September 1 in Chess History

14 birthdays, 7 matches, tournaments and games and 3 deaths from chess history on September 1.

September 1, 1972: World Chess Championship 1972 ended, won by Bobby Fischer. On this day in chess history.

197254 years ago today

World Chess Championship 1972 ended

Won by Bobby Fischer

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 19031903 All-Russia Chess TournamentBegan · won by Mikhail Chigorin
  2. 1933French Chess Championship 1933Began · won by Aristide Gromer
  3. 19363rd unofficial Chess OlympiadEnded
  4. 1945USA vs. USSR radio chess match 1945Began
  5. 1972World Chess Championship 1972Ended · won by Bobby Fischer
  6. 2000Chess World Cup 2000Began · won by Viswanathan Anand
  7. 201642nd Chess OlympiadBegan

Born on September 1

  1. 1902Alexander KevitzAmerican chess master
  2. 1913Gudmundur ArnlaugssonIcelandic chess player
  3. 1920Isai RozenfeldEstonian economist, chess player and chess journalist
  4. 1931Arturo PomarSpanish chess player
  5. 1953Hanneke van ParrerenDutch chess player
  6. 1956Michael PfannkucheGerman chess player
  7. 1963Yanfeng AnChinese chess player
  8. 1963Tsiala KasoshviliGeorgian chess player
  9. 1977Linda Jap Tjoen SanDutch chess player
  10. 1981Tigran KotanjianArmenian chess grandmaster
  11. 1985François FargèreFrench chess player
  12. 1988Akshayraj KoreIndian chess player
  13. 1998Teja VidicSlovenian chess player
  14. 2001Alicja ŚliwickaPolish chess player

Died on September 1

  1. 1914I. T. Savenkov
  2. 1924Joseph Henry BlackburneBritish chess player
  3. 2013Hans-Günter KestlerGerman 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.