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SUMMARY:July 17
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \n” Chess is a sport. A violent sport.”- Marcel Duchamp\nBIRTHS \nNigel Edward Povah (1952)\, an English Correspondence Grandmaster and International Master. He is the author of several opening books.\nJesus Nogueira (1957)\, a Cuban Grandmaster and coach who won 5 times the Cuban Chess Championship.\nAnna Zatonskih (1978)\, is a Ukrainian-born American International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is a four-time U.S. Women’s Champion\, as well as a former Ukrainian Women’s Champion.\nMarcin Dziuba (1983)\, a Polish Grandmaster.\nVeronika Schneider (1987)\, a Hungarian Women Grandmaster. \nDEATHS  \nJohn Lindsay McCutcheon (28.05.1857-1905)\, US businessman\, chess amateur and generous patron of the game. The McCutcheon Variation of the French Defence is named after him who after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 played the new move 4…Bb4 and won convincingly against World Champion Wilhelm Steinitz\, in a simul in New York back in 1885. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1926 The Hungarian CF organized the 1st FIDE problem-solving tournament with 74 registered participants.\n1950 In Denmark at the FIDE GA\, the new FIDE President Folke Rogard from Sweden welcomed all the delegates and those who were going to work with him for the next years.\n1971 USSR won the 18th World Student Team Championship in Mayaguez\, Puerto Rico.\n1997 T. Shaked (USA) and H. Hunt (ENG) won the World Junior Championships for Boys and Girls in Zagan\, Poland.\n2014 In Plovdiv\, Bulgaria\, V. Gunina (RUS) became the 2015 Women’s European Individual Champion. \nWORLD EVENTS\n\n1203 The Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault. The Byzantine emperor Alexios III Angelos flees from his capital into exile.\n1429 Hundred Years’ War: Charles VII of France is crowned the King of France in the Reims Cathedral after a successful campaign b yJoan of Arc.\n1717 King George I of Great Britain sails down the River Thames with a barge of 50 musicians\, where George Frideric Handel’s Water Music is premiered.1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III of Russia.\n1902 Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo\, New York.\n1918 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg\, Russia.\n1936 Spanish Civil War: An Armed Forces rebellion against the recently elected leftist Popular Front government of Spain starts the civil war.\n1945 World War II: The main three leaders of the Allied nations\, Winston Churchill\, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin\, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.\n1948 The South Korean constitution is proclaimed.\n1955 Disneyland is dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim\, California.\n1996 TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island\, New York\, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes\, killing all 230 on board.\n2006 The 7.7 Mw Pangandaran tsunami earthquake severely affects the Indonesian island of Java\, killing 668 people\, and leaving more than 9\,000 injured.\n2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17\, a Boeing 777\, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Najdorf Mem Open A 2015"]\n[Site "Warsaw POL"]\n[Date "2015.07.17"]\n[Round "8.9"]\n[White "Volokitin\, Andrei"]\n[Black "Bajarani\, Ulvi"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[ECO "C18"]\n[WhiteElo "2654"]\n[BlackElo "2515"]\n[PlyCount "54"]\n[EventDate "2015.07.10"]\n\n1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qc7 7. Qg4 f5 8. Qg3\nNc6 9. Ne2 Kf7 10. h4 Nge7 11. h5 h6 12. Qf3 Qa5 13. Kd1 Qa4 14. Qf4 b6 15. Rb1\nBa6 16. Bb2 Rac8 17. g4 cxd4 18. gxf5 Nxf5 19. Ng3 Nce7 20. Bh3 Bd3 21. Qd2 Be4\n22. Nxe4 dxe4 23. cxd4 Rhd8 24. Bxf5 Nxf5 25. Bc3 Qc4 26. Rb3 Nxd4 27. 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