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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
If I’m thinking for more than 20 minutes about one move, it’s usually a waste. Sometimes you can come up with some amazing solution but most of the time you just end up looping: you consider a move, you reject it, then you’re desperate, you come back to the move, you don’t remember why you rejected it, you have to make a move so you make it – then your opponent replies and you remember why you rejected it. The longest wait I ever did between moves was one hour and five minutes – and the move was horrible.- Magnus Carlsen, 2016
BIRTHS
Ferenc Herpai (1910-16.11.1994), Hungarian chess composer.
Dragutin Sahovic (1940-12.11.1995), Yugoslavian player who worked with Chess Informant and develop the ECO code.
Leonid Yudasin (1959), Israeli Grandmaster born in Russia and now living in New York.
Serik Temirbayev (1961), Kazakh Grandmaster.
Sergey Kasparov (1968), Belarus Grandmaster and writer.
Niina Koskela (1971), Norwegian Women Grandmaster born in Finland.
Radek Kalod (1978), Czech Grandmaster who played the 2006 Olympiad.
Sergey Kayumov (1981), Uzbek Grandmaster who disappeared from international chess in 2010.
Ferenc Berkes (1985), a three-time Hungarian Champion.
Marin Bosiocic (1988), Croatian player who played many years for the national team.
Petar G. Arnaudov (1986), Bulgarian Grandmaster and writer who played more than 100 tournaments.
Marin Bosiocic (1988), Croatian Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Jacobus Johannes Ebben (11.01.1875-1961), Dutch composer who composed 250 problems.
Charles Pelle (1965), French chess composer.
Vladimir Pachman, 16.04.1918-1984), Czech Grandmaster for Chess Composition and writer.
Laszlo Szabo (19.03.1917-1998), Hungary, he was the best player in Hungary for nearly 20 years.
Igor Kurnosov Igor (30.05. 1985-2013), Russian Grandmaster who was hit and killed by a car.
Oganes Danielian (03.01.1974-2016), Armenian Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1938 FIDE confirmed the full admission of Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. At the request of Hungary, France, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina and Great Britain, the FIDE GA agreed to reconsider the membership of Germany (GDDB).
1959 Carlos Bielicki of Argentina won the 5th World Junior Championship in Munchenstein, Switzerland.
1965 Candidates Semi-Final Match in Bled, Tal (USSR) beat B. Larsen (DEN) 5½-4½.
1981 S. Conquest ENG won the 5th World U16 Championship in Embalse, Argentina.
1989 The FIDE GA approved the creation of the Presidential Board to exercise, in the emergency, the rights of the General Assembly, Central Committee or Executive Council in between their respective meetings.
1994 M. Taimanov (RUS) won for the second time the World Senior Championship organized in Biel, Switzerland.
2008 In Kazakhstan, The World Blitz Championship was won by GM Leinier Dominguez of Cuba who was undefeated with 11.5 points.
WORLD EVENTS
1786 Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1863 American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1908 Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1963 Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steals £2.6 million in bank notes.
1967 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
1974 President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1990 Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
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