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SUMMARY:August 8
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nWe lost the crowns of World Champions\, it is sad\, of course. But if you look at the rating list of top 100 players\, Russia is still dominating. However\, the competition is constantly growing stronger.- Arkady Dvorkovich\, 2011\nBIRTHS \nFerenc Herpai (1910-16.11.1994)\, Hungarian chess composer.\nDragutin Sahovic (1940-12.11.1995)\, Yugoslavian player who worked with Chess Informant and develop the ECO code.\nLeonid Yudasin (1959)\, Israeli Grandmaster born in Russia and now living in New York.\nSerik Temirbayev (1961)\, Kazakh Grandmaster.\nSergey Kasparov (1968)\, Belarus Grandmaster and writer.\nNiina Koskela (1971)\, Norwegian Women Grandmaster born in Finland.\nRadek Kalod (1978)\, Czech Grandmaster who played the 2006 Olympiad.\nSergey Kayumov (1981)\, Uzbek Grandmaster who disappeared from international chess in 2010.\nFerenc Berkes (1985)\, a three-time Hungarian Champion.\nMarin Bosiocic (1988)\, Croatian player who played many years for the national team.\nPetar G. Arnaudov (1986)\, Bulgarian Grandmaster and writer who played more than 100 tournaments.\nMarin Bosiocic (1988)\, Croatian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nJacobus Johannes Ebben (11.01.1875-1961)\, Dutch composer who composed 250 problems.\nCharles Pelle (1965)\, French chess composer.\nVladimir Pachman\, 16.04.1918-1984)\, Czech Grandmaster for Chess Composition and writer.\nLaszlo Szabo (19.03.1917-1998)\, Hungary\, he was the best player in Hungary for nearly 20 years.\nIgor Kurnosov Igor (30.05. 1985-2013)\, Russian Grandmaster who was hit and killed by a car.\nOganes Danielian (03.01.1974-2016)\, Armenian Grandmaster. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1938 FIDE confirmed the full admission of Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. At the request of Hungary\, France\, Czechoslovakia\, Switzerland\, Italy\, Argentina and Great Britain\, the FIDE GA agreed to reconsider the membership of Germany (GDDB).\n1959 Carlos Bielicki of Argentina won the 5th World Junior Championship in Munchenstein\, Switzerland.\n1965 Candidates Semi-Final Match in Bled\, Tal (USSR) beat B. Larsen (DEN) 5½-4½.\n1981 S. Conquest ENG won the 5th World U16 Championship in Embalse\, Argentina.\n1989 The FIDE GA approved the creation of the Presidential Board to exercise\, in  the emergency\, the rights of the General Assembly\, Central Committee or Executive Council in between their respective meetings.\n1994 M. Taimanov (RUS) won for the second time the World Senior Championship organized in Biel\, Switzerland.\n2008 In Kazakhstan\, The World Blitz Championship was won by GM Leinier Dominguez of Cuba who was undefeated with 11.5 points. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1786 Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.\n1863 American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg\, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).\n1908 Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans\, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.\n1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.\n1963 Great Train Robbery: In England\, a gang of 15 train robbers steals £2.6 million in bank notes.\n1967 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia\, Malaysia\, the Philippines\, Singapore\, and Thailand.\n1974 President Richard Nixon\, in a nationwide television address\, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.\n1990 Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward. \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "DSB-17.Kongress"]\n[Site "Hamburg"]\n[Date "1910.??.??"]\n[Round "17"]\n[White "Leonhardt\, Paul Saladin"]\n[Black "Tarrasch\, Siegbert"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "C46"]\n[PlyCount "51"]\n[EventDate "1910.07.18"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "17"]\n[EventCountry "GER"]\n[SourceTitle "HCL"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]\n\n1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nd5 Ba5 5. Bc4 d6 6. O-O Nf6 7. d3 h6 8. c3\nNxd5 9. exd5 Ne7 10. d4 exd4 11. Qa4+ c6 12. dxc6 bxc6 13. Nxd4 Bd7 14. Re1 Kf8\n15. Bf4 Bc7 16. Qa3 Nc8 17. Re3 Kg8 18. Rae1 d5 19. Bxc7 Qxc7 20. Re8+ Bxe8 21.\nRxe8+ Kh7 22. Bd3+ f5 23. Rxh8+ Kxh8 24. Qf8+ Kh7 25. Bxf5+ g6 26. Bxg6+ 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-69e817c01c600-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"DSB-17.Kongress\"]\r\n[Site \"Hamburg\"]\r\n[Date \"1910.??.??\"]\r\n[Round \"17\"]\r\n[White \"Leonhardt\, Paul Saladin\"]\r\n[Black \"Tarrasch\, Siegbert\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[ECO \"C46\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"51\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1910.07.18\"]\r\n[EventType \"tourn\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"17\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"GER\"]\r\n[SourceTitle \"HCL\"]\r\n[Source \"ChessBase\"]\r\n[SourceDate \"1999.07.01\"]\r\n\r\n1. e4 e5 2. 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