QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Reginald Walter Bonham (1906-16.03.1984), an English blind chess player who founded the International Braille Chess Association in 1951 and became the first Blind World Chess Champion.
Farid Abbasov (1979), an Azeri Grandmaster.
Valeriy Aveskulov (1986), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was the Ukraine Champion in 2007.
Sanan Sjugirov (1993), a Russian Grandmaster who won the World U14 Championship in 2003, the World U14 in 2007 and the World University Chess Championship in 2014.
Wenjun Ju, (1991), a Chinese Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who won the Women’s Chinese Championship in 2010 and 2014.
Jan-Christian Schroeder (1998), a German Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Curt von Bardeleben (04.03. 1861-1924), a German Master and journalist.
Henry Ernest Atkins (20.08.1872-1955), a British Master who won the British Chess Championship nine times.

CHESS EVENTS

1955 Czechoslovakia won the 2^nd Chess Correspondence Olympiad.
1989 31.01 Candidates Quarterfinal in Antwerp, Belgium, J. Timman NED beat L. Portisch HUN 3½-2½.
1994 Netherland. The World Championship Candidates matches are over in Wijk aan Zee; Timman, Gelfand, Kamsky, Salov, Anand, Kramnik are qualified for the next stage.

WORLD EVENTS 

1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.
1933 French government of Daladier takes power
1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1946 Yugoslavia’s new constitution, modeling that of the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1946 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.
1950 United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
1972 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana.
1975 Angolan War of Independence: A transitional unity government, consisting of the National Liberation Front of Angola, the Soviet-backed MPLA, and the Maoist UNITA, took office
1990 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world’s biggest McDonalds.
2010 Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide.

GAME OF THE DAY