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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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- George Makropoulos2005
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- Vladimir Kramnik 2017
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Now, at 51, in my life I have reach the stage between the middlegame and the endgame. But I don’t have the feeling that I am in the endgame already.- Boris Spassky, 1988 NIC
BIRTHS
Oleg Romanishin (1952), a Ukrainian Grandmaster and coach who was European U20 Champion in 1973.
John Peters, (1951), an American International Master and writer.
Victor Frias, (1956). a Chilian International Master who lives in the USA.
Ludmila Zaitseva (1956), a Soviet Woman Grandmaster and coach.
George Kacheishvili (1977), a Georgian Grandmaster who was Georgian champion in 1997 and 2006.
Manuel Leon Hoyos (1989), the best Mexican Grandmaster.
Carla Heredia Serrano (1991), an Equatorian Woman Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1910 Germany. World Champion E. Lasker defeats K. Schlechter in 10th match game to retain the world title. Schlechter was leading 5-4 before the last game. A draw in this tenth game would have been sufficient for Schlechter to get the title. The game lasted 3 days and more than 11 hours
1996 Deep Blue won its first game against a world champion on February 10, 1996, when it defeated Garry Kasparov in game one of a six-game match.
2011 In Teheran, Ehsan Ghaem Maghami got the Guinness record holder for most simultaneous chess games (614 opponents, achieving a 97.5% score).
WORLD EVENTS
1722 Black Bart (b.1682), Welsh pirate, died. He raided shipping off the Americas and West Africa between 1719 and 1722.
1763 French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1824 Simon Bolivar was named President by the Congress of Peru.
1870 The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1931 New Delhi became the capital of India.
1940 “In The Mood” by Glenn Miller hit #1.
1933 The first singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegram Company in New York.
1942 The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for “Chattanooga Choo Choo”.
1962 Captured American U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1972 Ras Al Khaimah joins the United Arab Emirates, now making up 7 emirates.
(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)
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