QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Victor Goglidze (1905-15.12.1964), the first Georgian International master.
Charles Bent (1919-28.12.2004), an English chess composer.
Bernhard Kagan (15.08.1866-1932), a German chess player, writer, publisher, editor, and organizer.
Henri Delaire (16.08.1860-1941), French player, chess composer and author. He was the first president of the French chess federation.
Vlastimil Jansa (1942), was born in Prague, Czech Grandmaster and coach who won three titles of champion of Czechoslovakia.
Tamar Khmiadashvili (1944), a Georgian Woman Grandmaster who won four titles of Senior Women’s World Champion.
Valery Chekhov (1955), a Russian Grandmaster who became the World Junior Champion  in 1975.
Vesna Misanovic (1968), a Bosnian Woman Grandmaster who is living and coaching in Germany.
Ruslan Irzhanov (1976), aKazakh Grandmaster who is not active since 2004.
Vladimir Malakhov (1980), a Russian Grandmaster who was a member of the gold medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship 2009.
Thanh Tu Le (1985), Vietnamese Woman Grandmaster.
Angel Arribas Lopez (1993), Spanish Grandmaster.

DEATH

Johannes Donner (06.07.1927-1988), a Dutch chess Grandmaster and writer who won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958.

CHESS EVENTS

1975 Nona Gaprindashvili (USSR) defeated Nana Alexandria (USSR) in Tbilisi, USSR and retained her title as Women’s World Champion.
1985 Ms. Anupuma Abhyanka (IND) won the 3^rd Asian Women’s Championship in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2011 In Rijeka Croatia, the new World Senior Champions were  Vladimir Okhotnik from France and Galina Strutinskaya from Russia.
2011 Mark Lang, a German FIDE Master, with an ELO rating around 2300, set a new world blindfold record. The exhibition in Sontheim, Germany took a little more than 21 hours. Of the 46 games, he scored 34½ points, a very good winning percentage of 75% (+25, =19, -2).

WORLD EVENTS

176 Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of “Imperator” and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
1095 Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1895 At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
1896 Also sprach Zarathoustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
1942 World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.
1999 The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand’s history.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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