This article features a list of events in chess during the year 2013, as well as the FIDE top ten ranked players in September of that year.

This is a list of significant 2013 chess tournaments:

Tournament	Dates	Players	Winner	Runner-up	Third
2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament	12–27 January	14	Magnus Carlsen	Levon Aronian	Viswanathan Anand
2013 Zurich Chess Challenge	23 February – 1 March	4	Fabiano Caruana	Viswanathan Anand	Vladimir Kramnik
2013 Candidates Tournament	15 March – 1 April	8	Magnus Carlsen	Vladimir Kramnik	Peter Svidler
2013 Zurich Grand Prix	17 April – 1 May	12	Veselin Topalov	Hikaru Nakamura	Ruslan Ponomariov
2013 Alekhine Memorial	20 April – 1 May	10	Levon Aronian	Boris Gelfand	Viswanathan Anand
2013 Norway Chess	7–18 May	10	Sergey Karjakin	Magnus Carlsen	Hikaru Nakamura
2013 Thessaloniki Grand Prix	21 May – 4 June	12	Leinier Domínguez	Fabiano Caruana	Gata Kamsky
2013 Tal Memorial	12–23 June	10	Boris Gelfand	Magnus Carlsen	Fabiano Caruana
2013 Beijing Grand Prix	3–17 July	12	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	Alexander Grischuk	Veselin Topalov
2013 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting	26 July – 4 August	10	Michael Adams	Vladimir Kramnik	Arkadij Naiditsch
2013 Chess World Cup	10 August – 4 September	128	Vladimir Kramnik	Dmitry Andreikin	Evgeny Tomashevsky Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2013 Sinquefield Cup	9–15 September	4	Magnus Carlsen	Hikaru Nakamura	Levon Aronian
2013 Women's World Chess Championship	10–27 September	2	Hou Yifan	Anna Ushenina	–
2013 Paris Grand Prix	21 September – 5 October	12	Fabiano Caruana	Boris Gelfand	Hikaru Nakamura
2013 Bilbao Chess Masters Final	7–12 October	4	Levon Aronian	Michael Adams	Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2013 World Chess Championship	6–26 November	2	Magnus Carlsen	Viswanathan Anand	–
2013 London Chess Classic	7–15 December	16	Hikaru Nakamura	Boris Gelfand	Michael Adams Vladimir Kramnik

• 1 April – Magnus Carlsen wins the right to challenge Viswanathan Anand for the 2013 World Chess Championship after winning the Candidates Tournament on tiebreaks.

The FIDE World Rankings as of September 2013 were:^[1]

Rank	Player	Rating
1	Magnus Carlsen	2862
2	Levon Aronian	2813
3	Vladimir Kramnik	2794
4	Alexander Grischuk	2785
5	Fabiano Caruana	2779
6	Viswanathan Anand	2775
7	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	2775
8	Sergey Karjakin	2772
9	Hikaru Nakamura	2772
10	Veselin Topalov	2769
11	Boris Gelfand	2764
12	Michael Adams	2761
13	Leinier Domínguez	2757
14	Ruslan Ponomariov	2756
15	Peter Svidler	2746
16	Gata Kamsky	2741
17	Peter Leko	2740
18	Alexander Morozevich	2739
19	Anish Giri	2737
20	Wang Hao	2736