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November 5 in Chess History

10 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 6 deaths from chess history on November 5.

November 5, 1992: Arpad Elo died. On this day in chess history.

199234 years ago today

Arpad Elo died

Hungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating

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Matches, tournaments and games

2023FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2023Ended · won by Vidit Gujrathi
2023FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2023Ended · won by Vaishali Rameshbabu

Born on November 5

1856Semyon AlapinRussian chess player
1945Mária Porubszky-AngyalosineHungarian chess player
1955Gisela FischdickChess player
1958Felix LevinGerman chess player
1969Ildikó MádlHungarian chess player
1974Alejandra Guerrero RodríguezMexican chess player
1975Ilaha KadimovaAzerbaijani chess player
1992Mustafa YılmazTurkish chess player
1992Max IllingworthAustralian chess player
2004Leya GarifullinaRussian chess player

Died on November 5

1923Alberto BatoriItalian chess player and chess composer
1932Rudolf LomanDutch chess player
1952Bruno Edgar SiegheimSouth African-German chess player
1965Fedor Duz-KhotimirskySoviet chess player
1992Arpad EloHungarian American physicists, developer of the Elo rating
2014Iuri AkobiaChess composer

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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