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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’ve been playing chess professionally for 35 years! It’s a long time, and when people can still say that they enjoy my chess, that’s great.- Nigel Short, 2016
BIRTHS
Antonius van der Linde (14.11.1833-1897), Dutch chess historian. His library was bought by the Royal Dutch Library based in The Hague, the second biggest chess library in the world..
Louis Dee Statham (1907-1983), US millionaire engineer and inventor of medical instruments who sponsored the Lone Pine tournaments from 1971 till 1981.
Sir Richard William Clarke (1910-21.06.1975), British civil servant who established the British Grading System in 1958.
Edmund Broadley Edmondson (1920-21.10.1982), American chess amateur, former president (1963-1966) and executive director (1966-1977) of the U.S. Chess Federation.
Jozsef Horvath (1964), Hungarian Grandmaster.
Jean Luc Chabanon (1971), French Grandmaster.
Rasul Ibrahimov (1981), Azeri Grandmaster.
Chanda Sandipan (1983), Indian Grandmaster who was Viswanathan Anand’s second for the World Chess Championship 2013 match.
Alan Pichot (1998), Argentine Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Josef Cumpe (1868-1943), Czech problemist who composed about 1500 problems.
Tigran Petrosian (17.06.1929-1984), Soviet-Armenian Grandmaster who was the Wolrd Champion between 1963 and 1963. His overall performance in the Olympiads was impressive: +78 =50 −1 (only one game lost out of 139 games played).
CHESS EVENTS
1937 Vera Menchik (CSR) overwhelmed her rivals to win the Women’s World Championship for the 7th time during the Olympiad with 14/14!
2014 Judith Polgar (HUN), the best female player of the chess history, announced her retirement from competitive chess.
2015 In Al Ain, UAE A.R. Saleh Salem (UAE) became 2015 Asian Champion ahead of Surya Shekhar Ganguly (IND). Mitra Hejazipour (IRI) won the title in the women’s competition.
WORLD EVENTS
1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer theAztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1532 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.
1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal, and declared an enemy of the people.
1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica, Peru, causes an estimated 25,000 casualties, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.
1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.
1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.
1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants’ attempts to escape to the West.
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