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SUMMARY:July 31
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nFischer wanted to prove that all world championship games after his victory were prearranged. He did not convince me.- Vishy Anand\, 2008\nBIRTHS \nWilfred Paulsen (1828-06.02.1901)\, German Master an elder brother of Louis Paulsen who won the German chess congress at Cologne in 1867.\nNigel Davies (1960) Welsh Grandmaster born in England\, author and coach.\nAgnieszka Brustman (1962)\, Polish Women Grandmaster who was four times  the national champion and became European Junior Women’s Champion in 1980 and World Junior Women’s Champion in 1982.\nAlexandru Crisan Romanian (1962)\, former grandmaster and former president of the Romanian cf. After suspicion of cheating\, FIDE decided to erase his rating and to revoke his Grandmaster title.\nEvgeny Solozhenkin (1966)\, Russian Grandmaster.\nDejan Pikula (1969)\, Serbian Grandmaster.\nJacob Aagaard (1973)\, Danish-born Scottish chess grandmaster\, the 2007 British Chess Champion and the 2012 Scottish Chess Champion.\nYuniesky Quezada Perez (1984)\, Cuban Grandmaster and Cuba champion in 2008 and 2011. \nDEATHS \nFöldeák Walter Arpád (08.07.1917 – 2004)\, Hungarian chess writer \nCHESS EVENTS \n1937 3The 7th Olympiad opened in Stockholm\, Sweden\, with 19 teams. It was the first time that the Franch team didn’ t participate at an Olympiad.\n1947 A. O’Kelly (BEL) won the first European Zonal tournament at Hilversum\, Netherlands.\n1950 At the Candidates Final\, David Bronstein (USSR) beat Isaak Boleslavsky (USSR) 7½-6½ in Moscow and qualified to play against the World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik.\n1961 The team of USSR won the 8th  World Student Team Championship in Helsinki\, Finland\n1967 The team of USSR won the 14th World Student Team Championship in Harrachov\, Poland \nWORLD EVENTS \n30 BC Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian’s forces\, but most of his army subsequently deserts\, leading to his suicide.\n1498 On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere\, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.\n1588 The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.1655 – Russo-Polish War (1654–67): The Russian army enters the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania\, Vilnius\, which it holds for six years.\n1919 – German national assembly adopts the Weimar Constitution\, which comes into force on August 14.\n1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon\, with images 1\,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.\n1991 The United States and the Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty\, the first to reduce (with verification) both countries’ stockpiles.\n1992 Georgia joins the United Nations.\n2006 Fidel Castro hands over power to brother Raúl Castro.\n2007 Operation Banner\, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland\, and the longest-running British Army operation ever comes to an end.\n2012 Michael Phelps breaks the record set in 1964 by Larisa Latynina for the most medals won at the Olympics. \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Karlsbad"]\n[Site "Karlsbad"]\n[Date "1929.07.31"]\n[Round "1"]\n[White "Spielmann\, Rudolf"]\n[Black "Gruenfeld\, Ernst"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "D20"]\n[PlyCount "45"]\n[EventDate "1929.07.31"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "21"]\n[EventCountry "CZE"]\n[SourceTitle "HCL"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]\n\n1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. e4 c5 5. Nf3 cxd4 6. Nxd4 a6 7. Bxc4 Bd7 8.\nO-O Nc6 9. Nf3 Qc7 10. Qe2 Bd6 11. Rd1 Nge7 12. Be3 Ne5 13. Nxe5 Bxe5 14. g3\nBxc3 15. bxc3 Ng6 16. Bb3 O-O 17. Bd4 b5 18. Qe3 Bc6 19. h4 Qb7 20. h5 Ne7 21.\nBxg7 Kxg7 22. Qg5+ Ng6 23. h6+ 1-0\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-69e81a0c606dc-1" + ' .rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor';\n			$(selector).removeClass('rpbchessboard-chessgameAnchor').chessgame({"pgn":"[Event \"Karlsbad\"]\r\n[Site \"Karlsbad\"]\r\n[Date \"1929.07.31\"]\r\n[Round \"1\"]\r\n[White \"Spielmann\, Rudolf\"]\r\n[Black \"Gruenfeld\, Ernst\"]\r\n[Result \"1-0\"]\r\n[ECO \"D20\"]\r\n[PlyCount \"45\"]\r\n[EventDate \"1929.07.31\"]\r\n[EventType \"tourn\"]\r\n[EventRounds \"21\"]\r\n[EventCountry \"CZE\"]\r\n[SourceTitle \"HCL\"]\r\n[Source \"ChessBase\"]\r\n[SourceDate \"1999.07.01\"]\r\n\r\n1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. 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