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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
"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
Carlsen will sooner or later become World Champion. I like him, he is a Monty Python fan, just like me.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Vladimir Zagorovsky (1925-06.11.1994), a Soviet Correspondence Grandmaster who was the fourth ICCF World Champion (1962-1965).
Yakov Vilner (1899-1931), a Ukrainian Master who became three times the Ukrainian Champion.
Miron N. Sher (1952), a Russian Grandmaster and FIDE trainer living in the USA.
Pengxiang Zhang (1980), a Chinese Grandmaster and Trainer who won the 2007 Asian Championship.
Marat Askarov (1987), a Russian Grandmaster
Ivan Salgado Lopez (1991), a Spanish Grandmaster who was Spanish Champion in 2013.
Sergio Barrientos (1986), a Colombian Grandmaster.
Tanguy Ringoir, Tanguy (1994), a Belgian Grandmaster who won three Belgian Championships
CHESS EVENTS
1974 Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Surinam, Algeria, Jordan, and Zaire were admitted as new members of FIDE.
1974 At the proposal of the Moroccan CF and 15 other federations, the Congress decided by 26:17 and 21 abstentions to suspend temporarily South Africa and Rhodesia.
WORLD EVENTS
1194 Sverre is crowned King of Norway.
1880 France annexes Tahiti.
1881 In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
1974 Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina.
1974 Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
1975 Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer.
1976 The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
2007 Apple Inc. releases its first mobile phone, the iPhone.
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