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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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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Botvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence.- Robert Fischer, 1960
BIRTHS
Mehrshad Shariff (1952), a Franch International Master and coach born in Iran.
Lars Karlsson w(1955), a Swedish Grandmaster. as born in Stockholm, Sweden.
Vladimir Epishin (1965), a Russian Grandmaster living in Germany who was coach of Karpov for many years.was born in Leningrad, Russia.
Robert Kempinski (1977), a Polish Grandmaster who won the Polish Championship in 1992 and 2001.
WORLD EVENTS
1346 Charles IV of Luxembourg is elected emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
1533 Pope Clement VII excommunicates England’s King Henry VIII
1892 US Patent Office says J W Swan, rather than Thomas Edison, invented the electric light carbon for the incandescent lamp.
1900 Charlotte Cooper beats Hélène Prévost to become the 1st female Olympic tennis champion and the 1st individual female Olympic champion in any sport.
1921 Mongolia gains independence from China (National Day).
1940 Marshall Henri Petain, French hero of World War One, becomes head of the collaborative Vichy government of France.
1982 FIFA World Cup: Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for football’s 12th World Cup in Madrid.
2010 FIFA World Cup: Spain beats the Netherlands 1-0 for football’s 19th World Cup in Johannesburg (Spain’s 1st title)
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