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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."
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- Veselin Topalov2016
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- George Makropoulos2005
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
A game of chess has three phases: the opening, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame, where you think you stand better; and the ending, where you know you stand to lose.- Savielly Tartakower
BIRTHS
Stefan Djuric (1955), Serbian Grandmaster.
Nicholas De Firmian (1957), US Grandmaster and three-time U.S. chess champion, also a writer of opening books.
Berik Balgabaev (1967), Russian chess amateur born in Kazakhstan. He is the FIDE President Assistant since 1996.
Vladimir Petkov (1971), Bulgaria Grandmaster.
Eva Moser (1982), Austrian International Master and Women Grandmaster who has won both the men’s and women’s Austrian Chess Championship
Aleksey Goganov (1991), Russian Grandmaster who participated at the Russian Chess Championship in 2013, finishing in eighth place.
CHESS EVENTS
1931 Parallel with the Olympiad, the World Champion Ms. Vera Menchik won all eight games and retained her title.
1931 USA won the 4th Olympiad in Prague with 48 points.
1990 In Kuala Lumpur, N. Gaprindashvili USSR won the second Women’s Interzonal.
2011 In China, the team of Armenia won the World Team Championship ahead of China and Ukraine.
WORLD EVENTS
1309 – Henry VII is recognized King of the Romans by Pope Clement V.£
1788 – New York ratifies the United States Constitution and becomes the 11th state of the United States.
1847 – Liberia declares its independence.
1882 – Premiere of Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
1945 – The Labour Party wins the United Kingdom general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power.
1945 – The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
1947 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947 into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, United States Department of Defense, United States Air Force, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the United States National Security Council.
1953 – Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
1965 – Full independence is granted to the Maldives.
1974 – Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis forms the country’s first civil government after seven years of military rule.
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