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SUMMARY:August 2
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nI think I would beat Tal pretty easily. Fischer would be more difficult\, but I think I could beat him too.- Magnus Carlsen\nBIRTHS \nAdrian Hollis (1940-28.02.2013)\, English Correspondence Grandmaster\, who was the British Correspondence Chess Champion few times.\nAndreas Duckstein (1927) Austrian International Master born in Budapest. Thrice Austrian Champion (1954\, 1956\, 1977).\nPuig Laborda Jorge 02.08 1928 1989 Spanish-Catalan chess amateur who create the AIPE and the Chess Oscar in 1967.\nYakov Murey (1941)\, Israeli Grandmaster born in Moscow and currently living in France. European Senior Champion in 2001 and was the second of V. Korchnoi at the World Championship Match  in 1978.\nGeorg Siegel (1962-07.12.2010)\, German Grandmaster who sadly drowned in Freiburg\, in 2010. His body was never found.\nVladimir Belikov (1971)\, Russian Gradmaster who was Army Champion in 1995.\nGeorgi Castaneda\, (1976)\, Peruvian Grandmaster\, not active anymore. \nDEATHS \nJohann Breuer (07.01.1903-1981)\, German chess composer.\nKushnir Alla (11.02. 1941- 2013) Israeli Women Grandmaster who was  Women’s World Championship Challenger in 1965\, 1969 and 1972. She was also USSR Women’s Champion in 1970  before moving to Israel in 1973. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1960 The USA team (Mombardy\, Kalme\, Weinstein\, Saidy\, Mednis\, Hearst) beat the USSR for the gold at the 7th World Student Team Championship in Leningrad\, USSR.\n1964 The team of USSR ( Pelts\, Khodos\, Savon\, Mnatsakanian\, Antoshin\, Kapengut) won the 11th World Student Team Championship in Krakow\, Poland.\n2009 In Sao Polo\, Brazil\, Alexander Shabalov (USA) and Jimenez Fidel Corrales (CUB) shared first at the American Continental Chess Championship. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1776 The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.\n1869 Japan’s samurai\, farmer\, artisan\, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō) is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25\, 1869).\n1870 Tower Subway\, the world’s first underground tube railway\, opens in London\, England\, United Kingdom.\n1873 The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco’s famous cable car system.\n1922 A typhoon hits Shantou\, Republic of China killing more than 50\,000 people.\n1934 Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.\n1939 Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt\, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.\n1943 Jewish prisoners stage a revolt at Treblinka\, one of the deadliest of Nazi death camps where approximately 900\,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months.\n1980 A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna\, Italy\, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.\n1990 Iraq invades Kuwait\, eventually leading to the Gulf War. \nGAME OF THE DAY  \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Karlsbad"]\n[Site "Karlsbad"]\n[Date "1929.08.02"]\n[Round "3"]\n[White "Bogoljubow\, Efim"]\n[Black "Nimzowitsch\, Aaron"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "E21"]\n[PlyCount "100"]\n[EventDate "1929.07.31"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "21"]\n[EventCountry "CZE"]\n[SourceTitle "HCL"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]\n\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 b6 6. g3 Bb7 7. Bg2 O-O 8.\nO-O Re8 9. Re1 d6 10. Qc2 Be4 11. Qb3 Nc6 12. Bf1 e5 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5\nRxe5 15. Bf4 Re8 16. f3 Bb7 17. Rad1 Nd7 18. e4 Qf6 19. Bg2 Ne5 20. Rd2 Re7 21.\nRed1 Bc6 22. Rf2 Rae8 23. Bf1 h6 24. Be2 Kh8 25. Qa3 Qe6 26. Qc1 f5 27. exf5\nQxf5 28. Qd2 Qf7 29. Qd4 Ng6 30. Bd3 Nxf4 31. Qxf4 Qxf4 32. gxf4 Rf8 33. f5 Bd7\n34. Rdd2 Bxf5 35. Rfe2 Rxe2 36. Bxe2 Re8 37. Kf2 Re5 38. Rd5 g5 39. Rxe5 dxe5\n40. c5 bxc5 41. Ba6 e4 42. a4 Kg7 43. a5 exf3 44. Kxf3 Kf6 45. Ke3 Ke5 46. Bc4\nBg4 47. Ba6 h5 48. Bc4 h4 49. Ba6 Bd1 50. 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