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7th Chess Olympiad

Index 7th Chess Olympiad

The 7th Chess Olympiad, organized by the FIDE and comprising an open and (unofficial) women's tournament, as well as several events designed to promote the game of chess, took place between July 31 and August 14, 1937, in Stockholm, Sweden. [1]

75 relations: Adriaan de Groot, Albéric O'Kelly de Galway, Andor Lilienthal, Arthur Dunkelblum, Árpád Vajda, Baldur Möller, Boris Kostić, Carlos Guimard, Chess, Chess Olympiad, Christian Poulsen (chess player), Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Eero Böök, Emil Zinner, Endre Steiner, Erik Lundin, FIDE, Frank Marshall (chess player), František Zíta, Fricis Apšenieks, Gösta Danielsson, Gösta Stoltz, Gideon Ståhlberg, Gunnar Friedemann, Harry Golombek, Hungary, Ilmar Raud, Isaac Kashdan, Isaías Pleci, Isakas Vistaneckis, Israel Albert Horowitz, Italy, Izaak Appel, Jacobo Bolbochán, James Macrae Aitken, Jan Foltys, Jens Enevoldsen, Jiří Pelikán (chess player), Johannes Türn, Kaarle Ojanen, Karlis Ozols, Kornél Havasi, László Szabó (chess player), Leonardas Abramavičius, Lodewijk Prins, Lucijs Endzelins, Luis Piazzini, Mario Napolitano, Markas Luckis, Max Euwe, ..., Miguel Najdorf, Mirko Bröder, Paul Felix Schmidt, Paul Keres, Paulino Frydman, Petar Trifunović, Povilas Vaitonis, Reuben Fine, Roberto Grau, Salo Flohr, Salo Landau, Samuel Reshevsky, Savielly Tartakower, Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet, Stefano Rosselli del Turco, Stockholm, Stuart Milner-Barry, Teodor Regedziński, Theo van Scheltinga, Vasja Pirc, Vincenzo Castaldi, Vladas Mikėnas, Vladimirs Petrovs, Voldemārs Mežgailis, Women's World Chess Championship 1937 (Stockholm olympiad). Expand index (25 more) »

Adriaan de Groot

Adrianus Dingeman (Adriaan) de Groot (Santpoort, 26 October 1914 – Schiermonnikoog, 14 August 2006) was a Dutch chess master and psychologist, who conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60.

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Albéric O'Kelly de Galway

Albéric Joseph Rodolphe Marie Robert Ghislain O'Kelly de Galway (17 May 1911, Anderlecht – 3 October 1980, Brussels) was a Belgian chess Grandmaster (1956), an International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1962), and the third ICCF World Champion in correspondence chess (1959–1962).

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Andor Lilienthal

Andor (André, Andre, Andrei) Arnoldovich LilienthalReuben Fine, The World's Great Chess Games, Dover Publications, 1983, p. 216.

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Arthur Dunkelblum

Arthur Dunkelblum (23 April 1906 – 27 January 1979) was a Polish-born Belgian chess master.

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Árpád Vajda

Árpád Vajda (2 May 1896, Rimaszombat (Rimavská Sobota) – 25 October 1967, Budapest) was a Hungarian chess master.

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Baldur Möller

Baldur Möller (Reykjavík, 19 August 1914 – 23 November 1999) was an Icelandic chess master.

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Boris Kostić

Borislav Kostić (aka Boris or Bora Kostic, Kostitsch; 24 February 1887 – 3 November 1963) was a Serbian chess grandmaster and a noted popularizer of the game.

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Carlos Guimard

Carlos Enrique Guimard (6 April 1913 – 11 September 1998) was an Argentine chess Grandmaster.

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Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Chess Olympiad

The Chess Olympiad is a biennial chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete.

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Christian Poulsen (chess player)

Christian Poulsen (Rind, 16 August 1912 – 19 April 1981) was a Danish chess master.

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Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander

Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (19 April 1909 – 15 February 1974), known as Hugh Alexander and C. H. O'D.

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Eero Böök

Eero Einar Böök (9 February 1910 – 7 January 1990) was a Finnish chess player and engineer.

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Emil Zinner

Emil Zinner (23 August 1909, Brno – 8 July 1942, Majdanek) was a Jewish-Czech chess master.

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Endre Steiner

Endre (Andreas) Steiner (27 June 1901 – 29 December 1944) was a Hungarian chess player, born in Budapest.

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Erik Lundin

Erik Ruben Lundin (Stockholm 2 July 1904, – Stockholm 5 December 1988) was a Swedish chess master.

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FIDE

The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world and acts as the governing body of international chess competition.

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Frank Marshall (chess player)

Frank James Marshall (August 10, 1877 – November 9, 1944) was the U.S. Chess Champion from 1909 to 1936, and one of the world's strongest chess players in the early part of the 20th century.

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František Zíta

František Zíta (29 November 1909 – 1 October 1977) was a Czech chess master who was born and died in Prague.

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Fricis Apšenieks

Fricis (Fritzis, Franz) Apšenieks (Apscheneek) (7 April 1894 in Tetele, Latvia – 25 April 1941 in Riga, Latvia) was a Latvian chess master.

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Gösta Danielsson

Gösta Erik Vilhelm Danielsson (24 June 1912, Helenelund – 17 October 1978, Knivsta) was a Swedish chess master.

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Gösta Stoltz

Gösta Stoltz (May 9, 1904 – July 25, 1963) was a Swedish chess grandmaster.

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Gideon Ståhlberg

Anders Gideon Tom Ståhlberg (or Stahlberg) (26 January 1908, Surte near Gothenburg – 26 May 1967, Leningrad) was a Swedish chess grandmaster.

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Gunnar Friedemann

Gunnar Friedemann (22 September 1909 in Tallinn – 22 February 1944) was an Estonian chess master.

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Harry Golombek

Harry Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995), was a British chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime codebreaker.

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Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

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Ilmar Raud

Ilmar Raud (30 April 1913 – 13 July 1941) was an Estonian chess master.

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Isaac Kashdan

Isaac Kashdan (19 November 1905 in New York City – 20 February 1985 in Los Angeles) was an American chess grandmaster and chess writer.

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Isaías Pleci

Isaías Pleci (also Isaías Pléci) (27 October 1907 – 27 December 1979) was an Argentine chess master.

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Isakas Vistaneckis

Isakas Vistaneckis (Isaak, Itzhak Vistinietzki) (29 September 1910 in Marijampolė – 30 December 2000 in Tel Aviv) was a Lithuanian Jewish chess master.

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Israel Albert Horowitz

Israel Albert Horowitz (often known as I. A. Horowitz or Al Horowitz) (November 15, 1907 in Brooklyn, New York – January 18, 1973) was a Jewish-American International Master of chess.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Izaak Appel

Izaak (Isaak) Appel (1905–1941) was a Polish chess master.

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Jacobo Bolbochán

Jacobo Bolbochán (26 December 1906 – 29 July 1984) was an Argentine chess master.

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James Macrae Aitken

James Macrae Aitken (27 October 1908 – 3 December 1983) was a Scottish chess player.

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Jan Foltys

Jan Foltys (13 October 1908, Svinov – 11 March 1952, Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic) was a Czech chess International Master.

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Jens Enevoldsen

Jens Evald Enevoldsen-Elsing (23 September 1907 – 23 May 1980) was a Danish chess master born in Copenhagen.

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Jiří Pelikán (chess player)

Jiří (Jorge) Pelikán (Častolovice, 23 April 1906 – Chacabuco, July 1984) was a Czech–Argentine chess master.

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Johannes Türn

Johannes Türn (27 May 1899, Tartu – 8 March 1993 Tallinn) was an Estonian chess player.

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Kaarle Ojanen

Kaarle Sakari Ojanen (4 December 1918 – 9 January 2009) was a Finnish chess player.

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Karlis Ozols

Kārlis Ozols (9 August 1912, Riga – 23 March 2001, Australia) was a Latvian-Australian chess player.

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Kornél Havasi

Kornél Havasi (10 January 1892 – 15 January 1945) was a Hungarian chess master.

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László Szabó (chess player)

László Szabó (March 19, 1917 – August 8, 1998) was a Hungarian grandmaster of chess.

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Leonardas Abramavičius

Leonardas Abramavičius (Leonhard Abramavicius) (died 1960 in Kaunas) was a Lithuanian chess player.

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Lodewijk Prins

Lodewijk Prins (27 January 1913, Amsterdam – 11 November 1999) was a Dutch chess player and referee of chess competitions.

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Lucijs Endzelins

Lūcijs (Lucius) Endzelīns (21 May 1909, Dorpat (Tartu), Estonia – 27 October 1981, Adelaide, Australia) was a Latvian-Australian chess master.

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Luis Piazzini

Luis Roberto (Ruben) Piazzini (11 May 1905 – 4 March 1980) was an Argentine chess master.

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Mario Napolitano

Mario Napolitano (10 February 1910, Acquaviva delle Fonti – 31 October 1995, Florence) was an Italian chess master.

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Markas Luckis

Markas (Marcos) Luckis (17 January 1905, in Pskov – 9 February 1973, in Buenos Aires) was a Lithuanian–Argentine chess master.

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Max Euwe

Machgielis "Max" Euwe, PhD (May 20, 1901 – November 26, 1981) was a Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, author, and chess administrator.

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Miguel Najdorf

Miguel Najdorf (born Mojsze Mendel Najdorf) (15 April 1910 – 4 July 1997) was a Polish-Argentine chess grandmaster.

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Mirko Bröder

Mirko (Imre) Bröder, or Broeder, Broder, Breder (1911–1943) was a Hungarian–Serbian chess master.

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Paul Felix Schmidt

Paul Felix Schmidt (– 11 August 1984) was an Estonian chess International Master, chess writer, and chemist.

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Paul Keres

Paul Keres (January 7, 1916June 5, 1975) was an Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer.

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Paulino Frydman

Paulino (Paulin) Frydman (26 May 1905 in Warsaw, Poland – 2 February 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was a Polish chess master.

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Petar Trifunović

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Povilas Vaitonis

Povilas (Paul) Vaitonis (15 August 1911 in Užpaliai, Kovno Governorate – 23 April 1983 in Hamilton, Canada) was a Lithuanian–Canadian International Master of chess.

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Reuben Fine

Reuben Fine (October 11, 1914 – March 26, 1993) was an American chess grandmaster, psychologist, university professor, and author of many books on both chess and psychology.

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Roberto Grau

Roberto Gabriel Grau (18 March 1900, Buenos Aires – 12 April 1944, Buenos Aires) was an Argentinian chess master.

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Salo Flohr

Salomon Mikhailovich Flohr (November 21, 1908 – July 18, 1983) was a leading Czech chess grandmaster of the mid-20th century, who became a national hero in Czechoslovakia during the 1930s.

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Salo Landau

Salo (Salomon) Landau (1 April 1903, Bochnia, Galicia, Austria-Hungary – March 1944,Westerbork Cartotheek NIOD Amsterdam Grodziszcze, Świdnica County, Poland) was a Dutch chess player, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.

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Samuel Reshevsky

Samuel Herman Reshevsky (born Szmul Rzeszewski; November 26, 1911 – April 4, 1992) was a Polish chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster.

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Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower (also known as Saviely or Savielly Tartakower in English, less often Xavier Tartacover or Xavier Tartakover; 1887–1956) was a leading Polish and French chess grandmaster.

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Sir George Thomas, 7th Baronet

Sir George Alan Thomas, 7th Baronet (14 June 1881 – 23 July 1972) was a British badminton, tennis and chess player.

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Stefano Rosselli del Turco

Stefano Rosselli Del Turco, marquis, (27 July 1877 – 18 August 1947) was an Italian chess master.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Stuart Milner-Barry

Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry (20 September 1906 – 25 March 1995) was a British chess player, chess writer, World War II codebreaker and civil servant.

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Teodor Regedziński

Teodor (Theodor, Theodore) Regedziński (Regedzinski, Reger) (28 April 1894 – 2 August 1954) was a Polish of German origin chess master.

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Theo van Scheltinga

Tjeerd (Theo) Daniel van Scheltinga (6 March 1914, Amsterdam – 30 July 1994) was a Dutch chess player.

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Vasja Pirc

Vasja Pirc (December 19, 1907 – June 2, 1980) was a leading Yugoslav (Slovenian) chess player.

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Vincenzo Castaldi

Vincenzo Castaldi (15 May 1916, Marradi – 6 January 1970, Florence) was an Italian chess master.

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Vladas Mikėnas

Vladas Mikėnas (17 April 1910 – 3 November 1992) was a Lithuanian International Master of chess, an Honorary Grandmaster, and a journalist.

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Vladimirs Petrovs

Vladimirs Petrovs or Vladimir Petrov (27 September 1907 – 26 August 1943) was a Latvian chess master.

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Voldemārs Mežgailis

Voldemārs Mežgailis (also Voldemar Mezgailis or Mezhgailis; born 22 April 1912, Viļķene parish, Russian Empire – died 1 June 1998 in Riga) was a Latvian chess master.

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Women's World Chess Championship 1937 (Stockholm olympiad)

The sixth Women's World Chess Championship took place during the 1937 Stockholm Olympiad.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Chess_Olympiad

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