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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
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.- Marcel Duchamp
BIRTHS
Elijah Williams was born in Bristol, England. (1809 – 08.09.1854) was an eminent British chess player of the mid-19th century.
Semyon Alapin (1856-15.07.1923), Soviet-Lithuanian chess Master and theorist.
Miroslav Kostal (Miroslav Havel-1881-08.07.1958), a Czech composer.
Aaron Nimzowitsch (1886-16.03.1925), a Latvian-born, Danish leading Master and writer.
Sergey Domogaev (1964), Russian Grandmaster.
Vladimir Korolkov (1907-01.05.1987), a Soviet problem and endgame study composer.
Igor Glek (1961), Russian Grandmaster, a coach and a writer who is living in Germany.
Andrei Kovalev (1961), a Belarus Grandmaster and FIDE trainer who was the Belarus champion in 2000.
Gabriela Olarasu (1964), a Romanian Woman grandmaster who won 6 times the Women’s Romanian championship.
DEATHS
Abram Rabinovich (1878-1943), Soviet Master born in Lithuania who starved to his death in 1943.
Ladislav Vetesnik (02.06.1857-1949, Czech player and composer.
CHESS EVENTS
1976 The FIDE GA approved Papua New Guinea, Mauritania and Bermuda chess federations as full members.
1999 Klovans from Latvia won the World Senior Championship for the second time.
2007 In Creta, Greece, the teams of Russia won the European Team Championship for men and women.
WORLD EVENTS
1492 The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1665 The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1907 Jesús Garcíasaves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
1913 The first day of the Great Lakes Storm of 1913, a massive blizzard that ultimately killed 250 and caused over $5 million (about $118,098,000 in 2013 dollars) damage. Winds reach hurricane force on this date.
1916 Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
1917 The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
1929 In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1931 The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
1941 World War II: Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking.
1944 Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
1973 The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1987 In Tunisia, president Habib Bourguiba is overthrown and replaced by Prime Minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
1989 East GermanPrime Minister Willi Stoph, along with his entire cabinet, is forced to resign after huge anti-government protests.
1991 Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
2000 Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
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