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SUMMARY:December 31
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nI may be an old lion\, but I can still bite someone’s hand off if he puts it in my mouth- Wilhelm Steinitz\nBIRTHS \nKonrad Erlin (10.02.1856-1944)\, an Austrian chess composer.\nEugene Znosko Borovsky (16.08.1884-1954)\, a Russian chess master\, writer\, and teacher who was living in France for many years.\nVlatko Bogdanovski (1954)\, a Macedonian Grandmaster who won the national championship in 1993.\nFliura Uskova (1964)\, a Kazakh Woman Grandmaster.\nEkaterina Borulya (1969)\, a German Woman Grandmaster born in Ukraine.\nJennifer Shahade (1980)\, an American Woman Grandmaster\, writer and chess commentator who won two US Women’s Championships. \nDEATHS \nAmos Burn (1848-1925)\, a strong British Master and a chess columnist.\nCarl Ahues (26.12.1883-1968)\, a German International Master who was the German Champion in 1929.\nAlexander Khasin (1951-2016)\, a Russian Grandmaster and coach. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1990 In Lyon\, Garry Kasparov retained his title of World Champion beating Anatoly Karpov 12½-11½.\n2000 The Chinese Grand Master Ye Jiangchuan broke a world record in a simultaneous chess by playing 1004 opponents at the Chinese Chess New Century Festival in Tian Yuan\, China.\n2000 Al Ain Chess Club A (UAE) won the first Asian Club Cup.\n2012 In Tunis\, Abd Erahmen Hichem from Egypt became the African U20 Champion. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1759 Arthur Guinness signs a 9\,000-year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.\n1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa\, then a small logging town\, as the capital of Canada.\n1862 American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union\, thus dividing Virginia in two.\n1878 Karl Benz\, working in Mannheim\, Germany\, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine\, and he was granted the patent in 1879.\n1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time\, in Menlo Park\, New Jersey.\n1907 The first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.\n1923 The Sahara was crossed by an automobile for the first time.\n1942 After five months of battle\, Emperor Hirohito allowed the Japanese commanders at Guadalcanal to retreat.\n1944 World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.\n1946 President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.\n1951 The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.\n1955 General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.\n1958 Cuba’s dictator Juan Batista fled as Rebels under Fidel Castro marched into Havana.\n1965 Jean-Bédel Bokassa\, leader of the Central African Republic army\, and his military officers begins a coup d’état against the government of President David Dacko.\n1968 The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144\, the first civilian supersonic transport.\n1970 Paul McCartney filed a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles’ partnership.\n1983 In Nigeria a coup d’état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.\n1991 All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.\n1992 Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce\, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.\n1994 The First Chechen War: Russian army began a New Year’s storming of Grozny.\n1994 Bosnian government officials and Bosnian Serb leaders signed a U.N.-brokered cease-fire agreement.\n1998 The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone\, and establishes the value of the euro currency.\n1999 First President of Russia\, Boris Yeltsin\, resigns from office\, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.\n2004 Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovych resigned\, acknowledging that he had little hope of reversing the election victory of his Western-leaning rival\, Viktor Yushchenko.\n2019 China informs the World Health Organization (WHO) that a new virus called coronavirus has broken out in Wuhan\, the ninth most populous Chinese city. \n(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "EU-ch U21"]\n[Site "Arnhem"]\n[Date "1988.12.31"]\n[Round "9"]\n[White "Djurhuus\, Rune"]\n[Black "Kontic\, Vladimir"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "C14"]\n[WhiteElo "2305"]\n[BlackElo "2370"]\n[PlyCount "56"]\n[EventDate "1988.12.19"]\n[EventType "swiss"]\n[EventRounds "13"]\n[EventCountry "NED"]\n1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 a6 7. Qg4 Bxg5 8. hxg5\nc5 9. g6 f5 10. Qg3 h6 11. O-O-O cxd4 12. Nce2 Nc6 13. Nf3 Nc5 14. Nfxd4 Bd7\n15. Qe3 Nxd4 16. Rxd4 Qc7 17. Nf4 Rc8 18. c3 O-O 19. Kb1 b5 20. Be2 Ne4 21. f3\nNg3 22. Rh3 Nxe2 23. Qxe2 Qb6 24. Qd2 Rc4 25. Rxh6 Rxd4 26. cxd4 gxh6 27. Nxd5\nQb7 28. Qxh6 Be8 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-69e8197091b7b-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"EU-ch U21\"]\r\n[Site \"Arnhem\"]\r\n[Date \"1988.12.31\"]\r\n[Round \"9\"]\r\n[White \"Djurhuus\, Rune\"]\r\n[Black \"Kontic\, Vladimir\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[ECO \"C14\"]\r\n[WhiteElo \"2305\"]\r\n[BlackElo \"2370\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"56\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1988.12.19\"]\r\n[EventType \"swiss\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"13\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"NED\"]\r\n1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. 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