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July 5 in Chess History

10 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 7 deaths from chess history on July 5.

July 5, 2022: Candidates Tournament 2022 ended, won by Ian Nepomniachtchi. On this day in chess history.

20224 years ago today

Candidates Tournament 2022 ended

Won by Ian Nepomniachtchi

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Card photo: Этери Кублашвили (Eleri Kublashvili), ruchess.ru, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

2020Chessable Masters 2020Ended · won by Magnus Carlsen
2022Candidates Tournament 2022Ended · won by Ian Nepomniachtchi
2026Naroditsky Memorial 2026Ended

Born on July 5

1862Horatio CaroBritish chess player
1934Péter DelyHungarian chess player
1944Enrique IrazoquiSpanish actor
1961Rasa BandzienėLithuanian chess player
1967Henry Urday CáceresPeruvian chess player
1976Julen Luis Arizmendi MartínezSpanish chess player
1986Goretti AngolikinUgandan chess player
1997Anna StyazhkinaRussian chess player
2002Aleksandra MaltsevskayaChess player
2002Liam VrolijkDutch chess player

Died on July 5

1916Friedrich KöhnleinGerman chess player
1974Henri GrobSwiss chess player, International Master
1977Vitaly Georgievich TarasovSoviet chess player
1983María Berea de MonteroArgentine chess player
1996Predrag OstojićYugoslav chess player
2023Liuben SpassovBulgarian chess player
2024Ziaur RahmanBangladeshi 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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