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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
You can’t look too annoyed or they’ll look for the mistake you’ve made. A lot of the time it’s about looking for these opportunities and if you give them a clue, the good players will find it.- Magnus Carlsen, 2016
BIRTHS
Conrad Bayer (1828-17.10.1897), Czech chess composer, the author of the famous ‘Immortal Chess Problem‘, a mate in 9 moves composed in 1856.
Maximilian Fleissig (1845-29.01.1919), a Hungarian-born Austrian chess master.
Nikolai Grigoriev (14.08.1895-1938), Soviet-Russian player and a composer of endgame studies.
Miodrag Todorcevic (1940), Serbian Grandmaster who was living in France where he became the national chess champion in 1975 and then move to Spain.
Kevin Spraggett (1954), Canadian Grandmaster who won seven Canadian Championships and is running https://kevinspraggettonchess.wordpress.com/a chess blog for many years.
Bartosz Socko (1978), Polish Grandmaster and 6 times Polish Champion.
Erald Dervishi (1979), Albanian International Master and the best national player since a decade.
EvgenijaOvod (1982), Russian Woman Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Nikolai Grigoriev (14.08.1895-1938), Soviet-Russian player and a composer of endgame studies.
Milan Vidmar (19.12.1909-1980), Slovenian International Master and son of the famous Milan Vidmar Sr.
CHESS EVENTS
1978 In Buenos Aires, Hungary won the Olympiad one point ahead of USSR. For the first time since their first participation in 1954, USSR team, playing without the World Champion Karpov (but present at the FIDE Congress), could not catch the gold medal.
2005 In Israel, in a come from behind victory, Russia beat China 3.5-0.5 in the final round to win the World Team Championship in Beer Sheva. Russia tallied 22 points, followed by China with 21.5 points. Armenia placed third with 18.5 points.
WORLD EVENTS
1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherland to England.
1821 Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which led to Panama’s independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia.
1888 Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company was born (d. 1972)
1942 World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan’s agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.
1971 In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
1982 Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian general and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union died (b. 1906)
1983 Bill Gates introduces Windows 1.0.
1989 Germans begin to tear down the Berlin Wall.
1997 WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
(Source: Wikipedia)
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