28 août 1936 - Nottingham 1936 chess tournament

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The Nottingham 1936 chess tournament was a 15-player round robin tournament held August 10–28 at the University of Nottingham.

It is one of the very few tournaments in chess history to include five past, present, or future world champions (Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alekhine, Euwe and Botvinnik). A number of other prominent players, such as Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky and Salo Flohr, were in the tournament.

The event is also notable for being Lasker's last major event and for Botvinnik achieving the first Soviet success outside the Soviet Union.

In parallel with the main tournament, the venue also played host to the 1936 British Women's Championship. The event was won by Edith Holloway (1868-1956), age sixty-eight and a former winner in 1919.