Éva Karakas

Hungarian chess player

Éva Karakas

Born	Éva Fürst 15 February 1922 Budapest, Hungary
Died	7 May 1995 (aged 73) Budapest, Hungary

Country	Hungary
Title	Woman Grandmaster (1982)
Peak rating	2205 (July 1973)

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.