Classical Grandmaster
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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
First-class players lose to second-class players because second-class players sometimes play a first-class game- Siegbert Tarrasch
BIRTHS
Stojan Puc (09.04.1921-29.01.2004), a Slovenian Grandmaster who won four times the Slovenian Chess Championship.
Francek Brglez (1922-25.01.1997), a Slovenian Correspondence Grandmaster.
Janis Klovans (1935-05.10.2010), a Latvian Grandmaster who won the Latvian Championship nine times.
Svetlana Mednikova, Svetlana, RUS, b-day 09.04.1956. a Russian Woman Grandmaster who became the European Senior (+50) Women’s Champion in 2014 and 2015).
Zagrebelny, Sergey 1965
Jose Cubas (1981), a Paraguayan Grandmaster.
Khaled Mona (1994), an Egyptian Woman Grandmaster who became few times Women’s African Chess Champion, Egyptian Women’s Champion and Arab Women’s Champion.
Manisha Mohanty Kiran (1989) an Indian Woman Grandmaster.
DEATH
Emil Schallopp (01.08.1843-1919), a German Master and author.
CHESS EVENT
1845. USA. the first game by telegraph is played.
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