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SUMMARY:December 24
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nWhen I am White I win because I am White. When I am Black I win because I am Bogoljubov.- Efim Bogoljubov\nBIRTHS \nEmanuel Lasker (1868-11.01.1941)\, a German Master\, the second World Champion who keep his title for 27 years.\nRichard Teichmann (1868-15.06.1925)\, a German Master known as “Richard the Fifth” because he often finished in fifth place in tournaments.\nAlexander Hildebrand (1921-03.08.2005)\, a Swedish chess composer.\nAage Vestol (1922-30.03.2008) a Norwegian Master who was Nordic Champion in 1939 and Norwegian Champion in 1949.\nRichard Delaune (1954-2003)\, an American International Master who died of a heart at 49.  USA.\nAdam Kuligowski (1955)\, a Polish Grandmaster who won the Polish championship in 1978. He stopped to play chess in the 1990’s and apparently had been jailed in Poland.\nFrederick Gamage (22.11.1882-1956)\, an American chess composer.\nTomas Oral (1977)\, a Czech Grandmaster who became famous after beating G. Kasparov in a simultaneous game in 2001.\nPontus Carlsson (1982)\, Swedish Grandmaster born in Columbia.\nIrina Krush (1983)\, an American Grandmaster born in Ukraine who won 7 titles of U.S. Women’s Champion.   At age 14\, after winning her first U.S. title\, she became the youngest U.S. Women’s Champion ever.\nEgor Krivoborodov (1989)\, Russian Grandmaster. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1985 K. Arakhamia (USSR) won the World Girls’ under 20 Championship in Dobrna\, Yugoslavia.\n2010 In Turkey\, the new world Champion was determined on the tie-break match between two Chinese players Hou Yifan and Ruan Lufei. Being 16\, Chinese prodigy Hou Yifan became the youngest World Champion after Maya Chiburdanidze who won her title at the age of 17. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1715 Swedish troops occupy Norway.\n1851 Fire devastates US Library of Congress in Washington\, destroys 35\,000 volumes.\n1865 The Ku Klux Klan is formed.\n1893 Henry Ford completes his first useful petroleum fuelled engine\n1924 Albania becomes a republic.\n1929 Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.\n1943 World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.\n1946 4th French republic established\n1951 Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.\n1954 Laos gains its independence\n1968 Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon\, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.\n1969 The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea. \n(Source: Wikipedia and Internet) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Groningen op"]\n[Site "Groningen"]\n[Date "1997.12.24"]\n[Round "9"]\n[White "Gurevich\, Mikhail"]\n[Black "Borge\, Nikolaj"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "D97"]\n[WhiteElo "2620"]\n[BlackElo "2360"]\n[PlyCount "102"]\n[EventDate "1997.12.20"]\n[EventType "swiss"]\n[EventRounds "11"]\n\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 O-O 7. e4 a6 8. Qb3\nc5 9. dxc5 Nbd7 10. Qa3 Qc7 11. Be3 Ng4 12. Bg5 b5 13. h3 Ngf6 14. Bxb5 axb5\n15. Qxa8 Nxc5 16. O-O Ba6 17. Nd5 Nxd5 18. Qxd5 Rd8 19. Bf4 e5 20. Bxe5 Qb6 21.\nBc7 Qxc7 22. Qg5 Nxe4 23. Qe3 Bb7 24. Rad1 Rf8 25. Rd3 Bxb2 26. Rb3 Bg7 27. Rc1\nQd7 28. Rd3 Qe6 29. Rc7 Bd5 30. a3 Bc4 31. Rdd7 Nc3 32. Qxe6 Bxe6 33. Rd3 Bc4\n34. Rdd7 h6 35. g4 Be6 36. Rd3 Ne2+ 37. Kh2 Nf4 38. Rd2 Bd5 39. Kg3 Ne6 40. Re7\nBxf3 41. Kxf3 Rc8 42. Rd3 Rc2 43. Rb7 Bd4 44. Rxb5 Bxf2 45. Rb1 Ng5+ 46. Kf4\nRe2 47. Rb4 Bg1 48. Kg3 Bh2+ 49. 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