Classical Grandmaster
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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Curt von Bardeleben (04-03.1861-31.01.1924) a German Master and editor who committed suicide by jumping out of a window in 1924.
Bent Larsen (1935-09.09.2010), a Danish Grandmaster who was six-time Danish Champion and a Candidate for the World Chess Championship on four occasions. The best non-Soviet player after Fischer in 1970.
Vadim Shishkin (1969), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Olga Sikorova (1975), a Czech Woman Grandmaster who was Czech women’s champion in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2014.
Jan Eslon (1952-24.09.2000), a Swedish International Master who was the first winner of Linares.
Anton Kovalyov (1992), an Argentine and Canadian Grandmaster born in Ukraine who played the Olympiads for Argentine and Canada.
WORLD EVENTS
1152 Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany.
1681 Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1791 Vermont is admitted to the United States as the fourteenth state.
1801 Thomas Jefferson is the first US President inaugurated in Washington, D.C.
1861 Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as the 16th US President.
1936 The 1st flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as the Soviet Foreign minister.
1980 Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe’s first black prime minister.
2005 United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
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