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November 21 in Chess History

12 birthdays, 4 matches, tournaments and games and 4 deaths from chess history on November 21.

November 21, 1908: Salo Flohr was born. On this day in chess history.

1908118 years ago today

Salo Flohr was born

Czech chess player, arbiter, theoretician, organiser and writer

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Matches, tournaments and games

19621962 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Viktor Korchnoi
19651965 USSR Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Leonid Stein
19891989 Ukrainian Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Igor Novikov
2006Croatian Chess Championship 2006Ended

Born on November 21

1893Ernst GrünfeldChess international grandmaster
1908Salo FlohrCzech chess player, arbiter, theoretician, organiser and writer
1920Peter LeepinSwiss chess player
1943Peter LeeBritish chess player
1952Kamran ShiraziChess player
1962Olita RauseInternational Master
1966Evgeny BareevRussian-Canadian chess player
1969Tibor FogarasiHungarian chess player
1972Renier GonzálezCuban chess player
1982Tatiana KostiukChess player
1987Eesha KaravadeIndian chess player
1995Maria SeverinaSerbian chess player

Died on November 21

1907Balduin WolffGerman painter and chess player
1963Rinaldo BianchettiItalian engineer, chess player and chess composer
1969Arnoldo EllermanArgentine chess player, chess composer, and writer
1989Jacques PlanteFrench film producer and 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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