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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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QUOTES OF THE DAY
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Nikolai Shalnev (1944), a German Grandmaster born in Ukraine.
Slim Bouaziz (1950), a Tunisian Grandmaster, coach, and journalist who was the first African to get the title.
Alla Grinfeld (1953), An American Woman Grandmaster born in Russia.
Boris Kantsler (1962), an Israeli Grandmaster and coach born in Kyrgyzstan.
Joerg Hickl (1965), a German Grandmaster and trainer who was twice German youth champion.
Sebastian Siebrecht (1973), a German Grandmaster.
Broko Lajthajm (1976), a Serbian Grandmaster.
Zaur Mammadov (1994), an Azeri Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1924 The Belgian newspaper “La Nation Belge” published the copy of an invitation sent by the French Chess Federation to all national chess federations to attend a chess congress in Paris on July 20. The main item on the agenda was the creation of an International Chess Federation.
1981 S. Krylov USSR won the 5th IBCA World Championship.
1998 Shijiazhuang won the Asian Cities Championship in Malaysia.
2007 In Dresden, Germany, Vlad Tkachiev of France and Tatania Kosintseva of Russia became the European Individual Champions for men and women.
WORLD EVENTS
AD 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish Revolt.
1828 – Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1746) died.
1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1894 – Manchester City F.C. was formed from Ardwick A.F.C.
1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer was born (d. 1977)
1941 – World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers .
1942 – Frank Williams, English businessman, founded the Williams F1 Racing Team was born.
1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.(source: Wikipedia)
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