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SUMMARY:October 16
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nFischer’s strength\, among other things\, was his ability to evolve the most efficient plan for the middlegame right after the opening.- Boris Spassky\nBIRTHS \nHermann von Gottschall 1862-07.3.1933)\, a German player\, author and the editor of the  Deutsche Schachzeitung.\nMoritz Henneberger (1878-07.03.1959)\, a Swiss Master and chess composer who was 5 times Swiss Champion.\nVsevolod Rauzer (1908-29.12.1941)\, a Soviet-Ukrainian Master\, Champion of Ukraine in 1933\, known for his great contributions of the Sicilian Defence.\nOlga Ignatieva\,  Olga\, (1920-1999)\, a Soviet Woman Grandmaster who was married to Soviet Grandmaster David Bronstein.\nJohn Shaw (1968)\, a Scottish Grandmaster and author who was 3 times Champion of Scotland.\nKrasimir Rusev\, (1983)\, a Bulgarian Grandmaster.\nAbhijeet Gupta (1989)\, an Indian Grandmaster who won three titles of the Commonwealth Chess Champion. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1960 The 14th Olympiad is taking place in Leipzig\, East Germany. For the first time\, R. Fischer played board one of the US team and M. Tal\, as the new World Champion\, played board one of the USSR team.\n1960 InHungary\, Janos Flesh set up a new blindfold display record in Budapest. Against 52 opponents\, Flesch had White on 40 boards and Black on 12\, finishing up with 31 wins\, 18 draws\, and 3 losses in 12 hours.\n1974 Between October 23\, 1973\, when he lost a game in a Soviet championship\, and October 16\, 1974\, when he lost to Kirov at the Novi Sad tournament\, Mikhail Tal had a string of 95 tournament games without a loss (46 wins and 49 draws).\n2005 The new World Champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria received a standing ovation at the awards ceremony of the World Championship tournament in San Luis\, Argentina. \nWORLD EVENTS  \n690 Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire.\n1384 Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland\, although she is a woman.\n1923 The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother\, Roy Disney.\n1934 Chinese Communists begin the Long March; it ended a year and four days later\, by which time Mao Zedong had regained his title as party chairman.\n1939 World War II: First attack on British territory by the German Luftwaffe.\n1940 Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.\n1944 Wally Walrus\, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil\, debuts in the The Beach Nut\, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.\n1949 Nikos Zachariadis\, leader of the Communist Party of Greece\, announces a “temporary cease-fire”\, effectively ending the Greek Civil War.\n1964 China detonates its first nuclear weapon.\n1968 Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.\n1973 Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.\n1978 Karol Wojtyla is elected Pope John Paul II after the October 1978 Papal conclave\, the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.\n1984 Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Alekhine op"]\n[Site "Moscow"]\n[Date "1992.??.??"]\n[Round "?"]\n[White "Ehlvest\, Jaan"]\n[Black "Smirin\, Ilia"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "B32"]\n[WhiteElo "2635"]\n[BlackElo "2555"]\n[PlyCount "47"]\n[EventDate "1992.10.??"]\n[EventType "swiss"]\n[EventRounds "9"]\n[EventCountry "RUS"]\n1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qb6 5. Nb5 a6 6. Be3 Qa5+ 7. N5c3 e6 8.\nNd2 b5 9. a4 b4 10. Nc4 Qc7 11. Nd5 exd5 12. exd5 Nd8 13. Qe2 d6 14. Bb6+ Qe7\n15. Nxd6+ Kd7 16. Ne4 Bb7 17. O-O-O f5 18. Nc5+ Ke8 19. d6 Qxe2 20. Bxe2 Nf6\n21. Bxd8 Bxg2 22. Bxf6 Bxh1 23. Bh5+ g6 24. 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