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SUMMARY:October 17
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nPeter Svidler clearly needs to be more ambitious and take more risk. 12 draws out of 14 games\, I mean\, come on\, that’s not a Champion’s attitude there!- Anish Giri \nBIRTHS \nTassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818-27.07.1899)\, a German Master\, chess historian and theoretician. A founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades).\nHenri Weenink (1892-02.12.1931) a Dutch chess player\, a problem composer and an author.\nVenka Asenova (1930-29.12.1986)\, Bulgarian Woman Grandmaster.\nSvein Johannessen (1937)\, Norwegian International Master who won four Norwegian chess championships.\nZvonimir Mestrovic (1944-15.06.2016)\, a BosnianInternational Master.\nAndrew Muir (1958)\, a Scottish Grandmaster\, and GMC who was Scottish champion in 2007\nSteve Doyle\, (1959)\, an American player\, lawyer\, USCF president\, and FIDE officer.\nAlexander Raetsky (1961)\, a Russian Grandmaster and author.\nFabio Bellini (1969)\, an Italian International Master and a Professor of Mathematics.\nDmitriy Skorchenko (1983)\, Russian Grandmaster.\nFalko Bindrich (1990)\, a German Grandmaster At the age of 16\, he was the youngest German ever to achieve the grandmaster title.\nJue Wang (1995)\, a Chinese Women Grandmaster who the World Under-10 girls championship in 2005.\nBernadskiy\, Vitaliy\, (1995)\, Ukrainian Grandmaster \nDEATH \nJohann Nepomuk Berger (11.04.1845-1933) an Austrian chess master\, theorist\, endgame study composer\, an author\, and editor. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1956 Donald Byrne and Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century. Fischer beat Byrne and wins a Brilliancy prize (see game below).\n1990 Xie Jun CHN and A. Maric YUG were the joint winners of the Women’s Candidates’ tournament in Borzhomi\, USSR.\n2006 In Yerevan Armenia\, Zaven Andriasian of Armenia and Shen Yang of China became the World U20 Champions for boys and girls.\n2007 In Yerevan Armenia\, Ahmed Adly of Egypt and Vera Nebolsina of Russia became the U20 World Champions for boys and girls. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1558 Poczta Polska\, the Polish postal service\, is founded.\n1662 Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for 40\,000 pounds.\n1771 Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba\, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, age 15.\n1888 Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).\n1912 Bulgaria\, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire\, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.\n1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I.\n1931 Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.\n1933 Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States.\n1956 The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield\,in Cumbria\, England.\n1966 Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations.\n1979 Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.1989 – Peaceful Revolution: The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Third Rosenwald Trophy"]\n[Site "New York\, NY USA"]\n[Date "1956.10.17"]\n[EventDate "1956.10.07"]\n[Round "8"]\n[Result "0-1"]\n[White "Donald Byrne"]\n[Black "Robert James Fischer"]\n[ECO "D92"]\n[WhiteElo "?"]\n[BlackElo "?"]\n[PlyCount "82"]\n\n1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. Bf4 d5 6. Qb3 dxc4\n7. Qxc4 c6 8. e4 Nbd7 9. Rd1 Nb6 10. Qc5 Bg4 11. Bg5 Na4 {!} 12. Qa3 Nxc3\n13. bxc3 Nxe4\n14. Bxe7 Qb6 15. Bc4 Nxc3 16. Bc5 Rfe8+ 17. Kf1 Be6 {!! } 18. Bxb6 Bxc4+\n19. Kg1 Ne2+ 20. Kf1 Nxd4+ 21. Kg1 Ne2+ 22. Kf1 Nc3+ 23. Kg1 axb6 24. Qb4\nRa4 25. Qxb6 Nxd1 26. h3 Rxa2 27. Kh2 Nxf2 28. Re1 Rxe1\n29. Qd8+ Bf8 30. Nxe1 Bd5 31. Nf3 Ne4 32. Qb8 b5 33. h4 h5 34. Ne5 Kg7 35. Kg1 Bc5+ 36. Kf1\nNg3+ 37. Ke1 Bb4+ 38. Kd1 Bb3+ 39. Kc1 Ne2+ 40. Kb1 Nc3+\n41. 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