1944 in Chess - Births

Births

• 12 January – Vlastimil Hort in Kladno, Czech GM
• 19 February – Chen Zude, President of the Chinese Chess Association
• 6 April – Florin Gheorghiu, Romania's first GM, nine time winner of the Romanian Championship
• 6 April – Jude Acers in Long Beach, California, American chess player
• 16 April – Nikolai Shalnev, German GM
• 18 April – Albin Planinc in Briše, Slovenian GM
• 27 April – Heikki Westerinen in Helsinki, Finnish GM, four time winner of the Finnish Championship
• 5 May – Roman Dzindzichashvili in Tbilisi, Russian/American GM, two time US Champion
• 26 May – Ljuba Kristol in Leningrad, Israeli ICCGM, two time World Correspondence Champion
• 1 July – Davorin Komljenović, Croatian GM
• 4 July – Albert Kapengut in Kazan, Soviet chess player and coach
• 4 July – Silvino Garcia Martinez, Cuban GM
• 5 September – Jørn Sloth in Sjørring, Danish GMC, World Correspondence Champion 1975–1980
• 7 September – Sam Sloan in Richmond, Virginia, American chess player and writer
• 25 September – Vitaly Tseshkovsky in Omsk, Russian GM and two time winner of the USSR Championship (died 2011)
• 15 November – Hans Ree in Amsterdam, Dutch GM and chess writer
• Rani Hamid, Bangladeshi WIM, three time winner of the British Women's Championship