Correspondence Grandmasters and Personalities
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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 think that ACP is a small clique, which gives power to more cliques.- Nigel Short, 2016
BIRTHS
Erik Lundin (1904-05.12.1988), a Swedish Honorary Grandmaster who won few Swedish and Nordic Championships.
Leopold Mitrofanov (1935-26.11.1992), a Russian chess composer.
Aleksander Berelovich (1967), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was the national champion in 2001.
Eran Liss (1975), an Israeli Grandmaster who was Israeli Champion in 1998.
Shadi Paridar (1986), an Iranian Woman Grandmaster who won the Asian Under-16 Girls’ Championship in 2002.
Deysi T. Cori (1993), a Peruvian Woman Grandmaster who is a twice American Continental Women’s Champion and under 20 Girls’ World Championship in 2011.
DEATH
Vladimir Nabokov 22.04.1899-02.07.1977), a Russian-American novelist and chess amateur.
Georgi Tringov died, Bulgaria.(07.03.1937–2 July 2000), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who won the 1963 Bulgarian Championship in 1963,
WORLD EVENTS
311 St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1850 Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus
1881 US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield died 79 days later
1900 First flight LZ-1, of a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin,
1966 1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll.
1976 Formal reunification of North & South Vietnam.
1985 Andrei Gromyko appointed the president of USSR.
1990 Panic in a tunnel of Mecca: 1,426 pilgrims trampled to death.
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