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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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"He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him."
- Veselin Topalov2016
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
There was a moment at the beginning when the machines were a positive, but lately we’ve being passing to the other extreme. Now it seems that a move isn’t good unless the machine says so.- Veselin Topalov, 2016
BIRTHS
Adolf Anderssen (1818 – 13.03. 1879), a German Master who was considered as the world’s leading chess player for much of the 1850s and 1860s.
Folke Rogard 1899-11.06.1973), was born in Stockholm, Sweden. a Swedish diplomat and chess amateur who became the second president of FIDE.
Johannes Hendrikus(Hein)Donner 1927-27.11.1988), a Dutch Grandmaster and writer who won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958.
Alvaro Pereira F.P. (1954), a Portuguese Correspondence Grandmaster.
Stanislav Novikov (1985), a Russian Grandmaster.
WORLD EVENTS
1253 – Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1483 – Richard III is crowned King of England.
1809 – The second day of the Battle of Wagram; France defeats the Austrian army in the largest battle to date of the Napoleonic Wars.
1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1919 – The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time.
1964 – Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1975 – The Comoros declares independence from France.
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