On This Day: October 17

Tassilo von Heydebrand 1818
Henri Weenink 1892
Venka Asenova 1930
Johann Berger 1933
David Durham 1934
Ryszard Kapica 1941
Jan Kotrc 1943
Zvonimir Mestrovic 1944
Nikolay Pletenev 1950
Anatoly Kornilov 1954
Slobodan Kovacevic 1955
Alexander Raetsky 1961
Yury Piskov 1964
Dmitriy Skorchenko 1983
Walther Jorgensen 1989
Falko Bindrich 1990
Vitaliy Bernadskiy 1994
Wang Jue 1995
Bharath Subramaniyam 2007
Emory Tate Jr. 2015


1962: Nona Gaprindashvili wins Women’s Championship