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December 2 in Chess History

12 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on December 2.

December 2, 1986: 27th Chess Olympiad ended. On this day in chess history.

198640 years ago today

27th Chess Olympiad ended

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Matches, tournaments and games

198627th Chess OlympiadEnded
1986Women's Chess Olympiad 1986Ended
19911991 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Vitali Golod

Born on December 2

1908Aron SchvartzmanArgentine chess player
1910Mikhail ShishovSoviet chess player
1937Enver BukićSlovenian chess player
1948Haukur AngantýssonChess player
1950Jan RusinekChess composer
1953Carlos Garcia PalermoArgentine-Italian chess player
1960Anda ŠafranskaLatvian and French chess player
1966Czesława PilarskaChess player
1980Abdullah Al-RakibBangladeshi chess player
1992Abdelrahman HeshamEgyptian chess player
1996Daniela MovileanuChess player
1998Mark PlotkinCanadian chess player

Died on December 2

1870James ThompsonAmerican chess master, born 1804
1931Henri WeeninkDutch chess player
1934Georg SchoriesGerman chess master
1975Hans JohnerSwiss chess player
2001John W. CollinsAmerican chess coach
2013Argentino RedolfiArgentine chess player
2024Jose Pinto PaivaBrazilian 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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