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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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"He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him."
- Veselin Topalov2016
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
After the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match.- Boris Spassky (1974)
BIRTHS
Jozsef Szily (1913-26.04.1976), Hungarian International Master and International Arbiter.
Antonio Medina Garcia (1919-31.10.2003), Spanish International Master who was seven times Spanish Champion.
Jonathan Speelman (1956), English Grandmaster, columnist, and writer who won three British championships.
Vlastimil Babula (1973) was born, Czech Grandmaster who was Czech Champion in 1993 and second at the World Junior Championship of 1993.
Salvador Del Rio De Angelis (1976) Spanish Grandmaster born in Argentina who won the Spanish rapid chess championship in 2006.
Vitaly Kunin (1983), was German Grandmaster born in Russia.
Ruan, Lufei (1987), Chinese Woman Grandmaster who was the Women’s World Championship runner-up in 2010.
DEATHS
Karel Treybal ( 02.02.1885-1941), one of the best Czech Masters before WWII. Treybal died during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.
Andrija Fuderer (13.05. 1931-2011), Croatian–Belgian Honorary Grandmaster who had a PHD in chemistry.
CHESS EVENTS
1986 Candidates’ Final Match in Riga, A. Sokolov (USSR) defeated A. Yusupov (USSR) 7½-6½.
1996 In Armenia, Russia won the 32nd Olympiad and Georgia the Women’s Olympiad.
1999 A. Galkin (RUS) and M. Kouvatsu (GRE) became World Junior Champions among Boys and Girls in Yerevan.
2011 0 The teams of Saint Petersburg and AVS from Russia became the winners of the European Club Cup for men and women.
WORLD EVENTS
1535 Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is now located.
1869 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist and philosopher was born (d. 1948).
1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
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