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SUMMARY:August 6
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nWhat’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments\, but that I haven’t played very well.- Magnus Carlsen\, 2017\nBIRTHS \nCount Ansidei Francesco (1804-08.10.1873)\, Italian player\, writer and teacher.\nJohannes Jacob Rietveld\, (1893-15.08.1968)\, Dutch chess composer and a painter.\nHelmut Pfleger (1943) German Grandmaster born in the Czech Republic. A journalist and a writer.\nChristophe Bernard (1952)\, French International Master who won the French championship in 1987.\nStanislav Voitsekhovsky (1964)\, Russian Grandmaster.\nEmilia Djingarova (1978)\, Bulgarian Women Grandmaster and national women champion 2003.\nJana Jackova (1982) Czech International Master and Women Grandmaster.\nCmilyte Viktorija\, (1983)\, Lithuanian Grandmaster and Women Grandmaster. The 2005 Lithuanian champion. In 2015 she got a seat in the Lithuanian parliament.\nVladimir Belov (1984)\, Russian grandmaster who was the Champion of Moscow in 2007. \nDEATHS \nLudwig Bledow  (27.07. 1795-1846)\, German Master\, co-founder of the Berlin Pleiades and the founder  of the first German chess magazine\, Schachzeitung der Berliner Schachgesellschaft.\nRaul Sanguinetti (02.02.1933-2000)\, Argentine Grandmaster who won 7 times the title of Argentine Champion. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1977 Candidates Semi Final in Evian\, France\, V. Korchnoi beat L. Polugaevsky USSR 8½-4½.\n1987 In Smederevska Palanka\, Yugoslavia\, Litinskaya (USSR)\, Gaprindashivili (USSR) and Levitina (USSR) were the qualifiers from the Women’s Interzonal. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1538 Bogotá\, Colombia\, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.\n1806 Francis II\, the last Holy Roman Emperor\, abdicates\, ending the Holy Roman Empire.\n1825 Bolivia gains independence from Spain.\n1861 The United Kingdom annexes Lagos\, Nigeria.\n1914 World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.\n1945 World War II: Hiroshima\, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70\,000 people are killed instantly\, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.\n1960 Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.\n1962 Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.\n1997 Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill\, Guam killing 228 of 254 people on board.\n2012 NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Scheveningen"]\n[Site "Scheveningen"]\n[Date "1913.08.06"]\n[Round "12"]\n[White "Lasker\, Edward"]\n[Black "Englund\, Fritz"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "C48"]\n[PlyCount "41"]\n[EventDate "1913.07.28"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "13"]\n[EventCountry "NED"]\n[SourceTitle "EXT 1998"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1997.11.17"]\n\n1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Nd4 5. Nxe5 Qe7 6. Nf3 Nxe4 7. O-O Nxc3\n8. dxc3 Nxf3+ 9. Qxf3 Qc5 10. Re1+ Be7 11. Bd3 d5 12. Be3 Qd6 13. Bf4 Qf6 14.\nQxd5 c6 15. Qe4 Be6 16. Re3 Bc5 17. Be5 Qh6 18. Rg3 Bf8 19. Rd1 O-O-O 20. Qxc6+\nbxc6 21. Ba6# 1-0\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-69d2631641dcb-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"Scheveningen\"]\r\n[Site \"Scheveningen\"]\r\n[Date \"1913.08.06\"]\r\n[Round \"12\"]\r\n[White \"Lasker\, Edward\"]\r\n[Black \"Englund\, Fritz\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[ECO \"C48\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"41\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1913.07.28\"]\r\n[EventType \"tourn\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"13\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"NED\"]\r\n[SourceTitle \"EXT 1998\"]\r\n[Source \"ChessBase\"]\r\n[SourceDate \"1997.11.17\"]\r\n\r\n1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Nd4 5. Nxe5 Qe7 6. Nf3 Nxe4 7. O-O Nxc3\r\n8. dxc3 Nxf3+ 9. Qxf3 Qc5 10. Re1+ Be7 11. Bd3 d5 12. Be3 Qd6 13. Bf4 Qf6 14.\r\nQxd5 c6 15. Qe4 Be6 16. Re3 Bc5 17. Be5 Qh6 18. Rg3 Bf8 19. Rd1 O-O-O 20. Qxc6+\r\nbxc6 21. Ba6# 1-0"\,"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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