The 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…
Max 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.
Vienna 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 Georgiev
"He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him."
- Veselin Topalov
"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 Makropoulos
"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 Anand
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BIRTHS
Alberto Mari, (1892-26.08.1953), an Italian composer and the editor of L’Alfiere di Re and of L’Italia Scacchistica.
Levente Lengyel ( 1933-18.08. 2014), a Hungarian Grandmaster who was a member of the national team between 1960 and 1970.
Paul Motwani (1962), the Scotland’s first Grandmaster and author who became World Cadet (Under 17) Champion in 1978.
Vadim Ruban (1964), a Russian Grandmaster.
Ivan Sokolov (1968), a Dutch Grandmaster born in Bosnia who won the 1988 Yugoslav Championship and in 1995 and 1998 the Dutch Championship.
Karolina Smokina (1977), a Woman Moldavian Grandmaster.
Maxim Pavlov (1979), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Nino Maisuradze (1982), a French Woman Grandmaster born in Georgia who was French Women’s Champion in 2013 and 2014.
WORLD EVENTS
1774 Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1828 Simon Bolívar proclaimed dictator
1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1944 World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
1944 Ban Ki-moon, South Korean politician, and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1946 King Umberto II of Italy abdicates.
1956 1st European Cup: Real Madrid beats Stade Reims 4-3 at Paris.
1960 Prince Norodom Sihanouk becomes head of Cambodia.
1977 Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
(Source: WIkipedia-Onthisday)
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