On This Day: February 28

Willy Popp 1902
Nicholas Rossolimo 1910
Vladimir Goldin 1923
Francisco Lopez 1924
Nikos Pergialis 1931
Roland Lowe 1934
Nikola Spiridonov 1938
Walter Thompson 1938
Aleksandr Feoktistov 1948
Dmitry Kayumov 1949
Konstantin Lerner 1950
Vladimir Okhotnik 1950
Stanislav Juricek 1952
Yehuda Gruenfeld 1956
Henrik Teske 1968
Dan Edelman 1969
Hans Müller 1971
Kaido Kulaots 1976
Roger Diot 1981
Dusan Popovic 1983
Anna Muzychuk 1990
Manfred Seidel 2008
Yuri Roslov 2015
Walter Shipman 2017
Stefan Kristjansson 2018
Gennady Kuzmin 2020
Lisa Lane 2024


: Steinitz defeats Chigorin to retain world championship title