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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
Chess is a scientific game and its literature ought to be placed on the basis of the strictest truthfulness, which is the foundation of all scientific research.- W. Steinitz
BIRTHS
Hilding Froberg (1918-1999) Swedish chess composer and author.
Vladimir Gurevich (1959), Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Bagyashree Sathe Thipsay (1961), Indian Women International Master who was Women Asian Champion in 1991.
Vidmantas Malisauskas (1963), Lithuanian Grandmaster who won 6 times the national championship.
Fabian Doettling (1980), German Grandmaster who was European U16 Champion in 1996 .
Nely Aginian (1981), Armenian Women Grandmaster who play 6 times at the Women Olympiads.
Mikhail Panarin (1983), Russian Grandmaster who became Russian Rapid Champion in 2013.
Wang Hao (1989), Chinese Grandmaster who, for many years, is a member of the top 5 best players in China.
DEATHS
Vladimir Liberzon (23.03.1937-1996), the first Israeli Grandmaster born in Russia. Israeli Champion in 1974.
CHESS EVENTS
1928 During the Olympiad, Dr. Max Euwe NED won the individual tournament and became the second and the last person to hold the title of Amateur World Champion until the title was revived much later in a different format.
1973 A. Beliavsky (USSR) won the 12th World Junior Championship in Teesside, England.
WORLD EVENTS
1693 Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon’s invention of champagne; it is not clear whether he actually invented champagne, however, he has been credited as an innovator who developed the techniques used to perfect sparkling wine.
1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Gibraltar is captured by an English and Dutch fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke and allied with Archduke Charles.
1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Napoleon leads the French Army of Italy to victory in the Battle of Lonato.
1821 The Saturday Evening Post is published for the first time as a weekly newspaper.
1854 The Hinomaru is established as the official flag to be flown from Japanese ships.
1914 World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, Belgium and the United Kingdom declare war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.
1944 The Holocaust: A tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diaristAnne Frank, her family, and four others.
1946 An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits the Northern Dominican Republic. One hundred are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.
1984 The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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