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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
Carlsen simply plays chess well. It seems to me that in such cases people are inclined to look for some supernatural explanation, although the simplest explanation is also the most appropriate: the guy simply plays chess well.- Alexander Grischuk, 2014
BIRTH
Almira Skripchenko (1976), a French International Master and Woman Grandmaster born in Moldova who won the Women’s European Individual Championship in 2001.
Dov Zifroni (1976), an Israeli Grandmaster.
Andrei Murariu (1986), a Romanian Grandmaster.
Thao Nguyen (1987), a Vietnamese International Master and Woman Grandmaster who became national Champion in 2010.
Vita Kryvoruchko (1988), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster and coach.
DEATHS
Siegbert Tarrasch (05.03.1862-1934), a German Master, a medical doctor by profession who also may have been the best player in the world in the early 1890s.
Anatoly Machulsky, (24.09.1956-2017), a Russian Grandmaster and coach.
CHESS EVENTS
1989 The longest tournament chess game (in terms of moves) ever to be played was Nikolić–Arsović, Belgrade 1989, which lasted for 269 moves and took 20 hours and 15 minutes to complete a drawn game.
1996 World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue,” winning a six-game match in Philadelphia. Kasparov had lost the first game, won the second, fifth and sixth games and earned draws in the third and fourth.
WORLD EVENTS
1598 Feb 17, Boris Godunov, the boyar of Tatar origin, was elected czar in succession to his brother-in-law Fydor.
1673 Moliere, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French author (Tartuffe, Le Malade Imaginaire), died.
1801 An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1838 Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulus.
1854 The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.
1863 A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
1871 The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1880 Tsar Alexander II of Russia survived an assassination attempt.
1909 Apache chief Geronimo died of pneumonia at age 80, while still in captivity at Fort Sill, Okla.
1933 Newsweek magazine is first published.
1919 Germany signed an armistice giving up territory in Poland.
1947 The Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union.
1955 Britain announced its ability to make hydrogen bombs.
1964 Gabonese president Léon M’ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
1967 Beatles released “Penny Lane” & “Strawberry Fields.”
1994 Bosnian Serbs began large-scale withdrawal of its heavy guns from the hills around Sarajevo under pressure from Russia.
(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)
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