October 17 in Chess History

16 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on October 17.

October 17, 1968: 18th Chess Olympiad began. On this day in chess history.

196858 years ago today

18th Chess Olympiad began

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19451945 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Anatoly Bannik
  2. 1956The Game of the CenturyGame played · won by Bobby Fischer
  3. 196818th Chess OlympiadBegan
  4. 19711971 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Vladimir Savon

Born on October 17

  1. 1818Tassilo von Heydebrand und der LasaGerman chess player
  2. 1892Henri WeeninkDutch chess player
  3. 1920Herbert SeidmanAmerican chess player
  4. 1930Venka AsenovaBulgarian chess player
  5. 1937Svein JohannessenNorwegian chess player
  6. 1944Eddy SchollDutch chess player
  7. 1954Brigitte BurchardtGerman chess player
  8. 1958Andrew J MuirScottish chess player
  9. 1969Fabio BelliniChess player
  10. 1987Iva Videnova-KuljasevicBulgarian chess player
  11. 1990Falko BindrichGerman chess grandmaster
  12. 1994Vitaliy BernadskiyUkrainian chess player
  13. 1995Wang JueChinese chess player
  14. 1996Rosa RatsmaDutch chess player
  15. 2004Tarun KanyamaralaIndian-Irish chess player
  16. 2007Bharath SubramaniyamIndian chess player

Died on October 17

  1. 1930Richard BarnettBritish politician
  2. 1933Johann BergerAustrian chess player
  3. 1942Nikolai RiuminRussian chess player
  4. 1943Jan KotrčCzech chess player
  5. 1978Gösta DanielssonSwedish chess player
  6. 1989Walther JørgensenDanish chess composer
  7. 1990Isai RozenfeldEstonian economist, chess player and chess journalist

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.