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SUMMARY:February 14
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\nThe game of chess  is turning out to be much richer than we knew-you can’t reduce it to the simple rules- Vishy Anand\, 2017\nBIRTHS \nCecil de Vere (Valentine Brown- 1845-09.02.1875)\, an English Master who won the first official British Championship in 1866.\nBosko Abramovic (1951)\, a Serbian Grandmaster and coach.\nSmbat Lputian (1958)\, an Armenian Grandmaster and 4 times Champion of Armenian. He has been the founder-president of Chess Academy of Armenia since 2002.\nPetar Popovic (1959)\, a Serbian Grandmaster who participated in few Olympiads in the late 1980s.\nSergei Tiviakov (1973)\, a Dutch Grandmaster born in Russian who became the World U18 Champion in 1990 and twice Dutch Champion.\nYaroslav Zinchenko (1987)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster.\nAdam Tukhaev (1988)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nEsteban Canal (19.04.1896-1981)\, An Italian International Master born in Peru.\nLudwig Rellstab (23.11.1904-1983)\, a German International Master who won the German Chess Championship in 1942. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1014 Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry of Bavaria\, King of Germany and of Italy\, as Holy Roman Emperor.\n1400 Richard II of England dies\, most probably from starvation.\n1530 Spanish conquistadores\, led by Nuño de Guzmán\, overthrow and execute Tangaxuan II\, the last independent monarch of the Tarascan state in present-day central Mexico.\n1689 English parliament placed Mary Stuart and Prince William III on the throne.\n1778 The American ship Ranger carried the recently adopted Star and Stripes to a foreign port for the first time as it arrived in France.\n1859 Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.\n1876 Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone\, as does Elisha Gray.\n1896 Theodor Herzl published “Der Judenstaat\,” in which he called for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.\n1912 Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.\n1918 The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).\n1924 The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).\n1929 Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre: Seven people\, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone’s gang\, are murdered in Chicago.\n1939 The Reich launched the battleship Bismarck.\n1945 521 American heavy bombers flew daylight raids over Dresden\, Germany following the British assault. The firestorm killed an estimated 135\,000 people\n1949 The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.\n2005 Lebanese self-made billionaire and business tycoon Rafic Hariri is assassinated in Beirut\,\n2008 Zimbabwe’s inflation rate\, already the highest in the world\, soared to a new high of 66\,212.3%. \n(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Stockholm Interzonal"]\n[Site "Stockholm"]\n[Date "1962.02.14"]\n[Round "12"]\n[White "Stein\, Leonid"]\n[Black "Portisch\, Lajos"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "B42"]\n[PlyCount "41"]\n[EventDate "1962.01.27"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "23"]\n[EventCountry "SWE"]1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. O-O Qc7 7. Nd2 Nc6 8.\nNxc6 bxc6 9. f4 Bc5+ 10. Kh1 d6 11. Nf3 e5 12. fxe5 dxe5 13. Nh4 O-O 14. Nf5\nBe6 15. Qe2 a5 16. Bc4 Kh8 17. Bg5 Nd7 18. Rad1 Nb6 19. Nxg7 Bxc4 20. Bf6 Be7\n21. Qf3 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-69e818539c3c4-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"Stockholm Interzonal\"]\r\n[Site \"Stockholm\"]\r\n[Date \"1962.02.14\"]\r\n[Round \"12\"]\r\n[White \"Stein\, Leonid\"]\r\n[Black \"Portisch\, Lajos\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[ECO \"B42\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"41\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1962.01.27\"]\r\n[EventType \"tourn\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"23\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"SWE\"]1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. O-O Qc7 7. Nd2 Nc6 8.\r\nNxc6 bxc6 9. f4 Bc5+ 10. Kh1 d6 11. Nf3 e5 12. fxe5 dxe5 13. Nh4 O-O 14. Nf5\r\nBe6 15. Qe2 a5 16. Bc4 Kh8 17. Bg5 Nd7 18. Rad1 Nb6 19. Nxg7 Bxc4 20. Bf6 Be7\r\n21. Qf3 1-0"\,"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
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