Correspondence Grandmasters and Personalities
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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
Vasiukov hadn’t won a single game against me for 59 years and then suddenly won. I can’t call it shame. Shame or no shame, it’s a pity that he won…- Viktor Korchnoi , 2012
BIRTHS
George Henry Mackenzie (1837-14.04.1891) a Scottish-American Master who was one of the strongest players in the 1880’s.
Vasily Platov (1881 – 17-07-1952), a Russian editor of the chess composition columns in the chess magazines Shakhmatnoe obozrenie (1909-1910) and Shakhmaty (1922-1929).
Vasily Smyslov (1921-27.03.2010), a Russian Grandmaster who was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.
Christopher John Feather (24-03-1947), a British chess composer and helpmate/fairy expert.
Litinskaya-shul Marta (1949), a Ukrainian Women Grandmaster and Mathematician who was World Senior Women’s Champion in 2002 and 2003.
Igor Shvyrjov (1955), an Estonia Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.
Alexander Kochiev (1956), a Russian grandmaster, the winner of the European Youth Championship in 1975/76.
Yasser Seirawan (1960), an American Grandmaster, chess author and commentator born in Syria who is a four-time United States Champion and 1979 World Junior Championship.
Ivan Morovic Fernandez (1963), a Chilean Grandmaster who won the Pan American Junior Championship.
Monika Bobrowska-Socko (1978), the only Polish Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who won the Polish women’s championship seven times.
DEATH
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine (31.10.1892- 1946) a Russian and French player considered one of the greatest chess players ever who became the fourth World Chess Champion.
WORLD EVENTS
1720 Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates.
1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
1801 Aleksandr Pavlovich Romanov becomes Tsar Alexander I of Russia
1896 A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
1921 The 1921 Women’s Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women’s sports event.
1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1976 Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup
1999 Kosovo War: NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)
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