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July 3 in Chess History

15 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 2 deaths from chess history on July 3.

July 3, 1985: Zakhar Yefymenko was born. On this day in chess history.

198541 years ago today

Zakhar Yefymenko was born

Ukrainian chess player

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Matches, tournaments and games

19451945 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Mikhail Botvinnik
19671967 Dutch chess championshipBegan · won by Hans Ree
19831983 European Team Chess ChampionshipEnded
2026Naroditsky Memorial 2026Began

Born on July 3

1851Hugo FähndrichAustro-Hungarian chess player
1888Edmonds LancelsBelgian chess player
1898Eugenio SzabadosHungarian-Italian chess player
1934Sieghart DittmannGerman chess player
1949Viktor KupreichikBelarusian chess player
1970Yona KosashviliIsraeli chess player and surgeon
1972Aleksei KulashkoNew Zealand chess FIDE Master
1973Denis YevseevRussian chess player
1973Vladimír TallaCzech chess player
1974Mairelys Delgado CrespoSpanish chess player
1977Dejan BojkovBulgarian chess grandmaster
1978Jurij TihonovBelarusian chess player
1981Evgeny PostnyIsraeli chess player
1985Zakhar YefymenkoUkrainian chess player
1996Jaime Santos LatasaChess player

Died on July 3

1930Hugo FähndrichAustro-Hungarian chess player
1973Manuel Golmayo TorrienteCuban-Spanish 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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