15 birthdays, 6 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on April 2.
198343 years ago today
1983 USSR Chess Championship began
Won by Anatoly Karpov
Card photo: Hans van Dijk for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Matches, tournaments and games
- 1938Women US Championship 1938Began · won by Mona May Karff
- 19831983 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Anatoly Karpov
- 19841984 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Andrei Sokolov
- 19861986 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Vitaly Tseshkovsky
- 20082008 Dutch chess championshipBegan · won by Jan Smeets
- 2018Danish Chess Championship 2018Ended · won by Bjorn Moller Ochsner
Born on April 2
- 1854Arnold SchottländerGerman chess player
- 1881Clarence HowellAmerican chess player
- 1933Laszlo WittChess player
- 1938Lazaros VizantiadisGreek chess player
- 1940Peicho PeevBulgarian chess player
- 1942Keith RichardsonBritish chess player
- 1954Vladimir AfromeevChess player
- 1958Emir DizdarevićA Bosnian chess player
- 1970Grzegorz MasternakPolish chess player
- 1971David García IlundainSpanish chess player
- 1983Alojzije JankovićCroatian chess player
- 1985Nidjat MamedovAzerbaijani chess player
- 1990Twan BurgDutch chess player
- 2003Kirill ShubinRussian chess player
- 2006Julio Alfredo ChiapperoArgentine chess player
Died on April 2
- 1879Carl GöringGerman chess player
- 1932Friedrich Palitzsch
- 1954Francesco Abbadessa
- 1974Josef LokvencAustrian chess player
- 2011Larry ParrAmerican chess player
- 2016Valentin RudenkoSoviet chess composer
- 2018Fufi SantoriPuerto Rican basketball player and coach
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