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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
Vasiukov hadn’t won a single game against me for 59 years and then suddenly won. I can’t call it shame. Shame or no shame, it’s a pity that he won…- Viktor Korchnoi , 2012
BIRTHS
Erik Andersen (1904 27.02 1938) a Danish Master who was twelve-times Danish Champion.
Robert G. Wade (1921 a New Zealander International Master and author who was national Champion and twice the winner of the British Championships.
Viacheslav Dydyshko (1949), a Belarus Grandmaster.
Elizbar Ubilava (1950), a Georgian Grandmaster who worked with Ioseliani, Karpov, and Anand.
Michel Caillaud Michel (1957), a French Problemist
Elmar Magerramov (10.04.1958), an Azeri grandmaster who shared first place in the last USSR Chess Championship.
Alexander Huzmander (1962), an Israeli Grandmaster born in Russia. The coach of Boris Gelfand for the last 15 years.
Dmitry Kryakvin (1984), a Russian Grandmaster.
DEATH
Sam Loyd (30.01.1841-1911), a famous American composer who created more than thousands of chess problems which many of them got prizes.
CHESS EVENT
1921 In Havana, J.R. Capablanca is declared World Champion after beating Emanuel Lasker 9-5.
WORLD EVENTS
879 – Louis III and Carloman II become Kings of the Western Franks.
1516 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area
1815 The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people
1821 Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government f
1858 After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico
1912 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
1932 Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected President of Germany in a runoff election against Adolf Hitler
1938 Austria becomes a state of Germany.
1970 Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
1974 Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir.
2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing all 96 people on board including President Lech Kaczyński.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)
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