QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Carlos Guimard (1913-11.09.1998), an Argentine Grandmaster who was Argentine Champion in 1937.
Florin Gheorghiu (1944), a Romanian Grandmaster who was the best Romanian players for few decades and beat R. Fischer in 1966.
Jesus Diez de Corral (1933-19.02.2010), a Spanish Grandmaster who was Spanish Champion in 1955 and 1965.
Igor Lutsko (1962), a Belarus Grandmaster
Miodrag Savic (1977), a Serbian Grandmaster who won the 2002 Serbian Championship.
Ante Saric (1984), a Croatian Grandmaster.
Xue Zhao (1985), a Chinese Grandmaster who won the World Under-12 Girls Championship in 1997 and the World Under-14 Girls Championship in 1999.
Vladimir Romanenko (1985), a Belarus grandmaster who is living in New York.
Borki Predojevic (1987), a Bosnian Grandmaster who was European Champion U-12 in 1999 and European U-14 in 2001.
Robin Swinkels (1989) a Dutch Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

2004 Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia became in Dresden, the European Women’s Champion 2004.
2015 In Sochi Russia, at the Women’s World Chess Championship  Mariya Muzychuk from Ukraine defeated Natalia Pogonina from Russia (the final score is 2.5-1.5) and became the 15th World Champion.

WORLD EVENTS

1199 King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
1385 John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
1841 U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become President upon William Henry Harrison’s death.
1869 Celluloid is patented.
1889 George Eastman begins selling his Kodak flexible rolled film for the first time
1896 In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated,
1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany
1945 World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
1974 The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Waterloo”,
1992 The Bosnian War begins.
1992 Microsoft announced Windows 3.1, upgrading Windows 3.0
1994 The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
2004 Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.

GAME OF THE DAY