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SUMMARY:April 18
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\nI have often written that Karpov is like an iceberg. Well\, Kasparov was the Titanic.- Alexander Roshal\n\nBIRTHS \nWalter Shipman (1929-28.02.2017)\, an American International Master.\nValentina Kozlovskaya (1938)\, a Russian Woman Grandmaster who became the 1996 Senior Women’s World Chess Champion.\nAlbin Planinc (1944)\, a Slovenian Grandmaster who won the Slovenian Chess Championship in 1968 and 1971.\nNaum Rashkovsky (1946)\, a Russian Grandmaster and coach who was European Senior Champion in 2007.\nWilliam Watson (1962)\, an English Grandmaster who left chess to become a lawyer.\nRui Wang (1978)\, a Chinese Grandmaster.\nAthanasios Mastrovasilis (1979)\, a Greek Grandmaster\, the elder brother of GM Dimitrios Mastrovasilis.\nYuriy Ajrapetjan (1988)\, a Ukrainian-Armenian Grandmaster.\nDaniil Dubov\, Daniil (1996)\, who completed his final grandmaster norm at the age of 14 years\, 11 months\, 14 days in 2011.\nMatthias Bluebaum (18.04.1997)\, a German Grandmaster who finished third at the World Junior Championship in 2015. \nDEATHS \nRudolf Charousek (19.09.1873-1900)\, a Hungarian Master who was one of a few players who had a plus record against Emanuel Lasker but never played a World Championship Match.\nLeonid Kubbel (1891-1942)\, A Soviet chess composer . \nWORLD EVENTS \n1480 Lucretia Borgia (d.1519)\, murderess\, was born.\n1897 The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.\n1902 Denmark became the 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals.\n1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.\n1937 Leon Trotsky called for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin.\n1942 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.\n1942 The first US air strike against Japan\, an air squadron from the USS Hornet led by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle (d.1993)\, raided Tokyo and other Japanese cities.\n1946 The League of Nations was dissolved.\n1946 The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague\, Netherlands.\n1949 Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth and becomes the Republic of Ireland.\n1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt\n1961 Apr 18\, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sent a letter to Pres. Kennedy with an “urgent call” to end “aggression” against Cuba.\n1956 Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in a civil ceremony.\n1974 Marcel Pagnol (b.1895)\, French writer and film director\, died.\n1980 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being\, with Canaan Banana as the country’s first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency. \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Baden"]\n[Site "Baden"]\n[Date "1914.??.??"]\n[Round "?"]\n[White "Nyholm\, Gustaf"]\n[Black "Reti\, Richard"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "C21"]\n[PlyCount "48"]\n[EventDate "1914.??.??"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "18"]\n[EventCountry "AUT"]\n[SourceTitle "HCL"]\n\n1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 d5 5. Bxd5 cxb2 6. Bxb2 Nf6 7. Nf3 Bb4+\n8. Kf1 O-O 9. Qb3 Nc6 10. Nc3 Qe7 11. a3 Bd6 12. Re1 Ne5 13. Nxe5 Bxe5 14. Bc4\nc6 15. h4 b5 16. Be2 Be6 17. Qc2 Qc5 18. Rc1 Rfd8 19. g3 a5 20. Qb1 Rd2 21. Nd5\nRxb2 22. Qxb2 Qxd5 23. exd5 Bxb2 24. Rc2 Bxd5 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-69e8187796b4f-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"Baden\"]\r\n[Site \"Baden\"]\r\n[Date \"1914.??.??\"]\r\n[Round \"?\"]\r\n[White \"Nyholm\, Gustaf\"]\r\n[Black \"Reti\, Richard\"]\r\n[Result \"0-1\"]\r\n[ECO \"C21\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"48\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1914.??.??\"]\r\n[EventType \"tourn\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"18\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"AUT\"]\r\n[SourceTitle \"HCL\"]\r\n\r\n1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Bc4 d5 5. Bxd5 cxb2 6. Bxb2 Nf6 7. Nf3 Bb4+\r\n8. Kf1 O-O 9. Qb3 Nc6 10. Nc3 Qe7 11. a3 Bd6 12. Re1 Ne5 13. Nxe5 Bxe5 14. Bc4\r\nc6 15. h4 b5 16. Be2 Be6 17. Qc2 Qc5 18. Rc1 Rfd8 19. g3 a5 20. Qb1 Rd2 21. Nd5\r\nRxb2 22. Qxb2 Qxd5 23. exd5 Bxb2 24. Rc2 Bxd5 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
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