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SUMMARY:November 20
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nWhen I see the Berlin defence\, I am almost happy that I am not longer a top player!- Nigel Short\, 2016\nBIRTHS \nLudvig Collijn (1878-04.10.1939)\,  Swedish player\, author and chairman of the Swedish Chess Federation from 1917 to 1939.\nJose Sanz Aguado (1907-14.12.1969)\, a Spanish Master who was Spanish Champion in 1943.\nIsaak Linder (1920-01.11. 2015)\, a Russian chess historian and author of many books.\nGabriel Authier\, 1922-22.09.1991)\, a French chess composer.\nLev Polugaevsky (1934-30.08.1995)\, French-Soviet Grandmaster born in Belarus. He was one of the strongest players in the world from the late 1960s until the early 1980s.\nJorgen Moller (1873-1944)\, a Danish chess master who was twice a Nordic Champion (1899 and 1901).\nAlgimantas Butnorius (1946)\, Monaco Grandmaster born in Lithuania who was the 2007 World Senior Champion.\nYe Jiangchuan (1960)\, a Chinese Grandmaster and successful coach. He became the first ever Chinese player to cross the 2600 elo rating mark\nAndrei Kharlov (1968-15.06.2014)\, was a Russian Grandmaster.\nDarius Zagorskis (1969)\, a Lithuanian Grandmaster.\nAmir Bagheri (1978)\, an Iranian Grandmaster who was living for some time in France.\nAllan Stig Rasmussen (1983)\, a Danish Grandmaster.\nMarc T Arnold (1992)\, an American Grandmaster. \nDEATH \nFuji Matsumoto (1933-2003)\, a Japanese player who promote chess in Japan in the 1960’s and was President of the Japanese CF for few decades. FIDE officer. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1952 Ms. Elisaveta Bykova (USSR) won the Women’s Candidates Tournament with 11½/15 and qualified for the Women World Championship Match.\n1966 In Cuba\, without Botvinnik\, Smyslov and Keres but with Spassky\, Tal and Korchnoi\, USSR won the 17th Olympiad by a landslide 39½/52.\n2010 In Arco Italy\, Khmiadashvili Tamar from Georgia and Anatoly Vaisser from France became  the World Senior Champions. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1789 New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.\n1805 Beethoven’s only opera\, Fidelio premieres in Vienna.\n1945 Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.\n1947 Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten\, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh\, at Westminster Abbey in London.\n1952 Slánský trials: A series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.\n1959 United Nations General Assembly adopts the Declaration of the Rights of the Child; annual anniversary observed as Universal Children’s Day.\n1962 Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba\, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.\n1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel\, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem\, seeking a permanent peace settlement.\n1979 Grand Mosque seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages. The Saudi government receives help from Pakistani special forces to put down the uprising.\n1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.\n1992 In England\, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle\, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.\n1994 The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia\, ending 19 years of civil war. (Localized fighting resumes the next year.) \n(Source : Wikipedia) \n
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