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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
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.- Savielly Tartakower
BIRTHS
John Griswold White (1845-20.08.1928) American chess amateur, and a bibliophile.White donated his collection, one of the largest in the world, to the Cleveland Public Library.
Frank Marshall (1877-09.11.1944), US Champion (1909-1936) who and lost a world championship match against E. Lasker 4,5-11,5.
Karl Helling (1904-15.10.1934) German Master who represented Germany in the 4th Chess Olympiad at Prague 1931.
Richard Nevill Coles (1907), English chess writer.
Sergio Mariotti (1946), the first Italian Grandmaster and twice the national champion.
Igor Naumkin (1965), Russian Grandmaster.
Leonid Totsky (1967), Russian Grandmaster. Not active since 2011.
Vladislav Borovikov (1973), Ukrainian Grandmaster who was the Ukrainian champion in 1992 and European U18 champion in 1993.
Andrey Nikitin (1974), Russian Grandmaster.
Irina Turova (1979), Russian International Master and Women Grandmaster.
Li Shilong, (1977), Chinese Grandmaster.
Magesh Panchanathan (1983) Indian Grandmaster who was the 2003 Asian Junior Champion.
Holden Hermandez Carmenates (1984), Cuban Grandmaster who played the 2008 Olympiad and now is living in the USA.
DEATHS
William Meredith (14.05.1835-1903), American chess composer who composed 200 chess problems.
Igor Zakharevich (1963-2008). Russian Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1955 FIDE GA approved Mongolia and Iran as full members.
1989 FIDE approved the change of the official name “Active chess” to “Rapid chess”.
2003 World chess Olympiad for under 16 years old in Denizeli. 1. Turkey, 2. Hungary, 3. Ukraine and India.
WORLD EVENTS
1792 French Revolution: Storming of the Tuileries Palace: Louis XVI of France is arrested and taken into custody as his Swiss Guards are massacred by the Parisian mob.
1793 The Musée du Louvre is officially opened in Paris, France.
1821 Missouri is admitted as the 24th U.S. state.
1920 World War I: Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI’s representatives sign the Treaty of Sèvres that divides up the Ottoman Empire between the Allies.
1944 World War II: American forces defeat the last Japanese troops on Guam.
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