November 28 in Chess History

18 birthdays, 6 matches, tournaments and games and 6 deaths from chess history on November 28.

November 28, 2013: World Chess Championship 2013 ended, won by Magnus Carlsen. On this day in chess history.

201313 years ago today

World Chess Championship 2013 ended

Won by Magnus Carlsen

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19751975 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Tigran Petrosian
  2. 19771977 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Boris Gulko
  3. 1985World Team Chess Championship 1985Ended · won by Soviet Union
  4. 2013World Chess Championship 2013Ended · won by Magnus Carlsen
  5. 2014World Chess Championship 2014Ended · won by Magnus Carlsen
  6. 2018World Chess Championship 2018Ended · won by Magnus Carlsen

Born on November 28

  1. 1871Carl August WalbrodtGerman chess master
  2. 1889Thomas Rayner DawsonBritish chess writer
  3. 1894Alexander Ilyin-GenevskySoviet chess player
  4. 1933William AddisonAmerican chess player
  5. 1942Hans-Peter RehmGerman mathematician
  6. 1958Stefka SavovaBulgarian chess player
  7. 1958Boris PinedaSalvadoran chess player
  8. 1964Giorgi BagaturovGeorgian-Armenian chess player
  9. 1965Kiril GeorgievBulgarian and Macedonian chess grandmaster
  10. 1965Rustem DautovGerman chess player
  11. 1967Saeed-Ahmed SaeedEmirati chess player
  12. 1975Valeri FilippovRussian chess player
  13. 1976Natalija PopovaBelarusian chess player
  14. 1985Evgeny AlekseevRussian chess grandmaster
  15. 1990Romain ÉdouardFrench chess player
  16. 1994Maksat AtabayevTurkmen chess player
  17. 1995Mark LapidusEstonian chess player
  18. 2002Thalia Cervantes LandeiroAmerican chess player

Died on November 28

  1. 1910Jakub HeilpernPolish mechanical engineer, chess player
  2. 1912Lorentzos MavilisGreek poet and chess problem composer
  3. 1970Thorsten GauffinFinnish chess player
  4. 1989Georgy IlivitskySoviet chess player
  5. 1993Rudolf KellerEast German chess player
  6. 2016Mark TaimanovSoviet 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.