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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
"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
In the past twenty years Kramnik has played a few thousand games, and if you show me a position from one of them, in 90 percent of the time I will be able to tell you which game it is from.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Karel Husak (1925-06.12.2004), a Czech Correspondence Grandmaster who finished 2nd in the 1968 World Correspondence Championship.
Sergey Arkhipov (1954), a Russian Grandmaster.
Vitali Golod (1971), a Ukrainian–Israeli Grandmaster and coach who was Ukrainian Champion in 1991.
Ramon Mateo (1958), a Dominican Grandmaster who won 10 national titles.
Ava Suleimanova (1982), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster.
Melania Lubbe (1990), a German Woman Grandmaster who is a member of the national women’s team since 2008.
David Anton Guijarro (1995), a Spanish Grandmaster.
Oliver Mihok (1993) a Hungarian Grandmaster who was European Union U12 champion in 2004.
CHESS EVENTS
1883. In England, Zukertort topped Steinitz at the London tourney. The organizers managed to collect a prize fund of ₤ 1,100, a fortune at that time. It was the peak of Zukertort chess’ career. Just after it, Steinitz invited him to play the first World Chess Championship.
1897. The first ‘Ladies’ International Tournament began at Hotel Cecil, London.
1951 23.06 Boris Ivkov from Yugoslavia won the first World Junior Championship in Birmingham.
WORLD EVENTS
1894 The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1894 Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom was born (d. 1972).
1919 Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
1950 Swiss parliament refuses the voting right for women.
1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected president of Egypt.
1969 Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title.
1985 A bomb destroys Air India Boeing 747 in air near Ireland, 329 die
1990 Moldavia declares its independence.
2016 The United Kingdom votes in a referendum to leave the European Union, by 52% to 48%.
(Source: Wikipedia, Onthisday)
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