April 29 in Chess History

12 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on April 29.

April 29, 1975: Yury Shulman was born. On this day in chess history.

197551 years ago today

Yury Shulman was born

Belarusian-American chess grandmaster

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Card photo: Francis Raymund Haro, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1934Danish Chess Championship 1934Ended · won by Erik Andersen
  2. 1941Match tournament for the title of Absolute Champion of the USSR in chess, 1941Ended · won by Mikhail Botvinnik
  3. 200565th Armenian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Ashot Anastasian
  4. 20152015 Greek Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Athanasios Mastrovasilis

Born on April 29

  1. 1881Albert FoxAmerican chess player
  2. 1920Mario ZapataPeruvian chess player
  3. 1929Erwin NievergeltSwiss chess player and economist
  4. 1946Ružica MilosavljevićSerbian chess player
  5. 1961Arkadi RotsteinUkraine-born German chess player
  6. 1968Nikolaus StanecAustrian chess player
  7. 1969Markus StanglGerman chess player
  8. 1975Yury ShulmanBelarusian-American chess grandmaster
  9. 1976Mihai-Lucian GrünbergRomanian chess player
  10. 1981Jean-Noël RiffFrench chess player
  11. 2002Francesco SonisItalian chess player
  12. 2002Mahdi Gholami OrimiIranian chess player

Died on April 29

  1. 1930Izrail ShifmanRussian chess composer
  2. 1942Anatol TschepurnoffFinnish chess player
  3. 1964Albert FoxAmerican chess player
  4. 2012Dick van GeetDutch chess player
  5. 2024Faruk BistrićBosnian chess player

Dates from Wikidata (CC0). Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card. Dates can differ between sources, especially before 1918 when Russia used the old calendar.