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SUMMARY:April 12
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\nFor goodness’ sake\, how could Kasparov\, after all his matches against Karpov\, support him in the FIDE President elections? What sort of unprincipled person do you have to be? I would never understand that.- Viktor Korchnoi\, 2012\nBIRTHS \nEdwin Kengis (1959)\, Latvian Grandmaster who is an eight-time Latvian Champion.\nNenad Fercec (1961)\, a Croatian Grandmaster.\nJoel Lautier (1973)\, a French Grandmaster\, World U20 Champion in 1988 who is retired from chess and living in Moscow.\nMariya Sergeyeva (1983)\, a Kazakh Woman Grandmaster.\nShakhriyar Mamedyarov (1985 )\, an Azeri Grandmaster who was the 2013 World Rapid Champion and Mamedyarov and a two-time World Junior Champion.\nKamil Miton (1984)\, a Polish Grandmaster.\nFarhad  Tahirov (1987)\, An Azeri Grandmaster\, he is not active since 2008.\nIoannis K Papadopoulos (1988)\, a Greek Grandmaster who was Greek Champion in 2007. \nDEATHS \nGrau Roberto (18.03.1900-1944)\, an Argentine Master who played for Argentina in six Chess Olympiads.\nRobert Byrne (20.04.1928-2013)\, an American Grandmaster and author who won the U.S. Championship in 1972. \nCHESS EVENT \n1958  The first International Braille Chess Association Congress took place in Rheinbreitbach\, Germany \nWORLD EVENTS \n467 Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.\n1606 The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.\n1877 The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.\n1931 Spanish voters reject the monarchy.\n1945 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry Truman\, become President upon Roosevelt’s death.\n1946 Syria gains independence from France.\n1955 The polio vaccine\, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk\, is declared safe and effective.\n1961 The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight\, Vostok 1.\n1980 US Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow Olympic games\n1981 The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission.\n(Source: Wikipedia and on this day) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "BUL-ch 75th"]\n[Site "Bankia"]\n[Date "2011.04.12"]\n[Round "2"]\n[White "Enchev\, Ivajlo"]\n[Black "Berbatov\, Kiprian"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "A65"]\n[WhiteElo "2431"]\n[BlackElo "2454"]\n[PlyCount "46"]\n[EventDate "2011.04.11"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "13"]\n[EventCountry "BUL"]\n[EventCategory "11"]\n\n[SourceDate "2011.05.03"]\n\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 c5 7. d5 e6 8. Qd2 exd5\n9. cxd5 Re8 10. Nge2 Nbd7 11. Nc1 a6 12. a4 Nh5 13. g4 Ne5 14. Qg2 Qh4+ 15. Bf2\nNxf3+ 16. Qxf3 Bxg4 17. Qd3 Bxc3+ 18. bxc3 Qf6 19. Ne2 Bf3 20. Rg1 Rxe4 21. Kd2\nRae8 22. Ng3 Nxg3 23. Bxg3 c4 0-1\n				\n			You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.		\n	\n	\n	\n		jQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n						$.chessgame.navigationButtonClass  = 'rpbchessboard-jQuery-enableSmoothness';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameClass   = 'wp-dialog';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameOptions = {"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true};\n			var selector = '#' + "rpbchessboard-69e9edc295c9c-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"BUL-ch 75th\"]\r\n[Site \"Bankia\"]\r\n[Date \"2011.04.12\"]\r\n[Round \"2\"]\r\n[White \"Enchev\, Ivajlo\"]\r\n[Black \"Berbatov\, Kiprian\"]\r\n[Result \"0-1\"]\r\n[ECO \"A65\"]\r\n[WhiteElo \"2431\"]\r\n[BlackElo \"2454\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"46\"]\r\n[EventDate \"2011.04.11\"]\r\n[EventType \"tourn\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"13\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"BUL\"]\r\n[EventCategory \"11\"]\r\n\r\n[SourceDate \"2011.05.03\"]\r\n\r\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 c5 7. d5 e6 8. Qd2 exd5\r\n9. cxd5 Re8 10. Nge2 Nbd7 11. Nc1 a6 12. a4 Nh5 13. g4 Ne5 14. Qg2 Qh4+ 15. Bf2\r\nNxf3+ 16. Qxf3 Bxg4 17. Qd3 Bxc3+ 18. bxc3 Qf6 19. Ne2 Bf3 20. Rg1 Rxe4 21. Kd2\r\nRae8 22. Ng3 Nxg3 23. Bxg3 c4 0-1"\,"pieceSymbols":"native"\,"navigationBoard":"above"\,"showFlipButton":true\,"showDownloadButton":true\,"navigationBoardOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}\,"diagramOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}});\n		});\n	\n\n\n \n\n  \n
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