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SUMMARY:February 17
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\n16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players\, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves\, but for their vision of chess\, their way of thinking.- Anatoly Karpov\nBIRTH \nAlmira Skripchenko (1976)\, a French International Master and Woman Grandmaster born in Moldova who won the Women’s European Individual Championship in 2001.\nDov Zifroni (1976)\, an Israeli Grandmaster.\nAndrei Murariu (1986)\, a Romanian Grandmaster.\nThao Nguyen (1987)\, a Vietnamese International Master and Woman Grandmaster who became national Champion in 2010.\nVita Kryvoruchko (1988)\, a Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster and coach. \nDEATHS\nSiegbert Tarrasch (05.03.1862-1934)\, a German Master\,  a medical doctor by profession who also may have been the best player in the world in the early 1890s.\nAnatoly Machulsky\, (24.09.1956-2017)\, a Russian Grandmaster and coach. \nCHESS EVENTS\n1989 The longest tournament chess game (in terms of moves) ever to be played was Nikolić–Arsović\, Belgrade 1989\, which lasted for 269 moves and took 20 hours and 15 minutes to complete a drawn game.\n1996 World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM supercomputer “Deep Blue\,” winning a six-game match in Philadelphia. Kasparov had lost the first game\, won the second\, fifth and sixth games and earned draws in the third and fourth. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1598 Feb 17\, Boris Godunov\, the boyar of Tatar origin\, was elected czar in succession to his brother-in-law Fydor.\n1673 Moliere\, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin]\, French author (Tartuffe\, Le Malade Imaginaire)\, died.\n1801 An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr\, Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.\n1838 Weenen massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River\, Natal are killed by Zulus.\n1854 The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State.\n1863 A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded\, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.\n1871 The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris\, France\, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.\n1880 Tsar Alexander II of Russia survived an assassination attempt.\n1909 Apache chief Geronimo died of pneumonia at age 80\, while still in captivity at Fort Sill\, Okla.\n1933 Newsweek magazine is first published.\n1919 Germany signed an armistice giving up territory in Poland.\n1947 The Voice of America began broadcasting to the Soviet Union.\n1955 Britain announced its ability to make hydrogen bombs.\n1964 Gabonese president Léon M’ba is toppled by a coup and his rival\, Jean-Hilaire Aubame\, is installed in his place.\n1967 Beatles released “Penny Lane” & “Strawberry Fields.”\n1994 Bosnian Serbs began large-scale withdrawal of its heavy guns from the hills around Sarajevo under pressure from Russia. \n(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "?"]\n[Site "?"]\n[Date "1989.02.17"]\n[EventDate "?"]\n[Round "?"]\n[Result "1/2-1/2"]\n[White "Ivan Nikolic"]\n[Black "Goran Arsovic"]\n[ECO "E95"]\n[WhiteElo 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