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SUMMARY:February 8
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\nMaybe I had something of Capablanca. Why should I prepare when I have ideas?- Svetozar Gligoric\, 1989 NIC\nBIRTHS \nGisela Gresser\, (1906-04.12.2000)\, an American woman chess player who won the US Women Championships eight times.\nYiri Averbakh (1922)\, a Russian Grandmaster\, Soviet Champion in 1954\, author\, journalist\, coach and Soviet Chess President in the 1970’s. He is the oldest Grandmaster alive.\nAivar Gipslis (1937-13.04.2000)\, a Latvian Grandmaster\, journalist\, and coach.\nJohann Hjartarsson (1963)\, Icelandic Grandmaster\, and Icelandic Champion. He lost a Candidate’ match in 1986 against Anatoly Karpov.\nPeter Szekely (1955-31.08.2003)\, a Hungarian Grandmaster who died after a heart attack in 2003.\nIlia Gurevich (1972)\, an American Grandmaster who won the won the 1990 World Junior Championship.\nRalf Akesson (1961) Swedish Grandmaster who became the European Junior Chess Championship (U20) in 1985 the Swedish Chess Champion in 1999.\nGilles Miralles (1966)\, a French Grandmaster who was French Champion in 1986 and 1989. He is running the Geneva Chess Club.\nJolanta Zawadzka (1987)\, a Polish Woman Grandmaster who became the World Youth Chess U18 Championship and the women’s Polish Chess Championship in 2006\, 2011 and 2015.\nYuri Solodovnichenko (1978)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster.\nMaze\, Sebastien (1984)\, a French Grandmaster and coach of the national team in 2013.\nArik Braun (1988) a German Grandmaster who won the World Under-18 Chess Championship in 2006 and the German Chess Championship in 2009.\nSuri Vaibhav (1997)\, an Indian Grandmaster who got the title at the age of 15 years 2 months 21 days.\nGeorgescu Tiberiu-Marian (1991)\, a Romanian Grandmaster. \nDEATH \nLim Kok Aan (1920-11.03.2003) a Singapore player\, International Arbiter and former FIDE General Secretary. \nCHESS EVENT\n1989  FIDE President Campomanes met IOC President Samaranch in Lausanne. “The first step is recognition of FIDE by IOC”. Mr. Samaranch said: “Chess is a sport”. \nWORLD EVENTS \n421 Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.\n1587 Mary\, Queen of Scots\, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin\, Queen Elizabeth I.\n1837 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate.\n1914 General Zamon becomes president of Haiti\n1924 Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.\n1926 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio becomes Walt Disney Studios\n1942 World War II: Japan invades Singapore.\n1950 The Stasi\, the secret police of East Germany\, is established.\n1955 Malenkov resigns as USSR premier\, Bulganin replaces him\n1960 The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.\n1963 The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq\, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba’ath Party.\n1963 The regime of Prime Minister of Iraq\, Brigadier General Abd al-Karim Qasim is overthrown by the Ba’ath Party.\n1971 The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.\n(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday) \nGAME OF THE DAY\n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Monte Carlo"]\n[Site "Monte Carlo"]\n[Date "1901.02.08"]\n[Round "4"]\n[White "Mieses\, Jacques"]\n[Black "Mason\, James"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "C01"]\n[PlyCount "77"]\n[EventDate "1901.??.??"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "13"]\n[EventCountry "MNC"]1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Be3 Nf6 5. Bd3 Bd6 6. Nc3 c6 7. Qd2 Qe7 8.\nO-O-O Na6 9. Re1 Be6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bh4 g5 12. Bg3 Nc7 13. Nf3 Nd7 14. Ne5 Bxe5\n15. Bxe5 Nxe5 16. Rxe5 O-O-O 17. Na4 b6 18. h4 f6 19. Re3 Qd6 20. b4 Kb7 21.\nQc3 Qf4 22. Kb1 gxh4 23. Ka1 Bd7 24. Rb1 Ne6 25. Ba6+ Kc7 26. Nc5 Nxc5 27. bxc5\nRb8 28. Rf3 Qg5 29. Qe1 Qg4 30. Rd1 Rbe8 31. Qh1 Kd8 32. Qh2 bxc5 33. Qd6 Qe6\n34. Qxc5 Bc8 35. Bxc8 Qxc8 36. Rxf6 Re6 37. Rf7 Ke8 38. Qxa7 Rf8 39. 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