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SUMMARY:September 25
DESCRIPTION:QUOTE OF THE DAY \nI’ve been playing chess professionally for 35 years! It’s a long time\, and when people can still say that they enjoy my chess\, that’s great.- Nigel Short\, 2016\nBIRTHS \nAndre Cheron (1895-12.09.1980)\, French chess player\, endgame theorist\, and a composer of endgame studies who was living in Switzerland.\nEdgard Thelebi\, (1928-04.05.1963) Lebanon composer and player.\nVitaly Tseshkovsky Russian Grandmaster who won the 1986 Soviet championship and the European Senior championships in 2009 and 2010.\nGudmundur Sigurjonsson (1947)\, Icelandic Grandmaster who won the Icelandic Chess Championship three times. \nDEATHS \nYevgeny Zagoryansky (17-08.1910-1961) Soviet Master and author who drew one game in 1943 with Botvinnik.\nVladimir Simagin (21.06.1919-1968)\, Russian Grandmaster who was a coach of Vasily Smyslov and made many significant contributions to chess openings. He died of a heart attack while playing in the Kislovodsk tournament.\nNino Kirov Ivanov (09.02.1945-2008)\, Bulgarian Grandmaster who was Bulgarian Champion in 1978. \nCHESS EVENTS \n1954 Led by World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik\, the USSR team won the Olympiad for the second time. They scored 34/44 without a single defeat.\n1993 At the end of the first half of the World Championship Match played in Amsterdam\, A. Karpov was leading J. Timman with 7-5.\n2000 FIDE provided an exhibition match at the Olympic Games in Sydney. Viswanathan Anand and Alexey Shirov played a rapid match\, which finished 1-1. \nWORLD EVENTS \n1066 The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.\n1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.\n1790 Peking opera is born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui\nopera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor’s eightieth birthday.\n1849 Johann Strauss I\, Austrian composer (b. 1804)\n1906 Dmitri Shostakovich\, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975)\n1944 Michael Douglas\, American actor and producer\n1955 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge\, German footballer and manager\n1956 TAT-1\, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system\, is inaugurated.\n1962 The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.\n1962 The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.\n1981 Belize joins the United Nations. \n(Source: Wikipedia) \nGAME OF THE DAY \n
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