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Chess Facts
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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
If the 12th game (from the match Carlsen-Karjakin)… were a restaurant dish, I would send it back to the chef.- Nigel Short 2016
BIRTHS
Bernand Zuckerman, (1943), an American International Master (1970) who won the World Open in 1976.
Andreas Adorjan a Hungarian Grandmaster and author who was European U20 Champion in 1970.
Evgeny Pigusov (1961), a Russian Grandmaster who was the second of Kasparov in 1995.
Zoltan Gyimesi (1977) a Hungarian Grandmaster who left chess a few years ago.
Yue Wang (1987) a Chinese Grandmaster who became World University Champion in 2010 and a member of the top ten best world-ranked players.
Humpy Koneru (1987), an Indian Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who is the second best female world rated for a decade.
Ante Brkic (1988), a Croatian Grandmaster who was Croatian Champion in 2010and 2011.
CHESS EVENTS
1953 Cecil Purdy of Australia won the first Correspondence Chess World Championship.
WORLD EVENTS
1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowned German emperor Hendrik IV.
1492 Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1547 Francis I, King of France (1515-1547), died and was succeeded by his son Henry II.
1809 Composer Franz Joseph Haydn died in Vienna, Austria on his 77th birthday.
1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1917 The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1954 The siege of Dien Bien Phu, the last French outpost in Vietnam, began after the Viet Minh realized it could not be taken by direct assault.
1964 A coup d’état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco.
1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country’s independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 Albania offered a multi-party election for the first time in 50 years.
2001 In the Netherlands legislation enacted in 2000 to legalize gay marriages went into effect at midnight.
(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)
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