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August 27 in Chess History

13 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on August 27.

August 27, 2012: 40th Chess Olympiad began. On this day in chess history.

201214 years ago today

40th Chess Olympiad began

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Matches, tournaments and games

201240th Chess OlympiadBegan
2012Women's Chess Olympiad 2012Began
2017French Chess Championship 2017Ended · won by Étienne Bacrot

Born on August 27

1840William Norwood PotterEnglish chess player
1904Vladimir MakogonovAzerbaijani chess player
1932Michel RoosFrench chess player
1937Helga AxtGerman chess player
1950Elizbar UbilavaGeorgian-Spanish chess grandmaster
1975Vladimir GeorgievBulgarian-Macedonian chess player
1981Aleksei PridorozhniRussian chess player
1984Konstantin MaslakRussian chess player and poker player
1991Hagen PoetschGerman chess player
1993Steven ZierkAmerican chess player
1994Ankit RajparaIndian chess grandmaster
2002Velimir IvićSerbian chess player
2010Shubhi GuptaIndian chess player

Died on August 27

1953Victor WahltuchBritish chess player
1986Georgy AgzamovSoviet chess player
2009Vyacheslav OsnosRussian chess player
2011John PurdyAustralian chess champion and judge
2013Maxwell FullerAustralian 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.

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