November 10 in Chess History

11 birthdays, 8 matches, tournaments and games and 3 deaths from chess history on November 10.

November 10, 1981: World Chess Championship 1981 ended, won by Anatoly Karpov. On this day in chess history.

198145 years ago today

World Chess Championship 1981 ended

Won by Anatoly Karpov

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Card photo: Isabel Hund, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1857New York 1857 chess tournamentEnded · won by Paul Morphy
  2. 1925Moscow 1925 chess tournamentBegan · won by Efim Bogoljubov
  3. 19481948 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by David Bronstein
  4. 19501950 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Paul Keres
  5. 197622nd Chess OlympiadEnded
  6. 1976Women's Chess Olympiad 1976Ended
  7. 1981World Chess Championship 1981Ended · won by Anatoly Karpov
  8. 2012Women's World Chess Championship 2012Began · won by Anna Ushenina

Born on November 10

  1. 1828Conrad BayerAustrian-Hungarian chess composer
  2. 1845Max FleissigAustrian chess player
  3. 1923Dragoslav AndrićSerbian writer, playwright and lexicographer
  4. 1940Miodrag TodorčevićChess player
  5. 1954Kevin SpraggettCanadian chess player
  6. 1968Aidas LabuckasLithuanian chess player
  7. 1978Bartosz SoćkoPolish chess player
  8. 1979Erald DervishiAlbanian chess player
  9. 1980Leonid VolkovRussian politician
  10. 1982Evgenija OvodRussian chess player
  11. 1998Łukasz JarmułaPolish chess player

Died on November 10

  1. 1900Luigi CenturiniItalian chess player and composer
  2. 1938Nikolai GrigorievRussian chess player
  3. 1980Milan VidmarChess 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.