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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."
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
In order to become a grandmaster class player whose understanding of chess is superior to the thousands of ordinary players, you have to develop within yourself a large number of qualities, the qualities of an artistic creator, a calculating practitioner, a cold calm competitor.- Alexander Kotov
BIRTHS
Otto B. Wurzburg (1875- 19-10-1951) American composer who composed 1400 chess problems.
Boris Savchenko (1986), a Russian Grandmaster who was a silver medalist at the 2015 European Blitz Championship
Elmira Karnaukhova (1985), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Lelys Stanley Martinez Duany (1985), a Cuban Grandmaster.
Shanglei Lu (1995), a Chinese Grandmaster who became the 2014 World Junior Champion.
DEATH
Paul Charles Morphy (22.06. 1837 – 1884), an American chess player. He is considered to have been the greatest chess master of his era and an unofficial World Chess Champion.
CHESS EVENTS
1965 Candidates Semi-Final in Riga, Boris Spassky USSR – Efim Geller USSR ended 5½-2½.
1965 Candidates Quarterfinal in Bled, Mikhail Tal USSR-Lajos Portisch HUN ended 5½-2½.
1965 Candidates Quarterfinal in Bled, Bent Larsen DEN-Boris Ivkov YUG ended 5½-2½.
WORLD EVENTS
1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants.
1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.
1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.
1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
1913 – The temperature in Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature ever to be recorded on Earth.
1947 – Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
1973 – The Bahamas gained full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1973 – National Assembly of Pakistan passes a resolution on the recognition of Bangladesh.
1991 – Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
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