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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
"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
Peter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games, I mean, come on, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there!- Anish Giri
BIRTHS
Adolf Fink (1890-1956), American chess composer who was few times champion of California.
H.J.J Slavekoorde (1907-1970), Dutch player, journalist, FIDE General Secretary and FIDE Honorary Member.
Claude Goumondy (1946), French chess composer.
Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (1968), Scottish Grandmaster. She was Schottish Champion, Women Soviet and Georgian Champions.
Ainur Sofieva (1970), Russian Women Grandmaster .
Grzegorz Gajewski (1985), Polish Grandmaster who was Polish Champion in 2015 and seconded V. Anand against M. Carlsen at the 2014 World Chess Championship.
CHESS EVENTS
1923 In Paris at the Cercle des Echecs du Palais-Royal, Georges Renauld won the first French Chess Championship.
1924 In Paris, at the end of two days of meetings under the Presidency of Mr. Pierre Vincent of France and Mr. Stick van Linschoten of Netherlands, the delegates of eleven countries agreed to create the “Federation Internationale des Echecs”. The Bureau invited the federations of Germany, Austria and the Soviet-Union that were not present in Paris to join them. The Bureau was in charge of developing the Statutes of the “Federation Internationale des Echecs” using as a base the Draft published in 1914 by the British Chess Federation.
1932 The President received one of the first rubber chessboards manufactured by the company Pirelli of Milan. The price was 50 Liras for 10 boards.
1950 FIDE approved the organization of the first World Junior Championship to be held the next year in Birmingham, England.
WORLD EVENTS
1333 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill: The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
1845 Great New York City Fire of 1845: The last great fire to affect Manhattan began early in the morning and was subdued that afternoon. The fire killed 4 firefighters, 26 civilians, and destroyed 345 buildings.
1900 The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
1963 Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1980 The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were opened in Moscow, Soviet Union.
1985 The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
1997 Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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