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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”- Marcel Duchamp
BIRTHS
Larisa Volpert (1926), a Russian Woman Grandmaster who was three times USSR Women’s Champion.
Gilles Andruet (1958-22.08.1995), a French International Master who was murdered.
Efstratios Grivas (1966), a Greek Grandmaster, FIDE Trainer and writer.
Viacheslav V Zakhartsov (1968), a Russian Grandmaster
Ghane, Shojaat (1975), an Iranian Grandmaster
Dragan Solak (1980), a Turkish Grandmaster born in Serbia who was Turkish Champion in 2012 and 2013.
Isan Reynaldo Ortiz Suarez (1985), a Cuban Grandmaster who was Cuban Champion in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
Anastasia Bodnaruk (1992), a Woman Grandmaster who won the European U12 Girls Championship.
WORLD EVENTS
1842 Ether anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by the American surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
1912 Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1945 World War II: Soviet forces invade Austria and capture Vienna.
1959 Dalai Lama flees China and is granted political asylum in India.
1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
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