June 10 in Chess History

15 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 3 deaths from chess history on June 10.

June 10, 1935: Milan Matulović was born. On this day in chess history.

193591 years ago today

Milan Matulović was born

Yugoslav chess player

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19601960 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Leonid Stein
  2. 2005Women's European Individual Chess Championship 2005Began
  3. 2017European Individual Chess Championship 2017Ended · won by Maxim Matlakov
  4. 2018Grand Chess Tour 2018Began · won by Hikaru Nakamura
  5. 2025World Rapid and Blitz Team Chess Championships 2025Began

Born on June 10

  1. 1871Adolf ZinklCzech/Austrian chess player
  2. 1923Sergiu SamarianRomanian chess player and coach
  3. 1925Gerardo BudowskiGerman-Venezuelan chess player
  4. 1935Milan MatulovićYugoslav chess player
  5. 1949Simon WebbBritish chess player
  6. 1961Adrian NegulescuRomanian chess player
  7. 1973Bernal Gonzalez AcostaCosta Rican chess player
  8. 1980Jovanka HouskaEnglish chess player
  9. 1984Evgeniya DoluhanovaUkrainian chess player
  10. 1984Alexey KislinskyCzech chess player
  11. 1986Sergei YudinRussian chess player
  12. 1992Keti TsatsalashviliGeorgian chess player
  13. 1993Zeng ChongshengChinese chess player
  14. 1997Mikhail AntipovRussian chess player
  15. 1998Johan-Sebastian ChristiansenNorwegian chess player

Died on June 10

  1. 2006Wulff-Dieter HeintzGerman astronomer and chess teacher
  2. 2014Uri AvnerIsraeli chess composer, author and chess player
  3. 2023Dieter BertholdtGerman 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.