January 27 in Chess History

23 birthdays, 7 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on January 27.

January 27, 2019: Tata Steel chess tournament 2019 ended, won by Magnus Carlsen. On this day in chess history.

20197 years ago today

Tata Steel chess tournament 2019 ended

Won by Magnus Carlsen

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19651964 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Viktor Korchnoi
  2. 200767th Armenian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Karen Asrian
  3. 2008Corus 2008 chess tournamentEnded
  4. 2011Croatian Chess Championship 2011Ended · won by Ante Brkić
  5. 2012Croatian Chess Championship 2012Ended · won by Mladen Palac
  6. 2013Tata Steel chess tournament 2013Ended · won by Magnus Carlsen
  7. 2019Tata Steel chess tournament 2019Ended · won by Magnus Carlsen

Born on January 27

  1. 1790William Davies EvansWelsh navy captain, inventor and chess player
  2. 1872Philip Walsingham SergeantBritish chess player
  3. 1880Gustaf NyholmSwedish chess player
  4. 1881William Ewart NapierAmerican chess player
  5. 1898Erich ZeplerElectronics engineer, Chess problemist
  6. 1903Ozren NedeljkovićSerbian chess player
  7. 1910Fred ReinfeldAmerican chess player
  8. 1911Harald EnevoldsenDanish chess player
  9. 1913Lodewijk PrinsDutch chess player
  10. 1929Hans BerlinerAmerican chess player and computer scientist
  11. 1931Uzi GellerIsraeli chess player
  12. 1935Aleksander NikitinRussian chess player, coach, and theorist
  13. 1948László VadászChess Grandmaster
  14. 1953Valery ShavyrinRussian chess composer
  15. 1969Jeroen PiketChess player
  16. 1970Petr BakalářCzech publicist
  17. 1972Handszar OdeevTurkmen chess player
  18. 1983Sergey ErenburgRussian-Israeli American chess player
  19. 1987Marian JurcikChess player
  20. 1989Avetik GrigoryanArmenian chess player
  21. 1995Guo QiChinese chess player
  22. 1995Ulvi BajaraniAzerbaijani chess player
  23. 2002Shant SargsyanArmenian chess player

Died on January 27

  1. 1881Jean-Louis PretiFrench chess player
  2. 1889Frederick PerrinAmerican chess player
  3. 1969Imre KorodyHungarian chess player
  4. 1979Arthur DunkelblumChess master

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.