QUOTE OF THE DAY

BIRTHS

Albert Becker (1896-07.05.1984), Austrian International Master. Captain of the German team and winner of a team gold medal in the 8th Chess Olympiad at Buenos Aires 1939, he along with all members of the German team decided to stay in Argentina when World War II broke out.
Nicolai Riumin (1908-1942), Soviet Master who won 3 Moscow championship. He died from tuberculosis during World War II in Omsk, Siberia.was born in Moskva, Russia.
Jorn Sloth was born in Sjorring (1944), Danish GMC and the eighth ICCF World Champion, 1975–80. He was the youngest player ever to win the Correspondence World Champion title.
Vera Peitscheva-Juergens, (1969), German Women Grandmaster.
Abraham Speijer (18.11.1873), Dutch Master who shared first at the 1909 Dutch championship.
Sergei Iskusnyh (1974), was born, Russian Grandmaster.
Zhang Zhong (1978) Singapore Grandmaster born in China. he was a twice the winner of the Chinese championship and the 2005 Asian championship.
champion.
Irina Sudakova, (1982), Russian Women Grandmaster.

DEATH

Abraham Speijer (18.11.1873-1956), Dutch Master who shared first with A. Olland at the 1909 Dutch championship.
Chaudé de Silans 1919 05.09 2001, French Women International Master (1950) who later received the title of Honorary Women Grandmaster. One of the first women to play in an Olympiad (1950).

CHESS EVENTS

1923 J.R. Capablanca received a challenge for the world title from A. Rubinstein. Later the champion will agree but the Polish master will never find the necessary fund.
1929 The World Championship match between A. Alekhine (FRA) and E. Bogoljubov (RUS) is open in Wiesbaden.
1971 Women’s Candidates Match in Bladel, Netherlands, N. Alexandria (URSS) beat Mrs Lazarevic (YUG) 5½-4½.
1980 The USSR team won the World Youth Team Championship in Mexico.
1991 V. Akopian (USSR) and N. Bojkovic (YUG) won the 1991 World Junior Championships for Boys and Girls organized at Mamaia.
2001 The FIDE Executive Board adopted the change of time control to 90 minutes for all the game plus 30 seconds incremental time from move one.
2001 The title of FIDE Trainer was approved by FIDE.

WORLD EVENTS

1666 Great Fire of London ends: Ten thousand buildings including St Paul’s Cathedral are destroyed, but only six people are known to have died.
1882 The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
1882 Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League football club from North London, is founded.
1914 World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1932 The French Upper Volta was broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
1944 Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg constitute Benelux.
1945 Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
1960 The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.
1960 Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) wins the gold medal in the light heavyweight boxing competition at the Olympic Games in Rome.
1972 Munich massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called “Black September” attacks and takes hostage 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. Two die in the attack and nine die the following day.
1980 The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world’s longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.

(Source Wikipedia)

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