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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
Preparation for a world championship was always an arms race, in previous times with books, then with seconds, today with computers.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Geza Maroczy (1870-29.05.1951) a leading Hungarian Grandmaster and engineer, one of the best players in the world before WWI.
Alain C. White (1880-23.04.1951), An American chess composer, player, author and philanthropist born in France.
Plater Kazimierz (1915- 30.06.2004) a Polish International Master who was thrice Polish Champion in 1949, 1956, and 1957.
Bachar Kouatly (1958), a French Grandmaster born in Syria who was joint French Champion in 1979. President of the French Chess Federation since 2016.
Christian Gabriel (1975) a German Grandmaster.
Ahbhijt Kunte (1977), an Indian Grandmaster who was British Champion in 2003 and Indian Champion in 1997 and 2000.
Timur Gareyev (1988), an American Grandmaster born in Uzbekistan who is holding the world simultaneous blindfold chess record with 48 board simul (4th December 2016).
Momchil Nikolov (1985), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who was Bulgarian Champion in 2016.
Xavier Vila Gazquez (1990), Spanish Grandmaster who was twice Spanish Youth Champion in 2006 and 2008.
Tingjie Lei, (1997) a Chinese Woman Grandmaster who played on the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the Asian Women Team Championship in 2016.
DEATH
Alexander Tolush (01.05.1910-1969), a Soviet Grandmaster, Honored Coach of the USSR. He worked with Keres, Rudenko, and Spassky.
Stanislav Bogdanovich (1993-2020), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was U18 Ukrainian champion.
WORLD EVENTS
724 Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.
1845 Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
1875 Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
1918 Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia’s involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
1923 TIME magazine is published for the first time.
1924 The fourteenth-century Islamic caliphate is abolished when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Empire is deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk.
1931 The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
1938 Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
1952 Puerto Rico approved their 1st self-written constitution.
1958 Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1961 King Hassan II ascended to the throne of Morocco. He succeeded his father Mohamed V.
1974 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing all 346 aboard.
2005 Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone without stopping or refueling, touching down in central Kansas after a 67-hour, 23-thousand-mile journey.
(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)
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