March 8 in Chess History

12 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 12 deaths from chess history on March 8.

March 8, 1942: José Raúl Capablanca died. On this day in chess history.

194284 years ago today

José Raúl Capablanca died

3rd World Chess Champion

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19471947 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Paul Keres
  2. 2015European Individual Chess Championship 2015Ended · won by Evgeniy Najer

Born on March 8

  1. 1912Jānis KrūzkopsLatvian chess player
  2. 1914Oleg NeikirchBulgarian chess master
  3. 1925Efim GellerSoviet chess player
  4. 1948Alexander ShakarovSoviet chess player
  5. 1960Lexy OrtegaItalian chess player
  6. 1964Bogdan LalićCroatian chess player
  7. 1981Xu YuanyuanChinese chess player
  8. 1990Xavier Vila GazquezSpanish chess player
  9. 1998David ParavyanRussian chess player
  10. 2000Mihail NikitenkoBelarusian chess player
  11. 2002Ednasia JuniorChess player
  12. 2004Prithu GuptaIndian chess player

Died on March 8

  1. 1831Johann Friedrich Wilhelm KochGerman botanist
  2. 1930Ferdinand MaackGerman chess variant inventor
  3. 1932Kate Belinda FinnBritish chess player
  4. 1942José Raúl Capablanca3rd World Chess Champion
  5. 1955Paul LipkeGerman chess player
  6. 1961Johannes Hermanus AddicksDutch chess player
  7. 1988Milivoj UzelacCzech conductor and composer
  8. 1989Elisabeth BykovaSoviet chess player
  9. 1993Johannes TürnEstonian chess player, draughts player and sportsperson
  10. 2013Carlos JaureguiChilean-Canadian chessmaster
  11. 2013Rubén ShocronArgentine chess player
  12. 2026Slavoljub MarjanovićSerbian 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.