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June 14 in Chess History

12 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on June 14.

June 14, 1934: World Chess Championship 1934 ended, won by Alexander Alekhine. On this day in chess history.

193492 years ago today

World Chess Championship 1934 ended

Won by Alexander Alekhine

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Card photo: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

1934World Chess Championship 1934Ended · won by Alexander Alekhine
19851985 Dutch chess championshipBegan · won by Paul van der Sterren
20132013 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan

Born on June 14

1881George Alan ThomasEnglish badminton, chess and tennis player
1896Comins MansfieldBritish chess composer
1903Lajos SteinerHungarian-born Australian chess player
1911Lev AbramovSoviet chess player and non-fiction writer
1914Rui de Carvalho NascimentoPortuguese chess player and thinker
1915Nicolaas CortleverDutch chess player
1923Gerhard PfeifferGerman chess player
1953Laszlo Hazai(1953–) chess player
1962Isabel HundGerman chess player
1963Greg HjorthAustralian Professor of Mathematics, chess International Master and joint Commonwealth Chess Champion
1968Wang ZiliChinese chess grandmaster
1978Giovanni VescoviBrazilian chess player

Died on June 14

1979Igor BondarevskyRussian chess player
1981Paul DevosChess master
1990Heinrich ReinhardtGerman-Argentine chess player
2021Horst RittnerGerman chess grandmaster

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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