QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Gyozo Forintos (1935), is a Hungarian Grandmaster and by profession, an economist. He was the national champion in 1968/69.
Morten Sand (1952), Norwegian chess amateur who was FIDE Lawyer and FIDE Vice-President.
Mirjana Medic (1964), Crotian Women Grandmaster.
Tomasz Markowski (1975), Polish Grandmaster, he won 5 times the title of Polish Champion.
Fabiano Caruana (1992), US Grandmaster, one of the best player in the world, who was the second best world ranked player and US Champion in 2016.
Jorge Cori (1995), Peruvian grandmaster who was World U14 and U16 Champions.

DEAD

Pierre Biscay ((14.09. 1905-1954), French problemist and president of the French Chess Federation. He has composed a few hundred chess problems.

CHESS EVENTS

1926 Only four teams registered at the first (unofficial)  Olympiad. Hungary won the tournament with 9 points out of 12.
1972 The team of USSR won the 19^th World Student Team Championship in Graz, Austria.
1991 Vladimir Kramnik USSR won the World Championship under-18 for Boys, organized in Guarapuava, Brazil.
1999 The World Chess Championship  opened in Las Vegas. 98 players registered for a US$ 3,000,000 prize fund.
2002 30.07 FIDEONLINE.COM presents the updated and enhanced rating service for all FIDE chess players and federations.
2009 30.07 In Tripoli, Libya, Amin Bassem from Egypt and Mona Khaled from Egypt became the African Champions for Men and Women.

CHESS EVENTS

1626 An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.
1729 Foundation of Baltimore, Maryland.
1811 Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.
1865 The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
1930 In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.
1932 Premiere of Walt Disney’s Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.
1962 The Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
1966 England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time.
1971 Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
1980 Vanuatu gains independence.
2003 In Mexico, the last ‘old style’ Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.
(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY