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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’ve got no regrets about the games themselves, as frankly I’ve never been narcissistic about my play.- Alexander Grischuk, 2014
BIRTHS
Karl Jaenisch (1813), Finnish-Russian chess player, chess theorist, composer and author. Jaenisch is best remembered for having analyzed and helped develop Petrov’s Defence and the Schliemann–Jaenisch Gambit of the Ruy Lopez,
Tigran Gorgiev (1910), Soviet study composer, born in Ukraine, International Judge of Chess Compositions 1956, International Master for Chess Compositions 1956.
Rodrigo Flores Alvarez (1910-17.01.2007), Argentine Master who won between 1931 and 1965 11 times the Argentine championship.
Dmitry Kononenko, (1988), Ukraine Grandmaster.
Gennadi Matjushin (1984), Ukraine Grandmaster.
Martin Petr (1988), Czech Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Lev Polugaevsky (1995), Soviet-French Grandmaster, theorist, the participant at the Candidates’ Matches. He died of a brain tumour in 1995.
CHESS EVENTS
1895 The Swiss system was invented by Dr. Julius Muller and applied for the first time in 1895 at Zurich.
1953 The FIDE GA agreed to charge for the first time entry fees to the federation.
1985 The USSR won the World U26 Team Championship in Mendosa, Argentina.
WORLD EVENTS
1754 Louis XVI of France was born (d. 1793)
1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.
1866 Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
1927 Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.
1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1990 West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War.
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