Major chess events that took place in 2016 included the Women's World Chess Championship 2016 between Mariya Muzychuk and Hou Yifan, won by Hou Yifan, and the Candidates Tournament, won by Sergey Karjakin, who challenged Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2016. Magnus Carlsen won the match on tiebreaks and retained the title of World Chess Champion.

2016 tournaments

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This is a list of significant 2016 chess tournaments:

Tournament Dates Players Winner Runner-up Third
2016 Tata Steel Chess Tournament 16–31 Jan 14   Magnus Carlsen   Fabiano Caruana   Ding Liren
2016 Gibraltar Chess Festival 26 Jan – 4 Feb 150   Hikaru Nakamura   Maxime Vachier-Lagrave   Étienne Bacrot
2016 Zurich Chess Challenge 12–15 Feb 6   Hikaru Nakamura   Viswanathan Anand   Vladimir Kramnik
Women's World Chess Championship 2016 1–14 Mar 2   Hou Yifan   Mariya Muzychuk
Candidates Tournament 2016 11–30 Mar 8   Sergey Karjakin   Fabiano Caruana   Viswanathan Anand
U.S. Chess Championship 2016 13–30 Apr 12   Fabiano Caruana   Wesley So   Hikaru Nakamura
Altibox Norway Chess 2016 18–30 Apr 10   Magnus Carlsen   Levon Aronian   Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Shamkir Chess 2016 26 May – 4 Jun 10   Shakhriyar Mamedyarov   Fabiano Caruana   Anish Giri
Paris Grand Chess Tour 9–12 Jun 10   Hikaru Nakamura   Magnus Carlsen   Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Leuven Grand Chess Tour 17–20 Jun 10   Magnus Carlsen   Wesley So   Levon Aronian
2016 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting 9–17 Jul 8   Maxime Vachier-Lagrave   Vladimir Kramnik
  Fabiano Caruana
  Leinier Domínguez Pérez
Sinquefield Cup 2016 4–16 Aug 10   Wesley So   Levon Aronian   Veselin Topalov
World Chess Championship 2016 11–30 Nov 2   Magnus Carlsen   Sergey Karjakin
London Chess Classic 2016 9–18 Dec 10   Wesley So   Fabiano Caruana   Hikaru Nakamura
2017 World Rapid Chess Championship 26–28 Dec 106   Vassily Ivanchuk   Alexander Grischuk   Magnus Carlsen
2017 World Blitz Chess Championship 29–30 Dec 108   Sergey Karjakin   Magnus Carlsen   Daniil Dubov

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