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SUMMARY:August 18
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nI think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else!- Boris Spassky\nBIRTHS \nIstvan Abonyi (1886-05.06.1942)\, Hungarian Master\, who introduced the Abonyi Gambit (1.Nf3 d5 2.e4). FIDE Life Member.\nJosef Vancura (1898 – 19-11-1921)\, Czech composer.\nAlexander Stripunsky (1970)\, US Grandmaster born in Ukraine who tie for first at the US championship in 2005.\nVega Jorge (1935)\, Guatemalan International Arbiter born in Cuba. FIDE officer and the President of the American Continent since 2002.\nDorian Rogozenco (1973) Romanian Grandmaster and author born Moldova.\nAlexandre Lesiege (1975)\, Canadian Grandmaster who won three Canadian championships.\nVadim Zvjaginsev (1976)\, Russian Grandmaster\, he played for the gold medal-winning Russian team in the 1997 World Team Chess Championship and in the 1998 Chess Olympiad. \nDEATHS \nLouis Paulsen (15.1.833-1891)\, German player who was considered to among the top five players in the world during the period 1860s and 1870s.\nStefano Rosselli del Turco (27.07.1877-1947)\, Italian master. who played in all first ten Italian championships\, and was twice Italian Champion.\nLevante Lengyel Levante (13.06. 1933-2014) Hungarian Grandmaster who tied for first with L. Portisch at the Hungarian championship of 1962. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1984 Curt Hansen of Denmark won the World Junior Championship in Helsinki\, Finland.\n1986 Walter Arencibia of Cuba won the World Junior Championship in Gausdal\, Norway. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1783 A huge fireball meteor is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast.\n1868 French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.\n1903 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made\, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.\n1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified\, guaranteeing women’s suffrage.\n1945 Sukarno takes office as the first president of Indonesia\, following the country’s declaration of independence the previous day.\n1958 Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.\n1965 Vietnam War: Operation Starlite begins: United States Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in the first major American ground battle of the war.\n2008 President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns under threat of impeachment. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Bad Kissingen"]\n[Site "Bad Kissingen"]\n[Date "1928.08.18"]\n[Round "7"]\n[White "Nimzowitsch\, Aaron"]\n[Black "Marshall\, Frank James"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "A50"]\n[PlyCount "50"]\n[EventDate "1928.08.12"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "11"]\n[EventCountry "GER"]\n[SourceTitle "HCL"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]\n\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Bg5 e6 5. Qc2 h6 6. Bh4 Be7 7. e4 O-O 8. e5\nNd5 9. Bg3 Nb4 10. Qb3 d5 11. exd6 Bxd6 12. O-O-O N8c6 13. Bxd6 Qxd6 14. a3\nNxd4 15. Rxd4 Qxd4 16. axb4 Qxf2 17. Qd1 Rfd8 18. Qe2 Qf4+ 19. Kc2 a5 20. bxa5\nRxa5 21. Nf3 Ra1 22. Kb3 b5 23. Qe5 bxc4+ 24. Kb4 Qc1 25. Nb5 c5+ 0-1\n				\n			You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.		\n	\n	\n	\n		jQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n						$.chessgame.navigationButtonClass  = 'rpbchessboard-jQuery-enableSmoothness';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameClass   = 'wp-dialog';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameOptions = {"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true};\n			var selector = '#' + "rpbchessboard-69d76a9447edc-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"Bad Kissingen\"]\r\n[Site \"Bad Kissingen\"]\r\n[Date \"1928.08.18\"]\r\n[Round \"7\"]\r\n[White \"Nimzowitsch\, Aaron\"]\r\n[Black \"Marshall\, Frank James\"]\r\n[Result \"0-1\"]\r\n[ECO \"A50\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"50\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1928.08.12\"]\r\n[EventType \"tourn\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"11\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"GER\"]\r\n[SourceTitle \"HCL\"]\r\n[Source \"ChessBase\"]\r\n[SourceDate \"1999.07.01\"]\r\n\r\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Bg5 e6 5. Qc2 h6 6. Bh4 Be7 7. e4 O-O 8. e5\r\nNd5 9. Bg3 Nb4 10. Qb3 d5 11. exd6 Bxd6 12. O-O-O N8c6 13. Bxd6 Qxd6 14. a3\r\nNxd4 15. Rxd4 Qxd4 16. axb4 Qxf2 17. Qd1 Rfd8 18. Qe2 Qf4+ 19. Kc2 a5 20. bxa5\r\nRxa5 21. Nf3 Ra1 22. Kb3 b5 23. Qe5 bxc4+ 24. Kb4 Qc1 25. Nb5 c5+ 0-1"\,"pieceSymbols":"native"\,"navigationBoard":"above"\,"showFlipButton":true\,"showDownloadButton":true\,"navigationBoardOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}\,"diagramOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}});\n		});\n	\n\n\n \n\n
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