20 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on March 1.
1906120 years ago today
Vera Menchik was born
Women's World Chess Champion
Card photo: Unknown photographer (Underwood & Underwood), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Matches, tournaments and games
- 19361936 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Iosif Pogrebyssky
- 1950USSR women's chess championship 1950Began · won by Elisabeth Bykova
- 2016Women's World Chess Championship 2016Began
- 2017Aeroflot Open 2017Ended · won by Vladimir Fedoseev
Born on March 1
- 1870E. M. AntoniadiGreek astronomer
- 1884Erich CohnGerman chess player
- 1906Vera MenchikWomen's World Chess Champion
- 1911Harry GolombekBritish chess player, author
- 1932Dick van GeetDutch chess player
- 1941Maaja RannikuEstonian chess player
- 1958Peter MillicanBritish philosopher and chess player
- 1967Stuart ConquestBritish chess player
- 1972Akira WatanabeJapanese chess player
- 1974Maria ManakovaRussian-Serbian chess player
- 1977Alexey KorotylevRussian chess player
- 1979Torbjørn Ringdal HansenNorwegian chess player
- 1981Bhupendra NiraulaNepalese chess player
- 1987Daniël StellwagenDutch chess player
- 1993Julien SongFrench chess player
- 1994Robert AghasaryanArmenian chess player
- 1995Mads AndersenDanish chess player
- 1996Grzegorz NasutaPolish chess player
- 1998Nino KhomerikiGeorgian chess player
- 2010Tihon ChernyaevUkrainian chess player
Died on March 1
- 1964Peter RomanovskyRussian chess player
- 1975John MorrisonCanadian chess Master
- 1989André MuffangCivil engineer, manager and chess player
- 2018Anatoly LeinSoviet-American chess player
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