June 1

Born

Al-Modiahki, Mohamad (1978) Qatari GM (1998). Top player of Qatar for many years and Arab Champion, he is now the organizer of the Qatar Open.

Guidarelli, Laurent (1981) GM (2014). French Junior Champion in 2001. Coach and teacher.

Khotenashvili, Bela (1988) Georgian GM (2013). World Girls U16 Champion in 2001 and Georgian Women Champion in 2012. A solid member of the Georgian Women’s Olympic team.

Laylo, Darwin (1980) Filipino GM (2007). Champion of Philippines in 2004 and 2006.

Shamkovich Leonid (1923-22.04.2005) was a Russian-born American Grandmaster and chess writer.

Shaposhnikov, Evgeny (1981) Russian GM 2004. World U12 Boys champion in 1993.

Short, Nigel D (1965) English GM (1984) and journalist. He defected from the FIDE World Championship cycle in 1992 to play the PCA World Chess Championship Match against GarryKapsparov in London in 1993. He is living in Greece.

Suba, Mihail (1947) Romanian GM (1978). Author and coach. Three times national champion, he is now living in Spain.Share first at the World Senior Championship in 2008.

Timoshenko, Georgy (1966) Ukrainian GM 1994. Coach. Champion of Moscow in 1988.

L’Ami, Alina (1985) Romanian WGM and IM. World U10 Girls Champion in 1995 and European U18 Girls Champion in 2002. Married to the Dutch GM Erwin L’Ami.

Sedina, Elena (1968) Ukrainian-Italian WGM IM. Ukrainian Women’s Champion in 1988 and in 1990. She plays for Italy since 2004.

Dead

Savon Vladimir (1940- 2005) Ukraine GM 1973 best known for his stunning result at the 1971 USSR championship where he took first place, undefeated and 1.5 points ahead of a 21-player field that included world champions VassilySmyslov, Mikhail Tal and, Anatoly Karpov

CHESS EVENTS

1967. USCF produces a prototype of the international Elo rating based on a formula developed by Prof.A. Elo. Robert Fischer is leading the list together with Boris Spassky at 2670 following by Tigran Petrosian.

1971 Candidates Quarterfinal Match in Las Palmas, Bent Larsen of Denmark beat Wolfgang Uhlmann of East Germany 5½-3½

WORLD EVENTS

193 – The Roman emperor DidiusJulianus is assassinated.

1792 – Kentucky is admitted as the 15th state of the United States.

1796 – Tennessee is admitted as the 16th state of the United States.

1918 – World War I: Western Front: Battle for Belleau Wood: Allied Forces under John J. Pershing and James Harbord engage Imperial German Forces underWilhelm, German Crown Prince.

1922 – The Royal Ulster Constabulary is founded

1979 – The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.

2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed.