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SUMMARY:February 22
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\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 \nIsaac Rice (1850-1915)\, a German-born American player\, who financed many chess tournaments and known for his Rice Gambit.\nFritz Carl Englund (1871-1933)\, a Swedish chess player\, known for the Englund Counterattack and the Englund Gambit.\nFlorencio Campomanes (1927-03.05.2010)\, a Filipino Master who became the 5th FIDE President.\nLewis Ncube (1958)\, a Zambian chess player who became FIDE Continental President of Africa in 2014.\nPredrag Ostojic (1938-05.7.1996)\, a Yugoslav Grandmaster and Yugoslav Champion in 1968 and 1971.\nJames Tardjan (1952)\, an American Grandmaster who won American a team gold medal at the 1976 Olympiad.\nSporodon Skembris (1958)\, a Greek grandmaster and coach who was Greek champion in 1981\, 1984\, 1989 and 1993.\nMichail Gurevich (1959)\, a Belgian Grandmaster who won four different national championships: Ukraine\, Soviet Union\, Belgium\, and Turkey.\nDeimante Daulyte (1989)\, a Lithuanian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the women’s Lithuanian Championship in 2006\, 2007\, 2008\, 2012 and 2013.\nMonika Mueller-Seps (1986)\, a Swiss Woman Grandmaster \nCHESS EVENTS \n1996 Zs. Polgar HUN became the new Women’s World Champion. She defeated Xie Jun CHN 8½-4½. \nWORLD EVENTS  \n1371 Robert II becomes King of Scotland\, beginning the Stuart dynasty.\n1746 French troops conquer Brussels.\n1821 Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million.\n1848 – The French Revolution of 1848\, which would lead to the establishment of the French Second Republic\, begins.\n1856 The United States Republican Party opens its first national convention in Pittsburgh.\n1882 The Serbian kingdom is refounded.\n1900 Hawaii became a US territory.\n1907 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London.\n1942 World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse.\n1948 Communist coup in Czechoslovakia.\n1971 Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria\n1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Emir & Prime Minister of Qatar\n2014 President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0\, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.\n2014 Matteo Renzi becomes Prime Minister of Italy.2014 Marit Bjørgen of Norway becomes the most successful female Winter Olympian with 10 medals. \n(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Moscow"]\n[Site "Moscow"]\n[Date "1935.02.22"]\n[Round "6"]\n[White "Riumin\, Nikolay Nikolaevich"]\n[Black "Botvinnik\, Mikhail"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "C86"]\n[PlyCount "72"]\n[EventDate "1935.02.15"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "19"]\n1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Qe2 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3\nO-O 9. d4 Bg4 10. Rd1 exd4 11. cxd4 d5 12. e5 Ne4 13. h3 Bh5 14. a4 b4 15. a5\nKh8 16. g4 Bg6 17. Nh2 Bh4 18. Be3 f5 19. f4 Bg3 20. g5 h6 21. gxh6 gxh6 22.\nNd2 Ne7 23. Kh1 Qe8 24. Rg1 Bh5 25. Nhf3 Rg8 26. Nf1 Qf7 27. Bd1 Rg7 28. Rc1 c6\n29. Rc2 Rag8 30. Rg2 Bxf4 31. Qxa6 Rxg2 32. Rxg2 Rxg2 33. Kxg2 Qg6+ 34. Kh1\nBxe3 35. Nxe3 Nf2+ 36. 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