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January 2 in Chess History

11 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 6 deaths from chess history on January 2.

January 2, 1998: FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 began, won by Anatoly Karpov. On this day in chess history.

199828 years ago today

FIDE World Chess Championship 1998 began

Won by Anatoly Karpov

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Matches, tournaments and games

19351934/1935 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Ilya Rabinovich
1935USSR women's chess championship 1934/35Ended · won by Olga Semenova Tyan-Shanskaya
1998FIDE World Chess Championship 1998Began · won by Anatoly Karpov

Born on January 2

1859Fritz RiemannGerman chess player
1886Lazar ZalkindSoviet chess composer
1899Holger Norman-HansenDanish chess player
1910Carmine NigroAmerican chess player
1949Aulikki RistojaFinnish chess player
1959Stuart FancyPNG chess FIDE Master
1971Vasile SănduleacMoldavian chess player
1981Adrien LeroyFrench chess player and poet
1995Aleksandra LachPolish chess player
2002Abdulla GadimbayliChess player
2005Elham AmarChess player

Died on January 2

1884Daniel HarrwitzGerman chess player
1891Joseph G. CampbellIrish-born British chess composer
1993Vladimir MakogonovAzerbaijani chess player
1998Wolfram BialasGerman chess player
2005Arnold DenkerAmerican chess player
2011Srećko NedeljkovićSerbian chess player and university teacher

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.

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