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January 30 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on January 30.

January 30, 1937: Boris Spassky was born. On this day in chess history.

193789 years ago today

Boris Spassky was born

10th World Chess Champion

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Card photo: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

2011Tata Steel chess tournament 2011Ended · won by Hikaru Nakamura
2016Croatian Chess Championship 2016Ended

Born on January 30

1841Sam LoydAmerican chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician
1918André BjerkeNorwegian writer and poet
1937Boris Spassky10th World Chess Champion
1950Leili PärnpuuEstonian chess player
1957Dragan BarlovSerbian chess player
1962Eugen TripolskyGerman chess player
1964Carlo D'AmoreChess player
1969Alexey DreevRussian chess player
1969Dražen SermekSlovenian chess player
1972Tsagaan BattsetsegChess player
1974Boris ChatalbashevBulgarian chess player
1978Marta MichnaWoman Grandmaster chess player
1987Jessie GilbertBritish chess player
2007Jan KlimkowskiPolish chess player

Died on January 30

1914Wordsworth DonisthorpeAnarchist and inventor
1992Sidney Norman BernsteinAmerican chess player
1998Anatolijs ŠmitsLatvian chess player
2018Marilyn SimmonsChess 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.

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