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SUMMARY:December 10
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \n” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”- Marcel Duchamp\nBIRTHS \nJoseph Henry Blackburne (1841-01.09.1924)\, an English Master who dominated British chess during the latter part of the 19th century.\nVatslav Gebelt (1913-16-10.1999)\, a Russian International Master for Chess Composition born in Belarus.\nHerbert Bastian (10.12 1952)\, a German International Master\, FIDE officer and President of the German Chess Federation since 2014.\nRobert Ruck (1977)\, a Hungarian Grandmaster.\nBu Xiangzhi (1985)\, a Chinese Grandmaster (at the age of 13 years\, 10 months) who was the Chinese champion in 2004 and a  member of the gold medal-winning Chinese team at the 2015 World Team Chess Championship.\nAleksandr Volodin (1990)\, an Estonian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nKaroly Sterk (19.09.1881-1946)\, a good Hungarian Master who represented Hungary at the first international team tournament in Paris 1924.\nMaximilian Ujtelky (20.04.1915-1979)\, a Slovak International Master who share first at the Czechoslovakian chess championship in 1960.\nMark Carl Diesen (16.09.1957-2008)\, an American International Master and chemical Engineer who became the World Junior Champion in 1976. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1929 FIDE published its first Chess Rules with 25 regulations.\n1996 FIDE President Ilyumzhinov announced in Las Palmas\, Gran Canaria\, the first World Championship Knockout Series for the end of 1997\, with a record US$ 5\,000\,000 prize fund. A. Karpov and G. Kasparov RUS would be invited to join the winners of Round 5 in the  semi-finals. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1510 – Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque\, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji\, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate\, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.\n1684 – Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity\, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum\, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.\n1799 – France adopts the ‘metre’ as its official unit of length.\n1816 Dutch regain Sumatra from the British\n1817 Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.\n1868 The first traffic lights are installed\, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals\, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.\n1901 The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.\n1906  U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War\, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.\n1907 Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature\, the first English-language writer to do so\n1926 2nd part of Hitler’s Mein Kampf is published.\n1932 Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.\n1936 Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.\n1941 Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines.\n1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam.\n1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize\n1963 Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy\, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.\n1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo.\n1975 Andrei Sakharov’s wife Yelena Bonner\, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize.\n1978 In Oslo\, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize\n1983 Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.\n1994 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Yitzhak Rabin\, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat\n1996 The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Candidates final"]\n[Site "Belgrade"]\n[Date "1977.??.??"]\n[Round "7"]\n[White "Kortschnoj\, Viktor"]\n[Black "Spassky\, Boris V"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "D58"]\n[WhiteElo "2665"]\n[BlackElo "2630"]\n[PlyCount "95"]\n[EventDate "1977.11.??"]\n[EventType "match"]\n[EventRounds "18"]\n[EventCountry "YUG"]\n\n1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Be7 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 b6 8. Rc1\nBb7 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10. cxd5 exd5 11. b4 c6 12. Be2 Nd7 13. O-O a5 14. b5 c5 15.\ndxc5 Nxc5 16. Nd4 Qd6 17. Bg4 Rfd8 18. Re1 Ne6 19. Bxe6 fxe6 20. Nc6 Bxc6 21.\nbxc6 Bxc3 22. Rxc3 Rac8 23. Qc2 e5 24. c7 Rd7 25. Rc1 d4 26. Rc6 Qd5 27. Qb1 d3\n28. Qxb6 d2 29. Rd1 Qxa2 30. h3 Qa4 31. Rxd2 Rxd2 32. Qb7 Rdd8 33. cxd8=Q+ Rxd8\n34. Rc7 Qa1+ 35. Kh2 e4 36. Qxe4 Qf6 37. f4 Qf8 38. Ra7 Qc5 39. Qb7 Qc3 40. Qe7\nRf8 41. e4 Qd4 42. f5 h5 43. Rxa5 Qd2 44. Qe5 Qg5 45. Ra6 Rf7 46. 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