17 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on January 11.
194185 years ago today
Emanuel Lasker died
2nd World Chess Champion
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Matches, tournaments and games
- 19611961 USSR Chess Championship (28th)Began · won by Tigran Petrosian
- 2008Corus 2008 chess tournamentBegan
- 2011Croatian Chess Championship 2011Began · won by Ante Brkić
- 2019Tata Steel chess tournament 2019Began · won by Magnus Carlsen
Born on January 11
- 1877Benito VillegasArgentine chess player
- 1903Erling MyhreNorwegian chess player
- 1908Boris BluminCanadian-American chess player
- 1914Nikolay Antonovich Kopaev
- 1933Ervin HaágHungarian chess player
- 1957Dirk Jan ten GeuzendamDutch sports journalist
- 1958Shaun TaulbutBritish chess player
- 1975Héðinn SteingrímssonIcelandic chess player
- 1975Vitali KoziakChess player
- 1975Petr KiriakovRussian chess player
- 1977Christian BauerFrench chess player
- 1982Igor BjelobrkAustralian chess player
- 1994Daria VoitRussian chess player
- 1994Marcin KrzyżanowskiPolish chess player
- 1995Hanna Marie KlekGerman chess player
- 2002Shamsiddin VokhidovUzbek chess grandmaster
- 2002Nguyen Anh KhoiVietnamese chess player
Died on January 11
- 1938Arvid KubbelRussian chess player
- 1941Emanuel Lasker2nd World Chess Champion
- 1949Samuel FactorPolish-American chess player
- 1991Ladislav AlsterCzech chess player
- 1997Gertrude SchoißwohlAustrian chess player
- 2010Francisco BenköGerman-Argentine chess player
- 2014Vugar HashimovAzerbaijani chess grandmaster
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