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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
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.- Mihail Tal, 1969
BIRTHS
Isakas Vistaneckis (1920-30.12.2000) Lithuanian Master who won 5 Lithuanian championships before to emigrate to Israel.
Kira Zvorikina (1919-06.09.2014), Russian Women Grandmaster who won five Soviet Women championships.
Evgenij Ermenkov (1949), Bulgarian Grandmaster who won 5 Bulgarian championships.
Sergey Ivanov (1961), Russian Grandmaster.
Vigen Mirumian (1977), Czech Grandmaster born in Armenia.
Olivier Barbosa (1986), Filipino Grandmaster.
DEATH
Chernev Irving (29.01.1900-1981), was a prolific Russian-American chess author.
CHESS EVENT
1947. The Bulgarian post office released the first ‘chess stamp’.
WORLD EVENTS
1789 The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
1885 The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
1899 The Malolos Congress ratified the Philippine Declaration of Independence from Spain.
1902 Émile Zola, French journalist, author, and playwright died (b. 1840)
1923 The British Mandate for Palestine takes effect, creating Mandatory Palestine.
1923 The French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon takes effect.
1938 The Munich Agreement between Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy settles the Sudetenland dispute in Germany’s favor.
1954 The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
1971 Oman joins the Arab League.
2008 Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
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