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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."
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"He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him."
- Veselin Topalov2016
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- George Makropoulos2005
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game!- David Janowski
BIRTHS
Marcus Antonius Vida (1485-1566), Italian humanist, a Bishop and a poet.
Charles Locock (1862-1946), British literary scholar, editor and translator, who wrote on a wide array of subjects, including chess, billiards and croquet.
Sigmund Herland (1865-15.08.1954). Romanian Master and chess composer.
Israel Schiffman 1903-29.04.1930), Ukrainian chess composer.
Vladimir Petrov (1907-1943), Latvian strong player who participated in few Olympiads before WWII. Arrested by the Soviets in 1940, he was sentenced to ten years in a corrective labor camp where he died in 1943.
Braslav Rabar (1919-06.12.1973), Croatian International Master who won the Yugoslav championship in 1951. He is remembered for designing the Opening Classification System that was used by the Chess Informant.
John Fedorowicz (1958), US Grandmaster, author and coach who was US Junior Champion in 1978.
Igor Stohl (1964) Slovakian Grandmaster, coach and author who won the national championship title in 1984.
Alexei Fedorov (1972), Belarus Grandmaster.
Vlad Cristian Jianu (1984), Romanian Grandmaster who was the Romanian Champion in 2006.
David Baramidze (1988), German Grandmaster born in Georgia.
Illya Nyzhnyk (1996), Ukrainian Grandmaster who was at 14 years and three months, the youngest Grandmaster in the world.
Jan Krejci (1992), Czech Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1970 USSR won the gold medal at the 19th Olympiad. However, they drew 6 matches and finished only one point ahead of Hungary.
1985 Max Dlugy USA won the World Junior Championship in Sharjah, UAE.
2013 In Turkey, Yu Yangyi from China and Goryachkina Aleksandra from Russia became the World Junior Champions 2013
WORLD EVENTS
1825 The world’s first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened.
1908 The first production of the Ford Model T automobile was built at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan.
1928 The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
1928 The Republic of China is recognized by the United States.
1959 Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
1961 Sierra Leone joins the United Nations.
1962 The Yemen Arab Republic is established.1998 – The Google internet search engine retrospectively claims this as its birthday.
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