QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Bernhard Hegermann (1878 – 10-08-1965), an German chess composer.
Diyan Kostadinov (21-01-1982), a Bulgarian International Master for chess composition.
Henrik Danielsen (1966), an Icelandic Grandmaster who was Icelandic Champion in 2009.
Ilia Smirin (1968), an Israeli Grandmaster born in Belarus who won the Israeli Championship in 1992, 1994 and 1999.
Artashes Minasian (1967), an Armenian Grandmaster who won the Armenian Chess Championship six times and the last USSR Chess Championship in 1991.
Stanislav Savchenko (1967), a Ukrainian Grandmaster who was a member of the Ukrainian national team at the 1996 and 1998 Olympiads.
Neil McDonald (1967), an English Grandmaster, coach, and writer.
Andrey Lunev (1969), a Russian Grandmaster.
Chunhong Ning (1968), a Chinese Woman Grandmaster and FIDE arbiter who won the women’s section of the World University Chess Championship in 1991.
Emre Can (1990), a Turkish Grandmaster who became Turkish Champion in 2011.

DEATH

Ramon Rey Ardid (20.12.1903- 1988), a Spanish Master who was a Spanish champion from 1929 to 1942.
Cristina Foisor (07.06.1967-2017), a Romanian International Master and Woman Grandmaster who was Women’s European vice champion in 2007.

CHESS EVENTS

1989 At the Candidates Semi-Final in Quebec, Canada, A. Yusupov (USSR) overcame K. Spraggett (CAN) 5-4.
2014. The founder of Microsoft, billionaire, computer programmer and philanthropist Bill Gates played a blitz chess game against World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen at the Skavlan Talk Show, a Norwegian TV program, in London.

WORLD NEWS

1522 Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope.
1790 Joseph Guillotine proposed a new, more humane method of execution: a machine designed to cut off the condemned person’s head as painlessly as possible.
1793 Prussia & Russia sign partition treaty, dividing Poland.
1793 Louis XVI of France is executed by the guillotine in Paris, following his conviction for high treason.
1899 Opel manufactured its first automobile.
1919 Irish militant nationalist party Sinn Fein creates its own parliament in Dublin and declares Ireland independent of Great Britain, sparking the Irish War of Independence.
1924 Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died at age 53 and a major struggle for power in the Soviet Union began.
1952 Nehru’s Congress party wins the general election in India.
1976 Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain & France.

(Source: Onthisday-timeline)

GAME OF THE DAY