QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Constantin Schwede (1854-17.02.1917), a German problemist who was the editor of the Deutsche Schachzeitung for some time.
Oldrich Duras (1882-05.01.1957), a Czech Grandmaster and chess composer.
Milko Bobotsov (1931-03.04.2000), the first Bulgarian Grandmaster.
Lubomir Ftacnik (1956), Slovakian Grandmaster, who was  the 1977 European U20 Champion.
Gilberto Milos (1963), a Brazilian Grandmaster who won 6 titles of Brazilian Champion.
Xie Jun (1970), Chinese Grandmaster who was the  Women’s World Chess Champion, from 1991 to 1996 and again from 1999 to 2001.
Alexander Lastin (1976-23.01.2015) Russian Grandmaster who won the 2002 Russian chess championship.
Herminio Herraiz Hidalgo (1978), a Spanish Grandmaster.
Baert Michiels (1986), a Belgian Grandmaster who was Belgian champion in 2004 and 2011.
Jeffery Xiong (2000), an American Grandmaster who was 2016 World U20 Champion and 2006 US Junior Champion. He is the US’s second youngest player to become a Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Boris Verlinsky (08.01.1888-1950), Soviet deaf International Master who was one of the top Soviet players of the 1920’s after winning the Soviet championship in 1929.
Aidyn Guseinov (31.08.1957-2003), an Azerbaijani Grandmaster who won the Azerbaijani championship in 1996.
Agimantas Butnorius (20.11.1946-2017), a Monegasque Grandmaster born in Lithuania who was World Senior Champion in 2007.

CHESS EVENTS

1955 Olga Rubsova of USSR won the 2^nd Candidates Women’s Tournament in Moscow.
1966 The FIDE GA approved the Federations of China, Morocco, Panama, El Salvador, and Virgin Islands as full members of FIDE.
1992 P. Zarnicki (ARG) and K. Dobrowska (POL) became the World Junior Champions.
1993 A. Karpov (RUS) regained the title of FIDE World Champion by beating J. Timman (NED) 12½-8½.
2000 30.10 In Mexico City, several Grandmasters including the former World Champion Boris Spassky, played in a record-breaking simultaneous exhibition on 10,048 chessboards.
2004 In Spain, 30.10 Ukraine won the 2004 Olympiad ahead of Russia and Armenia. China won the Women Olympiad ahead of USA and Russia.

WORLD EVENTS

1817 The independent government of Venezuela is established by Simón Bolívar.
1863 Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
1905 Czar Nicholas II of Russia issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian people basic civil liberties and the right to form a Duma.
1918 The Ottoman Empire signs an armistice with the Allies, ending the First World War in the Middle East.
1922 Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy.
1925 John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter.
1961 Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
1961 Nuclear testing: The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over Novaya Zemlya; at 50 megatons of yield, it remains the largest explosive device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise.
1974 The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire. Ali wins by KO in the eighth round, regaining the title of World Heavyweight Champion and causing Foreman´s first professional defeat.
1975 Prince Juan Carlos becomes Spain’s acting head of state, taking over for the country’s ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco.

(Source: Wikipedia)