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SUMMARY:August 31
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nChess is respected in culture and education\, but our organization is far behind. FIDE must lead\, not drag chess down.- Garry Kasparov\, 2014\nBIRTHS \nZoltan Balla (1883-01.04.1945)\, Hungarian Master who won the first Hungarian championship.\nMark Liburkin (1910-05.03. 1953). A Soviet composer\, who was the editor of the study column in the magazine “Shakhmaty in the USSR” from 1945-53.\nPetar Trifunovic (1910-06.12.1980)\, Yugoslavian International Grandmaster and writer. Five times was the winner of the Yugoslavian Championship.\nVincent Eaton (1915-16.03.1962)\,  American chess composer and chess columnist who graduated from Harvard at the age of 18.\nDavid Hooper (1915-2000)\, English chess player\, a historian and writer. The co-author of the Oxford Chess Encyclopedia together with K. Whyld – one of the best and respectful encyclopedia’work in the world.\nAlan Ludgate (1945)\, Irish Corresponcence international Master and OTB player who won 3 Irish championships.\nGamil Agamaliev (1974)\, Turkish Grandmaster who was born in Azerbaijan.\nMonika Grabics\, Monika (1976)\, Hungarian Women Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nFrancois Andre Danican Philidor (07.09.1726-1795)\, French player\, writer and musician who was the best chess player of his time.\nMoshe Czerniak (10.02.1910-1984)\, Israeli chess champion born in Poland who was first champion of Palestine in 1936. In September 1939\, when World War II broke out\, Czerniak\, along with many other participants in the 8th Chess Olympiad\, decided to stay in Argentina for 10 years.\nPeter Szekely (08.02.1955-2003)\, Hungarian Grandmaster. In the 2003 Capablanca Memorial tournament\, he drew all 13 of his games\, the shortest in 8 moves and the longest in 13 for a total of 130 moves played. He died after a heart attack. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1935 In Warsaw\, the US team won his third Olympiad in the row. A Dake member of the US team made the best score at the event with 86.1%.\n1935 The FIDE GA accepted Palestine as a full member.\n1935 3Ms. Vera Menchik (CSR) won the 5th Women’s World Championship.\n1952 In Finland\,  For the first time the Soviet took part to the Olympiad. The team composed of Keres\, Smyslov\, Geller\, Bronstein\, Boleslavski\, and Kotov won the event without to lose a single match\, Keres lost two games and Bronstein one.\n1954 The FIDE GA approved the re-elections of Mr. Folke Rogard as President.\n1980 Germany. G. Kasparov becomes World Junior Champion ahead of N. Short (ENG).\n1990 I. Gurevich (USA )and K. Kakhiani (USSR) became World Junior Champions for Boys and Girls in Santiago\, Chile. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1314 King Håkon V Magnusson moves the capital of Norway from Bergen to Oslo.\n1895 German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.\n1897 Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope\, the first movie projector.\n1935 In an attempt to stay out of the growing turmoil in Europe\, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.\n1949 The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.\n1957 The Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gains its independence from the United Kingdom.\n1962 Trinidad and Tobago became independent.\n1973 John Ford\, American actor\, director\, producer\, and screenwriter (b. 1894)\n1980 After two weeks of nationwide strikes\, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement\, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.\n1991 Kyrgyzstan declares its independence from the Soviet Union.\n1994 The IRA announces a “complete cessation of military operations” after 25 years of bombing and killing.\n1997 Diana\, Princess of Wales\, her companion Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \n  \n
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