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SUMMARY:January 21
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nLooks like I’m going to raise the average age of the field and lower the average rating!- Garry Kasparov \, 2017\nBIRTHS \nBernhard Hegermann (1878 – 10-08-1965)\, an German chess composer.\nDiyan Kostadinov (21-01-1982)\, a Bulgarian International Master for chess composition.\nHenrik Danielsen (1966)\, an Icelandic Grandmaster who was Icelandic Champion in 2009.\nIlia Smirin (1968)\, an Israeli Grandmaster born in Belarus who won the Israeli Championship in 1992\, 1994 and 1999.\nArtashes Minasian (1967)\, an Armenian Grandmaster who won the Armenian Chess Championship six times and the last USSR Chess Championship in 1991.\nStanislav Savchenko (1967)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was a member of the Ukrainian national team at the 1996 and 1998 Olympiads.\nNeil McDonald (1967)\, an English Grandmaster\, coach\, and writer.\nAndrey Lunev (1969)\, a Russian Grandmaster.\nChunhong Ning (1968)\, a Chinese Woman Grandmaster and FIDE arbiter who won the women’s section of the World University Chess Championship in 1991.\nEmre Can (1990)\, a Turkish Grandmaster who became Turkish Champion in 2011. \nDEATH \nRamon Rey Ardid (20.12.1903- 1988)\, a Spanish Master who was a Spanish champion from 1929 to 1942.\nCristina Foisor (07.06.1967-2017)\, a Romanian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was Women’s European vice champion in 2007. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1989 At the Candidates Semi-Final in Quebec\, Canada\, A. Yusupov (USSR) overcame K. Spraggett (CAN) 5-4.\n2014. The founder of Microsoft\, billionaire\, computer programmer and philanthropist Bill Gates played a blitz chess game against World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen at the Skavlan Talk Show\, a Norwegian TV program\, in London. \nWORLD NEWS \n1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope.\n1790 Joseph Guillotine proposed a new\, more humane method of execution: a machine designed to cut off the condemned person’s head as painlessly as possible.\n1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty\, dividing Poland.\n1793 Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris\, following his conviction for high treason.\n1899 Opel manufactured its first automobile.\n1919 Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Fein creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great Britain\, sparking the Irish War of Independence.\n1924 Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 53 and a major struggle for power in the Soviet Union began.\n1952 Nehru’s Congress party wins the general election in India.\n1976 Supersonic Concorde\, 1st commercial flights\, by Britain & France. \n(Source: Onthisday-timeline) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Corus"]\n[Site "Wijk aan Zee"]\n[Date "2001.01.21"]\n[Round "7"]\n[White "Ivanchuk\, Vassily"]\n[Black "Kramnik\, Vladimir"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "C65"]\n[WhiteElo "2717"]\n[BlackElo "2772"]\n[PlyCount "76"]\n[EventDate "2001.01.13"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "13"]\n[EventCountry "NED"]\n\n1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. Bxc6 bxc6 7. Nxe5 d5 8.\nBg5 Re8 9. f4 dxe4 10. d4 Bb6 11. Nd2 c5 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. Qe2 h6 14. Bh4 g5\n15. fxg5 hxg5 16. Bg3 e3 17. Nb3 Bb6 18. Qf3 Be6 19. Rd1 g4 20. Qe2 Qe7 21. Nc6\nQf8 22. Nbd4 Qc5 23. Ne5 Nh5 24. Nxe6 Rxe6 25. Qxg4+ Ng7 26. Nxf7 $2 (26. Qf3\n$1) 26... Rf8 27. Ng5 e2 28. Rd4 Rg6 29. h4 Qf5 30. Qxf5 Nxf5 31. Bf2 Nxd4 32.\ncxd4 Re8 33. a3 Rc6 34. Kd2 Rf6 35. Nf3 Rg6 36. Ng5 Rd6 37. Nf3 c5 38. 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