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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
I am fighting for the future of chess, for the integrity of the game I love. Only when it’s clean it can grow.- Garry Kasparov, 2014
BIRTHS
Alexandr Dimitrievich Petrov (1794-22-04-1867) a Russian chess composer and chess player who was the best Russian player of his time.
Carol Jarecki (1935) an American organizer, an International Arbiter in many top chess events, and a chess writer.
Leontxo García Olasagasti (1956) a Spanish Fide Master, lecturer, presenter, commentator, and journalist.
Glenn Flear, (1959), an English Grandmaster, author and a coach living in France.
Nana Mikhailovna Ioseliani (1962), a Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who challenged and lost defending champion Maia Chiburdanidze and Xie Jun for the Women’s World Championships.
Svetlana Stuchkova (1963), a, Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Krzysztof Bulski (1987), a Polish Grandmaster who is a multiple medalists at the Polish Junior Chess Championship.
WORLD EVENTS
1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1809 Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist was born (d. 1882)
1809 Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer, and politician, 16th President of the United States was born (d. 1865).
1877 Louis Renault, French engineer, and businessman, co-founded Renault was born (d. 1944)
1912 The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1921 Winston Churchill becomes British Minister of Colonies
1921 Bolsheviks launch a revolt in Georgia as a preliminary to the Red Army invasion of Georgia.
1938 German troops entered Austria
1992 The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
1999 United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2002 The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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