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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
Tal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere.- David Bronstein
BIRTHS
Viacheslav Osnos (1935-27.08.2009), Russian Russian International Master, trainer and author who between 1968 and 1974 he was one of Viktor Korchnoi’s seconds.
Anthony Kosten (1958) England grandmaster and coach who is living in France.
Ludger Keitlinghaus (1965), German Grandmaster.
Tigran Gharamian (1984), Armenian-French chess Grandmaster, runner-up on tiebreak to Christian Bauer at the French Championships (2015).
Vugar Gashimov (1986-10.01.2014), Talented Azerbaijani Grandmaster who was a solid member of the world top 10. Vugar Gashimov fell ill in February 2000, doctors diagnosed epilepsy. Subsequently, a brain tumor was found.
Aramis Alvarez Pedraza, Aramis (1988), Cuban Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Nicolas Rossolimo (20.02.1920-1975) was an American-French-Greek-Russian Grandmaster. He emigrated to France in 1929 then, in 1952 he emigrated to the United States, and won the 1955 U.S. Open Chess Championship.
CHESS EVENTS
1884. The British Chess Federation is inaugurated at a meeting called by Hoffer, at Simpson’s Divan. Lord Tennyson was the President.
1925 The FIDE GA proposed to write the first draft of Chess Rules.
1930 The FIDE GA accepted Lithuania and Iceland as full members but rejected Scotland who was still part of Great Britain. FIDE has 28 members.
WORLD EVENTS
1411 Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
1783 The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
1823 In Maracaibo, Venezuela, the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla, defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
1866 Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
1915 The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
1922 The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
1974 Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaedWhite House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1980 The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men’s 4 x 100-metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
2019 Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after defeating Jeremy Hunt in a leadership contest, succeeding Theresa May
(Source: Wikipedia)
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