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November 3 in Chess History

8 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 3 deaths from chess history on November 3.

November 3, 1978: Sergei Movsesian was born. On this day in chess history.

197848 years ago today

Sergei Movsesian was born

Armenian chess player

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Card photo: Barnos, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Matches, tournaments and games

1957Women US Championship 1957Began · won by Sonja Graf
19901990 USSR Chess ChampionshipEnded · won by Alexander Beliavsky

Born on November 3

1867Orla Hermann KrauseDanish chess player
1874Lucie Delarue-MardrusFrench writer and sculptor
1886Max BlümichGerman chess player
1908Alexey SokolskySoviet chess player
1978Sergei MovsesianArmenian chess player
1978Brian KellyBritish-born Irish chess player
1986Barış EsenTurkish chess player
2006Pranav AnandIndian chess player

Died on November 3

1963Boris KostićSerbian chess grandmaster
1992Vladas MikėnasEstonian-Lithuanian chess player and referee
2018Eric SchillerAmerican chess player and author

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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