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July 21 in Chess History

12 birthdays, 1 match, tournament or game and 4 deaths from chess history on July 21.

July 21, 1928: 2nd Chess Olympiad began. On this day in chess history.

192898 years ago today

2nd Chess Olympiad began

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Matches, tournaments and games

19282nd Chess OlympiadBegan

Born on July 21

1857Max WeissAustrian chess player
1861Albert HodgesAmerican chess champion
1920Arthur WijnansIndonesian-Dutch chess player
1947Boris KutinSlovenian chess player
1957Vladimir MalaniukUkrainian chess player
1957Rumiana GochevaBulgarian chess player
1958Michael KhodarkovskyAmerican chess player and coach
1958Dimitar DonchevBulgarian chess player
1963Aleksandar H WohlAustralian chess player
1963Carlos Armando Juárez FloresGuatemalan chess player
1967Walter ArencibiaCuban chess grandmaster
1991Volodymyr OnyshchukUkrainian chess grandmaster

Died on July 21

1976Mikhail SteinbergUkrainian Soviet chess player
1995John MontgomerieScottish chess player
2000Vladimir BagirovSoviet chess player
2023Isabelle ChokoFrench 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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