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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…gives students an opportunity to think at a different level.- Dr. Chad Witherspoon, 2014
BIRTHS
Albert Sidney Pinkus (1903– 04.02 1984), An American Master, author and stockbroker.
Andrei Sokolov (1963), a French Grandmaster and coach born in Russia. USSR Champion of 1984, he lost the 1987 Candidates’ final match against Anatoly Karpov.
Gleizerov, Evgeny, RUS, b-day 20.03.1963
20.03.1980; Khruschiov, Alexey, MDA, b-day
Antal, Gergely, HUN, b-day 20.03.1985
Skoberne, Jure, SLO, b-day 20.03.1987
20.03.1990; Rodshtein, Maxim, ISR, b-day
DEATH
Stepan Levitsky (25.04.1876-1924), a Russian master who won the 1911 All-Russian Amateur Tournament and became Russian Champion.
CHESS EVENTS
1983 20.03 Women’s Candidates Quarterfinal, N. Ioseliani USSR beat Liu CHN 6-3.
WORLD EVENTS
1760 The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.
1848 Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.
1890 German Emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto von Bismarck
1915 Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1952 The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1956 Tunisia gains independence from France.
1981 Argentine ex-president Isabel Peron is sentenced to 8 years
2003 Invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.
2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 2-day tour.
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