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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
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Fricis Apsenieks (1894 25.04 1941), a Latvian Grandmaster who played for Latvia at seven official Olympiads
Igors Rausis (1961), a Latvian Grandmaster who represented Latvia, Bangladesh, and the Czech Republic.
Cristina-Adela Foisor (1967-22.01.2017), a Romanian International Master and Woman grandmaster who became Women’s Romanian Champion five times
Irine Kharisma Sukandar (1992), an Indonesian International Master and Woman grandmaster who became twice Asian Women’s Champion.
DEATH
Barczay Lazlo (21.02.1936-2016), a Hungarian Grandmaster and chess editor.
CHESS EVENT
2002 Peter Leko won the first FIDE Grand Prix in Dubai.
WORLD EVENTS
1805 German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
1831 Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
1906 Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1906 The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
1926 Mussolini is shot 3 times by Violet Gibson in Rome, only hitting him in the nose
1933 Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment.
1939 World War II: Italy invades Albania.
1946 Syria’s independence from France is officially recognisrecognized
1963 Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1964 IBM announces the System/360.
1969 The Internet’s symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1
1994 Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
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