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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 believe motivation is one of the most important things one has to have after playing for many years. Chess is a very complete, well thought-out game, which is why people have been playing it since ancient times.- Judith Polgar
BIRTHS
Vincenz Hruby (1856-16.07.1917), Czech Master and school teacher who was among the best players of the world in 1883.
Dr. Erwin Voellmy (1886-1.01.1951), Swiss Master who was thrice Swiss Champion.
Hermann Neustadtl (02.04.1862-1909), Austrian player and a Viennese doctor, born in Prague, who first suggested an auxiliary scoring method He died in Roztoky, Czech Republic.
Olga Semionova-Tian-Shanskaya (1911-1970), Soviet Women Grandmaster who was twice the Women champion of the USSR.
Elmars Zemgalis (1923-08.12.2014), Latvian-American chess master and mathematics professor. He was awarded an Honorary Grandmaster title in 2003.
Edwin Bhend (1931), Swiss International Master who was Swiss Champion in 1966.
Zbynek Hracek (1970), Czech Grandmaster who won the Czech championship in 1994.
Piotr Bobras (1977), Polish Grandmaster who graduated with a degree in computer science.
Bassem Amin (1988), Egyptian Grandmaster who became few times Arab and African Champions.
DEATHS
Ernesto Hellmann(09.11.1898-1952), Italian Master who participated in the 1928 Olympiad.
Larsen Bent (04.03 1935-2010) Danish Grandmaster and author, he was the first Western player to pose a serious challenge to the Soviet Union’s dominance in chess.
WORLD EVENTS
1488 Anne becomes sovereign Duchess of Brittany, becoming a central figure in the struggle for influence that leads to the union of Brittany and France.
1776 The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
1791 Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
1922 The Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
1923 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People’s Party.
1948 Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
1969 In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making French equal to English throughout the Federal government.
1991 Tajikistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
2015 Elizabeth II became the longest reigning monarch of the United Kingdom.
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