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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess. Others give only 2 percent!- Robert Fischer
BIRTHS
Arnold Denker (1914-02.01.2005), an American Grandmaster and author who was U.S. Chess Champion in 1944 and 1946.
Anne Sunnucks (1927), an English Woman International Master 1954, chess journalist and author who won the British Women’s Championship in 1957, 1958, 1964.
Gabor Kallai (1959), a Hungarian Grandmaster, coach, and author.
Bela Badea (1969), a Romanian Grandmaster.
Dimitrij Bunzmann (1982), a German Grandmaster born in Uzbekistan.
CHESS EVENTS
1988 21.02 Candidates Matches in Saint-John, Canada, K. Spraggett CAN beat A. Sokolov USSR 6½-5½; J. Hjartarson ISL beat R. Vaganian USSR 3½-2½; J. Timman NED beat V. Salov USSR 3½-2½; A. Yusupov USSR beat J. Ehlvest USSR 3½-1½; N. Short ENG beat G. Sax HUN 3½-1½; J. Speelman END beat Y. Seirawan USA 4-1.
WORLD EVENTS
1440 The Prussian Confederation is formed.
1598 Boris Godunov crowned tsar
1613 Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia.
1797 Trinidad, West Indies, surrenders to British
1842 John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
1925 The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
1922 Great Britain grants Egypt independence
1958 Egypt-Syria as United Arab Republic elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
1965 Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.
1972 United States President Richard Nixon visits the People’s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.
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