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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."
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
According to my experiences, in key events, normally the games’ quality is not as high as other major events. Most brilliant games are not found in championships at present.- Garry Kasparov, 2014
BIRTHS
Guy Chandler (1885-28.05.1980), English chess composer.
Gideon Barcza (1911-1986), Hungarian Grandmaster who won 9 times the championship of Hungary.
Lev Alburt (1945), US Grandmaster, coach and author. Three times was a champion of Ukraine and USA. He emigrated to the USA in 1979.
Mohammad Jafar Kambuzia (1960), FIDE Officer and former president of the Iranian chess federation.
Gerardo Barbero(1961-2001), Argentine Grandmaster, the national champion of 1984 who died of cancer in Budapest where he was living.
Francisco Vallejo Pons (1982), Spanish Grandmaster who achieving the grandmaster title at the age of 16 years and 9 months and won the U18 World Chess Youth Championship in 2000.
CHESS EVENT
- M. Chandler (NZ) won the first Asian Junior championship in Manila.
WORLD EVENTS
1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
1897 – Oldsmobile, a brand of American automobiles, is founded.
1957 – The Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
1959 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union. Hawaii’s admission is currently commemorated by Hawaii Admission Day.
1991 – Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after the occupation of Soviet Union.
1991 – Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
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