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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 can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.- Marcel Duchamp
BIRTHS
Antonia Ivanova (1931-25.05.2004), Bulgarian Woman Grandmaster who won 6 Bulgarian Women championships.
Anatoly Machulsky (1956), Russian Grandmaster who made a fortune after creating a betting company.
John Donaldson (1958), American International Master who was the coach of the US team which won the gold at the 2016 Olympiad.
Raj Tischbierek (1962), German Grandmaster and journalist who was twice the East German champion.
Lars Bo Hansen (1968) Danish Grandmaster who won two national titles.
DEATHS
Rosendo Balinas (10.09.1941-1998), Filipino Grandmaster, lawyer, a chess writer and journalist. He was considered as the strongest Asian player during the 1960s and early 1970s,
Konstantin Lerner (28.02.1950-2011), Israeli Grandmaster born in Ukraine. Ukrainian Champion and USSR vice-Champion in 1986.
CHESS EVENTS
1911. Czechoslovakia, one of the largest round robin tournament in the chess history organized at Carlsbad ended with the victory of R. Teichmann ahead of A. Rubinstein and K. Schlechter. The event attracted 26 contestants who played 325 games.
1956In Moscow, once again the Soviet Union proved its superiority and won the 12th Olympiad with 31/44. Yugoslavia finished second after tiebreak.
2000 IM O. Cherikov from Russia won the World Senior Championship. Ms. Fatalibekova from Russia won the Women’s World Senior Championship.
WORLD EVENTS
1664 The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1830 Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
1852 The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1911 His Majesty’s Airship No. 1, Britain’s first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1960 USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
1968 Swaziland joins the United Nations.
1973 Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
1975 Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.
1979 CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
1993 The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
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