LAtest UPDATES
Chess Facts
Read allChess Fact 16
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…
Chess Fact 14
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.
Chess Fact 18
Chess Facts / JONE DOEVienna 1873 tournament was the last tournament where a pawn could be promoted to a piece which had already been captured.
Echesspedia
So much more knowledge
than before and so inexpensive
A remarkable tiny chess application than still makes room for detailed openingvariation
All the lastest opening moves updated, right at your fingerprints.
So much went into the application.
So could you get even more out of it when the full version is released later this year.
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
"Never felt more like singin’ the blues, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…"
- 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
My chess method is without formulas, without orthodox thinking. I always explain that chess is an art and that there are no definite judgments.- Lev Polugaevsky, 1990 NIC
BIRTHS
Igor Zaitsev (1938), a Russian Grandmaster.
Eduard Rozentalis (1963) a Lithuanian Grandmaster and author, the best national player for a decade.
Natalia Kiseleva (1978), a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster.
Svetlana Petrenko (1974), a Moldavian Woman Grandmaster
Gennady Tunik (1953), a Russian Grandmaster.
Meelis Kanep (1983), an Estonia Grandmaster who won three-time the national championship.
CHESS EVENTS
1851. In London, the first International tournament started with Adolf Anderssen. The tournament was conceived and organized by Howard Staunton and marked the first time that the best chess players in Europe would meet in a single event.
1889. At the end of the New York tournament, the first brilliancy prize was awarded to Bird for his win against Mason.
2010 Lev Aronian win the final standings of the FIDE Grand Prix 2009-2010.
WORLD EVENTS
927 Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.
1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1199 John is crowned King of England.
1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
1883 Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
1927 The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
1933 The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?”
1941 World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
1942 World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
1960 In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
1965 Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
(Source: Wikipedia)
GAME OF THE DAY
Yearly
Events
Events
