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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."
- Kiril Georgiev2017
"He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him."
- Veselin Topalov2016
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- George Makropoulos2005
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- 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
Botvinnik, Korchnoi and Kasparov had to hate the opponent to play successfully. I belong to a different type of chess players. I’m like Keres, Spassky and Portisch. On the board we fight, but in life we get along great.- Anatoly Karpov, 2015
BIRTHS
Baron Ignaz von Kolisch ( April 6, 1837, Pozsony/Pressburg/Bratislava – April 30, 1889, Vienna), An Austrian Master who was considered as one the best world players in 1870’s.
Anatoly Bykhovsky (1934), an Israeli Grandmaster, International Arbiter and Honored Coach of the USSR who was the champion of Moscow in 1963.
Darko Anic (1957), a French Grandmaster, coach and author born in Croatia, who was the 1985 Croatian Champion.
Spartak Vysochin (1975), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Ruofan Li (1978), a Chinese-Singaporean International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the 2001 Women’s Asian and 2002 .Women’s University Chess Championships.
Denes Boros (1988), an Hungarian Grandmaster who is studying and living in the USA.
Sarah Hoolt (1988), a German Woman Grandmaster.
Hrant Melkumyan (1989), An armenian Grandmaster who was the European Blitz Champion in 2011.
Jorden Van Foreest (1999), a Dutch Grandmaster who became the 2016 Dutch Champion.
DEATH
Georgy Ilivitsky (1921-1989), an Soviet International Master, a Russian champion in 1948, 1949. He committed suicide by jumping out of a window.
CHESS EVENTS
1956 Vassily Smyslov of USSR, once again, won the double-round Candidates Tournament in Amsterdam with 11½/18.
1974 At the Candidates’ match, T. Petrosian informed the Arbiter’s Board that due to his illness he would not be able to continue the match. The match was stopped with the score of 3-1 and V. Korchnoi was declared a winner.
2000 Garry Kasparov won Chess Oscar for 1999. He topped Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Khalifman RUS.
WORLD EVENTS
1492 Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
1789 On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
1803 Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
1838 Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
1900 Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States.
1939 NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s N.Y. World’s Fair opening day ceremonial address.
1975 Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
1993 CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
2013 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicates and Willem-Alexander becomes King of the Netherlands.
2019 Emperor Akihito of Japan abdicates from his throne, the first abdication by a Japanese monarch in almost two centuries. The abdication ends the Heisei era of Japan and ushers in the Reiwa era with new emperor Naruhito ascending the throne the next day.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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