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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
No player, however strong, no member, however large, shall stand above FIDE- Florencio Campomanes
BIRTHS
Milan Matulovic (1935- 09.10.2013) a strong Yugoslav Grandmaster who won two Yugoslav Championships
Maria Albulet (1932-17.01.1955), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster who won three Romanian Women’s Championships.
Adrian Negulescu (1961), a Romanian Grandmaster.
Jovanka Houska, (1980), an English International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won six British Women’s Chess Championships.
Evgeniya Doluhanova (1984), a Ukraine Woman Grandmaster born in Armenia who was the Ukrainian Women’s Champion in 2009.
Alexey Kislinsky (1984), a Czech Grandmaster
Sergei Yudin (1986), a Russian Grandmaster
Keti Tsatsalashvili (1992), a Georgian Woman Grandmaster.
Mikhail Antipov ( 1997), a Russian Grandmaster who was World Junior Champion in 2015.
Bernal Gonzalez Acosta (1973), a Costa Rican Grandmaster who is a winner of 14 Costa Rican Championships.
CHESS EVENTS
2013 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE) became the World Rapid Chess Champion and Le Quang Liem (VIE) became the World Blitz Chess Champion. The prize fund of the championships was 400 thousand US dollars and was divided between two tournaments equally.
WORLD EVENTS
1540 Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminster.
1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
1829 – The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London.
1915 British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1916 The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
1934 FIFA World Cup: Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in footballs 2nd World Cup in Rome.
1935 Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States
1940 – World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1940 World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
1946 Italian Republic established
1947 Saab produces its first automobile.
1967 The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.
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