17 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 6 deaths from chess history on September 17.
1907119 years ago today
Carlsbad 1907 chess tournament ended
Won by Akiba Rubinstein
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Matches, tournaments and games
- 1881Berlin 1881 chess tournamentEnded · won by Joseph Henry Blackburne
- 1907Carlsbad 1907 chess tournamentEnded · won by Akiba Rubinstein
- 1929French Chess Championship 1929Ended · won by André Chéron
- 2022FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022–23Began
Born on September 17
- 1875Luigi MilianiItalian chess player
- 1903George KoltanowskiChess master
- 1911Berta KrezbergSoviet chess player
- 1947Bruce PandolfiniAmerican chess author, teacher, and coach
- 1957Michel JadoulBelgian chess player
- 1960Guillermo SoppeArgentinian chess player
- 1962Xu JunChinese chess player
- 1962Iris MaiGerman chess player
- 1965Bernardo RoselliUruguayan chess player
- 1969Tarvo SeemanEstonian chess player
- 1981Neuris Delgado RamírezParaguayan chess player
- 1984Tigran L. PetrosianArmenian chess player
- 1984David SmerdonAustralian chess grandmaster
- 1989David MiedemaDutch chess player
- 1992Mert YılmazyerliTurkish chess player
- 1998Richard WangCanadian chess player
- 2000Nikolas TheodorouGreek chess player
Died on September 17
- 1666Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-LüneburgDuke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel
- 1904Willard FiskeAmerican librarian, book collector, and chess player
- 1913Kasimir de WeydlichPolish chess player
- 1966Vakhtang KarseladzeGeorgian chess player
- 1999Gary KoshnitskyAustralian chess player
- 2022Hrafn JökulssonIcelandic writer, journalist, politician and competitive 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.