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SUMMARY:January 17
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nAfter the 2nd game I could have returned to Moscow. There was only one way I could have won this match.- Boris Spassky (1974)\nBIRTHS \nKarel Peter Traxler (1866-15-05-1936)\, a Czech composer\, player\, and a Catholic priest. Karel Traxler was famous for the Traxler Counterattack opening.\nValentin Marin y Llovet (1872 – 07-12-1936)\, a Spanish chess composer and player.\nWilliam Ewart Napier (1881-05.09.1952)\, a strong American player born in England.\nFrantišek Matoušek (1879-21-02-1956)\, a Czech chess composer.\nLev Ilich Loshinsky (1913-19.02.1976)\, an outstanding Soviet composer and Grandmaster for chess composition.\nMikhail Nasarovitch Marandyuk(17-01-1949) Ukrainian composer and Grandmaster for chess composition who is a multiple World Champion in chess composition in direct mate sections (threemovers\, moremovers).\nLothar Vogt (1952)\, a German Grandmaster who was Champion of GDR in 1977 and 1977.\nIgnatius Leong (1956)\, Singapore player\, International Arbiter\, FIDE Officer\, and the president of Singapore Chess Federation for many years.\nMaya Chiburdanidze (1961)\, Georgian Grandmaster and Women Grandmaster\, the sixth Women World Champion\,\nSergey Galdunts (1965)\, an Armenian Grandmaster.\nSebastian Bogner (1991)\, a Swiss Grandmaster born in Germany who was few German Youth Championships.\nArseny Alavkin (1969 )\, a Russian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nGiuseppe Brogi (02-05-1900-1976)\, an Italian chess composer.\nFischer Robert (09.03.1943-2008) an American Grandmaster who became the eleventh World Chess Champion. Fischer died from renal failure in Reykjavík. For many\, he is considered as the best player in the chess history. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1562 France recognizes the Huguenots by the Edict of Saint-Germain.\n1595 Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.\n1811 Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge\, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6\,000 troops defeats nearly 100\,000 Mexican revolutionaries.\n1827 Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander.\n1852 The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Boer colonies of the Transvaal.\n1895 Félix Faure installed as president of France.\n1913 Raymond Poincaré is elected President of France.\n1920 Paul Deschanel elected president of France.\n1929 Popeye the Sailor Man\, a cartoon character created by E. C. Segar\, first appears in the Thimble Theatre comic strip.\n1938 Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman.\n1941 Kuomintang forces under orders from Chiang Kai-shek open fire at communist forces\, resuming the Chinese Civil War after World War II.\n1945 World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw.\n1945 The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.\n1945 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again.\n1946 The UN Security Council holds its first session.\n1961 Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.\n1973 New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life.\n1981 President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.\n1991 Harald V becomes King of Norway on the death of his father\, Olav V.\n1991 Operation Desert Storm begins against Saddam Hussein\n1998 Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his Drudge Report website. \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "CRO-ch"]\n[Site "Rijeka"]\n[Date "2009.01.17"]\n[Round "1"]\n[White "Jankovic\, Alojzije"]\n[Black "Cvitan\, Ognjen"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "E12"]\n[WhiteElo "2571"]\n[BlackElo "2542"]\n[PlyCount "55"]\n[EventDate "2009.01.17"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "11"]\n\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. a3 c5 5. d5 Ba6 6. dxe6 fxe6 7. e3 Be7 8. b3\nO-O 9. Bb2 Bb7 10. Bd3 Nc6 11. Ng5 h6 12. h4 Qe8 13. Qc2 e5 14. Bh7+ Kh8 15.\nBg6 Qb8 16. Nc3 Nd8 17. Nd5 Bxd5 18. cxd5 b5 19. Rd1 a5 20. Qf5 Bd6 21. f4 Nh7\n22. Qh3 Nf6 23. Bc2 Ng8 24. O-O exf4 25. exf4 c4 26. Qg4 c3 27. Bxc3 Nf6 28.\nQf5 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-69e81a8615309-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"CRO-ch\"]\r\n[Site \"Rijeka\"]\r\n[Date \"2009.01.17\"]\r\n[Round \"1\"]\r\n[White \"Jankovic\, Alojzije\"]\r\n[Black \"Cvitan\, Ognjen\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[ECO \"E12\"]\r\n[WhiteElo \"2571\"]\r\n[BlackElo \"2542\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"55\"]\r\n[EventDate \"2009.01.17\"]\r\n[EventType \"tourn\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"11\"]\r\n\r\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. 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