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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
I’ve been playing chess professionally for 35 years! It’s a long time, and when people can still say that they enjoy my chess, that’s great.- Nigel Short, 2016
Fyodor Duz Khotimirsky (1879-05.11.1965), Soviet International Master born in Ukraine.
Otto Blathy (11.08.1860-1939), Hungarian engineer and famous chess composer.
Vladimir Savon 1940-01.06.2005), Ukrainian Grandmaster who won the Ukrainian Championship in 1969 and won the USSR Championship in 1971.
Lev Gutman (1945) Israeli Grandmaster born in Latvia and living in Germany. Author and coach, he worked with V. Korchnoi during the WC match in 1978.
David Gurgenidze (1953), Georgian chess composer.
Stuart Craig Rachels was born in New York, USA. American International Master . He tied for first place in the 1989-90 U.S. Chess Championship and retired from chess in 1993.
Claudia Amura (1970), Argentine Women Grandmaster who was the best South American female player for 15 years.
Martin Lorenzini (1975), Argentine Grandmaster who won the national championship in 2011.
Melor Bedia (1979), Russian Grandmaster
Eldar Gasanov (1982), Ukrainian Grandmaster (1982) who was Ukrainian U20 Champion in 2002.
Ilja Zaragatski, (1985), German Grandmaster born in Russian who was the U18 German Champion in 2002.
DEATHS
Ricardo Calvo Minguez (22.10.1943-2002) Spanish International Master, a doctor and a well-known chess historian.
Mark Dvoretsky (09.12.1947-2016), Russian International Master, author and one of the best coaches of the late 20th century.
CHESS EVENTS
1929 The FIDE GA approved the first Chess Rules presented by Messrs. De Watteville SUI, Cheron FRA and Nicolet SUI. The World champion Alekhine was also a contributor to it.
1968 Candidates final match in Kiev, B. Spassky USSR beat V. Korchnoi USSR 6½-3½.
1981 Z. Franco PAR won the 3rd Pan-American Individual Championship. At the same time R. Garbarino won the 7th Pan-American Junior Championship.
WORLD EVENTS
1580 Sir Francis Drake finishes his circumnavigation of the Earth.
1687 The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini.
1789 Thomas Jefferson is appointed the first United States Secretary of State.
1907 New Zealand and Newfoundland each become dominions within the British Empire.
1918 World War I: The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the bloodiest single battle in American history, begins.
1950 United Nations troops recapture Seoul from North Korean forces.
1950 Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations.
1954 Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
1960 In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
1969 Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
1973 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Military officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.
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