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SUMMARY:December 3
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nI still think people can learn at any age – I’m actually sure about that. It’s just that the ceiling is lower for how far you want to go.- Magnus Carlsen\, 2016\nBIRTHS \nEdward Lasker (1885-25.03.1981)\, an American Master\, an engineer by profession\, and an author born in Germany.\nJosef Louma (1898-07.08.1955)\, a Czech Master and an engineer who had political problems after the 1948 Czech communist putsch.\nFenny Heemskerk (1919-08.06.2007)\, a Dutch Woman Grandmaster who won ten times the Women’s Dutch Chess Championship.\nJaroslav Sajtar (1921-04.02.2003)\,  a Czech FIDE officer and International Arbiter who became an honorary GM.\nMarina Makropoulou (1960)\, a Woman Grandmaster who won nine Greek Women’s Championship.\nMiguel Illescas Cordoba (1965)\, a Spanish Grandmaster and FIDE Senior Trainer who has won the Spanish national championship eight times. He was a leading and successful member of the teams of Deep Blue against Kasparov and Kramnik against Kasparov and Leko.\nArtur Jakubiec (1973)\, a Polish Grandmaster and coach who won 3 Polish Youth Championships.\nAndrei Istratescu (1975)\, a French-Romanian Grandmaster who is living in France since 2011.\nRafal Antoniewski (1990)\, a Polish Grandmaster who won few Polish Youth Championships.\nMonikea Krupa (1977)\, a Polish Woman Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nDavid Graham Baird (08.10.1913-1854)\, an American Master.\nJames Aitken (27.10.1908-1983)\, a Scotish Master and Ph.D. from Edinburgh University who won ten Scotish championships. During World War II\, Aitken worked in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park on solving German Enigma machines.\nGeorgy Borisenko (25.05 1922-03.12 2012)\, Soviet-Uzbek Correspondence Grandmaster who finished 2nd in the World Correspondence Championship of 1965. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1979 Philippines won the Asian Team Championship in Singapore.\n1980 The FIDE GA admitted the Chess Federations of Antigua\, Brunei\, Kenya\, Senegal and Zimbabwe as new members.\n1989 In Haifa\, the Soviet team won the European Team Championship with 36 out of 54 points.\n2012 Sergey Karjakin (RUS)\, Wang Hao (CHN) and Alexander Morozevich (RUS) were  the winners of the FIDE Grand Prix in Tashkent\, Uzbekistan.\n2016 In Las Vegas\, Timur Gareyev (USA) made an attempt to break the world record in a blindfold simultaneous play. Without seeing the board Gareyev played against 48 opponents at the same time\, more than any player before him. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1818 Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.\n1910 Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.\n1927 Putting Pants on Philip\, the first Laurel and Hardy film\, is released.\n1959 The current flag of Singapore is adopted\, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.\n1967 At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town\, South Africa\, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).\n1979 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.\n1984 Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal\, India\, kills more than 3\,800 people outright and injures 150\,000–600\,000 others (some 6\,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.\n1994 The PlayStation was released in Japan.\n2012 At least 475 people are killed after Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "London Classic 4th"]\n[Site "London"]\n[Date "2012.12.03"]\n[Round "3"]\n[White "Adams\, Michael"]\n[Black "Polgar\, Judit"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "B40"]\n[WhiteElo "2710"]\n[BlackElo "2705"]\n[PlyCount "71"]\n[EventDate "2012.12.01"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "9"]\n[EventCountry "ENG"]\n[EventCategory "21"]\n\n1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2 Nf6 5. Qe2 d5 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. O-O Be7 8.\nRd1 O-O 9. d4 cxd4 10. Nxd4 Nxd4 11. Rxd4 Bf6 12. Rd1 Qc7 13. c4 Nb4 14. Nc3 a6\n15. Bf4 e5 16. Be3 Be6 17. Nd5 Nxd5 18. cxd5 Bf5 19. d6 Qd7 20. Bb6 Rac8 21.\nBc7 Bg4 22. Bf3 h5 23. Rac1 Rfe8 24. Bxg4 hxg4 25. Qe4 Bg5 26. Rc5 Bd8 27. Qxb7\nRe6 28. Rdd5 Rf6 29. Qxa6 Qf5 30. Qe2 Qb1+ 31. Rd1 Qxa2 32. Rxe5 Bxc7 33. Re8+\nRxe8 34. Qxe8+ Kh7 35. dxc7 Qa7 36. 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