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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
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- Vladimir Kramnik 2017
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- Vishy Anand2017
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
For goodness’ sake, how could Kasparov, after all his matches against Karpov, support him in the FIDE President elections? What sort of unprincipled person do you have to be? I would never understand that.- Viktor Korchnoi, 2012
BIRTHS
Anatoly Lein (1931), an American Grandmaster born in Russia.
Tatania Roschina (1976), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Azer Mirzoev (1978), an Azerbaijan Grandmaster.
Juan Borges Matos (1966), a Cuban Grandmaster who was Cuban Champion in 1987, 1993 and 1995.
Sergei Zhigalko (1989), a Belarus Grandmaster who won the Belarusian Championship in 2009, 2012 and 2013.
CHESS EVENTS
2004 The team of Tagaytay from Philipines won the Dubai Cup and the Asian Cities Championship.
2016 In Moscow, Sergey Karjakin won the Candidates Tournament and qualified for the World Championship Final Match against Magnus Carlsen.
WORLD EVENTS
193 Roman Emperor Pertinax is assassinated by Praetorian Guards, who then sell the throne in an auction to Didius Julianus.
1842 First concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, founded by Otto Nicolai.
1854 Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1920 Tomáš Masaryk elected President of Czechoslovakia.
1930 Turkish cities Constantinople & Angora change their names to Istanbul & Ankara.
1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1959 The State Council of the People’s Republic of China dissolves the government of Tibet.
1990 United States President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
1994 Italy’s right-wing alliance under Silvio Berlusconi wins the election.
(Source: Wikipedia and Onthisday)
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