ChessTerra.com

September 20 in Chess History

11 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on September 20.

September 20, 2010: 39th Chess Olympiad began. On this day in chess history.

201016 years ago today

39th Chess Olympiad began

Facebook X WhatsApp RedditDownload square

Tap any entry to put it on the share card.

Matches, tournaments and games

19291929 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Boris Verlinsky
1931French Chess Championship 1931Ended · won by André Muffang
20092009 Dutch chess championshipEnded · won by Anish Giri
201039th Chess OlympiadBegan
2010Women's Chess Olympiad 2010Began

Born on September 20

1872Norman van LennepDutch chess player
1882Ossip BernsteinUkrainian-French chess player
1889Maurice CenserBelgian chess player
1896Friedrich SämischGerman chess player
1906Stuart Milner-BarryBritish codebreaker, civil servant, and chess player
1958Tünde CsonkicsHungarian chess player
1984Davit G. PetrosianArmenian chess player
1995Luka DraškovićMontenegrin chess player
1999Fy Antenaina RakotomaharoMalagasy chess player
1999Brian Escalante RamirezPeruvian chess player
2006Emin OhanyanArmenian chess player

Died on September 20

1966Inge JohanssonSwedish chess player
1981Hugh BlandfordBritish chess composer
1988Iosif KrikheliGeorgian chess composer
2009Shukhrat SafinUzbekistani chess player
2010Liu WenzheChinese 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>