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Chess · Punjab

Mir Sultan Khan

Sultan Khan (Punjabi and Urdu: میاں سلطان خان, 1903 – 25 April 1966; often erroneously given the honorific Mir Sultan Khan or Mir Malik Sultan Khan) was a chess player from British India, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who was the strongest Asian player of the early 1930s. The son of a Muslim landlord and preacher, Khan travelled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan (Sir Umar), to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm.

Profile details

Born
1905
Birthplace
Sargodha
State listed
Punjab
Country
India
Sport
Chess
Discipline
Mind
Category
Men
Status
Active

District, height, weight, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.

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Honours & Awards

  • No recorded honours or awards.

Competition Appearances

3 recorded appearances, most significant first.

  • ·3rd Chess Olympiad
  • ·4th Chess Olympiad
  • ·5th Chess Olympiad

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Sultan Khan (Punjabi and Urdu: میاں سلطان خان, 1903 – 25 April 1966; often erroneously given the honorific Mir Sultan Khan or Mir Malik Sultan Khan) was a chess player from British India, and later a citizen of Pakistan, who was the strongest Asian player of the early 1930s. The son of a Muslim landlord and preacher, Khan travelled with Colonel Nawab Sir Umar Hayat Khan (Sir Umar), to Britain, where he took the chess world by storm.

Biography adapted from Sultan Khan (chess player) on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Snapshot taken — where the text describes a role or a club in the present tense, read it as of that date.

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