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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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Carlsen is paying far less attention to opening theory than his rivals, he is happy to go down paths that may offer no advantage yet have the benefit of dragging opponents out of their “openings book”. Once beyond the reaches of computer-aided openings, Carlsen starts to turn the screw.- Judith Polgar, FT, 2014
BIRTH
Eleshka Klimova (1959) a Czech Woman Grandmaster.
Davor Komljenovic (1944), a Croatian Grandmaster.
Goran Cabrilo (1958), a Serbian Grandmaster
Eloi Relange (1976), a French Grandmaster who left chess to play poker.
Ramil Hasangatin (1972), a Russian Grandmaster.
Moussa Taleb (1978), an Emirates Grandmaster.
Evgeny Tomashevsky (1987), a Russian Grandmaster a Russian Grandmaster who was European champion in 2009 and Russian champion in 2015.
Galina Strutinskaia (1957), a Russian Grandmaster who won the Women’s World Senior Chess Championship in 2011, 2012 and 2015
Oparin, Grigoriy, (1997), a Russian Grandmaster.
Anne Haast (1993), a Dutch Woman Grandmaster who was women’s national champion in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
CHESS EVENTS
1971 Prof. Elo, USA published the first FIDE rating list.
1990 A. Galliamova USSR and K. Kakhiani
1999 Garry Kasparov surpassed his own record in the FIDE Rating list at 2851.
2001 The Board resolved to fully adopt the IOC Medical Code as the only basis for the FIDE Anti-Doping Code with effect from 1 July 2001.
WORLD EVENTS
1200 In China, sunglasses are invented
1252 King Alfonso X “el Sabio” of Castile/Leon crowned
1776 1st vote on Declaration of Independence for Britain’s North American colonies
1847 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cent Franklin & 10 cent Washington, NYC
1903 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins
1904 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
1908 “SOS” distress signal becomes the worldwide standard for help
1916 Coca-Cola brings current coke formula to the market
1929 US cartoonist Elzie Segar creates “Popeye”
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