On This Day: November 2

Carlo Salvioli 1848
Isidor Gunsberg 1854
Theodore Herlin 1889
Samuel Isenegger 1899
Julien Guisle 1910
Isaac Rice 1915
Sergey Kaminer 1938
Rudolf Svoboda 1948
Ljubomir Ljubojevic 1950
Semen Dvoirys 1958
Sofia Polgar 1974
Umberto Castellari 1976
Mohamad Al Sayed 1981
Elmar Abdullayev 1986
Sergey Grigoriants 1983
Sophie Milliet 1983
Davor Palo 1985
Evgeny Romanov 1988
Tibor Balo 1991
Ruth Cardoso 2000
Mukhiddin Madaminov 2006
Mato Damjanovic 2011


2000: Kramnik defeats Kasparov to become world champion