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SUMMARY:January 26
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nThe Golden Age\, when machines were weak and my hair was strong!- Garry Kasparov\, 2017 \nBIRTHS \nAnders Gideon Tom Stalberg (1908-26.05. 1967)\, a Swedish grandmaster ranked among the best 10 in the world around 1950 who was the chief arbiter of five World Championship Finals from 1957 till 1963.\nStanimir Nikolic (1935)\, a Serbian Grandmaster.\nFridrik Olafsson (1935)\, Icelandic Grandmaster and the 4th President of FIDE. He left chess in 1982 to work in local politic.\nVladimir Yurkov (1936-22.04.2007)\, a Russian player\, an Honored Coach of the USSR who was coaching Balashov\, Razuvaev\, A.Sokolov and A. Kushnir.\nJean-Marc Degraeve (1971)\, a French Grandmaster who was the French U20 Champion in 1983.\nNikola Djukic (1983)\, a Montenegrin Grandmaster who is seven times the winner of the Montenegro chess championship.\nYuriy Kuzubov (1990)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster and Ukrainian champion in 2014. He became Grandmaster at the age of 14 years\, 7 months\, 12 days in 2004. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1880. At the 5th American Chess Congress\, New York\, George Henry Mackenzie shared the first place with James Grundy. The Congress was the 1st to have a tie and playoff for an American title.\n2002 In Moscow\,  the 18-year-old Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine beat his countryman Vassily Ivanchuk 4½-2½ and became the 16th and the youngest World Champion in the chess history. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1340 English king Edward III proclaimed king of France.\n1500 Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.\n1531 The 1531 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.\n1788 The British First Fleet\, led by Arthur Phillip\, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney\, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day.\n1841 James Bremer takes formal possession of Hong Kong Island at what is now Possession Point\, establishing British Hong Kong.\n1886 Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor\n1905 The world’s largest diamond ever\, the Cullinan weighing 3\,106.75 carats (0.621350 kg)\, is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.\n1926 The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.\n1939 Spanish Civil War – Catalonia Offensive: Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.\n1942 – World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.\n1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp\n1950 – The Constitution of India comes into force\, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.\n1998 – Lewinsky scandal: On American television\, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had “sexual relations” with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.\n2001 – The 7.7 Mw Gujarat earthquake shakes Western India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme)\, leaving 13\,805–20\,023 dead and about 166\,800 injured. \n(Source: Wikipedia-Onthisday) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Geneve op"]\n[Site "Geneve"]\n[Date "2007.01.26"]\n[Round "7"]\n[White "Starostits\, Ilmars"]\n[Black "Kovacevic\, Aleksandar"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "B25"]\n[WhiteElo "2472"]\n[BlackElo "2547"]\n[PlyCount "41"]\n[EventDate "2007.01.20"]\n[EventType "swiss"]\n\n1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2 g6 5. d3 Bg7 6. f4 e6 7. Nf3 Nge7 8. O-O\nO-O 9. Be3 b6 10. d4 Ba6 11. Rf2 cxd4 12. Nxd4 Na5 13. f5 Nc4 14. Bc1 exf5 15.\nexf5 Nxf5 16. Rxf5 gxf5 17. Nxf5 Ne5 18. Qh5 Rc8 19. Bh6 Bh8 20. 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