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March 29 in Chess History

12 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 1 death from chess history on March 29.

March 29, 1935: Wolfgang Uhlmann was born. On this day in chess history.

193591 years ago today

Wolfgang Uhlmann was born

German chess player

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Card photo: Organizer of the Miedzynarodowy turniej szachowy in Polanica…, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

19241924 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Yakov Vilner
19871987 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Alexander Beliavsky
2019European Individual Chess Championship 2019Ended · won by Vladislav Artemiev

Born on March 29

1897Olof KinnmarkSwedish chess player
1903Heinrich ReinhardtGerman-Argentine chess player
1908Marta Krūmiņa-VitrupeLatvian writer
1935Wolfgang UhlmannGerman chess player
1945Jürgen DueballGerman chess player
1951Petar VelikovBulgarian chess player
1977Nóra MedvegyHungarian chess player
1983Richard S. JonesChess player
1984Mark ParaguaFilipino chess grandmaster
1989Geetha Narayanan GopalIndian chess player
1993Danny RaznikovIsraeli chess player
2003David GavrilescuChess player

Died on March 29

2001Helge IngstadNorwegian explorer

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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