Classical Grandmaster
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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
When you see a good move, look for a better one- Emanuel Lasker
BIRTHS
Johann Berger (1845-1933), an Austrian Master and problemist
Nikolay Legky (1955), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who is living in France.
Alexey Yermolinsky (1958); an American Grandmaster born in Russia. A two-time US champion who won the American Continental Championship in 2001.
Khalifa Al-Hitmi, (1961), a Qatari FIDE Officer, President of QCf and organizer.
Vladimir Dimitrov (1968), a Bulgarian Grandmaster.
Stelios Halkias (1980), a Greek Grandmaster who was the bronze medalist at the European U12 championship in 1992.
Aram Gazarian (1983), a Russian Grandmaster.
Tatania Kosintseva (1986), a Russian Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster. A two-time European women’s champion and three-time Russian women’s champion.
DEATHS
Henry Bird (14.07.1830-1908), an English player, theorist, and writer.
CHESS EVENTS
1950 According to the regulations approved at the 1949 GA in Paris, the participants of the Candidates Tournament would be the five winners of the Interzonals together with the participants from the match-tournament of 1948 and R. Fine USA. However, the American players canceled out because the State Department refused to grant them permission to travel to Hungary. Also, Max Euwe had to decline.
Given the situation, FIDE decided to include in the list of participants the four players who took 6th to 9th places at the Interzonals. The Candidates Tournament started with 10 players in Budapest.
WORLD EVENTS
1689 William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
1868 Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.
1909 The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
1921 Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralicentralizedent in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
1957 The United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.
1961 The trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1976 The Apple I is created.
1979 Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
2019 WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange is arrested after seven years in Ecuador’s embassy in London.
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