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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
Ten years ago I said that 2010 would be the end, chess would be exhausted. But it is not true, chess will not die so quickly.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Adolf Schwarz (1836-25.10.1910), an Austria-Hungarian Master born in Slovakia.
Ottmar Weiss, (1860-28.04.1942), Austrian composer. born in the Czech Republic.
Alexander Alekhine (1892-24.03.1946), a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion. He is considered one of the greatest chess players ever.
Iivo Nei (1931), an Estonian International Master, a teacher, and coach of Boris Spassky.
Milorad Knezevic (1936-30.03.2005), a Serbian Grandmaster.
Katarina, Jovanovic-Blagojevic (1943), Yugoslavian Woman GranYugoslavian was three times Yugoslav women’s champion.
Tomas Petrik (1980), a Slovakian Grandmaster, Slovak Champion in 2005 and 2006.
Alexander Grischuk (1983), a Russian Grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2009. The winner of the World Blitz Chess Championships of 2006, 2012 and 2015.
Dinara Saduakassova, (1996), Kazakh Woman Grandmaster.
DEATHS
Clare Benedict (1870-1961), an American writer and chess patron who was living in Switzerland.
Bror Larsson (01.10.1907-1966), a Swedish chess composer.
Alexander Zaitsev (15.06.1935-1971), a Soviet Grandmaster who finished first equal with Lev Polugaevsky in the 1968-69 USSR championship.
CHESS EVENTS
1959 31.10 The 4th Candidates Tournament was organized in the cities of Bled, Zagreb and Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The new Soviet star Mikhail Tal of USSR won the tournament ahead of Keres. Robert Fischer of USA didn’t play as well as he had hoped, finishing only 6th. and lost to Tal 4-0.
WORLD EVENTS
1864 Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
1876 A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 deaths.
1918 World War I: Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1922 Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy
1926 Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that develops after his appendix ruptures.
1961 In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin’s body is removed from Vladimir Lenin’s Tomb.
1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and nearly 10,000 Sikhs are killed.
2003 Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir’s 22 years in power.
2011 The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as Seven Billion Day.
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