QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Andre Cheron (1895-12.09.1980), French chess player, endgame theorist, and a composer of endgame studies who was living in Switzerland.
Edgard Thelebi, (1928-04.05.1963) Lebanon composer and player.
Vitaly Tseshkovsky Russian Grandmaster who won the 1986 Soviet championship and the European Senior championships in 2009 and 2010.
Gudmundur Sigurjonsson (1947), Icelandic Grandmaster who won the Icelandic Chess Championship three times.

DEATHS

Yevgeny Zagoryansky (17-08.1910-1961) Soviet Master and author who drew one game in 1943 with Botvinnik.
Vladimir Simagin (21.06.1919-1968), Russian Grandmaster who was a coach of Vasily Smyslov and made many significant contributions to chess openings. He died of a heart attack while playing in the Kislovodsk tournament.
Nino Kirov Ivanov (09.02.1945-2008), Bulgarian Grandmaster who was Bulgarian Champion in 1978.

CHESS EVENTS

1954 Led by World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, the USSR team won the Olympiad for the second time. They scored 34/44 without a single defeat.
1993 At the end of the first half of the World Championship Match played in Amsterdam, A. Karpov was leading J. Timman with 7-5.
2000 FIDE provided an exhibition match at the Olympic Games in Sydney. Viswanathan Anand and Alexey Shirov played a rapid match, which finished 1-1.

WORLD EVENTS

1066 The Battle of Stamford Bridge marks the end of the Viking invasions of England.
1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
1790 Peking opera is born when the Four Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui
opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor’s eightieth birthday.
1849 Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (b. 1804)
1906 Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1975)
1944 Michael Douglas, American actor and producer
1955 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer and manager
1956 TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated.
1962 The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
1962 The North Yemen Civil War begins when Abdullah al-Sallal dethrones the newly crowned Imam al-Badr and declares Yemen a republic under his presidency.
1981 Belize joins the United Nations.

(Source: Wikipedia)

GAME OF THE DAY