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August 14 in Chess History

8 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on August 14.

August 14, 2014: 41st Chess Olympiad ended. On this day in chess history.

201412 years ago today

41st Chess Olympiad ended

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Matches, tournaments and games

19377th Chess OlympiadEnded
1998French Chess Championship 1998Began · won by Josif Dorfman
2011French Chess Championship 2011Began · won by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
201441st Chess OlympiadEnded
2014Women's Chess Olympiad 2014Ended

Born on August 14

1879Theodor GermannEstonian-Latvian chess player
1895Nikolai GrigorievRussian chess player
1960Malcolm PeinEnglish chess master and writer
1986Stephen JesselIrish chess player
1990Nikolas LubbeChess player
1993Lanita StetskoBelarusian chess player
1993Andrea StellaChess player
2006Candela Belén Francisco GuecamburuArgentine chess player

Died on August 14

1942Alexey TroitskyRussian chess player
1972Gertrud NüskenGerman chess player
1996Károly HonfiHungarian chess player
2006Adriaan de GrootDutch chess player and psychologist
2012Svetozar GligorićSerbian and Yugoslavian chess player

Dates from Wikidata (CC0). Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card. Dates can differ between sources, especially before 1918 when Russia used the old calendar.

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