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SUMMARY:January 31
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nWhen your house is on fire\, you can’t be bothered with the neighbors. Or\, as we say in chess\, if your King is under attack\, don’t worry about losing a pawn on the queenside.- Garry Kasparov \nBIRTHS \nReginald Walter Bonham (1906-16.03.1984)\, an English blind chess player who founded the International Braille Chess Association in 1951 and became the first Blind World Chess Champion.\nFarid Abbasov (1979)\, an Azeri Grandmaster.\nValeriy Aveskulov (1986)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was the Ukraine Champion in 2007.\nSanan Sjugirov (1993)\, a Russian Grandmaster who won the World U14 Championship in 2003\, the World U14 in 2007 and the World University Chess Championship in 2014.\nWenjun Ju\, (1991)\, a Chinese Grandmaster and Woman Grandmaster who won the Women’s Chinese Championship in 2010 and 2014.\nJan-Christian Schroeder (1998)\, a German Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nCurt von Bardeleben (04.03. 1861-1924)\, a German Master and journalist.\nHenry Ernest Atkins (20.08.1872-1955)\, a British Master who won the British Chess Championship nine times. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1955 Czechoslovakia won the 2nd Chess Correspondence Olympiad.\n1989 31.01 Candidates Quarterfinal in Antwerp\, Belgium\, J. Timman NED beat L. Portisch HUN 3½-2½.\n1994 Netherland. The World Championship Candidates matches are over in Wijk aan Zee; Timman\, Gelfand\, Kamsky\, Salov\, Anand\, Kramnik are qualified for the next stage. \nWORLD EVENTS  \n1865 American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.\n1915 World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.\n1930 3M begins marketing Scotch Tape.\n1933 French government of Daladier takes power\n1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion\, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.\n1946 Yugoslavia’s new constitution\, modeling that of the Soviet Union\, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Croatia\, Macedonia\, Montenegro\, Serbia and Slovenia).\n1946 The Democratic Republic of Vietnam introduces the đồng to replace the French Indochinese piastre at par.\n1950 United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.\n1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1\,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.\n1972 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana.\n1975 Angolan War of Independence: A transitional unity government\, consisting of the National Liberation Front of Angola\, the Soviet-backed MPLA\, and the Maoist UNITA\, took office\n1990 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow\, world’s biggest McDonalds.\n2010 Avatar becomes the first film to gross over $2 billion worldwide. \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Gibraltar Masters 11th"]\n[Site "Caleta"]\n[Date "2013.01.31"]\n[Round "10"]\n[White "Shirov\, Alexei"]\n[Black "Al Sayed\, Mohammed"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "B81"]\n[WhiteElo "2708"]\n[BlackElo "2507"]\n[PlyCount "63"]\n[EventDate "2013.01.22"]\n[EventType "swiss"]\n[EventRounds "10"]\n\n1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e6 7. g4 Nfd7 8. Be3\nb5 9. a3 Bb7 10. g5 Nb6 11. Qg4 N8d7 12. O-O-O g6 13. h4 Rc8 14. h5 Ne5 15. Qh3\nRxc3 16. bxc3 Bxe4 17. hxg6 Bxg6 18. f4 Nd5 19. Nxe6 Qa5 20. Rxd5 Qxc3 21. Nc7+\nKd8 22. f5 Bxf5 23. Qxf5 Qxe3+ 24. Kd1 Kxc7 25. Rh3 Qg1 26. Rc3+ Kb6 27. Rc8\nNc4 28. Kc1 Bg7 29. Rxc4 Qe3+ 30. Kd1 Re8 31. Rxd6+ Ka5 32. 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