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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
We lost the crowns of World Champions, it is sad, of course. But if you look at the rating list of top 100 players, Russia is still dominating. However, the competition is constantly growing stronger.- Arkady Dvorkovich, 2011
BIRTHS
Arthur Dake (1910-28.04.2000), an American Grandmaster who won two individual medals at the Olympiads: silver (1933) and gold (1935).
Xiaomin Peng (1973), a Chinese Grandmaster
Tamaz Gelashvili, (1978), a Georgian Grandmaster
Tamas Banusz (1989,) a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Daniel Hausrath (1976), a German Grandmaster.
DEATH
Donald Byrne, 12.06.1930-1976, an American International Master.
CHESS EVENT
1984 Candidates final match in Vilnius, USSR, Kasparov USSR defeated former World Champion V. Smyslov USSR 8½-4½.
WORLD EVENTS
1783 Catherine II of Russia annexes the Crimea
1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
1946 League of Nations assembles for last time
2013 Filip Vujanović’s election as President of Montenegro is confirmed by the electoral commission.
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