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Mir Sultan Khan was a famous chess player in the early 1930's.Which country did he come from?

  1. Iraq

  2. Kuwait

  3. India

  4. Saudi Arabia
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Explanation

Mir Sultan Khan (1905-1966) was a chess prodigy from British India (present-day Pakistan). He learned chess in India and dominated European chess in the early 1930s, winning the British Championship three times and beating champions like Capablanca and Tartakower. Despite having no access to chess books in his youth, he reached world-class strength.

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