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October 6 in Chess History

15 birthdays, 3 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on October 6.

October 6, 2018: 43rd Chess Olympiad ended. On this day in chess history.

20188 years ago today

43rd Chess Olympiad ended

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Matches, tournaments and games

1857New York 1857 chess tournamentBegan · won by Paul Morphy
19931993 FIDE World Chess ChampionshipBegan · won by Anatoly Karpov
201843rd Chess OlympiadEnded

Born on October 6

1861Arthur Ford MackenzieChess composer
1892Aleksandras MachtasLithuanian chess player
1905Clara FaragóHungarian chess player
1907Gary KoshnitskyAustralian chess player
1923Yakov Isaevich NeishtadtSoviet and Israeli chess author
1946Aleksandr Surenovich DronovRussian chess player
1947Terje WibeNorwegian chess player
1947Yury BazlovRussian chess composer
1978Emiliya DshingarovaSerbian chess player
1979Artur ChibukhchianArmenian chess player
1982Levon AronianArmenian-American chess player
1993Gil PopilskiIsraeli chess player
1994Tunde OnakoyaNigerian chess master
1995Nastassia ZiaziulkinaBelarusian chess player
1998Christopher RepkaSlovak chess player

Died on October 6

1901Charles Henry StanleyBritish-American chess player
1944Wolfgang HazenfussBaltic German chess player
1971Victor KahnRussian-French chess player
2013Liubov YakirChess player
2024Shimon KaganIsraeli 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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