Éva Karakas (née ''Fürst''; 15 February 1922 – 7 May 1995) was a Hungarian

chess Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arran ...

player. She won the Women's

Hungarian Chess Championship The inaugural Hungarian Chess Championship was held in the city of Győr in 1906. Initially, there was no governing body responsible for its organisation, until the formation of the Hungarian Chess Federation. The HCF first appeared in 1911, but fa ...

in 1954, 1956, 1962, 1965–66 and 1975–76, and the Women's

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in 1991, 1992 and 1994. She played for the Hungarian national team in the first three editions of the

Women's Chess Olympiad The Women's Chess Olympiad is an event held by FIDE (the International Chess Federation) since 1957 (every two years since 1972), where national women's teams compete at chess for gold, silver and bronze medals. Since 1976 the Women's Chess Olympia ...

, held in 1957, 1963 and 1966.Éva Karakas
team chess record at Olimpbase.org Karakas competed in the

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Candidates' Tournament in

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1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

, and

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...

. She participated in the Women's

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tournament in

1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Karakas, Eva 1922 births 1995 deaths Chess Woman Grandmasters Hungarian female chess players World Senior Chess Champions Chess players from Budapest 20th-century Hungarian chess players 20th-century Hungarian sportswomen Hungarian chess players