May 10 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 8 deaths from chess history on May 10.

May 10, 2012: World Chess Championship 2012 began. On this day in chess history.

201214 years ago today

World Chess Championship 2012 began

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1882Vienna 1882 chess tournamentBegan · won by Wilhelm Steinitz
  2. 1925Danish Chess Championship 1925Ended · won by Erik Andersen
  3. 1964Women US Championship 1964Ended · won by Sonja Graf
  4. 1988Israel Chess Championship 1988Ended · won by Gad Rechlis
  5. 2012World Chess Championship 2012Began

Born on May 10

  1. 1807Bernhard HorwitzGerman-British chess player
  2. 1883Heinz von HennigGerman chess player
  3. 1893György NégyesyHungarian chess player
  4. 1928Lothar SchmidGerman chess player
  5. 1931Iosif KrikheliGeorgian chess composer
  6. 1954Esther EpsteinRussian-born American chess player
  7. 1964Leon VoloshinRussian chess player
  8. 1968Zlatko IlinčićSerbian chess player
  9. 1977Jiří ŠtočekCzech chess player
  10. 1978Đào Thiên HảiVietnamese chess player
  11. 1981Péter ÁcsChess grandmaster
  12. 1983Pavel EljanovUkrainian chess player
  13. 1986Pendyala HarikrishnaIndian chess player
  14. 1988Daniel Alsina LealSpanish chess player

Died on May 10

  1. 1967Ernst WeichselbaumerGerman chess player
  2. 2003Milan VukcevichSerbian chess player
  3. 2006Vladislav ChianovskiUkrainian chess player
  4. 2010Bill HookBritish Virgin Islands chess player
  5. 2014Mari KinsigoEstonian chess player and coach
  6. 2018Evgeni VasiukovRussian chess grandmaster
  7. 2020Jerzy PokojowczykPolish chess player
  8. 2023Sue MaroroaNew Zealand-English 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.