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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.- Anatoly Karpov
BIRTHS
Jorgen Moller (1873-1944), a Danish chess master who was twice the Nordic Chess Champion,
Elisaveta Bykova (1913-08.03.1989), a Soviet Women Grandmaster and the third and fifth Women’s World Chess Champion, from 1953 until 1956, and again from 1958 to 1962.
Rudolf Loman (14.10.1861-1932), Dutch master who won the Dutch championship 6 times.
Eugenio Torre (1951), Filippino Grandmaster who was the best Asian player for a decade and is the record holder of having played the most games in the history of the Olympiad.
Gary Lane (1964), Australian Grandmaster, author and coach who won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988.
Thomas Luther (1969), was born in Erfurt, German Grandmaster who won the German championship three times.
Andrey Zontakh (1970), Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Dennis De Vreugt (1980), Dutch Grandmaster who won two European Youth championships.
Axel Bachmann was born, Paraguayan Grandmaster who won the 5th Iberoamerican Chess Championship
CHESS EVENTS
1979 E. Ahmilovskaya (USSR), T. Lematchko (BUL) and N. Gurieli (USSR) were the qualifiers from the second Women’s Interzonal Tournament of Alicante, Spain.
1988 Maya Chiburdanidze won the Women’s World Champion for the 5th time in Telavi, USSR, after beating Nona Ioseliani 8½-7½.
1993 The US team won the 3rd World Team Championship in Lucerne with 22½ points.
2000 For the first time since 1985, G. Kasparov lost a match and his title of World Champion. At the Brain Games Championship held in London Kasparov lost to Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) 6.5-8.5.
2009 In Puerto Madryn Argentina, the French Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Soumya Swaminathan of India became World U20 Champions for boys and girls.
WORLD EVENTS
1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
1868 Camagüey, Cuba revolts against Spain during the Ten Years’ War.
1921 Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1922 In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
1952 The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
1956 Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union, that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
1970 Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
1979 Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
1995 Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli.
2008 Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African descent to be elected President of the United States.
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