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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
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game- Siegbert Tarrasch
BIRTHS
Oct 26, 1904: Alexander Pituk, Czech player and composer, was born in Banska Stiavnica, Czech Republ.
Oct 26, 1914: Adrianus Dingeman de Groot was born in Santpoort, Netherlands.
Oct 26, 1919: Nikolai Kopylov was born in Novosibirsk, Russia.
Oct 26, 1957: Creassey Edward Tattersall, British composer, died in London, England.
Oct 26, 1964: Yury Dokhoian was born, Russia.
Oct 26, 1966: Alejandro Hoffman was born, Argentina.
Oct 26, 1967: Stefan Erdelyi died in Resita, Romania.
Oct 26, 1969: Ilan Manor was born, Israel.
Oct 26, 1990: Guilermo Garcia Gonzales died in Havana, Cuba.
CHESS EVENTS
1861 The first match by submarine cable between Liverpool CC and Dublin LC.
WORLD EVENTS
1775 – King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
- 1863 – The Football Association, the oldest football association in the world, is formed in London.
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- 1905 – Sweden accepted the independence of Norway.
- 1916 – François Mitterrand, French lawyer and politician, 21st President of France was born (d. 1996)
- 1947 – Hillary Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 67th United States Secretary of State & 44th First Lady of the United States
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- 1955 – After the last Allied troops have left the country and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declarespermanent neutrality.
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- 1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
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- 1994 – Jordan and Israel sign a peace treaty.
- 1905 – Sweden accepted the independence of Norway.
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