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SUMMARY:August 15
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nEvery chessmaster was once a beginner.- Irving Chernev\nBIRTHS \nJohann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772-21.07.1838)\, German inventor\, engineer. Best known for displaying a fraudulent chess machine.\nBernhard Kagan (1866-27.11.1932)\, German chess player\, writer\, publisher\, editor\, and organizer.\nWolfgang Pauli (1976 German chess composer\, who composed about 2500 chess problems during his lifetime.was born in Dresden\, Germany.\nPaul Vaitonis (1911-23.04.1983)\, Lithuanian–Canadian International Master of chess. He was a five-time Lithuanian Champion and was twice Canadian Champion.\nGino Mentasti (1913-29.11.2002)\, Italian chess composer who was International Master for Chess Composition.\nGijssen Geurt (1934)\, Dutch International Arbiter who was many times the Chief Arbiter of world championships from 187 until 2010.\nIsrael Gelfer (1945)\, Israeli chess amateur\, author and FIDE officer. he participated at the Olympiad in 1970.\nHelgi Olafsson (1956)\, Icelandic chess Grandmaster who won the Icelandic Chess Championship six times.\nEvgeny Agrest (1966)\, Swedish Grandmaster born in Belarus.\nLubomir Mikhaletz (1974)\, Ukraine Grandmaster who was joint Ukrainian champion in 1988.\nAdhiban\, B. \nDEATHS \nHoratio Bolton\, (02.06.1793-1873)\, British chess composer.\nSigmund Herland\, (27.09.1865) Romanian chess master and composer. died in Bucarest\, Romania. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1948.15.08 The young D. Bronstein USSR won the first Interzonal Tournament in Saltjobaden\, Sweden. First prize was $550. In the opinion of many\, this tournament was one of the strongest ever to have been played until then. The top five qualified for the Candidates Tournament.\n1997 15.08 Egypt won the African team Championship held in Cairo.\n2012 15.08 GM Alexander Ipatov and WGM Guo Qi became  World Junior Chess Champions for boys and girls at the WJCC 2012 in Athens\, Greece. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1038 King Stephen I\, the first king of Hungary\, dies; his nephew\, Peter Orseolo\, succeeds him.\n1261 Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.\n1461 The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire.\n1519 Panama City\, Panama\, is founded.\n1537 Asunción\, Paraguay\, is founded.\n1769 Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Ajaccio\, France.\n1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.\n1945 Effective surrender of Japan in World War II\, Korea gains Independence from Japan.\n1947 India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.\n1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.\n1969 The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York\, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.\n1971 Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.\n2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1\,090. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Montreal Empresa-A"]\n[Site "Montreal"]\n[Date "2006.08.15"]\n[Round "5"]\n[White "Eljanov\, Pavel"]\n[Black "Onischuk\, Alexander"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "E34"]\n[WhiteElo "2651"]\n[BlackElo "2668"]\n[PlyCount "87"]\n[EventDate "2006.08.08"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "9"]\n[EventCountry "CAN"]\n[EventCategory "15"]\n[SourceTitle "CBM 114"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "2006.10.02"]\n\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. 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