June 21 in Chess History

16 birthdays, 6 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on June 21.

June 21, 1851: Immortal Game was played, won by Adolf Anderssen. On this day in chess history.

1851175 years ago today

Immortal Game was played

Won by Adolf Anderssen

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1851Immortal GameGame played · won by Adolf Anderssen
  2. 19611961 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Yury Kots
  3. 19651965 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded
  4. 19871987 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Wiktor Moskalenko
  5. 19881988 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Valeriy Neverov
  6. 20112011 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded

Born on June 21

  1. 1919Vladimir SimaginRussian chess grandmaster
  2. 1934Alla ChaikovskajaGeorgian chess player
  3. 1964Valeriy NeverovChess player
  4. 1964Jurij KruppaUkrainian chess player
  5. 1968Frank LamprechtGerman chess player
  6. 1971Katrin AladjovaBulgarian-Australian chess woman FIDE Master
  7. 1972Virginijus GrabliauskasLithuanian chess player
  8. 1976Anna HahnLatvian-American chess player
  9. 1980Łukasz CyborowskiGrandmaster chess player
  10. 1988Alejandro RamírezCosta Rican-American chess player
  11. 1988Yusnel Bacallao AlonsoCuban chess player
  12. 1989Krisztián SzabóHungarian chess player
  13. 2000Matvey GalchenkoChess player
  14. 2001Vaishali RameshbabuIndian chess player
  15. 2001Alexandra ObolentsevaRussian chess player
  16. 2006Bardiya DaneshvarIranian chess player

Died on June 21

  1. 1983Herbert GrasemannGerman chess composer
  2. 2003Alvise ZichichiItalian chess player
  3. 2018Virgil NestorescuRomanian chess composer
  4. 2024Gerhard HundGerman mathematician, computer scientist and 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.