 0 10 11 nbsp Vugar Gashimov AZE 2760 14 May 1 Viswanathan Anand remains the world number one 17 Alexander Grischuk falls out of the top 10 and is replaced by Vugar Gashimov AZE 17 June edit July edit FIDE July 2011 Top Ten Rank Prev Player Rating Chng 1 2 nbsp Magnus Carlsen NOR 2821 6 2 1 nbsp Viswanathan Anand IND 2817 0 3 3 nbsp Levon Aronian ARM 2805 3 4 6 nbsp Sergey Karjakin RUS 2788 12 5 4 nbsp Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2781 4 6 8 nbsp Hikaru Nakamura USA 2770 4 7 5 nbsp Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2768 8 8 7 nbsp Veselin Topalov BUL 2768 7 9 9 nbsp Shakhriyar Mamedyarov AZE 2765 7 10 11 nbsp Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 2764 10 July 1 Magnus Carlsen is again the world number one 18 Vugar Gashimov falls out of the top 10 and is replaced by Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 18 August edit September edit FIDE September 2011 Top Ten Rank Prev Player Rating Chng 1 1 nbsp Magnus Carlsen NOR 2823 2 2 2 nbsp Viswanathan Anand IND 2817 0 3 3 nbsp Levon Aronian ARM 2807 2 4 5 nbsp Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2791 10 5 4 nbsp Sergey Karjakin RUS 2772 16 6 8 nbsp Veselin Topalov BUL 2768 0 7 7 nbsp Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2765 3 8 10 nbsp Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 2758 6 9 13 nbsp Alexander Grischuk RUS 2757 9 10 15 nbsp Gata Kamsky USA 2756 15 September 1 Magnus Carlsen remains the world number one 19 Hikaru Nakamura and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov fall out of the top 10 and are replaced by Alexander Grischuk and Gata Kamsky USA 19 October edit November edit FIDE November 2011 Top Ten Rank Prev Player Rating Chng 1 1 nbsp Magnus Carlsen NOR 2826 3 2 2 nbsp Viswanathan Anand IND 2811 6 3 3 nbsp Levon Aronian ARM 2802 5 4 4 nbsp Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2800 9 5 13 nbsp Teimour Radjabov AZE 2781 29 6 7 nbsp Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2775 10 7 6 nbsp Veselin Topalov BUL 2768 0 8 5 nbsp Sergey Karjakin RUS 2763 9 9 17 nbsp Alexander Morozevich RUS 2762 25 10 12 nbsp Hikaru Nakamura USA 2758 5 November 1 Magnus Carlsen is again the world number one 20 Teimour Radjabov AZE surges from 13th to 5th with a ratings gain of 29 points 20 Alexander Morozevich RUS also makes a big leap going from 17th to 9th with a ratings gain of 25 points 20 Hikaru Nakamura reenters the top 10 20 Ruslan Ponomariov Alexander Grischuk and Gata Kamsky fall out of the top 10 20 December editNational champions editArmenia edit Men s Robert Hovhannisyan 5 Women s Siranush Andriasian 21 Azerbaijan edit Men s Nidjat Mamedov 8 Belarus edit Men s Andrey Zhigalko 5 Women s Anna Sharevich 22 Bulgaria edit Women s Darena Sikova 10 Chile edit Men s Alvaro Valdes Escobar 11 Croatia edit Men s Ante Brkic 5 Women s Borka Franciskovic 8 Georgia edit Women s Maia Lomineishvili 21 Poland edit Men s Mateusz Bartel 10 Women s Jolante Zawadzka 10 Romania edit Men s Constantin Lupulescu 11 Women s Cristina Adela Foișor 11 Serbia edit Men s Ivan Ivanisevic 14 Turkey edit Men s Emre Can 22 United States edit Men s Gata Kamsky 23 Women s Anna Zatonskih 24 Deaths editFebruary 12 Mato Damjanovic Croatian and Yugoslav Grandmaster dies at the age of 83 22 25 References edit Top 100 Players January 2011 FIDE Top players archive Ratings fide com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b c d e f The Week in Chess 844 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b The Week in Chess 845 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 2015 08 30 McClain Dylan Loeb January 22 2011 It Was Houdini Over Rybka in Computer Chess Challenge New York Times Retrieved 29 August 2015 a b c d e f g h The Week in Chess 847 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 2015 08 30 Corus Chess Tournament is Tata Steel Chess Tournament tatasteelchess com Corus Chess Press Retrieved 28 August 2015 Oceania Zonal Rotorua 2011 Newzealandchess co nz Archived from the original on 2016 01 29 Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b c d e The Week in Chess 848 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 2015 08 30 James Madison chess pieces unearthed at US estate The Telegraph February 3 2011 Retrieved 29 August 2015 a b c d e The Week in Chess 850 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b c d The Week in Chess 851 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b c Top 100 Players March 2011 FIDE Top players archive Ratings fide com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b c The Week in Chess 852 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 31 August 2015 a b c d The Week in Chess 853 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 1 September 2015 a b The Week in Chess 855 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 5 November 2015 a b c The Week in Chess 854 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 1 September 2015 a b Top 100 Players May 2011 FIDE Top players archive Ratings fide com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b Top 100 Players July 2011 FIDE Top players archive Ratings fide com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b Top 100 Players September 2011 FIDE Top players archive Ratings fide com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b c d e Top 100 Players November 2011 FIDE Top players archive Ratings fide com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b The Week in Chess 846 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 2015 08 30 a b c The Week in Chess 849 Theweekinchess com Retrieved 2015 08 30 Klein Mike April 28 2011 Kamsky Reigns Supreme Women Head to Tiebreak St Louis Chess Club amp Scholastic Center Retrieved 30 August 2015 Ungar Sargon Batya October 30 2013 A Passionate Rivalry Between Two Women On the Chess Board and Everywhere Else Tablet Magazine Retrieved 30 August 2015 Grandmaster Mato Damjanovic dies at 83 Chess Vibes Retrieved 30 August 2015 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 2011 in chess amp oldid 1119231371, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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