Chess Personalities
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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
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
Politics is a team game, here it is necessary to compromise, to take into account the views of other people. As for Garry, he is quite a contentious, totalitarian person. But in general, I’m sorry that Kasparov switched to a role that does not match the scale of his personality.- Vladimir Kramnik, 2015
BIRTHS
Jan Kleczynski (1895-08.06.1937), Polish pianist, composer, journalist, and Master.
Hans Ree (1944), Dutch Grandmaster and chess journalist. He shared two titles of European Junior Champion and won four titles of Dutch Champion.
Marton Krajcsovits (1937-2006), Hungarian amateur who was working many years for the Hungarian chess federation.
Michalik, Peter (1990), Czech Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Eugene Chatard (1850-1924), French player known for giving his name to a variation of the French defence: the Alekhine-Chatard Attack. He was the first who compiled thousand of endgame-studies, analyzed tons of endgame-position.
Victor Goglidze (27.11.1905-1964), was a strong Georgian International Master.
CHESS EVENTS
1994 Gretarsson (ISL) and Zhu Chen (CHN) won the World Junior Championships for Boys and Girls in Matinhos, Brazil.
2000 Viswanathan Anand (IND) and Xu Yuhua (CHN) were the winners of the 1st World Cup organized in Shenyang, China.
2000 Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik and Anatoly Karpov decided not to participate at the next World Championship.
WORLD EVENTS
668 Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse, Italy.
1821 Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica jointly declare independence from Spain.
1916 World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
1935 Nazi Germany adopts a new national flag bearing the swastika.
1947 Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1,077.
1950 Korean War: United States forces land at Inchon.
1959 Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
1971 The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.
1978 Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at theSuperdome in New Orleans.
1981 Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.
2008 Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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