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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."
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- Vishy Anand2017
Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef.- Nigel Short 2016
BIRTH
Henry Bird (1830-1908), an English chess player, a theorist and inventor of the opening: 1.f4.
Pal Benko (1928), a US Grandmaster born in Hungary, author, and chess composer of endgame studies and chess problems.
Morderai Shorek (1943), an Israeli International Arbiter.
Igor Zakharevich (1963), a Russian Grandmaster.
Tajana Gladisheva (1966), a Russian Women Grandmaster.
Essam El Gindy (1966), an Egyptian Grandmaster who was Egyptian Champion in 2002 and African Champion in 2003.
Adam Horvath, (1981), a Hungarian Grandmaster.
Ian Nepomniachtchi (1990), a Russian Grandmaster who was European Champion 2010 and Russian Champion 2010.
Yaroslav Zherebukh (1990), a US Grandmaster born in Ukraine.
DEATH
Vicenzo Nestler (08.01.1912-1988), an Italian Master who won three National Championships.
CHESS EVENTS
2000. Pavel Tregubov (Rus) won the 2000 European Individual Championship.
2013. In South Africa, Abhijeet Gupta won the Commonwealth Chess Championship.
WORLD EVENTS
1223 Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II.
1789 French Revolution: Citizens of Paris storm the Bastille.
1790 French Revolution: Citizens of Paris celebrate the unity of the French people and the national reconciliation in the Fête de la Fédération.
1881 Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
1969 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
1992 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source operating system revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his Linux soon afterwards.
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