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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…"
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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 Makropoulos, 2005
BIRTHS
Viktor Tietz (1859- 08.12.1937), a Czech–German player and organizer. He invented the tie-break system now called the Tietz system.
Margareta Teodorescu (1932-22.01.2013), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster who won four times the Romanian Women’s Championship.
Garry Kasparov, born Weinstein (1963), an outstanding Russian Grandmaster who became the 13th World Champion in 1985.
Konstantin Sakatev (1974), a Russian chess Grandmaster (1993), chess author and Russian champion in 1999.
Gergely Andras Gyula Szabo, (1983), a Romanian Grandmaster.
Vladimir Dobrov (1984), a Russian Grandmaster who won the Russian U20 champion in 2004.
WORLD EVENTS
1111 Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1204 Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1250 The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
1742 George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1849 Hungary becomes a republic.
1902 James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1919 The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea is established.
1943 World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced,
1945 World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
1965 The Beatles record their single “Help”
1987 Portugal and the People’s Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
1994 Presidential guard at Kigali, Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1997 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
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