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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161209
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SUMMARY:December 9
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nChess is a fairy tale of 1001 blunders.- Savielly Tartakower\nBIRTHS \nJiri Chocholous 1856-03.09.1930)\, a Czech chess composer.\nAnthony Santasiere (1904-13.01.1977)\, a strong American Master and chess writer who never got an international title despite his victory in the 1945 US Championship.\nPhilipp Meitner (1838-1910)\, an Austrian Master and lawyer. He is known for his famous game named “Immortal Draw” against Carl Hamppe at Vienna 1872.\nNikolay Novotelnov (1911-30.12.2006)\, a Russian International Master (1951) and author.\nJana Bellin (1947)\, an English Doctor and Woman Grandmaster born in the Czech Republic.\nMark Dvoretsky (1947-26.09.2016)\, a Russian International Master\, trainer\, writer\, and coach.\nGuillermo Garcia Gonzales (1953-26.01.1990)\, a Cuban Grandmaster who was Cuban Champion in 1974 and 1983. He died in a car accident in 1990.\nDejan Antic (1968)\, a Serbian Grandmaster\, coach\, and writer who was Serbian Champion in 2015.\nDalibor Stojanovic (1983)\, a Bosnian Grandmaster.\nErnesto Inarkiev (1985)\, a Russian Grandmaster born in Kyrgyzstan. He was the European Champion 2015.\nHikaru Nakamura (1987)\, an American Grandmaster who is a four-time United States Chess Champion born in Japan. He was the second best world rated player in 2015.\nIvan Rozum (1991)\, a Russian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nJanos Flesch (30.09.1933-1980)\, a Hungarian International Master. He is best known for claiming a world record simultaneous blindfold exhibition when he played 52 opponents in Budapest in 1960. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1985 The match between J. Timman (NED) and M. Tal (USSR) for the 4th qualifying place from the Candidates’ Tournament finished 3-3. J. Timman qualified for the next stage by superior tiebreak. \nWORLD EVENTS  \n1212 Frederick II (later also Holy Roman Emperor) crowned King of Germany in Mainz\n1425 The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.\n1775 American Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great Bridge\, and leave Virginia soon afterward.\n1793 New York City’s first daily newspaper\, the American Minerva\, is established by Noah Webster.\n1905 In France\, the law separating church and state is passed.\n1917 World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem\, Palestine.\n1922 Gabriel Narutowicz is elected the first president of Poland.\n1931 The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.\n1937 Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launches an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).\n1941 World War II: The Republic of China\, Cuba\, Guatemala\, and the Philippine Commonwealth\, declare war on Germany and Japan.\n1946 The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.\n1961 Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.\n2019 The World Anti-Doping Agency votes unanimously to ban Russia from international sport for four years for doping offences\, meaning it will be excluded from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo\, the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Madrid"]\n[Site "Madrid"]\n[Date "1973.12.09"]\n[Round "11"]\n[White "Uhlmann\, Wolfgang"]\n[Black "Garcia Martinez\, Silvino"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "A34"]\n[WhiteElo "2560"]\n[BlackElo "2450"]\n[PlyCount "45"]\n[EventDate "1973.11.26"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "15"]\n[EventCountry "ESP"]\n[EventCategory "12"]\n1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e3 Nxc3 6. bxc3 g6 7. Qa4+ Nd7 8.\nBa3 Qc7 9. Be2 Bg7 10. O-O O-O 11. Rab1 b6 12. Qh4 Bb7 13. c4 Rad8 14. Bb2 Bxf3\n15. Bxf3 Bxb2 16. Rxb2 Ne5 17. Be2 Nd3 18. Rb3 Nb4 19. d4 Nxa2 20. e4 Rxd4 21.\nRh3 h5 22. Bxh5 Rfd8 23. 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