13 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on December 3.
201214 years ago today
Women's World Chess Championship 2012 ended
Won by Anna Ushenina
Card photo: Andreas Kontokanis from Piraeus, Greece, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Matches, tournaments and games
- 19811981 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Vladimir Malaniuk
- 200675th Chess Championship of UkraineEnded · won by Zakhar Yefymenko
- 2011London Chess Classic 2011Began · won by Vladimir Kramnik
- 2012Women's World Chess Championship 2012Ended · won by Anna Ushenina
- 2023Grand Chess Tour 2023Ended · won by Fabiano Caruana
Born on December 3
- 1854David Graham BairdAmerican chess player
- 1881Edward Guthlac SergeantBritish chess player
- 1902Feliks KibbermannEstonian chess player, philologist, pedagogue
- 1919Fenny HeemskerkDutch chess player
- 1921Jaroslav ŠajtarChess player
- 1960Marina MakropoulouGreek chess player
- 1965Miguel IllescasSpanish chess grandmaster
- 1973Artur JakubiecPolish chess player
- 1975Andrei IstrățescuRomanian and French chess player
- 1977Monika KrupaPolish chess player
- 1980Rafał AntoniewskiGrandmaster chess player
- 1997Masoud MosadeghpourIranian chess player
- 2000Pierre Laurent-PaoliChess player
Died on December 3
- 1983James Macrae AitkenScottish chess player
- 1989Andreas GulbrandsenNorwegian chess player
- 2005Hrvoje BartolovićCroatian chess problemist
- 2007Francesco ScafarelliItalian chess player
- 2012Georgy BorisenkoSoviet chess player
- 2015Helmut ReefschlägerGerman Chess player
- 2021Vesma BaltgailisChess 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.