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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
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game!- David Janowski
BIRTHS
Arpad Vajda (1896-25.10.1967) a Hungarian Master who was Hungarian Champion in 1928.
Vladimir Raicevic (1949), a Serbian Grandmaster.
Jaime Sunye Neto, Jaime,(1957), a Brazilian Grandmaster and coach who was the best national player in the 1980’s.
Ramon Pita (1963), a Cuban Woman Grandmaster who is a seven-time Women’s Cuban Champion.
Jayson Gonzales (1969), a Filipino Grandmaster who was vice champion of Philippines in 2016.
Igor Nataf (1978), a French Grandmaster and coach who won few French youth champion titles.
Lázaro Bruzón Batista (1982), a Cuban Grandmaster who was World Junior Champion, two-time American Continental champion, two-time Iberoamerican champion and five-time Cuban champion.
Svetlana Cherednichenko (1984), a Ukraine Woman Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Isidor Gunsberg (02.11.1854-1930), an English Master born in Budapest, published 104 problems in the ‘Daily Telegraph’ in 1915. Famous for his Gunsberg counter attack, defense, and variation.
Olaf Barda (17 .08.1909-1971), a Norwegian International Master who was the first Norwegian awarded an International title.
CHESS EVENTS
Yugoslavia. For his first participation among the leading players, G. Kasparov (16), still unrated, finished the international tournament of Banja Luka ahead of U. Anderson, J. Smejkal, and T. Petrosian. His first rating will be 2545.
WORLD EVENTS
1729 Catherine the Great (d.1796), (Catherine II), empress (czarina) of Russia (1762-1796), was born.
1887 Hannibal W. Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film.
1919 The first U.S. air passenger service started.
1936 “Peter and the Wolf,” a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere in Moscow.
1945 The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.
1997 Tony Blair, whose new Labor Party crushed John Major’s long-reigning Conservatives, became at age 44 Britain’s youngest prime minister in 185 years.
2000 In Armenia Pres. Robert Kocharian fired Prime Minister Aram Sarkisian and his government
2012 The Hungarian parliament chose Janos Ader (52), a close ally of PM Viktor Orban, to be country’s new president.
(Source: Timeline)
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