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May 18 in Chess History

12 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on May 18.

May 18, 1943: Gennadi Sosonko was born. On this day in chess history.

194383 years ago today

Gennadi Sosonko was born

Dutch chess player and coach

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Card photo: The original uploader was Jaapvanderkooij at Dutch Wikipedia.…, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

1924Danish Chess Championship 1924Ended · won by Aage Kier
19831983 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Valeriy Neverov
20132013 Norway ChessEnded · won by Sergey Karjakin

Born on May 18

1897Edgard ColleChess master
1899Allan NilssonSwedish chess player
1915Roger DanielFrench chess player
1931Kalju PitksarEstonian chess player
1942Josef AugustinCzech chess player
1943Gennadi SosonkoDutch chess player and coach
1957Andrew MartinBritish journalist, author and chess player
1968Irina KryukovaChess player
1982Jean-Pierre Le RouxFrench chess player
1992Eltaj SafarliAzerbaijani chess player
1999Bai JinshiChinese chess player
2002Annie WangChess player

Died on May 18

1868Carl MayetGerman chess player
1961Charles BlakeCanadian chess player
1984Moises Aron KupferstichDanish chess player
1996Yosef PorathGerman-Israeli chess player
2013Lothar SchmidGerman 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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