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Below is a list of events in chess in the year 1941.
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- ↑ Mark Wyman, Dps: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945–1951; reprinted 1998 Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-8542-8
- ↑ Andris Fride, Vladimirs Petrovs: A Chessplayer's Story from Greatness to the Gulags, 2004 Caissa Editions, Yorklyn, Delaware, US. ISBN 0-939433-61-3
- ↑ "USA-USSR RADIO MATCH of 1945". Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2008-10-13.
- ↑ "Computer Chess History by Bill Wall (April 6, 2008)". Archived from the original on October 18, 2009.
- ↑ OlimpBase :: Friendly matches
