QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Serafino Dubois (1817-15.01.1899) Italian player who was Italian’s best player during the 1850s and 1860s.
Newell Banks American (1887-17.02.1977) American checkers and chess player who at age 60, for 45 consecutive days (4 hours per day) played 1387 blindfold checker games, winning 1331 games, drawing 54 and losing only two, while playing six games at a time.
Cyril Kipping (1891-17.02.1964), English chess composer, International Master 1959 and International Arbiter of chess composition.
Yuri Razuvayev (1945-21.3.1912), Russian Grandmaster and Senior FIDE Trainer (2005) who was coach of Karpov, Kosteniuk and Tomashevsky.
Barbara Hund (1959), German Woman Grandmaster who was three times women’s German champion and once Swiss women’s champion.
Ognjen Cvitan (1961), Croatian Grandmaster who won the 1981 World Junior championship.
Suat Atalik (1964), Turkish Grandmaster who won three Turkish championships and was the best national player for more than a decade.
Giorgi Giorgadze (1964), Georgian Grandmaster who is the president of the Georgian federation since 2008.
Miguel Munoz, (1975), Spanish Grandmaster.
Rufat Bagirov (1979), Azerbaijani Grandmaster who was Azerbaijani Champion in 1998.
Michael Roiz (1983), Israeli Grandmaster born in Russia who has represented Israel in several team events.

DEATH

Maurice Kuhns (12.04.1859-1947), an American player who was made president emeritus of the USCF and was also an honorary president of FIDE.

CHESS EVENTS

1962 At Varna, the team of USSR scored another victory at the 15^th Olympiad.
1963 At Split, the USSR women’s team won the second Women’s Olympiad with 25/28.
1969 The FIDE GA granted the affiliation of Guernsey CF.
1987 The 4^th match between G. Kasparov and A. Karpov for the World title opened in Seville, Spain, with a prize fund of SFR 2,856,000.
1995 R. Slobodjan (GER) and Chusidze (GEO) won the World Junior Championships for boys and girls in Halle, Germany.
1995 G. Kasparov (RUS) defeats V. Anand (IND) 10.5-7.5 in New York at the PCA World Chess Championship. The match was sponsored by Intel and organized on the top floor of the World Trade Center.
2007 10.10 In Antalya, Linex Merida and C.E Monte-Carlo won the European Club Cup for men and women.

WORLD EVENTS

732 Near Poitiers, France, a force commanded by Charles Martel defeat a large army of Moors, stopping the Muslims from spreading into western Europe.
1760 In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.
1780 The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.
1868 Carlos Céspedes issues the Grito de Yara from his plantation, La Demajagua, proclaiming Cuba’s independence.
1911 The Wuchang Uprising leads to the demise of the Qing dynasty, the last Imperial court in China, and the founding of the Republic of China.
1913 United States President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.
1928 Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
1935 A coup d’état by the royalist leadership of the Greek Armed Forces takes place in Athens. It overthrows the government of Panagis Tsaldaris and establishes a regency under Georgios Kondylis, effectively ending the Second Hellenic Republic.
1963 The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
1975 Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
1980 The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme); at least 2,633 people were killed and 8,369 were injured.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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