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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
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
The main thing is that you’ve got to keep on studying however old you are. You can’t just rely on your capital, so you have to try and keep up, and that is a difficult task.- Nigel Short, 2016
BIRTHS
Larry Evans (1932-15.11.2010), an American Grandmaster author, and journalist who won or shared the U.S. Chess Championship five times.
Jan Smejkal (1946), a Czech Grandmaster who was Czech champion in 1973, 1979 and 1986 and a World Candidate in 1973.
Kennet Rogoff (1953), an American economist and Grandmaster.
Edmar Mednis (1937.13.02.2002) and American Grandmaster and author.
Vadim Malakhatko (1977) a Belgium Grandmaster born un Ukraine who was a member of the gold medal-winning Ukrainian team at the 2001 World Team Chess Championship.
Florian Handke (1982), a German Grandmaster.
Nazar Firman (1983), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Alexander Donchenko (1998), a German Grandmaster who got the title at 16 years 10 months and 22 days.
CHESS EVENT
1993 G. Kasparov and N. Short announced London as the venue for a World Championship Match not recognized by FIDE.
WORLD EVENTS
1829 In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
1904 The first color photograph was published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.
1906 The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
1916 The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1917 The U.S. became the first to recognize the Kerensky Government in Russia.
1945 The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1992 Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
1993 The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
1995 Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
2016 Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
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