QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Rudolf L’Hermet 1858-25.11.1945), a German player, and journalist.
Hermann Mattison (1884-1932), a Latvia champion and endgame composer who won the first World Amateur Championship in Paris in 1924. He died of tuberculosis at the age of 38.
Franz Drobny (01.12.1863-1924) an Austrian player and chess composer.
Lakhdar Mazouz (1942), an Algerian player, President of the Algerian chess federation and FIDE officer.
Miguel Quinteros (1947), an Argentine Grandmaster who won Argentine Chess Championship in 1966 at the age of 18.
Youssef el Ghazali (1957), an Egyptian International Master.
Stefan Kindermann (1959), an Austrian Grandmaster and writer who played few Olympiads for Germany and Austria and is running a Chess Academy in Munich.
Evgenij Miroshnichenko (1978), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who won the Ukrainian Chess Championship in 2003 and 2008.
Rafael Leitao (1979), a Brazilian Grandmaster and a six times Champion of Brazil who won the  U12 World Youth Chess Championship in 1991 and in the U18 Championship in 1996.
Mircea Parligras (1980), a Romanian Grandmaster and national champion in 2001 and 2016.
Emanuel Berg (1981), a Swedish Champion who became the Swedish Champion in 2009 and 2010.
Denis Khismatullin (1984), a Russian Grandmaster.
Tatjana Molchanova (1980), a Russian Woman Grandmaster.
Maksat Atabayev (1994), a Turkmenistan Grandmaster who is the best national rated player in 2017.

CHESS EVENTS

2002 In Botswana, Mabusela, Johannes of South Africa became the African U20 Champion.
2012 The City of Hoogeveen, Netherlands became the World Cities Chess Champion after beating Baku, Azerbaijan 2.5-1.5 in the final of the knockout tournament in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.
2013 In Al Ain (UAE), This year a record number of 1850 chess players from 120 countries of the world were taking part in the World Youth Championships. India was the biggest medal winner with 8 medals ahead of China 3 medals and Russia 3 medals.

WORLD EVENTS

1065 Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
1308 The reign of Emperor Hanazono of Japan begins.
1836 South Australia and Adelaide are founded.
1846 Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union.
1869 William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patented chewing gum.
1895 The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.
1912 The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
1923 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel (91), a French engineer (Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty), died.
1937 French Composer Maurice Ravel (62) died in Paris.
1946 The French declared martial law in Vietnam as a full-scale war appeared inevitable.
1972 Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, becomes the first President of North Korea.
2000 In Ghana runoff elections were held with sporadic violence. John Agyekum Kuffour won with 56.7% of the vote.
2005 In Cleveland an immigration judge renewed the order that John Demjanjuk (85), a retired auto worker accused of being a Nazi concentration camp guard at Sobibor in Poland (1943), be deported to his native Ukraine.
2014 Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.

(Source: Wikipedia and timeline.ws)

THE GAME OF THE DAY