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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 don’t believe that Garry likes making decisions by democratic procedures. When there is a decision that he doesn’t like, he just turns against this organization.- Georgios Makropoulos, 2013
BIRTHS
Bernhard Horwitz (1807-1885), German Master and a member of the Pleiades.
Richard Schurig (06.06.1825-1896), German Chess composer.
Coenrad Zuidema (1942), Dutch International Grandmaster born in Indonesia who won the Dutch championship in 1972.
Zoltan Almasi (1976) , Hungarian Grandmaster who won eight tiles the national championship.
Angela Borsuk Israeli Women Grandmaster born in Ukraine.
DEATHS
Georg Marco 29.11.1863-1923, Austrian-Romanian chess player, best known for his work as editor of the Wiener Schachzeitung from 1898 to 1916
CHESS EVENTS
1956 29.08 The Permanent Commission of FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC) was created. The FIDE GA approved the title of International Arbiter for chess compositions.
1967 Julio Kaplan from Puerto Rico won the 9th World Junior Championship in Jerusalem.
1969 Anatoly Karpov (USSR) won the 10th World Junior Championship in Stockholm, Sweden.
1981 The team from (USSR) won the World Youth Team Championship in Graz, Austria with 32½/44. 34 teams participated in the event.
1992 A. Aleksandrov (BLR) became the 21st European Junior Champion in Sas van Gent, Holland.
1992 29.08 C. Sichilima (KEN) won the African Junior Championship in Nairobi, Kenya.
WORLD EVENTS
1541 The Ottoman Turks capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian Kingdom.
1758 The first American Indian reservation is established, at Indian Mills, New Jersey.
1825 Kingdom of Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil.
1831 Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction.
1895 Rugby league is founded by 22 clubs at a meeting in the George Hotel, Huddersfield.
1898 The Goodyear tire company is founded.
1910 The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
1916 The United States passes the Philippine Autonomy Act.
1941 Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is occupied by Nazi Germany following an occupation by the Soviet Union.
1944 Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis.
1949 Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk,Kazakhstan.
1996 Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
2004 Michael Schumacher wins his 5th consecutive Formula One Drivers’ championship to beat the 47-year-old record held by Juan Manuel Fangio.
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