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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
Fischer wanted to prove that all world championship games after his victory were prearranged. He did not convince me.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Daniel Abraham Yanovsky (1925-05.03.2000), a Canadian-Polish Grandmaster who won eight times the Canadian championship.
Vladimir Kovacevic (1942), a Croatian Grandmaster.
Semen Palatnik (1950), a Ukrainian-American Grandmaster who was a member of the Soviet team which won the gold at few Student World Team Championships.
Christopher Ward (1968), an English Grandmaster and author who won the British Championship in 1996.
Arkady Dvorkovich (1972), a former Russian Deputy-Prime Minister, economist and elected FIDE President in 2018.
DEATH
Octavio Figueira Trompowsky de Almeida (30.11.1897–1984), a Brazilian International Master who the 1939 Brazilian Championship, but is best known for the opening named after him (1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5).
Reuben Fine (11.10.1914-1993) an American Grandmaster chess author, psychologist. He was one of the best chess players in the world from the mid-1930s through the early 1940s.
CHESS EVENTS
1983 Candidates Quarterfinal in Bad Kissingen, (FRG), V. Korchnoi (SUI) beat L. Portisch (HUN) 6-3. At the Women’s Candidates Quarterfinal, M. Muresian (ROM) lost to Semenova (USSR) 4½-5½.
1987 Candidates Super-Final in Linares, A. Karpov (USSR) defeated A. Sokolov (USSR) 7½-3½.
1990 Candidates’ Final Match in Kuala Lumpur, A. Karpov (USSR) defeated J. Timman (NED) 6½-2½.
2009 Veselin Topalov from Bulgaria defeated Gata Kamsky from USA in Sofia in an 8 game match for the right to play World Champion Viswanathan Anand later in the year. Topalov won the match 4.5-2.5.
2020 Due to the global situation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FIDE President decided to stop the Candidates Tournament in Yekaterinburg.
WORLD EVENTS
1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
1169 Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt.
1808 Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1812 An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela.
1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1931 Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
1931 Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final offensive of the war.
1945 Iwo Jima is occupied after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed.
1971 “Benny Hill Show” tops TV ratings
1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
1995 The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
(Source: Wikiepdia-Onthisday)
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