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The Chess World Cup 2017 was a 128-player single-elimination chess tournament, held in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 2 to 27 September 2017. It was won by Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian . This was the second time he had won the Chess World Cup , 12 years after his first win in 2005 .
This article details the year of 2017 with respect to the game of chess.Major chess-related events that took place in 2017 include the Women's World Chess Championship 2017 knockout tournament, the Chess World Cup, the FIDE Grand Prix Series, and the abolishing of the consecutiveness requirement within the fivefold repetition rule.
The FIDE World Cup is a major chess event organized by FIDE, the international governing body. Three different formats have been used: Three different formats have been used: In 2000 and 2002, it was a multi-stage tournament , with a group stage consisting of 24 players in four groups, followed by a knockout stage .
Aronian won the FIDE World Cup in 2005 and 2017. He led the Armenian national team to the gold medals in the Chess Olympiads of 2006 (Turin), 2008 (Dresden) and 2012 (Istanbul) [5] and at the World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo 2011. He won the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010, qualifying him for the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess ...
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
In the Chess World Cup 2017, Balogun was defeated by World Champion Magnus Carlsen in the first round, becoming the first African to play against a reigning world champion in a competitive match. [2] In 2021 he won the Nigerian chess championships. In the Chess World Cup 2023, he was defeated by Alexandr Predke in the first round. [3]
In order of priority, these are: loser of the World Chess Championship 2016 match, the top two finishers in the Chess World Cup 2017, the top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2017, next two highest rated players (average FIDE rating on the 12 monthly lists from January to December 2017, with at least 30 games played) who played in Chess ...
At the Chess World Cup 2017, Nepomniachtchi defeated Mladen Palac and Baskaran Adhiban in the first and second rounds, but lost to Baadur Jobava in tiebreaks. [34] On 10 December 2017, Ian won a chess game against world champion Magnus Carlsen at the super tournament in London.