March 5 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 6 deaths from chess history on March 5.

March 5, 1957: World Chess Championship 1957 began, won by Vasily Smyslov. On this day in chess history.

195769 years ago today

World Chess Championship 1957 began

Won by Vasily Smyslov

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1957World Chess Championship 1957Began · won by Vasily Smyslov
  2. 20192019 FIDE World Women's Team ChampionshipBegan

Born on March 5

  1. 1862Siegbert TarraschGerman chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician
  2. 1918Max PaveyAmerican chess player
  3. 1933Evgeni VasiukovRussian chess grandmaster
  4. 1937Dragoljub MinićYugoslav Grandmaster of chess.
  5. 1946Vladimir TukmakovUkrainian chess player
  6. 1949Anatoly VaisserFrench chess player
  7. 1954Tamāra VilerteWoman Grandmaster
  8. 1971Carlos DávilaNicaraguan chess player
  9. 1978Mikael AgopovChess player
  10. 1990Jacek TomczakPolish chess player
  11. 1991Maxim MatlakovRussian chess player
  12. 1995Daniel Howard FernandezEnglish chess player
  13. 1998Vladislav ArtemievRussian chess player
  14. 1999Valentin DragnevAustrian chess player

Died on March 5

  1. 1821Richard TwissEnglish traveler, writer, and Hispanist
  2. 1947Benjamin BlumenfeldRussian chess player
  3. 1962Charles G. M. WatsonAustralian chess player
  4. 2000Daniel Abraham YanofskyCanadian chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, writer, lawyer, politician
  5. 2018Paul MagrielAmerican backgammon and poker player
  6. 2020Stanislav BogdanovichUkrainian 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.