Correspondence Grandmasters and Personalities
Van Oosterom, Joop (Van Oosterom, Joop ) admin / February 11, 2017
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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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I think that ACP is a small clique, which gives power to more cliques.- Nigel Short, 2016
BIRTHS
George Allcock MacDonnell 1830-03.06.1889) Irish master, columnist, and author.
Henri Delaire (1860-27.09.1941), France chess composer and author. He was the first president of the French Chess Federation.
Josef Cumpe (1868-12.08.1943), Czech chess composer.
Vladimir Bagirov (1936-21.07. 2000) Soviet-Latvian Grandmaster, chess author, and trainer who was World Senior Champion in 1998.
Ildar Ibragimov (1967), Russian Grandmaster who was living in the USA for 10 years and played in the bronze medal-winning USA team in the 2006 Chess Olympiad.
Jurij Zezulkin (1971), Belarus-born chess Grandmaster and organiser who is living in Poland since 2010.
Elina Danielian (1978) Armenian Grandmaster and Women Grandmaster. The best Armenian female player for two decades. She is living in the Netherlands.
Georgy Arzumanian (1980), Armenian Grandmaster
Natalia Zdebskaja (1986), Ukrainian Women Grandmaster who is married to Ukrainian Grandmaster Drozdovskij.
Roeland Pruijssers (1989), Dutch Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Friedrich Samisch (20.09.1896-1975), German Grandmaster who contributed to the opening theory with two variations in the King’s Indian and the Nimzo-Indian.
CHESS EVENTS
1936 The Olympiad in Munich was organized by The Great German Chess Federation, at the time not a member of FIDE. Twenty-one teams participated, and the matches involved teams of eight players. England, Palestine and the United States did not participate.
1957 In Toronto, Canada, William Lombardy of USA won the 4th World Junior Championship with 11/11.
1993 K. Arakhamia GEO won the SFR the Women’s Interzonal in Jakarta.
2008 In Gaziantep Turkey, Abhijeet Gupta and Harika Dronavalli both from India won the World U20 Championships for Boys and Girls.
2011 In Chennai India, Swiercz Dariusz from Poland and Cori T Deysi from Peru became the World Junior and Girls Champions respectively.
WORLD EVENTS
1906 An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hits Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people.
1930 The first colour sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1945 Puyi, the last Chinese emperor, and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.
1960 Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1977 Elvis Presley, American singer, guitarist, and actor died.
2003 The notorious former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin dies in exile in a Saudi Arabian hospital.
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