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SUMMARY:July 16
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nKarpov\, Kasparov\, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral\, unethical\, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around\, and if people knew the truth about them\, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson\, the runner\, and they’re going to know the truth when I do this book!- Robert Fischer\, September\, 1 1992\nBIRTHS \nAlberto Fidi\,  (1882-1958)\, an Italian player\, FIDE Life Member.\nHorst Rittner (1930)\, a German correspondence chess Grandmaster who was the sixth ICCF World Champion between 1968 and 1971.\nSamuel Schweber (1936)\, an Argentine International Master who won individual silver medal at Leipzig 1960\nAshot Anastasian (1964)\, an Armenian Grandmaster who won 8 times the national championship.\nAlexander Ipatov (1993)\, a Turkish Grandmaster born in Ukraine who won the World Junior Championship in 2012 and was Turkish championship in 2014 and 2015. \nDEATHS \nAlexander Cywinski von Puchala (1829-1905)\, an Austrian chess composer and author of Das indische Problem.\nKarel Hromadka (1887-1956)\, a Czechoslovakian chess Master\, twice national champion who gave his name to few lines of the Benoni Defence.\nKarl Kockelkorn (1843-1914)\, an German chess composer.\nWilliam Geary (1839-1923)\, an English chess composer and co-inventor of the chess variant Reflex Chess. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1972 At the World Championship in Reykjavik\, after giving a default win to B. Spassky in game two\, R. Fischer agreed to play the third game in a small room backstage\, out of sight of the spectators. \nWORLD EVENTS \n622 The beginning of the Islamic calendar.\n1661 The first banknotes in Europe are issued by the Swedish bank Stockholms Banco.\n1769 Father Junípero Serra founds California’s first mission\, Mission San Diego de Alcalá. Over the following decades\, it evolves into the city of San Diego\, California.\n1779 American Revolutionary War: Light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.\n1782 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail is first performed.\n1790 The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act.\n1809 The city of La Paz\, in what is today Bolivia\, declares its independence from the Spanish Crown during the La Paz revolution and forms the Junta Tuitiva\, the first independent government in Spanish America\, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo.\n1931 Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.\n1935 The world’s first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City\, Oklahoma.\n1942 Holocaust: Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup (Rafle du Vel’ d’Hiv): The government of Vichy France orders the mass arrest of 13\,152 Jews who are held at the Winter Velodrome in Paris before deportation to Auschwitz.\n1945 Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon near Alamogordo\, New Mexico.\n1948 The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane\, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways\, marks the first aircraft hijackingof a commercial plane.\n1951 King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son\, Baudouin I of Belgium.\n1965 The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.\n1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11\, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon\, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy\, Florida.\n1973 Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.\n1979 Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.\n1991 Ukraine celebrates its first Independence Day. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Vienna Imperial Jubilee"]\n[Site "Vienna"]\n[Date "1898.07.16"]\n[Round "?"]\n[White "Marco\, Georg"]\n[Black "Burn\, Amos"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "C14"]\n[PlyCount "55"]\n[EventDate "1898.06.01"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "36"]\n[EventCountry "AUT"]\n[SourceTitle "HCL"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]\n\n1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Nb5 Qd8 8.\nc3 a6 9. Na3 c5 10. f4 Nc6 11. Nf3 b5 12. Nc2 c4 13. Be2 O-O 14. O-O Nb6 15.\nQd2 a5 16. Ne3 Ra7 17. Rae1 f6 18. Bd1 Bd7 19. Bc2 Be8 20. exf6 gxf6 21. Ng4\nQc8 22. f5 exf5 23. Bxf5 Qd8 24. Qh6 Rg7 25. Ng5 Bg6 26. Ne6 Qe7 27. Nxf8 Qxf8\n28. 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