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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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"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
Everything is very concrete nowadays. The computer often gives unnatural moves which are correct, but sometimes hard to remember. You know a line is correct, but then your forget something and lose terribly.- Daniel Stellwagen, 2010
BIRTHS
Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772-21.07.1838), German inventor, engineer. Best known for displaying a fraudulent chess machine.
Bernhard Kagan (1866-27.11.1932), German chess player, writer, publisher, editor, and organizer.
Wolfgang Pauli (1976 German chess composer, who composed about 2500 chess problems during his lifetime.was born in Dresden, Germany.
Paul Vaitonis (1911-23.04.1983), Lithuanian–Canadian International Master of chess. He was a five-time Lithuanian Champion and was twice Canadian Champion.
Gino Mentasti (1913-29.11.2002), Italian chess composer who was International Master for Chess Composition.
Gijssen Geurt (1934), Dutch International Arbiter who was many times the Chief Arbiter of world championships from 187 until 2010.
Israel Gelfer (1945), Israeli chess amateur, author and FIDE officer. he participated at the Olympiad in 1970.
Helgi Olafsson (1956), Icelandic chess Grandmaster who won the Icelandic Chess Championship six times.
Evgeny Agrest (1966), Swedish Grandmaster born in Belarus.
Lubomir Mikhaletz (1974), Ukraine Grandmaster who was joint Ukrainian champion in 1988.
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DEATHS
Horatio Bolton, (02.06.1793-1873), British chess composer.
Sigmund Herland, (27.09.1865) Romanian chess master and composer. died in Bucarest, Romania.
CHESS EVENTS
1948.15.08 The young D. Bronstein USSR won the first Interzonal Tournament in Saltjobaden, Sweden. First prize was $550. In the opinion of many, this tournament was one of the strongest ever to have been played until then. The top five qualified for the Candidates Tournament.
1997 15.08 Egypt won the African team Championship held in Cairo.
2012 15.08 GM Alexander Ipatov and WGM Guo Qi became World Junior Chess Champions for boys and girls at the WJCC 2012 in Athens, Greece.
WORLD EVENTS
1038 King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him.
1261 Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
1461 The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire.
1519 Panama City, Panama, is founded.
1537 Asunción, Paraguay, is founded.
1769 Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio, France.
1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1945 Effective surrender of Japan in World War II, Korea gains Independence from Japan.
1947 India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
1969 The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
1971 Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
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