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February 6
February 6, 2016
QUOTE OF THE DAY
” Chess is most certainly not my life.”- Tony Miles
BIRTHS
Bozidar Kazic (06.02.1921-07.05.1996), a Yugoslav player, International Arbiter, author and a journalist.
Miso Cebalo (06.02.1945), a Croatian Grandmaster and Senior FIDE Trainer who became World Senior Champion in 2009.
Antonio Antunes (1962) a Portuguese Grandmaster and national Champion.
Leonid Milov (1966), a Unkrainian Grandmaster.
Hans Tikkanen (1985), a Swedish Grandmaster who won the Swedish championship in 2011.
DEATHS
Ludek Pachman (11.05.1924-2003) a Czech Grandmaster who was seven times champion of Czechoslovakia. He was a prolific journalist and the writer of over 80 books.
CHESS EVENTS
1991 Candidates’ Match round 1 in Wijk aan Zee, Holland, V. Korchnoi SUI beat G. Sax HUN after a tie-break. (4-4, 1½-½).
1991 Candidates’ Match round 1 in Wijk aan Zee, Holland, after the tie-break A. Yusupov USSR beat S. Dolmatov USSR (4-4, 2½-1½).
1991 Candidates’ Match round 1 in Wijk aan Zee, Holland, after the tie-break A. Yusupov USSR beat S. Dolmatov USSR (4-4, 2½-1½).
WORLD EVENTS
1649 The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Great Britain, by the Parliament of Scotland.
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1911 Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople, Turkey.
1918 British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
1919 The first day of the Weimar Republic which, because of its support of the Treaty of Versailles, does not receive proper allegiance from the German nation.
1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg and Franz von Papen end the Prussian parliament.
1935 “Monopoly” board game goes on sale for 1st time
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI.
1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
2000 Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore.
1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York to start a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1833 Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece.
1911 Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople, Turkey.
1918 British women over the age of 30 get the right to vote.
1919 The first day of the Weimar Republic which, because of its support of the Treaty of Versailles, does not receive proper allegiance from the German nation.
1933 German President Paul von Hindenburg and Franz von Papen end the Prussian parliament.
1935 “Monopoly” board game goes on sale for 1st time
1952 – Elizabeth II becomes queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms upon the death of her father, George VI.
1958 – Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of the overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
2000 Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
GAME OF THE DAY
