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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
"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
Carlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did”- Magnus Carlsen, 2017
BIRTHS
Heinrich Wolf (1875-1843) a Czech-Austrian Master who was engaged by Emanuel Lasker as second for the WCC match against Tarrasch in 1908.
Karl Fabel (1905-03.03.1975), a German composer who received a doctorate in chemistry and worked as a mathematician and civil judge.
Heinz Lehmann (1921-06.06.1995), a German International Master born in Russia ho represented West Germany in the Olympiads at Munich 1958 and Leipzig 1960.
Borislav Milic (1925-28.05.1985), a Yugoslav Grandmaster who was a co-founder of the Chess Informant publications, serving there as a senior editor and writer.
Alexei Gavrilov (1960), a Russian Grandmaster who was Russian Champion in 1992.
Konstantin Aseev (1960-22.08.2004), Russian Grandmaster and trainer.
Susan Lalic (1965), English International Master and Woman Grandmaster who is five-time British Women’s Champion.
Irina Lymar (1974), Ukrainian Women Grandmaster.
Dmitry Bocharov (1982), a Russian Grandmaster who was Russian blitz champion in 2015.
Nadya Karolina Ortiz (1986), Colombian Women Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Philip Sergeant(27.01.1872-1952), a British player and professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects.
Arthur Mandler (05.01.1891-1971), Czech chess endgame composer.
CHESS EVENTS
1968 The FIDE GA granted affiliation to Andorra CF and Japan CF.
1984 Maya Chiburdanidze (USSR) retained her title of Women’s World Champion in Volgograd, after beating I. Levitina (USSR) 8½-5½.
2014 In Pune, India Shanglei IGM Lu (CHN) became the 2014 World Junior U20 champion. WGM Aleksandra Goryachkina (RUS) won the Girls Junior U20 title.
WORLD EVENTS
1740 Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia and Bavaria.
1803 The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 The Convention of 1818 is signed between the United States and the United Kingdom, which settles theCanada–United States border on the 49th parallel for most of its length.
1904 Chile and Bolivia sign the Treaty of Peace and Friendship, delimiting the border between the two countries.
1944 – The Soviet Army and Yugoslav Partisans liberate Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia.
1964 – Herbert Hoover, American engineer and politician, 31st President of the United States died (b. 1874).
2011 – Libyan Civil War: National Transitional Council rebel forces capture ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown of Sirte and kill him shortly thereafter.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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