July 2 in Chess History

17 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 8 deaths from chess history on July 2.

July 2, 1993: Deysi Cori was born. On this day in chess history.

199333 years ago today

Deysi Cori was born

Peruvian chess player

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 18721872 London chess tournamentBegan · won by Wilhelm Steinitz
  2. 1922Danish Chess Championship 1922Began · won by Egil Jacobsen
  3. 20172017 Dutch Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Loek van Wely

Born on July 2

  1. 1835Samuel GoldHungarian physician and journalist
  2. 1904Erik LundinSwedish chess player
  3. 1913Zandor NilssonSwedish chess player
  4. 1919Andrzej PytlakowskiPolish journalist
  5. 1932Leopold MitrofanovRussian chess player
  6. 1939Jesús Rodríguez GonzálesCuban chess player
  7. 1954Ludmila AslanianArmenian chess player
  8. 1967Alexander BerelovichUkrainian chess player
  9. 1971Maritza Arribas RobainaCuban chess player
  10. 1971Vaidas SakalauskasLithuanian chess player
  11. 1975Eran LissIsraeli chess player
  12. 1983Johanna RasmussenDanish footballer
  13. 1985Ján MarkošSlovak chess player
  14. 1986Shadi ParidarIranian chess player
  15. 1992Monika RojickovaSlovak chess player
  16. 1993Deysi CoriPeruvian chess player
  17. 1994Rucha PujariIndian chess player

Died on July 2

  1. 1939Florence Frankland ThomsonScottish chess player
  2. 1977Vladimir NabokovRussian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
  3. 1998Ursula LiebertGerman chess player
  4. 2000Georgi TringovBulgarian chess player
  5. 2000Anatoly UfimtsevKazakhstani economist and chess player
  6. 2006René LetelierChilean chess player
  7. 2017Tatiana ZatulovskayaRussian/Israeli chess player
  8. 2017Vladimir MalaniukUkrainian chess 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.