QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Ferenc Herpai (1910-16.11.1994), Hungarian chess composer.
Dragutin Sahovic (1940-12.11.1995), Yugoslavian player who worked with Chess Informant and develop the ECO code.
Leonid Yudasin (1959), Israeli Grandmaster born in Russia and now living in New York.
Serik Temirbayev (1961), Kazakh Grandmaster.
Sergey Kasparov (1968), Belarus Grandmaster and writer.
Niina Koskela (1971), Norwegian Women Grandmaster born in Finland.
Radek Kalod (1978), Czech Grandmaster who played the 2006 Olympiad.
Sergey Kayumov (1981), Uzbek Grandmaster who disappeared from international chess in 2010.
Ferenc Berkes (1985), a three-time Hungarian Champion.
Marin Bosiocic (1988), Croatian player who played many years for the national team.
Petar G. Arnaudov (1986), Bulgarian Grandmaster and writer who played more than 100 tournaments.
Marin Bosiocic (1988), Croatian Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Jacobus Johannes Ebben (11.01.1875-1961), Dutch composer who composed 250 problems.
Charles Pelle (1965), French chess composer.
Vladimir Pachman, 16.04.1918-1984), Czech Grandmaster for Chess Composition and writer.
Laszlo Szabo (19.03.1917-1998), Hungary, he was the best player in Hungary for nearly 20 years.
Igor Kurnosov Igor (30.05. 1985-2013), Russian Grandmaster who was hit and killed by a car.
Oganes Danielian (03.01.1974-2016), Armenian Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1938 FIDE confirmed the full admission of Costa Rica and Puerto Rico. At the request of Hungary, France, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Italy, Argentina and Great Britain, the FIDE GA agreed to reconsider the membership of Germany (GDDB).
1959 Carlos Bielicki of Argentina won the 5^th World Junior Championship in Munchenstein, Switzerland.
1965 Candidates Semi-Final Match in Bled, Tal (USSR) beat B. Larsen (DEN) 5½-4½.
1981 S. Conquest ENG won the 5^th World U16 Championship in Embalse, Argentina.
1989 The FIDE GA approved the creation of the Presidential Board to exercise, in  the emergency, the rights of the General Assembly, Central Committee or Executive Council in between their respective meetings.
1994 M. Taimanov (RUS) won for the second time the World Senior Championship organized in Biel, Switzerland.
2008 In Kazakhstan, The World Blitz Championship was won by GM Leinier Dominguez of Cuba who was undefeated with 11.5 points.

WORLD EVENTS

1786 Mont Blanc on the French – Italian border is climbed for the first time by Jacques Balmat and Dr. Michel-Gabriel Paccard.
1863 American Civil War: Following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis (which is refused upon receipt).
1908 Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers’ first public flight.
1929 The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1963 Great Train Robbery: In England, a gang of 15 train robbers steals £2.6 million in bank notes.
1967 The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
1974 President Richard Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announces his resignation from the office of the President of the United States effective noon the next day.
1990 Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.

GAME OF THE DAY