On This Day: August 10

John G. White 1845
Frank Marshall 1877
William Meredith 1903
Lorinc Bata 1907
Caetano Belliboni 1919
Sergio Mariotti 1946
Per Olin 1951
Bernhard Hegermann 1965
Igor Naumkin 1965
Leonid Totsky 1967
Vladislav Borovikov 1973
Andrey Nikitin 1974
Paul Weyl 1974
Li Shilong 1977
Magesh Panchanathan 1983
Holden Hernandez 1984
Jack Fenner 1989
Lorinc Bata 1991
Paul Velten 1993
Dmitry Banny 1997
Diptayan Ghosh 1998
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 2005
Igor Zakharevich 2008


1866: Steinitz defeats Anderssen; commonly considered as the beginning of Steinitz’ reign as world champion