September 27 in Chess History

15 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on September 27.

September 27, 1970: 19th Chess Olympiad ended. On this day in chess history.

197056 years ago today

19th Chess Olympiad ended

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Matches, tournaments and games

  1. 1928French Chess Championship 1928Ended · won by Amédée Gibaud
  2. 197019th Chess OlympiadEnded
  3. 2005FIDE World Chess Championship 2005Began · won by Veselin Topalov
  4. 2017Chess World Cup 2017Ended · won by Levon Aronian
  5. 202646th Chess OlympiadEnded

Born on September 27

  1. 1855Jacques SchwarzAustrian chess player
  2. 1865Sigmund HerlandRomanian chess player
  3. 1903Boruch Israel DynerChess master
  4. 1908Vladimirs PetrovsLatvian chess player
  5. 1931Stefan WitkowskiChess player
  6. 1958Quique SetiénSpanish association football player and manager
  7. 1958John FedorowiczAmerican chess player
  8. 1960Jutta HempelGerman chess player
  9. 1964Igor ŠtohlSlovak chess player
  10. 1970Yoshiharu HabuJapanese shogi and chess player
  11. 1980Martín LabollitaArgentine chess player
  12. 1984Vlad-Cristian JianuRomanian chess player
  13. 1988David BaramidzeGerman chess player
  14. 1992Jan KrejčíCzech chess player
  15. 1996Illia NyzhnykUkrainian chess grandmaster

Died on September 27

  1. 1877Oscar GelbfuhsMoravian-Austrian chess player
  2. 1941Juan CorzoChess master
  3. 1965Nicholas MacLeodBritish-Canadian chess player
  4. 1970Miklós BélyHungarian chess player
  5. 1971José Joaquín AraizaMexican chess player
  6. 2009Jerzy GiżyckiPolish journalist
  7. 2022Erling KristiansenChess 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.