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SUMMARY:January 16
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nEvery chessmaster was once a beginner.- Irving Chernev\nBIRTHS \nFrederick Dewhurst Yates (1884-11.11.1932)\, an English accountant who became a professional chess player and six times British Champion.\nVictor Ciocaltea (1932-10.09.1983)\, a Romanian Grandmaster who won eight Romanian championships.\nCarsten Hoi (1957)\, a Danish Grandmaster who was Danish champion in 1978\, 1986 and 1992.\nIrina Semenova (1968)\, a Russian Woman Grandmaster.\nEva Repkova (1975)\,  a Slovakian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was Women’s Champion of Slovakia and Czechia.\nGhate Swati (1980)\, an Indian Woman Grandmaster who was the Women’s Indian Champion in 2006.\nValeriane Gaprindashvili (1982)\, a Georgian Grandmaster who was the European U12 Champion in 1993 and 1994 and the World U 14 Champion in 1995.\nAmon Simutowe (1982)\, Zambian Grandmaster\, the first from Sub-Saharan Africa.\nAndrei Baryshpolets\, (1991)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster who is studying in the USA. \nDEATHS \nHeinrich Bernleitner (30-04-1937-2010)\, an Austrian chess composer.\nJuan Zaldo Zapirain (18-03-1919-1963)\, a Spanish chess composer. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1926 After winning all her games\, Vera Menschik (CZE) became the winner of the First Girls Open Championship. The tournament was known as the pre-Women World Chess championship. \nWORLD EVENTS  \n27 BC Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate\, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.\n1547 Ivan IV of Russia a.k.a. Ivan the Terrible becomes Czar of Russia.\n1556 Philip II becomes King of Spain.\n1581 English parliament passed laws against Catholicism.\n1707 The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union\, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.\n1920 The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris\, France.\n1925 Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chief of Russian Revolution Military Council. Stalin took power over Trotsky.\n1939 The comic strip “Superman” debuted.\n1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague\, Czechoslovakia\, in protest against the Soviets’ crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.\n1969  The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit\, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another\, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.\n1979 The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.\n1991 The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq\, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).\n1992 El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City\, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75\,000 lives.\n2001 Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.\n2003 Microsoft announced its 1st dividend along with a stock split. \n(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Hoogovens"]\n[Site "Wijk aan Zee NED"]\n[Date "1996.01.16"]\n[EventDate "1996.01.13"]\n[Round "3"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[White "Vassily Ivanchuk"]\n[Black "Alexey Shirov"]\n[ECO "D44"]\n[WhiteElo "?"]\n[BlackElo "?"]\n[PlyCount "69"]\n\n1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6\n8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Nbd7 11.exf6 Bb7 12.g3 c5 13.d5\nQb6 14.Bg2 O-O-O 15.O-O b4 16.Na4 Qb5 17.a3 exd5 18.axb4 cxb4\n19.Be3 Nc5 20.Qg4+ Rd7 21.Qg7 Bxg7 22.fxg7 Rg8 23.Nxc5 d4\n24.Bxb7+ Rxb7 25.Nxb7 Qb6 26.Bxd4 Qxd4 27.Rfd1 Qxb2 28.Nd6+\nKb8 29.Rdb1 Qxg7 30.Rxb4+ Kc7 31.Ra6 Rb8 32.Rxa7+ Kxd6 33.Rxb8\nQg4 34.Rd8+ Kc6 35.Ra1 1-0\n				\n			You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.		\n	\n	\n	\n		jQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n						$.chessgame.navigationButtonClass  = 'rpbchessboard-jQuery-enableSmoothness';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameClass   = 'wp-dialog';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameOptions = {"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true};\n			var selector = '#' + "rpbchessboard-69e9ee27bd5c6-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"Hoogovens\"]\r\n[Site \"Wijk aan Zee NED\"]\r\n[Date \"1996.01.16\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1996.01.13\"]\r\n[Round \"3\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[White \"Vassily Ivanchuk\"]\r\n[Black \"Alexey Shirov\"]\r\n[ECO \"D44\"]\r\n[WhiteElo \"?\"]\r\n[BlackElo \"?\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"69\"]\r\n\r\n1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6\r\n8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Nbd7 11.exf6 Bb7 12.g3 c5 13.d5\r\nQb6 14.Bg2 O-O-O 15.O-O b4 16.Na4 Qb5 17.a3 exd5 18.axb4 cxb4\r\n19.Be3 Nc5 20.Qg4+ Rd7 21.Qg7 Bxg7 22.fxg7 Rg8 23.Nxc5 d4\r\n24.Bxb7+ Rxb7 25.Nxb7 Qb6 26.Bxd4 Qxd4 27.Rfd1 Qxb2 28.Nd6+\r\nKb8 29.Rdb1 Qxg7 30.Rxb4+ Kc7 31.Ra6 Rb8 32.Rxa7+ Kxd6 33.Rxb8\r\nQg4 34.Rd8+ Kc6 35.Ra1 1-0"\,"pieceSymbols":"native"\,"navigationBoard":"above"\,"showFlipButton":true\,"showDownloadButton":true\,"navigationBoardOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}\,"diagramOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}});\n		});\n	\n\n\n \n\n
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