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SUMMARY:October 18
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nSome people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game\, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless.- Magnus Carlsen\nBIRTHS \nEero Bonsdorff (1921-03.09.2004) Finnish chess composer and player.\nRodriguez\, Amador (1957)\, Cuban grandmaster and FIDE Trainer who won 3 Cuban championships.\nAntonio Fernandes (1962)\, Portuguese Grandmaster who won 15 championships of Portugal.\nDiana Darcia (1977)\, a Georgian Woman Grandmaster .\nOlexandr Bortnyk (1996)\, an Ukrainian Woman Grandmaster who won the World Girls U18 championship in 2014. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1978 In Baguio\, Viktor Korchnoi sent a letter to the Deputy Arbiter Mr. Filip:\n“I don’t resume the 32nd game. But I’m not going to sign the score sheet of the game because it has been played under absolutely illegal conditions. I don’t consider this game valid. The match is not finished. I reserve the right to complain to FIDE on the intolerable Soviets’ behavior\, a hostility of the organizers\, a lack of activity on the part of the Arbiter.” Anatoly Karpov remained the World Champion.\n1989 At the Candidates Semi-finals in London\, Anatoly Karpov beat Arthur Yusupov (USSR) 4½-3½ and Jan Timman (NED) beat Jonathan Speelman (ENG) 4½-3½. The prize fund sponsored by Pilkington Glass LTD was SFR 200.000 for each match.\n1999 Dennis De Vreugt (NLD) and Regina Pokorna (SVK) were European Junior Champions among boys and girls in Patras\, Greece .\n2012 In Eilat\, Israel\, SOCAR Azerbaijan\, and Monte-Carlo became  the winners of the European Club Cup for men and women. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1009 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre\, a Christian church in Jerusalem\, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah\, who hacks the Church’s foundations down to bedrock.\n1867 United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.\n1898 The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.\n1922 The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium\, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.\n1945 The USSR’s nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.\n1954 Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.\n1991 The Supreme Council of Azerbaijan adopts a declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.\n2003 Bolivian gas conflict: Bolivian President Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada\, is forced to resign and leave Bolivia. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n  \n
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