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Chess Trivia of 15 January

15 January 2007 0:00 AM | Last modified: 12:14

On 15 January Louis Paulsen (1833) and Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (1963) were born. Today in 1927 David Janowski passed away. On 15 January 1930 the famous San Remo tournament started, which was won by Alekhine with the super score of 14 out of 15, before players such as Nimzowitsch, Rubinstein, Bogoljubow, Spielmann, Vidmar and Tartakower.

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