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SUMMARY:January 8
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nDespite the ugliness of his decline\, Bobby Fischer deserves to be remembered for the great things he did for chess and for his immortal games.- Garry Kasparov \, 2004\nBIRTHS \nBoris Verlinsky (1888-30.10.1950)\, a Soviet International Master who won the 6th USSR Championship. After the event\, he was awarded the title of Soviet GM but the title was removed in 1931. It has been argued that this in order to make Mikhail Botvinnik the first Soviet GM.\nHermann Pilnik (1914-12.11.1981)\, an Argentine Grandmaster who won the Argentine Championships in 1942\, 1945 and 1958.\nKeith Arkell (1961)\, an English Grandmaster who became Wolrd Senior Champion.\nMingqian Wu (1960) a Chinese Woman Grandmaster.\nBoris Avrukh (1978)\, an Israeli Grandmaster born in Kazakhstan who is living in Chicago. He won two\nIsraeli Championships and become the World Under-12 champion in 1990.\nErnst\, Sipke (1979)\, a Dutch Grandmaster\nHrvoje Stevic (1980)\, Croatian Grandmaster who won the Croatian Championship in 2007\, 2008 and 2013.\nSulennis Pina Vega (1981)\, Cuban Women Grandmaster.\nElisabeth Paehtz (1981)\, German International Master and Woman Grandmaster. The strongest female player in Germany who became the 2002 World U18 Girls Champion and 2005 the World Junior Girls Champion.\nThomas Roussel-Roozmon\, (1988)\, Canadian Grandmaster\nHrair Simonian (1991)\, Armenian Grandmaster who finished joint first in the 2011 Armenian Chess Championship. \nDEATH \nAlexander Kotov (12.08.1913-1981) a Soviet Grandmaster\, International Arbiter\, coach\, and writer. He won the Soviet title jointly with David Bronstein in 1948. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1958 – Bobby Fisher\, at the age of 14\, won the United States Chess Championship for the first time. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1297 François Grimaldi\, disguised as a monk\, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco\, establishing his family as the rulers of Monaco.\n1642 Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri\, Italy.\n1656 The oldest surviving commercial newspaper began in Haarlem\, Netherlands.\n1806 Cape Colony becomes a British colony.\n1835 The United States national debt is zero for the only time.\n1959 Charles De Gaulle was inaugurated as president of France’s Fifth Republic.\n1871 Prussian troops began to bombard Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.\n1973 Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.\n1976 Chou En-lai (78)\, Chinese premier (1949-1976)\, died in Beijing.\n1987 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 2000 mark for the first time at 2\,002.25.\n1993 Bosnian Prime Minister Hakija Turajlic was shot 7 times and killed by Serb gunmen in the presence of French peacekeepers.\n1996 Francois Mitterrand (79)\, former Socialist president of France (1981-1995)\, died of prostate cancer.\n2000 Uzbek Pres. Karimov was re-elected to a five-year term with more than 90 percent of the vote.\n2008 Britain’s Royal Mail issued a set of stamps commemorating James Bond to mark 100 years since the birth of his creator\, Ian Fleming.\n2010 Venezuela’s Pres. Chavez issued a presidential decree devaluing the currency by up to 50%. \n(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "New Delhi Parsvnath op 9th"]\n[Site "New Delhi"]\n[Date "2011.01.08"]\n[Round "2"]\n[White "Negi\, Parimarjan"]\n[Black "Vaibhav\, Suri"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "B48"]\n[WhiteElo "2607"]\n[BlackElo "2421"]\n[PlyCount "55"]\n[EventDate "2011.01.08"]\n[EventType "swiss"]\n[EventRounds "11"]\n[EventCountry "IND"]\n\n1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. Qd2 Nf6 8.\nO-O-O Bb4 9. f3 O-O 10. g4 b5 11. g5 Ne8 12. a3 Be7 13. Nf5 exf5 14. Nd5 Qb7\n15. exf5 Nc7 16. Nf6+ Kh8 17. Nxh7 Kxh7 18. f6 d5 19. Bd3+ Kg8 20. Qf2 Ne5 21.\nfxg7 Re8 22. Qh4 Ng6 23. Qh6 Qc6 24. h4 f5 25. gxf6 Qxf6 26. Bxg6 Qxg7 27. Bh7+\nKf8 28. 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