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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
Magnus is playing fantastic and I play like I always play, pretty badly- Anish Giri, 2017
BIRTHS
Erich Cohn 1884-28.08.1918) a German player who died in the western front, as a field doctor of the Red Cross, at the end of World War I.
Harry Golombek (07.01.1995) a British Honorary Grandmaster, arbiter, a author who was three times British Champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955.
Margaret Murphy (1951), a Virgin Islander, FIDE Arbiter and FIDE Officer who is president of the US. Virgin island chess federation.
Gulkiz Tulay (1961), a Turkish player, President of the Turkish chess federation and FIDE Officer since 2014.
Stuart Conquest (1967), an English Grandmaster, commentator and tournament director of Gibraltar Chess Festival.
Maria Manakova (1974), a Russian-born Serbia Woman Grandmaster who became the Serbian Woman Champion.
Alexy Korotylev (1977), a Russian Grandmaster.
Torbjorn Ringdal Hansen (1979), a Norwegian Grandmaster who participated in the 2013 World Cup.
Daniel Stellwagen (1987), a Dutch Grandmaster who finished second at the World U12 Championship and the European U12 Youth Championship in 1999.
Mads Andersen (1995), a Danish Grandmaster.
DEATH
Anatoly Lein (28.03.1931–2018), an American Grandmaster who was a member of the U.S. team which won the 1976 Olympiad.
CHESS EVENTS
1845. The first American chess column appeared in the New York Spirit of Times, edited by Charles Henry Stanley.
1965 Vladimir Zagorovsky of USSR won the 4th Chess Correspondence World Championship.
1995 Zs. Polgar HUN defeated M. Chiburdanidze GEO in Petersburg with the score of 5½- 1½ and qualified to play Xie Jun CHN in the Women’s World Championship Final.
2000 FIDE published the first quarterly rating list.
WORLD EVENTS
1 BCE Start of the revised Julian calendar in Rome.
705 John VII began his reign as Catholic Pope.
1565 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
1700 Sweden introduces its Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian calendar on this date in 1753.
1810 Frederic Chopin (d.1849), a Polish composer and pianist, was born.
1815 Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba, the start of the Hundred Days.
1845 United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1867 Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
1921 Rwanda was ceded to England.
1932 Charles Lindbergh’s son is reportedly kidnapped.
1949 Joe Louis retired as the heavyweight boxing champion.
1953 Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
1954 The Bravo hydrogen bomb test exploded across Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs.
1962 Uganda became a self-governing country under PM Benedicto Kiwanuka.
1966 The Ba’ath Party takes power in Syria.
1970 Mar 1, The white government of Rhodesia declared independence from Britain.
1974 A grand jury in Washington, DC, concluded that President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up.
1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1995 Yahoo! is incorporated.
1998 Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2003 The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article
1565 The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
1700 Sweden introduces its Swedish calendar, in an attempt to gradually merge into the Gregorian calendar, reverts to the Julian calendar on this date in 1712, and introduces the Gregorian calendar on this date in 1753.
1810 Frederic Chopin (d.1849), a Polish composer and pianist, was born.
1815 Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba, the start of the Hundred Days.
1845 United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
1867 Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
1921 Rwanda was ceded to England.
1932 Charles Lindbergh’s son is reportedly kidnapped.
1949 Joe Louis retired as the heavyweight boxing champion.
1953 Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
1954 The Bravo hydrogen bomb test exploded across Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) with the force of 1,000 Hiroshima bombs.
1962 Uganda became a self-governing country under PM Benedicto Kiwanuka.
1966 The Ba’ath Party takes power in Syria.
1970 Mar 1, The white government of Rhodesia declared independence from Britain.
1974 A grand jury in Washington, DC, concluded that President Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up.
1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
1995 Yahoo! is incorporated.
1998 Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
2003 The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article
(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)
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