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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.- Mihail Tal, 1969
BIRTHS
Erno Gereben (1907-1988), a Hungarian–Swiss International Master who participated to 4 Olympiads for Hungary and Switzerland.
Gyula Sax (1951-25.01.2014), a Hungary Grandmaster who was Hungarian Champion in 1976 and 1977 (jointly) and European Junior Champion in 1972.
Arsen Yegiazarian (1970), an Armenian Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer who was a member of the national team in 1994 and 1996.
Andrei Volokitin (1986), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who is two-time Ukrainian champion.
DEATHS
Charles Planck (1861-1935), a British chess composer.
Efim Bogoljubow (1889–1952), a leading Ukrainian-German chess Grandmaster who played twice for the World Championship title against Alexander Alekhine.
CHESS EVENTS
2011 Deysi Cori from Peru won the Panamerican Women’s Championship.
WORLD EVENTS
1429 French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army
1633 Charles I is crowned King of Scots at St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
1815 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Waterloo results in the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte by the Duke of Wellington and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
1830 French invasion of Algeria.
1940 Appeal of 18 June by Charles de Gaulle.
1953 The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
1983 Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
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