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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
Kramnik was the luckiest man in the history of chess. He never won a single cycle, he got all the matches that he played for political reasons.- Veselin Topalov, 2014
BIRTHS
Alexandre Deschapelles (1780–1847)a French chess player who, between the death of Philidor and the arrival of Louis de la Bourdonnais, was probably the strongest player in the world.
Jacobus Peet (07-03-1831 – 24-04-1914) Dutch chess composer.
Georgi Petrov Tringov (1937), Bulgarian Grandmaster who was Bulgarian Champion in 1963.
DEATH
Hermann von Gottschall ( 16.10.1862-1933)a German chess master, an author, and editor of chess magazine.
Sergey Vsevolodovich Belavenetz (18.07.1910 – 07.03.1942), Soviet chess player and chess theorist, Master of USSR Sports.
CHESS EVENTS
2015 07.03 In Jerusalem Israel, Evgeniy Najer became the 2015 European Champion ahead of David Navara (CZE) and Mateusz Bartel (POL).
WORLD EVENTS
161 Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor died (b. 86)
1765 Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography was born (d. 1833)
1854 Charles Miller patented the 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes.
1875 Composer Maurice Ravel was born in Cibourne, France.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the “telephone”.
1914 Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
1936 In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1945 In Yugoslavia the Communist government of Tito was formed.
1969 Israel elects the first female leader Golda Meir has been elected as the first female prime minister of Israel following Levi Eshkol’s death.
1973 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975), a leader of the Bangladeshi independence movement and first prime minister of Bangladesh, won a landslide victory in the country’s first general elections.
1977 Ali Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party won elections.
1999 Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter died (b. 1928)
2003 Mohamed ElBaradei, UN chief nuclear weapons inspector, expressed frustration at the quality of US information on Iraqi weapons and charged that some documents may have been faked.
2004 In Greece Costas Karamanlis (47) led the New Democracy party over former Foreign Minister George Papandreou’s Socialists.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)
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