Correspondence Grandmasters and Personalities
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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
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- Vishy Anand2017
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well.- Magnus Carlsen, 2017
BIRTHS
Fomina, Tatyana Fomina (1954), Estonian Woman Grandmaster who was twice European Senior Women’s Champion.
Vasily Malinin (1956), a Russian Grandmaster and Correspondence Grandmaster.
Ariel Sorin (1967), an Argentine Grandmaster who was Argentine Champion in 2000 and 2004.
Rauf Mamedov (1988), an Azeri Grandmaster who won the Azerbaijani championship three times.
Boban Bogosavljevic (1988), a Serbian Grandmaster who was Serbian Champion in 2013.
Yixin Ding (1991), a Chinese Woman Grandmaster who won the Women’s Chinese Chess Championship in 2013.
Jan-Krzysztof Duda (1998), a Polish Grandmaster who finished equal first in the World Junior Chess Championship in 2015.
CHESS EVENTS
1883 First day of the London International Tournament, the first tournament in which clocks were used.
1859 Paul Morphy finished his European tourney, giving a simultaneous display with 5 famous masters (Lowenthal, Journoud, de Riviere, Bird, Burns, and Boden with a score +2-2=1
1973 USSR. Tal had the longest run of invincibility record, from 15 July 1972 till 26 April 1973.
WORLD EVENTS
1903 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
1928 Madame Tussaud’s waxwork exhibition opens in London
1933 The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1944 Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
1974 Malta adopts constitution
1994 China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
2005 Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)
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