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August 8 in Chess History

16 birthdays, 1 match, tournament or game and 6 deaths from chess history on August 8.

August 8, 1998: László Szabó died. On this day in chess history.

199828 years ago today

László Szabó died

Hungarian chess player

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Born on August 8

1899Juan Manuel RivarolaChess player
1940Dragutin SahovićYugoslav chess grandmaster
1959Leonid YudasinIsraeli chess player
1961Mahmood LodhiPakistani chess player
1961Roza LallemandFrench chess player
1961Serikbay TemirbayevKazakhstani chess player
1965María Luisa Cuevas RodríguezSpanish chess player
1968Sergey KasparovBelarusian chess player
1969Monika TsõganovaEstonian chess player and coach
1969Polina ZilbermanMoldovan chess player
1971Niina KoskelaNorwegian-Finnish chess player
1978Radek KalodCzech chess player
1981Sergey KayumovUzbekistani chess player
1985Ferenc BerkesHungarian chess player
1986Petar ArnaudovBulgarian chess player
1988Marin BosiočićCroatian chess player

Died on August 8

1903Gyula MakovetzHungarian chess player
1984Vladimír PachmanCzech university educator and chess player
1996Jüri RandviirEstonian chess player and journalist
1998László SzabóHungarian chess player
2013Igor KurnosovRussian chess grandmaster
2016Oganes DanielianArmenian 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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