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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
"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
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
I was pushed out of USSR by the hands of Petrosian and Karpov. But now, after 10 years, Petrosian is not longer alive and Karpov is not longer World Champion, so it seems that everything is in place now.- Viktor Kortchnoi, 1986 NIC
BIRTHS
Julio Ernesto Granda Zuniga (1967), the best ever Peruvian Grandmaster who became four-time American continental champion and won many other national and international titles.
Pablo Ricardi (1962), an Argentine Grandmaster who won the Argentine Championship five times between 1994-96 and 1998-99.
Bazar Hatanbaatar (1973), a Mongolian Grandmaster who was the Mongolian champion in 2002, 2003, and 2005.
Nurlan Ibrayev (1977), a Khazak Grandmaster.
Vladimir Baklan (1978) a Ukrainian Grandmaster who became Ukrainian Champion in 1997 and 1998.
S.P. Sethuraman, (1993), an Indian Grandmaster and Indian 2014 Champion he was also the 2004 World U16 Champion in 2009.
Karen H Grigoryan (1995), an Armenian Grandmaster who was European U16 Champion in 2010.
CHESS EVENTS
1985 Mamedov, the head of Kasparov’s delegation at the World Championship Match Karpov-Kasparov, informed FIDE that the Challenger didn’t wish to continue the Match and accepted the FIDE decision. He would be ready to start a new match with the first game starting the first week of September.
WORLD EVENTS
1308 Edward II was crowned King of England.
1570 Pope Pius V issued the bull Regnans in Excelsis which excommunicated Queen Elizabeth the First of England.
1728 Peter II Alekseyevich (1715-1730) was crowned as czar of Russia.
1791 President George Washington signed a bill creating the Bank of the United States.
1836 Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
1875 Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi’s regency.
1910 The Dalai Lama fled from the Chinese and took refuge in India.
1912 Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
1921 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.
1926 Francisco Franco became Generalissimo of Spain.
1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser is made premier of Egypt.
1957 Nobosuke Kishi (1896-1987) began serving as prime minister of Japan. He continued for 2 terms to Jul 19, 1960.
1964 Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) became world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.
1991 The Warsaw Pact is declared disbanded.
1997 China’s elite bid a final farewell to Deng Xiaoping, the country’s last major revolutionary leader.
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