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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."
- 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
Some twenty years ago an English journalist complained that in sports, only chess and marbles were above suspicion. One wonders what has happened in the world of marbles.- Hans Ree
BIRTHS
Adolf Schwarz (31.10.1831-1910), A Strong Austrian Master who, the age of 73, was still winning the tournament of the Vienna Chess Club.
Zdravko Milev (1929-01.01.1984), a Bulgarian International Master who was Bulgarian champion in 1952, 1960 and 1961.
Joaquim Durao (1930-21.05.2015), a Portuguese International Master who was 13 times Portuguese champion.
Karoly Honfi (1930-14.08.1996), a Hungarian International Master who was twice a member of the Hungarian team on the chess olympiads .
James Terry Sherwin (1933), an American International Master living in England. He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Bath in December, 2007.
Ramirez Baraja Mario, (1959) Mexico chess player, FIDE officer and President of the Mexico CF.
Slavko Cicak (1969), Swiss Grandmaster born in Montenegro.
Neuris Delgado Ramirez (1981), Paraguayan Grandmaster born in Cuba where he was Cuba Champion in 2002.
Ticia Gara (1984), a Hungarian Woman Grandmaster who won the Hungarian Women Chess Championship in 2006 and 2007.
Arkadij Naiditsch (1985) Azeri Grandmaster born in Latvia who played for some time for Germany.
Ray Robson (1994), an American Grandmaster. A 2009 US Junior Champion who was a member of the US team who won the gold at the 2016 Olympiad.
DEATHS
Vitaly Halberstadt, (20.03.1903-1967), a French player born in Ukraine, author, and chess composer.
Arpad Vajda (1896-1967), a Hungarian International Master who won the 1928 Hungaria, championship.
Paul Johner (10.09.1887-1938), Swiss Master who was 6 times Swiss Champions.
CHESS EVENTS
1955 25.10 Following the wishes of Mrs. Alekhine, the body of Alexander Alekhine was removed from Portugal and transferred to Paris. A FIDE delegation including the President met in Paris to commemorate the death of the World Champion.
1976 25.10 The Olympiads started in Haifa, Israel with 48 participants. For the first time, a Swiss system was used for the men. For political reasons, many countries like the USSR and Hungary decided to boycott the event in Israel. A parallel tournament was organized in Libya with Arab, African, and some Eastern European countries.
1995 E. Vasiukov (RUS) and N. Gaprindashvili (GEO) won the World Senior Championships in Bad Lebenzell, Germany.
2015 In Dresden, Germany, Alexey Smirnov of (RUS) became the World Chess Champion for Disabled 2015. Silver medal went to Babarykin Stanislav (RUS)
WORLD EVENTS
1760 George III becomes King of Great Britain.
1927 The Italian luxury liner SS Principessa Mafalda sinks off the coast of Brazil, killing 314.
1944 World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U.S. Third and U.S. Seventh Fleets. Afterward is the first Kamikaze attack of the war.
1945 The Republic of China takes over administration of Taiwan following Japan’s surrender to the Allies.
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows photos at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council proving that Soviet missiles are installed in Cuba.
1983 Operation Urgent Fury: The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d’état.
1997 After a brief civil war which has driven President Pascal Lissouba out of Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself the President of the Republic of the Congo.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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