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November 13 in Chess History

6 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on November 13.

November 13, 2008: 38th Chess Olympiad began. On this day in chess history.

200818 years ago today

38th Chess Olympiad began

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Matches, tournaments and games

1953USSR women's chess championship 1953Began · won by Kira Zvorykina
19911991 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Artashes Minasian
200838th Chess OlympiadBegan

Born on November 13

1877Paul Saladin LeonhardtGerman chess player
1933Bukhuti GurgenidzeSoviet chess player
1943Ernesto Palacios de la PridaSpanish chess player
1952Antonio Palacios LanzaVenezuelan chess player
1960Jón Loftur ÁrnasonIcelandic chess player
1970George-Gabriel GrigoreRomanian chess grandmaster

Died on November 13

1986Volf BergraserFrench physician and chess player
1994Igor PlatonovSoviet chess player
2006Lyubov IdelchykSoviet chess player
2012Aleksandrs ČehlovsLatvian writer, journalist and poet

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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