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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
This one hour allows me to put the problem into the background and then, when I come back, I am much more rational and less emotional about the particular problem and I can think better about it.- G. Borg, 2016
BIRTHS
Alberto Batori, Italian (26.02.1884-1923), an Italian player and chess composer.
Felix Levin (1958), an Ukrainian Grandmaster born in Germany.
Ildiko Madl (1969), a HungarianInternational Master and Women Grandmaster. A member of the Hungarian team with the Polgar’s sisters which won the 1990 Women’s Olympiad.
Ilaha Kadimova (1975), an Azerbaijani Woman Grandmaster who was Belarus Women’s Champion in 1990 and won a couple of European Youth championships.
Gisela Fischdick Gisela (1955), a German Women Grandmaster.
Maarten Solleveld (1979), a Dutch Grandmaster.
Mustafa Yilmaz (1992), a Turkish Grandmaster who was Turkish Champion in 2009.
Qun Ma, Qun (1991), a Chinese Grandmaster.
Max Illingworth, (1992), an Australian Grandmaster, coach and writer.
DEATH
Fedor Duz-Khotimirsky (25.09.1881-1965), Soviet Internal Master born in Ukraine.
Iuri Akobia (20.05.1937-2014), a Georgian chess composer.
CHESS EVENTS
1924 The Brazilian Chess Federation was founded.
2014 The 24th FIDE World Senior Championships took place at the Olympus Riviera of Katerini in Greece, Zurab Sturua (GEO) and Anatoly Vaisser (FRA) became the new World Champions for the senior categories 50+ and 65+ respectively while WIM Svetlana Mednikova (Russia) and the legendary GM Nona Gaprindashvili(Georgia) became the new World Champions for the senior women’s categories 50+ and 65+ respectively.
WORLD EVENTS
1895 George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1911 After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
1912 Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States.
1916 The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of 5th November of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
2006 Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi’a Muslims.
2007 China’s first lunar satellite, Change 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
2007 Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google.
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