August 26 in Chess History

16 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on August 26.

August 26, 1970: Claudia Amura was born. On this day in chess history.

197056 years ago today

Claudia Amura was born

Argentine chess player

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19691969 Pekan Olahraga NasionalBegan
  2. 2014Sinquefield Cup 2014Began · won by Fabiano Caruana
  3. 2018French Chess Championship 2018Ended · won by Tigran Gharamian
  4. 2021European Individual Chess Championship 2021Began · won by Anton Demchenko

Born on August 26

  1. 1858Ephraim CoombeAustralian cricketer and politician
  2. 1883Boris MaliutinRussian chess player
  3. 1898Vladimir VukovićCroatian chess player
  4. 1909Edward ArłamowskiPolish chess player
  5. 1936Alexander RoshalSoviet chess writer
  6. 1948Herman Claudius van RiemsdijkBrazilian chess player
  7. 1956Jüri VetemaaEstonian chess player and chess journalist
  8. 1958Jonathan TisdallAmerican-Norwegian chess player and journalist
  9. 1959Michael RohdeAmerican chess player
  10. 1969Alexander CherniaevRussian chess player
  11. 1969Aaron SummerscaleEnglish chess player
  12. 1970Claudia AmuraArgentine chess player
  13. 1987Georg MeierGerman chess player
  14. 1988Zuzana BorosovaSlovak chess player
  15. 2006Pranesh MIndian chess player
  16. 2008Matic LavrenčičSlovene chess player

Died on August 26

  1. 1943Vladimirs PetrovsLatvian chess player
  2. 1985Oleg NeikirchBulgarian chess master
  3. 1990Rudolf MarićYugoslavian chess player
  4. 2017Józef GolecPolish chess player
  5. 2021Irén HönschHungarian 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.