QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Bror Larsson (1907-31.10.1968),  Swedish chess composer.
Weiqi Zhou, (1986), Chinese Grandmaster.
Diego Valerga (1971), Argentine Grandmaster.
Everaldo Matsuura (1970), Brazilian Grandmaster who won the national championship in 1991.
Samuel L. Shankland (1991), US Grandmaster who was US Junior Champion in 2010. A member of the national team since 2014.

DEATHS

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), French player, he is better known as a painter.
Frantisek Zita (09.11.1909-1977), Czech Master who won the individual silver medal at the Buenos Aires Olympiad in 1939.
Vladimir Bron (14.09.1909-1985), Ukrainian a top composer of endgame studies.

CHESS EVENTS

1979 M. Tal USSR, L. Polugaevsky USSR were the qualifiers from the Riga Interzonal. Adorjan won a tie-break match vs. Ribli HUN to become the last qualifier.
1981 The World Championship Match between A. Karpov USSR and V. Korchnoi SUI opened in Merano, Italy. The first to win six games would hold the  title.
1988 Mephisto (ENG) won the World Micro Computer Championship. Hitech was the first computer program to beat an IGM in a match played at the rate of 40 moves in 2 hours. Its victim was the US GM A. Denker who  lost 3½-1½.
1996 The FIDE GA approved new titles of International FIDE Organizer and FIDE Instructor.
2008 In Beijing, the 1st World Mind Sports Games was organized in October. FIDE participated in this event in cooperation with FIDE’s partners in IMSA.

WORLD EVENTS

1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans.
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe’s political map after the defeat of Napoleonthe previous spring.
1827 – Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1946 – Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
1949 – The People’s Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 – First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1969 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).