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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
The Golden Age, when machines were weak and my hair was strong!- Garry Kasparov, 2017
BIRTH
Grigory Yakovlevich Levenfish (1889-09.02.1961), a Russian Grandmaster who was twice Soviet champion, in 1934 (jointly with Ilya Rabinovich) and 1937.
Robert Fischer (1943-17.01.2008), American chess genius who became the 11th World Champion after beating Boris Spassky in 1972.
Gildardo Garcia (1954), a Colombian Grandmaster who won the championship of Colombia ten times.
Drazic, Sinisa Drazic (1955), a Croatian Grandmaster
Natalija Pogonina (1985), a Russian Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who was the runner-up of the Women’s World Chess Championship 2015.
WORLD EVENTS
1796 Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1831 The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours.
1842 Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Nabucco” premieres in Milan.
1890 Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1986)
1908 Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from the Milan Cricket and Football Club.
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party.1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow.
1959 The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1961 Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1992 Menachem Begin, Belarusian-Israeli soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.
2020 Share prices fall sharply around the world, in response to a new oil price war and the impact of COVID-19. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges more than 2,000 points, the largest fall in its history up to that point.
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