20 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on February 27.
20251 year ago today
Boris Spassky died
10th World Chess Champion
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Matches, tournaments and games
- 1983Polish Chess Championship 1983Ended · won by Zbigniew Szymczak
- 1988Polish Chess Championship 1988Began · won by Włodzimierz Schmidt
Born on February 27
- 1865Jacques MiesesGerman-British chess player and chess book author
- 1887Leon SchwartzmannPolish-French chess player
- 1904Vicente Almirall CastellSpanish chess player
- 1910Genrikh KasparyanArmenian chess player
- 1926Åke StenborgSwedish chess player
- 1928Alfred HrdlickaAustrian sculptor and chess player
- 1941Franciscus KuijpersDutch chess player
- 1942Petko PetkovBulgarian chess composer
- 1951Borislava BorisovaSwedish chess player
- 1952Yevhen BohdanovUkrainian chess composer and journalist
- 1953Aleksandr KuzovkovRussian chess composer
- 1964Alexander GoldinRussian-American chess player
- 1973Trajče NedevMacedonian chess player
- 1983Laura MoylanAustralian chess woman International Master
- 1984Elena LewuschkinaGerman chess player
- 1990Damaris Abarca GonzalezChilean chess player
- 1991Gergely AczélHungarian chess player
- 1994Hou YifanWomen's World Chess Champion
- 1995Mirai AoshimaJapanese shogi player and chess player
- 2004Mariam MkrtchyanArmenian chess player
Died on February 27
- 1898Emilio OrsiniItalian chess composer
- 1938Erik AndersenChess player
- 1980Kola KwarianiGeorgia-born American professional wrestler and chess player
- 1981Mikhail ShishovSoviet chess player
- 1986Gedeon BarczaHungarian chess grandmaster
- 1990Alberto Mario GiustolisiItalian chess player
- 2025Boris Spassky10th World Chess Champion
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.