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September 19 in Chess History

18 birthdays, 2 matches, tournaments and games and 5 deaths from chess history on September 19.

September 19, 1939: 8th Chess Olympiad ended. On this day in chess history.

193987 years ago today

8th Chess Olympiad ended

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Matches, tournaments and games

1928French Chess Championship 1928Began · won by Amédée Gibaud
19398th Chess OlympiadEnded

Born on September 19

1856Eveline BurgessAmerican chess player
1873Rudolf Charousek(1873–1900) Hungarian chess player
1881Károly SterkHungarian chess player
1905Ilmari SolinFinnish chess player
1943Tamara GoloveyChess Master
1950André LombardChess player
1959Julia TverskayaChess player
1961Rafael Álvarez IbarraSpanish chess player
1965Elvira BerendLuxembourgish chess player
1970Michael HoffmannGerman chess player
1972Ashot NadanianChess player
1977Emil SutovskyIsraeli chess player
1981Désiree HamelinkDutch chess player
1989Mary Ann GomesIndian chess player
1993Samvel Ter-SahakyanArmenian chess player
1999Charlize Van ZylSouth African chess player
1999Xu XiangyuChinese chess player
2006Aditya MittalIndian chess player

Died on September 19

1969Rodney PhillipsNew Zealand chess player
1987Mikhail YudovichRussian chess master
2000Karl RobatschChess player
2015Jorge SzmetanArgentine chess player
2016Jorge RubinettiArgentinian international chess master

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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