15 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 9 deaths from chess history on May 29.
200620 years ago today
Gukesh D was born
18th World Chess Champion
Card photo: Frans Peeters, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Matches, tournaments and games
- 19631963 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Yuri Nikolaevsky
- 19661966 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Yuri Sakharov
- 1988Optiebeurs TournamentEnded · won by Garry Kasparov
- 20072007 FIDE World Women's Team ChampionshipEnded
Born on May 29
- 1876Walther von HolzhausenGerman chess player
- 1911Wolfgang HeidenfeldSouth African chess player
- 1931Egon DittGerman civil servant and chess player
- 1933Nikola PadevskyBulgarian chess player
- 1937Manna TogonidzeGeorgian chess player
- 1948Olga PodrazhanskayaIsraeli chess player
- 1957Jean-Christophe YoccozFrench mathematician
- 1967Lucas BrunnerSwiss chess player
- 1971Martin LohseDanish composer
- 1972Babakuli AnnakovChess grandmaster
- 1982Anastasiya KarlovichUkrainian chess player
- 1991Tan ZhongyiWomen's World Chess Champion
- 1993Hjörvar Steinn GrétarssonIcelandic chess player
- 2002Maili-Jade OuelletCanadian chess player
- 2006Gukesh D18th World Chess Champion
Died on May 29
- 1862Henry Thomas BuckleEnglish historian
- 1951Géza MaróczyHungarian chess player
- 1964Fred ReinfeldAmerican chess player
- 1988Daan de LangeNorwegian chess player
- 1990Alexander TsvetkovChess player
- 2015Robert TibenskyCzechoslovakian chess player
- 2017Stefano TataiItalian chess player
- 2018Syed Nasir AliIndian chess player
- 2021Miguel Farré MallofréCatalan pianist and 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.