On This Day: February 8

Gisela Gresser 1906
Robert Pagniez 1906
Allan Werle 1908
Yuri Averbakh 1922
Virgil Nestorescu 1929
Aivars Gipslis 1937
Jan Kozinka 1937
George Jelliss 1940
Boris Kogan 1940
Pavel Neunyvako 1940
Peter Szekely 1955
Ralf Akesson 1961
Johann Hjartarson 1963
Gilles Miralles 1966
Ilya Gurevich 1972
Yuri Solodovnichenko 1978
Sebastien Maze 1984
Jolanta Zawadzka 1987
Arik Braun 1988
Tiberiu-Marian Georgescu 1991
Filip Bondarenko 1993
Suri Vaibhav 1997


1985: Campomanes terminates the 1984 World Chess Championship match