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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
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- Vladimir Kramnik 2017
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- Vishy Anand2017
Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means.- Jan Timman, 1993
BIRTHS
Igor Khenkin (1968), German Grandmaster born in Russia who was German Champion in 2011.
Zoltan Medvegy (1979), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Anuar Ismagambetov (1986) a Kazakh Grandmaster who plays for the national team since 2006.
Swaminathan Soumya (1989), an Indian Woman Grandmaster who was World Junior Girls’ Championship 2009 and Indian Women’s Champion in 2011.
Homayoon Toufighi (1990), an Iranian Grandmaster who was Asian U18 Championship and few times Iranian Youth Champion.
WORLD EVENTS
1188 Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1413 Henry V becomes the King of England.
1871 Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1919 The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1935 Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
1939 Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland.
1951 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage.
1963 Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (in California) closes.
1964 Beatles’ “She Loves You” single goes #1 in the US & stays #1 for 2 weeks.
1980 US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
2006 The social media site Twitter is founded.
(Source: Wikiepdai-Onthisday)
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