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

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to disti ...

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.Éva Karakas
team chess record at Olimpbase.org Karakas competed in the Women's World Championship Candidates' Tournament in

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

, 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 Patriarch ...

. She participated in the Women's Interzonal tournament in

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. ...

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