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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
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another.- Marcel Duchamp
BIRTHS
Wolfgang Unzicker (21925 – 20.04.2006), one of the strongest German Grandmasters from 1945 to about 1970.
Vitali Golod (1971), Soviet–Israeli Grandmaster who was Israeli Champion in 2010.
Beata Zawadzka (1986), a Polish Woman Grandmaster.
Zhao Zong-Yuan (1986), the best ranked Australian Grandmaster.
Evgeny Levin (1990), a Russian Grandmaster.
Mathias Womacka (1966), a German Grandmaster.
DEATH
1944 The Women’s World Champion Vera Menchik-Stevenson, her sister, and her mother died in Kent from a V1-bombing raid. She was the Women’s World Champion 7 times with the magnificent score of +78-1=4.
CHESS EVENT
1962 Tigran Petrosian of USSR won the Candidates Tournament in Curacao
WORLD EVENTS
363 Roman Emperor Julian is killed during the retreat from the Sassanid Empire.
1483 Duke of Gloucester appoints himself King Richard III of England
1718 Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great’s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1879 Ismael Pasha resigns as khedive of Egypt
1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto.
1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco.
1953 Russian vice-premier/interior minister Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria arrested.
1963 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner”.
1977 Elvis Presley sings in Indianapolis, the last performance of his career.
1992 Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship.
1995 Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani deposes his father Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, in a bloodless coup.
2016 Iceland’s presidential election is won by history professor Guðni Jóhannesson
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