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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
I understood that through chess I could express myself and chess became my natural language.- Boris Spassky, 1995
BIRTHS
Adrian Hollis (1940-28.02.2013), English Correspondence Grandmaster, who was the British Correspondence Chess Champion few times.
Andreas Duckstein (1927) Austrian International Master born in Budapest. Thrice Austrian Champion (1954, 1956, 1977).
Puig Laborda Jorge 02.08 1928 1989 Spanish-Catalan chess amateur who create the AIPE and the Chess Oscar in 1967.
Yakov Murey (1941), Israeli Grandmaster born in Moscow and currently living in France. European Senior Champion in 2001 and was the second of V. Korchnoi at the World Championship Match in 1978.
Georg Siegel (1962-07.12.2010), German Grandmaster who sadly drowned in Freiburg, in 2010. His body was never found.
Vladimir Belikov (1971), Russian Gradmaster who was Army Champion in 1995.
Georgi Castaneda, (1976), Peruvian Grandmaster, not active anymore.
DEATHS
Johann Breuer (07.01.1903-1981), German chess composer.
Kushnir Alla (11.02. 1941- 2013) Israeli Women Grandmaster who was Women’s World Championship Challenger in 1965, 1969 and 1972. She was also USSR Women’s Champion in 1970 before moving to Israel in 1973.
CHESS EVENTS
1960 The USA team (Mombardy, Kalme, Weinstein, Saidy, Mednis, Hearst) beat the USSR for the gold at the 7th World Student Team Championship in Leningrad, USSR.
1964 The team of USSR ( Pelts, Khodos, Savon, Mnatsakanian, Antoshin, Kapengut) won the 11th World Student Team Championship in Krakow, Poland.
2009 In Sao Polo, Brazil, Alexander Shabalov (USA) and Jimenez Fidel Corrales (CUB) shared first at the American Continental Chess Championship.
WORLD EVENTS
1776 The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.
1869 Japan’s samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1870 Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
1873 The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.
1922 A typhoon hits Shantou, Republic of China killing more than 50,000 people.
1934 Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.
1939 Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
1943 Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.
1980 A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.
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