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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
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.- Magnus Carlsen
BIRTHS
Gustavus Charles Reichhelm (1839-30.11.1905) an American chess editor, analyst and problem composer.
Robert Hubner (1948), a German Grandmaster chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world’s leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Sergey Dyachkov (1976), a Russian Grandmaster.
Pavel Maletin (1986), a Russian Grandmaster who was the Russian Blitz champion in 2014.
Jianchao Zhou (1988), Chinese Grandmaster.
Nataliya Buksa (1996), an Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster who won the Girls’ World U20 Championship in 2015.
DEATHS
Jacob Henry Sarratt (1772-1819), an English Master who was the first professional player to teach chess in England.
Cecil Purdy (27.03.1906-1979), an Australian Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess International Master, editor and writer who won the first World Correspondence Chess championship.
CHESS EVENT
1968 J. Puig (ESP) created the Chess Journalists Association (AIPE). The 1967 Chess Oscar, an international award given annually to the best chess player, is awarded to Bent Larsen of Denmark.
WORLD EVENTS
1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgian-French instrument designer, invented the saxophone was born (d. 1894)
1856 Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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