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SUMMARY:May 1
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nFischer’s strength\, among other things\, was his ability to evolve the most efficient plan for the middlegame right after the opening.- Boris Spassky\nBIRTHS \nAlexander Tolush ( (1910-03.03.1969)\, a Soviet Grandmaster\, a journalist who was the main coach of Boris Spassky.\nIosif Dorfman (1952)\, French Grandmaster\, coach and author born in Ukraine\, USSR Champion 1977 and 1998 French Champion\, second of Kasparov in 1984-87.\nAlexander Ivanov (1956)\, American Grandmaster born in Russia. Co-winner of the 1995 U.S. Championship and America Continental Champion in 1998 and 2000.\nLeonid Yurtaev (1959-02.06.2011)\,  the first Kyrgyz player to receive the Grandmaster title.\nVladimir Sergeev (1964)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster and author.\nZiaur Rahman (1974) Bangladeshi chess Grandmaster (1993) graduated from the University of Dhaka. He was Bangladesh champion fourteen times.\nMisa Pap (1979) Serbian Grandmaster and coach living in Germany.\nRuud Janssen (1979)\, a Dutch Grandmaster (2011).\nJean-Pierre Le Roux (1982)\, a French Grandmaster (2010) who finished second at the French Championship in 2007.\nJonathan Hawkins (1983) English Grandmaster who shared first at the British Chess Championship 2014. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1841. England. The first weekly issue of the Chess Player’s Chronicle is published.\n1845 USA. The first American chess column appeared in the New York Spirit of the Times and was edited by C.H. Stanley.\n1928 Netherland. FIDE President A. Rueb wrote some suggestions on the future of the World Championship matches. He proposed to reduce the prize fund to SF 10.000 (in London 1922 the strongest players of the World including Alekhine and Capablanca decided to play for a minimum amount of US$ 10.000) and organize the match every 3rd year. The winner would be the first who won 4 games out of a maximum of 25 games. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1707 The Act of Union joins the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain\n1786 In Vienna\, Austria\, Mozart’s opera The Marriage of Figaro is performed for the first time.\n1840 The Penny Black\, the first official adhesive postage stamp\, is issued in the United Kingdom.\n1869 The FoliesBergère opens in Paris.\n1930 The dwarf planet Pluto is officially named.\n1931 The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.\n1945 World War II: A German newsreader officially announces that Adolf Hitler has “fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancellery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany”. The Soviet flag is raised over the Reich Chancellery\, by order of Stalin.\n1948 The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is established\, with Kim Il-sung as leader.\n1956 The polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk is made available to the public.\n1961 The Prime Minister of Cuba\, Fidel Castro\, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.\n1994 Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix at Imola.\n2004 Cyprus\, Czech Republic\, Estonia\, Hungary\, Latvia\, Lithuania\, Malta\, Poland\, Slovakia\, and Slovenia join the European Union.\n2011 Pope John Paul II is beatified by his successor\, Pope Benedict XVI.\n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Bradford"]\n[Site "Bradford"]\n[Date "1888.08.16"]\n[Round "14"]\n[White "Pollock\, William Henry Kraus"]\n[Black "Lee\, Francis Joseph"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "C14"]\n[PlyCount "55"]\n[EventDate "1888.05.01"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "17"]\n[EventCountry "ENG"]\n\n\n1. e4 e6 2. 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