01/01 FIDE: Magnus Carlsen 2810, Veselin Topalov 2805, Viswanathan Anand 2790.

02/24 Reykjavik Open 2010

02/28 Cannes International. Cannes, France.

03/27 San Sebastian Open. Spain, 150 players.

06/09 45th Capablanca Memorial Elite. Havana, Cuba. Average rating 2691.

08/24 Leko vs. Gelfand. Rapid match. Miskolc, Hungary.

09/10 Carlsen vs. the World. Carlsen beats the world in 44 moves.

09/19 39th Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

10/26 Chigorin Memorial 2010 - Rapid. Moscow, Russia.

11/04 Tal Memorial. Moscow, Russia.

11/16 World Blitz championship. Moscow, Russia. Levon Aronian 1st, Teimour Radjabov 2nd, Magnus Carlsen 3rd, Boris Gelfand 4th, Hikaru Nakamura 5th.

11/19 UNAM Quadrangular Elite, Mexico. Judit Polgar beats Topalov: 3.5 - 0.5.

12/10 Russian Chess championship men - Super Final, Moscow, Russia.

12/21 Groningen Chess Festival 2010. Groningen, Netherlands.

12/24 New Guinness world record in Chess. Highest number of players (20,480) played a game of Chess simultaneously at one place.

01/07 Paul Keres Memorial. Tallinn, Estonia. Alexei Shirov first place.

01/14 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, Wijk aan Zee. Hikaru Nakamura first place.

02/09 Iranian Chess Grandmaster Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami set a new Guinness record on Tuesday and he ousted the Israeli title holder to regain the Guinness record.

03/07 Anand vs. Kasimdzhanov, Tashkent , Uzbekistan. Anand wins 3.5 - 0.5.

04/01 Blondes vs. Brunettes, Russia. Ten Blondes played against ten Brunettes.

04/14 U.S. Chess Ch. 2011, Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

05/10 46th Capablanca Memorial Elite 2011. Havana, Cuba.

05/03 Candidates Matches - World Chess championship. Gelfand 3.5 - Grischuk 2.5.

05/12 Nakamura vs. Ponomariov, Saint Louis, USA. Nakamura 6.5, Ponomariov 3.5.

05/21 St. Petersburg championship, Russia.

06/28 39th Annual World Open 2011, Philadelphia, USA. Gata Kamsky beats Michael Adams. Kamsky and Adams played an Armageddon game.

07/14 Najdorf International. Warsaw, Poland. Swiss system, 98 players.

08/11 Botvinnik Memorial Open, St. Petersburg, Russia. 166 players, Khismatullin 1st.

08/15 Botvinnik Memorial Rapid. Suzdal, Vladimir Region , Russia. Korchnoi first.

08/26 FIDE World Chess Cup. Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Knockout system, 128 players.

09/02 Botvinnik Memorial International. Moscow, Russia.

10/13 Euwe Chess Tournament organized to honour the memory of the former world champion Max Euwe. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

11/16 Tal Memorial, Moscow, Russia. Average rating: 2777. Carlsen won on tie-break.

12/21 48th Groningen Chess Festival. Groningen, Netherlands. 9 Rounds.

01/01 FIDE: Magnus Carlsen 2835, Levon Aronian 2805, Vladimir Kramnik 2801.

01/13 Tata Steel Chess 2012, Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Magnus Carlsen first place.

01/28 Moscow Open 2012, Moscow, Russia.

03/06 Reykjavik Open 2012. Reykjavik, Iceland. Fabiano Caruana first.

04/21 Kramnik vs. Aronian. Zurich, Switzerland. 6 games. Final standing: 3 - 3.

05/03 47th Capablanca Memorial. Havana, Cuba. Vassily Ivanchuk won by 6.5 pts.

05/05 U.S. Chess championship, St. Louis. Nakamura wins U.S. championship title.

05/10 World Chess championship 2012. Moscow, Russia. Anand Viswanathan vs. Gelfand Boris. Anand retains the world title after tie-break games: 2.5 - 1.5.

06/08 Tal Memorial. Moscow, Russia. Magnus Carlsen (NOR) wins by 5.5 pts.

06/09 Karpov vs. Seirawan. Saint Louis, USA. Blitz games. Karpov 6, Seirawan 4.

07/01 World Blitz championship 2012. Astana, Kazakhstan. Grischuk is world blitz Chess champion with 20 points.

08/17 Gary Kasparov beaten and arrested in Moscow. Kasparov has been released, but the police are seriously pursuing charges that he bit a police officer.

08/25 Botvinnik Memorial, St. Petersburg, Russia. Alexander Areshchenko first place.

08/27 Chess Olympiad 2012, Istanbul Turkey. Armenia won gold medal, Russia silver.

09/27 13th Poikovsky Chess tournament. Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS) first.

10/27 Chigorin Memorial 2012 Classic tournament. St. Petersburg, Russia. 350 players, 9 rounds, Swiss system. Areshchenko (UKR) won the tournament.

11/09 Women’s World Chess Ch. 2012. Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. 64 players, knockout system. Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) became the new world champion.

12/15 Magnus Carlsen (1990- ) of Norway became the highest rated Chess player ever with a rating of 2861, breaking Kasparov’s 13-year record of 2851.

12/18 Blindfold Chess. Levon Aronian (ARM) wins the blindfold Chess tournament.

01/01 FIDE: Carlsen Magnus 2861, Vladimir Kramnik 2810, Levon Aronian 2802.

01/12 Tata Steel Chess 2013. Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Magnus Carlsen takes first place without losing a game. Levon Aronian 2nd, Anand Viswanathan 3rd.

02/02 Moscow Open 2013. Moscow, Russia. 233 players. Boris Savchenko (RUS) first.

02/19 Reykjavik Open 2013. Reykjavik, Iceland. 10 rounds, Swiss system, 113 players.

03/02 Women’s World Chess Team championship. Astana, Kazakistan.

03/14 Magnus Carlsen won on tie-break, has more wins (5) than Kramnik (4). Carlsen will be the challenger of Viswanathan Anand for the world Chess champion title.

03/26 54th Mexican International championship. Puebla, Mexico. 192 players.

04/20 Alekhine Memorial 2013. St. Petersburg, Russia. Ten players, round robin, average rating: 2745. Aronian won with better tie-break (Sonneborn-Berger) point.

04/20 Capablanca Memorial, La Havana, Cuba. Six players, round robin, average rating: 2688. Almasi Zoltan (HUN) wins with 6.5 points.

05/02 U.S. Women Chess championship 2013. St. Louis, MO. The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Irina Krush won with 8 points.

05/02 U.S. Chess championship 2013. St. Louis, MO. The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. US Chess champion: Gata Kamsky.

05/07 Norway Chess 2013 Super Tournament. Stavanger, Norway. Karjakin first.

06/09 World Blitz ch., Russia. Le Quang Liem (VIE) is the world blitz Chess champion.

06/12 8th Mikhail Tal Memorial 2013. Moscow, Russia. Boris Gelfand (ISR) first.

08/10 FIDE Chess World Cup 2013. Tromso, Norway. 128 players. Vladimir Kramnik wins the FIDE World Cup.

09/08 Linares Women’s tournament. Linares, Spain. Anastasia Savina (RUS) first.

09/09 Sinquefield Cup. St Louis, MO. USA. Carlsen (NOR) wins the tournament.

09/10 Women’s world Chess championship. Hou Yifan becomes the world champion.

10/20 Cap d’Agde Karpov Trophy 2013, France. Bacrot beats Karpov 3 - 1.

11/07 World Chess championship 2013. Chennai, India. Magnus Carlsen (NOR) is world Chess champion. He defeats Anand 6.5 - 3.5.

12/26 Karpov - Timman match. Anatoly Karpov wins 4-3.

12/26 Groningen Chess festival. Groningen, The Netherlands.

01/01 FIDE: Magnus Carlsen 2872, Levon Aronian 2812, Hikaru Nakamura 2789.

01/11 Tata Steel Chess 2014. Wijk aan Zee, Amsterdam and Eindhoven, Netherlands. Levon Aronian first place.

02/04 Magnus Carlsen won the strongest Chess tournament in history when he won the Zurich Chess Challenge. Its average rating was 2801!

02/11 David Bronstein Memorial 2014. Minsk, Belarus. 139 players.

03/11 FIDE World Candidates 2014. Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. Anand Viswanathan qualifies for the world Chess championship match against Magnus Carlsen.

04/23 FIDE Women’s world rapid championship. Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.

05/07 US Championship. St. Louis. MO. The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. Gata Kamsky champion after the play-off games.

05/08 Capablanca Memorial. La Havana, Cuba. Wesley So (PHI) first with 6.5 points.

06/02 Norway Chess 2014 Supertournament. Stavanger, Norway. Sergey Karjakin 1st.

07/20 Gelfand vs. Svidler rapid Chess duel. Jerusalem, Israel. Svidler 5, Gelfand 3.

08/01 Chess Olympiad 2014. Tromso, Norway.

08/27 Sinquefield Cup. Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis, USA. The strongest tournament in the history of Chess. Caruana is the winner with 8.5 points.

09/14 Chess Masters Final Bilbao. Bilbao, Spain. Viswanathan Anand winner.

10/20 FIDE Grand Prix Tashkent 2014. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Dmitry Andreikin 1st.

11/04 Petrosian Memorial Tashir Chess Tournament. Moscow, Russia. 8 players. Grischuk Alexander (RUS) wins with 5.5 pts.

11/13 Tal Memorial Blitz. Sochi, Russia. 12 players. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 1st.

12/10 London Chess Classic 2014. London, UK. 6 players. Anand Viswanathan wins.

01/01 FIDE: Carlsen Magnus 2862, Fabiano Caruana 2820, Alexander Grischuk 2810.

01/09 Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2015. Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. GM Magnus Carlsen won the match with 9.0 points.

01/27 Gibraltar Chess Festival - Masters. Nakamura Hikaru (USA) wins with 8.5 pts.

01/31 Moscow Open. Moscow, Russia. 244 players. Inarkiev Ernesto (RUS) 1st.

02/02 Grenke Chess Tournament 2015. Baden-Baden, Germany. Carlsen winner.

02/13 Zurich Chess Challenge. Zurich, Switzerland. Nakamura wins the tournament.

03/05 5th Blitz match Blondes vs. Brunettes. Moscow, Russia.

03/07 Women’s World Chess Championship. Sochi, Russian Federation. 64 players. Muzychuk (Ukraine) becomes the new world women Chess champion.

03/10 Reykjavik open Chess tournament. Reykjavik, Iceland. 274 players. L’Ami Erwin (NED) won the tournament with 8.5 points.

03/31 U.S. Chess championship. Saint Louis, USA. 12 players. Nakamura first place.

04/25 Kasparov vs. Short. St Louis, USA. 2 rapid and 8 blitz games. Kasparov wins.

04/16 Gashimov Memorial. Shamkir, Azerbaijan. 10 players. Magnus Carlsen wins the tournament with 7 points.

05/14 4th Stage FIDE Grand Prix Khanty-Mansiysk 2015. Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. 12 players. Fabiano Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura qualified for the 2016 Candidates.

06/14 Capablanca Memorial 2015. Havana, Cuba. 6 players. Yangyi Yu winner.

06/15 Norway Chess Super Tournament 2015. Stavenger Forus, Norway. 10 players. Veselin Topalov won the tournament with 6.5 points.

06/27 Dortmund Chess Tournament. Dortmund, Germany. 8 players. Caruana first.

07/20 Biel Chess GM Tournament. Biel, Switzerland. 6 players. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave wins the tournament with 6.5 points.

08/20 Russian Super Final Chess Tournament 2015. Tomashevsky Evgeny (Russia) wins first place with 7.5 points.

08/22 Sinquefield Cup 2015, Oct. 22 to September 3, 2015. Saint Louis, USA. Ten players, average rating: 2794. Levon Aronian (ARM) takes first place with 6 points.

09/10 World Chess Cup 2015. Sep. 10 - Oct. 5, 128-players. It takes place in Baku, Azerbaijan. Finalists will qualify for the 2016 Candidates tournament.

10/01 FIDE ratings: Carlsen Magnus 2858, Hikaru Nakamura 2816, Veselin Topalov 2813, Viswanathan Anand 2803, Anish Giri 2798, Fabiano Caruana 2796.

10/05 Sergey Karjakin wins the 2015 FIDE World Chess Cup in the 128-player elimination tournament. He defeated Peter Svidler by 6 to 4 in the finals.

10/08 2nd Millionaire Chess Tournament 2015, October 8-11 Las Vegas, NV. Top players: Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Gata Kamsky, Wesley So, Yangyi Yu.

10/10 World Rapid Chess Ch. 2015 / Oct. 10-12 Berlin Germany. Top players: Carlsen, Grischuk, Ivanchuk, Aronian, Viswanathan, Radjabov, Karjakin.