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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
Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Good players actually use their long-term memory much more than inexperienced players, who use their short-term memory. Good players try to recall patterns.- Magnus Carlsen 2016, 2016
BIRTHS
Laszlo Szabo (1917-08.08.1998), a Hungarian Grandmaster, author, and coach. Szabó was the best player in Hungary for nearly 20 years
Josef Kling (1811-01.12.1876), a German player and chess composer, one of the founders of the modern etude. A professor of music.
Eduard Gufeld (1936-23.09.2003), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was living in the USA, Honored Coach of USSR, a theorist, coach, author, journalist, and commentator.
Tatania Lemachko (1948) a Swiss Women Grandmaster (1977) born in Russia. He was living in Bulgaria, and then in 1982, she defected from the Bulgarian team on the eve of the last round of the Lucerne Olympiad in 1982 to reach Switzerland.
Thorhallsson Throstur (1969), an Icelandic Grandmaster.
Andrey Orlov (1977), a Russian Grandmaster.
Stefen Bromberger (1982) a German Grandmaster who won two German youth national titles.
DEATHS
Eugene Cook (18.05.1830- 1915), an American chess composer. Co-author of the “American Chess Nuts” containing 2 400 positions.
Carlos Torre (29.11.1904-1978), the first Mexican Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1975 A motion of censure against the FIDE President Max Euwe, on the grounds that he had flagrantly favored Fischer’s over Karpov’ s view in his choice of venue and Chief Arbiter for the match, was overwhelmingly rejected.
WORLD EVENTS
1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila.
1702 James II’s daughter Anne Stuart becomes queen of England.
1931 Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.
1989 The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
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