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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
Chess needs Kasparov, he’s very important for chess, he’s a very important figure who can open a lot of doors for chess. And for Kirsan, of course, it was a joke.- Silvio Danailov, 2013
BIRTHS
Armand Edward Blackmar (1826-), an American player and musician who he is best known to have introduced the gambit 1.d4 d5 2.e4 dxe4 3.f3.
John Wisker (1846-18.01.1884), an English chess player and journalist.
Mikhail Golubev (1970), a Ukrainian Grandmaster, journalist, and author.
Jana Krivec (1980), a Slovenian Woman Grandmaster who won7 title of Slovenian Women’s Champion.
Ilmars Starostits (1979), a Latvian Grandmaster who won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2002.
CHESS EVENTS
2007 In Ekaterinburg Russia, China won the first Women’s World Team Championship ahead of Russia and Ukraine.
2012 In Moscow at the State TRETYAKOV Gallery, the World Chess Championship sponsored by Andrey Filatov ended after 12 games with classical time control in a draw 6:6, so the Champion was determined during the tie-break. The players had to play four games with the time control of 25 minutes till the end with an incrementof 10 seconds after each move. Anand beat Gelfand in the second game and remained the World Chess Champion
WORLD EVENTS
AD 70 Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem.
1431 Hundred Years’ War: In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal.
1631 Publication of Gazette de France, the first French newspaper.
1814 Napoleonic Wars: War of the Sixth Coalition: The Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent. Napoleon is exiled to Elba.
1913 The Treaty of London is signed, ending the First Balkan War; Albania becomes an independent nation.
1958 Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1961 The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1967 The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1974 The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
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