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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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- Veselin Topalov2016
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Now, at 51, in my life I have reach the stage between the middlegame and the endgame. But I don’t have the feeling that I am in the endgame already.- Boris Spassky, 1988 NIC
BIRTHS
Sarhan Guliev (1968), an Azeri Grandmaster, FIDE Trainer, and writer.
Antonio Pavlidis (1993), a Greek Grandmaster who was Greek Champion in 2011 and 2012.
DEATH
Maurice Raizman (26.02.1905), a French Master who was a six-times French Champion.
CHESS EVENTS
1975 Anatoly. Karpov informed the President of FIDE of his readiness to take part in the match against Robert Fischer.
1984 Anatoly Karpov won his 9th Chess Oscar.
1997 Vishy Anand won his first Chess Oscar.
2000 Vladimir Kramnik won his first Chess Oscar.
2001 Garry Kasparov received his 10th Chess Oscar.
2006 Garry Kapasorv is removed from the FIDE rating. His last rating was 2812.
2012 In Plovdiv Bulgaria, the Russian Dmitry Jakovenko became the 2012 European Champion ahead of Laurent Fressinet and Vladimir Malakhov.
2013 Magnus Carlsen won the FIDE Candidates’ Tournament in London after a bizarre finish of what has become a historic event for chess. Both the Norwegian and the other leader, Vladimir Kramnik of Russia, unexpectedly lost their game in the final round, and so they remained tied for first place and Carlsen won on the second tie-break rule: the higher number of wins. For the next title match, World Champion Viswanathan Anand will face Magnus Carlsen.
WORLD EVENTS
457 Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army.
528 The daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei was made the “Emperor”, she was the first female monarch in the History of China.
1867 Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
1895 The Indian Army is established.
1937 Aden becomes a British crown colony.
1946 Formation of the Malayan Union.
1947 Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II.
1948 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
1976 Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, California, USA.
1979 Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
2001 Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
2004 Google announces Gmail to the public.
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