16. “By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don’t swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for their separate moves, but for their vision of chess, their way of thinking.- Anatoly Karpov
BIRTHS
Stojan Puc (09.04.1921-29.01.2004), a Slovenian Grandmaster who won four times the Slovenian Chess Championship.
Francek Brglez (1922-25.01.1997), a Slovenian Correspondence Grandmaster.
Janis Klovans (1935-05.10.2010), a Latvian Grandmaster who won the Latvian Championship nine times.
Svetlana Mednikova, Svetlana, RUS, b-day 09.04.1956. a Russian Woman Grandmaster who became the European Senior (+50) Women’s Champion in 2014 and 2015).
Zagrebelny, Sergey 1965
Jose Cubas (1981), a Paraguayan Grandmaster.
Khaled Mona (1994), an Egyptian Woman Grandmaster who became few times Women’s African Chess Champion, Egyptian Women’s Champion and Arab Women’s Champion.
Manisha Mohanty Kiran (1989) an Indian Woman Grandmaster.
DEATH
Emil Schallopp (01.08.1843-1919), a German Master and author. CHESS EVENT