QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Hans Kmoch (1894 – 13.02.1973), Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master (1950), International Arbiter (1951), and a coach, chess journalist and author.
André Muffang (1897-01.03.1989) French International Master and an engineer who was French Champion in 1931.
Arthur Roycrowth (1929), English chess composer.
Slobodan Martinovic (1945-10.01.1915) Serbian Grandmaster.
Julio Kaplan (1950), is a Puerto Rican International Master who was World Junior Champion in 1967 and a software developer.
Julian Hodgson (1963), English Grandmaster who won four British Champion titles. Since 2003, he has not played competitive chess, instead teaching chess in schools.
Oleg Korneev (1969) Russian grandmaster who moved to Spain in 2012.
Reefat Bin – Sattar (1974) Bangladeshi Grandmaster.
Dmitry Svetushkin (1980), Moldovian Grandmaster who was the national champion in 2000.

DEATHS

Gosta Stoltz (09.05.1904-1963), Swedish grandmaster who played in 9 Olympiads and won three national championships.

CHESS EVENTS

1936 The FIDE GA accepted Bulgaria as a full member. Mexico, Uruguay, and Brazil were temporarily excluded due to unpaid dues. 29 federations were now members of FIDE.
1946 After six years of silence due to the World War and its misery, the Swiss Chess Federation organized the 17^th FIDE Congress in Winterthur, Switzerland with only 8 federations out of 41 represented.
1971 Candidates Semi Final in Denver, R. Fischer (USA) repeated his magnificent performance by beating Bent Larsen (DEN) 6-0.
2009 By the decree of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, Karjakin adopted Russian citizenship. Later that year he transferred chess federations from Ukraine to Russia

WORLD EVENTS

306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I’s victory over Maxentius at theMilvian Bridge.
1567 – Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela.
1788 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his Symphony No. 40 in G minor (K550).
1866 – The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
1868 – Wyoming becomes a United States territory.
1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established.
1943 – World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
1957 – The Republic of Tunisia is proclaimed.
1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
1994 – Israel and Jordan sign the Washington Declaration, that formally ends the state of war that had existed between the nations since 1948.
2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.

GAME OF THE DAY