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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
Elena Fatalibekova Russian Women Grandmaster who is a three-time winner of the Women’s World Senior Chess Championship.
Tatiana Shumiakina (1965), Russia Women Grandmaster.
Branko Tadic (1973), Serbian Grandmaster.
Bartlomiej Macieja (1977), Polish Grandmaster and coach. European Champion 2002 and twice Polish Champion.
DEATHS
Ludwig Collijn (20.11.1878-1939) chairman of the Swedish Chess Federation from 1917 to 1939 and promoter of the Scandinavian defence.
Kenneth Harkness (1896-1972), American International Arbiter and writer. He introduced the Harkness rating system, which was a precursor to the Elo rating system and one method of tiebreaks in Swiss systems. Harkness is in the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.
Lev Aronin (20.07.1920-1982), Soviet International Master who, according Bronstein, was deserving the title of Grandmaster.
Federico Alliney (03.09.1920-1991), Italian chess composer.
CHESS EVENTS
1964 Three players tied for first at the 5th Women’s Candidates Tournament in Sukhumi, USSR. Kushnir (USSR), Lazarevic (YUG) and Zatulovskaya (USSR) scored 12½./17. A. Kushnir later won the play-off in Moscow.
2015 In Baku, Azerbaijan, Sergey Karjakin (RUS) won both tie-break blitz games against Peter Svidler (RUS) and became the winner of the 2015 World Cup.
WORLD EVENTS
1669 Rembrandt, Dutch painter and illustrator died (b. 1606)
1824 Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
1830 The Provisional Government of Belgium secedes from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
1853 The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
1957 Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1965 Pope Paul VI arrives in New York City, the first Pope to visit the Americas.
1966 Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
2006 Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange.
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