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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Everything is very concrete nowadays. The computer often gives unnatural moves which are correct, but sometimes hard to remember. You know a line is correct, but then your forget something and lose terribly.- Daniel Stellwagen, 2010
BIRTHS
He was killed by the Nazi Army during their invasion in Hungary in 1942
Horvath, Csaba, HUN, b-day 05.06.1968;
Zhukova, Natalia, UKR, b-day 05.06.1979
Vladimir Lazarev ( 1964), a Russian Grandmaster who is living in France.
Anton Shomoev (1981), a Russia Grandmaster
Tigran Nalbandian (1975), an Armenian Grandmaster
Lija Kucherova (1986), a Russian Woman Grandmaster
Wouter Spoelman (1990), a Dutch Grandmaster.
DEATH
Istvan Abonyi (18.08.1886-1942), a Hungarian Master, the president of the Hungarian Chess Federation. He was killed by the Nazi Army during their invasion of Hungary in 1942.
Paul Keres (07.01.1916-1975) an Estonian Grandmaster and chess writer. He was among the world’s top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s.
CHESS EVENTS
1974 05.06 N. Alexandria USSR beat Shul USSR 5½-2½ in the Women’s Candidates Semi Final in Riga, USSR.
1993 Egypt won the African Team Championship held in Cairo.
2004 Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria became the Women’s World Chess Champion 2004.
2006 Armenia won the Turino’s Olympiad. China secured Silver and the USA secured Bronze on second tie-break from Israel. In the women’s event Ukraine took gold from Russia and China.
WORLD EVENTS
70 CE Titus & his Roman legions breached the middle wall of Jerusalem.
1827 Athens fell to the Ottomans during Greek War of Independence.
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set his 100-yard & 200-yard freestyle swim record.
1937 Henry Ford initiated a 32 hour work week.
1967 The Six Day War erupted in the Middle East as Israel, convinced an Arab attack was imminent, raided Egyptian military targets. Syria, Jordan and Iraq entered the conflict. Jordan lost the West Bank.
1968 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded at the Ambassador Hotel in LA just after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary.
1977 The first Apple II personal computers went on sale.
(Source: Timeline)
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