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SUMMARY:January 4
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nThe competition in the men’s tournament has grown massively over the past 20 years. Chess is becoming more and more popular\, and there are no weak teams in the tournament any longer.- Andrey Filatov\nBIRTHS \nJames Moore Hanham (1840-30.12.1930)\, an American Master.\nVolf Bergraser 1904-1986)\, a Franch Correspondence Grandmaster born in Romania who was the French Champion in 1957 and 1966.\nGeorge Leathem (1953)\, an English chess composer.\nJoannis Nikolaidis (1971)\, a Greek Grandmaster who won the Greek championship in 1995.\nArtem Iljin (1987)\, a Russian Grandmaster.\nIlze Berzina (1984)\, a Latvian Woman Grandmaster.\nSopiko Khukhashvili (1985)\, a Georgian Woman Grandmaster. \nDEATH \nJosef Kreicik (22.01.1885-1957)\, an Austrian Master\, problemist\, journalist and author. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1960 Ms. Elizaveta Bykova (USSR) defeated Kira Zvorykina (USSR) 8.5-4.5 in Moscow and won the Women’s World Champion’s title for the third time.\n1980 A. Chernin (USSR) and A. Brustman (POL) became European Junior Champions for Boys and Girls in Groningen.\n1983 J. Ehlvest (USSR) won the 12th European Junior Championship in Groningen.\n1984 V. Salov (USSR) won the 13th European Junior Championship in Groningen.\n1989 A. Dreev (USSR) won the 18th European Junior Championship in Arnhem.\n1990 G. Serper (USSR) won the 19th European Junior Championship held in Arnhem. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1762 Great Britain enters the Seven Years’ War against Spain and Naples.\n1809 Louis Braille (d.1852)\, inventor of a universal reading system for the blind\, was born in Coupvray\, France.\n1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.\n1865 The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters near Wall Street in New York City.\n1878 Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and becomes capital of Liberated Bulgaria in 1879.\n1896 Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.\n1948 Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom.\n1951 Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.\n1958 Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit.\n2001 In Sri Lanka the defense ministry announced that the civil war left 3\,753 people dead in 2000\, including 87 civilians.\n2004 The former Soviet republic of Georgia voted for a successor to President Eduard Shevardnadze. Mikhail Saakashvili won with some 85% of the vote.\n2006 Israel’s PM Ariel Sharon was rushed to an operating room to staunch a brain hemorrhage; his official powers were transferred to his deputy\, Ehud Olmert.\n2010 Dubai inaugurated the world’s tallest skyscraper. \n(Source: Wikipedia and Timeline) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "St Petersburg 1895/96"]\n[Site "St Petersburg"]\n[Date "1896.01.04"]\n[Round "4.1"]\n[White "Pillsbury\, Harry Nelson"]\n[Black "Lasker\, Emanuel"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "D50"]\n[PlyCount "64"]\n[EventDate "1895.12.13"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "18"]\n[EventCountry "RUS"]\n1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 c5 5. Bg5 cxd4 6. Qxd4 Nc6 7. Qh4 Be7 8.\nO-O-O Qa5 9. e3 Bd7 10. Kb1 h6 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Nd4 O-O 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Qh5\nNxd4 15. exd4 Be6 16. f4 Rac8 17. f5 $2 Rxc3 $3 18. fxe6 Ra3 19. exf7+ Rxf7 20.\nbxa3 Qb6+ 21. Bb5 Qxb5+ 22. Ka1 Rc7 23. Rd2 Rc4 24. Rhd1 Rc3 25. Qf5 Qc4 26.\nKb2 Rxa3 27. Qe6+ Kh7 28. Kxa3 Qc3+ 29. 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