About Éva Karakas
Lived 1922 – 1995 (aged 73). Éva Karakas was a Hungarian chess player.
Éva Karakas (née Fürst; 15 February 1922 – 7 May 1995) was a Hungarian chess player. She won the Women's Hungarian Chess Championship in 1954, 1956, 1962, 1965–66 and 1975–76, and the Women's World Senior Chess Championship in 1991, 1992 and 1994. She played for the Hungarian national team in the first three editions of the Women's Chess Olympiad, held in 1957, 1963 and 1966.
Karakas competed in the Women's World Championship Candidates' Tournament in 1959, 1961, and 1964. She participated in the Women's Interzonal tournament in 1973.
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Who was Éva Karakas?
Hungarian chess women grandmaster
When was Éva Karakas born?
Éva Karakas was born on 15 February 1922 in Budapest.
When did Éva Karakas die?
Éva Karakas died on 7 May 1995 in Budapest.
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Éva Karakas was a chess player.
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Éva Karakas was Hungarian.
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