February 2 in Chess History

11 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 10 deaths from chess history on February 2.

February 2, 1923: Svetozar Gligorić was born. On this day in chess history.

1923103 years ago today

Svetozar Gligorić was born

Serbian and Yugoslavian chess player

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Card photo: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19471947 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Paul Keres
  2. 19671966 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Leonid Stein
  3. 1986Polish Chess Championship 1986Began · won by Marek Hawełko
  4. 2014Croatian Chess Championship 2014Began · won by Ivan Šarić
  5. 2025Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025Ended · won by Praggnanandhaa

Born on February 2

  1. 1867Katarina BeskowSwedish chess player
  2. 1923Svetozar GligorićSerbian and Yugoslavian chess player
  3. 1936Lembit VahesaarEstonian chess player, chess arbiter, translator and political observer
  4. 1952Yuri BoidmanGerman chess player
  5. 1963Peter EndersGerman chess player
  6. 1965Georg MohrSlovenian chess player
  7. 1971Alexander VolzhinRussian chess player
  8. 1974Qin KanyingChinese chess player
  9. 1980Eugene PerelshteynAmerican chess player
  10. 1990Stefan KuipersDutch chess player
  11. 2012Devindya Oshini GunawardhanaSri Lankan chess player

Died on February 2

  1. 1887Luigi Sprega
  2. 1906Augustin NeumannAustrian chess player
  3. 1939Bernhard GregoryBaltic German chess player
  4. 1959Alexander RuebDutch lawyer, diplomat, and chess official
  5. 1968Juan IliescoArgentine chess player
  6. 1987Yakov EstrinRussian chess player
  7. 1997Erich EliskasesAustrian-Argentinian chess player
  8. 2006Danuta Samolewicz-OwczarekPolish chess player
  9. 2022Arthur FeuersteinAmerican chess player
  10. 2025Peter EndersGerman 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.