March 30 in Chess History

19 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 8 deaths from chess history on March 30.

March 30, 2020: Arianne Caoili died. On this day in chess history.

20206 years ago today

Arianne Caoili died

Australian-Armenian chess player

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1958Danish Chess Championship 1958Began · won by Børge Andersen
  2. 19691969 Dutch chess championshipBegan · won by Hans Ree
  3. 1997Danish Chess Championship 1997Ended · won by Lars Bo Hansen
  4. 2019U.S. Chess Championship 2019Ended · won by Hikaru Nakamura

Born on March 30

  1. 1877Miklós BródyHungarian-Romanian chess player
  2. 1913Jacobus HaringDutch chess composer
  3. 1918Joaquín Gutiérrez MangelCosta Rican writer and politician
  4. 1923Walter NiephausGerman chess player
  5. 1926Larissa VolpertEstonian-Russian chess player and literary scholar
  6. 1928Aurel AntonRomanian chess player
  7. 1933Bernard HuguetFrench chess player
  8. 1935Józef GolecPolish chess player
  9. 1958Gilles AndruetFrench chess player
  10. 1964Inna KorenAzerbaijani-born American chess player
  11. 1966Efstratios GrivasGreek chess player
  12. 1968Viacheslav ZakhartsovChess player
  13. 1975Shojaat GhaneIranian chess player
  14. 1979Mert ErdoğduTurkish chess player
  15. 1980Dragan ŠolakSerbian-Turkish chess grandmaster
  16. 1980Isan Reynaldo Ortiz SuárezCuban chess grandmaster
  17. 1986Yosra Alaa El DinChess player
  18. 1992Anastasia BodnarukRussian chess player
  19. 2000Max WarmerdamDutch chess player

Died on March 30

  1. 1793Karl Gottlieb von WindischHungarian German writer
  2. 1885Maarten van 't KruijsDutch chess player
  3. 1888Augustus MongredienBritish chess player
  4. 1991Aleksandr RotinyanSoviet electrochemist
  5. 1992Maurizio CorgnatiItalian film director and screenwriter
  6. 2008Aage VestølNorwegian chess player
  7. 2010Yuri ShabanovRussian chess player
  8. 2020Arianne CaoiliAustralian-Armenian 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.