QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Paul Keres (1916-05.06.1975), an Estonian Grandmaster and chess writer who was was among the world’s top players from the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s but never reach the final stage of the World Chess Championship.
Ivan Georgiev Radulov (1939), a Bulgarian Grandmaster who won four times the Bulgarian Championship.
Reynaldo Vera (1961), a Cuban Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer who was Cuban Champion in 1997 and 2001.
Sergey Ionov (1962), a Russian Grandmaster.
Sasikiran Krishan (1981), an Indian Grandmaster who won few national championships and the Asian Individual championship in 2003.
Luke McShane, Luke(1984), an English’s leading Grandmaster who won the 1992 World U10 Championship. He was the youngest-ever British player to achieve both the IM title (at age 13) and the GM title (age 16).
Aleksander Mista (1983), a Polish Grandmaster who was three times Polish Junior Champion.
Vitaly Teterev (1983), a Belarus Grandmaster.

DEATH

Eero Book (09.02.1910-07.01 1990), a Finnish Honorary Grandmaster, engineer and author who was five-time Finnish Champion.
Harry Golombek (1911-07.01 1995), an English Honorary Grandmaster, journalist and author of many famous chess books, including ‘A history of Chess’ and few on World Chess Championships.
Elaine Pritchard Saunders (07.01.1926-2012) an English Woman International Master who was World Junior Women’s Champion in 1936 and 1937 and won few British Women’s Championships.

CHESS EVENTS

1910. Austria. At Vienna, Emanuel Lasker and Karl Schlechter drew the first game of a match counting for the World Chess Championship.

WORLD EVENTS

1325 Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal.
1598 Boris Godunov seizes Russian throne after the death of Feodor I.
1782 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia.
1797 The modern Italian flag is first used.
1822 Liberia colonized by Americans.
1934 “Flash Gordon” comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts.
1894 William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
1940 Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1959 The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
1980 Indira Gandhi voted back into power in India
1989 Prince Akihito is crowned 125th Emperor of Japan after the death of his father, Hirohito.
1993 The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated with Jerry Rawlings as President.
2015 Two gunmen commit mass murder at the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing twelve people and injuring another eleven.

(Source: Wikipedia-Timeline)

GAME OF THE DAY