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SUMMARY:January 18
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nAccording to my experiences\, in key events\, normally the games’ quality is not as high as other major events. Most brilliant games are not found in championships at present.- Garry Kasparov\, 2014\nBIRTHS \nJean de Villeneuve-Esclapon (1860-24-11-1943)\, a French chess composer.\nHans Hilmar Staudte (18-01-1911 – 21-01-1979)  a German composer and player.\nIgor Platonov (1934-13.11.1994)\, a Ukrainian–Soviet Grandmaster and coach.\nAlexander Moroz (1961-17.01.2009)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster\, International Arbiter who was the president of the Ukrainian Chess Federation.\nAlexander Khalifman (1966)\, a Russian Grandmaster\, a coach and writer who became the FIDE World Champion in 1999 after winning the first K.O World Championship in Las Vegas.\nAlisa Galliamova (1972)\, a Russian International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is twice the runner-up at the Women’s World Chess Championship\, in 1999 and 2006.\nDanilo Milanovic (1974)\, a Serbian Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nJohn Wisker (30.05.1846-1884)\, an English player and journalist who was one of the world’s ten best chess players (c. 1870).\nIsrael Albert Horowitz (15.11.1907-1973) an Amercian International Master who was the editor of the American magazine’Chess Review’ and the author of many chess books. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1950 Ms. Lyudmila Rudenko USSR won the first Women’s World Championship after WWII. \nWORLD EVENTS \n350 General Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor.\n1535 Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founds Lima\, the capital of Peru.\n1701 Frederick I crowns himself King of Prussia in Königsberg.\n1778 James Cook is the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands\, which he names the “Sandwich Islands”.\n1788 Australia was officially founded when the first English settlers arrived in Australia’s Botany Bay to establish a penal colony.\n1862 John Tyler (71)\, 10th president of the United States (1841-1845)\, died and was buried at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond\, Va.\n1871 Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War.\n1896 An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.\n1919 World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles\, France.\n1943 The Soviets announced they’d broken the long Nazi siege of Leningrad. It was another year before the siege was fully lifted.\n1974 A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments\, ending the conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War.\n1977 SFR Yugoslavia’s Prime minister\, Džemal Bijedić\, his wife and six others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.\n1993 Martin Luther King\, Jr. Day is officially observed for the first time in all 50 states.\n2002 Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.\n2005 In France\, Airbus unveiled the 840-passenger A380\, the world’s biggest passenger jet. \n(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Corus"]\n[Site "Wijk aan Zee"]\n[Date "2010.01.18"]\n[Round "3"]\n[White "Tiviakov\, Sergei"]\n[Black "Shirov\, Alexei"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "B23"]\n[WhiteElo "2662"]\n[BlackElo "2723"]\n[PlyCount "62"]\n[EventDate "2010.01.16"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "13"]\n[EventCountry "NED"]\n[EventCategory "19"]\n\n1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Bc4 e6 5. Nge2 Nf6 6. O-O a6 7. d3 b5 8. Bb3\nNxb3 9. axb3 Bb7 10. f4 d5 11. e5 d4 12. exf6 dxc3 13. fxg7 Bxg7 14. bxc3 Rg8\n15. Rf2 Bxc3 16. Nxc3 Qd4 17. Kf1 Qxc3 18. Ra2 Qd4 19. Qh5 c4 20. bxc4 bxc4 21.\nRa4 Bd5 22. f5 e5 23. Qxh7 Kd7 24. Qh6 Bxg2+ 25. Ke1 Bd5 26. Ba3 Rg1+ 27. Ke2\nQg4+ 28. Ke3 Re1+ 29. Kd2 Qd1+ 30. Kc3 Qa1+ 31. 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