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August 15 in Chess History

11 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 6 deaths from chess history on August 15.

August 15, 1966: Evgeny Agrest was born. On this day in chess history.

196660 years ago today

Evgeny Agrest was born

Soviet-born Swedish chess grandmaster

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Card photo: Frank Hoppe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

19731973 Pekan Olahraga NasionalEnded
2000French Chess Championship 2000Began · won by Étienne Bacrot
2025Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz 2025Ended · won by Levon Aronian

Born on August 15

1866Bernhard KaganGerman chess player
1867Walter RobinowGerman chess player
1911Povilas VaitonisLithuanian chess player
1916Panayotis PanagopoulosGreek chess player
1934Geurt GijssenDutch chess arbiter
1936Syed Nasir AliIndian chess player
1940Carlos CuartasColombian chess player
1956Helgi ÓlafssonIcelandic chess player
1966Evgeny AgrestSoviet-born Swedish chess grandmaster
1992Adhiban BaskaranIndian chess player
1997Seshadri SrijaChess player

Died on August 15

1937Karl HellingGerman chess player
1954Sigmund HerlandRomanian chess player
1960Archil EbralidzeSoviet chess player
2000Denis MarionBelgian journalist
2002Ilze RubeneLatvian chess player
2011Genesis PotiniChess 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.

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