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SUMMARY:December 28
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nBotvinnik and Tal are among the best; I also like Spassky\, but I think Petrosian is better than all of them. His weakness is too many draws\, even against players he could beat easily. Maybe he lacks self-confidence.- Robert Fischer\, 1960\nBIRTHS \nRudolf L’Hermet 1858-25.11.1945)\, a German player\, and journalist.\nHermann Mattison (1884-1932)\, a Latvia champion and endgame composer who won the first World Amateur Championship in Paris in 1924. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.\nFranz Drobny (01.12.1863-1924) an Austrian player and chess composer.\nLakhdar Mazouz (1942)\, an Algerian player\, President of the Algerian chess federation and FIDE officer.\nMiguel Quinteros (1947)\, an Argentine Grandmaster who won Argentine Chess Championship in 1966 at the age of 18.\nYoussef el Ghazali (1957)\, an Egyptian International Master.\nStefan Kindermann (1959)\, an Austrian Grandmaster and writer who played few Olympiads for Germany and Austria and is running a Chess Academy in Munich.\nEvgenij Miroshnichenko (1978)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster who won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2003 and 2008.\nRafael Leitao (1979)\, a Brazilian Grandmaster and a six times Champion of Brazil who won the  U12 World Youth Chess Championship in 1991 and in the U18 Championship in 1996.\nMircea Parligras (1980)\, a Romanian Grandmaster and national champion in 2001 and 2016.\nEmanuel Berg (1981)\, a Swedish Champion who became the Swedish Champion in 2009 and 2010.\nDenis Khismatullin (1984)\, a Russian Grandmaster.\nTatjana Molchanova (1980)\, a Russian Woman Grandmaster.\nMaksat Atabayev (1994)\, a Turkmenistan Grandmaster who is the best national rated player in 2017. \nCHESS EVENTS \n2002 In Botswana\, Mabusela\, Johannes of South Africa became the African U20 Champion.\n2012 The City of Hoogeveen\, Netherlands became the World Cities Chess Champion after beating Baku\, Azerbaijan 2.5-1.5 in the final of the knockout tournament in Al Ain\, United Arab Emirates.\n2013 In Al Ain (UAE)\, This year a record number of 1850 chess players from 120 countries of the world were taking part in the World Youth Championships. India was the biggest medal winner with 8 medals ahead of China 3 medals and Russia 3 medals. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1065 Westminster Abbey is consecrated.\n1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.\n1836 South Australia and Adelaide are founded.\n1846 Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.\n1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon\, Ohio\, patented chewing gum.\n1895 The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines\, marking the debut of the cinema.\n1912 The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.\n1923 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel (91)\, a French engineer (Eiffel Tower\, Statue of Liberty)\, died.\n1937 French Composer Maurice Ravel (62) died in Paris.\n1946 The French declared martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appeared inevitable.\n1972 Kim Il-sung\, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea\, becomes the first President of North Korea.\n2000 In Ghana runoff elections were held with sporadic violence. John Agyekum Kuffour won with 56.7% of the vote.\n2005 In Cleveland an immigration judge renewed the order that John Demjanjuk (85)\, a retired auto worker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard at Sobibor in Poland (1943)\, be deported to his native Ukraine.\n2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore\, killing all 162 people aboard. \n(Source: Wikipedia and timeline.ws) \nTHE GAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Groningen"]\n[Site "Groningen"]\n[Date "1995.12.??"]\n[Round "9"]\n[White "Lautier\, Joel"]\n[Black "Sokolov\, Ivan"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "D10"]\n[WhiteElo "2645"]\n[BlackElo "2630"]\n[PlyCount "42"]\n[EventDate "1995.12.??"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "11"]\n[EventCountry "NED"]\n\n1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. e4 b5 5. a4 b4 6. Na2 Nf6 7. f3 $2 e5 8. Bxc4\nQxd4 9. Qc2 Bc5 10. Bg5 Ba6 11. Bb3 Be7 12. Ne2 Qb6 13. Ng3 h6 14. Bd2 g6 15.\nRc1 Nfd7 16. Nf1 Nc5 17. a5 $2 Qb7 18. Nxb4 Nxb3 19. Qxb3 c5 20. 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