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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
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”- Marcel Duchamp
BIRTHS
Vladimir Makogonov (1904-02.01.1993), strong Soviet Honorary Grandmaster and coach of Smyslov, Botvinnik, and Kasparov. “He was a master, and I thank the destiny, that I had the opportunity to communicate with him”, said Kasparov.
Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (1884-31.12.1954), Russian-French Master, coach and author. Editor of chess columns of numerous Russian newspapers. In 1917 he left for France and lived there for the rest of his life. Alekhine called him “one of the greatest modern chess creator-thinkers”.
Elizbar Ubilava (1950), Spanish Grandmaster born in Georgia. Twice he won the Georgian champion and was a second of Anand for 9 years.
Olivier Touzane (1973), French International Grandmaster who got to beat Anand in a game in the 2001 FIDE knockout.
Vladimir Georgiev (1975), Bulgarian-Macedonian Grandmaster. He became Bulgarian Champion in 1995 and Macedonia Champion in 2007.
Konstantin Maslak (1984), Russian Grandmaster who switched successfully to poker game.
Aleksei Pridorozhni (1981), Russian Grandmaster.
R. Rajpara Ankit, (1994), Indian Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Victor Wahltuch (1875-1953), English Master who participated in the 1931 Olympiad as a member of the English team.
Georgy Agzamov (06.09.1954-1986), Soviet Grandmaster. the first of Central Asia who was accidentally killed when he went hiking and fell off a cliff and became trapped between two rocks. Taimanov said that “he was extraordinary sustained chess player with a brilliant tactical sight…”
CHESS EVENTS
1956 During its GA, FIDE approved the new regulations for the world championships for men and women and the creation of an Olympiad for women.
WORLD EVENTS
1828 Uruguay is formally proclaimed independent at preliminary peace talks brokered by the United Kingdom between Brazil and Argentina during the Cisplatine War.
1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:00 to 09:45), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
1921 The British installed the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali (leader of the Arab Revolt of 1916 against the Ottoman Empire) as King Faisal I of Iraq.
1939 First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft.
1957 Malaysia’s constitution comes into force.
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