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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
.If we compare Carlsen with Anand or me or someone else, by ten criteria, he will be stronger in eight of them.- Veselin Topalov, 2015
BIRTHS
Oscar Panno (1935), an Argentine Grandmaster and a World Champion Candidate who was World Junior Champion in 1953.
Paul Van der Sterren (1956) a Dutch Grandmaster, Dutch Champion and author who left chess in early 2000.
Valery Beim (1950) an Austrian Grandmaster born in Russia who is living and coaching in Vienna.
Enrico Sevillano (1968) an American Grandmaster born in the Philippines.
Anh Dung Nguyen (1976), a Vietnamese Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Corina-Izabela Peptan (1978), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster who won nine times the Romanian Women’s Championship.
Jose Fernando Cuenca Jimenez (1987) a Spanish Grandmaster who was several times Spanish Youth Champion.
DEATHS
Jaenisch Carl Fredrich von (1813-1872) one of the first Russian masters, a theorist andnd professor of mathematics.
Semen Furman, (01.12.1920-1978) Soviet grandmaster (1966), theorist and Honored Coach of the USSR. he is known to be the main coach of Anatoly Karpov.
CHESS EVENTS
1992 The USSR Chess Federation held its last meeting in Moscow and declared that it no longer existed.
2009 The 10th European Individual Championship took place in Montenegro. The Russian Grandmaster Evgeny Tomashevsky won the title after a day of playoffs, He beat Vladimir Malakhov 2-1 in the final.
2010 In Rijeka Croatia, Ian Nepomniachtchi from Russia and Pia Cramling from Sweden became the new European Chess Champions.
WORLD EVENTS
455 Petronius Maximus becomes, with the support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1805 The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1861 The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1948 The Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
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