May 11 in Chess History

16 birthdays, 6 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on May 11.

May 11, 2010: World Chess Championship 2010 ended, won by Viswanathan Anand. On this day in chess history.

201016 years ago today

World Chess Championship 2010 ended

Won by Viswanathan Anand

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1951World Chess Championship 1951Ended · won by Mikhail Botvinnik
  2. 1960Polish Chess Championship 1960Ended · won by Bogdan Śliwa
  3. 19641964 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Anatoly Bannik
  4. 1966Women US Championship 1966Ended · won by Gisela Kahn Gresser
  5. 1997Deep Blue versus Kasparov, 1997, Game 6Game played · won by Deep Blue
  6. 2010World Chess Championship 2010Ended · won by Viswanathan Anand

Born on May 11

  1. 1838Levi BenimaDutch chess player
  2. 1905Luis PiazziniArgentine chess player
  3. 1914Anatoly UfimtsevKazakhstani economist and chess player
  4. 1916Osmo KailaFinnish chess player
  5. 1918Guðmundur GuðmundssonIcelandic chess player
  6. 1924Luděk PachmanCzechoslovak-German chess grandmaster
  7. 1946László PolgárHungarian chess teacher
  8. 1955Lea NudelmanIsraeli chess player
  9. 1961Oleg KrivonosovLatvian chess player
  10. 1971Normunds MiezisLatvian chess player
  11. 1973Aleksej AleksandrovBelarusian chess grandmaster
  12. 1973Eddy Van BeersBelgian chess player
  13. 1981Spiridon KapnisisGreek chess player
  14. 1982Peter VavrákSlovak chess player
  15. 1991Kübra ÖztürkTurkish chess grandmaster
  16. 1991Gulnar MammadovaAzerbaijani chess player

Died on May 11

  1. 1894Alexander WittekAustrian chess player
  2. 1907George H. D. GossipAmerican-British chess player
  3. 1958Enrique ReedChilean chess player
  4. 2022Klaus WockenfußGerman chess master
  5. 2023András AdorjánHungarian 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.