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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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No player, however strong, no member, however large, shall stand above FIDE- Florencio Campomanes
BIRTHS
Francois Andre Philidor (1726-31.08.1795), was a French chess player and composer. He was regarded as the best world chess player of his age.
Samuel Rosenthal (1837-12.09.1902), Polish-born French Master and journalist who he scored victories over all the leading masters of the time.
Johann Hermann Zukertort (1842-20.06.1888), German-Polish Master. One of the leading world players for most of the 1870’s and 1880’s, who lost to Wilhelm Steinitz for the first World Chess Championship in 1886.
Nenad Petrovic (1907-09.11.1989), the first Croatian Grandmaster of chess composition and World Champion in 1947 in the solving of chess problems.
Sergey Kudrin (1959), US Grandmaster born in the Soviet Union.
Salvador Alonso (1974), Argentine Grandmaster.
Sahaj Grover (1995), Indian Grandmaster who won the World U10 championship in 2005.
CHESS EVENTS
1946 M. Botvinnik from USSR won the first major international tournament after WW2 in Groningen, Holland.
1971 07.09 At the Women’s Candidates in Minsk, USSR, Alla Kushnir (USSR) beat Ms. Tatania Zatulovskaya (USSR) 5½-4½.
1993 The PCA World Championship started in London between G. Kasparov (RUS) and N. Short (ENG). The prize fund was allegedly US$ 2½00,000 but one of the sponsors reportedly withdrew.
2009 In Colombia, Martha Fierro (ECU) won the American Continental Women’s Championship.
2012 FIDE General Assembly accepted as a full member the federations of Togo, Gambia, and Lesotho
WORLD EVENTS
1228 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II lands in Acre, Israel, and starts the Sixth Crusade, which results in a peaceful restoration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1778 American Revolutionary War: France invades Dominica in the British West Indies before Britain is even aware of France’s involvement in the war.
1812 French invasion of Russia: The Battle of Borodino, the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, was fought near Moscow and resulted in a French victory.
1822 Dom Pedro I declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga Brook in São Paulo.
1896 The first successful heart surgery was conducted on this day by Ludwig Rehn?
1923 The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) is formed.
1927 The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth.
1940 World War II: The German Luftwaffe begins the Blitz, bombing London and other British cities for over 50 consecutive nights.
1953 Nikita Khrushchev is elected the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1999 – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
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