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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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- George Makropoulos2005
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- Vishy Anand2017
Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.- Anatoly Karpov, NIC 2010
BIRTHS
Walther P. Shipley (1860-17.02.1942), a well-known American organizer and chess patron.
Iuri Shkuro (1982), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Guliskhan Nakhbayeva (1991), a Kazakh Woman Grandmaster.
Olga Babiy (1989), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster.
Nargiz Umudova (1989), an Azerbaijani Woman Grandmaster.
DEATH
Johannes Zukertort (07.09.1842-1888), a Polish-born player who was one of the strongest chess players of the second half of 19th century, chess journalist and was the editor of the ‘Neue BerlinerSchachzeitung’.
CHESS EVENTS
1968 Candidates Quarterfinal in Sukhumi, USSR, B. Spassky USSR beat E. Geller USSR 5½-2½.
1999 IOC informed FIDE about its recognition of FIDE as a Federation.
2014 Magnus Carlsen became the World Blitz Champion.
WORLD EVENTS
1837 Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
1840 Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
1944 The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
1960 The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
1963 Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union and the United States sign an agreement to establish the so-called “red telephone” link between Washington and Moscow.
1975 The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as “summer blockbusters”.
1990 The 7.4 Mw Manjil–Rudbar earthquake affects northern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), killing 35,000–50,000, and injuring 60,000–105,000.
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