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SUMMARY:November 26
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nA good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.- Rudolf Spielmann\nBIRTHS \nCharles Moehle (1859-1898)\, an American player who was one of the operators of the Ajeeb.\nHeinz Gerhart Gunderam (1904-1992)\, a German Master known for playing unorthodox chess openings.\nSamuel Reshevsky (1911-04.04.1992)\, an American Grandmaster who was considered as a chess prodigy. He was an eight-time winner of the U.S. Chess Championship and one of the strongest world players from the mid-1930’s to late 1950’s.\nNicolai Pushkov (1946)\, a Russian Grandmaster who won the 2012 European Senior championship.\nTom Wedberg (1953)\, a Swedish Grandmaster who became the Swedish Champion in 2000.\nAbraham Kupchik (25.03.1892-1970)\, an American Master born in France. At the 1935 Olympiad\, he won the individual bronze medal and team gold medal.\nSarunas Sulskis (1972)\, a Lithuanian Grandmaster who won the Lithuanian Championship on five occasions.  Lithuania.\nBaadur Jobava (1983)\, the best Georgian Grandmaster since a decade.\nIvan Cheparinov (1986)\, aBulgarian Grandmaster who won three times the Bulgarian championship then became Topalov’s second for many years.\nMartyn Kravtsiv (1990)\, a Ukrainian Grandmaster who tied for first in the 2015 Ukrainian Chess Championship.\nJulia Kochetkova (1981)\, a Slovakian Woman Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nMax Euwe (20.05.1901-1981)\, a Dutch Grandmaster\, mathematician\, author\, FIDE president and chess administrator. He was the fifth World Champion. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1965 Candidates Final Match in Tbilisi\, Boris Spassky beat Mikhail Tal 7-4.\n1988 The FIDE GA admitted the federations of Nepal and Vietnam as full members.\n2001 In Moscow\, 128 men and 64 women participated at the World Championships organized in a prestigious venue inside the Kremlin. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1789 A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as proclaimed by President George Washington at the request of Congress.\n1863 United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day\, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. (Since 1941\, it has been on the fourth Thursday.)\n1917 The National Hockey League is formed\, with the Montreal Canadiens\, Montreal Wanderers\, Ottawa Senators\, Quebec Bulldogs\, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.\n1918 The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a “union of the people”\, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.\n1922 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.\n1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth’s shop in London\, United Kingdom\, killing 168 people.\n1949 The Constituent Assembly of India adopts the constitution presented by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar.\n1950 Korean War: Troops from the People’s Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch’ongch’on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir)\, ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.\n2000 George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida’s electoral votes by Katherine Harris\, going on to win the United States presidential election\, despite losing in the national popular vote.\n2003 The Concorde makes its final flight\, over Bristol\, England. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \n
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