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SUMMARY:December 11
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nWhen I am in the USSR\, I have the feeling that every tram conductor plays chess better than I do.- Hans Ree\nBIRTHDAY \nErich Brunner\, (1885-16.05.1938)\, a German chess composer.\nJean Oudot (1926-29.12.1974)\, a French chess composer.\nJoseph Henry Blake (03.03.1859-1951)\, an English Master who won the He was British correspondence champion in 1922.\nRichard Clewin Griffith (22.07.1872)\, a British chess player\, author and editor who won the British Chess Championship in 1912.\nValentin Lukov (1955)\, Bulgarian Grandmaster.\nHernan Salazar (1958)\, a Chilean International Master and International Arbiter.\nMaxim Novik (1963)\, a Russian Grandmaster.\nTair Vahidov (1963)\, an Uzbek Grandmaster.\nViswanathan Anand (1969)\, an Indian Grandmaster. The 15th World Champion who defended his title 5 times.\nWang Pin (1974)\, a Chinese Woman Grandmaster who won the Chinese championship in 2002.\nMatthew Turner (1975)\, an English-Scottish Grandmaster and a teacher.\nJones Gawain (1987)\, an English Grandmaster and author who  won the British Chess Championship in 2012 \nWORLD EVENTS \n361 Julian enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire.\n630 Muhammad leads an army of 10\,000 to conquer Mecca.\n1792 French Revolution: King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention.\n1816 Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.\n1868 Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay.\n1913 “Mona Lisa” recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum.\n1917 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia.\n1931 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada\, Australia\, New Zealand\, South Africa\, Ireland (Free State)\, and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)\n1937 Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations.\n1941 World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States\, following the Americans’ declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States\, in turn\, declares war on them.\n1946 The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.\n1958 French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France\, becoming the Republic of Upper Volta and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin)\, respectively\, and joining the French Community.\n1961 Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes in Israel.\n1972 Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.\n1981 Muhammad Ali’s 61st & last fight\, losing to Trevor Berbick.\n1994 First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya.\n2001 The People’s Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n2008 Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.\n2015 “Playboy” magazine publishes its last nude issue\, featuring Pamela Anderson on the cover. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "UKR-ch 77th"]\n[Site "Poltava"]\n[Date "2008.12.11"]\n[Round "8"]\n[White "Korobov\, Anton"]\n[Black "Nyzhnyk\, Illya"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "D27"]\n[WhiteElo "2605"]\n[BlackElo "2444"]\n[PlyCount "49"]\n[EventDate "2008.12.02"]\n[EventType "swiss"]\n[EventRounds "9"]\n[EventCountry "UKR"]\n\n1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. Bb3 Nc6 8. Nc3\ncxd4 9. exd4 Be7 10. Bg5 O-O 11. Qd2 Na5 12. Bc2 b5 13. Qf4 Bb7 14. Qh4 g6 15.\nd5 Bxd5 16. Rad1 Nc6 17. Rfe1 Re8 18. Bb3 Kg7 19. Bxd5 Nxd5 20. Qh6+ Kg8 21.\nBxe7 Rxe7 22. Ng5 f6 23. Nxe6 Qd6 24. Nxd5 Rxe6 25. 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