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SUMMARY:December 14
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nI’ve got no regrets about the games themselves\, as frankly I’ve never been narcissistic about my play.- Alexander Grischuk\, 2014\nBIRTHS \nJean Taubenhaus (1850-14.09.1919)\, a Polish–born French Master and author who was the operator of Mephisto at the Paris Exposition in 1889.\nOscar Chajes (1873-28.02.1928)\, an American Master born in Ukraine. He was the last person to defeat Jose Capablanca\, at New York 1916\, prior to Capablanca’s eight-year undefeated stretch from 1916 to 1924.\nSandor Bela (1919-31.03.1978) an Hungarian Internatinal Master who was Hungarian Champion in 1953.\nHenryka (Henrijeta) Konarkowska – Sokolov (1938)\, a Polish–Serbian Woman Grandmaster who won few national title in Poland and in Yugoslavia.\nJan Timman (1951)\, the best Dutch Grandmaster for lmore than two decades who was also the best Western Player in the 1980’s. He lost the FIDE World Championhip final match to A. Karpov in 1993.\nVictor Bologan (1971)\, The best Moldovian Grandmaster for decades\, writer and coach who is living in Qatar.\nRichard\, Bitoon\, (1975)\, Filipino Grandmaster who won the 2015 Philippines Chess Championship.\nLakos\, Nikoletta Lakos (1978)\, an Hunagarian Woman Grandmaster.\nKirill Brizgalin (1982)\, Russian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nErnst Falkbeer (27.06.1819-1885)\, an Austrian Master born in Czechoslovakia. HE is also known to have introduced the Falkbeer Countergambit.\nPaul Saladin Leonhardt (13.11.1877-1934)\, a German Master born in Poland. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1994 The FIDE GA elected F. Campomanes as President.  Mohamed Ghobash (UAE) as Deputy President\, G. Makropoulos (GRE) as General Secretary and Willy Iclicki (BEL) as Treasurer.\n2009 14.12 In in Khanty Mansiysk Russia\, 41-year-old Boris Gelfand of Israel won the World Cup 2009. He beat Ruslan Ponomariov in the tie breaks 7-5. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1832 The first streetcar went into operation in New York City\, NY. The vehicle was horse-drawn and had room for 30 people.\n1851 Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” was first published in the U.S.\n1881 Charles J. Guiteau’s trial began for the assassination of U.S. President Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.\n1914 The Ottoman Empire declares war on Britain\, France\, Russia\, Serbia and Montenegro during the early months of World War I.\n1918 Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.\n1922 The British Broadcasting Company begins radio service in the United Kingdom.\n1965 Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.\n1967 American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems\, the world’s first laser.\n1972 Blue Ribbon Sports became Nike.\n1979 Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170\, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.\n1982 Lech Wałęsa\, the leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement\, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.\n1991 Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.\n2012 The game Candy Crush Saga was released as a mobile app for smartphones. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "World Cup"]\n[Site "Khanty-Mansiysk"]\n[Date "2009.12.14"]\n[Round "7.6"]\n[White "Gelfand\, Boris"]\n[Black "Ponomariov\, Ruslan"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "E04"]\n[WhiteElo "2758"]\n[BlackElo "2739"]\n[PlyCount "103"]\n[EventDate "2009.11.21"]\n[EventType "k.o."]\n[EventRounds "7"]\n[EventCountry "RUS"]\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 c5 6. O-O Nc6 7. dxc5 Qxd1 8.\nRxd1 Bxc5 9. Nbd2 c3 10. bxc3 O-O 11. Ne1 Be7 12. Nd3 Nd5 13. Bb2 Nb6 14. Rab1\nNa5 15. Ba1 Rd8 16. c4 Naxc4 17. Nxc4 Nxc4 18. Bxb7 Bxb7 19. Rxb7 Bf6 20. Bxf6\ngxf6 21. Rc1 Nd6 22. Re7 Nb5 23. a4 Kf8 24. Rb7 Nd6 25. Rbc7 Ne8 26. R7c5 Rab8\n27. R1c4 f5 28. Kg2 Rb7 29. a5 Nd6 30. Rd4 Ke8 31. f3 Nb5 32. Rh4 Kf8 33. a6\nRb6 34. Rb4 Rd5 35. Rxd5 exd5 36. Nf4 Nc7 37. Rxb6 axb6 38. a7 d4 39. Nd5 Na8\n40. Kf2 Ke8 41. e3 dxe3+ 42. Kxe3 Kd7 43. Nf6+ Ke7 44. Nxh7 f6 45. g4 b5 46. g5\nfxg5 47. Nxg5 Kf6 48. f4 b4 49. Kd4 Nb6 50. Nf3 b3 51. 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