Correspondence Grandmasters and 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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"I believe that every world champion has a greatness of his own."
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A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.- Rudolf Spielmann
BIRTHS
Adolf Karl Schliemann (1817-1872), a German Master.
Vladimir Simagin (1919-25.09.1968), a Soviet Grandmaster and coach of Smyslov.
Yuri Kruppa (1964), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was Ukrainian champion in 1994.
Valeri Neverov (1964), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was Ukrainian champion in 1983, 1985, 1988 and 1996.
Herbert Grasemann, (21.12.1917-1983), a German chess composer, died in Berlin, Germany.
Lukasz Cyborowski (1980), a Polish Grandmaster who was Polish Junior Champion in 1998.
Alejandro Ramirez (1988), a U.S. Grandmaster and chess journalist born in Costa Rica.
Kristian Szabo (1989), a Hungarian Grandmaster and coach.
Yusnel Bacallao (1988), a Cuban Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1933 FIDE GA approved Scotland and Ireland as full members.
WORLD EVENTS
1377 Edward III (b.1312), King of England (1322-1377), died. Richard II, who was still a child, succeeded his father.
1596 Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov (d.1645), 1st Romanov Tsar of Russia (1613-45), was born.
1791 King Louis XVI and the French royal family were arrested in Varennes.
1898 Guam became a US territory.
1907 American newspaper publisher E.W. Scripps founded the United Press Associations, a forerunner of United Press International.
1908 Mulai Hafid again proclaimed himself the true sultan of Morocco.
1932 Heavyweight Max Schmeling lost a title fight by decision to Jack Sharkey
1945 Japanese forces on Okinawa surrendered to the Americans.
1963 Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini was chosen to succeed the late Pope John XXIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church. The new pope took the name Paul VI.
1963 France announced it would withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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