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SUMMARY:April 17
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\nChess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.- Hans Ree\n\nBIRTHS \nVladas Mikėnas (1910– 03.11.1992)\, a Lithuanian Honorary Grandmaster born in Estonia\, writer\, and arbiter.\nKlaus Junge (01.01.1924-1945) – born in Chile\, the most talented German chess player since Lasker. Came first equal with Alekhine at Prague 1942. Unfortunately\, he perished during WWII.\nPeter K. Wells(1965)\, an English Grandmaster\, coach\, and author.\nSergey Shipov (1966)\, a Russian Grandmaster\, journalist\, and commentator.\nRobert Kuczynski (1966)\, a Polish Grandmaster who was Polish Champion in 1987.\nRuben Gunawan (1968-27.08.2005)  an Indonesian Grandmaster who was Asian U20 Champion in 1983.\nAlexander Obukhov (1969)\, a Russian Grandmaster\nEkaterina Kovalevskaya (1974)\, a Russian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was the runner-up in the 2004 Women’s World Chess Championship.\nInga Khurtsilava (1975) a Georgian Woman Grandmaster who was a three-time Women’s Champion of Georgia.\nPawel Blehm (1980)\, a Polish Grandmaster who was the was 1994 World Under-14 Champion and stop to play in 2007. \nCHESS EVENTS \n2003 China won in India the Men’s and Women’s Asian Team Championships. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1080 The King of Denmark\, Harald III dies and is succeeded by Canute IV.\n1790 Benjamin Franklin\, American inventor\, publisher\, and politician\, 6th President of Pennsylvania (b. 1706).\n1824 Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54° 40’N\n1839 Guatemala forms a republic\n1895 The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War\, and the defeated the Qing Empire.\n1907 The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11\,747 people\, more than on any other day.\n1941 World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.\n1958 In Brussels (Belgium) World Fair opens\n1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.\n1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.\n1969 The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.\n1971 The People’s Republic of Bangladesh is formed.\n1975 The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.\n1986 IBM produces the 1st megabit-chip\n(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Metz op 20th"]\n[Site "Metz"]\n[Date "2002.04.17"]\n[Round "5"]\n[White "Gurevich\, Mikhail"]\n[Black "Van der Stricht\, Geert"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "E32"]\n[WhiteElo "2641"]\n[BlackElo "2420"]\n[PlyCount "99"]\n[EventDate "2002.04.17"]\n[EventType "swiss"]\n[EventRounds "9"]\n\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. Qxc3 b6 7. Bg5 Bb7 8.\nf3 h6 9. Bh4 d5 10. e3 Nbd7 11. cxd5 Nxd5 12. Bxd8 Nxc3 13. Bh4 Nd5 14. Bf2 c5\n15. e4 Ne7 16. Ne2 Ba6 17. O-O-O Nc6 18. dxc5 Nxc5 19. Nc3 Bxf1 20. Rhxf1 Rfd8\n21. Kc2 Kf8 22. b4 Nb7 23. Nb5 Ke7 24. Kb3 Rxd1 25. Rxd1 Rd8 26. Rxd8 Nbxd8 27.\nNxa7 Nxa7 28. Bxb6 Nc8 29. Bd4 g6 30. a4 Kd7 31. b5 f5 32. exf5 exf5 33. Be3\nNe6 34. a5 f4 35. Bf2 Nd6 36. b6 Kc6 37. a6 g5 38. Kc2 h5 39. Kd3 g4 40. b7 Kc7\n41. Bd4 Nxd4 42. Kxd4 Nf5+ 43. Ke4 Ne3 44. fxg4 hxg4 45. Kxf4 Nd5+ 46. Kxg4 Nb4\n47. h4 Nxa6 48. h5 Nc5 49. h6 Nd7 50. 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