2005 in chess

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Events in chess in 2005:

Deaths

January 2 – Arnold Denker (1914–2005), 90, American Grandmaster.
January 3 - László Vadász (1948–2005), 56, Hungarian Grandmaster.
March 14 – Simon Webb (1949–2005), 55, British International Master, International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster, and chess writer.
April 9 – Dragoljub Minić (1937–2005), 68, Yugoslavian/Croatian Grandmaster.
April 22 – Leonid Shamkovich (1923–2005), 81, Russian/American Grandmaster.
June 1 – Vladimir Savon (1940–2005), 64, Soviet/Ukrainian Grandmaster, USSR Champion 1971.
November 3 – Hrvoje Bartolović (1932–2005), 73, Croatian Grandmaster of Chess Composition and International Judge of Chess Compositions.
November 12 - Dragutin Sahovic (1940–2005), 65, Serbian Grandmaster.[1]
November 17 – Igor Vasilyevich Ivanov (1947–2005), 58, Russian/Canadian Grandmaster.
December 15 – Enrico Paoli (1908–2005), 97, Italian Grandmaster, established the Reggio Emilia chess tournament.
December – Bela Berger (1931–2005), 74, Hungary/Australia.

gollark: Tux1, you ARE to enter high orbit of Dres.

gollark: *Why* would you get one when the modern alternatives are so much better?

gollark: Those were deprecated in 19██ too, where would you *get* one?

gollark: ... of course not, how would that even *work*?

gollark: Yes, that would NOT be effective in the large apiolectromagnetic field gradients involved.

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