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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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"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
One of the most important things in chess is pattern recognition: the ability to recognise typical themes and images on the board, characteristics of a position and their consequences.- Magnus Carlsen, 2010
BIRTHS
Lajos Asztalos (1889-01.10.1956), Hungarian International Master, professor, and languages teacher.
Peter Romanovsky (1892-01.03.1964), Russian International Master, International Arbiter, and author who Was Soviet Champion in 1923 and 1927.
Grigory Goldberg (1908-01.12.1976) Soviet player who was Botvinnik’s second for his World Championship matches in the 1950’s.
Victor Gavrikov (1957-27.04.2016), Lithuania-Swiss Grandmaster who shared first at the Lithuanian and Soviet championships and won the Swiss championship.
Yge Visser (1963), Dutch Grandmaster.
Ivan Zaja (1965), Croatian Grandmaster who as the Croatian champion in 2000 and 2001.
Alexei Iljushin (1980), Russian Grandmaster.
Valentina Golubenko (1990), Russian Woman Grandmaster andWorld U-18 girls champion of 2008.
Vladimir Belous (1993), Russian Grandmaster, a multiple champion of Russia among boys.
Urii Eliseev (1996), Russian Grandmaster who was World U16 champion in 2012.
Asghar Golizadeh (1990), Iranian Grandmaster who was a member of the Olympic team in 2012 and 2014.
DEATHS
Nikolay Krylenko (1885 29.07.1938 A Commissar for Justice, Krylenko was involved in Stalin’s purges in the 1930s. Krylenko headed the Soviet chess from 1930 until 1937. Arrested by the NKVD, his trial lasted twenty minutes, he was found guilty and immediately shot.
CHESS WORLD
1148 The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.
1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.
1836 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
1900 In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
1921 Adolf Hitler becomes the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1948 Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
1958 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
1965 Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
1973 Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.
1980 Iran adopts a new “holy” flag after the Islamic Revolution.
1987 British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
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