QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1872-17.06.1906), an American Master, one of the best world player of the beginning of the 20th century but his poor health and other sicknesses prevented him from reaching the level of Lasker, Steinitz or Chigorin.
Haji Ardiansyah (1951), an Indonesian Grandmaster who won 5 times the Indonesian Championship.
Ron W. Henley (1956), an American grandmaster, a writer, and a financial analyst. For many years he worked as a second with Anatoly Karpov.
Viesturs Meijers (1965), a Latvian Grandmaster who was the Latvian Champion in 2000.
Krystyna Dabrowska (1973), a Polish Woman Grandmaster who won the World Girls U16 and U20 World Championships. ,
Tatiana Kononenko (1978), a Ukrainian International Master and Woman Grandmaster.
Rustam Kasimdzhanov (1979), an Uzbekistani Grandmaster, coach and author living in Germany. He is best known for winning the 2004 FIDE World Chess Championship 2004 in Tripoli.
Zbigniew Pakleza (1986), a Polish Grandmaster who is a multiple medalist at the Polish Junior Chess Championship.

DEATHS

Henry Wald Bettmann (14.01.1868-1935), an American composer.
Miguel Cuellar Gacharna (16.11.1916-1985), a Colombian International Master who won the Colombian championship eight times.
Erik Lundin (02.07.1904-1988), a Swedish Honorary Grandmaster. Swedish champion, he won four Olympic medals.
David Bronstein (19.02.1924-2006), a Soviet-Ukrainian Grandmaster and writer.  He came close to win the World Chess Championship when he drew the 1951 challenge match for the title of World Champion by a score of 12–12 with Mikhail Botvinnik, the reigning champion.
Győző Victor Forintos (30 July 1935-2018), a Hungarian Grandmaster, author and economist.

CHESS EVENTS

1984 The Soviet team won the Olympiad of Thessaloniki with 41 points. The Soviet also won the gold medal in the Women’s Olympiad.
1985 The FIDE President F. Campomanes accepted Karpov’s request to play the revenge match against Kasparov starting before the end of March 1986.

WORLD EVENTS

1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1560 – Charles IX becomes king of France.
1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.
1876 – The Brooklyn Theatre fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, New York.
1901 – Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company was born (d. 1966).
1926 – Claude Monet, French painter died (b. 1840).
1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
1952 – Great Smog: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
1957 – Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia.
1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
2012 – Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer died (b. 1920).2013 – Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate died (b. 1918).

(Source:Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY