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SUMMARY:August 16
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nI’ve been playing chess professionally for 35 years! It’s a long time\, and when people can still say that they enjoy my chess\, that’s great.- Nigel Short\, 2016\nBIRTHS \nGeorge Allcock MacDonnell 1830-03.06.1889) Irish master\, columnist\, and author.\nHenri Delaire (1860-27.09.1941)\, France chess composer and author. He was the first president of the French Chess Federation.\nJosef Cumpe (1868-12.08.1943)\, Czech chess composer.\nVladimir Bagirov (1936-21.07. 2000) Soviet-Latvian Grandmaster\, chess author\, and trainer who was World Senior Champion in 1998.\nIldar Ibragimov (1967)\, Russian Grandmaster who was living in the USA for 10 years and played in the bronze medal-winning USA team in the 2006 Chess Olympiad.\nJurij Zezulkin (1971)\, Belarus-born chess Grandmaster and organiser who is living in Poland since 2010.\nElina Danielian (1978) Armenian Grandmaster and Women Grandmaster. The best Armenian female player for two decades. She is living in the Netherlands.\nGeorgy Arzumanian (1980)\, Armenian Grandmaster\nNatalia Zdebskaja (1986)\, Ukrainian Women Grandmaster who is married to Ukrainian Grandmaster Drozdovskij.\nRoeland Pruijssers (1989)\, Dutch Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nFriedrich Samisch (20.09.1896-1975)\, German Grandmaster who contributed to the opening theory with two variations in the King’s Indian and the Nimzo-Indian. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1936 The Olympiad in Munich was organized by The Great German Chess Federation\, at the time not a member of FIDE. Twenty-one teams participated\, and the matches involved teams of eight players. England\, Palestine and the United States did not participate.\n1957 In Toronto\, Canada\, William Lombardy of USA won the 4th World Junior Championship with 11/11.\n1993 K. Arakhamia GEO won the SFR the Women’s Interzonal in Jakarta.\n2008 In Gaziantep Turkey\, Abhijeet Gupta and Harika Dronavalli both from India  won the World U20 Championships for Boys and Girls.\n2011 In Chennai India\, Swiercz Dariusz from Poland and Cori T Deysi from Peru became the  World Junior and Girls Champions respectively. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1906 An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hits Valparaíso\, Chile\, killing 3\,886 people.\n1930 The first colour sound cartoon\, called Fiddlesticks\, is made by Ub Iwerks.\n1945 Puyi\, the last Chinese emperor\, and ruler of Manchukuo\, is captured by Soviet troops.\n1960 Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.\n1977 Elvis Presley\, American singer\, guitarist\, and actor died.\n2003 The notorious former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin dies in exile in a Saudi Arabian hospital. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Hannover"]\n[Site "Hannover"]\n[Date "1926.08.16"]\n[Round "6"]\n[White "Nimzowitsch\, Aaron"]\n[Black "Mieses\, Jacques"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "A28"]\n[PlyCount "81"]\n[EventDate "1926.??.??"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n\n[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]\n\n1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e4 Bb4 5. d3 d6 6. g3 Bc5 7. Bg2 Ng4 8. O-O\nf5 9. Nd5 h6 10. exf5 Bxf5 11. Nh4 Be6 12. Ng6 Rg8 13. h3 Nf6 14. Be3 Bxd5 15.\ncxd5 Nd4 16. f4 Qd7 17. b4 Bb6 18. fxe5 dxe5 19. Nxe5 Qe7 20. Nc4 Kd8 21. a4\nRe8 22. Kh2 Ne2 23. d6 cxd6 24. Re1 Bxe3 25. Rxe2 Bg1+ 26. Qxg1 Qxe2 27. Nxd6\nRe7 28. a5 Rd7 29. Re1 Qd2 30. Nc4 Qxb4 31. a6 Rc8 32. Rb1 Qa4 33. axb7 Rb8 34.\nQc5 Rc7 35. Qd4+ Nd7 36. Qxg7 Rc5 37. Qh8+ Kc7 38. Qxh6 Qc2 39. Qd6+ Kd8 40.\nRf1 Ke8 41. 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