Éva Karakas | |||||||||
Birth Name: | Éva Fürst | ||||||||
Birth Date: | 15 February 1922 | ||||||||
Birth Place: | Budapest, Hungary | ||||||||
Death Date: | 7 May 1995 (aged 73) | ||||||||
Death Place: | Budapest, Hungary | ||||||||
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Éva Karakas (née Fürst; 15 February 1922 – 7 May 1995)[1] 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.[2] She played for the Hungarian national team in the first three editions of the Women's Chess Olympiad, held in 1957, 1963 and 1966.[3]
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.