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May 14 in Chess History

15 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 2 deaths from chess history on May 14.

May 14, 1836: Wilhelm Steinitz was born. On this day in chess history.

1836190 years ago today

Wilhelm Steinitz was born

1st World Chess Champion

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Matches, tournaments and games

19371937 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Grigory Levenfish
19601960 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Leonid Stein
1967Women US Championship 1967Ended · won by Gisela Kahn Gresser

Born on May 14

1836Wilhelm Steinitz1st World Chess Champion
1837G. S. CarrBritish mathematician
1867Boris KoyalovichRussian mathematician
1909Vladimir AlatortsevSoviet chess player
1929Vladimir AntoshinSoviet chess Grandmaster, a theoretician and a national champion of correspondence chess
1954John CooperChess player
1964Beatriz MarinelloChilean-born American chess player
1974Goar HlgatianArmenian chess player
1978Jeff SarwerCanadian chess player
1980Leif Erlend JohannessenNorwegian chess player
1982Olga ZiminaItalian chess player
1993Frode UrkedalNorwegian chess player
1995Nijat AbasovAzerbaijani chess grandmaster
1996Kacper DrozdowskiPolish chess player
1996PokimaneMoroccan-Canadian streamer and YouTuber

Died on May 14

1913Oskar CordelGerman writer
1931Viktor DykCzech poet, prose writer, playwright, politician and political writer

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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