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SUMMARY:February 28
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\nTal develops all his pieces in the centre and then sacrifices them somewhere.- David Bronstein\nBIRTHS \nNicolas Rossolimo (1910-24.07.1975)\, a chess player of a sharp combinational style who was born in Kiev\, lived in Paris and died in New York.\nNikolai Spiridonov (1938)\, a Bulgarian Grandmaster who was Bulgarian Champion in 1969.\nDmitry Kayumov\, (1949)\, an Uzbek Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.\nVladimir Okhotnik (1950)\, a French Grandmaster born in Ukraine who won twice the title of World Senior Champion.\nKonstantin Lerner (195024.09.2011)\, an Israeli Grandmaster born in Ukraine who was Ukrainian Champion in 1978 and 1982.\nHenrik Teske (1968)\, a German Grandmaster and author.\nKaido Kulaots (1976)\, an Estonian Grandmaster who won eight Estonian Championships.\nDusan Popovic (1983)\, a Serbian Grandmaster\nBianca De Jong-Muhren\, (1986)\, a Dutch Woman Grandmaster\nSabrina Vega Gutierrez (1987)\, a Spanish Woman Grandmaster who became the national Women’s Champion in 2008 and 2012.\nAnna Muzychuk\, (1990)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who became Women’s World Champion in 2015. \nDEATH \nOscar Chajes (14.12.1873-1928)\, an American player born in Austria. He was the last person to defeat José Raúl Capablanca\, at New York 1916\, before Capablanca’s eight-year undefeated stretch from 1916 to 1924.\nStefán Kristjánsson (8.12.1982–2018)\, an Icelandic Grandmaster and professional poker player.\nGennady Kuzmin ( 19.01.1946-2020)\, an Ukrainian Grandmaster and coach. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1958 The second World Chess Correspondence Championship was won by V. Ragozin (USSR).\n1977 At the Candidates Match in Rotterdam\, L. Portisch (HUN) beat B. Larsen (DEN) 6½-3½.\n1977 At the Candidates Match in Reykjavik\, B. Spassky (USSR) beat V. Hort (CSR) 8½-7½.\n1993 At the Women’s Candidates Final in Monaco\, Nana Ioseliani (GEO) won on drawings of lots and qualified for the Final after beating the Hungarian GM Zs. Polgar. The final score was 2-2 and 2-2 on tiebreak games.\n2015 In Tbilisi\, Georgia\, Evgeny Tomashevsky (RUS) won the 3rd leg of the FIDE Grand Prix. \nWORLD EVENTS  \n364 Valentinian I becomes Roman Emperor.\n1667 English colony Suriname became an Dutch colony.\n1897 Queen Ranavalona III\, the last monarch of Madagascar\, is deposed by a French military force.\n1922 The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.\n1933 Adolf Hitler bans German Communist Party (KPD)\n1935 DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.\n1953 James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA;\n1954 The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.\n1954 The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.\n1972 US President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China.\n1984 26th Grammy Awards: Michael Jackson wins 8 Grammys\n1986 Olof Palme\, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden\, is assassinated in Stockholm.\n1991 The first Gulf War ends.\n2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church\, becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.\n2019 The 2019 North Korea–United States summit is held in Hanoi\, Vietnam. It is the second summit between United States President Donald Trump and the North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un. \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "World Championship 04th"]\n[Site "Havana"]\n[Date "1892.02.28"]\n[Round "23"]\n[White "Chigorin\, Mikhail"]\n[Black "Steinitz\, William"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "C34"]\n[Annotator "ChessBase"]\n[PlyCount "64"]\n[EventDate "1892.01.01"]\n[EventType "match"]\n[EventRounds "23"]\n[EventCountry "CUB"]\n\n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e5 Nh5 5. Be2 g6 6. d4 Bg7 7. O-O d6 8. Nc3\nO-O 9. Ne1 dxe5 10. Bxh5 gxh5 11. dxe5 Qxd1 12. Nxd1 Nc6 13. Bxf4 Bf5 14. Ne3\nBe4 15. Nf3 Rfe8 16. Ng5 Bg6 17. Nd5 Bxe5 18. Nxc7 Bxc7 19. Bxc7 Rac8 20. Bg3\nNd4 21. c3 Ne2+ 22. Kf2 h4 23. Bd6 Nd4 24. cxd4 Rc2+ 25. Kg1 Ree2 26. Rae1\nRxg2+ 27. Kh1 Kg7 28. Re8 f5 29. Ne6+ Kf6 30. Re7 Rge2 31. d5 Rcd2 32. Bb4 $4 (\n32. Rxb7 $18 Rxd5 33. Nf4) 32... 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