Chess necrology

The chess necrology lists the death dates of people relevant to the topic of chess . These can be, for example, chess players, chess composers , referees and officials, but also personalities who have made a relevant contribution to chess. We are continuously working on the addition of death dates, also for periods further back.

2020

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
August 24th	Tomas Carnstam	Swedish correspondence chess player	71	[1]
August 24th	Wolfgang Uhlmann	German chess player	85	[2]
Reported death on August 21	Miron Sher	American chess player	68	[3]
18th of June	Walter Wittmann	Austrian chess player	72	[4] [5]
17th of June	Michel Nguélé Viang	Cameroonian chess official	71	[6]
May 27th	Krzysztof Żołnierowicz	Polish chess player	58	[7]
17th of May	Tatiana Lematschko	Swiss, formerly Bulgarian chess player of Soviet origin	72	[8th]
10th of May	Jerzy Pokojowczyk	Polish chess player	71	[9]
8th of May	Iepe Rubingh	Dutch action artist and inventor of chess boxing	45	[10]
Found dead on May 1st	Igor Sinelnikov	Russian shogi and chess player	78	[11]
April 28	Gertrude Baumstark	Romanian-German chess player	78	[12]
April 28	Alexander Münninghoff	Dutch author and journalist	76	[13]
April 22	Yves Tallec	French chess composer and functionary	92	[14]
20th of April	Arsen Yeghiasarjan	Armenian chess player	49	[15]
20th of April	Don Schultz	American chess official	83	[16]
March 30	Arianne Caoili	Australian chess player of Filipino origin	33	[17]
Reported death March 30th	Eduardo Mieles Viteri	Ecuadorian chess official	65	[18]
March 13th	Joachim Franz	German chess player	85	[19]
9th March	Richard Kenneth Guy	British-Canadian mathematician and chess composer	103	[20]
5. March	Stanislav Bogdanovych	ukrainian chess player	27	[21]
5. March	Claus Dieter Meyer	German chess player, author and trainer	73	[22]
February 28	Hennadij Kuzmin	ukrainian chess player	74	[23]
February 16	Veijo Mäki	Finnish chess player	61	[24]
February 15th or 16th	Heinz Schaufelberger	Swiss chess player	72	[25]
13th February	Maciej Rutkowski	Polish chess player	32	[26]
Reported death January 23rd	Mikhail Luschenkov	Russian chess player	34	[27]
13th January	Radoslav Simić	Serbian chess player	71	[28]

2019

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
30th of December	Beatriz Alfonso Nogué	Spanish chess player	51	[29]
25 December	Ľudovít Lačný	Slovak chess composer	93	[30]
21st December	Franjo Lovaković	Croatian correspondence chess player	67	[31]
December 18th	Roman Skomorochin	Russian chess player	50	[32]
Reported death on November 24th	Miroslav Tošić	Serbian chess player	59	[33]
November 19th	Péter Szilágyi	Hungarian chess player	82	[34]
Reported death November 2nd	Tamar Kmiadashvili	Georgian chess player	74	[35]
October 22nd	Albin Poetzsch	German chess author	83	[36]
October 14th	Andrzej Kwilecki	Polish master player and sociologist	90	[37]
5th October	Vladimir Kozlov	Russian chess player	69	[38]
September 23rd	Harri Hurme	Finnish chess player and solver of chess compositions	74	[39]
September 11	Zbigniew Szymczak	Polish chess player	67	[40]
September 4th	Nenad Sulava	Croatian chess grandmaster	56	[41]
26th of August	Pál Benkő	Hungarian-American chess grandmaster and study composer	91	[42]
Reported death on August 21	Oleh Kalinin	ukrainian chess player	62	[43]
August 1st	Karl-Heinz Podzielny	German chess player	64	[44]
July 19	Mohammad Rafiq Khan	Indian chess player	73	[45]
15th of July	Mikhail Arkhangelsky	Russian chess player	70	[46]
July 6th	Ragnar Hoen	Norwegian chess player and trainer	78	[47]
8th of May	Jens bag	German politician and patron of Chess Classics Mainz	72	[48]
5th of May	Alexander Vaisman	Ukrainian chess player and coach	80	[49]
April 27	Dieter Kutzborski	German chess composer	71	[50]
Reported death on April 25th	Peter Welz	German chess player	74	[51]
Reported death on April 12th	Nikolai Luzhnikov	Russian chess player	41	[52]
March 31	Eva Moser	Austrian chess player	36	[53]
26th of March	Josef Well	Czech chess player	85	[54]
4th of March	John Menke	American correspondence chess player	79	[55]
13th February	Predrag Trajković	Serbian chess player	48	[56]
Reported death February 8th	Uwe Baumgardt	German correspondence chess player	56	[57]
February 4th	Otto Dietze	German chess player, author and translator	91	[58]
3 February	Hermann Skarke	German correspondence chess player	87	[59]
January 8th	Khosro Harandi	Iranian chess player	68	[60]

2018

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
24th of December	Eduard Dubow	Russian chess referee	80	[61]
24th of December	Gheorghe Rotariu	Romanian correspondence chess player	85	[62]
December 17th	Werner Stern	German correspondence chess player	86	[63]
15th December	Milunka Lazarevic	Yugoslav chess player	86	[64]
6th of December	Győző forintos	Hungarian chess player	83	[65]
6th of December	Marina Zelić	Croatian correspondence chess player	71	[66]
December 5th	Phillip John Viner	Australian correspondence chess player	91	[67] [68]
November 29th	Ruth Haring	American chess player	63	[69]
November 16	Valer-Vasile Demian	Romanian correspondence chess player	83	[70]
November 8th	Klaus Gohde	Honorary member of the German Chess Federation	89	[71]
November 7th	Renato Pereira	Portuguese chess player	73	[72]
November 5th	Herbert Lang	German correspondence chess player	77	[73]
November 4th	Antonio José Brito Moura	Portuguese correspondence chess player	62	[74]
November 3rd	Eric Schiller	American chess writer	63	[75]
30th of October	Hajo Gnirk	German chess official	76	[76]
23rd October	Ervin Haág	Hungarian chess player	85	[77]
October 21	Tan Chin Nam	Malaysian chess official	92	[78]
16th September	Leonid Kernaschyzkyj	ukrainian chess player	70	[79]
September 15th	Peggy Clarke	English chess player	80	[80]
September 15th	Ateş Ülker	Turkish chess player	70	[81]
August 31	Philip Short	Irish chess player	58	[82] , [83]
August 28th	Alfredo Manuel Pietrobono	Argentine correspondence chess player	85	[84]
13 August	Choo Kwee Giam	Singaporean chess player	76	[85]
13 August	Lorenz Maximilian Drabke	German chess player	33	[86]
4th of August	Erwin Nievergelt	Swiss chess player	89	[87]
3rd August	Liban Van Damme	Belgian correspondence chess player	90	[88]
July 26th	Aloyzas Kveinys	Lithuanian chess player	56	[89]
Reported death on June 9th	David Lafarga Santorromán	Spanish correspondence chess player	51	[90]
May 26	Zbigniew Księski	Polish chess player	64	[91]
25. May	Roberto Debarnot	argentinian chess player	70	[92]
Reported death on May 21st	Ernesto Juliá	argentinian chess player	57	[93]
May 20th	Herbert Scheidt	German chess official	73	[94]
10th of May	Yevgeny Vasyukov	Soviet or Russian chess player	85	[95]
April 22	Nino Khurzidze	Georgian chess player	42	[96]
April 15th	Vladimir Turkov	Russian correspondence chess player	54	[97]
March 22	Johan van Hulst	Dutch politician, educator and chess player	107	[98]
March 18th	István Schrancz	Hungarian correspondence chess player	74	[99]
1st March	Gisbert Jacoby	German chess player and trainer, co-founder and managing director of ChessBase	74	[100]
1st March	Anatoly Lein	Soviet or American chess grandmaster	86	[101]
February 28	Stefán Kristjánsson	Icelandic chess grandmaster	35	[102]
February 16	Yuri Fokin	Russian chess composer	92	[103]
February 12th	Ilye Figler	Moldovan-American chess player	70	[104]
January 27th	Max Zavanelli	American correspondence chess player	71/72?	[105]
Reported death January 22nd	Arkady Berov	ukrainian chess player	80	[106]
January 20th	Anatoly Sychev	Russian correspondence chess player	85	[107]
Date unknown	Mike Nicholson	English correspondence chess player	79	[108]

2017

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 22	Anton Csulits	German chess player	75	[109]
December 18th	Bogusław Sygulski	Polish chess player	60	[110]
December 16	Reinhart Fuchs	German chess player	83	[111]
December 16	George Pyrich	scottish correspondence chess player	66	[112]
15th December	Carlos Flores Gutierrez	Spanish correspondence chess player	84?	[113]
November 23	John Toothill	English correspondence chess player	79	[114]
November 16	Valery Jandemirov	Russian chess player	54	[115]
14th November	Mahfoud Boudiba	Algerian chess player	51	[116]
30th of October	Algimantas Butnorius	Lithuanian chess player	70	[117]
28th of October	Ardiansyah	Indonesian grandmaster	65	[118]
October 13th	William Lombardy	American chess player	79	[119]
9th October	Norbert Janzen	German correspondence chess player	61	[120]
October 1	Larissa Volpert	Estonian philologist and chess player	91	[121]
12th September	Jiljí Bureš	Czech correspondence chess player	73	[122]
Reported death on August 25th	Jean Lamothe	Haitian chess player and official	??	[123]
18th of August	Mirosława Litmanowicz	Polish chess player	88	[124]
17th August	Corvin Radovici	Romanian chess player	85	[125]
August 16	Matthias Schurade	German chess player	58
8th August	Filip Ljubičić	Croatian chess player	52	[126]
August 2nd or 3rd	Vyacheslav Chodko	Russian chess player	65	[127]
2nd July	Volodymyr Malanyuk	ukrainian chess player	59	[128]
2nd July	Tatiana Satulovskaya	Israeli, formerly Russian and Soviet chess player	81	[129]
June 28th	Massoud Amir Sawadkuhi	German-Iranian chess player	74	[130]
June 19th	Zoltán Sárosy	Hungarian-Canadian chess player	110	[131]
June 13th	Ljubica Jocić-Živković	Yugoslav chess player	80	[132]
June 5th	Josef Kupper	Swiss chess player and composer	85	[133]
May 29th	Stefano Tatai	Italian chess player	79	[134]
May 26	Hillel Aloni	Israeli chess composer	79	[135]
May 22	Viktor Kuprejchyk	Belarusian, early Soviet chess player	67	[136]
May 4th	Béla Lengyel	Hungarian chess player	67	[137]
April 28	Hans Holländer	German art historian with a focus on chess history	85	[138]
26th of April	Tamás Erdélyi	Hungarian chess player, trainer and tournament organizer	64	[139]
April 18	Charles Kuwaza	Zimbabwean chess official	?	[140]
17th April	Günter Fiensch	German correspondence chess player	83	[141]
10th of April	Keith Richardson	English correspondence chess player	75	[142]
April 5th	Arthur Bisguier	American grandmaster	87	[143]
28th March	Iluska Pereira da Cunha Simonsen	Brazilian correspondence chess player	76	[144]
March 10th	Nikolay Minev	American chess player of Bulgarian origin	85	[145]
8th of March	Ryhor Isserman	Belarusian-German master player	65	[146]
February 28	Walter Shipman	American chess player	87	[147]
Reported death on February 23	Enver Bukic	Slovenian chess player	79	[148]
19th of February	Hillar Kärner	Estonian chess player	81	[149]
February 17th	Anatoly Matschulski	Russian chess player	60	[150]
February 6th	Raymond Smullyan	American chess writer and composer	97	[151]
Reported death on February 4th	Oleksandr Nossenko	ukrainian chess player	49	[152]
31 January	Vladimir Poletov	Russian chess player	67	[153]
January 24th or January 25th	Ralph Basden	Australian correspondence chess player	61	[154] [155]
21th January	Cristina-Adela Foișor	Romanian chess player	49	[156]
13th January	Hans Berliner	American correspondence chess player	87	[157]
January 9th	Kurt Lellinger	German chess teacher	78	[158]
January 8th	Helmut Lange	German chess player	80	[159]
January 1st	Samuel Schweber	argentinian chess player	80	[160]

2016

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
Reported death January 1, 2017	Alexander Chassin	Russian chess player	65	[161]
December	François Chevaldonnet	French chess player	66	[162]
25 December	Ashot Anastasyan	Armenian chess player	52	[163]
19. December	Gennady Anozhin	Russian geologist and chess player	78	[164]
November 28th	Mark Taimanow	Russian-Soviet pianist and chess player	90	[165]
November 26th	Yuri Yelisseyev	Russian chess player	20th	[166]
Reported death on November 23rd	Darko Gliksman	Croatian chess player	79	[167]
November 11th	Wilfried Hilgert	German chess patrons	83	[168]
in October	Joop van Oosterom	Dutch correspondence chess player and chess patron	78	[169]
October 29th	Samuil Schuchowizki	Russian chess player	99	[170]
October 24th	Yevgeny Gik	Russian chess player and author	73	[171]
October 14th	Ken Bowyer	English correspondence chess player	??	[172]
Reported death October 13th	Halyna Schljachtytsch	Ukrainian chess player	44	[173]
September 26th	Mark Dvoretski	Russian chess player, trainer and author	68	[174]
September 22	Vladimir Sălceanu	Romanian correspondence chess player	82	[175]
Reported death on September 22nd	Atanas Kolarov	Bulgarian chess player	82	[176]
September 18	Jorge Rubinetti	argentinian chess player	71	[177]
5th September	Petr Boukal	Czech correspondence chess player	69	[178]
August 21	Michael Schmidt	German chess official	71	[179]
August 19th	Maxim Bloch	Russian correspondence chess player	56	[180]
August 10	Sergei Chawski	Russian chess player and coach	88	[181]
8th August	Howhannes Danieljan	Armenian chess grandmaster	42	[182]
30th July	Smilja Vujosevic	Canadian chess player	81	[183]
July 12	Fritz Hoffmann	German chess composer	83	[184]
July 11th	Mircea Dabija	Romanian correspondence chess player	80	[185]
July 1	Goran Vojinović	Serbian chess player	53	[186]
June 29th	Werner Reichenbach	German chess player	80	[187]
25th June	Alfred Deuel	Soviet or American correspondence chess player and referee	82	[188]
15th June	Zvonimir Meštrović	Bosnian-Slovenian chess player	71	[189]
14th June	Joseph DeMauro	American correspondence chess player	69	[190]
June 12	Danny Kopec	American chess player	62	[191]
6th of June	Frank Kim Berry	American chess historian	70	[192]
6th of June	Viktor Korchnoi	Soviet-Swiss chess player	85	[193]
6th of June	Herman Suradiradja	Indonesian chess player	68	[194]
May 26	Arturo Pomar Salamanca	spanish chess player	84	[195]
25. May	Zlatko Bašagić	Bosnian-Slovenian chess player	68	[196]
May 19th	Dragan Paunović	Serbian chess grandmaster	54	[197]
May 15	Gerhard Fahnenschmidt	German chess player	75	[198] p. 6. [199]
10th of May	Erzsébet Cynolter-Bognárné	Hungarian correspondence chess player	78	[200]
2.May	Wichard von Alvensleben	German chess composer	78	[201]
April 27	Viktor Gavrikov	Lithuanian chess grandmaster	58	[202]
April 27	Michael Haygarth	English chess player	81	[203]
Reported death on April 21	Vladimír Tichý	Czech chess player	69	[204]
7th of April	László Bárczay	Hungarian chess grandmaster	80	[205]
7th of April	Jacqueline Roos	French correspondence chess player	85	[206]
2nd of April	Valentin Rudenko	Ukrainian chess composer	78	[207]
March 24th	Hope Arthurine Anderson	Jamaican chess player	65	[208]
March 12th	Werner Schlachetka	German correspondence chess player	72	[209]
February 28	Jozef Boey	Belgian chess player	81	[210]
February 25	Karl Röhrl	Austrian chess player	75	[211]
20. February	Heroes Câmara	Brazilian chess player	79	[212]
February 18	Maurice Muneret	French correspondence chess player	70	[213]
February 12th	Klaus-Ulrich Groth	German correspondence chess player	67	[214]
February 4th	Jeremy Morse	British manager and chess composer	87	[215]
February 2nd	Nebojša Kostić	Serbian chess player	56	[216]
January 29th	Achim Soltau	German correspondence chess player	77	[217]
January 23	Elisabeta Polihroniade	Romanian chess player	80	[218]
January 18th	Eduard Mnazakanjan	Armenian chess player and coach	77	[219]
January 12th	Ivan Bukavshin	Russian chess player	20th	[220]
January 12th	Wladyslaw Sapa	Polish correspondence chess player	64	[221]
January 9th	Günter Schuchardt	German correspondence chess player	71	[222]

2015

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
23rd of December	Leonid Gofshtein	Israeli chess player	62	[223]
December 22	Luis Rentero	Spanish hotelier	83	[224]
21st December	Rimma Bilunova	Soviet chess player	75	[225]
December 16	František Blatný	Czech chess player	82	[226]
9th of December	Jacques Roose	Belgian correspondence chess player	72	[227]
3rd of December	Helmut Reefschläger	German chess player	71	[228]
30th of November	Nina Hrušková-Bělská	Czechoslovak chess player	90	[229]
November 26th	Tony Barnsley	English correspondence chess player	81	[230] [231]
November 18	Jim Slater	American businessman	86	[232]
November 11th	Aurel Anton	Romanian correspondence chess player	87	[233]
October 31	Isaak Linder	Russian chess author	94	[234]
23rd October	Krunoslav Hulak	Croatian chess player	64	[235]
October 21	Alfred Seppelt	German chess official	86	[236]
the 20th of October	András Ozsváth	Hungarian correspondence chess player	86	[237]
October 19th	Antoni Schön	Polish correspondence chess player	82	[238]
October 17th	Emory Tate	American chess player	56	[239]
October 7th	Marian Braczko	Polish correspondence chess player	89	[240]
4th of October	John Moles	Irish chess player	66	[241]
September 19th	Jorge Szmetan	argentinian chess player	65	[242]
September 15th	CK ananthanarayanan	Indian chess composer	~ 65	[243]
August 23	Sergio Giardelli	argentinian chess player	60	[244]
August 23	Gary Ruben	Canadian correspondence chess player	72	[245]
August 21	Uwe Peschke	German correspondence chess player	53	[246]
August 14th	Glen Shields	American correspondence chess player	63	[247] [248]
13 August	Abram Roisman	Belarusian chess player and author	83	[249]
12. August	Lev Omelchenko	Soviet correspondence chess player	93	[250]
August 10	Branko Lovrić	Croatian chess player	54	[251]
8th August	Jan van Reek	Dutch chess composer	70	EG
August 7th	Ronald Câmara	Brazilian chess player	88	[252]
3rd August	Corneliu Buşu	Romanian chess player	69	[253]
21 July	Alberto Barreras	Cuban chess player	64	[254]
July 11th	Herbert Ahues	German chess composer	93	[255]
Reported death on July 6th	Aurel-Gheorghe Erdeuş	Romanian chess player and official	77	[256]
buried on June 27th	Ismael Mendívil	Bolivian chess player	79	[257]
June 24th	Walter Browne	American chess player	66	[258]
23rd June	Kim Commons	American chess player	63	[259]
June 21st	Alexander Manvelyan	Armenian chess composer	79	EG
Reported death June 16	Anatoly Mazukevich	Russian chess player and author	76	[260]
June 11th	Joaquín Carlos Díaz Díaz	Cuban chess player	66	[261]
May 29th	Róbert Tibenský	Slovak chess player	54	[262]
May 21	César Boutteville	French chess player	97	[263]
May 21	Joaquim Durão	Portuguese chess player	84	[264]
Reported death on May 8th	Ervin Jánosi	Hungarian correspondence chess player	79	[265]
Reported death on May 1st	Charles Partos	Romanian-Swiss chess player	78	[266]
April 29	Yuri Ryzhkov	Russian correspondence chess player	78	[267]
26th of April	Karlheinz Podzielny	German correspondence chess player	86	[268]
Reported death on April 18	Colin Crouch	English chess player	58	[269]
Reported death on April 16	Göran Andersson	Swedish correspondence chess player	69	[270]
12. April	Óscar Humberto Castro Rojas	Colombian chess player	61	[271]
17. March	Briant Peter Bourne	welsh chess player	87	[272] [273]
Reported death March 3rd	Arnold Sachartschenko	ukrainian chess player	75	[274]
February 7th	Harald Lieb	German chess player	80	[275]
February 6th	Oleg Chernikov	Russian chess player	78	[276]
February 5th	Larisa Mutchnik	Ukrainian chess player	58	[277]
January 27th	Hans Hoffmann	German chess player	85	[278]
January 23	Alexander Lastin	Russian chess player	38	[279]
15. January	Gligor Denkovski	Macedonian chess composer	68	[280]
10. January	Slobodan Martinović	Serbian chess player	69	[281]
Reported death January 7th	Alexandru Sorin Segal	Romanian-Brazilian chess player	67	[282]

2014

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
11th December	Peter Hugh Clarke	English correspondence chess player	81	[283]
Reported death December 10th	Denis Verduga Zavala	mexican chess player	61	[284]
December 8th	Elmar's Zemgalis	Latvian-American chess player	91	[285]
December 5th	Peter Marczell	Slovak correspondence chess player	73	[286]
Reported death on December 4th	Imre Horváth	Hungarian chess player	58	[287]
Reported death on December 2nd	Boris Kleiman	Russian correspondence chess player	74	[288]
22nd of November	Anne Mothersill	English chess player	87	[289]
November 4th	Iuri Akobia	Georgian chess composer	77	[290]
8th October	Gerardo Budowski	Venezuelan chess player	89	[291]
October 7th	Iogannes Weltmander	Russian chess player	92	[292]
October 6th	Josep Garriga Nualart	Spanish correspondence chess player	67	[293]
October 3	Zaw Win Lay	Myanmar chess player	50	[294]
October 2nd	Einar Laane	Estonian correspondence chess player	79	[295]
September 6th	Kira Sworykina	Soviet chess player	94	[296]
August 23	Irmgard Karner	German chess player	87	[297]
August 19th	Mauricio Dorín	argentinian chess player	54	[298]
18th of August	Levente Lengyel	Hungarian chess player	81	[299]
August 16	Dragoljub Ćirić	Serbian chess player	78	[300]
August 2nd	Igor Samarin	Russian correspondence chess player	58	[301]
August 2nd	Hermann Weißauer	German chess composer	93	[302]
Reported death July 30th	Bonuses Vandermeulen	Belgian correspondence chess player	67 or 68	[303]
July 12	Alexander Borsenko	Russian correspondence chess player	64	[304]
7th of July	Andrew Whiteley	English chess player	67	[305]
20th June	Henri Winants	Belgian chess player	85	[306]
15th June	Andrei Charlow	Russian chess player and coach	45	[307]
June 11th	Heinz Koehler	German publicist	82	[308]
June 10th	Uri Avner	Israeli chess composer	73	[309]
June 1st	Dolfi Drimer	Romanian chess player	79	[310]
23. May	Dragoljub Velimirović	Serbian chess player	72	[311]
12th of May	Ľudo fief	Slovak artist and chess composer	88
12th of May	Paul Valois	British chess composer	68	[312]
May 6th	Olli Koskinen	Finnish correspondence chess player	69	[313]
April 29	Harri Froberg	Finnish correspondence chess player	47	[314]
April 25	Gintautas Piešina	Lithuanian chess player	62	[315]
April 23	Władysława Górska	Polish chess player	94	[316]
10th of April	Donata's Lapienis	Lithuanian correspondence chess player	78	[317]
9th April	Franz Escher	German chess player	82/83?	[318]
7th of April	Hans Tanggaard	Danish correspondence chess player	56	[319]
March, 15	Alexander Nosdrin	Russian chess player	25th	[320]
March 10th	Alexander Geller	Russian chess player	82	[321]
5. March	Vitaly Kovalenko	Russian chess composer	66	[322]
20. February	Arkady Novopashin	soviet chess player	81	[323]
February 5th	Wolfgang Dittmann	German problem composer	80	[324]
January 25th	Gyula Sax	Hungarian chess player	62	[325]
January 17th	Rolly Martinez	Filipino chess player	43	[326]
11th January	Vüqar Həşimov	Azerbaijani chess player	27	[327]
January 8th	Luis Marcos Bronstein	argentinian chess player	67	[328]
January 7th	Joza Tucakov	Serbian chess composer	84	[329]
Reported death June 27th	Lidija Mulenko	Soviet chess player	75	[330]

2013

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 22	John Grefe	American chess player and writer	66	[331]
9th of December	Alberto Foguelman	argentinian chess player	90	[332]
beginning of December	Rodolfo Argentino Redolfi	Argentine correspondence chess player	85	[333]
December 1	Yefim Lazarev	Soviet chess player and author	80	[334]
before November 22nd	Vladimir Waisser	Russian correspondence chess player	~ 69	[335]
November 8th	Manfred van Fondern	German chess author and editor	75	[336]
23rd October	Edgar Walther	Swiss chess player	83	[337]
23rd October	Manfred Zucker	German chess composer	75	[338]
October 19th	Volodymyr Elyanov	Ukrainian chess player and coach	62	[339]
October 14th	Alexandra van der Mije	Romanian-Dutch chess player	73	[340]
October 13th	László Zsinka	Hungarian chess player	59	[341]
9th October	Milan Matulović	Serbian chess player	78	[342]
October 1	Hamlet Amirjan	Armenian chess composer	78	EG
October 1	Georg Engelhardt	German correspondence chess player	??	[343]
September 24th	José Paredes Prats	Spanish correspondence chess player	79	[344]
buried on September 17th	Clorivaldo Fernandes de Abreu	Brazilian correspondence chess player	70	[345]
5th September	Karl-Heinz Maeder	German chess player	64	[346]
September 1	Hans-Günter Kestler	German chess player	73	[347]
August 27	Maxwell Fuller	Australian chess player	68	[348]
August 23	Vesna Rožič	Slovenian chess player	26th	[349]
August 21	Rodolfo Tan Cardoso	Filipino chess player	75	[350]
20th of August	Alexander Lehmkuhl	German chess composer	63	[351]
8th August	Igor Kurnosov	Russian chess player	28	[352]
August 2nd	Alla Kuschnir	Russian-Israeli chess player	71	[353]
16th of July	Peter Heyl	German chess composer	75	[354]
7th of July	Berna Carrasco	Chilean chess player	98	[355]
July 6th	Andrei Khachaturov	Russian chess composer	96
July 4th	Mario Matouš	Czech chess composer	66	[356]
23rd June	Siegfried Landgrave	German correspondence chess player	78	[357]
14th June	Leonardo Fusco	argentinian chess player	25th	[358]
14th June	Hans Suri	Swiss chess official	85	[359]
June 12	Alfred Diel	German chess official and author	89
May 18	Lothar Schmid	German publisher and chess player	85	[360]
May 13th	İlhan Onat	Turkish chess player	83	[361]
Reported death on May 13th	Francisco Magaña Echeverría	mexican chess player	57	[362]
8th of May	Iossif Watnikov	Russian chess player	90	[363]
April 25	Lembit Vahesaar	Estonian chess official and referee	77	[364]
April 24th	Nikola Vasovski	Macedonian chess player	58	[365]
17th April	Roger Abella	Filipino chess player	61	[366]
April 13th	Manfred Ronczkowski	German correspondence chess player	77	[367]
12. April	Robert Byrne	American chess player	84	[368]
4. April	Bernd Rädeker	German correspondence chess player	74	[369]
25th March	Rolf Schwarz	German chess player and author	86
March 10th	Ramón Crusi Moré	Spanish correspondence chess player	87	[370]
8th of March	Ruben Shocron	American chess player	92	[371]
February 26th	Adrian S. Hollis	English correspondence chess grandmaster	72	[372]
February 25	Milan Velimirović	Serbian grandmaster of chess composition	60
19th of February	Wilfried Sauermann	German correspondence chess European champion	73	[373]
February 16	Julian Radulski	Bulgarian chess player	40
February 8	Zbigniew Doda	Polish chess player	81	[374]
22nd of January	Margareta Teodorescu	Romanian chess player (WGM)	80	[375]
January 20th	Erik Pedersen	Danish chess player	54	[376]
January 19th	Anatoly Bannik	German chess player	91	[377]
January 19th	Marcel Sisniega Campbell	mexican chess player	53	[378]
15. January	Aaron Schwartzman	argentinian chess player	104	[379]
January 14th	Mikola Rezvov	Ukrainian chess composer	91	[380]
10. January	Abraham Raúl Ramírez	Argentine correspondence chess player	92	[381]
Reported death on December 16	Vladimir Lepyoshkin	soviet chess player	76	[382]
Reported death October 24th	Zsolt József Szabó	Hungarian chess player	36	[383]
between March and May	Aidas Labuckas	Lithuanian chess player	44	[384]
before February 2nd	Boris Katalymov	Kazakh chess player	80	[385]

2012

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 29th	Peter Dely	Hungarian chess player	78
December 29th	Sergei Kuznetsov	Russian chess player	66	[386]
15th December	Ridha Belkadi	Tunisian chess player	87	[387]
December 4th	Vladimir Buchtin	Russian chess player	71	[388]
3rd of December	Georgi Borisenko	Uzbek chess player, trainer and opening theorist	90	[389]
30th of November	Yevgeny Dvizov	Belarusian chess composer	75	[390]
November 28th	Alex Crisovan	Swiss chess journalist and chess official	93	[391]
November 26th	Serhej Schedej	Ukrainian chess composer	72	[392]
November 23	Dan Meinking	American chess composer and puzzle inventor	52	[393]
November 18	Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya	American chess player	55	[394]
November 18	Horst Zimmermann	German correspondence chess player	77	[395]
Reported death November 8th	Ilir Karkaneqe	albanian chess player	59	[396]
30th of October	Emilis Šlekys	Lithuanian correspondence chess player	61	[397]
23rd October	Leon Pliester	Dutch chess player	58	[398]
October 1	Oscar Bonivento	Italian chess composer	97	[399]
25th of September	Siniša Joksić	Serbian chess player	71	[400]
September 22	Bernd Feustel	German chess player	58
September 14th	Dmitri Chuprov	Russian chess player	33	[401]
September 3	Rui Nascimento	Portuguese chess composer	98	[402]
August 30th	Ģedimins Salmiņš	Latvian correspondence chess player	79
August 14th	Svetozar Gligorić	Serbian grandmaster	89	[403]
August 9	Yuri Vasilchuk	Russian chess player	83	[404]
15th of July	Jacqueline Piatigorsky	American philanthropist	100	[405]
July 13th	Alberto Escobedo Tinajero	mexican chess player	37	[406]
17th of June	Nathan Divinsky	Canadian chess writer	86	[407]
June 16 or 17	Werner Mathes	German correspondence chess player	?
June 4th	Vladimir Onoprijenko	Russian chess player	70	[408]
May 20th	Palle Ravn	Danish chess player	83	[409]
Reported death May 18	Vittorio Piccardo	Italian correspondence chess player	78	[410]
8th of May	Shankar Roy	Indian chess player	36	[411]
May 4th	Haukur Angantýsson	icelandic chess player	63	[412]
May 4th	Alexander Chikwaidze	Georgian diplomat and chess official	80	[413]
April 29	Dick van Geet	Dutch chess player	80	[414]
April 13th	Miguel Albareda Creus	spanish chess player	93	[415]
27th of March	Vladimir Baikov	Russian chess player	63	[416]
March 21st	Yuri Razuvayev	Russian grandmaster and trainer	66	[417]
7th March	Ali İpek	Turkish chess player	59	[418]
21st of February	Štefan Gross	Czechoslovak / Czech / Hungarian chess player and chess trainer	62	[419]
February 16	Andrei Kiruscha	Russian chess player	47	[420]
January 18th	Alexei Pugachev	Russian chess player	46	[421]
13th January	Andrei Kharitonov	Russian chess player	52	[422]
10. January	Hrvoje brass	Croatian chess player	71	[423]
January 7th	Elaine Pritchard	English chess player	86	[424]
January 5th	Paul Gaffron	German chess trainer	81	SCH
between October 10th and November 13th	Vincent David	French chess player	36	[425]
before September 24th	Yuri Lochow	Russian chess player	79	[426]
before July 9th	Emil Ungureanu	Romanian chess player	75	[427]
May	Lutz Lange	German correspondence chess player	76	[428]
March	Heinz Prokopp	German correspondence chess player	81
before February 25th	Tengiz Giorgadze	Georgian chess writer and referee	87	[429]
January	Werner Nitsche	German correspondence chess player	?

2011

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
24th of December	Vitaly Zeschkowski	Russian chess player	67	[430]
21st December	Werner Breustedt	German chess player	80	[431]
November 26th	Jan Voormans	Dutch close chess, correspondence chess and draft player	67	[432]
October 31	Boris de Greiff	Colombian chess player	81	[433]
October 18	Karl-Heinz Söntges	German correspondence chess player	65	[434]
4th of October	Jay Whitehead	American chess player	49	[435]
October 2nd	Andrija Fuderer	Yugoslav chess grandmaster	80	[436]
September 24th	Kostjantyn Lerner	ukrainian chess player	61	[437]
September 20th	Liu Wenzhe	chinese chess player	70	[438]
September 15th	Dieter Stern	German correspondence chess grandmaster	77	[439]
August 27	John Purdy	Australian champion	75	[440]
August 21	Arne Vinje	Norwegian chess player	68	[441]
August 19th	Helge Kildal	German chess official	79	[442]
8th August	Vladimir Budde	German chess player and author	58	[443]
3rd August	Wolf Boehringer	German chess player, columnist and composer	81	[444]
10th of July	Carlos Cuartas	Colombian chess player	70	[445]
July 9	Hans-Hermann Lemke	German correspondence chess player	60	[446]
June 27 ?	Oscar Jorge Carlsson	Argentine chess composer	87
June 22	Anatoly Archipoff	German chess player	89	[447]
June 4th	Bo Lindgren	Swedish grandmaster of chess composition	84	[448]
2th of June	Leonid Yurtayev	Kyrgyz chess grandmaster	52	[449]
8th of May	Soňa Pertlová	Czech chess player	23	[450]
April 24th	Alexei Shestoperov	Russian chess player and coach	75	[451]
2nd of April	Larry Parr	American chess player and writer	64	[452]
April 1st	Orestes Awerkin	Russian chess player and coach	67	[453]
March 30	Wolfgang Bauer	German correspondence chess player	75	[454]
March, 15	Natalia Konopljowa	Russian chess player	66	[455]
2nd March	Julien Vandiest	Belgian chess composer	91	EG
19th of February	Jeremy Gaige	American chess writer	83	[456]
February 15th	Anton Preinfalk	Slovenian chess composer	99	[457]
February 12th	Mato Damjanović	Croatian chess grandmaster	83	[458]
January 30th	Toma Garai	American grandmaster of chess composition of Hungarian origin	75	[459]
13th January	Gregory Hjorth	Australian mathematician and chess player	47	[460]
January 2nd	Srećko Nedeljković	Serbian chess player	87	[461]

2010

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 31	Ion Murărașu	Romanian chess composer	55	[462]
Reported death on December 28th	Froso Kasioura	greek chess player	53	[463]
December 17th	Mikhail Umansky	13. Correspondence chess world champion	58	[464]
December 7th (missing)	Georg Siegel	German chess player	48	[465]
15th of November	Larry Evans	American chess player	78	[466]
15th of November	Andrzej Pytlakowski	Polish chess historian	91	[467]
30th of October	Yevgeny Bogdanov	Ukrainian chess composer	58	[468]
30th of October	Ingi Randver Jóhannsson	icelandic chess player	73	[469]
28th of October	Erling Fløtten	Norwegian chess official and politician	72	[470]
October 26th	Viktor Kalyagin	Soviet chess composer	57	[471]
October 10th	Károlyné Honfi	Hungarian chess player	77	[472]
5th October	Jānis Klovāns	Latvian chess player, senior world champion	75	[473]
the 9th of September	Bent Larsen	Danish chess player	75	[474]
August 30th	Mark Ousatchi	soviet chess player	89	[475]
August 25	Wilhelm Schlemermeyer	German chess player and trainer	52	[476]
August 21	Eigil Johansen	Danish chess composer	94	[477]
13 August	Craig Van Tilbury	American guitarist and chess player	53	[478]
July 27th	Boris Arkhangelsky	Russian chess player	79	[479]
July 23	Zdenko Krnić	Serbian chess player	62	[480]
July 18th	Petra Feibert	German chess player	52	[481]
July 13th	Andrei Lobusov	Russian chess composer	59	[482]
5th July	Eugenia Ghinda	Romanian chess player	59	[483]
June 30th	Ole Jakobsen	Danish chess player	67	[484]
June 19th	Terry Kelly	Irish chess player	79	[485]
June 19th	Robin Matthews	British economist and chess composer	83	[486]
May 20th	Günter Kühnel	German correspondence chess player	73	[487]
May 15	Franz Felber	Austrian chess composer	84	[488]
12th of May	Edith Keller-Herrmann	German chess player	88	[489]
10th of May	Bill Hook	Chess players from the Virgin Islands	84	[490]
8th of May	Andor Lilienthal	Hungarian or Soviet chess player	99	[491]
May 3rd	Florencio Campomanes	Filipino chess official	83	[492]
26th of April	Herbert Engel	German chess composer	82	[493]
before April 20th	Alexandru Butunoi	Romanian chess player	37	[494]
April 5th	Vitaly Sevastyanov	Soviet cosmonaut, first chess player in space	74	[495]
4. April	Åke Stenborg	Swedish champion	84	[496]
March 30	Yuri Shabanov	Russian chess grandmaster, senior world champion	72	[497]
March 29	Jindřich Trapl	Czech chess player	68	[498]
27th of March	Vasily Smyslow	Russian world chess champion	89	[499]
March, 20th	István Bilek	Hungarian chess player	77	[500]
March 16	Jelena Tairowa	Russian chess player	18th	[501]
2nd March	Dieter Mohrlok	German chess player	71	[502]
19th of February	Jesús Díez del Corral	spanish chess player	76	[503]
February 2nd	Attila Benedek	Hungarian chess composer	88	[504]
11th January	Francisco Benko	German-Argentine chess composer	99	[505]
January 8th	Attila Bagonyai	Hungarian chess player	45	[506]
January 5th	Manfred Kahn	German correspondence chess player	78	[507]
Reported death on August 7th	Vadim Achmadejew	Russian chess player	54	[508]
July	Hans-Joachim Marotz	German correspondence chess player	?	[509]
February	Siegfried Pietruske	German correspondence chess player	76

2010s

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
2012 or 2013	Hans-Jürgen Reschke	German correspondence chess player	??	[510]

2009

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 26th	Július Kozma	Slovak chess player	80
21st November	Stanko Košanski	Croatian chess player	68	[511]
21st November	Michael Schleifer	Canadian chess player	42	[512]
November 10th	Theodor Steudel	German chess composer	81	[513]
Reported death on November 6th	Ergun Gümrükçüoğlu	Turkish chess player	??	[514]
October 26th	Gertrude Wagner	Austrian chess player	84	[515]
October 19th	Anna Jurczyńska	Polish chess player	83	[516]
October 19th	Milda Lauberte	Latvian chess player	91
October 12th	Frans Huybrecht	Belgian correspondence chess player	??	[517]
September 23rd	Aksel Ros	Danish correspondence chess player	83	[518]
September 22	Romanas Arlauskas	Australian correspondence chess grandmaster	92	[519]
September 20th	Shuhrat Safin	Uzbek chess grandmaster	39	[520]
16th September	John Eric Littlewood	English chess player	78	[521]
August 27	Vyacheslav Osnos	Russian chess player	74	[522]
July 25th	Jānis Vitomskis	Latvian correspondence chess player	72
July 13th	Siegfried Karkuth	German correspondence chess player	??	[523]
July 12	Alexander Cherepkov	Russian chess player	88	[524]
June 21st	Alexander Alpert	Russian correspondence chess player	61	[525]
28th of May	Robert Hartoch	Dutch chess player	62	[526]
May 19th	Alexander Panchenko	Soviet chess grandmaster	55	[527]
May 14th	Mychajlo Pidhajez	ukrainian chess player	61	[528]
April, 30th	Məcnun Vahidov	Azerbaijani chess composer and functionary	62	[529]
April 27	Miroslav Filip	Czechoslovak chess player	80	[530]
February 18	Gerd Treppner	German chess player and author	53	[531]
February 17th	Edhi Handoko	Indonesian chess grandmaster	48
January 23	Héctor Rossetto	Argentine chess grandmaster	86	[532]
21th January	Ursula Wasnetsky	German chess player and official	77	[533]
January 17th	Oleksandr Moros	Ukrainian chess player and official	47	[534]
January 9th	Kaarle Ojanen	Finnish chess player	90	[535]
April	Horst Staudler	German correspondence chess player	??

2008

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 22	Hugh Myers	American chess player and opening theorist	78	[536]
20th of December	Albin Planinc	Slovenian chess grandmaster	64	[537]
December 16	Nikola Karaklajić	Yugoslav chess player	82	[538]
9th of December	Mark this one	American chess player	51	[539]
November 29th	Robert Graham Wade	British-New Zealand chess player	87	[540]
November 24th	Bogdan Bieluczyk	Polish correspondence chess player	75	[541]
22nd of November	Theodor Ghițescu	Romanian Grand Master of Honor	74	[542]
November 9th	Johannes AJ van Mil	Dutch chess player	49	[543]
October 29th	William Addison	American chess player	74	[544]
October 19th	Jacek Bednarski	Polish chess player	69	[545]
Reported death October 17th	Ladislav Kotan	Slovak chess player	47	[546]
October 12th	Serge Rubanraut	Australian champion	60	[547]
4th of October	Gerhard Flum	German correspondence chess player	77	[548]
25th of September	Nino Kirov	Bulgarian chess grandmaster	63	[549]
5th September	Helmut Payrits	Austrian-Liechtenstein chess player	68/69?	[550]
26th of August	Roza Lallemand	French chess player	47	[551]
August 20th or 21st	Vladimir Bukal	Croatian chess player	68	[552]
20th of August	Mario Bertok	Croatian chess player	79	[553]
15th of August	Madeleine Batchinsky-Gaille	Swiss chess player	86	[554]
August 10	Igor Sakharevich	Russian chess grandmaster	45	[555]
June 9th	Karen Asrjan	Armenian chess grandmaster	28	[556]
June 1st	Josef Lapid	Israeli politician and chess official	76	[557]
May 24th	Buchuti Gurgenidze	Georgian chess grandmaster	74	[558]
May 13th	Valery Grechikhin	Russian chess grandmaster	70	[559]
April 27	Nicola Palladino	Italian chess official	76	[560]
April 22	Rolf Martens	Swedish champion	66
April 5th	Witold Bielecki	Polish correspondence chess player	61	[561]
February 22	Ryszard Filutowski	Polish correspondence chess player	79	[562]
19th of February	Günter Henrich	German correspondence chess official	55	[563]
January 19th	Sirkka-Liisa Landry	Finnish champion	81	[564]
January 17th	Bobby Fischer	US-Icelandic world chess champion	64	[565]
January 5th	Byron Zappas	Greek grand master of chess composition	80
January 1st	Sogto Namschilow	Russian chess player	47	[566]
January	Alexander Waulin	Russian chess grandmaster	50
Date unknown	Alan Munro Stewart	English correspondence chess player	60/61?	[567]
Date unknown	Roberta's Sutkus	Lithuanian correspondence chess player	55?	[568]

2007

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 16	Ivan Nemet	Swiss chess player	64	[569]
3rd of December	Francesco Scafarelli	Italian chess player	74	[570]
November 27th	Svein Johannessen	Norwegian chess player	70	[571]
15th of November	Klaus-Peter Zuncke	German chess composer and collector of chess problems	53
October 27	Waltraud Nowarra	seven-time GDR chess champion	66	[572]
October 24th	Stefan Witkowski	Polish chess player	76	[573]
October 19th	Manfred Genzmann	German correspondence chess player	71	[574]
September 18	Guðbjartur Guðmundsson	icelandic chess player	80	[575]
30th July	Willi Knebel	German correspondence chess player	71	[576]
June 30th	Maxim Sorokin	Russian chess player	39	[577]
8th June	Fenny Heemskerk	Dutch chess player	87	[578]
6th of June	Zelio Bernardino	Brazilian correspondence chess player	??	[579]
May 27th	Dumitru Anițoaie	Romanian chess player	46	[580]
Reported death on May 21st	Jorge Laplaza	Argentine correspondence chess player	63	[581]
April 25	Günther Jahn	German chess composer	79	[582]
2nd of April	Sergei Korolyov	Russian correspondence chess player	70
21st of February	Ingvar Ásmundsson	icelandic chess player	72	[583]
13th February	Wenelin Alaikov	Bulgarian chess composer	73	[584]
March	Alla Tchaikovskaya	Soviet chess player	72	[585]
Date unknown	Klara Skegina	Soviet or Israeli chess player	69/70?	[586]

2006

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
23rd of December	Nikolai Nowotelnow	soviet chess player	95
December 22	Aurel Karpati	Hungarian chess composer	90	[587]
December 5th	Dawid Bronstein	Russian chess grandmaster	82	[588]
December 5th	Isaak Eisenstadt	Soviet chemist and chess player	87
November 29th	Krystyna Radzikowska	Polish Grand Master of Honor	75	[589]
November 17th	Luiz Fernando Cirello	Brazilian correspondence chess player	57	[590]
26th of August	Lárus Johnsen	icelandic chess player	82	[591]
July 26th	Jessie Gilbert	British chess player	19th	[592]
July 26th	Igor Kullamaa	Estonian correspondence chess player	82	[593]
July 23	Rudolf Teschner	German chess player and writer	84	[594]
July 14th	Aleksander Wojtkiewicz	Polish-American chess player	43	[595]
2nd July	René Letelier Martner	Chilean chess player	91	[596]
23rd June	Mikhail Gowbinder	Soviet-Israeli correspondence chess player	81	[597]
June 16	Vladimir Naef	Swiss chess composer	86	[598]
June 10th	Heinz Baumgartner	Austrian chess player	73	[599]
6th of June	Renate Limbach	Dutch chess player	34	[600]
May 21	Fernand Broucke	Belgian correspondence chess player	69	[601]
10th of May	Wladislaw Schijanowski	Ukrainian chess player and university teacher	76	[602]
20th of April	Wolfgang Unzicker	German chess grandmaster	80	[603]
March	Kai Bjerring	Danish chess player	60	[604]
probably February 27th	Zbiginiew Mościcki	Polish correspondence chess player	79	[605]
February 18	Ratmir Kholmov	Soviet chess grandmaster	80	[606]
January 20th	Hermann Heemsoth	German correspondence chess player	96	[607]
January 14th	Günther Möhring	German chess player	69	[608]
Date unknown	Markku Pukkila	Finnish correspondence chess player	35/36?	[609]

2005

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 27th	Laszlo Witt	Hungarian-Canadian chess player	72	[610]
15th December	Enrico Paoli	Italian chess player and composer	97
22nd of November	Edith Soppe	Argentinian chess player	44	[611]
November 17th	Igor Ivanov	Canadian chess player	58	[612]
14th November	Cornelis Groeneveld	Dutch chess composer	83	[613]
November 12th	Dragutin Sahović	Yugoslav chess grandmaster	65
November 8th	Carlos Alberto Álvarez Rouchaud	Argentine correspondence chess player	71	[614]
September 29th	Henrique Pereira Maia Vinagre	Brazilian correspondence chess player	89	[615]
September 14th	Vladimir Doroshkevich	Russian chess player	67	[616]
August 28th	Ruben Gunawan	Indonesian chess grandmaster	37
3rd August	Alexander Hildebrand	Swedish-Estonian chess composer	83	[617]
July 4th	Egon Ditt	German chess player and official	74
June 22	Igor Polovodin	Russian chess player and coach	50
30th May	Volodymyr Zavon	Soviet-Ukrainian chess player	64
April 22	Alberto Laurencena	Argentine correspondence chess player	79	[618]
April 22	Leonid Shamkowitsch	American chess player	81	[619]
9th April	Dragoljub Minić	Yugoslav honorary grandmaster	68
March 31	Milorad Knežević	Serbian chess grandmaster	68
27th of March	Ilya Christov	Bulgarian correspondence chess player	??	[620]
the 14th of March	Simon Webb	English correspondence chess grandmaster	55	[621]
7th March	Jan Hannelius	Finnish chess composer, President of the PCCC	88	[622]
January 17th	Maria Albuleț	Romanian chess player	72
15. January	Victor Frias	American-Chilean chess player	48	[623]
January 14th	Alexander Ettinger	Austrian chess composer	??	[624]
January 9th	Jaime Emma	argentinian chess player	66	[625]
January 8th	Rolf Trautner	German chess composer and mathematician	65	[626]
6th January	Friedrich Chlubna	Austrian chess composer	58	[627]
January 3rd	László Vadász	Hungarian chess grandmaster	56
January 2nd	Arnold Thinker	American chess player	90	[628]
January 1st	Rudolf Palme	Austrian chess player	94	[629]
Reported death on December 21st	Bela Berger	Hungarian-Australian chess player	74	[630]
August	Alex Casa	French chess composer	73	[631]
June	Albrecht Rothländer	German chess composer	86	[632]
before October	Vyacheslav Kopayev	Russian chess composer	67	[633]
before October	Mikola Nagnibida	Ukrainian chess composer	66	[634]
before May 9th	Heinpeter Flügge	German chess composer	84	[635]
Reported death April 26th	Hans Polzer	German correspondence chess player	58/59?	[636]

2004

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 29th	Peter Hesse	German chess player	60
December 14th	Drago Bišćan	Croatian chess composer	81	[637]
October 24th	Maaja Ranniku	Estonian chess player	63	[638]
8th October	Konstantin K. Sucharew	Siberian chess composer and poet	92
September 18	Michael Valvo	American chess player	62	[639]
September 14th	Heinz Zander	German chess composer	80	[640]
September 3	Eero Bonsdorf	Finnish chess composer	82	[641]
September 3	Winfried E. Kuhn	German chess composer	57	[642]
August 22nd	Konstantin Assejew	Russian chess grandmaster	43
August 21	Simon Fitzpatrick	Australian correspondence chess player	51	[643]
August 21	László Lindner	Hungarian chess composer	87	[644]
3rd August	Bryon Nickoloff	Canadian chess player	48	[645]
July 13th	Walter Árpád Földeák	Hungarian chess historian	87	[646]
July 13th	Claus Wedekind	German chess composer	69	[647]
July 11th	Haije Kramer	Dutch chess player	86	[648]
July 9	Alois Johandl	Austrian chess composer	73	[649]
June 1st	Walter Supp	German chess composer	60	[650]
May 29th	Richard Delaune	American chess player	49	[651]
May 27th	Peter Dankert	German chess player	51	[652]
April, 30th	Kazimierz Plater	Polish chess player	89	[653]
February 8	Birna Norðdahl	Icelandic chess player	84	[654]
February 7th	Osman Paloš	Bosnian chess player	54	[655]
February 2nd	Hans Jakob Schudel	Swiss chess official and player	88	[656]
January 29th	Stojan Puc	Yugoslav honorary grandmaster	82
10. January	Hugh Mac grilling	Irish chess player	58/59?	[657]
June	Yaacov Bleiman	Israeli chess player	56	[658]
June	Klaus Peter Hoffmann	German chess composer	61	[659]
spring	HGJ Hölscher	Dutch correspondence chess player	87	[660]

2003

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
30th of November	Valentin Arbakov	Russian chess grandmaster	51
November 12th	Artur Hennings	German chess player	63
November 2	Bengt-Eric Hörberg	Swedish chess player	81
30th of October	Aydın Hüseynov	Azerbaijani chess grandmaster	47
October 27	Esam Aly Ahmed	Egyptian chess player	39	[661]
August 31	Péter Székely	Hungarian chess player	48
16th of July	Jüri Vetemaa	Estonian-Belgian chess player	46	[662]
June 21st	Alvise Zichichi	Italian chess player	64	[663]
May 16	Bogdan Śliwa	Polish chess player	80
10th of May	Milan Vukcevich	Yugoslav chess player	66	[664]
10th of April	Jalo Aatos Fred	Finnish champion	85
6th March	Luděk Pachman	Czech-German chess players	78	[665]
at the beginning of March	John Jordan	English correspondence chess player	62	[666]
February 5th	Josef Steiner	Swiss chess player	70
February 4th	Jaroslav Šajtar	Czechoslovak Honorary Grand Master	81
January 24th	Inge Kattinger	Austrian state champion	92
Reported death January 26th	Aage Ingerslev	Danish correspondence chess player	69	[667]

2002

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 25	Guy Mazzoni	French chess player	73	[668]
15th October	Jürgen Dueball	German chess, go and bridge player	59
September 26th	Ricardo Calvo Mínguez	spanish chess player	58
September 23rd	Eduard Gufeld	soviet chess player	66	[669]
13.september	Alexander Kazantsev	Soviet writer and chess composer	96
7th of September	Michel Roos	French chess player	70	[670]
August 21	Michael Flannan Littleton	Irish chess player	64	[671]
15th of August	Ilze Rubene	Latvian chess player	44
7th of July	Béla Vigh	Hungarian chess player	57	[672]
June 19th	David García Ilundáin	Spanish chess grandmaster	31
April, 30th	Alexander Pituk	Slovak chess composer	97	[673]
13th February	Edmar Mednis	American chess player and writer of Latvian origin	64	[674]
Date unknown	Aristidis Paidoussis	greek chess player	76/77?	[675]

2001

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 12th	Tony Miles	British chess player	46	[676]
September 10	Alexei Suetin	Russian chess player	74
5th September	Chantal Chaudé de Silans	French chess master	82	[677]
4th of August	Claude Bloodgood	American murderer and chess player	64
3rd of June	Friedl cattle	German chess player	95
27th of March	Tereza Štadler	Yugoslav chess player	64
3rd of April	Martin Christoffel	Swiss chess player	78
April 1st	Eugênio German	Brazilian chess player	70
March 23	Karlis Ozols	Latvian-Australian chess player	88
4th of March	Gerardo Barbero	Argentine chess grandmaster	39
2nd March	Henk Hage	Dutch correspondence chess player	57
February 11th	Elmar Kask	Estonian correspondence chess player	79	[678]
January 24th	Günter Schöneberg	German correspondence chess player	75	[679]

2000

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 8th	Ruth Bloch-Nakkerud	Norwegian chess player	89	[680]
December 4th	Gisela Gresser	American chess player	94	[681]
October 13th	László Kovács	Hungarian chess player	62	[682]
September 24th	Jaan Eslon	Swedish chess master	48	[683]
September 19th	Karl Robatsch	Austrian chess player and botanist	70
6th of August	Raúl Sanguineti	Argentine Grand Master of Honor	67
20th of July	Vladimir Bagirov	Azerbaijani chess grandmaster	63	[684]
3rd of July	Georgi Tringov	Bulgarian chess master	63
2nd July	Anatoly Ufimtsev	Kazakh-Soviet chess master and theorist	86	[685]
July 1	Alex Sandor Siklos	Canadian correspondence chess player	64	[686]
June 27th	Gerhard Pfeiffer	German chess player	77
April 28	Arthur Dake	American chess player	90	[687]
April 13th	Aivars Gipslis	Latvian chess player	63	[688]
3rd of April	Milko Bobozov	Bulgarian chess grandmaster	68
5. March	Daniel Abraham Yanofsky	Canadian chess player	74	[689]
February 5th	George Koltanowski	Belgian-American chess player	96	[690]
January 25th	Folke Ekström	Swedish chess player	93
6th January	Alexei Wyschmanawin	Russian chess player	40	[691]

1990s

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
probably late 1990s	Vasily Dolgow	Russian chess composer	71-76?	[692]

1999

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
9th of December	Juliane dog	German chess player	71	[693]
November 11th	Lodewijk Prins	Dutch chess player	86	[694]
17th of September	Gary Koshnitsky	Australian champion	91	[695]
May 22	Leonid Zagoruiko	Belarusian chess composer	75	[696]
17th of May	Lembit Oll	Estonian chess player	33	[697]
April 21	Roger Daniel	French chess player	83	[698]
April 13th	Ortvin Sarapu	New Zealand chess player of Estonian origin	75	[699]
February 24th	Catharina Roodzant	Dutch chess player	102	[700]
February 4th	Kenneth Ray Smith	American chess writer and publisher	68	[701]
January 8th	Eva Aronson	American chess player	90	[702]
Date unknown	Panayotis Panagopoulos	greek chess player	82/83?	[703]
Date unknown	Palas Atena Veloso	Brazilian chess player	38?	[704]

1998

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 22	Eric Arnlind	Swedish chess player	76
November 17th	Efim Geller	soviet chess player	73
September 24th	Rosendo Balinas	Filipino chess grandmaster	57
September 11	Carlos Guimard	Argentine chess grandmaster	85
September 1	Theo Schuster	German chess master and chess journalist	87
8th August	László Szabó	Hungarian chess player	81
2nd July	Ursula Liebert	German chess player	64	[705]
May 15	Tivadar Kardos	Hungarian chess problem composer	76
10. January	Mona May Karff	British-Palestinian and American chess player	83
Date unknown	Norbert Karker	German correspondence chess player	68/69?	[706]

1997

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 5th	Terrey Shaw	Australian chess player	51
before November 13th	Dimitrios Parliaros	greek chess player	75/76?	[707]
November 11th	Jerzy Krzysztoń	Polish correspondence chess player	57	[708]
September 15th	Antti Pyhälä	Finnish chess player	42
17th August	Fotis Mastihiadis	greek chess player	83/84?	[709]
5th July	Miguel Najdorf	Polish-Argentine chess player	87
February 16	Alvis Vītoliņš	Latvian chess player	50	[710]
February 2nd	Erich Eliskases	Austrian and Argentine chess players	83
Date unknown	David Wilfred Lodge	English correspondence chess player	61/62?	[711]

1996

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 29th	Wolfgang Pietzsch	German chess player	66
November 9th	Guðmundur Arnlaugsson	icelandic chess player	83	[712]
October 29th	Milinka Merlini	Yugoslav-French chess player	67	[713]
August 14th	Károly Honfi	Hungarian chess grandmaster	65
4th of August	Vladimir Liberson	Soviet-Israeli chess grandmaster	59
8th of July	Mario Camorani	Italian chess problem composer	83
5th July	Predrag Ostojić	Yugoslav chess player	58
June 30th	Alois Nagler	Swiss chess composer	88	[714]
June 28th	Julio Bolbochan	argentinian chess player	76
31. May	Birdie Reeve Kay	American chess player	89
May 18	Josef Porath	German chess player	84
10th of April	Rodica Manolescu	Romanian chess player	85	[715]
March, 15	Fritz Schonert	German chess composer	91	[716]
March 13th	Louis Bigot	French chess player	82	[717]
March 11	Manfred Schäfer	German correspondence chess player	83	[718]
14th of February	Cenek Kottnauer	Czech-British chess player	85
January 26th	Otto Benkner	Saarland chess player	86

1995

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 27th	Genrich Gasparjan	Soviet chess player and chess composer	85
15th December	Miroslav Katětov	Czech chess player and mathematician	77
August 30th	Lev Polugayevsky	Russian-Soviet chess player	60
Found dead on August 22nd	Gilles Andruet	French chess player	37	[719]
June 30th	Mario Monticelli	Italian Grand Master of Honor	93
6th of June	Heinz Lehmann	German chess player	73
June 4th	Alfred Beni	Austrian chess player	72	[720]
May 16	Gustav Herbert Hultberg	Swedish chess composer	85	[721]
May 7th	Éva Karakas	Hungarian chess master	73
5th of May	Mikhail Botvinnik	Russian world chess champion	83
April 5th	Nicolaas Cortlever	Dutch chess player	79
25th March	Philip Stuart Milner-Barry	British chess master	88	[722]
7th March	Róża Herman	Polish chess player	93	[723]
13th January	Karl Junker	German chess problem composer	89
January 7th	Harry Golombek	British chess player	83
Date unknown	Gisela Harum	Austrian chess player	92?
Date unknown (missing)	Antonio Rocha	Brazilian chess player	51?

1994

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
13th December	Olga Rubzowa	Russian chess player	85
25. November	Vladimir Sak	ukrainian chess player	81
November 6th	Vladimir Sagorovsky	soviet chess player	69
August 11th	Markus Trepp	Swiss chess player	32
30th July	Theo van Scheltinga	Dutch chess master	80
14th June	Hans Christoph Krumm	German chess composer	62	[724]
May 13th	Vladimir Antozhin	Soviet chess grandmaster	64
February 25	Triantafyllos Siaperas	Greek chess player and chess composer	62	[725]
February 10th	Robert Crépeaux	French chess player	93	[726]

1993

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
15th December	Peter Kniest	German chess composer	89
9th of December	Alexander Koblenz	Latvian chess player, chess trainer and chess journalist	77
November 28th	Rudolf Keller	German chess player	76
May 20th	Dragoljub Janosevic	Serbian chess player	69
26th of March	Reuben Fine	American chess player and psychoanalyst	78	[727]
6th March	Valentina Borisenko	Soviet chess player	73
February 12th	Felix Sonnenfeld	Brazilian chess composer	82
January 14th	Pepita Ferrer Lucas	Spanish chess player	54	[728]
January 2nd	Vladimir Makogonov	Soviet chess grandmaster	88
January 2nd	Josef Szöghy	Hungarian chess composer	82	[729]
found on February 4th	Wilfried Lange	German chess master	83

1992

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 26th	Leopold Mitrofanow	Russian study composer in chess	60
15th of November	Adelquis Remón Gay	Cuban chess player	43
November 5th	Arpad Elo	American mathematician, founder of the ELO system	89
November 3rd	Vladas Mikėnas	Lithuanian chess player	82
November 2	Walter Niephaus	German chess player	69
June 27th	Mikhail Tal	Latvian / Soviet world chess champion	55
April 14th	György Négyesy	Hungarian chess player	98
4. April	Samuel Reshevsky	American chess player	80	[730]
January 20th	Paul Tröger	German chess master	78
unknown	Gerhart Gunderam	German chess theorist	87?

1991

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 6th	Theodor Siers	German chess composer and author	81
October 21	Grzegorz Grzeban	Polish chess composer	89	[731]
October 3	Gia Nadareishvili	Georgian chess composer	70
August 10	Lorinc Bata	Hungarian chess composer	84	[732]
3rd of June	Osmo Kaila	Finnish chess player, composer and composition judge	75
3rd of June	Sergiu Samarian	Romanian chess player, writer and trainer	67
2.May	Alfredo Lewkowitz	Argentine correspondence chess player	71	[733]
11th January	Ladislav Alster	Czechoslovak chess player and journalist	63

1990

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 26th	Guillermo García González	Cuban chess player	36
October 26th	Gerhard Wolfgang Jensch	German chess composer	70	[734]
October 10th	Emil Joseph Diemer	German chess player	82
September 28th	Volkhard Rührig	German chess player	37
21st September	Alexander Konstantinopolski	soviet chess player	80
August 30th	Adriano Chicco	Italian problem composer and chess historian	83
August 22nd	Rudolf Marić	Chess master and chess author from Yugoslavia	63
August 16	Ernest Pogosjanz	Soviet chess composer	55
22nd of July	John Niemann	German chess problem composer	85
May 29th	Aleksandar Tsvetkov	Bulgarian chess player	75
March 12th	Baldur Hönlinger	Austrian chess master	84
9th March	Carlos Alberto Peronace	Argentine chess problem composer	57
February 25	Ingrid Larsen	Danish chess player	80	[735]
February 9	Vladimir Shishkin	soviet chess player	52
January 28th	Tibor Flórián	Hungarian chess player	70
January 7th	Eero Böök	Finnish chess player	79

1989

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
21st November	Jacques Planté	French chess player	65	[736]
November 9th	Nenad Petrovic	Croatian chess composer	82	[737]
October 29th	Michael Joseph Schuster	Irish chess player	69/70?	[738]
15th October	Anatoly Lutikov	Soviet chess player and coach	56
October 13th	Vladimir Roždestvenski	Estonian correspondence chess player	61	[739]
22nd of July	Yevgeny Umnow	Russian chess composer	76
April 24th	Max Eisinger	German chess player	79
4. April	Baruch Harold Wood	English chess master	79
8th of March	Yelisaveta Bykova	Soviet chess player	75
1st March	André Muffang	French chess player	91	[740]
February 26th	Hans Klüver	German chess composer	87

1988

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
13th December	Wally Henschel	German chess player	95	[741]
December 5th	Erik Lundin	Swedish chess player	84	[742]
November 27th	Jan Hein Donner	Dutch chess grandmaster	61
November 13th	Béla Perényi	Hungarian chess player	35
October 22nd	Hans place	German chess player in the GDR	68	[743]
August 14th	Hans-Werner von Massow	German chess official	76
May 16	Ernő Gereben	Hungarian-Swiss chess player	80
May 15	Kristian Skold	Swedish chess player	76	[744]
2.May	Berthold Koch	German chess player	89
4. April	Herbert Heinicke	German chess player	83
January 4th	Márcio Elísio de Freitas	Brazilian chess player	62	[745]
before June 2nd	Olício Gadia	Brazilian chess player	59	[746]

1987

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
20th of December	Narelle waiter	Australian chess player	53	[747]
November 26th	Anthony Dickins	British chess composer	73
12. August	Hilmar Karlsson	icelandic chess player	30th	[748]
12th of May	Zsuzsa Makai	Romanian-Hungarian chess player	41	[749]
1st of May	Vladimir Korolkov	Russian chess composer	79
March 23	Nevzat Süer	Turkish chess player	61?	[750]
February 2nd	Yakov Estrin	Russian chess player	63
13th January	Vladimir Alatorzew	Soviet Grand Master of Honor	77
Date unknown	Georgios Gaitanaros	Greek chess games	68/69	[751]

1986

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 29th	Venka Asenova	Bulgarian honorary grandmaster	56
November 13th	Volf Bergraser	French chess player	82	[752]
November 12th	Jean-Pierre Boyer	French chess composer	51	[753]
November 9th	Charles Edward Kemp	English chess composer	84	[754]
November 5th	Oskar Wielgos	German chess composer	70	[755]
November 1st	Rudolf Leopold	German chess composer	91	[756]
September 18	Thomaz Pompeu Accioly Borges	Brazilian chess player	77	[757]
August 27	Georgy Agsamov	Soviet chess grandmaster	31
17th August	Bengt Ekenberg	Swedish champion	74	[758]
20th June	Anatole Ianovcic	Romanian chess composer	89	[759]
8th June	Herbert Geisdorf	German chess composer	46	[760]
May 27th	Borislav Milic	Yugoslav honorary grandmaster	61
25. May	Heinrich Fraenkel	German-English chess composer, Nazi historian and Federal Cross of Merit	88	[761]
April 6th	Annabelle Lougheed- Freedman	Canadian chess player	87	[762]
4. April	Jacob Erhard Wilhjelm Gemzøe	Danish master	89
5. March	Lyudmila Rudenko	Soviet chess player	81
27th of February	Gedeon Barcza	Hungarian chess player	74
Date unknown	Artemis Fouriki	greek chess player	44/45?	[763]
Date unknown	Haralabos Siggelakis	greek chess player	50/51?	[764]

1985

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 17th	Ludwig Herrmann	GDR national team	76
November 10th	Hermann gap	German chess functionary and composer	79
October 1	Vladimir Bron	Russian chess composer	76
May 13th	Ernst Schaaf	German chess composer	105	[765]
April 19th	Józef Gromek	Polish chess player	53	[766]
20. February	Isaac Kashdan	American chess grandmaster and author	79	[767]
January 26th	Jacob Yuchtman	Soviet-American chess player	50

1984

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
23rd of December	Johann Bernhard Michael Schneider	German chess problem composer	79
11th December	Poul Hage	Danish chess composer	78
November 9th	Jindrich Fritz	Czech grandmaster of chess composition	72
November 8th	Albert H. Kniest	German chess composer	76
September 6th	Hans Lepuschütz	Austrian chess composer	74
September 4th	Fedir Bohatyrchuk	Ukrainian-Canadian chess player	91
August 31	Moshe Czerniak	Israeli chess master	74
August 25	Max blue	Swiss chess player	65
August 23	David Joseph	English chess composer	88
13 August	Tigran Petrosian	Armenian-Soviet world chess champion	55
August 11th	Paul Felix Schmidt	Baltic German chess player	67
8th August	Vladimír Pachman	Czech grandmaster for chess composition	66
17th of May	Albert Becker	Austrian chess master	87
April 8th	Mijo Udovčić	Yugoslav chess grandmaster	63
28th March	Comins Mansfield	English chess problem composer	87
26th of March	Holger Norman-Hansen	Danish chess master	85
26th of March	Octavio Trompowsky	Brazilian chess player	86	[768]

1983

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
9th of December	János Flesch	Hungarian chess player	50
November 18	Pyotr Dubinin	Russian local and correspondence chess player	74
October 3	Lev Aronin	soviet chess player	63
September 10	Victor Ciocâltea	Romanian chess player	51
August 23	G. F. Anderson	English chess composer	85	[769]
July 18th	Salo Flohr	Czechoslovak-Soviet chess master from Austria-Hungary	74
5th July	María Berea de Montero	Argentinian chess player	69	[770]
June 21st	Herbert Grasemann	German chess composer and author	65	[771]
June 19th	Alexander Prameshuber	Austrian chess player	56	[772]
6th of June	Franz Auer	Austrian chess player	64	[773]
April 28	Karl origin	German chess composer	80	[774]
7th of April	Bruno Kantorowicz	German-Dutch chess composer	97	[775]
26th of March	Arthur Madsen	Danish chess composer	82	[776]
March 12th	Regina Gerlecka	Polish chess player	70	[777]
14th of February	Ludwig Rellstab	German chess master	78
January 17th	William Edward Martz	American chess master	37	[778]

1982

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
August 1st	Heinrich Jühe	German chess player	77
May 22	Alexander Herbstman	Russian chess composer	82
March 13th	William Fairhurst	English-Scottish-New Zealand chess player and bridge designer	78
February 6th	Ernst Bachl	German chess composer	86

1981

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
30th of December	Joseph Square	German-American chess player	76
November 5th	Jorma Äijälä	Finnish champion	34
December 4th	Karl Gilg	German chess player	80
November 26th	Max Euwe	Dutch world chess champion	80
November 12th	Herman Pilnik	Argentine chess grandmaster	67
October 27	Lūcijs Endzelīns	Australian chess player	72
August 2nd	Josef Breuer	German chess composer	78
25th March	Edward Lasker	German-American chess player	95
April 19th	Christian Poulsen	Danish chess player	68
April 5th	Toivo Salo	Finnish champion	72
February 15th	Esteban Canal	Peruvian Honorary Grand Master	84
February 5th	Fritz Ueberhagen	German chess composer	77
3 February	Wolfgang Fichtner	German chess composer	32
January 8th	Alexander Kotow	soviet chess player	67
Date unknown	Anastasios Anastasopoulos	greek chess player	65/66?	[779]

1980

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 31	Ragnar Krogius	Finnish champion	77
25 December	E. M. H. Guttmann	German chess composer	71
December 17th	Harold Lommer	English-Swiss chess composer	76	[780]
December 8th	Petar Trifunović	Yugoslav chess grandmaster	70
November 10th	Milan Vidmar junior	Slovenian chess player	70
8th October	Octavio Troianescu	Romanian chess player	64
October 3	Maria Teresa Mora	Cuban chess player	77
October 3	Albéric O'Kelly de Galway	Belgian correspondence chess world champion	69
12th September	André Chéron	French chess player and author	84	[781]
June 5th	Axel Akerblom	Swedish chess composer	75	[782]
2th of June	Vasja Pirc	Yugoslav chess grandmaster	72
23. May	Jens Enevoldsen	Danish chess player	72
April 27	Fritz Gygli	Swiss master	83
April 19th	Reinhard Cherubim	German chess player	73
February 29th	Lothar Zinn	German chess player	41
Date unknown	Salome Reischer	Austrian chess player	81?

1979

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
30th of December	Karel Skalička	Czechoslovak chess player	83
12th of December	Maximilián Ujtelky	Slovak chess player	64
November 12th	Gavriil Weressow	soviet chess player	67
November 6th	Cecil Purdy	Australian chess player	73
November 4th	Jeanne d'Autremont	French chess player	80	[783]
August 16	Joseph Boehm	German chess composer	82
12. August	Joachim Reiners	German chess composer	44
24th July	Otto Zimmermann	Swiss master	86
14th June	Igor Bondarewski	Soviet chess grandmaster	66
February 1st	Walter Usath	German chess composer and Schwalbe co-founder	81
21th January	Hans-Hilmar Staudte	German chess composer	68

1978

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
12th of December	Ilya Kan	soviet chess player	69
November 13th	Fritz Giegold	German chess composer	75
October 17th	Gosta Danielsson	Swedish champion	66	[784]
October 7th	Claude Hugot	French chess player	49	[785]
June 11th	Pertti Poutiainen	Finnish chess player	25th
19th March	Carlos Torre Repetto	mexican chess player	72
March 16	Semyon Furman	Soviet chess grandmaster	57
2nd March	Juan Manuel Fuentes	spanish chess player	71	[786]

1977

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
22nd of November	Ivan Vladimir Rohaček	Slovak chess player	68
October 1	František Zita	Czech chess player	67
September 14th	Paul Michel	German chess master	71
24th July	Ernst Rojahn	Norwegian chess player	67
2nd July	Vladimir Nabokov	Soviet writer and chess composer	78
February 5th	Issaak Boleslawski	soviet chess player	57

1976

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
13th December	Tigran Gorgiev	Soviet chess composer	66
September 8th	Clarice Benini	Italian chess player	71
20th June	Hugo Ilmari Solin	Finnish champion	70
26th of April	József Szily	Hungarian chess player	62
April 8th	Donald Byrne	American chess player	45
20. February	André Thiellement	French chess player	69	[787]
January 8th	Walter Hunter	German master player	62

1975

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
2. December	Hans Johner	Swiss chess players and musicians	86
November 23	Andreas Duhm	Swiss master	92
November 18	Vladimir Vuković	Croatian chess player	77
November 16	Karel Opočenský	Czech chess master	83
November 12th	Aarne Ilmari Niemelae	Finnish champion	68
August 16	Friedrich Sämisch	German chess master	78
July 28th	Georges Renaud	French chess player	82	[788]
24th July	Nicolas Rossolimo	French-American chess player	65	[789]
June 5th	Paul Keres	Estonian-Soviet chess player	59
April 22	Lajos Steiner	Hungarian-Australian chess player	71
January 25th	Georg Kieninger	German chess player	72

1974

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 26th	Werner Golz	German chess player and journalist	40
23rd October	Freysteinn Þorbergsson	icelandic chess player	43	[790]
5th July	Henry Grob	Swiss chess master	70
May 27th	Gottlieb Machate	German chess master	69
2nd of April	Josef Lokvenc	Austrian chess player	74
April 1st	Maurice Raizman	French chess player	69	[791]
6th March	Eugenio Szabados	Hungarian-Italian chess player	75
February 15th	Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander	British chess master	64

1973

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
6th of December	Braslav Rabar	Yugoslav (Croatian) chess player	54
July 4th	Leonid Stein	soviet chess player	38
July 1	Zandor Nilsson	Swedish chess player	59	[792]
14th of February	Hans Kmoch	Austrian chess player	78
January 18th	Israel Albert Horowitz	American chess player	65
13th January	Vasily N. Panov	soviet chess player	66

1972

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
30th of October	Jerzy Lewi	Polish-Swedish chess player	23	[793]
October 26th	Mary Bain	American chess player	68
July 23	George Alan Thomas	British chess, badminton and tennis player	91
May 27th	Kazimierz Makarczyk	Polish chess master	71	[794]
March, 20th	Georgi Lissitsyn	Soviet chess master	62

1971

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 31	Alexander Saizew	soviet chess player	36
October 6th	Victor Kahn	Russian-French chess player	82	[795]
March 16	Emil Richter	Czechoslovak chess player	77
February 28	Hans Müller	Austrian chess master and theorist	74
Date unknown	Abram pale	Polish-Israeli chess player	74/75?	[796]

1970

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 28th	Thorsten Gauffin	Finnish champion	69
March 23	Ludwig Rödl	German chess master	62
6th January	Vincenzo Castaldi	Italian chess player	53
Date unknown	Maria Scheffold	German chess player	??	[797]

1969

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 29th	Kurt Richter	German chess player	69
10th of July	João de Souza Mendes	Brazilian chess player	77	[798]
3 March	Alexander Tolush	Soviet chess grandmaster	58
15. January	Walter Henneberger	Swiss chess player	85

1968

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 31	Carl Ahues	German chess player	85
December 22	Antonio Sacconi	Italian chess player	73
October 26th	Stefan Erdélyi	Romanian chess player	62
25th of September	Vladimir Simagin	Russian chess master	49

1967

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 25	Árpád Vajda	Hungarian chess player	71
October 18	Vitali Halberstadt	French chess composer	64	EG
30th May	Alfred Brinckmann	German chess player and author	76
May 26	Gideon Ståhlberg	Swedish chess player	59	[799]
February 10th	Pierre Rolland	French chess player	40	[800]
10. January	Ludwig Engels	German chess player	61
January 3rd	Walter Cruz	Brazilian chess player	56	[801]

1966

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
July 6th	Aristide Gromer	French chess player	58	[802]
June 8th or 9th	Patrick Brendan Kennedy	Irish chess player	36	[803]
February 17th	Siegmund Beutum	Austrian chess master	75

1965

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 6th	Fyodor Dus-Chotimirski	Ukrainian-Soviet chess player	86
30th May	Adolf Staehelin	Swiss master	64
6th March	Sonja Graf	German, Argentinian and American chess player	56
February 11th	Vitaly Chekhower	Russian chess composer and player	56

1964

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
15th of November	Samuel Isenegger	Swiss chess composer	65
September 22	Viktor Goglidze	soviet chess player	58
May 3rd	Birger Axel Rasmusson	Finnish champion	62
1st March	Pjtor Romanowski	Russian chess master and one of the outstanding founders of the Soviet chess school	71

1963

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 3rd	Boris Kostic	Serbian chess master	76
July 25th	Gosta Stoltz	Swedish chess player	59	[804]
6th January	Joel Fridlizius	Swedish chess player	93	[805]

1962

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
30th of November	Ossip Bernstein	French chess player of Russian-Ukrainian origin	80
9th October	Milan Vidmar	Slovenian chess master	77
3rd of April	Ernst Grünfeld	Austrian chess grandmaster	68
March 11	Vyacheslav Ragosin	Soviet chess master	53
5. March	Charles Gilbert Marriott Watson	Australian champion	83

1961

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
March, 15	Akiba Rubinstein	Polish chess master	78	[806]
February 9	Grigori lionfish	soviet chess player	71
Date unknown	Blažena Janečková	Bohemian-Moravian and Czech chess player	50?	[807]

1959

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 19th	Oskar Naegeli	Swiss chess player	74
June 24th	Heinrich Wagner	German chess player	70
7th of April	Moriz Henneberger	Swiss master	80
17. March	Elena Lukauskienė	Lithuanian chess player	50

1957

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
12th September	Gustaf Nyholm	Swedish champion	77	[808]
18th of August	Aimé Gibaud	French chess player	72	[809]
February 15th	Harald Malmgren	Swedish correspondence chess grandmaster	52	[810]
January 5th	Oldrich Duras	Czech chess master and study composer	74
January 4th	Josef Krejcik	Austrian chess player	71

1956

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 1st	Lajos Asztalos	Hungarian chess player and chess author	67
8th of May	Edith Holloway	English chess player	88	[811]
February 5th	Savielly Tartakower	Polish-French chess master	68	[812]
Date unknown	Edith Charlotte Price	English chess player	84?

1955

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 18th	William Winter	British chess player	57
25. November	Herman Steiner	American-Hungarian chess player	50
July 31	Frederick Esling	Australian champion	95
8th of March	Paul Lipke	German chess player	84
31 January	Henry Ernest Atkins	English chess player	82

1954

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
19. December	Frans G. Bengtsson	Swedish author and chess player	60
November 11th	Johannes Giersing	Danish chess master	81
22nd of July	Dietrich Duhm	Swiss-German chess master	74?	[813]
June 7th	Alan Turing	British computer scientist and cryptanalyst	41
February 23	Jacques Mieses	German-British chess grandmaster	88

1953

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
13 August	Géza Nagy	Hungarian chess player	60
Date unknown	Paulette Schwartzmann	Latvian-French-Argentine chess player	59?	[814]

1952

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
18th of June	Efim Bogolyubov	Ukrainian-Russian-German chess players	63
March 11	Jan Foltys	Czechoslovak chess master	43

1951

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 16	TR Dawson	British chess composer	62
October 18	Edith Michell	English chess player	79
May 29th	Géza Maróczy	Hungarian chess grandmaster	81
15. January	Erwin Voellmy	Swiss chess master	64
January 5th	Siegfried Reginald Wolf	Austrian chess master	83

1950

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
30th of October	Boris Werlinski	Soviet chess master	62

1949

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
15th October	Johannes Öhquist	Finnish chess official	87
September 4th	Allan Nilsson	Swedish champion	50	[815]
May 21	Bjørn Nielsen	Danish master	41
2nd March	Eduard Dyckhoff	German correspondence chess master	68

1947

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 29th	Heinz von Hennig	German chess player	64
August 1st	Ehrhardt Post	German chess master and official	65
January 14th	Mary Gilchrist	scottish chess player	65?

1946

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
March 24th	Alexander Alekhine	Russian-French world chess champion	53	[816]
January 4th	Hans Duhm	Swiss master	67

1945

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
at 17./18. April	Klaus Junge	German chess player from Chile	21st
15. January	Kornel Havasi	Hungarian chess player	53

1944

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 9th	Frank Marshall	American chess player	67
June 27th	Olga Menchik	Czech-British chess player	36
June 27th	Vera Menchik	Czech-British first female chess champion	38

1943

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
1942 or 1943	Edward Barley Field	Polish-Soviet chess player	approx. 27

1942

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
20th of August	Rudolf Spielmann	Austrian chess player	59
8th of March	José Raúl Capablanca	Cuban world chess champion	53	[817]
7th March	Sergei Belavenez	Soviet chess master	31
January 26th	Ronald Cadell Macdonald	Scottish chess master	73	[818]

1941

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
11th January	Emanuel Lasker	German mathematician, philosopher and world chess champion	72

1940

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
July 4th	Oskar Korschelt	German chemist, engineer, go player and chess composer	86

1939

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 29th	Ludwig Noack	Silesian chess composer and lawyer	86
12. August	Katarina Beskow	Swedish chess player	72	[819]
2nd July	Florence Frankland Thomson	scottish chess player	53	[820]

1936

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 18th	Leonardo Torres Quevedo	Spanish engineer and mathematician, designer of the El Ajedrecista chess machine	83	[821]

1935

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
20th of August	Agnes Stevenson	English chess player	61	[822]
March 16	Aaron Nimzowitsch	Latvian chess master and theorist	48
February 6th	Jackson W. Showalter	American chess player	75

1934

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
February 17th	Siegbert Tarrasch	German chess player, chess theorist and author	71

1933

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
11th December	Bernhard Hülsen	German chess composer	69
October 17th	Johann Berger	Austrian chess theorist	88
January 14th	Fritz Englund	Swedish chess player	61

1932

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 11th	Frederick Dewhurst Yates	English chess player	48
April 22	Sándor Takács	Hungarian chess player	39	[823]

1931

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
September 29th	Paula Kalmar-Wolf	Austrian chess player	50	WSZ

1930

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
2.May	Isidor Gunsberg	Hungarian-English chess player	75

1929

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
6th of June	Richard Réti	Czech chess player	40

1925

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
25. November	Amos Burn	English chess player	76

1924

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
September 1	Joseph Henry Blackburne	English chess player	82
31 January	Curt von Bardeleben	German chess player and theorist	62

1923

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
29th August	Georg Marco	Austrian chess player and author	60

1920

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
15th December	Horatio Caro	English chess player and theorist	58

1919

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 29th	Simon Winawer	Polish chess player	81

1918

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 27th	Carl Schlechter	Austrian chess player	44	[824]
5th October	Johannes Kohtz	German chess composer	75
June 10th	Albert Clerc	French chess player	87

1914

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
16th of July	Carl Kockelkorn	German chess composer	70

1913

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
March 13th	EN Frankenstein	British chess composer	73
17th August	Wilhelm Cohn	German chess player	54

1911

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
10th of April	Sam Loyd	American game and puzzle inventor and chess composer	70

1908

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
11 April	Henry Edward Bird	English chess player	77
January 25th	Mikhail Chigorin	Russian chess player	57

1907

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
May 11th	George Gossip	English chess player and author	65

1906

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
17th of June	Harry Nelson Pillsbury	American chess player	33

1905

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
30th of November	Gustavus Charles Reichhelm	American chess composer	66

1904

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
January 26th	Berthold Suhle	German chess player	67

1901

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 6th	Charles Henry Stanley	American chess player	82

1900

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
12. August	William Steinitz	Austrian-American first world chess champion	64

1899

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December 8th	Max Lange	Publisher, author and chess player	67
July 27th	Tassilo von Heydebrand and the Lasa	German chess player	80

1893

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
April 15th	Jean Dufresne	German chess player	64

1892

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
12. August	Edward Chamier	French chess player	51

1891

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
18th of August	Louis Paulsen	German chess player	58
April 14th	George Henry Mackenzie	Scottish-American chess player	54

1889

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 2	Théodore Herlin	French chess composer	72

1888

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
20th June	Johannes Hermann Zukertort	Russian-Polish-English-German chess master	45

1884

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
10th of July	Paul Morphy	American chess player	47

1883

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
December?	Marc Léon Bruno Joseph Gustave d'Isoard-Vauvenargue	French nobleman	79

1882

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
May 9	Louis Eichborn	German banker and chess player	69
13th January	Samuel Boden	English chess player	55

1879

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
March 13th	Adolf Anderssen	German chess player	60

1876

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
20th of July	Johann Jacob Löwenthal	British chess player	66

1874

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
3rd August	William Davies Evans	Welsh sailor and chess player	82
June 22	Howard Staunton	British chess player and Shakespeare researcher	64

1873

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
18th of August	Charles II	Duke of Brunswick	68

1872

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 29th	Pierre Saint-Amant	French chess player	72
15th or 16th January	Vincenz Grimm	Austro-Hungarian art dealer and chess player	?

1870

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 22nd	William Lewis	English chess player	83

1867

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
April 22nd Greg.	Alexander Petrov	Russian chess player, theorist and author	73

1864

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
November 11th	Peter August d'Orville	German chess composer	60

1857

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
13th January	József Szén	Hungarian chess player	51

1853

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
May 18	Lionel Kieseritzky	Baltic German chess player	47

1851

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
June 29th	Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon	German chess player	80

1849

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
15th December	Julius Brede	German writer and chess composer	49?

1848

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
January 9th	Henry Augustus Loveday	British chess composer	32	[825]

1847

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 27	Alexandre Deschapelles	French chess player	67

1840

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
13th December	Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnais	French chess player	45?

1835

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
September 14th	Alexander McDonnell	Irish chess player	37

1823

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
March 2nd or 3rd	Johann Baptist Allgaier	German-Austrian chess master	59

1812

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
12th September	Elias stone	Dutch chess player	64

1804

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
Date unknown	Verdoni	Italian chess player
26th of March	Wolfgang von Kempelen	Inventor of the Chess Turk	70

1802

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
23. May	Domenico Ercole del Rio	Italian chess player	?

1795

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
August 31	François-André Danican Philidor	French musician and chess player	68

1792

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
Date unknown	François Antoine de Legall	French chess player	90?

1790

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
17th April	Benjamin Franklin	American founding father and philosopher ( The Morals of Chess )	84

1733

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
October 25	Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri	Italian mathematician, philosopher and chess player	66

17th century

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
September 18, 1647	Pietro Carrera	Italian chess player	74
around 1640	Alessandro Salvio	Italian chess player	70?
1634	Gioachino Greco	Italian chess player	34?

16th Century

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
1598	Paolo Boi	Italian chess player	70?
1597	Giovanni Leonardo da Cutri	Italian chess player	55?
1580	Ruy Lopez de Segura	Spanish priest and chess player	50?
around 1544	Damiano de Odemira	Portuguese chess writer	??
around 1530	Luis Ramírez Lucena	Spanish chess player and writer	65?
September 6, 1506	Francesc de Castellví i de Vic	Spanish chess poet	??

15th century

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
1405	Ala ad-Din at-Tabrizi	Persian historian and master of Schatrandsch	?
February 19, 1405	Timur	Central Asian conqueror, namesake of Tamerlane chess	68

10th century

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
around 970	Faraj ibn al-Muzaffar ibn Sa'id	Arab Shatrandsch master	70?
946	Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Yahya as-Suli	Arab Shatrandsch master	66?
unknown	al-Mawardi	Arab Shatrandsch master	??

9th century

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
around 870	al-Adli	Arab Shatrandsch master	60?
around 860	ar-Razi	Arab Shatrandsch master	35?
unknown	Abdul Jafar al-Ansari	Arab Shatrandsch master	??
unknown	Abu Naim al-Khadim	Arab Shatrandsch master	??
unknown	Jabir al-Kufi	Arab Shatrandsch master	??
unknown	Rabrab	Arab Shatrandsch master	??

8th century

Day	Surname	known by	Age	receipt
at 714	Sa'id bin Jubair	Arab Shatrandsch master	49?

Source key

Abbreviations used for offline sources (ideally the exact source should be entered in the source text):

• DS = the swallow
• EG = eg
• SCH = chess
• SM64 = chess magazine 64

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fairy chess composer and programmer ( Memento from May 20, 2014 on WebCite )
2. ↑ Chess magazine 64 August 2013, p. 95.
3. ^ Honorary member Alfred Diel has passed away ( Memento from February 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: schachbund-bayern.de, June 17, 2013, accessed on February 26, 2019.
4. ↑ SM64 May 2013, p. 49.
5. ↑ Milan Velimirović IN MEMORIAM ( Memento from March 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Почина Юлиян Радулски ( Memento from November 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Elhunyt Dely Péter ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ For many years he sat at the board for us ( memento of October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: sc-bamberg.de, September 25, 2012, accessed on February 26, 2019 (obituary for Bernd Feustel).
9. ^ Obituary Werner Mathes ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ ^{a b} January 2012 ( Memento from June 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ February 2010 ( Memento from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ CC-GM Janis Vitomski's RIP ( Memento from September 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ Indonesian Chess Master Edhi Passes Away At 48 ( Memento from February 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Entries and exits ( Memento from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
15. ^ Marxism and Shocking Chess Discoveries ( Memento of March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from October 19, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from August 6, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from October 19, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from October 19, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
20. ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from October 19, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
21. ↑ Schaakschakeringen April 2001, No. 350th
22. ↑ Procurando Antonio Rocha ( Memento of 4 April 2005 at the Internet Archive )
23. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt April 12, 1988, p. 10.
24. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt February 17, 1983, p. 6.
25. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt June 26, 1959, p. 5.
26. ↑ FIDE has declared 1994 as the "Year of Vera Menchik" ( Memento from July 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
27. ↑ This date can be found in most of the sources. Sveriges Dödbok names August 11th, the family's website states 1937 as the year of death.