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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."
- Kiril Georgiev2017
"He has weaknesses, as everyone does, but far fewer than those around him."
- Veselin Topalov2016
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Today In Chess
QUOTE OF THE DAY
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.- Mihail Tal, 1969
BIRTHS
D.V. Sundar (1950), an Indian chess amateur who was AICF President and FIDE officer.
Daniel Campora (1957), an Argentine Grandmaster who was Argentine Champion in 1986 and 1989.
Luis Santos (1955), a Portuguese Grandmaster.
Michele Godena (1977), an Italian Grandmaster and five-time Italian Champion.
Alexei Bezgodov (1969), a Russian Grandmaster.
De La Villa Carcia Jesus, ESP, b-day 30.06.1958 a Spanish Grandmaster and author.
Deep Sengupta (1988), an Indian Grandmaster.
CHESS EVENTS
1971 H. Rittner DDR won the 6th Chess Correspondence World Championship.
1974 The USSR won the NICE Olympiad with 46 out of 60.
1984 USSR beat the team of the Rest of the World 21-19 in London.
1985 Litinskaya USSR, Wu CHN and Brustman POL were the qualifiers from the first Women’s Interzonal in Zheleznovodsk, Russia,
WORLD EVENTS
1559 King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery.
1864 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California
1905 Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
1934 The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy’s invasion of his country.
1937 The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
1960 Congo gains independence from Belgium.
1990 East Germany and West Germany merge their economies.
1997 The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
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