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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
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when their are only wasting their time.- Bernard Shaw
BIRTHS
Evgeny Umnov (1913-22.07. 1989), a well-known Soviet problemist.
Evgeny Sveshnikov (1950), a Russian-Latvian Grandmaster who is known to have studied and developed the B33 Sicilian Pelikan variation known today as the Sveshnikov variation.
Gennady Zaichik (1957), a Georgian Grandmaster who was Georgian Champion in 1978 and 1979.
Antomy Kosten (1977), an English Grandmaster who is living in France and playing for Monaco.
Valeri Yandemirov (1963), a Russian Grandmaster.
Alexander Kovacevic (1974), a Serbian Grandmaster who was joint Yugoslav Champion in 2001.
DEATHS
Vitaly Chekhover (22.12.1908-1965), a Soviet International Master, a pianist, theorist, and composer. The author of the several books and more than 100 problems.
WORLD EVENTS
660 BC Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
1814 Norway’s independence proclaimed
1826 University College London is founded as University of London.
1843 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy.
1858 Bernadette Soubirous’s first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France.
1873 King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
1919 Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany.
1943 World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1959 The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
1963 Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1964 Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
1979 The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
2011 The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests.
2013 Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation from February 28, the first pope to resign since 1415.
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)
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