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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
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.- Mihail Tal, 1969
BIRTHDAY
Norbert Kovacs (1874-1946), a Hungarian chess composer.
Anthony Saidy (1937), a U.S. Internationa Master, a retired physician and author.
Evgeni Janev (1973), a Bulgarian Grandmaster
Atousa Pourkashiyan (1988), an Iranian Woman Grandmaster.
Betul Cemre Yildiz (1989) a Turkish Woman Grandmaster.
Tereza Rodshtein (1991), a Czech Woman Grandmaster married to the Israeli GM Maxim Rodshtein who was Women’s Czech Champion in 2012 and 2015.
DEATHS
Harold James Ruthven Murray (24.06.1868-1955), a British chess historian, died in Midhurst, England.
CHESS EVENTS
1977 Women’s Candidates Match in Sochi, E. Fatalibekova USSR beat Kozlovskaya USSR 6-2.
1993 FIDE announced that Kasparov and Short would be dropped from the rating list.
2013 In Genva, the Georgian Bela Khotenashvili became the winner of Neva Fondation Women Grand Prix 2013.
WORLD EVENTS
1004 Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy.
1866 The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1868 United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
1905 Las Vegas Nevada founded
1920 In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
1929 In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
1935 The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
1940 McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1943 The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
1966 The Communist Party of China issues the “May 16 Notice”, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1974 Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of Yugoslavia.
1986 Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years?
1988 USSR begins withdrawing its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.
1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, the President of Zaire, flees the country.
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