September 25 in Chess History

13 birthdays, 8 matches, tournaments and games and 3 deaths from chess history on September 25.

September 25, 1954: 11th Chess Olympiad ended. On this day in chess history.

195472 years ago today

11th Chess Olympiad ended

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1937USSR women's chess championship 1937Ended · won by Olga Rubtsova
  2. 1945USSR women's chess championship 1945Ended · won by Valentina Borisenko
  3. 195411th Chess OlympiadEnded
  4. 195612th Chess OlympiadEnded
  5. 1956Women's World Chess Championship 1956Ended · won by Olga Rubtsova
  6. 2000U.S. Chess Championship 2000Began · won by Joel Benjamin
  7. 200363th Armenian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Gabriel Sargissian
  8. 2004Classical World Chess Championship 2004Began · won by Vladimir Kramnik

Born on September 25

  1. 1819George SalmonIrish mathematician and Anglican theologian
  2. 1879Fedor Duz-KhotimirskySoviet chess player
  3. 1895André ChéronFrench chess player
  4. 1935John PurdyAustralian chess champion and judge
  5. 1936Ljubica Zivkovic-JocicChess player
  6. 1940Anatoly DonchenkoGerman chess player
  7. 1944Vitaly TseshkovskyRussian chess player
  8. 1947Guðmundur SigurjónssonIcelandic chess player
  9. 1947Otto BorikGerman chess player and author
  10. 1978Mher HovhanisianBelgian chess player
  11. 1978Miklos GalyasChess player
  12. 1986Vytautas VaznonisLithuanian chess player
  13. 1988Kateryna DolzhykovaUkrainian chess player

Died on September 25

  1. 1961Evgeny ZagorjanskySoviet chess player
  2. 1968Vladimir SimaginRussian chess grandmaster
  3. 2008Nino KirovChess 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.