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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
"Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…"
- Vladimir Kramnik 2017
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- Vishy Anand2017
Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
I still think people can learn at any age – I’m actually sure about that. It’s just that the ceiling is lower for how far you want to go.- Magnus Carlsen, 2016
BIRTHS
Tigran Gorgiev (1910-13.12.1976), Soviet problemist, international Master for chess composition.
Hermann Albrecht(1915-26.05.1982), German chess composer, author ,and Judge.
Giorgio Mirri (1917, 10.05.2007) Italian composer and Judge.
Giorgio Porreca (1927– 05.01.1988), Italian International Master who won twice the Italian championship.
Richard Cheney, (17.05.1908-1967), American chess composer who composed 300 problems and died in Germany.
Anna Ushenina (1985), Ukrainian grandmaster and Women Grandmaster who was the Women World Champion in 2012 and the European Women Champion in 2016.
Sabina-Francesca Foisor (1989), American Women Grandmaster born in Romania. She was a member of the US team in few Women Olympiads
DEATHS
Richard Cheney (17.05.1908-1967), American chess composer who composed 300 problems and died in Germany.
Adriano Chicco (16.02.1907-1990), Italian chess historian, author and a problem composer.
Lev Polugaevsky ( (20.11.1934-1995), Soviet-French Grandmaster who was once quarter-finalist of the world chess championship. He was one of the strongest players in the world from the early 1960s until the late 1980s.
CHESS EVENTS
1981 Zs. Polgar, a 12-year-old prodigy from Hungary, won the 1st World Girls’ Championship for players under 16 in Sussex, England.
1986 The London half of the World Championship match between Kasparov and Karpov was closed by James Callaghan, the immediate previous Prime Minister. Kasparov left for Leningrad, leading Karpov 6½-5½.
1989 V Spasov (BUL) and K. Keakhiani (USSR) won the World Junior Championship for Boys and Girls in Tunja, Colombia.
2001 Peter Acs of Hungary and Humpy Koneru of India became the World Junior Champions for boys and girls in Athens, Greece.
WORLD EVENTS
1835 Melbourne is founded.
1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1940 The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
1945 Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
1974 A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
1995 Bosnian War: NATO launches Operation Deliberate Force against Bosnian Serb forces.
1999 East Timor votes for independence from Indonesia in a referendum.
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