ChessTerra.com

October 11 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 1 match, tournament or game and 4 deaths from chess history on October 11.

October 11, 1983: Ruslan Ponomariov was born. On this day in chess history.

198343 years ago today

Ruslan Ponomariov was born

FIDE World Chess Champion

Facebook X WhatsApp RedditDownload square

Card photo: JaVe.StAr, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tap any entry to put it on the share card.

Matches, tournaments and games

1994U.S. Chess Championship 1994Began · won by Boris Gulko

Born on October 11

1878Eugene Ernest ColmanBritish chess player
1905Remo CalapsoItalian chess player
1909Georgy LisitsinRussian chess player
1910Otto Birger MorckenNorwegian chess player
1914Reuben FineAmerican chess player and psychologist
1943Jan AdamskiChess player
1958Hossein AryanejadIranian chess player
1959Gregory KaidanovUkrainian-American chess player
1967Peter ThielGerman-American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
1979Jessica SchmidtGerman chess player
1983Ruslan PonomariovFIDE World Chess Champion
2001Ariel ErenbergChess player
2004Gleb DudinChess player
2004Daniel QuizonFilipino chess player

Died on October 11

1890Ernst FlechsigGerman chess player
1978Nikolay Antonovich Kopaev
2019György BakcsiHungarian chess composer
2021Boris PinedaSalvadoran 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.

<div id="puzzlebot-container"></div>

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.6.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@chrisoakman/chessboardjs@1.0.0/dist/chessboard-1.0.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@chrisoakman/chessboardjs@1.0.0/dist/chessboard-1.0.0.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@chrisoakman/chessboardjs@1.0.0/dist/chessboard-1.0.0.polyfills.min.js"></script>

<script>
  var board = null;
  var game = new Chess();

  function onDragStart(source, piece, position, orientation) {
    // do not allow dragging when game is over
    if (game.game_over()) return false;

    // only allow white pieces to be dragged
    if (piece.search(/^b/) !== -1) return false;
  }

  function onDrop(source, target) {
    // see if the move is legal
    var move = game.move({
      from: source,
      to: target,
      promotion: "q" // always promote to a queen for example simplicity
    });

    // illegal move
    if (move === null) return "snapback";

    // update the board position
    board.position(game.fen());

    // get a random move from the engine
    window.setTimeout(makeRandomMove, 250);
  }

  // make a random move
  function makeRandomMove() {
    var possibleMoves = game.moves();

    // game over
    if (possibleMoves.length === 0) return;

    var randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * possibleMoves.length);
    game.move(possibleMoves[randomIndex]);
    board.position(game.fen());
  }

  // initialize the chessboard
  function init() {
    var config = {
      draggable: true,
      onDragStart: onDragStart,
      onDrop: onDrop,
      position: 'start'
    };

    board = Chessboard('puzzlebot-container', config);

    makeRandomMove();
  }

  $(document).ready(init);
</script>

<script src="https://revolvermaps2.com/embed.js" data-site="z79wnx94gq4m" data-size="300" data-theme="custom" data-color="ffffff" data-land="d4a843" data-ocean="0f1a2e" async></script>