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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 is great as a chess player, but all his attempts to prove himself as an organizer – let’s say, is beyond the champion’s level.- Boris Gelfand , 2016
BIRTHS
Johnatan Mestel (1957), an English Grandmaster and Chess Solving Grandmaster who became World Chess Solving Champion in 1997.
Margareta Muresan (1950), a Romanian Woman Grandmaster who won the women’s Romanian Championship three times.
Quang Liem Le (1991), a Vietnamese Grandmaster who was World Blitz Champion in 2012.
Klaudia Kulon (1992), a Polish Woman Grandmaster who won the U12 Girls’ World Championship in 2004 and the U14 Girls’ World Championship in 2006.
Liza Soloviova (1993), a Ukraine Woman Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1896. The first Anglo-American cable match has been won by the American 4.5-3.5.
1975 Alexandria (USSR) beat Ms. Levitina USSR 9-8 in the Women’s Candidates’ final match in Moscow.
2012 In Gazianstep, Turkey, the Russian IM Valentina Gunina became the 2012 European Women’s Champion.
2013 In Astana, Kazakhstan, Ukraine won the Women’s World Chess Team Championship ahead of China and Russia.
WORLD EVENTS
1138 German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen is crowned
1697 Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, fell to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala.
1809 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d’état.
1845 Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1881 Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him.
1921 Mongolia is proclaimed an independent monarchy, ruled by Russian military officer Roman von Ungern-Sternberg as a dictator.
1933 Great Depression: Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open.
1954 First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp unleashed a massive artillery barrage on the French to begin the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, the climactic battle in the First Indochina War.
1138 German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned.
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created.
1986 Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
1991 The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
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