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SUMMARY:August 13
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nNever felt more like singin’ the blues\, cos I never thought that I’d ever lose…- Vladimir Kramnik 2017\nBIRTHS \nAntonius van der Linde (14.11.1833-1897)\, Dutch chess historian. His library was bought by the Royal Dutch Library based in The Hague\, the second biggest chess library in the world..\nLouis Dee Statham (1907-1983)\, US millionaire engineer and inventor of medical instruments who sponsored the Lone Pine tournaments from 1971 till 1981.\nSir Richard William Clarke (1910-21.06.1975)\, British civil servant who established the British Grading System in 1958.\nEdmund Broadley Edmondson (1920-21.10.1982)\, American chess amateur\, former president (1963-1966) and executive director (1966-1977) of the U.S. Chess Federation.\nJozsef Horvath (1964)\, Hungarian Grandmaster.\nJean Luc Chabanon (1971)\, French Grandmaster.\nRasul Ibrahimov (1981)\, Azeri Grandmaster.\nChanda Sandipan (1983)\, Indian Grandmaster who was Viswanathan Anand’s second for the World Chess Championship 2013 match.\nAlan Pichot (1998)\, Argentine Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nJosef Cumpe (1868-1943)\, Czech problemist who composed about 1500 problems.\nTigran Petrosian (17.06.1929-1984)\, Soviet-Armenian Grandmaster who was the Wolrd Champion between 1963 and 1963. His overall performance in the Olympiads was impressive: +78 =50 −1 (only one game lost out of 139 games played). \nCHESS EVENTS \n1937 Vera Menchik (CSR) overwhelmed her rivals to win  the Women’s World Championship for the 7th time during the Olympiad with 14/14!\n2014 Judith Polgar (HUN)\, the best female player of the chess history\, announced her retirement from competitive chess.\n2015 In Al Ain\, UAE A.R. Saleh Salem (UAE) became 2015 Asian Champion ahead of Surya Shekhar Ganguly (IND). Mitra Hejazipour (IRI) won the title in the women’s competition. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1521 – After an extended siege\, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer theAztec capital of Tenochtitlan.\n1532 – Union of Brittany and France: The Duchy of Brittany is absorbed into the Kingdom of France.\n1792 – King Louis XVI of France is formally arrested by the National Tribunal\, and declared an enemy of the people.\n1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica\, Peru\, causes an estimated 25\,000 casualties\, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.\n1868 – A massive earthquake near Arica\, Peru\, causes an estimated 25\,000 casualties\, and the subsequent tsunami causes considerable damage as far away as Hawaii and New Zealand.\n1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth full-length animated film\, Bambi\, was released to theaters.\n1960 – The Central African Republic declares independence from France.\n1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants’ attempts to escape to the West. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Nottingham"]\n[Site "Nottingham"]\n[Date "1936.08.13"]\n[Round "4"]\n[White "Botvinnik\, Mikhail"]\n[Black "Tartakower\, Saviely"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "A55"]\n[PlyCount "59"]\n[EventDate "1936.08.10"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "15"]\n[EventCountry "ENG"]\n[SourceTitle "HCL"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]\n\n1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. d4 Nbd7 4. g3 e5 5. Bg2 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Nc3 c6 8. e4\nQc7 9. h3 Re8 10. Be3 Nf8 11. Rc1 h6 12. d5 Bd7 13. Nd2 g5 14. f4 gxf4 15. gxf4\nKg7 16. fxe5 dxe5 17. c5 cxd5 18. Nxd5 Qc6 19. Nc4 Ng6 20. Nd6 Be6 21. Nxe7\nNxe7 22. Rxf6 Kxf6 23. Qh5 Ng6 24. Nf5 Rg8 25. Qxh6 Bxa2 26. Rd1 Rad8 27. Qg5+\nKe6 28. Rxd8 f6 29. Rxg8 Nf4 30. 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