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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
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
According to my experiences, in key events, normally the games’ quality is not as high as other major events. Most brilliant games are not found in championships at present.- Garry Kasparov, 2014
BIRTHS
Jozsef Szen( 1805-13.01.1857), a Hungarian Master who was the in the top 10 world best players of his time.
Berthold Englisch (1851-19.10.1897), a leading Austrian chess master.
Peter Lukacs (1950), a Hungarian Grandmaster, author and coach who was Hungarian Champion in 1980.
Fernando Braga (1958), an Italian Master born in Argentina who won two Italian national titles.
Aloyzas Kveinys (1962), a Lithuanian Grandmaster who won the Lithuanian championship 5 times.
Lewan Aroshidze (1985), a Spanish Grandmaster born in Georgia who won a silver medal at the World U10 Youth Championship.
CHESS EVENTS
1814 The first regular chess column appears in the Liverpool Mercury. It was edited by Egerton Smith.
WORLD EVENTS
455 – The military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
1810 – Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland as part of the First French Empire.
1816 – Argentina declares independence from Spain.
1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the ‘minute barrier’.
1943 – The Allied invasion of Sicily soon causes the downfall of Mussolini.
2011 – South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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