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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
I am the best player in the world, and I am here to prove it.- Robert Fischer, 1971
BIRTHS
Aug 9, 1888: Pieter Feensta Kuiper (1888- 22-10-1969) Dutch chess composer and author.
Heinrich Wagner 1888 24.06.1959), Germany player who won the team bronze medal at the Olympiad of Hamburg in 1930.
Lubomir Kavalek (1943), Czech-American Grandmaster, a chess columnist. He was co-winner of the 1973 U.S. Chess Championship with John Grefe, and won it in solo in 1978.
John van der Wiel (1959) Dutch Grandmaster who was the European Junior Champion in 1978 and the champion of the Netherlands in 1986.
Irina Ionescu (1973), Romanian Women Grandmaster who won the Romanian championship in 2002.
Lilit Mkrtchian (1982) was born, Armenia International Master and Women Grandmaster four-time Armenian women’s chess champion.
DEATHS
Walther von Holzhausen (26.05. 1876-1935), German Master and problemist
Rudolf Buchwald (02.04. 1909-1070), Austrian chess composer.
Gerardus Drese (23.09.1902-1980), Dutch composer and International Master CC.
CHESS EVENTS
1952 The 10th Olympiad took place in Helsinki, Finland. with 25 countries registered. USSR took part in the competition for the first time.
1955 Boris Spassky of USSR won the 3rd World Junior Championship in Antwerp, Belgium. It was the first participation of a Soviet player at a Youth Championship.
1965 The team of USSR won the 12th World Student Team Championship in Sinaia.
1994 At the World Championship Quarterfinals organized by Shanghi Industries in Shanghi Nagar, India, B. Gelfand (BLR) beat V. Kramnik (RUS) 4½-3½; V. Salov (RUS) beat J. Timman (NED) 4½-3½ and G. Kamsky (USA) beat V. Anand (IND) after tiebreak (4-4, 2-0).
WORLD EVENTS
1173 Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.
1483 Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.
1892 Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
1902 Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1936 Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games.
1945 World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.
1965 Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly.
1974 As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
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