August 16 in Chess History

15 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on August 16.

August 16, 1935: 6th Chess Olympiad began. On this day in chess history.

193591 years ago today

6th Chess Olympiad began

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1876Philadelphia 1876 chess tournamentBegan · won by James Mason
  2. 1899First International Chess TournamentEnded · won by Henry Ernest Atkins
  3. 19331933 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Mikhail Botvinnik
  4. 19356th Chess OlympiadBegan
  5. 1999French Chess Championship 1999Began · won by Étienne Bacrot

Born on August 16

  1. 1830George Alcock MacDonnellIrish chess player
  2. 1842Jakob RosanesGerman mathematician and chess player
  3. 1884Eugene Znosko-BorovskyRussian chess master
  4. 1905Alfred ChristensenDanish chess player
  5. 1912Christian PoulsenDanish chess player
  6. 1912Robert Forbes CombeScottish lawyer and chess player
  7. 1916Jaime Lladó LumberaSpanish chess player
  8. 1936Vladimir BagirovSoviet chess player
  9. 1960Robert TibenskyCzechoslovakian chess player
  10. 1967İldar İbrahimofRussian-American chess player
  11. 1971Jurij ZezulkinGrandmaster chess player
  12. 1978Elina DanielianArmenian chess player
  13. 1986Natalia ZdebskaUkrainian chess player
  14. 1989Roeland PruijssersDutch chess player
  15. 1993Ilia IljiushenokRussian chess player

Died on August 16

  1. 1942Leon RosenAmerican chess player
  2. 1943Stasch MlotkowskiAmerican chess player
  3. 1962Axel CruusbergDanish chess player
  4. 1975Friedrich SämischGerman chess player
  5. 1990Ernest PogosyantsSoviet chess problemist
  6. 2001Carmine NigroAmerican chess player
  7. 2014Dragoljub ĆirićChess Grandmaster

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.