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SUMMARY:July 20
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nI think I would beat Tal pretty easily. Fischer would be more difficult\, but I think I could beat him too.- Magnus Carlsen\nBIRTHS \nGodfrey Heathcote (1870-1952)\, British chess composer.\nKenneth Samuel Howard (12.04.1882-1972) US chess composer how published few books about chess composition.\nLev Aronin (1920-03.10 1983)\, Soviet International Master who\, at the 18th USSR ch.\, scored 11/17 for a tie of 2nd–4th places\, behind only Paul Keres.\nDijana Dengler (1966)\, Bosnian player who is running a Chess Academy in Munich. She has participated in a dozen of Women Olympiads.\nMichael Richter (1978)\, German Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer.\nJosep Oms Pallisse (1973)\, Spanish Grandmaster who was 4 times champion of Andorra and got a gold medal for the best performance at second board at the 2006 Olympiad.\nDmitry Maximov (1983)\, Ukraine Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nJohann Lowenthal (15.07.1810-1876)\, Hungarian chess master and author who was living in London. He played and lost a match vs. P. Morphy. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1924 The results of the International Amateur Chess Tournament held in connection with the 8th Olympiad in Paris and terminated toward the end of July\, was of an outstanding interest to the chess world. The Olympic Tournament for national teams was limited to 18 teams The winner was Czechoslovakia with 31.5 points. The Latvian H. Mattison ranked first individually and earned the title ‘Amateur Champion of the 8th Olympiad.\n1924 FIDE was created. At the closing ceremony of the 8th Olympiad Chess Tournament. Mr\nPierre Vincent read “The Protocol of registration” which was unanimously adopted and signed by the delegates.\n1949 The President of FIDE\, Dr. Alexander Rueb\, after 24 years of devoted and almost unparalleled services for the benefit of international chess\, gave up his office and his place was taken by Folke Rogard of Sweden.\n1950 Following the proposal from the USA and Canada\, on one side and the proposal of the USSR on the other side\, FIDE welcomed the two German Chess Federations as full members: Federal Republic of Germany (Deutscher Schachbund) and Democratic Republic of Germany (Deutscher Sport Ausschuss).\n1958 The USSR team composed by M. Tal\, B. Spassky\, B. Gurgenidze\, A. Gipslis\, A. Nikitin\nand Y. Nikolaevsky won the 5th World Student Team Championship in Varna\, Bulgaria.\n1968 At the Candidates Semi-Final in Malmö\, Sweden\, B. Spassky USSR beat B. Larsen DEN 5½-2½.\n1979 M. Tempone (ARG) won the World Championship for Boys under the age of 17 in Belfort\, France.\n2007 In Cali Colombia\, Julio Granda of Peru and Marisa Zuriel of Argentina became the American Continental Champions for Men and Women. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1807 Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore\, the world’s first internal combustion engine\, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.\n1810 Citizens of Bogotá\, New Granada declare independence from Spain.\n1871 British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.\n1903 The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.\n1917 World War I: The Corfu Declaration\, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia\, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and the Kingdom of Serbia.\n1936 The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland\, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.\n1941 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin consolidates the Commissariats of Home Affairs and National Security to form the NKVD and names Lavrentiy Beria its chief.\n1944 World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.\n1960 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister\, the world’s first elected female head of government.\n1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11’s crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon (July 21 UTC).\n1974 Turkish occupation of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after a coup d’état\, organised by the dictator of Greece\, against president Makarios.1976 – The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.\n2015 The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \nBrilliancy prize in London 1886 \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "It London"]\n[Site "London ENG"]\n[Date "1886.07.20"]\n[EventDate "?"]\n[Round "8"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[White "Isidor Gunsberg"]\n[Black "Emil Schallopp"]\n[ECO "C65"]\n[WhiteElo "?"]\n[BlackElo "?"]\n[PlyCount "46"]\n\n1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Ne7 5.c3 c6 6.Ba4 Ng6 7.h4 h5\n8.Bg5 Qb6 9.Qe2 d5 10.exd5 Bg4 11.dxc6 O-O-O 12.cxb7+ Kb8\n13.O-O Qa6 14.Bc2 e4 15.Bxf6 exf3 16.Be5+ Nxe5 17.Qxe5+ Bd6\n18.Qe4 Rhe8 19.Qa4 fxg2 20.Rc1 Qb6 21.d4 Bf4 22.Na3 Bf3 23.Re1\nQf6 0-1\n				\n			You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.		\n	\n	\n	\n		jQuery(document).ready(function($) {\n						$.chessgame.navigationButtonClass  = 'rpbchessboard-jQuery-enableSmoothness';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameClass   = 'wp-dialog';\n			$.chessgame.navigationFrameOptions = {"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true};\n			var selector = '#' + "rpbchessboard-69ec8eda19926-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"It London\"]\r\n[Site \"London ENG\"]\r\n[Date \"1886.07.20\"]\r\n[EventDate \"?\"]\r\n[Round \"8\"]\r\n[Result \"0-1\"]\r\n[White \"Isidor Gunsberg\"]\r\n[Black \"Emil Schallopp\"]\r\n[ECO \"C65\"]\r\n[WhiteElo \"?\"]\r\n[BlackElo \"?\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"46\"]\r\n\r\n1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Ne7 5.c3 c6 6.Ba4 Ng6 7.h4 h5\r\n8.Bg5 Qb6 9.Qe2 d5 10.exd5 Bg4 11.dxc6 O-O-O 12.cxb7+ Kb8\r\n13.O-O Qa6 14.Bc2 e4 15.Bxf6 exf3 16.Be5+ Nxe5 17.Qxe5+ Bd6\r\n18.Qe4 Rhe8 19.Qa4 fxg2 20.Rc1 Qb6 21.d4 Bf4 22.Na3 Bf3 23.Re1\r\nQf6 0-1"\,"pieceSymbols":"native"\,"navigationBoard":"above"\,"showFlipButton":true\,"showDownloadButton":true\,"navigationBoardOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}\,"diagramOptions":{"squareSize":32\,"showCoordinates":true\,"colorset":"original"\,"pieceset":"cburnett"\,"animationSpeed":200\,"showMoveArrow":true}});\n		});\n	\n\n\n \n\n
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