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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
"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
I never make mistakes in chess, I only have hallucinations!- Vlastimil Hort, 1987
BIRTHS
Gisela Gresser, (1906-04.12.2000), an American woman chess player who won the US Women Championships eight times.
Yiri Averbakh (1922), a Russian Grandmaster, Soviet Champion in 1954, author, journalist, coach and Soviet Chess President in the 1970’s. He is the oldest Grandmaster alive.
Aivar Gipslis (1937-13.04.2000), a Latvian Grandmaster, journalist, and coach.
Johann Hjartarsson (1963), Icelandic Grandmaster, and Icelandic Champion. He lost a Candidate’ match in 1986 against Anatoly Karpov.
Peter Szekely (1955-31.08.2003), a Hungarian Grandmaster who died after a heart attack in 2003.
Ilia Gurevich (1972), an American Grandmaster who won the won the 1990 World Junior Championship.
Ralf Akesson (1961) Swedish Grandmaster who became the European Junior Chess Championship (U20) in 1985 the Swedish Chess Champion in 1999.
Gilles Miralles (1966), a French Grandmaster who was French Champion in 1986 and 1989. He is running the Geneva Chess Club.
Jolanta Zawadzka (1987), a Polish Woman Grandmaster who became the World Youth Chess U18 Championship and the women’s Polish Chess Championship in 2006, 2011 and 2015.
Yuri Solodovnichenko (1978), a Ukrainian Grandmaster.
Maze, Sebastien (1984), a French Grandmaster and coach of the national team in 2013.
Arik Braun (1988) a German Grandmaster who won the World Under-18 Chess Championship in 2006 and the German Chess Championship in 2009.
Suri Vaibhav (1997), an Indian Grandmaster who got the title at the age of 15 years 2 months 21 days.
Georgescu Tiberiu-Marian (1991), a Romanian Grandmaster.
DEATH
Lim Kok Aan (1920-11.03.2003) a Singapore player, International Arbiter and former FIDE General Secretary.
CHESS EVENT
1989 FIDE President Campomanes met IOC President Samaranch in Lausanne. “The first step is recognition of FIDE by IOC”. Mr. Samaranch said: “Chess is a sport”.
WORLD EVENTS
421 Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1837 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.
1914 General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
1924 Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1926 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios
1942 World War II: Japan invades Singapore.
1950 The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
1955 Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
1960 The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1963 The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba’ath Party.
1963 The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba’ath Party.
1971 The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday)
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