The chess world was (and still is) full of fascinating personalities.
More than a year ago, we started a tradition of remembering them on their birthday. And writing short and „humorous“ posts on our social media 1 about strong players, their trainers and other persons from the chess world who perhaps didn’t become „famous“, but contributed to our game.
Since the number of this „social media birthday card“ grew big, we thought it might make some sense to include them all on this blog, as well.
On this page, you will find a list of chess birthdays in chronological order. We will keep updating it as time passes by.
A click on any given name should lead to you to a separate post dedicated to a specific player.
Hope you will find it enjoyable.
A list of chess birthdays
January
February
8th of February: Yuri Averbakh
12th of February: Alexander Petrov
19th of February: David Bronstein
20th of February: Sergey Dolmatov
21th of February: Savielly Tartakower
March
5th of March: Siegbert Tarrasch
9th of March: Robert James Fischer
9th of March: Robert James Fischer (alternate take)
26th of March: Vlado Kovačević
April
10th of April: Elmar Magerramov
11th of April: Alex Yermolinsky
May
3rd of May: Nona Gaprindashvili
June
14th of June: Sir George Alan Thomas
July
August
September
(Only now, after seeing these three months empty, do I realize how lazy during the summer I really am)
October
12th of October: Ognjen Cvitan
31th of October: Alexander Alekhine
November
December
11th of December: Viswanathan Anand
- Yes, we are modern enough and we have both Facebook AND Instagram. Just in case you were wondering why we aren’t making any progress chesswise