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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
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.- Alexander Kotov
BIRTHS
Josef Pospisil (1861-20.12.1916), Czech chess composer.
Vasily Panov 1906-13.01.1973), Soviet Master, author, and journalist.
Yair Kraidman( 1932), the first Israeli-born Grandmaster.
Valentin Lukov, (1955), Bulgarian Grandmaster.
Sergey Kishnev, (1956), Russian Grandmaster.
Gennadi Gutman (1973), Ukrainan Grandmaster.
Mikhail Simantsev (1978); Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli (1989), Venezuelian Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Lajos Asztalos (29.07.1889-1956), a Hungarian chess International Master, professor, and languages teacher.
CHESS EVENTS
1995 K. Arakhamia (GEO) won the Women’s Interzonal tournament held in Kishinev, Moldova, with 9½/13.
WORLD EVENTS
1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1555 – French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
1755 – In Portugal, Lisbon is totally devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between 60,000 and 90,000 people.
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars.
1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
1918 – Western Ukraine gains independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1922 – Abolition of the Ottoman sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
1960 – Tim Cook, American businessman, and engineer, current CEO of Apple Inc was born.
1981 – Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of its factory in Marysville, Ohio; a Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1993 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
2000 – The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
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