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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
Kasparov’s book are the best, as far as high level analyses are concerned.- Jan Timman, 1991 NIC
BIRTHS
Walter Shipman (1929-28.02.2017), an American International Master.
Valentina Kozlovskaya (1938), a Russian Woman Grandmaster who became the 1996 Senior Women’s World Chess Champion.
Albin Planinc (1944), a Slovenian Grandmaster who won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 1968 and 1971.
Naum Rashkovsky (1946), a Russian Grandmaster and coach who was European Senior Champion in 2007.
William Watson (1962), an English Grandmaster who left chess to become a lawyer.
Rui Wang (1978), a Chinese Grandmaster.
Athanasios Mastrovasilis (1979), a Greek Grandmaster, the elder brother of GM Dimitrios Mastrovasilis.
Yuriy Ajrapetjan (1988), a Ukrainian-Armenian Grandmaster.
Daniil Dubov, Daniil (1996), who completed his final grandmaster norm at the age of 14 years, 11 months, 14 days in 2011.
Matthias Bluebaum (18.04.1997), a German Grandmaster who finished third at the World Junior Championship in 2015.
DEATHS
Rudolf Charousek (19.09.1873-1900), a Hungarian Master who was one of a few players who had a plus record against Emanuel Lasker but never played a World Championship Match.
Leonid Kubbel (1891-1942), A Soviet chess composer .
WORLD EVENTS
1480 Lucretia Borgia (d.1519), murderess, was born.
1897 The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
1902 Denmark became the 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals.
1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
1937 Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
1942 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.
1942 The first US air strike against Japan, an air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle (d.1993), raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.
1946 The League of Nations was dissolved.
1946 The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
1949 Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.
1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt
1961 Apr 18, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sent a letter to Pres. Kennedy with an “urgent call” to end “aggression” against Cuba.
1956 Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a civil ceremony.
1974 Marcel Pagnol (b.1895), French writer and film director, died.
1980 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country’s first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
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