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SUMMARY:January 1
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \n\n\nChess is a game by its form\, an art by its content and a science by the difficulty of gaining mastery in it. Chess can convey as much happiness as a good book or work of music can. However\, it is necessary to learn to play well and only afterwards will one experience real delight.- Tigran Petrosian\n \nBIRTHS\n\nLionel Adalbert Felix Kizeritsky (1806-18.05.1853)\, one of the strongest Estonian chess players of his time. While his real immortality was provided by his loss in the “immortal” game to Anderssen in London 1851.\nDavide Marotti (1881-18 .07.1940)\, an Italian Master\, a professor of literature and philosophy. In 1921\, Marotti won the first Italian Championship.\nKlaus Junge (1924-17. 04.1945)\, the most talented German player since Lasker born in Chile. Came first equal with Alekhine at Prague 1942. Unfortunately\, he perished during WWII.\nKazimierz Makarczyk (1901-27.05.1972)\, a Polish International Master who won five team medals at the Olympiads: one gold (1930)\, two silver (1931\, 1936)\, and two bronze (1928\, 1935).\nNikolai (Nikolay) Zubarev (10.04.1894 –1951)\, Soviet International Master who finished 4th at the 1924 USSR championship.\nFaruk Bistric (1958)\, a Bosnian Grandmaster.\nKhalifa Al Hitmi (1960)\, a FIDE officer\, Asian President\, Quatar chess federation president.\nLuc Winants (1963) a Belgian Grandmaster and columnist who was the Belgian Champion in 1986.\nDragisa Blagojevic (1966)\, a Montenegran Grandmaster who won four national championships.\nRoman Slobodjan (1975)\, a German Grandmaster who was\, World Junior Champion in 1995.\nAlexander Finkel (1975)\, an Israeli Grandmaster.\nDagne Ciuksyte (1977)\, an English-Lithuanian International Master and Woman Grandmaster.\nAlexey Vyzmanavin (1960-2000)\, a Russian grandmaster played twice for the national team 1992 and 1995. His dead at 40 years old is still not clear.\nIgor Lysyj (1987)  a Russian chess Grandmaster.\nNana Dzagnidze (1987)\, a  Georgian Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster. She is the best Georgian female player since the retirement of Maya Chiburdanidze.\nTornike Sanikidze (1989)\, a Georgian Grandmaster who won the Georgian Championship in 2009.\nNino Batsiashvili (1987). an Georgian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was the Women’s Georgian Champion in 2015. The same year she drew one game with Magnus Carlsen at the Qatar Open.\nSalem\, A.R. Saleh Salem (1993)\, a Grandmaster from UAE who was the Arab Champion in 2008 and the Asian Champion in 2015.\nKivanc Haznedaroglu (1981)\, a Turkish Grandmaster who became the Turkish Champion in 2003.\nGuramishvili\, Sopiko (1991)\, an Georgian Woman Grandmaster (1991)\, World U16 Girls Champion in 2006. She is married to the Dutch GM Anish Giri.\nVitay Sivuk\, Vitaly (1992)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster.\n\nCHESS EVENTS\n\n1853 England\, The Field published its first chess column and the British Chess Review its first issue.\n1857 USA. The first number of the American Chess Monthly is published.\n1868 Chess Players’Quarterly Chronicle.\n1881 England. The first issue of the British Chess Magazine\, the oldest magazine without a break. Watkinson is the editor.\n1885 First issue of the International Chess Magazine with the world champion Steinitz as editor.\n1893 Netherland. Dutch Federation monthly magazine Schakend Nederland founded.\n1909 USA. The last number of the Lasker’s chess magazine is published.\n1933 USA. The first number of Chess Review with I. Kashdan as editor.\n1990 Switzerland\, a FIDE ban on smoking came into effect. Smoking was not longer allowed in the playing hall for the duration during play.\n1991 The Chess Federations of Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic were united.\n\nWORLD EVENTS\n\n0045 BC Julian Calendar is introduced\n1515 Death of Louis XII\, King of France\n1531 Rio de Janerio\, Brazil is discovered\n1863 The Emancipation Proclamation\, declared the previous September by Abraham Lincoln\, took effect. It declared freedom for slaves in all areas of the Confederacy that were still in rebellion against the Union.\n1901 The Commonwealth of Australia was proclaimed.\n1956 Sudan gained its independence.\n1958 Treaties establishing the European Economic Community went into effect.\n1959 Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.\n1986 Soviet television aired a five-minute greeting from President Reagan and Americans got the same from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the first such exchange between the superpowers.\n\n\n1997 Kofi Annan assumed the title of United Nations secretary-general.\n1999 The euro\, the new single currency of eleven European countries\, officially came into existence with the start of the New Year.\n2002 Twelve European nations adopted the euro in the most ambitious currency changeover in history.\n2007 Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Slovenia joins Eurozone\n2011 Estonia becomes the 17th member of the Eurozone.\n2014 Latvia becomes the 18th member of the Eurozone.\n\nGAME OF THE DAY\n\n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "World Championship 04th"]\n[Site "Havana"]\n[Date "1892.01.01"]\n[Round "1"]\n[White "Chigorin\, Mikhail"]\n[Black "Steinitz\, William"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "C52"]\n[PlyCount "61"]\n[EventDate "1892.01.01"]\n[EventType "match"]\n[EventRounds "23"]\n[EventCountry "CUB"]1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. O-O d6 7. d4 Bg4 8. Bb5\nexd4 9. cxd4 Bd7 10. Bb2 Nce7 11. Bxd7+ Qxd7 12. Na3 Nh6 13. Nc4 Bb6 14. a4 c6\n15. e5 d5 16. Nd6+ Kf8 17. Ba3 Kg8 18. Rb1 Nhf5 19. Nxf7 $1 Kxf7 20. e6+ Kxe6\n21. Ne5 Qc8 22. Re1 Kf6 23. Qh5 g6 24. Bxe7+ Kxe7 25. Nxg6+ Kf6 26. Nxh8 Bxd4\n27. Rb3 Qd7 28. Rf3 Rxh8 29. g4 Rg8 30. Qh6+ Rg6 31. 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