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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
The competition in the men’s tournament has grown massively over the past 20 years. Chess is becoming more and more popular, and there are no weak teams in the tournament any longer.- Andrey Filatov
BIRTHS
Johannes Kohtz (Alfred Wiedemann-1843-05.10.1918), German chess composer.
Arturo Carra (1882-1978), Italian chess composer.
Franz Ferdinand Palatz (1896-1945), German chess composer.
Frantisek Prokop (A.Sedlacek)-1901-21.09.1973), Czech player, chess composer and author.
Sergey Vsevolodovich Belavenets (1910 – 07.03.1942). Soviet player few times Moscow Champion who was fighting for the Soviet army in the Second World War he was killed in battle in Novgorod in 1942.
Ralf Appel (1971), German Grandmaster.
Hannes Stefansson (1972), Icelandic Grandmaster who won 11 national titles.
Jha Sriram (1976), Indian Grandmaster.
Alexander Morozevich (1977), Russian Grandmaster who was ranked second in the world in 2008.
Qian Huang (1986), Chinese Women Grandmaster. She won the Chinese Women’s Chess Championship in 2012 and the Asian Women’s Chess Championship in 2013.
Yanira Vigoa Apecheche (1987) Cuban Women Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Salo Flohr (1908 1983), a leading Czech and later Soviet Grandmaster of the early 20th century who dominated many of the chess tournaments of the pre-WWII years, and at one point was considered a contender for the World Chess Championship.
CHESS EVENTS
1866. The first game of the first unofficial world championship is played in London between A. Anderssen and W. Steinitz.
1926 The FIDE GA confirmed its acceptance of the 1922 London Protocol concerning the organization of the World Championship final match but refused to participate financially in the prize fund. The GA invited World Champion José Raul Capablanca to review this financial point with other Grandmasters. The GA did not recognize the World Champion and decided to organize the first FIDE Championship with a prize fund of SFR 5,000.
1927 The first official Chess Olympiad opened in London, with 16 national teams participating. 4 players per team and 1 reserve. A few applications (by Poland and the United Stated) were rejected due to overstepping the deadline. No distinction was made between professionals and amateurs.
1950 Following the title regulations approved in 1949, the FIDE GA, for the first time, granted Grandmaster titles to:
M. Botvinnik USSR, I. Boleslavsky USSR, I. Bondarevsky USSR, D. Bronstein USSR, Dr. O. Bernstein FRA, O. Duras CSR, M. Euwe NED, R. Fine USA, E. Grunfeld AUT, P. Keres USSR, A. Kotov USSR, B. Kostic YUG, G. Lowenfisch USSR, A. Lilienthal USSR, G. Maroczy HUN, J. Mieses ENG, M. Najdorf ARG, V. Ragozin USSR, A. Rubinstein BEL, S. Reshevsky USA, V. Smyslov USSR, L. Szabo HUN, F. Samisch FRG, G. Stahlberg SUI, S. Tartakower FRA and M. Vidmar YUG.
1978 In Baguio-city, Philippines, Karpov (USSR) played with Korchnoi (SUI) for the World Championship. This match was the first since 1948, in which the winner was the first player to win six games. At the same time, a rematch clause, which had been eliminated in 1963, was reinstated. The Chief Arbiter was L. Schmid (FRG). The prize fund was US$ 350,000 for the winner and US$ 200,000 for the loser.
WORLD EVENTS
1812 The Treaties of Orebro ends both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
1914 The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1925 Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1944 World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1968 Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1976 Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1994 The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
1994 Rwandan Genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
2013 The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
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