QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Alfred Mongredien (1877-02.1954), British composer.
Frantisek Hladik (1901), Czech composer.
Alexander Kevitz (1902-24.10.1984) American Master and correspondence chess player.
Arturo Pomar Salamanca (1931-26.05. 2016), Spanish chess prodigy and Grandmaster. He was a pupil of Alexander Alekhine and the winner of 7 Spanish championships.
Adam Raoof (1966), English player and organizer.
Tigran Kotanjian (1981), Armenian Grandmaster who was the 2014 Champion of Armenia.
Francois Fargere (1985), French Grandmaster.
Kore Akshayraj, (1988), Indian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Joseph Henry Blackburne (18.12.1841-1924) English Master who started to play at 19 and become chess professional seven years later, one of the strongest players of his time.

CHESS EVENTS

1929 To enable the match for the world title to happen, Efim Bogoljubov agreed to waive his share of the prize fund! Alexander Alekhine wanted US$ 6,000 to play him.
1936 In Munich, Hungary won the ‘unofficial’ Olympiad with 110.5. The event was boycotted by the teams of England and USA who protested against the political color of the event. FIDE also refused to endorse the tournament as the German Chess Federation run by the Nazis was excluded since 1933.
1945 The first international sporting event of any kind after the WWII took place, USSR beat USA (radio-match) 15½ – 4½.
1972 After B. Spassky lost the 21^st game, R. Fischer’s victory ended 24 years of Soviet domination over the World Chess title. By winning the match 12½-8½, B. Fischer USA became the 11^th World Champion.
1975 V. Chekhov USSR won the 14^th World Junior Championship in Tjentiste, Yugoslavia.
2007 In Namibia, Robert Gwaza of Zimbabwe and Mona Khaled of Egypt became the African Champions for men and women.
2015 01.09 In Khanty-Mansiysk Russia, Mikhail Antipov from Russia became the 2015 World U20 Champion and Nataliya Buksa (UKR) won the 2015 World Girls U20.

WORLD EVENTS

1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.
1763 Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy’s plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow.
1897 The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
1914 St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
1923 The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
1961 The first conference of the Non Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade.
1969 A coup in Libya brings Muammar Gaddafi to power.
1982 The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
1983 Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board die, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
1985 A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMS Titanic.
1991 Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.

GAME OF THE DAY