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Chess Facts / JONE DOEThe top 5 best scorers of the Olympiad are: 1. M. Tal (8 Olympiads, 101 games) +65=32-2 or 81,2%; 2. A. Karpov (6 Olympiads, 68 games) +43=23-2 or 80.1%; 3. T. Petrosian (10 Olympiads, 132 games), +70=50-1 or 79.8%; 4. Isaac Kashdan (5 Olympiads, 49 games), +52, =22, -5 or 79,8%; 5. V. Smyslov (9 Olympiads, 113…
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Chess Facts / JONE DOEMax Euwe was not yet a World Champion in 1920 but he was already known to be a talented player despite this little accident against his countryman Gerard Oskam.
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Chess Facts / JONE DOEVienna 1873 tournament was the last tournament where a pawn could be promoted to a piece which had already been captured.
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Quote Of The Day
"I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own."
- Kiril Georgiev2017
"He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him."
- Veselin Topalov2016
"I personally believe that Karpov should have been more generous with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Kirsan is the only president in the history of FIDE, and maybe in the history of all international federations, who has contributed dozens of million dollars for the sport he loves. By the way, some of these millions went directly to Anatoly’s pocket…"
- George Makropoulos2005
"Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…"
- Vladimir Kramnik 2017
"The game of chess is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules"
- Vishy Anand2017
Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Vasiukov hadn’t won a single game against me for 59 years and then suddenly won. I can’t call it shame. Shame or no shame, it’s a pity that he won…- Viktor Korchnoi , 2012
BIRTHS
Reinhart Fuchs (1934) German International Master who was East German Champion in 1953 and 1956.
Orla Hermann Krause 03.11.1867-1935), Danish Master and chess theoretician who played and got a silver medal at the 1927 Olympiad.
Gergios Makropoulos (1953), Greek International Master, organiser and journalist who is the FIDE Deputy President for more than 20 years.
Stellan Brynell (1962), Swedish Grandmaster who was the Swedish Champion in 1991 and 2005.
Sergey Nadyrhanov (1963), Russian Grandmaster.
Vladimir Chuchelov (1969), Belgium Grandmaster born in Russia and well-known former coach of Caruana, Giri and Hou Yifan.
Nino Khurtsidze (1975), Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship in 1993 and 1995.
Pavel Potapov, Russian Grandmaster (1990).
Aleksandra Goryachkina (1998), Russian Woman Grandmaster who was Woman Russian Champion in 2015 and won the World Junior Girls Chess Championships, in 2013 and in 2014.
CHESS EVENT
2002 Bosna and BAS Belgrade are the winners of the European Club Cup for men and women.
WORLD EVENTS
1066 William the Conqueror invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.
1844 Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
1924 First round-the-world flight completed.
1928 Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
1939 Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland after their invasion during World War II.
1939 Warsaw surrenders to Nazi Germany during World War II.
1958 France ratifies a new Constitution of France; the French Fifth Republic is then formed upon the formal adoption of the new constitution onOctober 4. Guinea rejects the new constitution, voting for independence instead.
1960 Mali and Senegal join the United Nations.
1970 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo. Anwar Sadat is named as Nasser’s temporary successor, and will later become the permanent successor.
1994 The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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