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October 26 in Chess History

8 birthdays, 5 matches, tournaments and games and 8 deaths from chess history on October 26.

October 26, 1960: 14th Chess Olympiad began. On this day in chess history.

196066 years ago today

14th Chess Olympiad began

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Matches, tournaments and games

196014th Chess OlympiadBegan
197622nd Chess OlympiadBegan
1976Women's Chess Olympiad 1976Began
1994U.S. Chess Championship 1994Ended · won by Boris Gulko
2020U.S. Chess Championship 2020Began · won by Wesley So

Born on October 26

1876Grace AlekhineAmerican-British-French artist
1914Adriaan de GrootDutch chess player and psychologist
1919Nikolai KopilovRussian chess player
1964Yury DokhoianRussian chess player
1966Alejandro HoffmanArgentinian chess player who plays for Uruguay
1969Ilan ManorIsraeli chess player
1970Firuza VelikhanliAzerbaijani chess player
1989Shamima Akter LizaBangladeshi chess player

Died on October 26

1972Mary BainAmerican chess player
1974Werner GolzGerman author and chess player
1987Arild FeldborgNorwegian writer
1990Guillermo Garcia GonzalesCuban chess grandmaster
2015Ove KinnmarkSwedish chess player
2021Unto VenäläinenFinnish chess player
2022Michael BasmanBritish chess player
2025Mihai SubaRomanian and Spanish 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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