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SUMMARY:October 4
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nI am the best player in the world\, and I am here to prove it.- Robert Fischer\, 1971\nBIRTHS \nElena Fatalibekova Russian Women Grandmaster who is a three-time winner of the Women’s World Senior Chess Championship.\nTatiana Shumiakina (1965)\, Russia Women Grandmaster.\nBranko Tadic (1973)\, Serbian Grandmaster.\nBartlomiej Macieja (1977)\, Polish Grandmaster and coach. European Champion 2002 and twice Polish Champion. \nDEATHS \nLudwig Collijn (20.11.1878-1939) chairman of the Swedish Chess Federation from 1917 to 1939  and promoter of the Scandinavian defence.\nKenneth Harkness (1896-1972)\, American International Arbiter and writer. He introduced the Harkness rating system\, which was a precursor to the Elo rating system and one method of tiebreaks in Swiss systems. Harkness is in the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame.\nLev Aronin (20.07.1920-1982)\, Soviet International Master who\, according Bronstein\, was deserving the title of Grandmaster.\nFederico Alliney (03.09.1920-1991)\, Italian chess composer. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1964 Three players tied for first at the 5th Women’s Candidates Tournament in Sukhumi\, USSR. Kushnir (USSR)\, Lazarevic (YUG) and Zatulovskaya (USSR) scored 12½./17. A. Kushnir later won the play-off in Moscow.\n2015 In Baku\, Azerbaijan\, Sergey Karjakin (RUS) won both tie-break blitz games against Peter Svidler (RUS)  and became the winner of the 2015 World Cup. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1669 Rembrandt\, Dutch painter and illustrator died (b. 1606)\n1824 Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.\n1830 The Provisional Government of Belgium secedes from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.\n1853 The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.\n1957 Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1\, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.\n1965 Pope Paul VI arrives in New York City\, the first Pope to visit the Americas.\n1966 Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.\n1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow\, tanks bombard the White House\, a government building that housed the Russian parliament\, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.\n2006 Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange. \n
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