1987 in chess

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Events in [[chess]] in 1987.

==Events==
* ''7 October – 19 December''. World champion [[Garry Kasparov]] defends his title against challenger [[Anatoly Karpov]] in the [[World Chess Championship 1987|1987 World Championship]] in Seville. Kasparov was down 11–12 but won the 24th and final game of the match to tie and retain the title.
* The inaugural [[Australasian Masters]] chess tournament is won by Grandmaster [[Darryl Johansen]]. This annual invitational event has been Australia's only round robin grandmaster event since 2013.

==Births==

* [[Ahmed Adly]]
* [[K. Jennitha Anto]]
* [[Dagur Arngrímsson]]
* [[Csaba Balogh]]
* [[Oluwafemi Balogun]]
* [[Tsegmediin Batchuluun]]
* [[Nino Batsiashvili]]
* [[Diego Di Berardino]]
* [[Daan Brandenburg]]
* [[Krzysztof Bulski]]
* [[J. Deepan Chakkravarthy]]
* [[Stanislav Cifka]]
* [[Karina Cyfka]]
* [[Anton Demchenko]]
* [[Nana Dzagnidze]]
* [[Viktor Erdős]]
* [[Maria Fominykh]]
* [[Leonid Gerzhoy]]
* [[Jessie Gilbert]]
* [[Olga Gutmakher]]
* [[Borislav Ivanov]]
* [[Fidel Corrales Jimenez]]
* [[Gawain Jones]]
* [[Eesha Karavade]]
* [[Muhammad Khusenkhojaev]]
* [[Erik Kislik]]
* [[Calvin Klaasen]]
* [[Humpy Koneru]]
* [[Baira Kovanova]]
* [[Martin Krämer]]
* [[Yerisbel Miranda Llanes]]
* [[Ruan Lufei]]
* [[Igor Lysyj]]
* [[Rodwell Makoto]]
* [[Karmen Mar]]
* [[Sandro Mareco]]
* [[Susanto Megaranto]]
* [[Georg Meier (chess player)|Georg Meier]]
* [[Salome Melia]]
* [[Luciana Morales Mendoza]]
* [[Cecile van der Merwe]]
* [[Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul]]
* [[Hikaru Nakamura]]
* [[Phạm Lê Thảo Nguyên]]
* [[Arman Pashikian]]
* [[Sergey Pavlov (chess player)|Sergey Pavlov]]
* [[Borki Predojević]]
* [[Antonio Radić]]
* [[Teimour Radjabov]]
* [[Vesna Rožič]]
* [[Anna Rudolf]]
* [[Veronika Schneider]]
* [[Samy Shoker]]
* [[Daniël Stellwagen]]
* [[Anđelija Stojanović]]
* [[Evgeny Tomashevsky]]
* [[Zehra Topel]]
* [[Hoàng Thị Bảo Trâm]]
* [[Sabrina Vega (chess player)|Sabrina Vega]]
* [[Ermes Espinosa Veloz]]
* [[Iva Videnova]]
* [[Nikita Vitiugov]]
* [[Radosław Wojtaszek]]
* [[Wang Yue]]
* [[Jolanta Zawadzka]]


==Deaths==

* [[Vladimir Alatortsev]] (14 May 1909 – 13 January 1987), Russian Grandmaster and chairman of the [[USSR Chess Federation]] from 1959–1961.
* [[Yakov Estrin]] (21 April 1923 – 2 February 1987), Russian International Master, [[International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster]] and [[International Correspondence Chess Federation]] World Champion, 1972–1976.
* [[Narelle Kellner]] (18 October 1934 – 20 December 1987), Australian Woman International Master and two-time [[Australian Chess Championship|Australian Women's Champion]] (1972 and 1974).
* [[Józsa Lángos]] (28 August 1911 – 17 May 1987), Hungarian Woman International Master and eight-time winner of the [[Hungarian Chess Championship|Hungarian Women's Chess Championship]] (1942, 1943, 1944, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952).
* [[Zsuzsa Makai]] (3 September 1945 – 12 May 1987), Hungarian and Romanian Woman International Master, two-time Olympian (1969 and 1978) and [[Hungarian Chess Championship|Hungarian Women's Champion]] (1980).
* [[Stepan Popel]] (15 August 1909 – 27 December 1987), Ukrainian and American chess player.
* [[Ignatz von Popiel]] (27 July 1863 – 2 May 1941), Polish-Ukrainian chess player.
* [[Salme Rootare]] (26 March 26 1913 – 21 October 1987), Estonian Woman International Master and fifteen-time [[Estonian Chess Championship|Estonian Women's Champion]] (1945, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1972).
* [[Boris Rõtov]] (20 August 1937 – 10 September 1987), Russian-Estonian chess player and 1978 [[Estonian Chess Championship|Estonian Champion]].
* [[George Wheatcroft (chess player)|George Wheatcroft]] (29 October 1905 – 2 December 1987), English chess player, winner of the 1935 British Correspondence Chess Championship and President of the [[British Chess Federation]] from 1953 to 1956.
* [[Mikhail Yudovich]] (8 June 1911 – 19 September 1987), Russian International Master, Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess, and chess writer.

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