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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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- George Makropoulos2005
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- Vishy Anand2017
Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas?- Nigel Short, 2017
BIRTHS
Milan Vukcevich (1937-10.05.2003), a Yugoslav-American scientist and Grandmaster of chess composition.
Elena Akhmylovskaya-Donaldson-Orlov (1957-12.11.2002), an American Woman Grandmaster born in Russia who lost in 1986 the Women’s Wolrd Championship Final Match against Maia Chiburdanidze by 8½–5½.
Joel Benjamin (1965), an American Grandmaster who was US Chess Champion in 1987, 1997, and 2000.
Petr Neuman (1978), a Czech Grandmaster.
Zaven Andriasian (1989), an Armenian Grandmaster who won the 2005 European Youth U16 Championship and the 2006 World Junior Chess Championship.
Alexandr Fier (1988), a Brazilian Grandmaster.
Sebastien Feller (1991), a French Grandmaster. Accused of cheating, he was banned by FIDE for few years.
DEATHS
Jan Foltys (13.10.1908-1952), was a Czech International Master who participated in 3 Olympiads.
Viacheslav Ragozin (08.10.1908–1962) was a Soviet Grandmaster, an International Arbiter, and a World Correspondence Chess Champion.
CHESS EVENTS
2005 Garry Kasparov, Russian Grandmaster and former World Champion ranked No. 1 since 1984, announced his retirement.
WORLD EVENTS
1702 The Daily Courant, the first regular English newspaper was published.
1801 Paul I (46), Czar of Russia (1796-1801), was strangled in his bedroom in St. Petersburg ending 4 years of insane rule. His son Alexander I Pavlovich (23) succeeded him.
1851 The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1905 The Parisian subway was officially inaugurated.
1911 The Cadillac Division of General Motors demonstrated the first electric self starter, enabling women to drive alone.
1955 Mar 11, Alexander Fleming (73), English bacteriologist (penicillin), died.
1966 Mar 11, Three men were convicted of the murder of Malcolm X.
1990 Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1985 The Soviet Union announced the March 10 death of its leader, Konstantin U. Chernenko. Politburo member Mikhail S. Gorbachev was chosen to succeed him and became general-secretary of the Communist party and the Premier of the Soviet Union.
2003 Mar 11, In Turkey Recep Erdogan was confirmed as the prime minister.
2004 Madrid train bombings: Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
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