Chess is my hobby. I have been playing chess since five years old. I like to play chess, to help chess, sponsoring chess, and attract my business friends to chess in order to develop and popularize chess. Everybody has a hobby. My hobby is chess, boxing and Buddhism.- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, 2010
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
