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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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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.- Anatoly Karpov, NIC 2010
BIRTHS
Wolfgang Uhlmann (1935), a German Grandmaster who was a World Candidate and won eleven times the East German Championship.
Petar Velikov (1951à a Bulgarian Grandmaster who was Bulgarian Champion in 1987.
Carlos Pappier (1961), an Argentine Correspondence Grandmaster.
Dr. Nora Medvegy (1977), a Hungarian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was European U18 Girl’s Champion and three times Hungarian Women’s Champion.
Mark Paragua (1984), a Filipino Grandmaster who was the youngest Filipino master ever, at nine years of age.
G.N. Gopal G.N (1989), an Indian Grandmaster who participated in three Olympiads.
Danny Raznikov (1993), an Israeli Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1886 Wilhelm Steinitz became the first World Championship after beating Johannes Zukertort 10-5.
2014 In Buenos Aires, Carolina Lujan (ARG) became the 2014 American Continental Women’s Champion.
WORLD EVENTS
1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice.
1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back.
1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d’état.
1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
2004 The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
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