On This Day: February 24

Georges Barbier 1844
Ralph Bridgewater 1874
Boris Kostic 1887
Liss Karlsson 1896
Zoltan Zilahi 1904
Aleksander Goldstein 1911
James Mortimer 1911
Rudolf Forsberg 1917
Nikola Karaklajic 1926
Yuri Pavlov 1927
Klaus Darga 1934
Alois Nichtawitz 1948
Augusto Visintin 1952
Eduard Kudelich 1954
Aleksandr Melnichuk 1958
Graham Burgess 1968
Zoran Gavrilovski 1968
Christopher Lutz 1971
Orest Gritsak 1973
Surya Ganguly 1983
Vasif Durarbayli 1992


1889: Steinitz defeats Chigorin to retain world championship title