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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."
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- Veselin Topalov2016
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
If the FIDe elections were not decided by the votes of the delegates but by the world’s chess society as a whole, there would not even be a competition.- Anatoly Karpov, NIC 2010
BIRTHS
Alonso Zapata (1958), Colombian Grandmaster who was seven times the national champion.
Ildar Khairullin (1990), Russian Grandmaster who was World U-14 and World U-18 World Champions.
Petra Papp (1993), Hungarian International Master and Women Grandmaster.
Marcin Tazbir (1988), Polish Grandmaster who was few times Youth Polish Champions.
DEATHS
William Lewis (1787-1870), English player and chess author. Around 1819 Lewis was the hidden player inside the Turk.
Konstantin Aseev (20.10.1960-2004), Russian Grandmaster and coach.
CHESS EVENTS
1970 The US team won the 17th World Student Team Championship in Haifa, Israel. Due to political problems only a limited number of teams played.
1977 The USSR won the World Team Championship under 26 in Mexico.
WORLD EVENTS
1846 The Second Federal Republic of Mexico is established.
1848 The United States annexes New Mexico.
1849 The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
1875 The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
1902 Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
1932 The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
1962 An attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle fails.
1963 American Joe Walker in an X-15 test plane reaches an altitude of 107.96 km (67.08 mi) (354,200 feet).
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