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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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"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
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- George Makropoulos2005
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- Vishy Anand2017
Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Looks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!- Garry Kasparov , 2017
BIRTHS
Elisabeta Polihroniade (1935-23.01.2016), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster, and an International Arbiter who won 7 Women’s Romanian Championships.
Axel Otto Ornstein (1952), a Swedish International Master who was was eight times Swedish Champion.
Camilla Baginskaite (1967), a Woman Grandmaster who was U.S. Champion in 2000. She is married to U.S. GM Alex Yermolinsky.
Monika Socko (1978), a Polish Grandmaster who won the Polish Women’s Championship eight times.
Josep Manuel Lopez Martinez (1980), a Spanish Grandmaster who was few times vice-champion of Spain.
Karen Asrian (1980-09.06.2008), an Armenian Grandmaster who won the Armenian Championship in 1999, 2007, and 2008. He had died of a suspected heart attack while driving.
Laszlo Gonda (1988), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
DEATH
Max Romih (22.05.1893-1979), an Italian Master who participated in 5 Olympiads before WWII.
CHESS EVENTS
1883 England. 1st use of the mechanical double-faced chess clock at the London.tournament.
1975 During a formal ceremony in the Hall of Columns, Moscow, A. Karpov USSR was proclaimed the 12th World Champion.
1992 The Board recommended the full membership of South Africa after 15 years of exclusion.
WORLD EVENTS
1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy.
1856 – Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (d. 1951) was born.
1923 – In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud’s theories of the id, ego, and super-ego.
1942 – Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress, and producer was born.
1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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