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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 will note the openings used by the participants of a nine-round match. The age of openings is considerably higher than the age of both rivals. Some opening positions could be analyzed by Steinitz when he was preparing to his match with Zukertort.- Mikhail Tal , 1966 (Petrosian-Spassky match)
BIRTHS
Karl Behting (1867-1943) a Latvian chess master and composer of studies.
Brian Harley (1883-18.05.1955), a British chess composer. Isaias Pleci (1900-27.12.1974), an Argentina International Master who was the Argentine Champion in 1929 to 1930.
Antonio Arguelles Ferrer (1901-31.01-2000), a Spanish composer and International Master.
Oct 27, 1908: James Aitken (1908-03.12.1983), a Scottish Master who won 10 times the Scottish championship.
Miroslav Filip (1928-27.04.2009), a Czech Grandmaster who won the Czechoslovak championship three times.
Dibyendu Barua (1966), Indian Grandmaster who was the second Indian player to get the GM title.
Andrei Shchekachev (1972), French grandmaster born in Russia.
Nazí Nodarovna Paikidze (1993), Georgian international Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the 2016 U.S. women’s championship.
DEATHS
Alexander Deschapelles (07.03 1780- 1847), French chess player who, between the death of Philidor and the arrival of Louis de la Bourdonnais, was probably the strongest player in the world
Lucius Endzelins (21.05.1909-1981), Australian the Correspondence Grandmaster born in Australian who tied for 2nd place in the 2nd World Correspondence Championship.
CHESS EVENTS
1986 Maya Chiburdanidze (USSR) retained her title of Women’s World Champion in Borjomi, USSR by beating E. Akhmilovskaya (USSR) 8½-5½.
1997 V. Pina (ANG) became African Junior Champion in Eket, Nigeria.
2013 In Rhodes, the G-Team of Novy Bor won the European Club Cup. The team of Monte-Carlo won the European Women’s Club Cup.
WORLD EVENTS
1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam.
1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is founded.
1782 Niccolò Paganini, an Italian violinist, and composer was born (d. 1840)
1810 The United States annexes the former Spanish colony of West Florida.
1858 Theodore Roosevelt, an American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate was born (d. 1919)
1904 The first underground New York City Subway line opens; the system becomes the biggest in United States, and one of the biggest in the world.
1924 The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
1971 The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
1991 Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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