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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
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
I believe motivation is one of the most important things one has to have after playing for many years. Chess is a very complete, well thought-out game, which is why people have been playing it since ancient times.- Judith Polgar
BIRTHS
Joan Emms (1967), an English Grandmaster, author and coach.
Eric Prie (1962), a French Grandmaster and coach who was French Champion in 1995.
Sergey Fedorchuk (1981), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who became the European U14 Champion in 1995.
Alexandre Danin (1986), a Russian Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1958 Ms. Elizaveta Bykova of USSR regained her title as Women’s Word Champion beating Ms. Olga Rubtsova USSR 8½-5½ in Moscow.
2016 In Lviv, Ukraine, for the fourth time Hou Yifan (CHN) won the Women’s World Championship Match against Mariya Muzychuk (UKR) with 6 – 3 score.
WORLD EVENTS
1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1689 Scotland dismisses William III & Mary Stuart as king & queen.
1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1951 Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns.
1964 A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany.
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress.
1994 Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
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