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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
It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.- Mark Dvoretsky
BIRTHS
Siegbert Tarrasch (1862-17.02.1934) a German Master, author, arbiter and one of the best world player of his time.
Evgeny Vasiukov (1933), Russian Grandmaster, FIDE Trainer who won the World Senior Championship in 1995.
Vladimir Tukmakov (1946), a Ukrainian Grandmaster and successful coach (Azerbaijan.
Anatoly Vaiser (1949), a French Grandmaster born in Russian who became French Champion in 1997 and four times World Senior Champion.
Avigdor Bykhovsky (1955), a Russian Grandmaster who is living in Israel.
Aleksei Lugovoi (1975) a Russian Grandmaster.
Maxim Matlakov, Maxim, RUS, b-day 05.03.1991 a Russian Grandmaster who was World U18 Champion in 2009.
Jacek Tomczak (1990), a Polish Grandmaster who was many times Polish Youth Champion.iv>
Vladislav Artemiev (1998) a Russian Grandmaster who won the Russian Junior Championship in 2013.
CHESS EVENTS
2011 In Doha, Humpy Koneru (IND) became the winner of the Women’s Grand Prix and got the right to play the Women’s World Championship Final Match against Hou Yifan.
WORLD EVENTS
1616 Astronomical work ‘de Revolutionibus’ by Nicolaus Copernicus placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1917 US President Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated for a second term.
1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM.
1933 Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1936 First flight of Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1940 Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
1995 Graves of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St Petersburg
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