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SUMMARY:October 21
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nChess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever\, when their are only wasting their time.- Bernard Shaw\nBIRTHS \nJosef Noa (1856-01.06.1903)\, a Hungarian Master and a judge by profession.\nAxel Akerblom (1904-05.06.1980)\, a Swedish International Judge for chess composition who composed more than 5\,000 problems in 2 or 3 moves.\nFilip Bondarenko (1905-08.02.1993)\, an Ukrainian player and chess composer.\nKveta Eretova (1926)\, a Czech Women Grandmaster who won 10 titles of Czech Women’s Champion.\nDashzegve Sharavdorj (1974)\, a Mongolian Grandmaster.\nPetr Tishin (1976)\, Russian Grandmaster.\nJoanna Dworakowska (1978)\, a Polish International Master and Woman Grandmaster who won the Polish women’s championship three times.\nEdmund Edmondson (13.08.1920-1982) an American amateur who was the USCF president and manager of R. Fischer for few years.\nAlexander Kovchan (1983)\, an Ukrainian Grandmaster.\nMaxime Vachier – Lagrave (1990)\, a French Grandmaster who won the World U20 Championship and was the second world best-ranked player in 2016.\nDvirnyy\, Danyyil (1990)\, an Italian Grandmaster who was Italian Champion in 2013. \nCHESS EVENTS \n2003 Russia won the European Team Championship organized in Plovdiv\, Bulgaria. Israel won its first ever silver medal in a team competition. Armenia won the Women Championship.\n2011  The FIDE Board approved the new memberships of Swaziland Chess Federation\, Comorian Islands Chess Federation\, and Guam Chess Federation.\n2012 21.10 In Mar del Plata Argentina\, Julio Granda Zuniga won the 7th Continental Championship of America. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1097 First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon\, Bohemund of Taranto\, and Raymond IV\, Count of Toulouse\, begin the Siege of Antioch.\n1520 Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.\n1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar: A British fleet led by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain.\n1879 Thomas Edison invents a workable electric light bulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park\, N.J. which was tested the next day and lasted 13.5 hours.\n1944 World War II: The first kamikaze attack. A Japanese fighter plane carrying a 200-kilogram (440 lb) bomb attacks HMAS Australia off Leyte Island\, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.\n1944 World War II: Battle of Aachen: The city of Aachen falls to American forces after three weeks of fighting\, making it the first German city to fall to the Allies.\n1945 Women’s suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.\n1981 Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece\, ending an almost 50-year-long system of power dominated by conservative forces.\n1983 The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299\,792\,458 of a second. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n
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