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SUMMARY:December 29
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nTime trouble is blunder time.- Alexander Kotov\nBIRTHS \nGiovanni Cenni (1881-14.3.1953)\, an Italian Master.\nKidambi Sundararajan (1982)\, an Indian Grandmaster.\nIgor Kovalenko (1988)\, a Latvian Grandmaster born in Ukraine who won the Latvian Chess Championship in 2013 and 2014. \nDEATHS \nEndre Steiner (27.06.1901-1944) a Hungarian Master who won thrice team gold medal (1927\, 1928\, 1936) at the Olympiads. He died in a Nazi concentration camp in the last months of the WWII.\nKurt Richter (24.11.1900-1969)\, a German International Master\, author\, and editor.\nJean Oudot (11.12.1926-1974)\, a French chess composer.\nBrian Patrick Reilly (12.12.1901-1991)\, He was Irish Master and the General Editor of British Chess Magazine who was Irish Champion in 1959 and 1960. He represented Ireland in nine Olympic chess team tournaments between 1935 and 1968. He was General Editor of “British Chess Magazine” from 1949 to 1981.\nWolfgang Pietzsch (21.12.1930)1996)\, a German Grandmaster who was the Champion of the German Democratic Republic in 1960\, 1962 and 1967. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1979 Wong Meng Kong (SIN) won the Asian Junior Championship in Sivakasi\, India.\n1997 The match between A. Galliamova (RUS) and Xie Jun (CHN) finished 1:2 at the Women’s Candidates Tournament organized in Groningen.\n1997 V. Anand (IND) defeated M. Adams (ENG) 5-4 in the Challenger Final of the World Championship and qualified to play A. Karpov (RUS) in the final in Lausanne. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1800 Charles Goodyear (d.1860)\, inventor of vulcanized rubber for tires\, was born.\n1911 Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty\, enthroning 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.\n1913  The 1st movie serial\, “Adventures of Kathlyn\,” premiered in Chicago.\n1916  According to the New Style calendar (Dec. 16th by the Old Style)\, Grigory Rasputin\, the so-called “Mad Monk” who had wielded great influence with Czar Nicholas II\, was murdered by a group of Russian noblemen in St. Petersburg.\n1937  Ireland’s new constitution came into force. The Irish Free State became Eire.\n1948 Tito declared Yugoslavia would follow its own Communist line.\n1952  The 1st transistorized hearing aid was offered for sale at Elmsford\, NY.\n1967  A Turkish-Cypriot government formed in Cyprus.\n1984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claimed victory in parliamentary elections\n1989 Czech writer\, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first post-communist President of Czechoslovakia.\n1992 Fernando Collor de Mello\, president of Brazil\, tries to resign amidst corruption charges\, but is then impeached.\n1995 The CNN financial network was launched by Turner Enterprises.\n1996 Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a 36-year civil war.\n1998 Two top Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the deaths of as many as 2 million people during their regime in the 1970s\, and asked Cambodians to forget the past.\n2005 In Croatia Slobodan Davidovic (52)\, an ethnic Serb seen killing Muslims in a nationally televised video\, was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 15 years in prison\, with the judge saying he had shown “no mercy or compassion” for his victims. \n(Source: Wikipedia and timeline) \nTHE GAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Hastings 7071"]\n[Site "Hastings"]\n[Date "1970.??.??"]\n[Round "2"]\n[White "Byrne\, Robert Eugene"]\n[Black "Mestrovic\, Zvonimir"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "B61"]\n[PlyCount "72"]\n[EventDate "1970.12.??"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "9"]\n[EventCountry "ENG"]\n\n1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 Bd7 7. Qd2 Rc8 8.\nO-O-O Nxd4 9. Qxd4 Qa5 10. f4 h6 11. Bh4 g5 12. Be1 Bg7 13. g3 Bc6 14. Bh3 O-O\n15. Bxc8 Nxe4 16. Nxe4 Qxa2 17. Qxg7+ Kxg7 18. Bc3+ Kg6 19. Nxd6 exd6 20. Rxd6+\nf6 21. Re1 Rxc8 22. Rxf6+ Kh5 23. h3 Re8 24. g4+ Kh4 25. Rxh6+ Kg3 26. Rxe8\nBxe8 27. fxg5 Qa1+ 28. Kd2 Qg1 29. Re6 Bf7 30. Rf6 Bd5 31. g6 Qg2+ 32. Kd3 Qxh3\n33. g7 Qxg4 34. Bd4 b5 35. b4 Qd1+ 36. 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