QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818-27.07.1899), a German Master, chess historian and theoretician. A founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades).
Henri Weenink (1892-02.12.1931) a Dutch chess player, a problem composer and an author.
Venka Asenova (1930-29.12.1986), Bulgarian Woman Grandmaster.
Svein Johannessen (1937), Norwegian International Master who won four Norwegian chess championships.
Zvonimir Mestrovic (1944-15.06.2016), a BosnianInternational Master.
Andrew Muir (1958), a Scottish Grandmaster, and GMC who was Scottish champion in 2007
Steve Doyle, (1959), an American player, lawyer, USCF president, and FIDE officer.
Alexander Raetsky (1961), a Russian Grandmaster and author.
Fabio Bellini (1969), an Italian International Master and a Professor of Mathematics.
Dmitriy Skorchenko (1983), Russian Grandmaster.
Falko Bindrich (1990), a German Grandmaster At the age of 16, he was the youngest German ever to achieve the grandmaster title.
Jue Wang (1995), a Chinese Women Grandmaster who the World Under-10 girls championship in 2005.
Bernadskiy, Vitaliy, (1995), Ukrainian Grandmaster

DEATH

Johann Nepomuk Berger (11.04.1845-1933) an Austrian chess master, theorist, endgame study composer, an author, and editor.

CHESS EVENTS

1956 Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize (see game below).
1990 Xie Jun CHN and A. Maric YUG were the joint winners of the Women’s Candidates’ tournament in Borzhomi, USSR.
2006 In Yerevan Armenia, Zaven Andriasian of Armenia and Shen Yang of China became the World U20 Champions for boys and girls.
2007 In Yerevan Armenia, Ahmed Adly of Egypt and Vera Nebolsina of Russia became the U20 World Champions for boys and girls.

WORLD EVENTS

1558 Poczta Polska, the Polish postal service, is founded.
1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40,000 pounds.
1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, age 15.
1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1912 Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
1931 Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
1933 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.
1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield,in Cumbria, England.
1966 Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.
1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.1989 – Peaceful Revolution: The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY