QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Johannes Kohtz (Alfred Wiedemann-1843-05.10.1918), German chess composer.
Arturo Carra (1882-1978), Italian chess composer.
Franz Ferdinand Palatz (1896-1945), German chess composer.
Frantisek Prokop (A.Sedlacek)-1901-21.09.1973), Czech player, chess composer and author.
Sergey Vsevolodovich Belavenets (1910 – 07.03.1942). Soviet player few times Moscow Champion who  was fighting for the Soviet army in the Second World War he was killed in battle in Novgorod in 1942.
Ralf Appel (1971), German Grandmaster.
Hannes Stefansson (1972), Icelandic Grandmaster who won 11 national titles.
Jha Sriram (1976), Indian Grandmaster.
Alexander Morozevich (1977), Russian Grandmaster who was ranked second in the world in 2008.
Qian Huang (1986), Chinese Women Grandmaster. She won the Chinese Women’s Chess Championship in 2012 and the Asian Women’s Chess Championship in 2013.
Yanira Vigoa Apecheche (1987) Cuban Women Grandmaster.

DEATHS

Salo Flohr (1908 1983), a leading Czech and later Soviet Grandmaster of the early 20th century who dominated many of the chess tournaments of the pre-WWII years, and at one point was considered a contender for the World Chess Championship.

CHESS EVENTS

1866. The first game of the first unofficial world championship is played in London between A. Anderssen and W. Steinitz.
1926 The FIDE  GA confirmed its acceptance of the 1922 London Protocol concerning the organization of the World Championship final match but refused to participate financially in the prize fund. The GA invited World Champion José Raul Capablanca to review this financial point with other Grandmasters. The GA did not recognize the World Champion and decided to organize the first FIDE Championship with a prize fund of SFR 5,000.
1927 The first official Chess Olympiad opened in London, with 16 national teams participating. 4 players per team and 1 reserve. A few applications (by Poland and the United Stated) were rejected due to overstepping the deadline. No distinction was made between professionals and amateurs.
1950 Following the title regulations approved in 1949, the FIDE GA, for the first time, granted Grandmaster titles to:
M. Botvinnik USSR, I. Boleslavsky USSR, I. Bondarevsky USSR, D. Bronstein USSR, Dr. O. Bernstein FRA, O. Duras CSR, M. Euwe NED, R. Fine USA, E. Grunfeld AUT, P. Keres USSR, A. Kotov USSR, B. Kostic YUG, G. Lowenfisch USSR, A. Lilienthal USSR, G. Maroczy HUN, J. Mieses ENG, M. Najdorf ARG, V. Ragozin USSR, A. Rubinstein BEL, S. Reshevsky USA, V. Smyslov USSR, L. Szabo HUN, F. Samisch FRG, G. Stahlberg SUI, S. Tartakower FRA and M. Vidmar YUG.
1978 In Baguio-city, Philippines, Karpov (USSR) played with Korchnoi (SUI) for the World Championship. This match was the first since 1948, in which the winner was the first player to win six games. At the same time, a rematch clause, which had been eliminated in 1963, was reinstated. The Chief Arbiter was L. Schmid (FRG). The prize fund was US$ 350,000 for the winner and US$ 200,000 for the loser.

WORLD EVENTS

1812 The Treaties of Orebro ends both the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Swedish Wars.
1914 The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
1925 Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf.
1944 World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
1968 Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.
1976 Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
1994 The bombing of the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Jewish Community Center) in Buenos Aires kills 85 people (mostly Jewish) and injures 300.
1994 Rwandan Genocide: The Rwandan Patriotic Front takes control of Gisenyi and north western Rwanda, forcing the interim government into Zaire and ending the genocide.
2013 The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

GAME OF THE DAY