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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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- George Makropoulos2005
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
” The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.”- Alexander Alekhine
BIRTH
Wilhelm Hanstein (1811-14.10.1850), German amateur who helped found Berliner Schachzeitung, later to become Deutsche Schachzeitung.
Henry Loveday (1815 – 09-01-1848), British composer, famous for his composition of the ‘Indian problem’.
Sergey Urusov (1827 – 20.11. 1897), one of the strongest Russian player. He was awarded the Order of Saint George.
Felix Izeta Txabarri (1961) Spanish Grandmaster.
Aimen Rizouk (1979), Algerian Grandmaster and Algerian Champion.
Andrey Rychagov (1979), Russian Grandmaster who was second of A. Shirov for many years.
DEATHS
William Evans (27.01.1790 –1872) English chess amateur, seafearer, and an inventor. He is known to be the creator of the Evans Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.b4).
Wolfgang Heidenfeld (29.05.1911-1981), South African International Master born in Germany who was many times Irish and South African Champions.
WORLD EVENTS
1527 The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John’s, Newfoundland.
1778 The theatre La Scala is inaugurated.
1900 The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
1914 World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
1936 Jesse Owens wins the 100-meter dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
1960 Niger gains independence from France.
1977 Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers.
2014 A 6.1 magnitude earthquake kills at least 617 people and injures more than 2,400 in Yunnan, China.
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