QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Nigel Edward Povah (1952), an English Correspondence Grandmaster and International Master. He is the author of several opening books.
Jesus Nogueira (1957), a Cuban Grandmaster and coach who won 5 times the Cuban Chess Championship.
Anna Zatonskih (1978), is a Ukrainian-born American International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is a four-time U.S. Women’s Champion, as well as a former Ukrainian Women’s Champion.
Marcin Dziuba (1983), a Polish Grandmaster.
Veronika Schneider (1987), a Hungarian Women Grandmaster.

DEATHS 

John Lindsay McCutcheon (28.05.1857-1905), US businessman, chess amateur and generous patron of the game. The McCutcheon Variation of the French Defence is named after him who after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 played the new move 4…Bb4 and won convincingly against World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz, in a simul in New York back in 1885.

CHESS EVENTS

1926 The Hungarian CF organized the 1^st FIDE problem-solving tournament with 74 registered participants.
1950 In Denmark at the FIDE GA, the new FIDE President Folke Rogard from Sweden welcomed all the delegates and those who were going to work with him for the next years.
1971 USSR won the 18^th World Student Team Championship in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
1997 T. Shaked (USA) and H. Hunt (ENG) won the World Junior Championships for Boys and Girls in Zagan, Poland.
2014 In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, V. Gunina (RUS) became the 2015 Women’s European Individual Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

1203 The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.
1429 Hundred Years’ War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign b yJoan of Arc.
1717 King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians, where George Frideric Handel’s Water Music is premiered.1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.
1902 Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
1918 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
1936 Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.
1945 World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
1948 The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.
1955 Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.
1996 TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
2006 The 7.7 Mw Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java, killing 668 people, and leaving more than 9,000 injured.
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY