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SUMMARY:May 2
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY\n\nOf chess it has been said that life is not long enough for it\, but that is the fault of life\, not chess.- Irving Chernev\nBIRTHS \nArpad Vajda (1896-25.10.1967) a Hungarian Master who was Hungarian Champion in 1928.\nVladimir Raicevic (1949)\, a Serbian Grandmaster.\nJaime Sunye Neto\, Jaime\,(1957)\, a Brazilian Grandmaster and coach who was the best national player in the 1980’s.\nRamon Pita (1963)\, a Cuban Woman Grandmaster who is a seven-time Women’s Cuban Champion.\nJayson Gonzales (1969)\, a Filipino Grandmaster who was vice champion of Philippines in 2016.\nIgor Nataf (1978)\, a French Grandmaster and coach who won few French youth champion titles.\nLázaro Bruzón Batista (1982)\, a Cuban Grandmaster who was World Junior Champion\, two-time American Continental champion\, two-time Iberoamerican champion and five-time Cuban champion.\nSvetlana Cherednichenko (1984)\, a Ukraine Woman Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nIsidor Gunsberg (02.11.1854-1930)\, an English Master born in Budapest\, published 104 problems in the ‘Daily Telegraph’ in 1915. Famous for his Gunsberg counter attack\, defense\, and variation.\nOlaf Barda (17 .08.1909-1971)\, a Norwegian International Master who was the first Norwegian awarded an International title. \nCHESS EVENTS \nYugoslavia. For his first participation among the leading players\, G. Kasparov (16)\, still unrated\, finished the international tournament of Banja Luka ahead of U. Anderson\, J. Smejkal\, and T. Petrosian. His first rating will be 2545. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1729 Catherine the Great (d.1796)\, (Catherine II)\, empress (czarina) of Russia (1762-1796)\, was born.\n1887 Hannibal W. Goodwin patented celluloid photographic film.\n1919  The first U.S. air passenger service started.\n1936 “Peter and the Wolf\,” a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev\, had its world premiere in Moscow.\n1945 The Soviet Union announced the fall of Berlin and the Allies announced the surrender of Nazi troops in Italy and parts of Austria.\n1997 Tony Blair\, whose new Labor Party crushed John Major’s long-reigning Conservatives\, became at age 44 Britain’s youngest prime minister in 185 years.\n2000 In Armenia Pres. Robert Kocharian fired Prime Minister Aram Sarkisian and his government\n2012 The Hungarian parliament chose Janos Ader (52)\, a close ally of PM Viktor Orban\, to be country’s new president.\n(Source: Timeline) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "St Petersburg preliminary"]\n[Site "St Petersburg"]\n[Date "1914.05.02"]\n[Round "8"]\n[White "Blackburne\, Joseph Henry"]\n[Black "Nimzowitsch\, Aaron"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "A00"]\n[PlyCount "83"]\n[EventDate "1914.04.21"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "11"]\n[EventCountry "RUS"]\n1. e3 d6 2. f4 e5 3. fxe5 dxe5 4. Nc3 Bd6 5. e4 Be6 6. Nf3 f6 7. d3 Ne7 8. Be3\nc5 9. Qd2 Nbc6 10. Be2 Nd4 11. O-O O-O 12. Nd1 Nec6 13. c3 Nxe2+ 14. Qxe2 Re8\n15. Nh4 Bf8 16. Nf5 Kh8 17. g4 Qd7 18. Nf2 a5 19. a3 b5 20. Rad1 Rab8 21. Rd2\nb4 22. axb4 axb4 23. c4 Ra8 24. Qf3 Ra2 25. g5 g6 26. Ng4 gxf5 27. Nxf6 Nd4 28.\nQf2 Qc6 29. Nxe8 Qxe8 30. Bxd4 exd4 31. exf5 Bd7 32. Re1 Qf7 33. Qh4 Ra8 34.\nRf2 Bc6 35. Qg4 Re8 36. Rxe8 Qxe8 37. Re2 Qd7 38. Re6 Ba8 39. g6 hxg6 40. Rxg6\nQh7 41. Qg3 Qh5 42. 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