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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."
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- George Makropoulos2005
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- 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
I don’t believe that Garry likes making decisions by democratic procedures. When there is a decision that he doesn’t like, he just turns against this organization.- Georgios Makropoulos, 2013
BIRTHS
Julio Bolbochan (1920-28.06.1996), an Argentine Grandmaster who was the Argentine chess champion in 1946 and 1948.
Marcin Kaminski (1977), a Polish Grandmaster who was World U12 and U14 Champion in 1989 and 1993.
Wenjin Wu (1976) Chinese Grandmaster who was Asian U20 Champion in 1996.
Anna Zozulia (1980), a Ukrainian International Master and Woman grandmaster who won the Girls’ Under-16 World Youth Chess Championship in 1996. She is married to the Belgian GM Vadim Malakhatko.
Csaba Balogh (1987), a Hungarian Grandmaster and author who won the European Under-16 Championship in 2003.
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (1997), an Iranian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the World Under-12 Girls Championship in 2009 and few times Asian Champion.
CHESS EVENTS
1946 Portugal. Probably the last game played by Alekhine was against G.F. Anderson at the British Embassy in Lisbon. Alekhine was playing with the black pieces and won the game, a Queen’s Gambit, in 32 moves.
1949 USA. First principles of chess for computers are formulated by Claude Shannon.
WORLD EVENTS
298 Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
1804 Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
1893 Ivory Coast becomes a French colony (Cote d’Ivoire)
1945 The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1952 Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri’s funeral
2000 The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)
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