2009 in chess

Events in chess during the year 2009:

Events

January 1 – Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) gains 5 rating points to remain at the head the FIDE top 100 players list at 2796. Viswanathan Anand (India) is second at 2791.^[1]

Elo	FIDE Top Ten Men	FIDE Top Ten Women	Elo
2796	Veselin Topalov (BGR)	Judit Polgár (HUN)	2693
2791	Viswanathan Anand (IND)	Humpy Koneru (IND)	2621
2779	Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR)	Hou Yifan (CHN)	2571
2776	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL)	2557
2771	Alexander Morozevich (RUS)	Pia Cramling (SWE)	2548
2761	Teimour Radjabov (AZE)	Anna Muzychuk (SLO)	2540
2760	Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS)	Marie Sebag (FRA)	2529
2759	Vladimir Kramnik (RUS)	Nana Dzagnidze (GEO)	2518
2751	Peter Leko (HUN)	Maia Chiburdanidze (GEO)	2516
2751	Sergei Movsesian (SVK)	Alexandra Kosteniuk (RUS)	2516

December 8–15 – The inaugural London Chess Classic is played in London. Magnus Carlsen (Norway) wins ahead of Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and David Howell (England).

In 2009 FIDE awarded the title Grandmaster to the following players:

Flank opening	English Opening Zukertort Opening Réti Opening King's Indian Attack Larsen's Opening Bird's Opening Grob's Attack Dunst Opening Benko Opening

King's Pawn Game	Alekhine's Defence Caro–Kann Defence French Defence Modern Defence Nimzowitsch Defence Open Game Italian Game King's Gambit Petrov's Defence Philidor Defence Ruy Lopez Scotch Game Owen's Defence Pirc Defence Sicilian Defence Alapin Dragon/Accelerated Dragon Najdorf Scheveningen

Queen's Pawn Game	Dutch Defence Indian Defence Benoni Defence Bogo-Indian Defence Grünfeld Defence King's Indian Defence Nimzo-Indian Defence Queen's Indian Defence Trompowsky Attack London System Queen's Gambit Accepted Declined Slav Defence Catalan Opening

Other	List of openings theory table Irregular Quick checkmates Fool's mate Scholar's mate

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