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SUMMARY:December 17
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nParapsychology? That’s a bunch of bananas. Korchnoi believes in that. He is still playing his game with the ghost of Geza Maroczy.- Nathan Divinsky\, 2004\nBIRTHS \nAlexei Kopnin 1918-17.06.1991)\, a Russian composer.\nAlexander Beliavsky (1953)\, Slovenian-Ukrainian Grandmaster\, a trainer\, and writer who won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1973 and the USSR Chess Championship four times in 1974\, 1980\, 1987 and 1990.\nWilliam Winter (11.09.1898-1955)\, a British Master and writer who won the British Chess Championship in 1935 and 1936.\nCarlos Matamoros (1966)\, an Ecuadorian Grandmaster living in Spain. He got an individual gold at the 1982 Olympiad.\nAlexander Zubarev (1979)\, Ukrainian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nWilhelm Karl Massmann (06.07.1895-1974)\, a German chess composer.\nDec 17\, 1980: Harold Maurice Lommer (18.11.1904-1980)\, an English chess composer\, died in Valencia\, Spain. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1976 E. Akhmylovskaya (USSR) won the Women’s Interzonal in Rosendaal\, Netherlands.\n1988 A. Karpov (USSR) and V. Gavrikov (USSR) tied for the first place (5-5) at the FIDE World Active Championship held in Mazatlan\, Mexico. Karpov won the title after a  tiebreak match.\n2005 In Khanty-Mansiysk\, Levon Aronian of Armenia won the 3rd World Cup after beating Ruslan Ponomariov 3-1 of Ukraine in final. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1586 Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.\n1777 American Revolution: France formally recognizes the United States.\n1885 France declares Madagascar a protectorate.\n1892 First issue of Vogue is published.\n1892 Tchaikovski’s ballet “Casse-noisette” premieres in St Petersburg.\n1903 The Wright Brothers make their first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM\, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk\, North Carolina.\n1914 Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate.\n1922 Last British troops leave Irish Free State\n1923 Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic.\n1925 Sultan Abdulaziz Ibn Saud conquers Jeddah\, the last major stand of the Hashemites against the Saudis.\n1926 Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d’état is successful.\n1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3.\n1947 First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.\n1962 Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People & Places).\n1964 “Goldfinger”\, 3rd James Bond film\, starring Sean Connery and Honor Blackman premieres in London.\n2010 Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and the wider Arab Spring.\n2012 Jiroemon Kimura of Japan becomes the world’s oldest verified man at 116 years old\n2014 The United States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic relations after severing them 55 years ago. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Beijing Sportaccord blitz"]\n[Site "Beijing"]\n[Date "2012.12.17"]\n[Round "11"]\n[White "Morozevich\, Alexander"]\n[Black "Giri\, Anish"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "D90"]\n[WhiteElo "2748"]\n[BlackElo "2720"]\n[PlyCount "61"]\n[EventDate "2012.12.16"]\n[EventType "tourn (blitz)"]\n[EventRounds "15"]\n[EventCountry "CHN"]\n\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. h4 dxc4 6. e4 Bg4 7. Bxc4 O-O 8. e5\nNfd7 9. h5 gxh5 10. Qd3 h6 11. Qe4 c5 12. d5 f5 13. d6+ Kh8 14. Qxb7 Qb6 15.\nBd5 exd6 16. e6 Qxb7 17. Bxb7 Nb6 18. Bxa8 Nxa8 19. Nh4 Re8 20. f3 Nc6 21. fxg4\nNd4 22. gxf5 Nc2+ 23. Kd1 Nxa1 24. Nd5 Kh7 25. f6 Rxe6 26. fxg7 Kxg7 27. b3 Kf7\n28. Bb2 Nxb3 29. axb3 Nb6 30. Rf1+ Ke8 31. 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