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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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"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
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- 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
When I play well, I don’t win!- Maxime Vachier Lagrave, 2017
BIRTHS
Sergey Kaminer (1908-92.11.1938), one of the founders of the Soviet study composer. He was shoot as an “enemy of the Soviet people”.
Alexander Roshal (1936-21.05.2007), Soviet Master, author, journalist and coach. He was for many years the chief editor of the Russian chess magazine 64.
Michael Rohde (1959), US Grandmaster.
Jonathan Tisdall (1958), Norwegian Grandmaster and journalist born in the USA.
Alexander Cherniaev (1969), Russian Grandmaster.
Georg Meier (1987), German Grandmaster.
Aaron, Summerscale (1969), English Grandmaster and author.
Zuzana Cibickova, (1988), Slovakian Women Grandmaster.
DEATH
John Griswold White (1845-1928) American chess amateur, and a bibliophile.White donated his collection, one of the largest in the world, to the Cleveland Public Library.
Pal Benko (1928-2019) American-Hungarian Grandmaster born in France.
Benko finished in first place (or tied for first place) in eight U.S. Open Chess Championships,
Events
1991 The Candidates Quarterfinals finished in Brussels: A. Karpov (USSR) beat V. Anand (IND) 4½-3½; N. Short (ENG) beat B. Gelfand (USSR) 5-3; A. Yusupov (USSR) beat V. Ivanchuk (USSR) 4-4 (1-0) and J. Timman (NED) beat V. Korchnoi (SUI) 4½-2½.
WORLD EVENTS
1789 The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
1910 Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate was born. (d. 1997)
1920 The 19th amendment to the United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1966 The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe.
1978 Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
1980 Tex Avery, American animator, director, and voice actor died (b. 1908).
1999 Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
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