Classical Grandmaster
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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
When your house is on fire, you can’t be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in chess, if your King is under attack, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queenside.- Garry Kasparov
BIRTHS
Georgy Borisenko (1922-03.12.12012), an Uzbek and Soviet Correspondence Grandmaster who finished 2nd in the World Correspondence Championship of 1965.
Krunoslav Hulak (1951-23.10.2013), a Croatian Grandmaster who won the Yugoslav Championship in 1976 and the Croatian Championship in 2005.
Aleksandr Karpatchev (1967), a Russian Grandmaster.
Vladimir Nevostrujev (1966), a Russian Grandmaster.
Manuel Perez Candelario (1983), a Spanish Grandmaster who was twice Spanish Youth Champion.
Jens Kristiansen (1952), a Danish Grandmaster who was Danish champion in 1979, 1982 and 1995 and World Senior champion in 2012.
Meri Arabidze (1994), a Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won three titles at of World Youth Chess Championship.
DEATH
William Shinkman (25.12.1847-1933), an American chess composer.
CHESS EVENTS
1959 Ms. Kira Zvorykina of USSR won the third Women’s Candidates in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
1989 In Manila, Philippines, at the Asian Team Championship play-off, China beat Philippines.
WORLD EVENTS
1521 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.
1887 Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die.
1895 The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Ching-sung as its president.
1911 Revolution in Mexico overthrows President Jose Porfirio Diaz
1935 Jesse Owens of Ohio State University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1938 Spanish Civil War: The bombing of Alicante kills 313 people.
1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day); Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes king of Jordan
1961 Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a “man on the Moon” before the end of the decade.
1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title rematch
1981 In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
1985 Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
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