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July 20 in Chess History

9 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on July 20.

July 20, 1924: 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad ended. On this day in chess history.

1924102 years ago today

1st unofficial Chess Olympiad ended

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Matches, tournaments and games

19241st unofficial Chess OlympiadEnded
1929Carlsbad 1929 chess tournamentBegan · won by Aaron Nimzovich

Born on July 20

1860Frederick EslingAustralian civil engineer and chess player
1917Luis Augusto SánchezColombian chess player
1920Lev AroninChess player
1929Patrick Brendan KennedyBorn: 20 July 1929 in Clarecastle, County Clare, Ireland; Died: 8 June 1966 in Nottingham, England
1935Dieter BertholdtGerman chess player
1973Josep Oms i PalliséSpanish chess player
1982Daniel CawderySouth African chess player
1997Tijana ManduraSerbian chess player
2011Dau Khuong DuyVietnamese chess player

Died on July 20

1835Johann Heinrich BusseGerman-Prussian pastor, librarian, translator, and chess player
1964Eugene Ernest ColmanBritish chess player
1979Bertil SundbergSwedish chess player
2024Dietmar KolbusGerman 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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