Correspondence Grandmasters and Personalities
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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
” Oh, those exclamation points! How they erode the innocent soul of the amateur, removing all hope of allowing him to examine another player’s ideas critically!”- Tigran Petrosian
BIRTHS
Giambattista Lolli (1698-1769), an Italian chess theorist and player.
Henri Grob (1904-05.07.1974), a Swiss International Master and Champion.
Mikheil Mchedlishvili (1979), a Georgian Grandmaster who was Georgian Champion in 2001 and 2002.
Vinay Bhat (1984), an American Grandmaster born in Georgia
Olga Girya (1991), a Russian Woman Grandmaster who was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team in the 2014 Women’s Chess Olympiad.
Aryan Tari (1999), a Norwegian Grandmaster who was the 2015 Norwegian Champion.
CHESS EVENTS
1988 A. Karpov USSR won the first European Championship in Active Chess held in Gijon, Spain.
WORLD EVENTS
1783 The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).
1812 Following Louisiana’s admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
1878 Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains the nominal title.
1896 Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
1919 Women’s rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women.
1919 Women’s rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women.
1942 World War II: The Battle of Midway begins.
1970 Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1989 Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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