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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"
- Vishy Anand2017
Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess.- Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
BIRTHS
Miron James Hazeltime (1824-24.02.1907), an American journalist and chess composer.
Paul Saladin Leonhardt (1877-14.12.1934), a German Master who died of a heart attack during a game of chess.
Bukhuty Gurgenidze (1933-24.05.2008), a Georgian Grandmaster who won 12 Georgian championships.
Jon Arnason (1960), an Icelandic Grandmaster who was three-time the national champion.
George Gabriel Grigore (1970), a Romanian Grandmaster who played two Olympiads.
DEATHS
Giancarlo dal Verme (11.05.1908-1985), an Italian player and FIDE officer who composed the FIDE anthem in 1952.
Volf Bergraser (04.01.1904-1986), a French Correspondence Grandmaster (1981) and strong OTB player. A doctor. He won the French chess championship (OTB) in 1957 and 1966.
Igor Platonov (18.01.1934-1994), a Soviet Grandmaster (not FIDE) and coach. He was murdered in his Kiev apartment by two thieves.
WORLD EVENTS
1927 The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
1940 Walt Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York’s Broadway Theatre.
1950 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
1989 Hans-Adam II, the present Prince of Liechtenstein, begins his reign on the death of his father.
2015 A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, France including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and the 11th arrondissement of Paris kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.
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