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SUMMARY:August 12
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nCarlsen: “I ran out of steam towards the end but fortunately I played better than he did”- Magnus Carlsen\, 2017\nBIRTHS \nAlexander Kotov (1913-09.01.1981)\, Soviet Grandmaster\, International Arbiter and author.\nWilliam Hartston (1974)\, English International Master. One of the best British player of the 1970’s ? Journalist\, writer and TV commentator.\nPraveen M. Thipsay (1959)\, Indian Grandmaster who won 7 national titles.\nAlibek Ibragimov (1968)\, Kazakh Grandmaster.\nJean-Luc Chabanon (1971)\, French Grandmaster.\nDimitri Reinderman (1972)\, Dutch Grandmaster who was the national champion in 2013.\nJose Gonzales Garcia (1973)\, Mexican Grandmaster who was the national champion in 1996.\nAndrei Istratescu (1975)\, French Grandmaster born in Romania.\nPrasannaVishnu V. (1989)\, Indian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nWilhelm Steinitz (14.05.1836-1900) Czech Master who died in New York\, USA. The first official World Champion of chess. He was recognized as the world’s leading player from 1866 until 1894.\nRudolf Swiderski (27.07.1878-1909)\, German Master who shared first at Monte Carlo in 1904. He committed suicide shortly after his 31st birthday allegedly because he could not face an operation. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1937 The FIDE GA proclaimed the Soviet Master Salo Flohr as the official FIDE Candidate for the World Championship Match to be played once the revenge match between Euwe and Alekhine will be concluded.\n1981  Finland (Perkonoja and Valtonen) won the 5th World Chess Solving Championship in Arnhem\, Holland.\n2014 For the sixth time the FIDE GA re-elected Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (RUS) as President. Ilyumzhinov’s  ticket beat Garry Kasparov’s ticket 110-61. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1099 First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.\n1831 French intervention forces William I of the Netherlands to abandon his attempt to suppress the Belgian Revolution.\n1851 Isaac Singer is granted a patent for his sewing machine.\n1883 The last quagga dies at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam\, Netherlands.\n1898 The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.\n1914 World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.\n1953 The first testing of real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of “RDS-6s” (Joe 4)\, the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.\n1960 Echo 1A\, NASA’s first successful communications satellite\, is launched.\n1964 South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games due to the country’s racist policies.\n1981 The IBM Personal Computer is released.\n1982 Mexico announces that it is unable to pay its enormous external debt\, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.\n(Source; Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "DSV in der CSR-ch13"]\n[Site "Bad Liebwerda"]\n[Date "1934.08.012"]\n[Round "8"]\n[White "Eliskases\, Erich Gottlieb"]\n[Black "Gilg\, Karl"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "D64"]\n[PlyCount "52"]\n[EventDate "1934.08.05"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "11"]\n[EventCountry "CSR"]\n\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. Rc1 c6 8. Qc2\nNe4 9. Bf4 f5 10. h4 Ndf6 11. Be2 Ng4 12. Nxe4 fxe4 13. Nd2 e5 14. dxe5 Rxf4\n15. exf4 e3 16. Bxg4 exd2+ 17. Qxd2 Bxg4 18. cxd5 cxd5 19. f3 Be6 20. g4 Qb6\n21. f5 Bb4 22. Rc3 d4 23. fxe6 dxc3 24. bxc3 Rd8 25. 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