QUOTE OF THE DAY

Kenneth Ray Smith (1930-04.02.1999), American chess amateur and author. The co-inventor of  the Smith–Morra Gambit.
Kenneth Regan (1959), American International Master and a professor of computer science.
Mark Santo Roman (1960) French Grandmaster who won three French championships. France.
Anna Segal (1975) Israeli Women Grandmaster born in the Soviet Union.
Ruiyuan Yu (1991), Chinese Grandmaster who won the bronze medal at the 1st Asian University Chess Championship in 2015.
Alvar Alonso Rosell (1992), Spanish Grandmaster who was crown the Spanish Champion at 19 years old.

CHESS EVENTS

1939 13.09 FIDE confirmed the full admission of Germany, Australia, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, San Salvador, Slovakia, and Venezuela.

WORLD EVENTS
1501 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
1814 – In a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”, which is later set to music and becomes the United States’ national anthem.
1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator, and becomes the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representativesand the United States Senate.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
1985 – Super Mario Bros. is released in Japan for the NES, which starts the Super Mario series of platforming games.
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY