January 10 in Chess History

27 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 8 deaths from chess history on January 10.

January 10, 2020: Tata Steel chess tournament 2020 began, won by Fabiano Caruana. On this day in chess history.

20206 years ago today

Tata Steel chess tournament 2020 began

Won by Fabiano Caruana

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19561956 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Mark Taimanov
  2. 2010Copa IPDTook place
  3. 2014Tata Steel chess tournament 2014Began · won by Levon Aronian
  4. 2015Croatian Chess Championship 2015Began · won by Alojzije Janković
  5. 2020Tata Steel chess tournament 2020Began · won by Fabiano Caruana

Born on January 10

  1. 1854Louis UedemannAmerican chess player
  2. 1868Jan KvicalaCzech chess player
  3. 1870Henri RinckFrench chess composer
  4. 1892Kornél HavasiHungarian chess player
  5. 1894Nikolai ZubarevRussian chess player
  6. 1898Bruno MoritzGerman-Ecuadorian chess player
  7. 1912Abram SzpiroPolish-Jewish chess player
  8. 1932Marija KartanaitėLithaunian chess player
  9. 1949Walter BrowneAmerican poker and chess player
  10. 1952Oleg RomanishinUkrainian chess player
  11. 1963Michael WiedenkellerInternational chess master
  12. 1964Dragoljub JacimovicMacedonian chess player
  13. 1969Mikhail IvanovRussian chess player
  14. 1970Alisa MarićSerbian chess player
  15. 1970Mirjana MarićSerbian chess player
  16. 1972Guðfríður Lilja GrétarsdóttirIcelandic politician
  17. 1974Dan ZolerIsraeli chess player
  18. 1984Koen LeenhoutsDutch chess player
  19. 1986Zhou WeiqiChinese chess grandmaster
  20. 1989Fiona Steil-AntoniLuxembourgian chess player
  21. 1989Niccolò RonchettiItalian chess player
  22. 1992Andreas HeimannGerman chess player
  23. 1998S. L. NarayananIndian chess player
  24. 1998Sonja Maria BluhmChess player
  25. 1999Jesper Sondergaard ThyboDanish chess player
  26. 1999Dai ChangrenChinese chess player
  27. 2002Viktor MatviishenUkrainian chess player

Died on January 10

  1. 1934Adolf KramerGerman chess player
  2. 1935Chaim JanowskiPolish chess player and organizer
  3. 1967Ludwig EngelsGerman-Brazilian chess player
  4. 1985André BjerkeNorwegian writer and poet
  5. 1998Mona May KarffAmerican chess player
  6. 2004Ivan BuljovcicSerbian chess player
  7. 2015Slobodan MartinovićSerbian chess player
  8. 2024Ignacy NowakChess 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.