August 23 in Chess History

10 birthdays, 8 matches, tournaments and games and 3 deaths from chess history on August 23.

August 23, 1924: 1924 USSR Chess Championship began, won by Efim Bogoljubov. On this day in chess history.

1924102 years ago today

1924 USSR Chess Championship began

Won by Efim Bogoljubov

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19241924 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Efim Bogoljubov
  2. 1931Bled 1931 chess tournamentBegan
  3. 1948Women US Championship 1948Began · won by Gisela Kahn Gresser
  4. 1955Women US Championship 1955Began · won by Gisela Kahn Gresser
  5. 1997U.S. Chess Championship 1997Began · won by Joel Benjamin
  6. 1999U.S. Chess Championship 1999Began · won by Boris Gulko
  7. 2013French Chess Championship 2013Ended · won by Hichem Hamdouchi
  8. 2016French Chess Championship 2016Ended · won by Matthieu Cornette

Born on August 23

  1. 1906Zoltan SarosyHungarian–Canadian chess master
  2. 1909Emil ZinnerCzech chess master
  3. 1913Rodrigo FloresChilean chess player
  4. 1917Felipe Pinzón SánchezPeruvian chess player
  5. 1961María del Pino García PadrónSpanish chess player
  6. 1969Martin MinskiGerman composer of chess endgame studies
  7. 1971Kerstin KunzeChess player
  8. 1987Giga QuparadzeGeorgian chess player
  9. 1988Martin PetrCzech chess player
  10. 1988Dmitry KononenkoUkrainian chess player

Died on August 23

  1. 1983Gerald Frank AndersonSouth African World War I flying ace
  2. 2013Vesna RožičSlovenian chess player
  3. 2014Irmgard KarnerGerman 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.