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SUMMARY:September 18
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nVasiukov hadn’t won a single game against me for 59 years and then suddenly won. I can’t call it shame. Shame or no shame\, it’s a pity that he won…- Viktor Korchnoi \, 2012\nBIRTHS \nGerald Hertneck (1963)\, a German Grandmaster and coach.\nMeng-Kong Wong (1963)\, a Singapore Grandmaster who was Asian Junior Champion in 1979.\nCurt Hansen (1964)\, a Danish Grandmaster who won the European Junior Championship in 1982 and hold 6 titles of Danmark Champion.\nAndrey Zhigalko (1985)\, a Belarus Grandmaster (1985) who won three Belarusian Chess Championships\, the 2003 European Under-14 Championship\, and the 2006 European Under-18 Championship.\nMiranda Mikadze (1989)\, a Georgian Woman Grandmaster.\nNodirbek Abdusattorov (2004)\, an Uzbekistani chess prodigy who became Grandmaster in 2018. World Under-8 Champion in 2012 and Asian U10 Champion in 2014. \nDEATH \nFrank Anderson\, (03.01.1928-1980)\, a Canadian International Master and writer who won two titles of national champion in 1953 and 1955. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1939 For the 7th time in a row Vera Menchik who played this time under the citizenship of England\, won the Women’s World Chess Championship with the score 18 out of 19.\n2011 Hou Yifan from China won the Shenzhen FIDE Women’s Grand Prix.\n2014 In Linares\, Spain\, Alex Bachmann (PAR) became the 2014 Iberoamericano Champion. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth\, and final\, voyage.\n1714 George I\, the first Hanoverian king\, arrives in Great Britain after becoming king on August 1st.\n1739 The Treaty of Belgrade is signed\, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.\n1793 The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.\n1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)\n1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 day\, 75% of the city destroyed and 12\,000 killed\n1851 First publication of The New-York Daily Times\, which later becomes The New York Times.\n1872 King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.\n1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10\,000 people in Hong Kong.\n1922 Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.\n1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.\n1934 The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.\n1961 U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\n1962 Burundi\, Jamaica\, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.\n1964 North Vietnamese Army begins infiltration of South Vietnam.1973 – The Bahamas\, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.\n1976 Mao Zedong’s funeral takes place in Beijing\n1981 Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.\n1982 Christian militia killed six hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.\n1990 Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations. \n(Source: Wikiepdia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n\n\n \n\n\n	\n				[Event "Candidates Tournament"]\n[Site "Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade"]\n[Date "1959.09.18"]\n[Round "8"]\n[White "Tal\, Mihail"]\n[Black "Smyslov\, Vassily"]\n[Result "1-0"]\n[ECO "B10"]\n[PlyCount "51"]\n[EventDate "1959.09.07"]\n[EventType "tourn"]\n[EventRounds "28"]\n[EventCountry "CRO"]\n[Source "ChessBase"]\n[SourceDate "1999.07.01"]\n\n1. e4 c6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 e5 4. Ngf3 Nd7 5. d4 dxe4 6. Nxe4 exd4 7. Qxd4 Ngf6 8.\nBg5 Be7 9. O-O-O O-O 10. Nd6 Qa5 11. Bc4 b5 12. Bd2 Qa6 13. Nf5 Bd8 14. Qh4\nbxc4 15. Qg5 Nh5 16. Nh6+ Kh8 17. Qxh5 Qxa2 $2 18. Bc3 Nf6 19. Qxf7 $3 Qa1+ 20.\nKd2 Rxf7 21. Nxf7+ Kg8 22. Rxa1 Kxf7 23. Ne5+ Ke6 24. Nxc6 Ne4+ 25. Ke3 Bb6+\n26. 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