QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Wilfred Paulsen (1828-06.02.1901), German Master an elder brother of Louis Paulsen who won the German chess congress at Cologne in 1867.
Nigel Davies (1960) Welsh Grandmaster born in England, author and coach.
Agnieszka Brustman (1962), Polish Women Grandmaster who was four times  the national champion and became European Junior Women’s Champion in 1980 and World Junior Women’s Champion in 1982.
Alexandru Crisan Romanian (1962), former grandmaster and former president of the Romanian cf. After suspicion of cheating, FIDE decided to erase his rating and to revoke his Grandmaster title.
Evgeny Solozhenkin (1966), Russian Grandmaster.
Dejan Pikula (1969), Serbian Grandmaster.
Jacob Aagaard (1973), Danish-born Scottish chess grandmaster, the 2007 British Chess Champion and the 2012 Scottish Chess Champion.
Yuniesky Quezada Perez (1984), Cuban Grandmaster and Cuba champion in 2008 and 2011.

DEATHS

Földeák Walter Arpád (08.07.1917 – 2004), Hungarian chess writer

CHESS EVENTS

1937 3The 7^th Olympiad opened in Stockholm, Sweden, with 19 teams. It was the first time that the Franch team didn’ t participate at an Olympiad.
1947 A. O’Kelly (BEL) won the first European Zonal tournament at Hilversum, Netherlands.
1950 At the Candidates Final, David Bronstein (USSR) beat Isaak Boleslavsky (USSR) 7½-6½ in Moscow and qualified to play against the World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik.
1961 The team of USSR won the 8^th  World Student Team Championship in Helsinki, Finland
1967 The team of USSR won the 14^th World Student Team Championship in Harrachov, Poland

WORLD EVENTS

30 BC Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian’s forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide.
1498 On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Vilnius, which it holds for six years.
1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution, which comes into force on August 14.
1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1991 The United States and the Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries’ stockpiles.
1992 Georgia joins the United Nations.
2006 Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raúl Castro.
2007 Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever comes to an end.
2012 Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics.

GAME OF THE DAY