"The decision of Lubomir Kavalek not to return home from a foreign tournament in 1968 was the biggest loss ever suffered by the Czechoslovakian chess," wrote Andy Soltis in The 100 Best Chess Games of the 20th Century, Ranked.
The six players in the singles in Melbourne are the most Britain has had in a foreign Grand Slam tournament since 1992.
Suddenly we had more stadiums, more tournaments, more foreign coaches.
Two of San Diego greatest talents, Hejduk and Wynalda, MLS veterans who spent years playing in Europe, have no doubt a team can thrive in a city that saves its strongest passion for foreign teams and international tournaments.
This tournament had been rife with foul weather, as well as suggestions by foreign players that this tournament was run for the benefit of CBS, American fans and American players -- which, of course, it was, is, and will continue to be.
Brazil, unfortunately, will not be trying to break at home the hoodoo of foreign managers in the tournament.
The last victory by the English in a foreign country in this tournament came in 1980, and they have never won their opening game in the showcase event.
On a recent morning, in the Buddhist temple where wrestlers were training for the tournament, two foreign wrestlers, Mr. Mahalyanov, the Bulgarian, and a Mongolian, outshone the Japanese at practice.
Before that victory on Bolivia, they'd never won the tournament on foreign soil; for all the scepticism about their pragmatism, winning the World Cup in 1994 after a 24-year hiatus and winning back-to-back Copas abroad was an extraordinary effort of will.
