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July 12 in Chess History

7 birthdays, 7 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on July 12.

July 12, 1933: 5th Chess Olympiad began. On this day in chess history.

193393 years ago today

5th Chess Olympiad began

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Matches, tournaments and games

1923French Chess Championship 1923Began · won by Georges Renaud
19241st unofficial Chess OlympiadBegan
19335th Chess OlympiadBegan
1975Women US Championship 1975Began · won by Diane Savereide
20152015 Dutch Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Anish Giri
2021Chess World Cup 2021Began · won by Jan-Krzysztof Duda
2021Women's Chess World Cup 2021Began · won by Alexandra Kosteniuk

Born on July 12

1946Jens BeutelGerman politician
1946Mari KinsigoEstonian chess player and coach
1966Jan SpoustaCzech publicist and sociologist
1970Zoltán VargaHungarian chess grandmaster
1976Andrey ShariyazdanovChess player
1985Gu XiaobingChinese chess player
1991Juliana TeraoBrazilian chess player

Died on July 12

1934Alphonse GoetzFrench chess player
1941Charles JaffeAmerican chess player
2009Alexander CherepkovChess player
2018David H. LiChinese writer and 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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