October 3 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on October 3.

October 3, 1935: World Chess Championship 1935 began, won by Max Euwe. On this day in chess history.

193591 years ago today

World Chess Championship 1935 began

Won by Max Euwe

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Card photo: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1935World Chess Championship 1935Began · won by Max Euwe
  2. 19381938 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Isaac Boleslavsky
  3. 19401940 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Andor Lilienthal
  4. 1966Women's Chess Olympiad 1966Began
  5. 2021Champions Chess Tour 2021Ended

Born on October 3

  1. 1849Edoardo CrespiItalian patron
  2. 1901François Le LionnaisFrench mathematician
  3. 1916Walther JørgensenDanish chess composer
  4. 1941Victor PalciauskasAmerican chess player
  5. 1951Vesmina ShikovaBulgarian chess player
  6. 1957Bogdan HołowniaPolish musician
  7. 1963Ye RongguangChinese chess grandmaster
  8. 1968David NorwoodBritish chess player
  9. 1969Gerhard ScheblerGerman chess player
  10. 1983Zeinab MamedyarovaAzerbaijani chess player
  11. 1990Milan PacherSlovak chess player
  12. 1999Michal LahavIsraeli chess player
  13. 2000Martin PetrovBulgarian chess player
  14. 2000Ortik NigmatovUzbek chess player

Died on October 3

  1. 1902Carl August WalbrodtGerman chess master
  2. 1966Teodors BergsLatvian chess player
  3. 1980María Teresa MoraCuban chess player
  4. 1980Albéric O'Kelly de GalwayBelgian chess grandmaster
  5. 1996Bert EnklaarDutch chess player
  6. 2014Zaw Win LayMyanmar chess player
  7. 2019Emanoil-George ReicherRomanian 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.