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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
Preparation for a world championship was always an arms race, in previous times with books, then with seconds, today with computers.- Vishy Anand, 2008
BIRTHS
Frederik Willem Nanning (1892-12.06.1958), Dutch composer.
Jean Luc Seret (1951), French International Master who won four national titles.
Michael Stean (1953), English Grandmaster, author, and journalist. One of Korchnoi’s seconds in 1978 and Short in London in 1993.
Javier Ochoa de Echaguen (1954), International Master, President of the Spanish chess federation, FIDE Officer.
Thomas Paehtz (1956), German Grandmaster who was twice East German and once German Champion.
Matthieu Cornette (1985), French Grandmaster and French Champion 2016.
Stephen Gordon (1986), English Grandmaster. He won 11 titles of British Youth Champion.
DEATHS
Fedor Parfenovic Bohatirchuk (14.11.1892-1984), Ukrainian-Canadian International Master. Accused to be involved in war crimes, he managed to escape the investigators and immigrated to Canada.
CHESS EVENTS
1954 The 11th Olympiad opened in Amsterdam. This time, the US team was absent. Only 26 teams took part and were divided into 4 groups.
WORLD EVENTS
1666 In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.
1781 Los Angeles is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula by 44 Spanish settlers.
1800 The French garrison in Valletta surrenders to British troops who had been called at the invitation of the Maltese. The islands of Malta andGozo become the Malta Protectorate.
1870 Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
1882 Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
1888 George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
1965 Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician, theologian, and missionary, Nobel Prize laureate died (b. 1875)
1972 Mark Spitz becomes the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games.
1998 Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
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