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March 24 in Chess History

11 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on March 24.

March 24, 1946: Alexander Alekhine died. On this day in chess history.

194680 years ago today

Alexander Alekhine died

4th World Chess Champion

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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

19361936 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Iosif Pogrebyssky
200666th Armenian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Artashes Minasian
2018Danish Chess Championship 2018Began · won by Bjorn Moller Ochsner

Born on March 24

1837George Henry MackenzieAmerican journalist
1847Wordsworth DonisthorpeAnarchist and inventor
1881Vasily PlatovRussian chess composer
1921Vasily Smyslov7th World Chess Champion
1947Rob HartochDutch chess player
1950Lazar SustermanChess player
1960Yasser SeirawanAmerican chess player
1963Iván MorovicChilean chess player
1978Monika SoćkoPolish chess player
1980Florian JenniSwiss chess grandmaster
1988Soňa PertlováCzech chess player

Died on March 24

1917Jesús Rodríguez LópezSpanish author
1946Alexander Alekhine4th World Chess Champion
1960Eggert GilferIcelandic chess player
2016Hope Arthurine AndersonJamaican chess champion

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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