Correspondence Grandmasters and Personalities
Van Oosterom, Joop (Van Oosterom, Joop ) admin / February 11, 2017
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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
When I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Bogoljubov.- Efim Bogoljubov
BIRTHS
Arthur Mackenzie (1861-23.06.1905), Jamaican chess composer.
Charles Henry Stanley (1819-1901), American player who was the first chess champion of the United States.
Gregory Koshnitsky (1907-17.09.1999) Australian Master born in Moldovia who was the Australian Champion in 1933 and 1939.
Yakov Isaevich Neishtadt (1923), Russian- Israeli Senior Correspondence Master and author.
Yuri Bazlov (1947), Russian chess composer.
Victor Kahn (1889-1971) French player born in Russia. He represented Russia in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924, and played for France four times.
Chibukhchian, Artur, ARM Chibukhchian, Artur, ARM 1979
Levon Aronian (1982), Armenian Grandmaster, in the 2014 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world.
Gil Popilski (1993), Israeli Grandmaster who was the European U16 champion in 2009.
Nasspasia Ziaziulkina (1995), Belarus International Master and Women Grandmaster.
DEATH
Victor Kahn (1889-1971) French player born in Russia. He represented Russia in 1st unofficial Chess Olympiad at Paris 1924, and played for France four times.
CHESS EVENT
1983 The FIDE GA admitted the Federations of San Marino and Barbados as full members.
WORLD EVENTS
1683 German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
1889 American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina, sparking a crisis.
1923 The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.
1927 Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent “talkie” movie.
1973 Egypt launches a coordinated attack with Syria against Israel leading to the Yom Kippur War.
1977 The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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