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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
A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.- Rudolf Spielmann
BIRTHS
Orla Hermann Krause (1867-27.09.1935), a Dens Master who played for Denmark at first board in the 1st Chess Olympiad at London 1927, and won a team silver medal there.
Max Blumich (1886-23.02.1942), a German player and editor of the German chess magazine Deutsche Schachzeitung.
Casto Abundo (1950), a former Filippino FIDE Administrator and Asian Executive Director who is living in Dubai.
Natalia Alekhina (1954), a Russian Women Grandmaster.
Boris Kostic (24.02.1887-1963), Serbian Grandmaster who during World War II, was imprisoned in a German concentration camp because he declined to participate in tournaments called “Free Europa” and to glorify the Nazi regime.
Sergei Movsesian (1978), an Armenian Grandmaster who played the Olympiads for 3 different countries.
Baris Esen, (1986), a Turkish Grandmaster.
DEATH
Vladas Mikenas (17.04.1910-1992), a Lithuanian Honorary Grandmaster, International Arbiter and a journalist.
CHESS EVENTS
1985 At the Candidates’ Tournament in Montpellier, A. Yusupov USSR, R. Vaganian USSR and A. Sokolov USSR shared first place with 9 points.
WORLD EVENTS
1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1534 English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
1838 The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1903 With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1918 Poland declares its independence from Russia.
1918 The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
1957 Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1973 Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
1978 Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1986 The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
2014 One World Trade Center officially opens.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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