November 30 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 9 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on November 30.

November 30, 1990: Magnus Carlsen was born. On this day in chess history.

199036 years ago today

Magnus Carlsen was born

16th World Chess Champion

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1927World Chess Championship 1927Began · won by Alexander Alekhine
  2. 1957Women US Championship 1959Began · won by Lisa Lane
  3. 19741974 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Mikhail Tal
  4. 198828th Chess OlympiadEnded · won by Soviet Union
  5. 1988Women's Chess Olympiad 1988Ended
  6. 199431st Chess OlympiadBegan · won by Russia
  7. 1994Women's Chess Olympiad 1994Began
  8. 2008Israel Chess Championship 2008Began · won by Boris Avrukh
  9. 2016World Chess Championship 2016Ended · won by Magnus Carlsen

Born on November 30

  1. 1897Octavio TrompowskyBrazilian chess player
  2. 1906Paul BaenderGerman-Bolivian chess player
  3. 1944Eckhard FreiseGerman medievalist and chess player
  4. 1955Aidyn GuseinovChess player
  5. 1962Yuri YakovichRussian chess player
  6. 1963Einar GauselNorwegian chess player
  7. 1970Jacek GdańskiPolish chess player
  8. 1972Abdelaziz OnkoudMoroccan chess player
  9. 1976Alexander LastinRussian chess player
  10. 1979Simon WilliamsBritish chess player and author
  11. 1981Laurent FressinetFrench chess player
  12. 1982Irina ZakurdyaevaRussian chess player
  13. 1984Ljilja DrljevicSerbian chess player
  14. 1990Magnus Carlsen16th World Chess Champion

Died on November 30

  1. 1905S. LipschützAmerican chess player
  2. 1940Wilhelm HilseGerman chess player
  3. 1962Ossip BernsteinUkrainian-French chess player
  4. 2003Valentin ArbakovRussian chess grandmaster
  5. 2015Nina Hrušková-BělskáCzechoslovak chess player
  6. 2020Herman van BekkumDutch chemist
  7. 2021Jonathan PenroseEnglish 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.