QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Wilfried Dorazil (1910-2009), Austrian player and arbiter who was a FIDE official for 20 years.
Alexander Kuznetsov (1913-01.07.1982), Russian chess composer and International Master.
Korchnoi Viktor (1931-06.06.2016). Outstanding Swiss Grandmaster born in Russia who played three World Championship final matches against A. Karpov.
Polgar, Judith (1976), Hungarian Grandmaster. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all-time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer.
Natalia Edzgveradze, (1975). Georgian Women Grandmaster who is coaching in Singapore.
Alexander Krapivin (1987). Russian Grandmaster.
Rinat Jumabayev, Kazakh Grandmaster (1989) who was the national champion in 2014.

DEATH

Sir George Alan Thomas (1881-1972), British champion in 1923 and 1934 and was also a famous tennis player.
Rudolf Teschner (16.02. 22-2006), German Grandmaster, journalist and author. He was the best German player in the early 1950s.

CHESS EVENTS

1925 The FIDE President Alexandre Rueb informed the Assembly that no answer was received from the International Olympic Committee concerning the FIDE request to include chess in the next Olympic games.
1930 The GA acknowledged the result of the World Championship match and congratulated Alexander Alekhine on his victory over Efim Bogoljubow. The GA was informed about the negotiations on a possible match between the World Champion and Jose Raul Capablanca and decided to postpone until the next Congress discussions on its involvement in the World Championship. French delegate, Marcel Duchamp, informed the GA that Alexander Alekhine was prepared to talk to FIDE.
1931 The GA accepted Estonia as a full member.
1933 the US team  won the Olympiad of Folkestone with 39 out of 56 points.
1933 Ms. Vera Menchik CSR won the Women’s World Tournament with a score of 100% (12/12) and became the Women’s World Champion for the 4^th time.

WORLD EVENTS

1793 Kingdom of Prussia re-conquers Mainz from France.
1829 In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter.
1881 The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
1903 The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
1914 Austria-Hungary issues a series of demands in an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia demanding Serbia to allow the Austrians to determine who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Serbia accepts all but one of those demands and Austria declares war on July 28.
1921 The Communist Party of China (CPC) launched the first time of founding National Congress, Communist party in China are established.
1936 In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
1940 The United States’ Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues a declaration on the U.S. non-recognition policy of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
1945 The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.
1952 The European Coal and Steel Community is established.
1952 General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing KingFarouk of Egypt.
1962 Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite.
1974 The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece’smetapolitefsi era.

GAME OF THE DAY