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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
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.- Magnus Carlsen
BIRTHS
Arpad Elo (1903-1992), an American, physics by profession, who was the inventor of the modern Elo rating system use by FIDE since 1971.
Alexander Nenashev (1962), German Grandmaster born in Uzbekistan. He changed his name to Graf. He won the Uzbek championship in 1989 and the German championship in 2004.
Vasilios Kotronias (1964), Greek Grandmaster, coach and author who then 10 times the Greek championship.
Hamdouchi, Adina-Maria, (1979), French Women Grandmaster who married to the GM Hichem Hambouchi and is currently living in Qatar.
DEATHS
Max Blau (19.12.1918-1984), Swiss international Master who won four times the Swiss championship.
Gideon Stahlberg (1908- 25.08 1933), Swedish Grandmaster, Arbiter, and author who has participated in 13 Olympiads and won the Swedish championship in 1927.
CHESS EVENTS
1953 FIDE created pins to honour IGMs, IMs, IWGMs, IWMs and Arbiters.
1958 The FIDE GA approved the reelection of Folke Rogard as FIDE President
WORLD EVENTS
1530 Ivan the Terrible was born, Russian ruler (d. 1584)
1609 Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.
1768 James Cook begins his first voyage.
1825 Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil.
1830 The Belgian Revolution begins.
1883 France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
1914 World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
1939 The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in the case of invasion by a foreign power.
1944 World War II: Paris is liberated by the Allies.
1961 President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
1991 Belarus gains its independence from the Soviet Union
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