BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Chesspedia - ECPv5.1.2.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:The Chesspedia
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thechesspedia.net
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Chesspedia
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20160101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161206
DTSTAMP:20260404T132337
CREATED:20200305T101237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200329T083233Z
UID:19461-1480896000-1480982399@thechesspedia.net
SUMMARY:December 5
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nChess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.- Savielly Tartakower\nBIRTHS \nHarry Nelson Pillsbury (1872-17.06.1906)\, an American Master\, one of the best world player of the beginning of the 20th century but his poor health and other sicknesses prevented him from reaching the level of Lasker\, Steinitz or Chigorin.\nHaji Ardiansyah (1951)\, an Indonesian Grandmaster who won 5 times the Indonesian Championship.\nRon W. Henley (1956)\, an American grandmaster\, a writer\, and a financial analyst. For many years he worked as a second with Anatoly Karpov.\nViesturs Meijers (1965)\, a Latvian Grandmaster who was the Latvian Champion in 2000.\nKrystyna Dabrowska (1973)\, a Polish Woman Grandmaster who won the World Girls U16 and U20 World Championships. \,\nTatiana Kononenko (1978)\, a Ukrainian International Master and Woman Grandmaster.\nRustam Kasimdzhanov (1979)\, an Uzbekistani Grandmaster\, coach and author living in Germany. He is best known for winning the 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 in Tripoli.\nZbigniew Pakleza (1986)\, a Polish Grandmaster who is a multiple medalist at the Polish Junior Chess Championship. \nDEATHS \nHenry Wald Bettmann (14.01.1868-1935)\, an American composer.\nMiguel Cuellar Gacharna (16.11.1916-1985)\, a Colombian International Master who won the Colombian championship eight times.\nErik Lundin (02.07.1904-1988)\, a Swedish Honorary Grandmaster. Swedish champion\, he won four Olympic medals.\nDavid Bronstein (19.02.1924-2006)\, a Soviet-Ukrainian Grandmaster and writer.  He came close to win the World Chess Championship when he drew the 1951 challenge match for the title of World Champion by a score of 12–12 with Mikhail Botvinnik\, the reigning champion.\nGyőző Victor Forintos (30 July 1935-2018)\, a Hungarian Grandmaster\, author and economist. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1984 The Soviet team won the Olympiad of Thessaloniki with 41 points. The Soviet also won the gold medal in the Women’s Olympiad.\n1985 The FIDE President F. Campomanes accepted Karpov’s request to play the revenge match against Kasparov starting before the end of March 1986. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).\n1560 – Charles IX becomes king of France.\n1766 – In London\, James Christie holds his first sale.\n1876 – The Brooklyn Theatre fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn\, New York.\n1901 – Walt Disney\, American animator\, director\, producer\, and screenwriter\, co-founded The Walt Disney Company was born (d. 1966).\n1926 – Claude Monet\, French painter died (b. 1840).\n1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.\n1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.\n1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow\, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.\n1952 – Great Smog: A cold fog descends upon London\, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12\,000 in the weeks and months that follow.\n1957 – Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.\n1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.\n2012 – Dave Brubeck\, American pianist and composer died (b. 1920).2013 – Nelson Mandela\, South African lawyer and politician\, 1st President of South Africa\, Nobel Prize laureate died (b. 1918). \n(Source:Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Thessaloniki ol (Men)"]\n[Site "Thessaloniki"]\n[Date "1984.12.??"]\n[Round "12"]\n[White "Kouatly\, Bachar"]\n[Black "Vaganian\, Rafael A"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "D17"]\n[WhiteElo "2440"]\n[BlackElo "2555"]\n[PlyCount "48"]\n[EventDate "1984.11.19"]\n[EventType "team-swiss"]\n[EventRounds "14"]\n[EventCountry "GRE"]\n1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 dxc4 4. Nf3 c6 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 Na6 7. f3 Nd7 8. Nxc4\ne5 9. e4 exd4 10. Qxd4 Nb4 11. Ne3 Be6 12. f4 f6 13. Bc4 Bc5 14. Qd1 Bxe3 15.\nBxe6 Bxc1 16. Rxc1 Nc5 17. f5 Nxe6 18. Qh5+ g6 19. fxg6 Ng7 20. Qh6 Nd3+ 21.\nKf1 Nxc1 22. Qxg7 Qd3+ 23. Kf2 Qd2+ 24. Kf3 O-O-O 0-1\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-69d110d9d8d67-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"Thessaloniki ol (Men)\"]\r\n[Site \"Thessaloniki\"]\r\n[Date \"1984.12.??\"]\r\n[Round \"12\"]\r\n[White \"Kouatly\, Bachar\"]\r\n[Black \"Vaganian\, Rafael A\"]\r\n[Result \"0-1\"]\r\n[ECO \"D17\"]\r\n[WhiteElo \"2440\"]\r\n[BlackElo \"2555\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"48\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1984.11.19\"]\r\n[EventType \"team-swiss\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"14\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"GRE\"]\r\n1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 dxc4 4. Nf3 c6 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 Na6 7. f3 Nd7 8. Nxc4\r\ne5 9. e4 exd4 10. Qxd4 Nb4 11. Ne3 Be6 12. f4 f6 13. Bc4 Bc5 14. Qd1 Bxe3 15.\r\nBxe6 Bxc1 16. Rxc1 Nc5 17. f5 Nxe6 18. Qh5+ g6 19. fxg6 Ng7 20. Qh6 Nd3+ 21.\r\nKf1 Nxc1 22. Qxg7 Qd3+ 23. Kf2 Qd2+ 24. Kf3 O-O-O 0-1"\,"pieceSymbols":"native"\,"navigationBoard":"above"\,"showFlipButton":true\,"showDownloadButton":true\,"navigationBoardOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}\,"diagramOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}});\n		});\n	\n\n\n \n\n
URL:https://thechesspedia.net/day/december-5/
CATEGORIES:December
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thechesspedia.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/dec-5.png
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR