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July 13 in Chess History

13 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on July 13.

July 13, 1930: 3rd Chess Olympiad began. On this day in chess history.

193096 years ago today

3rd Chess Olympiad began

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Matches, tournaments and games

19303rd Chess OlympiadBegan
1996U.S. Chess Championship 1996Began · won by Alex Yermolinsky
2004FIDE World Chess Championship 2004Ended · won by Rustam Kasimdzhanov

Born on July 13

1909Baruch Harold WoodEnglish chess player and writer
1911Sidney Norman BernsteinAmerican chess player
1933Ursula LiebertGerman chess player
1959Paweł StempinPolish chess player
1960Manuel Rivas PastorSpanish chess player
1960Sheldon WongJamaican chess player
1974Sheila Barth StanfordNorwegian chess player
1989Nguyen Duc HoaVietnamese chess player
1990Alexander BagrationiChess player
1993Khayala AbdullaAzerbaijani chess player
2000Marta García MartínSpanish chess player
2000Jingyao TinSingaporean chess grandmaster
2004Nihal SarinIndian chess player

Died on July 13

1941Ilmar RaudEstonian chess player
1950Harold SaundersBritish chess player
1985Federico NorciaItalian chess player
2010Andrey LobusovRussian chess composer
2022Igor NaumkinRussian 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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