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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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We will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort.- Mikhail Tal , 1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)
BIRTHS
Carl Theodor Göring (Goering) (28 April 1841, Bruheim – 2 April 1879, Eisenach) was a German chess master. His name is attached to the Göring Gambit in the Scotch Game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4.c3).
Adams Weaver ( 1901-06.01.1963), an American player, known for the Adams Attack and Gambit.
Gyorgy Paros, Hungarian composer, 1910, International Grandmaster for Chess Compositions 1956, doctor of law.
Bozidar Ivanovic (1946), Montenegrin Grandmaster and former Minister of Sport and Tourism in Montenegro who won the championship of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1996.
Sarana, Oksana Sarana (1979), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster.
Darmen Sadvakasov (1979), a Kazakh chess grandmaster who was World Junior Champion and five-time national champion.
CHESS EVENTS
2016 In Greece, the team of Israel, in category 50+ and Russia, in category 65+ became the new European Senior Team Champions for 2016.
WORLD EVENTS
1848 The last slaves in French colonies were freed.
1918 Gavrilo Princip (22), Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, died in prison of tuberculosis.
1920 Azerbaijan joined the USSR. The Red Army invaded Azerbaijan and turned the country into a Soviet Republic.
1945 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were executed by Italian partisans
1946 Allies indicted Hideki Tojo, former premier and war minister of Japan, with 55 counts of war crimes.
1952 War with Japan officially ended as a treaty that had been signed by the United States and 47 other countries took effect.
1956 Last French troops left Vietnam.
1959 Charles de Gaulle resigned as president of France.
1967 Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army and was stripped of his boxing title.
1969 French President Charles de Gaulle resigned his office after a referendum on the reform of the Senate and local government failed. Alain Pohrer (1909-1996), as president of the Senate, then served as interim president for 7 weeks.
1986 The Soviet Union informed the world of the Apr 26 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, saying the accident damaged a reactor and that aid was being rendered to “those affected.”
2002 In Russia Alexander I. Lebed (52), governor of Krasnoyarsk, was killed in a helicopter crash with 6 others at Abakan, 200 miles from Mongolia.
(source: Timeline)
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