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
- ↑ fairy chess composer and programmer ( Memento from May 20, 2014 on WebCite )
- ↑ Chess magazine 64 August 2013, p. 95.
- ^ 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.
- ↑ SM64 May 2013, p. 49.
- ↑ Milan Velimirović IN MEMORIAM ( Memento from March 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Почина Юлиян Радулски ( Memento from November 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Elhunyt Dely Péter ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 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).
- ^ Obituary Werner Mathes ( Memento from September 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b January 2012 ( Memento from June 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ February 2010 ( Memento from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ CC-GM Janis Vitomski's RIP ( Memento from September 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Indonesian Chess Master Edhi Passes Away At 48 ( Memento from February 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Entries and exits ( Memento from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Marxism and Shocking Chess Discoveries ( Memento of March 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from October 19, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from August 6, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from October 19, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from October 19, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Obituaries ( Memento from October 19, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Schaakschakeringen April 2001, No. 350th
- ↑ Procurando Antonio Rocha ( Memento of 4 April 2005 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt April 12, 1988, p. 10.
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt February 17, 1983, p. 6.
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt June 26, 1959, p. 5.
- ↑ FIDE has declared 1994 as the "Year of Vera Menchik" ( Memento from July 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 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.