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SUMMARY:December 21
DESCRIPTION: QUOTE OF THE DAY \nA game of chess has three phases: the opening\, where you hope you stand better; the middlegame\, where you think you stand better; and the ending\, where you know you stand to lose.- Savielly Tartakower\nBIRTHS \nAndre Marceil (1902-15.05.1969)\, a French chess composer.\nHerbert Grasemann (1917-21.06.1983)\, a German chess composer born in Poland.\nWolfgang Pietzsch (1930-29.12.1996)\, a German Grandmaster and a teacher of mathematics and physics. The Champion of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1960\, 1962 and 1967. Germany.\nDuncan Suttles (1945)\, a Canadian Grandmaster and Grandmaster of Correspondence Chess born in the USA.\nRoberto Cifuentes Parada (1957)\, a Chilean Grandmaster who won five times Chilean Chess Championship before to move to Holand then to Spain.\nOlivier Renet (1964)\, a French Grandmaster and coach. He was Karpov’s second during the Karpov-Kasparov match in 1990.\nPavel Tregubov (1971)\, a Russian Grandmaster and coach living in France married to A. Kosteniul. The first European Champion (2000). \nDEATH \nAnton Hosslinger (1959)\, a German player who introduced in Germany the first chess rating system named Ingo in 1948. \nWORLD EVENTS \n69 The Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome\, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors.\n1898 French Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover the radium.\n1923 Nepal changes from British protectorate to an independent nation.\n1937 SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs\, the world’s first full-length animated feature\, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.\n1946 An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō\, Japan\, kills over 1\,300 people and destroys over 38\,000 homes.\n1949 Dutch 1st Chamber accept the sovereignty of Indonesia.\n1958 General Charles de Gaulle is elected President of France with an overwhelming majority.\n1988 A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie\, Dumfries and Galloway\, Scotland\, killing 270.\n1995 The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "ISR-ch"]\n[Site "Ramat Aviv/Modiin"]\n[Date "2000.12.21"]\n[Round "6"]\n[White "Avrukh\, Boris"]\n[Black "Kaspi\, Alexander"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "D47"]\n[WhiteElo "2630"]\n[BlackElo "2488"]\n[PlyCount "65"]\n1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3\nb4 9. Ne4 Be7 10. O-O Bb7 11. Nxf6+ Nxf6 12. e4 c5 13. Qa4+ Kf8 14. Re1 h6 15.\nBf4 cxd4 16. Rac1 Ne8 17. Rc4 a5 18. Rxd4 Qb6 19. Be3 Bc5 20. Ne5 $1 Nf6 21.\nRd7 $1 Bxe3 22. Rxf7+ Kg8 23. Rxe3 Qc5 24. Rg3 Nh5 25. Rgxg7+ $1 Nxg7 26. Rxg7+\nKxg7 27. Qd7+ Kf6 28. Ng4+ Kg6 29. e5+ Be4 30. Bxe4+ Kg5 31. Qd2+ Kxg4 32. h3+\nKh5 33. Qe2+ 1-0\n				\n			You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.		\n	\n	\n	\n		jQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n						$.chessgame.navigationButtonClass  = 'rpbchessboard-jQuery-enableSmoothness';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameClass   = 'wp-dialog';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameOptions = {"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true};\n			var selector = '#' + "rpbchessboard-69e82b9205091-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"ISR-ch\"]\r\n[Site \"Ramat Aviv\/Modiin\"]\r\n[Date \"2000.12.21\"]\r\n[Round \"6\"]\r\n[White \"Avrukh\, Boris\"]\r\n[Black \"Kaspi\, Alexander\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[ECO \"D47\"]\r\n[WhiteElo \"2630\"]\r\n[BlackElo \"2488\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"65\"]\r\n1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3\r\nb4 9. Ne4 Be7 10. O-O Bb7 11. Nxf6+ Nxf6 12. e4 c5 13. Qa4+ Kf8 14. Re1 h6 15.\r\nBf4 cxd4 16. Rac1 Ne8 17. Rc4 a5 18. Rxd4 Qb6 19. Be3 Bc5 20. Ne5 $1 Nf6 21.\r\nRd7 $1 Bxe3 22. Rxf7+ Kg8 23. Rxe3 Qc5 24. Rg3 Nh5 25. Rgxg7+ $1 Nxg7 26. Rxg7+\r\nKxg7 27. Qd7+ Kf6 28. Ng4+ Kg6 29. e5+ Be4 30. Bxe4+ Kg5 31. Qd2+ Kxg4 32. h3+\r\nKh5 33. Qe2+ 1-0"\,"pieceSymbols":"native"\,"navigationBoard":"above"\,"showFlipButton":true\,"showDownloadButton":true\,"navigationBoardOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}\,"diagramOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}});\n		});\n	\n\n\n \n\n  \n
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