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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 I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible.- Magnus Carlsen, 2016
BIRTHS
Alexander M. Konstantinopolsky 1910-21.09.1990), a Soviet Honorary Grandmaster born in Ukraine who was a trainer, and an author. He won the first Soviet Correspondence Chess Championship in 1951
David Bronstein (1924-05.12.2006), Soviet Grandmaster born in Ukraine who was one of the world’s strongest players from the mid-1940s into the mid-1960s and a World Title Challenger in 1948 and 1951.
Zsuzsa Veroci-Petronic, (1949), a Hungarian Woman Grandmaster and International Arbiter.
Rogelio Antonio (1962), a Filipino Grandmaster who won the 1990 Philippines Championship and finished third in the 2009 Asia Continental Chess Championship.
Alexander Baburin (1967), an Irish Grandmaster, writer, and journalist born in Russia.
Ahmed Adly (1987), an Egyptian Grandmaster who won the African Chess Championship in 2005, and the World Junior Chess Championship in 2007.
Svetlana Fomichenko, (1976), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Mihaela Sandu (1977), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster.
Anna Burtasova (1987), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Iozefina Paulet (1989), a Dutch Woman Grandmaster born in Romania who became the European Girls U20 Champion in 2001.
Mitra Hejazipour (1993), an Iranian Woman Grandmaster who was Iranian Women’s Champion in 2012.
DEATH
John Keeble (27.08.1855-1939), a British chess composer.
CHESS EVENT
1988. In Italy, Szofia Polgar made the history by winning the Roma Open with 8½/9. Her rating performance was reaching 2910 Elo something that only Fischer had surpassed in 1971 with his 12 victories in a row in the Candidates against Taimanov and Larsen.
WORLD EVENTS
1600 The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1878 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
1913 Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
1915 World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
1945 World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima: About 30,000 United States Marines land on the island of Iwo Jima.
1959 The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
1963 USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
1985 William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave hospital.
1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China.
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