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SUMMARY:December 19
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nVasiukov hadn’t won a single game against me for 59 years and then suddenly won. I can’t call it shame. Shame or no shame\, it’s a pity that he won…- Viktor Korchnoi \, 2012\nBIRTHS \nVasja Pirc (1907-02.06.1980)\, a leading Slovenian chess player who was five times champion of Yugoslavia: 1935\, 1936\, 1937\, 1951\, and 1953. He is known to develop the practice of the Pirc Defence.\nMax Blau (1918-1984)\, a Swiss International Master born in Germany who won four times Swiss Chess Championship (1953\, 1955\, 1956\, and 1967).\nCorvin Radovici (1931)\, a Romanian International Master and coach.\nJusefs Petkevich (1940)\, a Latvian Grandmaster who became the Senior World Champion in 2002.\nAndres Rodriguez (1973)\, the first Uruguayan Grandmaster and former champion. A coach who is living in Argentine.\nYuriy Kryvoruchko (1986)\, an Ukrainian Grandmaster who was Ukrainian Champion in 2013.\nRobert L Hess (1991)\, an American Grandmaster who was US Junior Champion in 2006. \nCHESS EVENTS \n2000 Viswanathan Anand of India and Alexey Shirov of Spain started the final stage of the World Championship in Tehran\, Iran. \nWORLD EVENTS  \n1154 Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.\n1187 Pope Clement III is elected.\n1920 King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.\n1943 Military coup in Bolivia.\n1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi\n1984 – The Sino-British Joint Declaration\, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.\n1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile.\n1991 Boris Yeltsin takes control of the Kremlin.\n1998 Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.\n2012 Park Geun-Hye is elected the first female president of South Korea. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Vienna Kolisch Memorial 9900"]\n[Site "Vienna"]\n[Date "1899.12.19"]\n[Round "2"]\n[White "Marco\, Georg"]\n[Black "Maroczy\, Geza"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "C01"]\n[PlyCount "156"]\n[EventDate "1899.12.??"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "11"]\n[EventCountry "AUT"]\n1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. 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