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SUMMARY:August 1
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nWhatever opinions people might have about Ilyumzhinov\, I am sure that exactly those accusations by the US authorities are far-fetched. It looks more like a revenge for the 2014 FIDE elections which Kasparov lost to Ilyumzhinov by a wide margin.- Vladimir Kramnik\, 2016\nBIRTH \nAug 1\, 1843: Emil Schallopp (1843)German chess player and author. \nKarl Jesperson (1848 – 07-08-1914)\, Danish composer who won few prizes.\nBarry Barnes (1937)\, English composer\, International Master and writer England.\nWolfgang Alexander Bruder (1942)\, German composer.\nVadim Milov (1972) Swiss Grandmaster born in Russia who moved to Switzerland after a stay of 4 years in Israel. He won the 2015 Swiss championship.\nRenier Vazquez Igarza\, (1979) Cuban-born Spanish Grandmaster.\nLiviu- Dieter Nisipeanu (1976)  German Grandmaster born in Romania who won the European individual title in 2005.\nShoker\, Samy\, EGY (1987)\, Egyptian Grandmaster who is also living in Paris\nMolner Mackenzie (1988)\, US Grandmaster and coach. \nDEATHS \nEhrhardt Post (23.09.1981-1947)\, German player who won two German championships in 1921 and 1922.died in Berlin\, Germany. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1928 The FIDE GA accepted Brazil and Mexico as full members. Havana chess club was temporarily accepted as a full member until the Cuban Chess Federation will apply.\n1974 The USSR won the World Student Team Championship in Teesside\, England.\n1993 Boris Gelfand (BLR) won the (last) Interzonal held at Biel\, Switzerland.\n2000 The first meeting of the Medical Commission in Lausanne chaired by Dr. S. Press USA took place. \nWORLD EVENTS \n527 – Justinian I became the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire.\n1291 – The Old Swiss Confederacy is formed with the signature of the Federal Charter.\n1498 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.\n1800 The Acts of Union 1800 is passed in which merges the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland into the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.\n1876 Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.\n1914 The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.\n1927 The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.\n1960 Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.\n1961 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)\, the nation’s first centralized military espionage organization.\n1964 The former Belgian Congo is renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\n1974 Cyprus dispute: The United Nations Security Council authorizes the UNFICYP to create the “Green Line”\, dividing Cyprus into two zones.\n1981 MTV begins broadcasting in the United States and airs its first video\, “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles.\n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Scheveningen"]\n[Site "Scheveningen"]\n[Date "1905.08.01"]\n[Round "3"]\n[White "Spielmann\, Rudolf"]\n[Black "Leussen\, Benjamin"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "B72"]\n[PlyCount "84"]\n[EventDate "1905.07.31"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "13"]\n[EventCountry "NED"]\n[SourceTitle "EXT 1998"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1997.11.17"]\n\n1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. Be3 d6 8.\nNb3 Be6 9. f4 Nd7 10. g4 Nb6 11. f5 Bd7 12. Qd2 Ne5 13. Bxb6 Qxb6 14. Nd5 Qd8\n15. Rf1 O-O 16. g5 e6 17. f6 exd5 18. fxg7 Kxg7 19. exd5 a5 20. Nd4 Qb6 21. c3\nRfe8 22. O-O-O a4 23. a3 Qc5 24. Qf4 Kg8 25. Qh4 Qxd5 26. Nf5 Qa2 27. Nxd6 Be6\n28. c4 Rec8 29. Ne4 Nxc4 30. Nf6+ Kf8 31. Nxh7+ Ke7 32. Rxf7+ Bxf7 33. Qe4+\nNe5+ 34. Kd2 Qxb2+ 35. Ke1 Rc1 36. Rxc1 Qxc1+ 37. Kf2 Qb2 38. Nf6 Bc4 39. Kg3\nRh8 40. h4 Qxe2 41. Qxb7+ Ke6 42. 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