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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
Karpov Lost, Kasparov Lost, the Only One Who Remained Is Me …- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, 2014
BIRTHS
Mir Sultan Khan (1905 – 04.1966), a British Master, he was the strongest chess master of his time from Asia.
John Nunn (1955), an English Grandmaster, World Champion in solving chess, author, and publisher.
Viktor Komliakov (1960), a Moldovian Grandmaster who play three Olympiads.
Luis Galego (1966), a Portuguese Grandmaster who was five times Portuguese Champion.
Thanh Trang Hoang (1980), a Vietnamese-born Hungarian chess Grandmaster who became European Women’s Champion in 2013.
Katerina Rohonyan (1984), an Ukrainian-American who was Ukraine Women’s Champion.
Carmen Voicu-Jagodzinsky (1981), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster.
Petar Drenchev (1977), a Bulgarian Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1912 Cuba. The Capablanca-Magazine had begun its publication.
1985 Anatoly Karpov won the 23rd Absolute Chess World Oscar 1985. Maya Chiburdanidze won the 3rd Women’s Chess Oscar 1985.
2011 In Toluca, Mexico, Batista Lazaro Bruzon from Cuba became the America Continental Champion.
WORLD EVENTS
1792 “La Marseillaise” (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1859 British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1881 The French troops occupy Algeria & Tunisia
1901 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
1925 Paul von Hindenburg is elected the President of Germany
1940 Merkið, the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation government.
1945 Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape.
1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin.
1945 The last German troops retreat from Finland’s soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War.
1961 Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1983 Portugal’s Mário Soares’ Partido Socialista wins parliamentary election
2005 Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
2007 Boris Yeltsin’s funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
(source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)
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