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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
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
What am I doing in this pool of piranhas?- Nigel Short, 2017
BIRTHS
Samuel Lipschutz (1863-30.11.1905), an Hungarian-America Master and author. He was chess champion of the United States from 1889 to 1890 and again from 1891 to 1894.
Alvise Zichichi (1938-21.06.2003), an Italian International Master and former president of the Italian CF.
Orestes Rodriguez Vargas (1943), was born in Lima, Peru. a Peruvian Grandmaster who was Peruvian national champion five times.
Silvino Garcia Martinez was born in Havana, Cuba (1944), the first Cuban Grandmaster who was Cuban national champion four times.David Marciano (1969), a Monegasque-French Grandmaster.
Svetlana Matveeva (1969) was born, Russia. a Russian International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
Alexey Shirov was born in Riga, Latvia, USSR. a Latvian -Spanish Grandmaster, one of the world leading player between 1995 and 2005.
DEATHS
Leonid Stein (12.11.1934-1973), Soviet Grandmaster chess player born in Ukraine who won three USSR Chess Championships in 1963, 1965, and 1966), and was among the world’s top ten players during that era.
Miguel Najdorf (15.04.1910-1997), an Argentine Polish-born Grandmaster and author who was the best South American player for few decades.
WORLD EVENTS
1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem.
1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye.
1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada).
1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1826 – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, dies the same day as John Adams, second president of the United State.
1886 – The people of France offer the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States.
1918 – Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne.
1918 – Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city.
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