May 7 in Chess History

13 birthdays, 7 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on May 7.

May 7, 2022: Yuri Averbakh died. On this day in chess history.

20224 years ago today

Yuri Averbakh died

Russian chess grandmaster and author

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Card photo: Eric Koch for Anefo, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1925Danish Chess Championship 1925Began · won by Erik Andersen
  2. 1927Polish Chess Championship 1927Ended · won by Akiba Rubinstein
  3. 1944Women US Championship 1944Ended · won by Gisela Kahn Gresser
  4. 19621962 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Leonid Stein
  5. 1999Polish Chess Championship 1999Ended
  6. 20132013 Norway ChessBegan · won by Sergey Karjakin
  7. 2014U.S. Chess Championship 2014Began · won by Gata Kamsky

Born on May 7

  1. 1882Sergey von FreymannRussian-Uzbekistani chess player
  2. 1903Vitaly HalberstadtUkrainian chess player
  3. 1932Fufi SantoriPuerto Rican basketball player and coach
  4. 1938Pepita Ferrer LucasSpanish chess player
  5. 1960Eric LobronGerman chess grandmaster
  6. 1961Bolat AsanovKazakhstani chess player
  7. 1963Marat MakarovRussian chess player
  8. 1968Beatriz Alfonso NogueSpanish chess player
  9. 1970Ulrich StephanGerman chess player
  10. 1981Gevorg HarutjunyanArmenian chess grandmaster
  11. 1983Marcin SzymańskiPolish chess player
  12. 1986Delia DucaBeauty pageant winner
  13. 1997Johan SalomonNorwegian chess player

Died on May 7

  1. 1906Max JuddAmerican chess player
  2. 1939Eduard BirgfeldGerman chess composer
  3. 1952Gerard OskamDutch chess player
  4. 1984Albert BeckerAustrian-Argentine chess player
  5. 1995Éva KarakasHungarian chess women grandmaster
  6. 1995Nikolai KopilovRussian chess player
  7. 2022Yuri AverbakhRussian chess grandmaster and author

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.