12 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 14 deaths from chess history on December 27.
198937 years ago today
Kateryna Lahno was born
Russian chess player
Card photo: Министерство спорта Республики Татарстан, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Matches, tournaments and games
- 19631963 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Leonid Stein
- 19791979 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Efim Geller
- 20112011 FIDE World Women's Team ChampionshipEnded
Born on December 27
- 1851Max JuddAmerican chess player
- 1882Alexander RuebDutch lawyer, diplomat, and chess official
- 1905Paul MichelGerman-Argentine chess player
- 1927Alfreda HausnerAustrian chess player
- 1936Ivan BuljovcicSerbian chess player
- 1957Ofer ComayIsraeli chess player
- 1958Raset ZiatdinowAmerican chess player
- 1963Adriana SalazarColombian chess player
- 1964Spartaco SarnoChess player
- 1989Kateryna LahnoRussian chess player
- 1990Joachim ThomassenNorwegian chess player
- 2004Mahel BoyerFrench chess player
Died on December 27
- 1890Walter GrimshawBritish chess composer
- 1916Hugo SüchtingGerman chess player
- 1918Carl SchlechterAustro-Hungarian chess player
- 1928Józef ŻabińskiPolish chess player
- 1944Dirk BleijkmansDutch chess player
- 1962Pál RéthyHungarian chess player
- 1969Alexey SokolskySoviet chess player
- 1980Isaias PleciArgentine chess player
- 1987Stepan PopelAmerican chess player
- 1993Feliks KibbermannEstonian chess player, philologist, pedagogue
- 1995Genrikh KasparyanArmenian chess player
- 2005Laszlo WittChess player
- 2012Máximo López García-RiañoSpanish physician
- 2020Sarma SedlenieceChess 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.