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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
Fischer wanted to prove that all world championship games after his victory were prearranged. He did not convince me.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Boris Kostic 1887-03.11.1963), One of the top Serbian players before WWII. At New York in 1916, he once played twenty opponents without sight of a board and won nineteen games and drew one, while engaging in polite conversation with opponents and spectators.
Cenek Kottnauer (1910-14.02.1996), an English International Master and International Arbiter who played few Olympiads for Czechoslovakia and England.
Klaus Darga (24.02.1934), a German Grandmaster who was West German chess champion in 1955 and 1961 and one of the best German players of his time.
Orest Gritsak(1973), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was Ukrainian Champion in 1993 and a coach of Ivanchuk for few years.
Surya, Shekhar Ganguly (1983), an Indian Grandmaster who became 2009 Asian champion and six-time Indian champion.
Xiaowen Zhang (1989), a Chinese Woman Grandmaster.
Vasif Durarbayli (1992), an Azeri Grandmaster who won the World U18 Youth Chess Championship for boys.
DEATH
James Mortimer (April 22/04.1833-1911), an American player and journalist who was living in England.
WORLD EVENTS
1582 With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1607 L’Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
1848 King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1854 A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
1868 US House of Representatives votes 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
1895 Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 The Nazi Party is founded.
1944 Argentina coup by the minister of war Juan Peron.
1945 Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1946 Juan Peron (Labor Party) first elected President of Argentina
2008 Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years.
2013 Raúl Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba.
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)
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