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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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Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw.- Judith Polgar, FT, 2014
BIRTHS
Meindert Niemeijer (1902-05.10.1987), a Dutch lawyer, banker, managing director of an insurance company, chess historian . and Internationale Master for Chess Compositions. He donated over 7,000 chess books to the Royal Hague Library.
Jan Plachetka (1945), a Slovakian Grandmaster and coach.
Alois Lanc (1948), a Slovakian International Master and Grandmaster for correspondence chess.
Mladen Palac (1971), a Croatian Grandmaster who won the Croatian Championship in 2001 and 2004.
Helgi Gretarsson (1977); an Icelandic Grandmaster who became the 1994 World Junior Champion.
Maka Purtseladze (1988), a Georgian Woman Grandmaster.
Dmitry Kokarev (1982) a Russian Grandmaster who won Wolrd U18 Championship in 1999.
Jovana Vojinovic, (1992), a Serbian Woman Grandmaster.
WORLD EVENTS
1898 Enzo Ferrari (d.1988), the Italian sports car manufacturer, was born.
1922 The French chess player Marcel Duchamp’s painting “Nude Descending a Staircase” was displayed at the Armory Show in NYC.
1942 Japanese troop landed on Bali.
1947 First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1962 Robert F. Kennedy said that U.S. troops would stay in Vietnam until Communism was defeated.
1982 Mexico devalued the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.
1988 Soviet Communist Party leaders dropped former Moscow party chief Boris N. Yeltsin from the ruling Politburo.
1989 The author Salman Rushdie, under a death sentence from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini for his book “The Satanic Verses,” expressed regret for any distress he’d caused Muslims.
1922 The French chess player Marcel Duchamp’s painting “Nude Descending a Staircase” was displayed at the Armory Show in NYC.
1942 Japanese troop landed on Bali.
1947 First Indochina War: The French gain complete control of Hanoi after forcing the Viet Minh to withdraw to mountains.
1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1962 Robert F. Kennedy said that U.S. troops would stay in Vietnam until Communism was defeated.
1982 Mexico devalued the peso by 30 percent to fight an economic slide.
1988 Soviet Communist Party leaders dropped former Moscow party chief Boris N. Yeltsin from the ruling Politburo.
1989 The author Salman Rushdie, under a death sentence from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini for his book “The Satanic Verses,” expressed regret for any distress he’d caused Muslims.
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