QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Edward Lowe (1794-1880), English Master born in Prague who won a match with Howard Staunton (5 – 2) but his opponent gave odds of pawn and two moves.
Gerardus Dreser (1902 – 09-08-1980), Dutch composer and International Master for chess composition.
Jens Enevoldsen (1907-23.05.1980) Danish International Master who won the Danish Chess Championship five times.
Gino Fletzer (1916-15.11.1993), Italian Master and professional Judge.
Jan Heribert Knöppel (1918 – 15-07-1995) Swedish composer and International Master for chess composition born in Danemark.
Mark Tseitlin (1943), Israeli Grandmaster born in Russian who won three times the title of European Senior Champion.
Roman Hernandez (1949), Cuban Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer who won the 1981-82 Cuban championship.
Tibor Tolnai was born, Hungary (1964), Hungarian Grandmaster who became a strong poker player.
Tatiana Stepovaia-Dianchenko (1965), Russian Women Grandmaster.
Leinier Dominguez (1983), Cuban Grandmaster who was the 2008 Wolrd Blitz Champion and 4 times Cuban Champion.
Krzysztof Jakubowski (1983), Polish Grandmaster.
Michal Olszewski, (23.09.1989 Polish Grandmaster who was third at the 2009 World Junior championship.
Aleksandr Lenderman (1989), American Grandmaster born in Russia who collected a gold medal for the best individual performance at the World Team Championship in 2015.

DEATHS

Eduard Gufeld (19.03.1936-2002), Ukrainian Grandmaster, author, and coach who was living in the USA. Gufeld suffered a stroke and heart attack virtually simultaneously and died two weeks later.

CHESS EVENTS

1955 David Bronstein (USSR) repeated his Candidates Tournament victory of 1948 finishing first with 15/18 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Samuel Reshevsky of USA turned down the invitation and the young Boris Spassky (USSR) made his first appearance in such event.
1956 A triangular match for the Women’s World Championship was organized in Moscow between the World Champion E. Bykova (USSR), former Champion L. Rudenko (USSR) and the winner of the Candidates Tournament Olga Rubtsova (USSR). The tournament of 16 games each ended with the victory of O. Rubtsova who became the 4^th Women’s World Champion.
1969 The USSR team won the 4^th Women’s Olympiad in Ludin, Poland with 26/28 points. Hungary was the second, with 20½.
2010 Boris Spassky had suffered a more serious stroke that had left him paralyzed on his left side.

WORLD EVENTS

1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure of over 100,000 pounds of gold (worth over £1 billion today), is lost at sea off Land’s End.
1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
1983 – Gulf Air Flight 771 is destroyed by a bomb, killing all 117 people on board.
2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
2004 – Over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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