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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"
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”- Marcel Duchamp
BIRTHS
Edwin Kengis (1959), Latvian Grandmaster who is an eight-time Latvian Champion.
Nenad Fercec (1961), a Croatian Grandmaster.
Joel Lautier (1973), a French Grandmaster, World U20 Champion in 1988 who is retired from chess and living in Moscow.
Mariya Sergeyeva (1983), a Kazakh Woman Grandmaster.
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (1985 ), an Azeri Grandmaster who was the 2013 World Rapid Champion and Mamedyarov and a two-time World Junior Champion.
Kamil Miton (1984), a Polish Grandmaster.
Farhad Tahirov (1987), An Azeri Grandmaster, he is not active since 2008.
Ioannis K Papadopoulos (1988), a Greek Grandmaster who was Greek Champion in 2007.
DEATHS
Grau Roberto (18.03.1900-1944), an Argentine Master who played for Argentina in six Chess Olympiads.
Robert Byrne (20.04.1928-2013), an American Grandmaster and author who won the U.S. Championship in 1972.
CHESS EVENT
1958 The first International Braille Chess Association Congress took place in Rheinbreitbach, Germany
WORLD EVENTS
467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1606 The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.
1877 The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
1931 Spanish voters reject the monarchy.
1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry Truman, become President upon Roosevelt’s death.
1946 Syria gains independence from France.
1955 The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
1961 The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
1980 US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow Olympic games
1981 The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.
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