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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
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Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!- Robert Fischer, September, 1 1992
BIRTHS
Natalia Ruchieva (1960), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster who became Russian Women’s Senior Champion in 2015.
Arthur Jakubiec (1973), a Polish Grandmaster and coach.
Maria Leconte (1970), a French Woman Grandmaster born in Azerbaijan who was French Women’s Champion in 2001.
Eduard Andreev (1980), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Alexey Khruschiov (1982), a Moldovian Grandmaster who was Moldovian Champion in 2004.
Radjabov, Teimour, AZE, b-day 12.03.1987 an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster who was twice a He has twice competed at the Candidates Tournaments in 2012 and 2013.
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1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony.
1622 Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
1848 2nd Republic established in France.
1867 Last French troops leave Mexico.
1868 Basutoland, today called Lesotho, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1894 Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
1918 Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1921 İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss).
1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1930 Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1994 The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
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