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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
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” (about Lasker) For me, this personality, notwithstanding his fundamentally optimistic attitude, had a tragic note. The enormous mental resilience, without which no chess player can exist, was so much taken up by chess that he could never free his mind of this game, even when he was occupied by philosophical and humanitarian questions.”- Albert Einstein
BIRTHS
Vladas Mikėnas (1910– 03.11.1992), a Lithuanian Honorary Grandmaster born in Estonia, writer, and arbiter.
Klaus Junge (01.01.1924-1945) – born in Chile, the most talented German chess player since Lasker. Came first equal with Alekhine at Prague 1942. Unfortunately, he perished during WWII.
Peter K. Wells(1965), an English Grandmaster, coach, and author.
Sergey Shipov (1966), a Russian Grandmaster, journalist, and commentator.
Robert Kuczynski (1966), a Polish Grandmaster who was Polish Champion in 1987.
Ruben Gunawan (1968-27.08.2005) an Indonesian Grandmaster who was Asian U20 Champion in 1983.
Alexander Obukhov (1969), a Russian Grandmaster
Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (1974), a Russian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was the runner-up in the 2004 Women’s World Chess Championship.
Inga Khurtsilava (1975) a Georgian Woman Grandmaster who was a three-time Women’s Champion of Georgia.
Pawel Blehm (1980), a Polish Grandmaster who was the was 1994 World Under-14 Champion and stop to play in 2007.
CHESS EVENTS
2003 China won in India the Men’s and Women’s Asian Team Championships.
WORLD EVENTS
1080 The King of Denmark, Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV.
1790 Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, publisher, and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (b. 1706).
1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40’N
1839 Guatemala forms a republic
1895 The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated the Qing Empire.
1907 The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
1941 World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
1958 In Brussels (Belgium) World Fair opens
1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1969 The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
1971 The People’s Republic of Bangladesh is formed.
1975 The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.
1986 IBM produces the 1st megabit-chip
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)
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