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September 9 in Chess History

12 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on September 9.

September 9, 2010: Bent Larsen died. On this day in chess history.

201016 years ago today

Bent Larsen died

Danish chess grandmaster and author

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Matches, tournaments and games

19331933 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Mikhail Botvinnik
1933French Chess Championship 1933Ended · won by Aristide Gromer
2019Chess World Cup 2019Began · won by Teimour Radjabov

Born on September 9

1856Vincenz HrubyCzech chess player
1887Paul ListRussian chess player
1893Wally HenschelGerman chess player
1911Olga Semenova Tyan-ShanskayaRussian chess player
1923Elmārs ZemgalisAmerican chess player
1926Pierre RollandFrench chess player
1926Imants DraiskaLatvian chess player
1931Edwin BhendSwiss chess player and author
1948Mikhail DonskoyRussian computer scientist
1970Zbyněk HráčekCzech chess player
1977Piotr BobrasGrandmaster chess player
1988Bassem AminEgyptian chess player

Died on September 9

1909Arnold SchottländerGerman chess player
1954Paul ListRussian chess player
1992Imre KönigHungarian chess player
2010Bent LarsenDanish chess grandmaster and author
2024Carlos BielickiArgentine 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.

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