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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."
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- 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
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
It is true, in chess so far that men and women cannot be on the same level from an economic situation, but there can always be a more reasonable way to combine the financial part and the players’ situation.- Hou Yifan, 2016
BIRTHS
Israel Albert Horowitz (1907-18.01.1973), an American International Master, author and columnist.
Fritz Gorschen (1911-1981), a German player and writer.
Hans Ree (1944), a Dutch Grandmaster, author, and columnist.
Bojan Kurajica (1947), a Bosnian Grandmaster who won the World Junior championship in 1965.
Larry Kaufman, (1947), an American Grandmaster who became the Wolrd Senior Champion in 2008.
Arnaud Hauchard (1971), a French Grandmaster and coach. In 2012, FIDE suspended him for cheating.
Roland Schmaltz (1974), a German Grandmaster who won few blitz titles then decided to live in Australia.
Sofia Gvetadze (1983), a Georgian Women Grandmaster.
Marie Sebag (1986), the first French female Grandmaster and Women Grandmaster.
DEATH
Gustaaf Nietvelt (30.11.1897-1961), a Belgian chess composer and editor.
Samuel Isenegger (02.11.1899-1964), a Swiss chess composer.
Peter Dubinin (30.06.1909), Soviet International Master who was he was joint USSR Correspondence Champion in 1957.
CHESS EVENTS
1967 The 7th Interzonal Tournament was organized in Tunisia and was arguably the most complicated tournament ever. Fischer withdrew three times because religious reasons caused him to have a tight schedule. He finally decided to go home when he was leading the tournament with 8½/10! Without the American in competition, the Danish Grandmaster Bent Larsen won the tournament extremely convincingly with 15½/21.
2001 15.11 In Leon, The Netherlands and France won the European Team Championships for men and women.
WORLD EVENTS
1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1942 – World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1945 – Venezuela joins the United Nations.
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1971 – Intel releases the world’s first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declared independence. Recognized only by Turkey.
1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1990 – The Communist People’s Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
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