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May 8 in Chess History

10 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 6 deaths from chess history on May 8.

May 8, 2010: Andor Lilienthal died. On this day in chess history.

201016 years ago today

Andor Lilienthal died

Hungarian chess player

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Matches, tournaments and games

19571957 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Salo Flohr
2012U.S. Chess Championship 2012Began · won by Hikaru Nakamura

Born on May 8

1944Vadim FaibisovichRussian chess player
1950Juan Manuel Bellón LópezSpanish chess player
1951Vladimir EljanovUkrainian chess player
1951Stuart J HutchingsChess player
1962Tatyana RubtsovaRussian chess player
1968Peng ZhaoqinChinese-Dutch chess player
1968Alexander FishbeinRussian-American chess player
1986Levon BabujianArmenian chess grandmaster
1992Aleksandr ShimanovRussian chess player, Grandmaster
1993Patrick ZelbelGerman chess player

Died on May 8

1917John Washington BairdAmerican chess player
1956Edith HollowayBritish chess player
2010Andor LilienthalHungarian chess player
2011Soňa PertlováCzech chess player
2019Jens BeutelGerman politician
2020Iepe RubinghDutch chess boxer

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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