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January 25 in Chess History

9 birthdays, 1 match, tournament or game and 4 deaths from chess history on January 25.

January 25, 1908: Mikhail Chigorin died. On this day in chess history.

1908118 years ago today

Mikhail Chigorin died

Russian chess player

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Matches, tournaments and games

2015Tata Steel chess tournament 2015Ended · won by Magnus Carlsen

Born on January 25

1937Jerzy KostroChess player
1968Matthias WahlsGerman chess grandmaster
1970Rune DjurhuusNorwegian chess player
1974Igor MiladinovićSerbian chess grandmaster
1977Ana BanderaćSerbian chess player
1978Alexander GoloshchapovUkrainian chess player
1995Benjamin BokDutch chess player
1995Melissa Castrillon GomezColumbian chess player
2007Savitha Shri BaskarIndian chess player

Died on January 25

1908Mikhail ChigorinRussian chess player
1975Georg KieningerGerman chess player
2000Folke EkströmSwedish chess player
2014Gyula SaxHungarian chess grandmaster

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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