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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
Vasiukov hadn’t won a single game against me for 59 years and then suddenly won. I can’t call it shame. Shame or no shame, it’s a pity that he won…- Viktor Korchnoi , 2012
BIRTHS
Mikhail Ulibin (1971), a Russian Grandmaster who was a silver medalist in the World Junior Chess Championship of 1991.
Hua Ni (1983), a Chinese Grandmaster who is a three-time national champion.
David Arutinian (1984), an Armenian Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Jan Bernasek (1986), a Czech Grandmaster.
Dariusz Swiercz (1994), a Polish Grandmaster who won World Junior Chess Championship in 2011 and the World U18 in 2012.
DEATH
Jan Dobrusky (28.08.1953-1907), a Czech chess composer.
CHESS EVENTS
1964 USSR won the 4th Correspondence Chess Olympiad.
1971 N. Alexandria, USSR won the first Women’s Interzonal Tournament, in Ohrid, Yugoslavia.
1971 Candidates Quarterfinal in Moscow, V. Korchnoi USSR beat E. Geller USSR 5½-2½.
1999 Alisa Galliamova passed the deadline to confirm if she was willing to replace Ms. Zs Polgar to play with Ms. Xie Jun in China at the World Championship match starting the end of June.
2004 Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine became the European Individual Champion.
2015 In Chakvi Georgia, Natalia Zhukova (UKR) won her second European individual title by winning the 2015 European Women’s Individual Champ Individual ahead of Nino Batsiashvili (GEO) and Alina Kashlinskaya (RUS).
WORLD EVENTS
1790 The US copyright law was enacted.
1809 The musical composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna, Austria on his 77th birthday.
1879 The 1st electric railway opened at the Berlin Trades Exposition.
1902 The Boer War ended between the Boers of South Africa and Great Britain with the Treaty of Vereeniging.
1916 During World War I, British and German fleets fought the Battle of Skagerrak at Jutland off Denmark and 10,000 were left dead.
1926 The Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo resigned after the coup.
1961 South Africa became an independent republic.
1962 Adolph Eichmann (b.1906), Gestapo official and Nazi war criminal, was hanged near Tel Aviv.
1970 A 7.7 slab earthquake and debris flow in Peru killed 67,000, injured 50,000 and destroyed 186,000 buildings.
1979 Zimbabwe proclaimed its independence.
2001 Microsoft released its new Office XP for Windows software.
2002 European Union countries formally signed on to the Kyoto Protocol, a pact aimed at stemming pollution and global warming that has been opposed by the United States.
2005 A Russian court declared oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky guilty of an array of charges, sentencing him to nine years in prison minus time served.
(Source: Timeline)
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