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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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"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
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- George Makropoulos2005
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.- Mark Dvoretsky
BIRTHS
Dimitrije Bjelica (1935), a Serbian journalist and author.
Frithiof Lindgren (1897-1957), a Swedish composer.
Dragan Paunovic (1961-17.05.2016), a Serbian Grandmaster who was living in Spain. He died from a heart attack.
Todor Todorov (1974), a Bulgarian Grandmaster.
Enrico Rodriguez Guerrero (1983), a Spanish Grandmaster.
Alexandr Kharitonov (1986), a Russian Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Albert Kniest (15.05.1908-1984), German chess composer and author.
CHESS EVENTS
2008 In Bad Zwischenahn Germany, Larry Kaufman of USA and Mihail Suba of Romania shared first prize at the World Senior Chess Championship.
2008 In Almaty, Kazakhstan, GM Leinier Dominguez of Cuba won the World Blitz Championship undefeated with 11.5 points.
2009 08.11 In Arco, Italia, Miso Cebalo from Croatia and Nona Granprindashvili from Georgia became the World Senior Champions for men and women.
WORLD EVENTS
1644 The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
1889 Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1895 While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1960 John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the 20th century to become the 35th president of the United States.
1972 HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.
2016 Republican Party nominee Donald J. Trump is elected President of the United States, defeating Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton.
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