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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
"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
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Chess needs Kasparov, he’s very important for chess, he’s a very important figure who can open a lot of doors for chess. And for Kirsan, of course, it was a joke.- Silvio Danailov, 2013
BIRTHS
Mario Monticelli (1902-30.06.1995) an Italian Grandmaster who was Italian Champion in 1929, 1934, and 1939.
Rainier Knaak (1953), a German Grandmaster author and Mathematician who won the GDR championship in 1974, 1978, 1982, 1983 and 1984.
Zurab Azmaiparashvili (1960), a Georgian Grandmaster, coach and organizer. European Individual Champion in 2003 and the current European Continental President.
Goran Kosanovic (1962), a Serbian Grandmaster and author.
Utut Adianto (1965), the best ever Indonesian Grandmaster who became a minister.
Jean-Michel Rapaire (1965), a Monegasque player, organizer and FIDE Arbiter who is the President of the Monaco Chess Federation since 1991.
Zhu Chen (1976), Qatari Grandmaster who was the Women’s World Champion in 2001.
Iweta Radziewicz (1981), a Polish Woman Grandmaster who was seven times Polish Women’s Champion.
Arturs Neiksans (1983), a Latvian Grandmaster and an author who became three times Latvian Champion.
Kirill Stupak (1990), a Belarus Grandmaster.
Maxime Vachier Lagarde (1994), a French Grandmaster, World U20 Champion who was the second world best-ranked player in 2016.
CHESS EVENTS
1954 In Moscow at the World Championship Match, Mikhail Botvinnik tied with Vassily Smyslov. The final result was 7-7 and 10 draws. As three years ago, Botvinnik retained his title of World Champion.
WORLD EVENTS
1792 King Gustav III of Sweden is shot by Count Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera
1815 Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
1935 Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1939 From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1968 Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1976 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
1977 Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
1978 Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped.
2014 Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
2020 The Dow Jones falls by –2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second largest percentage drop ever at −12.93 percent, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929).
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