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SUMMARY:August 23
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nPeter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games\, I mean\, come on\, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there!- Anish Giri \nBIRTHS \nKarl Jaenisch (1813)\, Finnish-Russian chess player\, chess theorist\, composer and author. Jaenisch is best remembered for having analyzed and helped develop Petrov’s Defence and the Schliemann–Jaenisch Gambit of the Ruy Lopez\,\nTigran Gorgiev (1910)\, Soviet study composer\, born in Ukraine\, International Judge of Chess Compositions 1956\, International Master for Chess Compositions 1956.\nRodrigo Flores Alvarez (1910-17.01.2007)\, Argentine Master who won between 1931 and 1965 11 times the Argentine championship.\nDmitry Kononenko\, (1988)\, Ukraine Grandmaster.\nGennadi Matjushin (1984)\, Ukraine Grandmaster.\nMartin Petr (1988)\, Czech Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nLev Polugaevsky (1995)\, Soviet-French Grandmaster\, theorist\, the participant at the Candidates’ Matches. He died of a brain tumour in 1995. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1895 The Swiss system was invented by Dr. Julius Muller and applied for the first time in 1895 at Zurich.\n1953 The FIDE GA agreed to charge for the first time entry fees to the federation.\n1985 The USSR won the World U26 Team Championship in Mendosa\, Argentina. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1754 Louis XVI of France was born (d. 1793)\n1839 The United Kingdom captures Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for war with Qing China. The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.\n1866 Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.\n1927 Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy\, controversial trial.\n1939 World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty\, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact\, the Baltic states\, Finland\, Romania\, and Poland are divided between the two nations.\n1942 World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.\n1990 Armenia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.\n1990 West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.\n2011 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the Libyan Civil War. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAYS \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Karlsbad"]\n[Site "Karlsbad"]\n[Date "1929.08.23"]\n[Round "19"]\n[White "Menchik\, Vera"]\n[Black "Rubinstein\, Akiba"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "A31"]\n[PlyCount "60"]\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. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 d5 5. cxd5 a6 6. a3 Nxd5 7. g3 e5 8. Nc2\nBc5 9. Bg2 Be6 10. O-O Nc6 11. b4 Ba7 12. Bb2 O-O 13. Nd2 Qe7 14. Nf3 Rfd8 15.\nQc1 f6 16. Rd1 Rac8 17. Rb1 e4 18. Nfe1 Bg4 19. Bf1 Ne5 20. h3 Bh5 21. Kg2 e3\n22. f4 Nc4 23. Bd4 Bxd4 24. Rxd4 Nc3 25. Rb3 Nd2 26. Rb2 Bxe2 27. Rxd8+ Rxd8\n28. Bxe2 Nxe2 29. Qd1 Qe4+ 30. Kh2 Nf1# 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-69d2b9a37e9e6-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"Karlsbad\"]\r\n[Site \"Karlsbad\"]\r\n[Date \"1929.08.23\"]\r\n[Round \"19\"]\r\n[White \"Menchik\, Vera\"]\r\n[Black \"Rubinstein\, Akiba\"]\r\n[Result \"0-1\"]\r\n[ECO \"A31\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"60\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1929.07.31\"]\r\n[EventType \"tourn\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"21\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"CZE\"]\r\n[SourceTitle \"HCL\"]\r\n[Source \"ChessBase\"]\r\n[SourceDate \"1999.07.01\"]\r\n\r\n1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 d5 5. cxd5 a6 6. a3 Nxd5 7. g3 e5 8. Nc2\r\nBc5 9. Bg2 Be6 10. O-O Nc6 11. b4 Ba7 12. Bb2 O-O 13. Nd2 Qe7 14. Nf3 Rfd8 15.\r\nQc1 f6 16. Rd1 Rac8 17. Rb1 e4 18. Nfe1 Bg4 19. Bf1 Ne5 20. h3 Bh5 21. Kg2 e3\r\n22. f4 Nc4 23. Bd4 Bxd4 24. Rxd4 Nc3 25. Rb3 Nd2 26. Rb2 Bxe2 27. Rxd8+ Rxd8\r\n28. Bxe2 Nxe2 29. Qd1 Qe4+ 30. Kh2 Nf1# 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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