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SUMMARY:October 31
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nThere is no room for gallantry in chess.- Irving Chernev\nBIRTHS \nAdolf Schwarz (1836-25.10.1910)\, an Austria-Hungarian Master born in Slovakia.\nOttmar Weiss\, (1860-28.04.1942)\, Austrian composer. born in the Czech Republic.\nAlexander Alekhine (1892-24.03.1946)\, a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion. He is considered one of the greatest chess players ever.\nIivo Nei (1931)\, an Estonian International Master\, a teacher\, and coach of Boris Spassky.\nMilorad Knezevic (1936-30.03.2005)\, a Serbian Grandmaster.\nKatarina\,  Jovanovic-Blagojevic (1943)\, Yugoslavian Woman GranYugoslavian was three times Yugoslav women’s champion.\nTomas Petrik (1980)\, a Slovakian Grandmaster\, Slovak Champion in 2005 and 2006.\nAlexander Grischuk (1983)\, a Russian Grandmaster and Russian Champion in 2009. The winner of the World Blitz Chess Championships of 2006\, 2012 and 2015.\nDinara Saduakassova\, (1996)\, Kazakh Woman Grandmaster. \nDEATHS \nClare Benedict (1870-1961)\, an American writer and chess patron who was living in Switzerland.\nBror Larsson (01.10.1907-1966)\, a Swedish chess composer.\nAlexander Zaitsev (15.06.1935-1971)\, a Soviet Grandmaster who finished first equal with Lev Polugaevsky in the 1968-69 USSR championship. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1959 31.10 The 4th Candidates Tournament was organized in the cities of Bled\, Zagreb and Belgrade\, Yugoslavia. The new Soviet star Mikhail Tal of USSR won the tournament ahead of Keres. Robert Fischer of USA didn’t play as well as he had hoped\, finishing only 6th. and lost to Tal 4-0. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1864 Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.\n1876 A monster cyclone ravages India\, resulting in over 200\,000 deaths.\n1918 World War I: Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.\n1922 Benito Mussolini is made Prime Minister of Italy\n1926 Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that develops after his appendix ruptures.\n1961 In the Soviet Union\, Joseph Stalin’s body is removed from Vladimir Lenin’s Tomb.\n1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and nearly 10\,000 Sikhs are killed.\n2003 Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi\, marking an end to Mahathir’s 22 years in power.\n2011 The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as Seven Billion Day. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Tilburg Fontys"]\n[Site "Tilburg"]\n[Date "1998.10.31"]\n[Round "8"]\n[White "Anand\, Viswanathan"]\n[Black "Kortschnoj\, Viktor"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "A34"]\n[WhiteElo "2795"]\n[BlackElo "2625"]\n[PlyCount "37"]\n[EventDate "1998.10.23"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "11"]\n[EventCountry "NED"]\n[EventCategory "18"]\n[SourceTitle "EXT 1999"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1998.11.10"]\n\n1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 c5 5. cxd5 cxd4 6. Qxd4 Nxd5 7. e4 Nxc3 8.\nQxc3 Nc6 9. a3 Bd7 10. Be2 Rc8 11. O-O Na5 12. Qd3 Ba4 13. Qxd8+ Rxd8 14. Be3\nNb3 15. Bd1 b5 16. Bxb3 Bxb3 17. Rfc1 e5 18. Nxe5 a6 19. 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