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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM David Norwood (03-x-1968)
DESCRIPTION:We wish David Norwood all the best on his birthday\, \nDavid Robert Norwood was born in Farnworth\, Bolton\, Greater Manchester on October 3rd 1968 to an electrician. His mother’s maiden name was Mellor. \nMary Hopkin was still UK number one with “Those were the days” and would remain at number one for six weeks in total. \nDavid Norwood\nDavid read history at Keeble College\, Oxford before pursuing a successful business career (see below). \nDavid became an International Master in 1985 and a Grandmaster in 1989 and his peak FIDE rating (Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2545 in July 1994 at the age of 26. \nGM David Norwood\nDavid has a score of +2 against Viswanathan Anand\, +1 against Neil McDonald\, +2 against Keith Arkell and +2 against Mark Hebden. \nPreparing for David would have been fairly straightforward as he played almost the same opening with white and black playing 1.g3 (and less frequently\, 1.d4) and the Modern Defence although his did flick the Modern Benoni into the mix every now and then. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM8wGSBHi2c[/embedyt] \nAs well as moving to Oxford for University he was =1 at the 1988 (fifth) NatWest Young Masters with 6/9 (along with Adams and Kudrin) securing a GM norm : \nCrosstable for 1988 NatWest Young Masters\nIM David Norwood at the 1988 NatWest Young Masters. Photo by Tom Elek\nIn 1990 David became the first Grandmaster to play in the annual Varsity match. This was the 108th such encounter and David played on board one against Jeremy P Sharp of Downing College\, Cambridge. David first played in the 107th match in 1989 on board two below James Howell. David played one more time in 1991 scoring 2/3 from his three appearences. \nIM David Norwood at 1991 Varsity Match. Henry Gerald Mutkin (organiser and sponsor) is seated.\nAccording to FIDE David is registered with Andorra which appropriately (for DN) has Catalan as its national language. David has yet to win the Andorran Championship. He first played in the Andorran Open in 2011 and came close to winning in 2013 with 7/9. Since 2017 David has not played in a FIDE rated event. \nA powerful Unisys personal computer being present to Bolton-born GM David Norwood by Alva Rodger (centre)\, general manager of Unisys banking district ad Dr Brian Bailey\, managing director of Infolink\, a credit referencing agency.\n[pgn]\n[Event “London NWYM”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1988.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Norwood\, David”]\n[Black “Kudrin\, Sergey”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A46”]\n[WhiteElo “2470”]\n[BlackElo “2545”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “1988.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “10”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 009”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1989.04.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1989.04.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,71\,21\,37\,21\,38\,34\,18\,55\,44\,39\,35\,22\,28\,98\,37\,49\,47\,20\,7\,0\,0\,32\,39\,55\,\n60\,65\,46\,41\,49\,33\,43\,31\,54\,57\,53\,59\,51\,59\,71\,79\,83\,108\,90\,97\,74\,78\,70\,105\,127\,\n127\,124\,133\,135\,127\,133\,164\,127\,127\,127\,156\,227\,245\,173\,192\,177\,177\,82\,346\,346\,\n29991\,29992\,29993\,29994]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 b5 {This is more common\nthan you might imagine. There are 3500+ games with 3…b5 in MegaBase 2020.} 4.\nBg2 Bb7 5. O-O Be7 (5… c5) 6. Bg5 (6. a4) 6… c5 7. c3 Na6 8. Na3 Qb6 9. c4\nb4 10. Nb5 cxd4 11. Qxd4 $146 {[#]} (11. a4 {Pantaleev – Malakhatko\, 2009.})\n11… Qxd4 12. Nfxd4 Bxg2 13. Kxg2 O-O 14. Rfd1 Rfc8 15. Rac1 Nc5 16. Bf4 {\nPreparing Nd6 should black play a6.} a6 17. Nd6 Bxd6 18. Bxd6 Nfe4 19. Nb3 $1 {\n[#] with the pawn on g3 the dark squared bishop is perhaps less valuable.} Nxd6\n(19… Na4 $6 20. Bxb4 Nxb2 21. Rd4 $16) 20. Rxd6 $16 Na4 (20… Ra7) 21. Rxd7\nNxb2 22. c5 Na4 23. c6 Nc3 24. Na5 Nxa2 25. Rc4 $18 g6 26. c7 Kg7 27. Nb3 g5\n28. Nc5 (28. Nd4) 28… Kg6 29. Nd3 b3 30. Ne5+ Kf6 31. f4 (31. Rc5) 31… gxf4\n32. gxf4 (32. Nxf7 $1 {is crushing} Kg7 33. Nd8+ Kf6 34. Rxf4+ Kg6 35. Nxe6 {\nand its mate in 5.}) 32… Kg7 33. Rxf7+ Kg8 (33… Kh8) 34. f5 $1 b2 35. Rg4+\nKh8 36. Rgg7 {and Black resigned} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDavid is an active director of Genomics Plc\,  and 4D Pharma Plc. \nDavid Norwood\nAs a writer David wrote a chess column for The Daily Telegraph and has written : \nThe Usbourne Book of Chess Puzzles\, David Norwood\, 1992\nWinning with the Modern\, David Norwood\, B.T. Batsford Ltd.\, London\, 1994\nGrandmaster Meets Chess Amateur\, Steve David and David Norwood\, 1995\nThe Usbourne Guide to Advanced Chess\, David Norwood\, 1995\nFrom Wikipedia : \n“David Robert Norwood (born 3 October 1968) is an English businessman who runs an investment fund that finances spin-off companies from Oxford University science departments. He is also a chess grandmaster\, chess writer\, former captain of the English chess team and now represents Andorra at chess.” \n“The son of an electrician\, Norwood graduated with a history degree from Keble College\, Oxford University in 1988 before joining city investment bank Banker’s Trust in 1991.” \nPeter Wells\, Gary Lane\, John Emms and David Norwood\n“Norwood cofounded Oxford Sciences Innovation\, a £600m investment company dedicated to funding deep science from Oxford University\, and was its CEO from 2015 to 2019. Formerly he was founder of IP Group plc\, a fund that invested in spinoffs from Oxford University’s Chemistry department\, in exchange for 50% of the revenues from the licensing of the department’s intellectual property. \nIn 2017\, Norwood donated £1.9M to Keble College’s future hub for innovation at Oxford University.” \nFrom The Times of London\, November 20th\, 2008 by Ian King\, Business Editor : \n“Entrepreneur David Norwood swaps City for sun\, sea and writing \nDavid Norwood resigned all his directorships yesterday and is heading to a tiny island in the Bahamas\, where he will write the novel \nOne of the City’s best-known entrepreneurs resigned all his directorships yesterday – to move to a desert island\, where he plans to become a writer. \nIM David Norwood and IM Aldo Haik (France) taking a drink at the bar during Cappelle-Le-Grande\, 1988. Photograph by Caroline Winkler\nDavid Norwood\, a former chief executive of the stockbrokers Evolution and Beeson Gregory\, resigned from the boards of a number of companies\, including Oxford Advanced Surfaces\, ORA Capital\, Oxeco and Plus-listed Green Chemicals. He has also given up his role as special projects director at IP Group\, the intellectual property commercialisation company\, which he started eight years ago and floated on AIM in 2003. Shares of all five companies fell after the news was released.” \nGM David Norwood
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Andrew Greet (05-x-1979)
DESCRIPTION:IM Andrew Greet\nBCN wishes IM Andrew Greet best wishes on his birthday. \nAndrew Nicholas Greet was born on Friday\, October 5th\, 1979 in the cathedral city of Truro\, Cornwall and has resided in St. Austell\, Cornwall. “Message in a Bottle” by The Police held the number one spot in the UK singles chart (three weeks in total). \nAndrew attended Truro School leaving in 1998. \nAndrew became a FIDE Master in 2004 and an International Master in 2005. His peak rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2456 in April 2016 at the age of 37. \nAndrew was British Under-18 Champion in 1996 at the age of 16 sharing the title with Oliver Rosten & Rohan Churm. In 1998 Andrew won the title outright. \nFrom 1998 – 2001 had a break from chess to study Psychology at The University of Kent in Canterbury. \nIn 2005 he scored a record breaking 11/11 in the Four Nations League playing for Hillsmark Kingfisher. By now\, Andrew had moved to Glasgow and had changed his FIDE federation from England to Scotland. \nAndrew was joint winner (with Simon Knott) of the Southend Open in 2006. \nIn April 2009 Andrew joined Quality Chess in Sales and Marketing which led to the position of editor. \nIn 2010 Andrew became Scottish Champion outright. \nIn 2017 won outright the Dundee grandmaster tournament : here is the story of the tournament. \nIn 2018 he played board one for Scotland in the 43rd Olympiad in Batumi. \nAndrew is a successful martial artist specialising in a a discipline known as Brazilian Jiujitsu\, which is a form of grappling. \nHere is an article (by Dave Regis) concerning a simultaneous display at Exeter Chess Club in 2010 \nFrom britishchess.co.uk : \n“He has a very friendly personality which works well when coaching\, and he has coached England juniors on foreign trips.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Wellington College op 6th”]\n[Site “Crowthorne”]\n[Date “2005.01.29”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Cox\, John J”]\n[Black “Greet\, Andrew N”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E25”]\n[WhiteElo “2311”]\n[BlackElo “2389”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[EventDate “2005.01.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2006”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2005.11.24”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2005.11.24”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,48\,16\,18\,18\,-23\,-3\,4\,22\,-49\,-29\,-30\,-13\,-22\,-32\,-14\,33\,-11\,50\,61\,53\,\n43\,49\,64\,64\,32\,85\,61\,91\,34\,46\,50\,50\,-93\,-104\,-202\,-191\,-191\,-191\,-204\,-241\,\n-411\,-559\,-557\,-570\,-552\,-635\,-671\,-680\,-687\,-724]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3\nBb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. dxc5 Qa5 9. e4 Ne7 10. Be3\nO-O 11. Qb3 Qc7 12. Nh3 e5 13. Nf2 Nec6 14. Nd3 (14. Rb1) 14… Na5 15. Qc2\n$146 (15. Qd5) 15… Be6 $14 {[#]} 16. c4 $2 (16. Nb4) 16… Nxc4 17. Bf2 Qa5+\n18. Ke2 Nc6 $19 19. g3 Rfd8 20. Bh3 Rxd3 $1 21. Qxd3 Rd8 22. Bxe6 Rxd3 23. Kxd3\nQd2+ 24. Kxc4 Qc2+ {and White resigned} 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0506 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “2005.10.23”]\n[Round “2.1”]\n[White “Greet\, Andrew N”]\n[Black “Rowson\, Jonathan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E11”]\n[WhiteElo “2428”]\n[BlackElo “2599”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “2005.10.22”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2007”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2006.11.23”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2006.11.23”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Hilsmark Kingfisher”]\n[BlackTeam “Guildford”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,4\,34\,34\,56\,30\,30\,18\,27\,41\,33\,44\,30\,19\,46\,34\,30\,28\,\n49\,28\,42\,44\,55\,28\,24\,11\,11\,20\,21\,17\,41\,34\,26\,44\,50\,34\,39\,35\,95\,86\,79\,63\,63\,27\,\n50\,58\,85\,90\,80\,81\,112\,84\,102\,105\,140\,93\,213\,100\,124\,68\,126\,167\,179\,184\,184\,188\,\n189\,209\,304\,301\,275\,248\,248\,246\,785\,802\,29991\,29992]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4\nBb4+ 4. Bd2 Qe7 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Bxd2+ 7. Nbxd2 d6 8. O-O a5 9. e4 e5 10. d5\nNb8 11. Ne1 h5 12. h4 Bg4 13. f3 Bd7 14. Qb3 b6 15. Qe3 Na6 16. b3 Nc5 17. Rc1\nc6 18. a3 cxd5 19. cxd5 Bb5 20. Rf2 O-O 21. Bf1 Qd7 22. b4 axb4 23. axb4 Na4\n24. Kh2 Bxf1 25. Nxf1 Nh7 26. Qd3 f5 27. exf5 Rxf5 28. Rfc2 Rf7 29. Ne3 b5 30.\nQg6 Nb6 31. Rc6 Ra2+ 32. N1g2 Rf6 33. Qxh5 e4 34. f4 Nc4 35. Nxc4 bxc4 36.\nR1xc4 Qa7 37. Qe8+ Rf8 38. Qxe4 Nf6 39. Qe6+ Kh8 40. Rc8 Qf2 41. Rxf8+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAndrew has written a number of publications as follows : \nPlay the Ruy Lopez\, Andrew Greet\, Everyman\, 2007\nDangerous Weapons 1.e4 e5\, Andrew Greet\, John Emms & Glenn Flear\, Everyman\, 2008\nStarting Out : The Accelerated Dragon\, Andrew Greet\, Everyman\, 2008\nBeating Unusual Chess Defences to 1.e4\, Andrew Greet\, Everyman\, 2011\nPlay the Queen’s Indian\, Everyman\, Andrew Greet\nIM Andrew Greet
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WIM Sabrina Chevannes (06-x-1986)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of WIM Sabrina L Chevannes (06-x-1986) \nWIM Sabrina Chevannes\,  4NCL\, 2014\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of GM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE (07-x-1933 30-xi-2021)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers GM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE who passed away on Tuesday\, November 30th 2021.\n\nIn the 1971 New Years Honours List Jonathan was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) The citation read “For services to Chess.”\n\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : (article by George Botterill)\n\n“Penrose is one of the outstanding figures of British chess. Yet many who meet him may not realize this just because he is one of the quietest and most modest of men. Throughout the late 1950s and the whole of the 1960s he stood head and shoulders above any of his contemporaries.\n\nSee caption below\n\nPress agency caption for photograph above\n\nHis extraordinary dominance is revealed by the fact that he won the British championship no less than ten times (1958-63 and 1966-69\, inclusive)\, a record that nobody is likely to equal in the future.\n\nAt his best his play was lucid\, positionally correct\, energetic and tactically acute. None the less\, there is a ‘Penrose problem’: was he a ‘Good Thing’for British chess? The trouble was that whilst this highly talented player eff0ectively crushed any opposition at\nhome\, he showed little initiative in flying the flag abroad. There is a wide-spread and justifiable conviction that only lack of ambition in the sphere of international chess can explain why he did not secure the GM title during his active over-the-board playing career.\n\nSee caption below\n\nPress agency caption for above photograph\n\nIt would be unjust\, however\, to blame Penrose for any of this. The truth is simply that he was not a professional chessplayer\, and indeed he flourished in\na period in which chess playing was not a viable profession in Britain. But even if the material awards available had been greater Penrose would almost certainly have chosen to remain an amateur. For he was cast in that special intellectual and ethical tradition of great British amateurs like H. E. Atkins\, Sir George Thomas and Hugh Alexander before him.\n\nTravel Chess2nd January 1951: British chess champions Jonathan Penrose and Leonard Barden ponder over a portable travel game in a restaurant. (Photo by Walter Bellamy/Express/Getty Images)\n\nHis family background indicates early academic inclinations in a cultural atmosphere in which chess was merely a game something at which one excelled through sheer ability\, but not to be ranked alongside truly serious work. It is noteworthy that Penrose\, unique in this respect amongst British chess\nmasters\, has never written at any length about the game. He has had other matters to concentrate on when away from the board\, being a lecturer in psychology. (His father\, Professor L. S. Penrose\, was a distinguished geneticist.)\n\nIM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE\n\nBeing of slight physique and the mildest and most amiable of characters\, it is probably also true that Penrose lacked the toughness and ‘killer instinct’\nrequired to reach the very top. Nervous tension finally struck him down in a dramatic way when he collapsed during play in the Siegen Olympiad of 1970. We\ncan take that date as the end of the Penrose era.\n\nJonathan PenroseChess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose pictured during a chess match\, circa 1960. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images))\n\nSince\, then though he has not by any means entirely given up\, his involvement in the nerve-wracking competitions of over-the-board play has been greatly reduced. instead he has turned to correspondence chess\, which is perhaps the ideal medium for his clear strategy and deep and subtle analysis. So Penrose’s career it not over. He has moved to another\, less stressful province of the kingdom of chess.\n\nIM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE\n\nFor the first game\, however\, we shall turn the clock right back to 1950 and the see the Penrose in the role of youthful giant killer.\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “Southsea”]\n[Site “Southsea”]\n[Date “1950.??.??”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Penrose\, Jonathan”]\n[Black “Bogoljubow\, Efim”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B56”]\n[Annotator “George Botterill & BCN”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “1950.??.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,31\,72\,53\,68\,72\,74\,26\,26\,35\,78\,54\,64\,49\,91\,81\,85\,45\,69\,69\,49\,55\,\n46\,30\,64\,74\,93\,97\,132\,124\,124\,98\,152\,152\,152\,76\,65\,59\,51\,64\,64\,64\,20\,20\,38\,14\,\n116\,159\,216\,216\,216\,223\,223\,223\,511\,570\,615\,900\,1224\,2338\,29993\,29994]} {\nJonathan was 17 years old when this game was played.} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4\ncxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nbd7 {A pretty rare continuation\, not hitting White’s\ncentre but maybe aiming for c5 at some point.} 6. g3 a6 7. Bg2 e6 8. O-O Be7 9.\nb3 (9. Be3) 9… Qc7 10. Bb2 O-O 11. Kh1 $146 {This was a novelty in 1950} (11.\na4 Rb8 12. a5 b5 13. axb6 Qxb6 14. g4 {was Dubov – Korobov\, 2017.}) 11… Rd8\n12. Qe2 $146 (12. f4 Nc5 {was Rayner – Arakhamia Grant\, 2001\, 0-1.}) 12… Nf8\n$2 {“With a knight on f8 I cannot be mated”\, as Larsen is fond of saying. But\nhere it is more important that Black loses control over e5.} (12… Bf8 {\nto be followed by …Rb8\, …b5 and …Bb7 seems a better scheme of\ndevelopment. With the rooks on d8 and b8 Black must beware of White’s little\ntactic e5 dxe5 Nc6 forking the rooks. But in most cases Black should get at\nleast one pawn and fair value for the exchange.}) 13. f4 $16 Rb8 14. Rad1 Bd7\n15. e5 (15. g4 d5 16. e5) 15… Ne8 {[#]} 16. Nf5 $1 {A familiar trick in the\nSicilian} Ng6 ({if} 16… exf5 17. Nd5 $18) 17. Nxe7+ Nxe7 18. Ne4 d5 19. Nd6\n$1 Qa5 $2 (19… Bc6) 20. Qh5 (20. g4) 20… Nxd6 21. exd6 Nf5 22. g4 Nxd6 {[#]\n} ({Of course not} 22… Ne3 $4 23. Qe5 $18 {with a double attack on g7 and e3}\n(23. Qg5 {is crushing also} g6 24. Qf6 d4 25. Bxd4 e5 26. fxe5 Nxg4 27. Qxf7+\nKh8 28. e6+ Ne5 29. Qf6+ Kg8 30. Bxe5 {and its mate in 6.})) 23. f5 $1 Qxa2 24.\nBe5 (24. fxe6 Bxe6 25. Qe5) 24… Ne8 {Giving up the exchange does not help\nmuch.} (24… Bb5 25. Rf2 {[%cal Gd1a1] threatening Ra1} Qa5 26. fxe6 {wins\nquickly}) 25. fxe6 Bxe6 26. Bxb8 Rxb8 27. Qe5 $1 Rc8 28. Bxd5 Nf6 29. Bxe6 Re8\n30. Bxf7+ Kxf7 31. Rxf6+ $1 1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (BT Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek :\n\n“British international master and ten times British Champion\, Penrose was born in Colchester and came from a chess-playing family.\n\nLionel Sharples Penrose\, FRS (11 June 1898 – 12 May 1972)\n\nHis father and mother both played chess and his father\, Professor Lionel Sharples Penrose\, in addition or being a geneticist of world-wide fame\, was a strong chess-player and a good endgame composer. Jonathan’s older brother Oliver\, was also a fine player.\n\nOliver Penrose FRS FRSE (born 6 June 1929) is a British theoretical physicist\n\nRoger Penrose won the Nobel prize for physics in 2020.\n\nRoger Penrose. Nobel Laureate\n\nJonathan learnt chess at the age of four\, won the British Boys championship at thirteen and by the time he was fifteen was playing in the British Championship in Felixstowe in 1949.\n\nPress agency caption for photograph above\n\nPress agency caption for photograph above\n\nA little reluctant to participate in international tournaments abroad\, he did best in the British Championship which he won a record number of times\, once more than HE Atkins. He won the title consecutively from 1958 to 1963 and again from 1966 to 1969.\n\nBoy Chess Champion. New York Times photo shows 14 year old J. Penrose 14 year old by chess champion of Britain\, in play at the British Chess Championships at Bishopsgate Institute today. He has had great success in the tournament so far\, beating men far above his age and experience. 2nd September 1948. Photograph by Reginald Webster\n\nPress agency caption for photograph above\n\nHe also played with great effect in nine Olympiads. Playing on a high board for practically all the time\, he showed himself the equal of the best grandmasters and indeed\, at the Leipzig Olympiad he distinguished himself by beating Mikhail Tal\, thereby becoming the first British player to defeat a reigning World Champion since Blackburne beat Lasker in 1899.\n\nARB Thomas and Jonathan Penrose at the Hastings Congress of 1950/1951\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-14 Final A”]\n[Site “Leipzig”]\n[Date “1960.11.08”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Penrose\, Jonathan”]\n[Black “Tal\, Mikhail”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A65”]\n[Annotator “Knaak\,R”]\n[PlyCount “77”]\n[EventDate “1960.10.28”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “DDR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Soviet Union”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “URS”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,77\,14\,29\,8\,5\,0\,0\,58\,58\,90\,90\,99\,98\,98\,98\,92\,41\,71\,54\,67\,47\,50\,50\,60\,\n17\,11\,11\,11\,29\,25\,-24\,26\,32\,78\,97\,133\,100\,113\,100\,96\,82\,124\,87\,113\,107\,150\,179\,\n179\,220\,220\,229\,229\,229\,269\,201\,201\,201\,201\,201\,206\,205\,252\,252\,252\,252\,308\,\n319\,432\,402\,479\,480\,534\,549\,866\,881\,888\,888\,895\,895] Jonathan Penrose war\nJahre lang einer der führenden englischen Spieler. 1979 spielte er seine\nletzten Partien\, die auch von der Mega Datenbank erfasst sind; seine\nSchachlaufbahn war damit aber noch lange nicht beendet\, denn nun stieg er im\nFernschach zur absoluten Weltspitze auf. Doch im Nahschach wird sein Name wohl\nfür immer mit dieser einen Partie von der Schacholympiade in Leipzig verknüpft\nsein. Die Sowjetunion war auf einem Triumpfmarsch sondergleichen – jedes\neinzelnen Match wurde gewonnen und bis zur letzten Runde gab es auch keine\neinzige Niederlage in einer Einzelpartie\, bis eben zu dieser.} 1. d4 $1 {\nPenrose war ein e4-Spieler und warf Tal nun aus der Vorbereitung.} Nf6 2. c4 e6\n3. Nc3 c5 {Tal will den vollen Punkt. Objektiv ist Ben-Oni aber leider\nminderwertig.} 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 g6 6. e4 d6 7. Bd3 Bg7 8. Nge2 O-O 9. O-O {\nIch spiele diesen Aufbau selbst und glaube an ihn. Weiß wird das Feld g4 mit\nh2-h3 schützen und steht dann schon zu f2-f4 bereit. Schwarz krankt an seiner\nRaumnot – ein Zug wie Bg4 steht hier nicht zur Verfügung.} a6 {Alternativen\nwie Na6-c7 und erst dann a6 sowie auch 9…b6 gelten heute als\naussichtsreicher. RR: Diese aus schwarzer Sicht pessimistische Einschätzung\ngilt seit dem Buch von John Watson über die Ben-Oni-Verteidigung nicht mehr.\nViel mehr scheint der Aufbau mit 9…a6 sogar am besten zu sein.} 10. a4 Qc7\n11. h3 Nbd7 12. f4 Re8 13. Ng3 c4 14. Bc2 Nc5 (14… Rb8 $1 15. Be3 Nc5 {\nist die Hauptvariante.}) 15. Qf3 (15. Be3 Nfxe4 16. Ncxe4 Nxe4 17. Bxe4 f5 18.\nQe2 fxe4 19. f5 $13) 15… Nfd7 ({Schwarz sollte} 15… Rb8 {spielen\, um\nmöglichst schnell b5 durchzusetzen. Nach} 16. e5 dxe5 (16… Nfd7 17. Nce4 Nxe4\n18. Nxe4 dxe5 19. f5 $36) 17. fxe5 Rxe5 18. Bf4 Nfd7 {erhält Schwarz Spiel für\ndie Qualität.}) 16. Be3 b5 17. axb5 Rb8 18. Qf2 axb5 {Das nun folgende\nBauernopfer ist zum Standardverfahren für diesen Stellungstyp und die ganze\nVariante mit Ld3 und Sge2 geworden.} 19. e5 $1 dxe5 20. f5 $1 (20. fxe5 Rf8 21.\nd6 Qc6 22. Nce4 Bxe5 $13) 20… Bb7 21. Rad1 Ba8 $2 ({Es gibt eine Grundregel\nbei dieser Bauernstruktur: Wenn Schwarz den “störenden” Bauern e5 zurückopfern\nkann\, sollte er es auch tun.} 21… e4 $1 {mit unklarer Stellung; Schwarz kann\nz.B. nach Bf4 immer ganz gut die Qualität opfern\, weil der Bg7 dann noch mehr\nzum Riesen wird.}) 22. Nce4 $16 {Ein Traumfeld für jeden Springer.} Na4 $6 {\nVerliert glatt.} 23. Bxa4 bxa4 24. fxg6 fxg6 25. Qf7+ Kh8 26. Nc5 Qa7 27. Qxd7\n(27. Nge4 $1) (27. Rf2 $1 {droht Springerabzug}) 27… Qxd7 28. Nxd7 Rxb2 29.\nNb6 Rb3 30. Nxc4 Rd8 31. d6 Rc3 32. Rc1 Rxc1 33. Rxc1 Bd5 34. Nb6 Bb3 35. Ne4\nh6 36. d7 Bf8 37. Rc8 Be7 38. Bc5 Bh4 39. g3 1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nJonathan Penrose vs Mikhail Tal\, Leipzig Olympiad\, 1960\, 1-0\, Modern Benoni\n\nA deep strategist who could also hold his own tactically\, he suffered from the defect of insufficient physical stamina and it was this that was to bring about a decline in his play and in his results. He collapsed during a game at the Ilford Chess Congress\, and a year later\, at the Siegen Olympiad of 1970\, he had a more serious collapse that necessitated his withdrawal from the vent after the preliminary groups had been played. The doctors found nothing vitally wrong with him that his physique could not sustain.\n\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mlebk_34c[/embedyt]\n\nHe continued to play but his results suffered from a lack of self-confidence and at the Nice Olympiad of 1974 he had a wretched result on board 3\, winning only 1 game and losing 6 out of 15.\n\nDarga V Penrose29th December 1955: Klaus Darga of Germany in play against Britain’s Jonathan Penrose during the International Chess Congress at Hastings. (Photo by Folb/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)\n\nPossibly too his profession (a lecturer in psychology) was also absorbing him more and more and too part less and less in international and national chess.\n\nJonathan Penrose\n\nYet\, he had already done enough to show that he was the equal of the greatest British players in his command and understanding of the game and he ranks alongside Staunton\, Blackburne\, Atkins and CHO’D Alexander as a chess figure of world class.”\n\nHere is his Wikipedia entry\n\nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld :\n\n“The leading English player during the 1960s\, International Master (1961)\, International Correspondence Chess Master (1980)\, lecturer in psychology. Early in his chess career Penrose decided to remain an amateur and as a consequence played in few international tournaments. He won the British Championship from 1958 to 1963 and from 1966 to 1969\, ten times in all (a record); and he played in nine Olympiads from 1952 to 1974\, notably scoring + 10=5 on first board at Lugano 1968\, a result bettered only by the world champion Petrosyan.\n\nIM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE\n\nIn the early 1970s Penrose further restricted his chess because the stress of competitive play adversely affected his health.”\n\nThe second edition (1996) adds this :\n\n“He turned to correspondence play\, was the highest rated postal player in the world 1987-9\, and led the British team to victory in the 9th Correspondence Olympiad.”\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “olm8 fin B4 corr”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1977.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Penrose\, Jonathan”]\n[Black “Tompa\, Janos”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B48”]\n[Annotator “Andrew Martin & BCN”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “1977.??.??”]\n[EventType “team (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “12”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr 2002”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2002.05.23”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2002.05.23”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,59\,19\,38\,40\,41\,41\,32\,50\,22\,81\,63\,88\,56\,68\,60\,55\,48\,91\,78\,64\,64\,36\,62\,\n41\,29\,56\,56\,50\,30\,34\,3\,32\,38\,18\,31\,48\,48\,41\,40\,90\,31\,30\,51\,183\,-72\,-72\,177\,164\,\n164\,160\,310\,262\,262\,275\,253\,253\,299\,726\,726\,29991\,29992]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3.\nd4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 {The Sicilian Kan or Paulsen} 5. Nc3 {It’s a matter of\ntaste between this} ({and} 5. c4 {although in correspondence play the more\nlively alternative is generally preferred.}) 5… Qc7 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Be3 Nf6 8.\nO-O Ne5 ({Alternatives are} 8… Nxd4 9. Bxd4 Bc5) ({or} 8… b5) 9. Be2 $1 {\nPerfectly justified by the fact that Black is wasting time with his knight.\nWhite withdraws in order to kick back with f4.} ({9.Be2! is a clear\nimprovement on} 9. h3 {\, which does rather weaken the king position for no\nother reason than to prevent the illusory threat of Ng4.}) 9… b5 10. f4 Nc4\n11. Bxc4 Qxc4 12. e5 {[#]} Nd5 ({Some thought must have been given to the\ncomplicated alternative} 12… b4 {which gives White a dangerous attack but\nnothing clear.} {A sample line illustrates the difficulty Black would face is}\n13. Qf3 {[%cal Gf3a8]} (13. exf6 bxc3 14. b3 Qd5 15. fxg7 Bxg7) 13… Rb8 (\n13… bxc3 $1 14. Qxa8 cxb2 15. Rab1 Nd5 16. Bf2 Bb4 17. Qb8) 14. exf6 bxc3 15.\nb3 Qc7 16. f5 Bb7 17. Bf4 d6 18. Qe3 e5 19. fxg7 Bxg7 20. f6 $1 {Perhaps he\ncould survive such a position but the king would be trapped and uncomfortable\non his central perch.}) 13. Nxd5 Qxd5 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Rad1 Qe4 {It is\nessential for the black queen to remain in the centre to try and inhibit the\nwhite attack by keeping active.} ({To that end grabbing material with} 15…\nQxa2 {would be equivalent to suicide; after} 16. b3 $1 {shutting off the white\nsquare escape followed quickly by f5 White would have a winning attack.}) 16.\nQf2 Be7 17. f5 Bh4 $146 (17… O-O $2 18. f6 $18) (17… O-O-O 18. Rd3 {\n[%cal Gd3c3]}) 18. Qd2 {[%cal Gf1f4] threatening Rf4 and a double capture on e6\n} Qd5 19. c3 h5 {[%cal Gh5h3] attempting to get the pawn to h3. a very slow\nprocedure which is rapidly punished.} ({better was} 19… Bd8 20. a4 {keeping\nthe black king centralised.}) 20. a4 $1 {Stopping any thoughts of queenside\ncastling and weakening Black’s hold on the critical white squares.} Be7 21.\naxb5 Qxe5 $2 {[#]} (21… axb5 22. fxe6 dxe6 23. Qf2 O-O-O $16) 22. Nc6 $1 dxc6\n23. Qd7+ Kf8 24. Bd4 $18 Bc8 ({If} 24… Qb8 25. fxe6 f6 26. Bxf6 {wins}) 25.\nQxc6 Qb8 26. fxe6 f6 27. Bc5 $1 {[%cal Gd1d8]} Bxe6 28. Bxe7+ Kf7 ({If} 28…\nKxe7 29. Rfe1 Qc8 30. Rd6 $18 (30. Rxe6+ Qxe6 31. Qb7+ Kf8 32. Qxa8+ $18)) 29.\nBxf6 {An excellent final stroke.} gxf6 30. Rd7+ {and Black resigned.} {If} Bxd7\n31. Qxf6+ {is a quick mate.} 1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nHere is a discussion about Jonathan on the English Chess Forum\n\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks :\n\n“International Master (1961) and British Champion in 1958 1959\, 1960\, 1961\, 1962\, 1963\, 1966\, 1967\, 1968 and 1969.\n\nJonathan Penrose was born in Colchester on 7th October 1933\, the son of Professor LS Penrose\, the well-known geneticist\, who was also a strong player and composer of endgame studies.\n\nThe whole Penrose family plays chess and Jonathan learned the game when he was 4. At the age of 12 he joined Hampstead Chess Club and the following year played for Essex for the first time\, won his first big tournament\, the British Boys’ Championship\, and represented England against Ireland in a boy’s match\, which was the forerunner of the Glorney Cup competition\, which came into being the following year.\n\nBy the time he was 17 Penrose was recognised as one of the big hopes of British Chess. Playing in the Hastings Premier Tournament for the first time in `1950 – 1951\, he beat the French Champion Nicholas Rossolimo and at Southsea in 1950 he beat two International Grandmasters\, Effim Bogoljubov and Savielly Tartakower.\n\nPenrose played for the British Chess Federation in a number of Chess Olympiads since 1952. In 1960\, at Leipzig\, came one of the best performances of his career\, when he beat the reigning World Champion\, Mikhail Tal. He became the first British player to beat a reigning World Champion since JH Blackburne beat Emmanuel Lasker in 1899\, and the first player to defeat Tal since he won the World Championship earlier that year. Penrose’s score in this Olympiad was only half-a-point short of the score required to qualify for the International Grandmaster title.\n\nIM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE\n\nHis ninth victory in the British Championships in 1968 equalled the record held by HE Atkins\, who has held the title more times than any other player.\n\nPenrose is a lecturer in psychology at Enfield College of Technology and has never been in a position to devote a great deal of time to the game. He is married to a former contender in the British Girls Championship and British Ladies’s Championship\, Margaret Wood\, daughter of Frank Wood\, Hon. Secretary of the Oxfordshire Chess Association.\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “olm8 corr7384”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1973.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Penrose\, Jonathan”]\n[Black “Krantz\, Kjell Erik”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B33”]\n[Annotator “George Botterill & Hugh Myers”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1973.??.??”]\n[EventType “team (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[SourceTitle “Myers”]\n[Source “Myers”]\n[SourceDate “2012.11.12”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2012.11.12”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Sweden”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “SWE”]\n\n{[%mdl 41472][%evp 0\,53\,38\,17\,41\,46\,37\,22\,21\,42\,22\,35\,30\,61\,21\,-2\,-6\,-6\,10\,-7\,\n-7\,-10\,-16\,-1\,-14\,3\,6\,-16\,-5\,-13\,-11\,6\,-4\,-4\,-16\,45\,29\,41\,63\,0\,13\,38\,13\,61\,59\,\n67\,84\,97\,94\,299\,291\,294\,294\,308\,300\,294]} 1. e4 {Myers Botterill} c5 2. Nf3 e6\n3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bf4 e5 8. Bg5 a6 9. Na3 Be6 10.\nNc4 Rc8 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Ne3 Ne7 13. Bd3 Qb6 14. O-O Qxb2 {Larsen} (14… Bh6\n15. Ned5 Nxd5 16. exd5 Bd7 17. Qh5 Bg7 18. Rab1 h6 19. Kh1 O-O 20. f4 Rc7 21.\nQf3 Bc8 22. Qg3 Kh8 23. Qf2 Qxf2 24. Rxf2 b5 25. a4 b4 26. Na2 a5 27. c3 bxc3\n28. Nxc3 Rc5 29. Rd1 Bb7 30. Bb5 Kg8 31. g3 Rd8 32. Kg1 Kf8 33. Kf1 Ke7 {\n1/2-1/2 Koch\,H-Bergmann\,H/corr 1989/}) (14… Rg8 15. Ncd5 Bxd5 16. Nxd5 Nxd5\n17. exd5 h6 18. a4 (18. c3 Rc7 19. Rb1 Qa5 20. a4 Kd8 21. c4 f5 22. b4 Qb6 23.\nBe2 f6 24. a5 Qa7 25. Re1 Rcg7 26. Bf1 f4 27. b5 axb5 28. Rxb5 Rc7 29. Qd3 Rg5\n30. h4 Rgg7 31. Qf5 Rgf7 32. Be2 f3 33. Bxf3 Rxc4 34. Qe6 {1-0 Miettinen\,\nK-Pickett\,C/corr ICCF 1995/}) 18… Rc7 19. Qf3 Qxb2 20. Qxf6 Qd4 21. Rad1 Qg4\n22. g3 h5 23. Rde1 Be7 24. Qh6 Qg5 25. Qxg5 Bxg5 26. Rb1 Ke7 27. Rb2 a5 28.\nRfb1 Rb8 29. Ba6 Bd2 30. Bxb7 Rc4 31. Bc6 Rxb2 32. Rxb2 Rb4 33. Ra2 Bc3 34. Ra3\nBd4 35. Rd3 h4 36. Kg2 hxg3 37. hxg3 Bc5 38. Rb3 {1/2-1/2 Fishbein\,A-Agdestein\,\nE/Stavanger 1989/}) (14… Qc6 15. a4 Kd8 16. Qf3 f5 17. Ned5 f4 18. a5 Rg8 19.\nh3 f5 20. Nb6 Rc7 21. Kh1 Bf7 22. Qd1 Rg5 23. Rg1 h6 24. Qd2 Bh5 25. exf5 Nxf5\n26. Be4 Qe8 27. Ncd5 Rcg7 28. Ra4 Nd4 29. Nxf4 Bf7 30. Bxb7 Qb5 31. Be4 Qxb2\n32. Nfd5 Bxd5 33. Nxd5 Qb7 34. Rb4 Qc8 35. Rgb1 Nb5 36. c4 Na3 37. R1b3 Nxc4\n38. Qc3 Nb6 39. Rxb6 Qxc3 40. Rxc3 Kd7 41. Rb8 {1-0 Conde\,J-Jordaan\,W/corr\n2003/}) (14… Bg7 15. Ncd5 Bxd5 16. exd5 O-O 17. Qh5 Ng6 18. Nf5 Rc7 19. Rae1\nRe8 20. Re3 Nf4 21. Qg4 Ng6 22. h4 Qxb2 23. h5 Qxa2 24. hxg6 fxg6 25. Nxd6 f5\n26. Nxf5 gxf5 27. Qxf5 Qxd5 28. Be4 Qd6 29. Qxh7+ Kf8 30. Rf3+ Rf7 31. Rxf7+\nKxf7 32. Qh5+ Kf8 33. Rd1 Qe7 34. Rd3 Bf6 35. Rf3 Qg7 36. Rg3 Qh8 37. Qf5 Rd8\n38. Rh3 Qg7 39. Rh7 Qg5 40. Rh8+ Ke7 41. Rh7+ Kf8 42. Qe6 Rd1+ 43. Kh2 Qf4+ 44.\ng3 Qxf2+ 45. Kh3 Bg7 46. Qc8+ {1-0 Borngaesser\,R-Gelzenleichter\,S/Dortmund op\n1987/}) 15. Ncd5 Bxd5 16. exd5 (16. Nxd5 $5 Nxd5 17. exd5 Qd4 (17… Rc7 18.\nQf3 Ke7 19. Qe3 h5 20. a4 Bh6 21. Qa7 Bd2 22. Rab1 Qd4 23. Qxd4 exd4 24. Rb3\nBa5 25. Rfb1 b6 26. Rd1 Rc5 27. Bxa6 Rxd5 28. Bc4 Re5 29. Rxd4 Re1+ 30. Bf1 Rc8\n31. c4 Ra1 32. g3 Rc5 33. Rd5 Rxd5 34. cxd5 Rxa4 35. Re3+ Kf8 36. h4 Rd4 37.\nRd3 Rxd3 38. Bxd3 Kg7 39. f3 Be1 40. Kg2 Kh6 41. Kh3 {1/2-1/2 Dickl\,E-Kammer\,R/\nSaarlouis op 1999/}) 18. Qf3 (18. c4 Bh6 19. Re1 Ke7 20. Re4 Qc3 21. Rb1 Rc7\n22. Qf3 Bf4 23. Re2 h5 24. Rc2 Qd4 25. c5 Rxc5 26. Rxb7+ Kf8 27. Rxc5 Qxc5 28.\ng3 Bg5 29. h4 Kg7 30. hxg5 Qc1+ 31. Kg2 Qxg5 32. Qf5 {1-0 Grabics\,M-Gosztola\,I/\nHUN 1998/}) 18… Bg7 (18… Ke7 19. Rab1 Rc7 20. Rb3 Bh6 21. Rfb1 b5 22. Rb4\nQc5 23. a4 Bd2 24. Rh4 Bg5 25. Rg4 h5 26. Re4 Qxd5 27. axb5 axb5 28. h4 Bd2 29.\nRxb5 Qa8 30. Qe2 Bc3 31. Rc4 Rhc8 32. Rxc7+ Rxc7 33. Be4 Qa1+ 34. Kh2 Qe1 35.\nQxe1 Bxe1 36. Kg1 Rc4 37. Bf5 Rf4 38. Bh3 Bxf2+ 39. Kh2 Rxh4 40. g3 Rc4 41.\nRb7+ Kf8 42. Bf5 Rc3 43. Rb3 Bxg3+ 44. Kh3 Rxb3 45. cxb3 Be1 46. b4 Bxb4 47.\nKh4 d5 48. Kxh5 Ke7 49. Kg4 Kd6 50. Kf3 {0-1 Bely\,M-Brinck Claussen\,B/Hastings\nENG 1963/}) (18… h5 19. Rab1 b5 20. a4 Qg4 21. Qxg4 hxg4 22. axb5 axb5 23.\nRxb5 Rh5 24. Rb7 Be7 25. Ra1 e4 26. Bxe4 Re5 27. f3 f5 28. Bd3 gxf3 29. gxf3\nRxd5 30. Raa7 Re5 31. f4 Re1+ 32. Kf2 Bh4+ 33. Kg2 Re7 34. Bxf5 Rxb7 35. Rxb7\nRc4 36. Kf3 Be1 37. Bd3 Rb4 38. Ra7 Bd2 39. f5 Bc3 40. Be4 Be5 41. h4 Rb1 42.\nh5 Rf1+ 43. Ke2 Rf4 44. Bc6+ Kf8 45. h6 Kg8 46. Bd5 Kh7 47. Rxf7+ Kxh6 48. c4\nKg5 49. Be6 Bd4 {1/2-1/2 Lakos\,N-Horvath\,S/HUN 1997/}) 19. a4 h5 20. Rfd1 Qc5\n21. Rab1 Rc7 22. Rb3 Qa5 23. Qe4 Ke7 24. Rdb1 Rb8 25. Rb6 Qd2 26. g3 a5 27. h4\nBf8 28. Qf5 Qh6 29. R1b5 Qg6 30. Qxg6 fxg6 31. Bxg6 Bh6 32. Rxa5 Rg8 33. Bxh5\nRxg3+ 34. fxg3 Be3+ 35. Kg2 Bxb6 36. Rb5 Bc5 37. Bg6 b6 38. a5 bxa5 39. Rxa5\nKf8 40. Kf3 Kg7 41. Bd3 Rb7 42. Ra8 Rb1 43. Rd8 Ra1 44. Kg4 Ra7 45. Kf5 Re7 46.\nBe4 {1-0 Lang\,J-Wohlleben\,M/corr 1998/}) (16. Rb1 Qd4 17. Nxd5 Nxd5 18. exd5\nRc7 19. Re1 Ke7 20. c4 Bh6 21. Qf3 b6 22. Re4 Qc5 23. Qh5 Bd2 24. Rg4 Be3 25.\nKh1 Qa3 26. Qf5 h5 27. Re4 Bc5 28. f4 Rh6 29. Ree1 Rg6 30. Rf1 Bd4 31. fxe5\ndxe5 32. Rbd1 Qxa2 33. Qf3 Rh6 34. Rde1 Qd2 35. Bb1 Rxc4 36. d6+ Kxd6 37. Qb7\nb5 38. Bf5 Qc3 39. Qxf7 Kc6 40. Qf8 Qd2 41. Rb1 h4 42. Qc8+ {1-0 Tsenkov\,\nL-Veloso Fargnoli\,R/corr IECG 2006/}) 16… Qd4 (16… Rc7 17. a4 Qd4 18. Qf3\nQf4 19. Qe2 f5 20. g3 Rg8 21. Rfb1 Qg5 22. Bxa6 f4 23. Rxb7 Rxb7 24. Bxb7 Bh6\n25. Nf1 Nf5 26. c3 Qh4 27. Rb1 Qh3 28. Bc6+ Ke7 29. Rb7+ Kf6 30. Bd7 Rg5 31.\nQe4 fxg3 32. hxg3 Rh5 33. a5 Bf4 34. Qg2 Qg4 35. gxf4 Qxf4 36. Bxf5 Rxf5 37.\nNg3 Rg5 38. Rb4 Qc1+ 39. Kh2 Kg7 40. Qf3 Kg6 41. Rg4 h6 42. a6 {1-0 Mainka\,\nR-Kammer\,R/Saarlouis op 1998/}) 17. Rb1 $5 {[#] This seems to be much more\ndangerous for Black} ({than the immediate} 17. Qf3 Qf4 18. Qh3 e4 (18… Qh6 $5\n19. Qg4 Qf4 20. Qxf4 exf4 21. Nf5 Nxf5 22. Bxf5 Rc7 23. Rfe1+ $14) (18… Bg7\n$5 19. Rab1 b5 20. a4 e4 {[%cal Gf6f5]} 21. Rb4 $1 $14 {Myers}) 19. g3 Qf3 20.\nNc4 exd3 21. Nxd6+ Kd8 22. Nxf7+ Ke8 23. Nd6+ Kd8 24. Nf7+ Ke8 25. Nxh8 Qf5 26.\ng4 Qxd5 27. cxd3 Bg7 28. Qxh7 Kd7 29. Rfe1 Rg8 30. Rab1 b5 31. Ng6 Nc6 32. Nf4\nQf7 33. Qf5+ Kc7 34. Rbc1 Bf8 35. Rxc6+ Kxc6 36. Re6+ Kb7 37. Qd5+ Ka7 38.\nRxa6+ Kxa6 39. Qxf7 Rxg4+ 40. Kf1 Rxf4 41. Qxf8 {1-0 Lombardy\,W-Markland\,P/\nNice FRA 1974/}) (17. Qh5 $5 Rc7 (17… Nxd5 18. Qf3 Rc5 19. Rab1 b5 20. Nxd5\nQxd5 21. Qxd5 Rxd5 22. a4 bxa4 23. Rb8+ Ke7 24. Rb7+ Ke8 25. Rb8+ Ke7 26. Rb7+\nKe8 27. Rb8+ Kd7 28. Rfb1 Rd4 29. R1b7+ Kc6 30. Rxf7 a3 31. Ra8 Ra4 32. Rfa7 d5\n33. Bxa6 Kc5 34. Rd7 a2 35. Rxd5+ Kb6 {0-1 Guzek\,H-Roelens\,R/corr 1995/}) (\n17… Rg8 18. Rab1 Rc7 19. Rfd1 Qf4 20. g3 Qh6 21. Qe2 Qh3 22. Rb4 Qd7 23. Qf3\nBh6 24. Nf5 Bf8 25. Nxe7 Kxe7 26. Bf5 Qd8 27. Rdb1 Qa8 28. a4 Bh6 29. Qb3 Bd2\n30. Rxb7 Ba5 31. Rxc7+ Bxc7 32. Qb7 Qb8 33. Rb3 Rd8 34. Qc6 {1-0 Brzeski\,\nM-Roszkowski\,R/Grodzisk Mazowiecki POL 2007/}) 18. Rfd1 Qf4 19. g3 Qg5 20. Qf3\nf5 (20… Qh6 21. Ng4 Qg5 22. Nxf6+ Kd8 23. Nxh7 Qh6 24. Qxf7 Bg7 25. Qe6 Ng8\n26. Bg6 Nf6 27. Nxf6 {1-0 Roberts\,A-Adair\,D/corr 1993/}) 21. Nxf5 Nxf5 22. Bxf5\nBg7 23. Rab1 Qf6 (23… O-O 24. Rb6 Qe7 25. Rdb1 Re8 26. R1b4 h6 27. Bd3 Rd8\n28. Qf5 Kf8 29. h4 Rdd7 30. Qh7 a5 31. Ra4 Rc5 32. Rg4 Qf6 33. Bf5 Rdc7 34.\nRxd6 {1-0 Nemeth\,A-Hogye\,I/corr 1990/}) 24. Kg2 b5 25. Rb4 O-O 26. a4 Rc5 27.\naxb5 Rxb5 28. Rxb5 axb5 29. Rb1 Rb8 30. Rb4 Qd8 31. Bd3 h6 32. h4 Ra8 33. Rxb5\nRb8 34. c4 Qc7 35. Qe4 Kf8 36. Qe3 Ke7 37. Be4 Rxb5 38. cxb5 Qc4 39. b6 Qb4 40.\nKh2 Kd8 41. Kh3 Bf8 42. Kg4 Qd4 43. Kf5 Qa4 44. Kg4 f5+ 45. Kxf5 Qd7+ {1/2-1/2\nPopovic\,P-Matulovic\,M/Vinkovci 1982/}) 17… Rc7 $1 ({The natural} 17… b5 {\nwould be countered by} 18. a4 $1 {(Botterill) breaking up the black queenside.}\nBh6 ({If then} 18… Qxa4 19. Ra1 {followed by Rxa6}) 19. Qf3 Qf4 20. Qh3 $16)\n18. Qf3 (18. g3 Bh6 19. Qf3 Bxe3 20. fxe3 Qxd5 21. Qxf6 O-O 22. Rb4 e4 23. Bxe4\nQh5 24. Rxb7 Rxb7 25. Bxb7 Ng6 26. Qxd6 Qg5 27. Qd4 Rd8 28. Qe4 a5 29. c4 Kg7\n30. Bd5 Rd7 31. Rf5 Qd8 32. Qd4+ f6 33. g4 h6 34. g5 hxg5 35. Rxg5 Rd6 36. Rg3\nQb8 37. Qe4 f5 38. Qxf5 Rf6 39. Qd3 Qb2 40. Rf3 Rxf3 41. Bxf3 Qa1+ 42. Qd1 Qxa2\n43. Qd4+ Kh6 44. c5 a4 45. c6 a3 46. Be4 Qe6 47. Bd5 Qf5 48. e4 Qg4+ 49. Kf1\nQf3+ 50. Ke1 Qh1+ 51. Kd2 Qxh2+ 52. Kc1 a2 53. Qa1 Ne5 54. Qxa2 {1/2-1/2\nArnason\,A-Jonasson\,B/Reykjavik ISL 1984/}) (18. a3 Bh6 19. Rb4 Qc3 20. Rc4 Rxc4\n21. Nxc4 Nc8 22. Qh5 b5 23. Qxh6 bxc4 24. Qxf6 Rf8 25. Bf5 Ne7 26. Rb1 Nxf5 27.\nQxf5 Kd8 28. Qf6+ Kd7 29. h4 Qxc2 30. Rb7+ Kc8 31. Qe7 Qc1+ {1/2-1/2 Roux\,\nO-Rouzaud\,P/Montigny Le Bretonneux 2004/}) 18… Qf4 (18… Bg7 $1 19. Rb3 O-O\n20. Nf5 Qf4 21. Qxf4 exf4 22. Nxd6 Rd8 23. Rxb7 Nxd5 24. Rxc7 Nxc7 25. Ne4 Nd5\n26. Rb1 f5 27. Ng5 h6 28. Nh3 Nc3 29. Rb6 Nxa2 30. Nxf4 Nc1 31. Rxa6 Be5 32. g3\nBxf4 33. gxf4 Nxd3 34. cxd3 Kg7 35. Ra3 Rd4 36. Rc3 Rxf4 37. Rc4 Rg4+ 38. Rxg4+\nfxg4 39. Kg2 Kf6 40. Kg3 Kg5 {1/2-1/2 Achilles\,E-Schuster\,P/corr 1996/}) (18…\nf5 19. Nxf5 Nxf5 20. Bxf5 Bg7 21. Be4 b5 22. Qg4 Bf6 23. Qf5 Rg8 24. a4 b4 25.\nRfd1 Qc4 26. c3 Ke7 27. cxb4 Rb8 28. Bd3 Qa2 29. Ra1 Qb3 30. Bxa6 Rxb4 31. Rac1\nRc3 32. Bb5 {1/2-1/2 Geenen\,M-Prasad\,D/Novi Sad 1990/} Bh4) 19. Qe2 (19. Qxf4\nexf4 20. Nc4 (20. Nf5 Nxd5 21. Be4 Nc3 22. Rxb7 Rxb7 23. Bxb7 a5 24. Bc6+ Kd8\n25. Re1 Kc7 26. Be8 d5 27. Bxf7 Bc5 28. Ng7 Rb8 29. Ne8+ Kd8 30. Nxf6 Rb2 31.\nNxd5 Rxc2 32. Rf1 Ne2+ 33. Kh1 Bxf2 34. Rd1 Kc8 35. a4 Kb7 36. Bh5 Nc3 37. Nxc3\nRxc3 38. Bf3+ Kc7 39. Rf1 h6 40. Be2 Be3 41. g3 fxg3 {0-1 Jung\,T-Mueller\,B/\ncorr GER 1998/}) 20… Nxd5 21. Na5 Nc3 22. Rb6 Be7 23. Nxb7 O-O 24. Nxd6 Bxd6\n25. Rxd6 Nxa2 26. Rxa6 Nb4 27. Rxf6 Nxd3 28. cxd3 Rd8 29. Rxf4 Rxd3 30. g3 Rd2\n31. Ra1 Rd6 32. Kg2 Kg7 33. Ra8 h6 34. h4 Rb7 35. Rf5 Rc6 36. Rf4 Rd6 37. h5\nRd5 38. g4 f5 39. gxf5 Rf7 40. f6+ Kh7 41. Rh4 Rxf6 42. Ra7+ Kh8 43. f4 Rff5\n44. Kf3 Rxh5 {1/2-1/2 De Groot\,K-Noire\,E/corr IECG 2003/}) 19… e4 $2 $146 {\n[#]} (19… Nc8 20. c3 e4 21. Nd1 f5 22. f3 Qe5 23. fxe4 fxe4 24. Bxe4 Bg7 25.\nRf5 Qe7 26. Qg4 Be5 27. Bd3 h5 28. Qe4 Bg7 29. Qf3 Kd8 30. c4 Qe1+ 31. Bf1 Re7\n32. Qd3 Qa5 33. Qc2 Bd4+ 34. Kh1 Rhe8 35. Nf2 Re1 36. Nd3 R8e2 37. Qb3 Rxb1 38.\nQxb1 Qxa2 39. Qxb7 Re7 40. Qb4 Qa1 41. c5 a5 42. Qb5 h4 43. Nf4 Bf6 44. cxd6\nNxd6 45. Qb8+ Nc8 {1/2-1/2 Bussmeyer\,H-Zeltwanger\,A/corr 1998/}) (19… Bh6 20.\nNc4 Nc8 21. Rb4 Qg5 22. Ne3 f5 23. Nxf5 Qd2 24. Nxd6+ Nxd6 25. Qxe5+ Kd7 26.\nRb6 Ne8 27. Qxh8 Be3 28. Bf5+ {1-0 Ghinda\,M-Tseitlin\,M/Pernik 1978/}) (19…\nBg7 $5) (19… Rg8 $5) (19… f5 $5) 20. Bxa6 $1 bxa6 21. Rb8+ $1 (21. Qxa6 $1\nf5 22. Rb8+ Nc8 23. Rxc8+ Rxc8 24. Qxc8+ $18) 21… Nc8 {Botterill: It is easy\nto see that the piece sacrifice is amply justified by the fact that Black’s\nking’s rook and king’s bishop canot communicate with the other side of the\nboard.} (21… Rc8 22. Rxc8+ Nxc8 23. Qxa6 Kd8 24. Rb1 $18) 22. Qxa6 Kd8 23.\nRfb1 Qe5 {[%cal Ye5c3]} 24. Rxc8+ $1 Rxc8 25. Qa5+ Ke8 (25… Rc7 26. Rb8+ Kd7\n27. Qb5+ Rc6 28. Qxc6+ Ke7 29. Qe8#) 26. Qa4+ Kd8 27. Rb7 (27. Rb7 Qe7 {\nleading to a disastrous endgame.} ({If} 27… Rc7 28. Rb8+ Rc8 29. Qa5+ Kd7 30.\nRb7+ {and mates shortly.} Ke8 31. Qa4+ Kd8 32. Qd7#) (27… Qa1+ 28. Nf1 Rc7\n29. Rb8+ Rc8 30. Qa5+ Kd7 31. Rb7+ Ke8 32. Qa4+ Kd8 33. Qd7#) 28. Rxe7 {\nBotterill} Bxe7 29. Qxe4 Rb8 30. f3 Rb5 31. Nf5 Rb1+ 32. Kf2 Re8 33. Qa4 h6 34.\nQa5+ Kc8 35. Qa8+ Kd7 36. Qa7+ Kd8 37. Ng7 Rf8 38. Ne6+ fxe6 39. dxe6 Kc8 40.\nQxe7 $18 {Myers}) 1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nPenrose was awarded the O.B.E. for his services to chess in 1971.”\n\nPenrose was Southern Counties Champion for 1949-50.\n\nIn 1983 Jonathan became England’s fifth Correspondence Grandmaster (CGM) following Keith Richardson\, Adrian Hollis\, Peter Clarke and Simon Webb.\n\nSadly\, there is no existent book on the life and games of Jonathan Penrose : a serious omission in chess literature.\n\nDr. Jonathan Penrose OBE
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,History,Player,Remembering
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201009
DTSTAMP:20201008T174549Z
CREATED:20191008T000152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T174549Z
UID:1487-1602115200-1602201599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Michael Hennigan (08-x-1970)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM Michael Hennigan. \nMichael Thomas Hennigan was born on October 8th\, 1970 in Hammersmith\, London. His mother’s name was Donnelly. \nMichael attended the City of London School. \nMichael became World Under-18 Youth Champion in 1988 in Aguadilla (Puerto Rico).  \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master title in 1991 and in the same year was British Under-21 Champion at Eastbourne and was British Champion in 1993 in Dundee beating Dharshan Kumaran in the play-off.  \nIn 1995 he was 1st= in the Arnold Cup in Gausdal with Igor Rausis \nHis peak FIDE rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2465 in July 1994 at the age of 24.  \nHe played for North West Eagles in the Four Nations Chess League. \nMichael married WIM Rita Zimmersmann and settled in London. Rita subsequently became Rita Atkins. \nMichael stopped playing in 2010 but has recently in 2020 started playing online chess on the chess.com platform. \nMichael is a Senior Director with FTI Consulting \nWith the white pieces Michael used to be an e4 player but in 2020 has switched to 1.g3 to get back into the swing of things. \nAs the second player he plays the Sicilian Four Knights and the King’s Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch”]\n[Site “Dundee”]\n[Date “1993.??.??”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Hennigan\, Michael”]\n[Black “Ward\, Christopher”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A04”]\n[WhiteElo “2415”]\n[BlackElo “2460”]\n[Annotator “Bulletin”]\n[PlyCount “67”]\n[EventDate “1993.08.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “SCO”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 038”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1994.02.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1994.02.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,67\,19\,29\,53\,4\,49\,19\,15\,24\,18\,24\,25\,34\,34\,53\,32\,24\,10\,-25\,-32\,-32\,-20\,\n-18\,-26\,-22\,-15\,-18\,-7\,-19\,5\,11\,21\,3\,17\,-4\,1\,-16\,13\,-22\,28\,26\,17\,134\,134\,134\,\n140\,142\,185\,196\,181\,170\,149\,152\,219\,203\,203\,203\,187\,195\,247\,236\,244\,265\,234\,\n240\,249\,111\,840\,919]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. O-O Nc6 5. e4 e6 6. c3\nNge7 (6… d5 7. exd5 exd5 8. Re1+ Nge7 9. d4 cxd4 10. Bg5 $5 dxc3 11. Nxc3 O-O\n) 7. d4 cxd4 8. cxd4 d5 9. e5 f6 10. Re1 fxe5 11. dxe5 O-O 12. Bf4 (12. Nc3 $5\nd4 13. Ne4 Nxe5 14. Nxd4 Qxd4 15. Qxd4 Nf3+ 16. Bxf3 Bxd4 17. Kg2 e5 $13) 12…\nh6 (12… Rxf4 13. gxf4 Qf8 14. Qd2 Bh6 15. Ng5 Nf5 16. Nc3 $14) 13. h4 Bd7 (\n13… Rxf4 14. gxf4 Nf5 15. h5 $1 gxh5 (15… g5 16. Bh3 $16) 16. Bh3 $16) 14.\nQd2 Nf5 15. Nc3 Qe7 16. Rad1 Kh7 17. Kh2 $1 Rac8 18. Bf1 Qb4 19.\nBd3 h5 (19… Na5 20. Nxd5 $1 Qxd2 21. Bxd2 $18) 20. Bb1 Nce7 $2 (20… a5) 21.\nNxd5 $3 Qxd2 22. Nf6+ $1 Bxf6 23. Rxd2 Bc6 24. exf6 Bxf3 25. fxe7 Rfe8 26. Bg5\nKg7 (26… Bd5 27. f3 $1 Bxf3 (27… Nxe7 28. Bxe7 Rxe7 29. Rxd5) 28. Be4 (28.\nRxe6 $4 Rc1) 28… Bxe4 29. Rxe4 Kg7 30. Rxe6 Kf7 31. Rf6+ Kg7 32. Rd8 Nxe7 33.\nRd7 $18) 27. Be4 Bxe4 28. Rxe4 Kf7 29. Kg2 Rc5 (29… Rc7 30. Rd8) 30. Rd7 Rb5\n31. b3 e5 32. Rc4 Nd4 33. Rcc7 Ra5 34. Rd8 1-0 \n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDgVbMdyHI[/embedyt] \nStuart Conquest vs Michael Hennigan at 4NCL\,\, photo by Meri Grigoryan
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-michael-thomas-hennigan/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201009
DTSTAMP:20200724T180625Z
CREATED:20200410T215732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200724T180625Z
UID:4395-1602115200-1602201599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM John Graham Nicholson (08-x-1953)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM John Graham Nicholson (08-x-1953)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-john-graham-nicholson-08-x-1953/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201010
DTSTAMP:20260925T143741Z
CREATED:20191016T160417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260925T143741Z
UID:1562-1602201600-1602287999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Norman Gibbins (15-x-1882 09-x-1956)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Norman Martin Gibbins (15-x-1882 09-x-1956)\n\nSee http://davidgibbins.com/journal/2013/5/28/war-in-another-dimension
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-norman-martin-gibbins/
CATEGORIES:Composer,Death Anniversary,History
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201012
DTSTAMP:20260817T135735Z
CREATED:20191011T195944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T135735Z
UID:1506-1602374400-1602460799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Charles Fox (09-xi-1866 11-x-1935)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Charles Fox (09-xi-1866 11-x-1935) \nCharles Masson Fox was born on Friday\, November 9th 1866 in Falmouth\, Cornwall. his father\, Howard\, was 29 and his mother\, Olivia Blanche Orme\, was 22. He had one brother and two sisters. \nHis sister Olivia Lloyd was born on 5 February 1868 in Falmouth\, Cornwall\, when Charles Masson was 1 year old. His sister Stella was born on 11 December 1876 in Falmouth\, Cornwall\, when Charles Masson was 10 years old. In 1881 he was living in Sherborne\, Dorset. In 1901 he was once more living in Falmouth and his profession was that of a timber merchant. His brother Howard Orme died on 7 June 1921 in Falmouth\, Cornwall. His father Howard passed away on 15 November 1922 in Cornwall. His mother Olivia Blanche passed away on 12 March 1930 in Falmouth\, Cornwall\, at the age of 85. \nSadly\, neither Hooper & Whyld\, Sunnucks or Golombek mention Fox in their works. \nHere is an extensive article from the British Chess Problem Society (BCPS) written by CJ Feather \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Charles Masson Fox (9 November 1866 – 11 October 1935) was a Cornish businessman who achieved international prominence in the world of chess problems and a place in the gay history of Edwardian England. \nMasson Fox was born into a Quaker family (although he was not related to the Quakers’ founder George Fox) and was a cousin of the fraudulent sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse\, 2nd Baronet. Living throughout his life in the Cornish seaside town of Falmouth\, Fox in the early decades of his life was a senior partner of his family’s timber firm\, Fox Stanton & Company\, and was also on the Board of Messrs G C Fox & Company\, a long-established firm of shipping agents. \nC.M.Fox’s gravestone at Budock Quaker Burial Ground\nFox is described by chess historian Thomas Rayner Dawson (1889–1951) as “a friendly man\, kind\, mellow\, lovable\, bringing peace and comfort and serene joy with him”. He was also a discreet but active homosexual. In 1909 he visited Venice with his friend James Cockerton\, meeting the writer Frederick Rolfe and becoming the reluctant recipient of Rolfe’s famous Venice Letters\, in which the gay subculture of Venice is vividly described. \nIn 1912–13 Fox was blackmailed by a woman who accused him of seducing her 16-year-old son. Eventually Fox reported the matter to the police and the woman was sent to prison for five years and her son for one year\, with hard labour.[1] However\, Fox was profoundly affected by the publicity surrounding the case\, which was reported in detail in the local press. The predictable result of his courageous action was the destruction of his reputation\, and the compromise of his business and social life in Falmouth. \nAlthough he continued to live in Cornwall\, the focus of his social life shifted to London\, and in the last two decades of his life\, Fox became prominent in the world of chess. He was elected President of the Cornwall Chess Association\, played a prominent part in the development of the British Chess Problem Society\, and is still renowned as one of the greatest ever exponents of fairy chess (chess problems with variations in the rules).” \nFrom The Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement\, 1933 : \n[fen]rnbqkr2/ppp1np1p/3p1N2/4p3/8/4K3/PPPPP1Pb/RNBQ1B1R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nWhat is the shortest game\nending in this position? \nCharles Masson Fox
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/remembering-charles-masson-fox-09-xi-1866-11-x-1935/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Problemist
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201012
DTSTAMP:20261003T115845Z
CREATED:20200410T165757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T115845Z
UID:4366-1602374400-1602460799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Andrew P Lewis (11-xi-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Andrew P Lewis (11-xi-1960) \nAndrew was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2007-08 season
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-andrew-p-lewis-11-xi-1960/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201014
DTSTAMP:20261013T102059Z
CREATED:20200412T101508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T102059Z
UID:4533-1602547200-1602633599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Alex Golding (13-x-2003)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-alex-golding-13-x-2003/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201015
DTSTAMP:20201010T163934Z
CREATED:20200411T111529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201010T163934Z
UID:4409-1602633600-1602719999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Simon Brown (14-x-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Simon D Brown (14-x-1960)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-simon-d-brown-14-x-1960-2/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Official,Player
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201017
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM John Shaw (16-x-1968)
DESCRIPTION:BCN offers birthday greetings to GM John Shaw  \nJohn K Shaw was born on Wednesday\, October 16th\, 1968. On this day Americans Tommie Smith (gold 19.83 WR) and John Carlos (bronze) famously give the Black Power salute on the 200m medal podium during the Mexico City Olympics to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans. \nJohn was born in Irvine\, North Ayrshire in Scotland.  \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1994 at the age of 26. Five years later in 1999 he became an International Master and finally a Grandmaster in 2006 at the age of 38. \nHe won the Scottish Championship in 1995 (with IM Steve Mannion and GM Colin McNab)\, outright in 1998 and in 2000 with AJ Norris. \nNot that many years previously (1988) John had a rating of 1700 at the age of 19 and therefore he falls into that rather rare category of GMs who were not strong players as juniors. \nAccording to Felice and Megabase 2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2506 in January of 2002. \nFIDE Rating profile for GM John Shaw \nJohn’s FIDE federation is Scotland and is currently ranked fifth in that country. \nIn 2005 John was interrogated by ChessBase upon his return from Gibraltar. \nHe acquired his three GM norms at Gibraltar 2003\, Calvia Olympiad 2004 and 4NCL Season 2005/6. \nAccording to ChessBase (in 2005) : \n“IM John Shaw has written two books for Everyman Chess and co-edited Experts vs. the Sicilian. He has represented Scotland on many occasions\, recently in the Olympiad in Calvià\, where he obtained his second GM-norm. As John has once had 2500 in Elo\, it is his hope that he will complete his Grandmaster title in 2005 with a third GM-norm. \nTogether with Jacob\, John constitutes two thirds of the new chess publisher Quality Chess Europe which has published Experts vs. the Sicilian by ten different authors and Learn from the Legends – Chess Champions at their Best by Romanian GM Mihail Marin.” \nJohn plays / has played for 4NCL Alba and his peak ECF grading was 240B in July 2009. \nWith the white pieces almost exclusively plays 1.e4 and the Ruy Lopez\, Exchange Variation. \nAs the second player John has a wide repertoire versus 1.e4 essaying the Sicilian La Bourdonnais (Löwenthal) and against 1.d4 the Slav is the weapon of choice. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 1415 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2015.02.15”]\n[Round “6.113”]\n[White “Palliser\, Richard”]\n[Black “Shaw\, John”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B83”]\n[WhiteElo “2444”]\n[BlackElo “2424”]\n[Annotator “John Saunders”]\n[PlyCount “50”]\n[EventDate “2014.11.15”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2016”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “White Rose”]\n[BlackTeam “Wood Green”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,50\,19\,38\,40\,41\,41\,60\,56\,30\,35\,37\,27\,37\,57\,45\,45\,57\,50\,42\,63\,89\,49\,50\,\n62\,7\,1\,5\,1\,-1\,8\,-5\,-5\,11\,-4\,-20\,-7\,-115\,-77\,-77\,-76\,-88\,-13\,-91\,-9\,-149\,-178\,\n-188\,-1\,-1548\,-1728\,-1802\,-1854]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5.\nNxd4 Nf6 6. Be2 d6 7. Be3 Be7 8. O-O Bd7 9. f4 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Bc6 11. b4 {\nA move apparently first played by James Tarjan in 1980. Curiously\, the\naforementioned player has also made a reappearance recently after some\ndecades’ absence from the game.} b6 12. Bf3 O-O 13. Rad1 Rc8 14. Bf2 Qc7 15. a3\nRfd8 16. Qe3 Bb7 {Perhaps White was now regretting his overly bold 11th move\nas it has noticeably weakened the c-file.} 17. Nb5 Qxc2 18. e5 ({Life gets\ndifficult after this.} 18. Nxa7 Rc3 19. Rc1 $5 Rxe3 20. Rxc2 Rxa3 21. Nb5 Raa8\n22. e5 {is suggested by Houdini.}) 18… Nd5 19. Bxd5 Bxd5 20. exd6 Bf8 21.\nNxa7 ({It was a tough choice between this and} 21. Rc1 Qg6 22. Qg3 Rxc1 23.\nRxc1 Qe4 {\, which looks pretty good for Black.}) 21… Rc3 22. Qxb6 ({The\nalternative was to grovel with} 22. Qe1 Rxa3 23. Nb5 Ra2 {when} 24. Nc3 {\nmay be answered by} Bb7 $1 {since} 25. Nxa2 $4 {allows mate with} Qc6 {\, etc.})\n22… Rxd6 23. Qb8 Rd3 ({Houdini suggests} 23… Qe4 {\, forcing} 24. Rxd5 Rxd5\n{. Though this does not appear wholly convincing to the human eye\, the\ncomputer thinks it’s game\, set and match.}) 24. Rc1 $2 {[diag]} ({This meets\nwith a scintillating refutation. The alternative was} 24. Rxd3 $1 Qxd3 25. Re1\n{(To cover Qe4)} Qg6 26. Bg3 $1 {when Black still has work to do\, e.g.} Rd7 27.\nQb6 h5 28. f5 $1 Qxf5 29. Qf2 Qg6 30. Nb5 {\, etc.}) 24… Rg3 $3 {Lawrence\nCooper\, with an eye to the g3 square\, the location of a famous Frank Marshall\nsacrifice back in 1912\, asked if the board was showered with gold coins after\nthis move.} 25. hxg3 (25. Rxc2 Rxg2+ 26. Kh1 Rg3# {mate.}) 25… Qe4 (25… Qe4\n{White has a choice between being mated in one move\, or in 13 moves after} 26.\nQxf8+ {- I’ll leave readers to amuse themselves working out how White can keep\nthe game going that long.}) 0-1\n[/pgn] \nA writer of chess books\, John is the Chief Editor of the publishing house Quality Chess and has written the following (amongst others) : \nstarting out : the ruy lopez \nstarting out : the queen’s gambit \nQuality Chess Puzzle Book \nThe King’s Gambit \nPlaying 1.e4 \nGrandmaster versus Amateur by John Shaw \nExperts on the Anti-Sicilian (Grandmaster Repertoire Series)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-john-k-shaw/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201017
DTSTAMP:20260817T135728Z
CREATED:20200411T221804Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Julian Way (16-x-1968)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Julian Way (16-x-1968)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-julian-way-16-x-1968/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201019
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201020
DTSTAMP:20260817T135719Z
CREATED:20191013T173648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T135719Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Simon Knott (19-X-1958)
DESCRIPTION:We offer best wishes to IM Simon John Bradley Knott on his birthday \nSimon was born on Sunday\, October 19th 1958 in Lambeth\, London to Simon Harold John Arthur Knott and Josephine Whowell. \nSimon attended Trinity College\, Cambridge. \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master in 2001. According to Felice and Megabase 2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2401 in October 2002 at the age of 43. \nSimon was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1995-96 and 2001-02 seasons. \nSimon plays for Hertford and Barbican in the Four Nations Chess League. \nAs white Simon plays the Queen’s Gambit via a 1.Nf3 or 1.c4 move order. There are zero 1.e4 games! \nAs the second player he plays the French Winawer and the Grünfeld Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch”]\n[Site “Scarborough”]\n[Date “2004.08.02”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Knott\, Simon JB”]\n[Black “Adams\, David M”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D19”]\n[WhiteElo “2359”]\n[BlackElo “2180”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “45”]\n[EventDate “2004.08.02”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 101 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.09.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,45\,19\,29\,23\,27\,34\,-23\,30\,10\,4\,-9\,-23\,4\,3\,6\,19\,26\,32\,3\,22\,25\,9\,8\,27\,21\,\n17\,25\,24\,7\,64\,72\,72\,67\,47\,31\,99\,95\,81\,101\,93\,174\,218\,210\,235\,299\,295\,297]} 1.\nNf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. e3 e6 7. Bxc4 Bb4 8. O-O O-O\n9. Qe2 Bg6 10. Ne5 Nbd7 11. Nxg6 hxg6 12. Rd1 Qc7 (12… Qa5 $142) 13. e4 e5\n14. d5 cxd5 (14… Rac8) 15. Nxd5 Nxd5 16. Bxd5 Nf6 17. Bg5 Qb6 $2 18. Be3 Bc5\n19. a5 $1 Qb4 20. Bd2 Qxb2 21. Rdb1 Qc2 22. Rc1 Qb2 23. Ra2 $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSimon Knott (front\, keeling) \nIM Simon Knott
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-simon-john-bradley-knott/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201021
DTSTAMP:20261003T120207Z
CREATED:20190823T184412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T120207Z
UID:1110-1603152000-1603238399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27-i-1872 20-x-1952)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Philip Walsingham Sergeant who passed away on Monday\, October 20th 1952.\n\nPWS was born in Kensington on Saturday\, January 27th\, 1872 to Lewis Sergeant and Emma Louisa Sergeant (née Robertson) and was baptised at All Saints Church\, Notting Hill. According to PWS’s baptism record Lewis was an author.\n\nAccording to PWS in A Century of British Chess :\n\n“When I was seven years of age – about the period\, by the way\, in which my father began to teach me Greek – he began also to initiate me into chess. Not that he designed it  as a consolatory set-off to my application to Greek; for he loved the Classics well\, though\, going up to Cambridge with  small classical exhibition\, he had turned to Mathematics\, and therein took his degree. ”\n\nAccording to the 1881 census PWS (aged 9) lived with his parents and numerous siblings : Dorothy (aged 7)\, Winifred (6)\, Hilda (5)\, Bernard (2)\, John (his grandfather aged 76) and Mary (his grandmother aged 75). They had staff\, Elizabeth Fraser and Sarah Martin. They lived at 10\, Addison Road\, North\, Kensington.\n\nAccording to “Joseph Foster. Oxford Men and Their Colleges\, 1880-1892. 2 vols. Oxford\, England: James Parker and Co\, 1893″ :\n\nPWS attended St. Paul’s School and then Trinity College\, Oxford to read Classics where he attained Honour Moderations.\n\nand here is the record from the above publication :\n\nEntry for Philip Walsingham Sergeant in Joseph Foster. Oxford Men and Their Colleges\, 1880-1892. 2 vols. Oxford\, England: James Parker and Co\, 1893\n\nWe do not know if PWS played in the Varsity matches of 1892 – 1895 : Britbase does not (yet) include player details for these matches.\n\nPWS married Minnie Boundford (born 27th February 1889) in 1909 in Hampstead and they lived at 5\, Dukes Avenue\, Chiswick where PWS was listed as an author and Minnie as someone who carried out “unpaid domestic duties”. Minnie was 17 years younger than PWS. Minnie’s father was a joiner and a carpenter.\n\nThey had two daughters Margaret (born 1910) and Kathleen (born 1911).\n\nIn October 1946 Minnie and PWS remarried. Presumably this was rather unusual in that day and age.\n\nAccording to The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 2nd edition\, 1996) by Hooper and Whyld :\n\nPWS was an English author of biographical games collections for Charousek\, Morphy and Pillsbury as well as other works of importance such as A Century of British Chess (1943) and Championship Chess (1938).\n\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (BT Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek :\n\n“A professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects. Without any pretentions to mastership\, he represented Oxford University in the years 1892 – 5 and assisted RC Griffith in preparing three editions of Modern Chess Openings.\n\nIn chess he dealt with a number of important subjects : Morphy’s Games of Chess\, London\, 1916; Charousek’s Games of Chess\, London\, 1919; Pillsbury’s Chess Career (in collaboration with WH Watts)\, London\, 1923; Championship Chess\, London\, 1938.\n\nAll these are lucidly and carefully written but suffer from the defect that\, being neither a master player nor a professional annotator\, he was not competent to deal with the annotational part of the work. Probably his best book on chess was A Century of British Chess\, London\, 1934.\n\nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXX11 (72)\, Number 11 (November)\, page 324 we have this rather brief obituary (presumably written by Brian Reilly):\n\n“We regret to have to report the death\, at the age of eighty-one of Philip W. Sergeant\, the author of A Century of British Chess\, which we imagine is in most chess libraries. He was the author of several well-known historical books – but we are only concerned here with his chess activities\, which included representing Oxford University 1892-5; helping RC Griffith with two editions of Modern Chess Openings; playing for Middlesex\, winning the chess championship of the authors’ club for several year\, and latterly as an honoured member; and occasionally obtaining the championship of the Guildford Chess Club. Our sympathy with his widow and two daughters is sincere.” \n”\n\nHe was a cousin of EG Sergeant.\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “Capablanca sim”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1913.10.13”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Capablanca\, Jose Raul”]\n[Black “Sergeant\, Philip Walsingham”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C90”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “126”]\n[EventDate “1913.10.13”]\n[EventType “simul”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Capablanca”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2002.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2002.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,126\,30\,30\,30\,29\,34\,-7\,28\,-3\,10\,9\,16\,6\,3\,1\,14\,-26\,10\,10\,19\,30\,39\,15\,79\,\n43\,75\,75\,75\,-24\,-11\,-25\,3\,-112\,-118\,-149\,-141\,-175\,-178\,-152\,-145\,-136\,-136\,\n-136\,-120\,-136\,-110\,-91\,-76\,-115\,-90\,-128\,-124\,-131\,-87\,-91\,-92\,-106\,-88\,-109\,\n-110\,-110\,-84\,-84\,-82\,-78\,-90\,-94\,-67\,-65\,-68\,-138\,-64\,-149\,-68\,-61\,-61\,-70\,\n-56\,-51\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,121\,124\,124\,124\,116\,91\,91\,91\,91\,-102\,-93\,-97\,-90\,-125\,-125\,\n-90\,139\,139\,146\,146\,146\,146\,150\,150\,171\,-526\,-311\,-380\,-380\,-408\,-408\,-408\,\n-408\,-496\,-496\,-526\,-580\,-580\,-593\,-633\,-653\,-653\,-657]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.\nBb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 Na5 9. Bc2 c5 10. d4 Qc7\n11. a4 Rb8 12. axb5 axb5 13. dxe5 dxe5 14. Nxe5 Qxe5 15. Rxa5 Ng4 16. f4 (16.\ng3 {[%cal Gc1f4]}) 16… Qc7 {[%cal Gc7a5]} 17. Ra1 (17. h3 Qxa5 18. hxg4 c4)\n17… c4 18. Rf1 Qb6+ 19. Kh1 Nf2+ $19 20. Rxf2 Qxf2 21. Nd2 Bg4 22. Qg1 Bc5\n23. Qxf2 Bxf2 24. h3 Be2 25. g4 O-O 26. Kg2 Be3 27. Nf3 Bxf3+ 28. Kxf3 Bxc1 29.\nRxc1 Rfd8 30. Ke3 b4 31. e5 bxc3 32. bxc3 Rb2 33. h4 g6 34. h5 Kg7 35. g5 Ra2\n36. Be4 Rh2 37. h6+ Kf8 $11 38. f5 Rh3+ 39. Kf4 Ke7 40. Kg4 Re3 41. Kf4 Rh3 42.\nRa1 Rxc3 $2 43. Ra7+ $18 Rd7 44. f6+ Kd8 45. Ra8+ Kc7 46. e6 fxe6 47. Ra7+ $2 (\n47. Ke5 Kb6 48. Rb8+ Ka6 49. Ra8+ Kb5 50. Kxe6 $18) 47… Kd6 $11 48. Ra6+ Kc5\n49. Ke5 Re3 50. Rxe6 Rd5+ 51. Kf4 Rxe4+ 52. Kxe4 Rd4+ 53. Ke3 $18 Rd8 54. Re7\nc3 55. Rxh7 $2 (55. Rc7+ $18) 55… Kc6 56. Ra7 c2 57. Ra6+ Kb5 58. Ra1 Rd1 59.\nRc1 Rxc1 60. Kd2 Ra1 61. Kxc2 Ra8 62. Kd3 Kc5 63. Ke4 Kd6 0-1\n\n[/pgn]\n\nFrom Wikipedia :\n\n“Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27 January 1872\, Notting Hill\, London[1] – 20 October 1952)[2] was a British professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects.[3][4] He collaborated on the fifth (1933)\, sixth (1939)\, and seventh (1946) editions of Modern Chess Openings\, an important reference work on the chess openings. He also wrote biographical game collections of Paul Morphy (Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916) and Morphy Gleanings)\, Rudolf Charousek (Charousek’s Games of Chess (1919))\, and Harry Nelson Pillsbury (Pillsbury’s Chess Career\, with W. H. Watts\, 1922)\, and other important books such as A Century of British Chess (1934) and Championship Chess (1938).”\n\nHarry Golombek writes that\, “Without any pretensions to mastership\, he represented Oxford University in the years 1892-5”.[3] Golombek considers A Century of British Chess probably Sergeant’s best chess book\, but opines that although Sergeant’s chess books are lucidly written\, they suffer from the defect that\, as a non-master\, he was not competent to deal with the annotational aspect of his work.\n\nHe was a second cousin of Edward Guthlac Sergeant.\n\nPhilip Walsingham Sergeant\n\nCharousek’s Games of Chess\n\nThe Rice Memorial Chess Tournament\, 1916\n\nPillsbury’s Chess Career\, London\, 1923\n\nA Century of British Chess\, London\, 1934\n\nAn Introduction to the Endgame at Chess
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-philip-walsingham-sergeant/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Player,Remembering,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201022
DTSTAMP:20260817T135644Z
CREATED:20191020T120956Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Adam Hunt (21-x-1980)
DESCRIPTION:We offer IM Adam Hunt best wishes on his birthday. \nAdam Ceiriog Hunt was born on Tuesday\, October 21st\, 1980 in Oxford and his mother’s maiden name was Williams. The UK Number one single was “Woman in Love” by Barbara Streisand. Adam shares his birthday with Kim Kardashian. \n(Ceiriog was the bardic name of John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–87) \nAdam attended The Cherwell School and The University of Sussex to study general biology. \nJeremy Morse\, Adam Hunt (12)\, Nick Pert (11) and Nigel Short at the Lloyds Bank Masters \nAdam became an International Master in 2001 and then a FIDE Trainer in 2016. According to Felice and Megabase 2020 his attained his peak FIDE rating of 2466 in January 2008 at the age of 28. \nAdam Hunt in 1998  Cathy Rogers \nIn 2004 Adam was living in Headington\, Oxfordshire and in 2007 he moved to Ipswich in Suffolk and was married in 2019. Recently\, Adam and his partner became parents to Henry. \nMost recently Adam has played for 4NCL Blackthorne Russia\, prior to that Bettson.com\, Midlands Monarchs and Perceptron Youth with Witney being his original team. \nHe is Director of Chess at Woodbridge School in Suffolk and is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt \nWith the white pieces is (almost exclusively) an e4 player playing the main line of Ruy Lopez (8.c3) and favouring the Fischer-Sozin against the Najdorf. \nAs the second player Adam plays the Sicilian Najdorf and a 50:50 mixture of the King’s Indian and Grünfeld Defences. \nAdam is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTZvVe5_c-w[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Livigno op-A 2nd”]\n[Site “Livigno”]\n[Date “2011.09.15”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Hunt\, Adam C”]\n[Black “Fedorchuk\, Sergey A”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B84”]\n[WhiteElo “2437”]\n[BlackElo “2635”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “2011.09.12”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ITA”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 144 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.10.28”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.10.28”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,31\,72\,69\,43\,27\,31\,44\,44\,25\,87\,93\,61\,49\,57\,39\,71\,45\,40\,21\,28\,28\,\n35\,41\,34\,30\,41\,1\,59\,12\,27\,60\,49\,49\,97\,53\,102\,101\,100\,127\,91\,95\,20\,-104\,-70\,0\,\n53\,38\,111\,22\,217\,43\,234\,169\,234\,177\,322\,471\,471\,555\,555\,306\,310\,311\,311\,330\,\n335\,275\,272\,313\,323\,341\,372\,372\,372\,373\,407\,411\,472\,475\,853\,855]} 1. e4 c5 2.\nNf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be3 Be7 7. Be2 a6 8. Qd2 Qc7 9. a3\nb5 10. O-O-O O-O 11. f3 Bb7 12. g4 Nc6 13. g5 Nd7 14. h4 b4 15. axb4 $146 (15.\nNxc6) 15… Nxb4 16. h5 $14 Rfc8 $6 (16… Nc5) 17. Kb1 Rab8 18. Nb3 Bc6 19. g6\nhxg6 $6 20. hxg6 $16 fxg6 21. Bd4 Nf6 22. Qg5 Be8 (22… Nxc2 $1 23. Kxc2 Qb7)\n23. e5 Nfd5 24. Qg4 $1 Qd7 25. Qh3 $18 Kf7 26. exd6 (26. Qh7 $142) 26… Bf6\n27. Bxf6 Nxf6 28. Ne4 Nxc2 29. Ng5+ Kf8 30. Nxe6+ Kf7 31. Nbc5 (31. Bd3 $142)\n31… Rxc5 32. Nxc5 Qxh3 33. Rxh3 Ne3 34. Rd4 Bb5 35. Nxa6 Bxa6 36. Bxa6 g5 37.\nd7 Rd8 38. Bb5 Nf5 39. Rd3 Ke7 40. Rh2 Rb8 41. Re2+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nChess Strategy: Move by Move\, Adam Hunt\, Everyman\, 2013 \nIM Adam Hunt
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-adam-ceiriog-hunt-21-x-1980/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201024
DTSTAMP:20201022T133625Z
CREATED:20190823T190534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201022T133625Z
UID:1124-1603411200-1603497599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Sir Theodore Tylor (13-v-1900 23-X-1968)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Sir Theodore Tylor who passed away on Wednesday\, October 23rd\, 1968. \nTheodore Henry Tylor was born on Sunday\, May 13th\, 1900 in Bournville\, (at the time) in northern Worcestershire. Now Bournville is in the metropolitan borough of Birmingham. \nHis father was Henry Bedford Tylor and his mother Minnie Belle Cater and Theo was born when they were both 29. Theo had one sister Rachel Hope who was born on 1 November 1909 in Kings Norton\, Worcestershire\, when Theodore Henry was 9 years old. \nIn the 1911 census Theo is shown as living in Worcester as a student. His father passed away on 26 February 1915 in Birmingham\, Warwickshire\, at the age of 44. \nTheodore Henry Tylor\, Courtesy of John Saunders and Britbase \nIn 1939 Theo was living at 2\, Rawlinson Road\, Oxford where he continued to live until his death. \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIX (1969)\, Number 1 (January)\, pp 6-7 we have the following article : \nSir Theodore Tylor-An Appreciation \nBy W. RITSON MORRY \n“The death of Sir Theodore H. Tylor at the age of sixty-eight was reported in The Times of October 24th. The announcement will be received with deep regret by the many chess enthusiasts who will remember him as a cheerful and extremely resourceful opponent who triumphed over the handicap of near-blindness and lived such a full and distinguished life that it earned him the admiration and respect of the world. \nThe Times has already done full justice to his work as Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence at Balliol for nearly forty years and to his service to organizations for the blind for which he was most justly knighted in 1965\, but it barely mentioned that side of his life with which we chess-players were more intimately acquainted. \nHis education at Worcester College for the Blind naturally brought him into contact with chess and he became a very strong player. ln 1925\, at the age of twenty-five\, he was among the twelve players selected for the British Championship at Stratford-on-Avon and fully justified the selectors’confidence by taking fourth prize\, behind Atkins\, Yates\, and Edmund Spencer\, and ahead of Winter. \nIt was another four years before he became really active\, but in 1929 he again played in the Championship and shared fourth prize with J. H. Morrison and W. Winter behind\, Sultan Khan\, H. E. Price\, and R. P. Michell. He followed this with his first visit to Hastings and in the 1929-30 congress put up the best performance of his career\, sharing first prize with Koltanowski\, in front of Flohr\, Reijifir\, Rellstab\, Alexander\, Jackson\, Noteboom\, Vidmar Jnr.\, and Winser. This\, by the way\, was only a Premier Reserves! \nThis performance evidently impressed the selectors\, for the following summer brought an invitation to play for the B.C.F. team in the Hamburg Olympiad\, where he won one\, drew four\, and lost two games. ln the 1930-31 Hastings Congress he made the first of nine appearances in the Premier Tourney\, but he never managed to maintain sufficient consistency to win honours in this exalted company and was never able to finish higher than equal sixth (in\n1936-7). ln the nine tournaments he won ten tames (of which only two were against non-British opposition-Feigin and Medina) and drew thirty-three (including World Champions Alekhine and Euwe and grandmasters Fine\, Flohr (three times)\, Keres\, Sultan Khan\, Tartakower\, and Vidmar). ln 1934-5 he again tied with Koltanowski for first place in the Premier Reserves. \nSir Theodore Henry Tylor \nln twelve British Championships his best performance was at Hastings in 1933 where he finished second\, 1/2 point behind Sultan Khan and lost only to C. H. O’D. Alexander. In nine of the twelve he was in the first six\, and was four times a prize-winner. He was chosen to play for England against Holland in 1938\, 1948\, and 1952\, and against Yugoslavia in 1951. ln these games he won four and lost four. He was selected to play against\nthe U.S.S.R. in 1946\, but had to withdraw at the last minute. \nIn 1936 he was chosen as one of the four British players in the Nottingham lnternational Tournament. This caused some dissatisfaction among other disappointed aspirants\, but he came ahead of Alexander\, Thomas\, and Winter and captured the scalps of Flohr and Tartakower. ln the same year he was fifth at Margate\, where he drew with Capablanca\, Lundin\, and Stahlberg. \nFinally\, a word should be said about his work away from the board. For six years he was President of the Chess Education Society\, in whose work he took a lively interest from its foundation in 1943. He was President of the Midland Counties Union from 1946-9. He played top board for Oxfordshire for many years and captained the team for a period. We mourn a great friend of chess and a fine player who was a true amateur and obviously enjoyed every minute he spent among us.” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek (article by Ray Keene) : \n“In spite of the handicap of partial blindness\, Tylor enjoyed a successful academic career and was for nearly forty years a Fellow and tutor in jurisprudence at Balliol College\, Oxford. He took up chess seriously while a schoolboy at Worcester College for the Blind and later as an undergraduate captained the Oxford University chess team. \nAt Hastings 1929/30\, Tylor shared first prize with Koltanowski in the Premier Reserves ahead of Flohr\, Reijfir\, Rellstab\, Alexander\, Jackson\, Noteboom\, Vidmar Jr. and Winser. He played in the Hastings Premier event on nine occasions\, but never finished in the top half. He competed in the British Championship twelve times\, his best result being 2nd to Sultan Khan in 1933. He was selected for the BCF team in the Hamburg 1930 Olympiad and was British Correspondence Champion in 1933\, 1934 and 1935.” \nWorcester\, circa 1931: Mir Sultan Khan (left) playsTheodore Tylor\, while Sir George Thomas (far left) andArthur Mackenzie (far right) spectate.Photo courtesy of Britbase. \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Sir Theodore Henry Tylor (13 May 1900 – 23 October 1968)[1] was a lawyer and international level chess player\, despite being nearly blind. In 1965\, he was knighted for his service to organisations for the blind. He was Fellow and Tutor in Jurisprudence at Balliol College\, Oxford for almost forty years.[2] \nBorn in Bournville\,[1] Tylor learned to play chess at age seven. His chess skill increased while he attended Worcester College for the Blind from 1909 to 1918. He studied at Oxford University beginning in 1918\, and captained the Oxford University Chess Club. Tylor received First-class Honours in Jurisprudence in 1922 and was made an honorary scholar of Balliol College. The next year\, he became a Bachelor of Civil Law and a lecturer at Balliol College. Called to the Bar by the Inner Temple with a certificate of honour\, he was made a Fellow at Balliol College in 1928.” \n“Tylor competed in twelve British Championships\, finishing fourth in his first appearance in 1925. His best result was in 1933\, finishing second to Mir Sultan Khan.[2][3] He tied for first at the 1929/30 Hastings Premier Reserves alongside George Koltanowski ahead of Salo Flohr\, Josef Rejfiř\, Ludwig Rellstab\, C.H.O’D. Alexander\, Daniël Noteboom\, and Milan Vidmar.[2] Tylor played in the top section\, the Hastings Premier\, nine times beginning in 1930/1. His best finish was 6th= in 1936/7.[3] He was first reserve for the English team at the Hamburg 1930 Chess Olympiad.[3][4] \nTylor won the British Correspondence Chess Championship in 1932\, 1933\, and 1934.[1][2] He shared 5–6th at Margate 1936 with P. S. Milner-Barry\, but he won their individual game and drew with 2nd- to 4th-place finishers José Raúl Capablanca\, Gideon Ståhlberg\, and Erik Lundin (Salo Flohr won). Although he finished 12th at Nottingham 1936\, he had the best score of the British participants\, ahead of C. H. O’D. Alexander\, G. A. Thomas\, and William Winter.[5] Mikhail Botvinnik noted that Tylor was using a tactile chess board that he incessantly fingered\, as well as a device for counting the number of moves made.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-26 Championship”]\n[Site “Hastings/ East Sussex”]\n[Date “1933.08.03”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Tylor\, Theodore Henry”]\n[Black “Winter\, William”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A47”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “47”]\n[EventDate “1933.07.31”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2017”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2016.10.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2016.10.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,47\,19\,31\,14\,30\,51\,10\,16\,0\,14\,3\,9\,19\,-2\,-9\,-12\,-13\,-3\,-22\,-18\,-21\,-20\,\n-23\,24\,3\,-26\,-3\,-19\,-12\,27\,31\,17\,17\,35\,15\,15\,-26\,-2\,-27\,-24\,-115\,206\,134\,29993\,\n29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,29998]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 b6 3. Nbd2 Bb7 4. e3 e6 5. Bd3\nc5 6. O-O Nc6 7. c3 Be7 8. Qe2 O-O 9. a3 Qc7 10. Re1 d5 11. e4 dxe4 12. Nxe4\ncxd4 13. cxd4 Rad8 14. Be3 Nxe4 15. Bxe4 Bf6 16. Qc2 h6 17. Rac1 Rc8 18. Qd2\nRfd8 $6 19. Bb1 (19. d5 $1) 19… Qd7 20. Qd3 Nxd4 $2 21. Nxd4 Rxc1 22. Qh7+\nKf8 23. Qh8+ Ke7 24. Nf5+ {Sources: The Times\, 4 Aug 1933; Manchester Guardian\,\n5 Aug 1933; The Observer\, 13 Aug 1933; BCM\, Sept 1933\, p394} 1-0\n[/pgn] \n“Tylor was President of the Midland Counties’ Chess Union from 1947 to 1950\, but his work for the university and for the welfare of the blind limited the time he had to devote to chess. Tylor also enjoyed bridge.[3] He died in Oxford on 23 October 1968.” \nSir Theodore Henry Tylor
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201026
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM James Sherwin (25-x-1933)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM James Sherwin\, a welcome long term visitor from “over the pond” \nJames Terry Sherwin was born on Wednesday\, October 25th 1933 in New York. and attended The University of Columbia. \nThe Columbia College chess team of 1949–1952 after a radio match with Yale. Right to left: James Sherwin\, Eliot Hearst\, Carl Burger\, Francis Mechner (Courtesy of the Columbia University Archives). \nHe became an International Master in 1958 at the age of 25 and\, according to Felice\, his peak FIDE rating was 2400 in 1969. \nIM James Sherwin\, Photograph copyright © 2001 Helen Milligan of New Zealand Chess \nMuch to his chagrin (we recommend you do not ask him about this!) James is famous for the “Sherwin slid the rook here with his pinky\, as if to emphasize the cunning of this mysterious move” annotation in Game 1\, “Too Little\, Too Late” of My Sixty Memorable Games by Robert James Fischer (and game introductions by Larry Evans). \nSince 1999 James has been a frequent entrant to English Rapidplay tournaments at Richmond and Golders Green and\, in August 2019 in Torquay\, aged 86\, tied for first place in the Rapidplay event at the British Championships. \nIM James Sherwin \nJames is registered with the Wiltshire County Chess Association and since 2015 has played only rapidplay games rated by the ECF. He currently has a rating of 204D. \nWith the white pieces James plays 1.d4\, 1.Nf3 and 1.e4 in that order of preference.  \nAs the second player he essays the Sicilian Najdorf and the Grünfeld Defence. \nHe has plus scores against Donald Byrne\, Robert Byrne\, Herbert Seidman\, Sidney Bernstein\, George Kramer and Raymond Weinstein (amongst others). His score with Fischer was 0.5/8 (but don’t mention it!). \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“James Terry Sherwin\, born in New York\, became an International Master in 1958. In 1961\, he was Chairman of the USCF Rules Committee. He was the Executive Vice President of GAF Corporation who was the American Chess Foundation (ACF) President from 1979 to 1990. He took 5th place in the 1953 World Junior Championship. He tied for 1st place with Alexander Kevitz in the 1954-55 Manhattan Chess club championship. He took 17th place in the Portoroz Interzonal (1958). Sherwin finished in 3rd place twice in US chess championships (1957-58 and 1958-59). He won the first Eastern Open Chess Championship\, held in Washington DC\, in 1960.” \nHere is an article featuring JTS from The Wiltshire Times \nMr Sherwin\, 80\, met and played against the new members of Bradford & Avon Valley Youth Chess Club on their opening night at St Nicholas Hall on Tuesday. Photo courtesy of The Wiltshire Times \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“James Terry Sherwin (born October 25\, 1933)[1] is an American corporate executive and International Master in chess. \nBorn in New York City[1] in 1933\, Sherwin attended Stuyvesant High School\, Columbia College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Columbia Law School. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Officer Candidate School in 1956 and later became a Lieutenant Commander. He is an attorney admitted to the New York and Supreme Court Bars. He joined GAF Corporation in 1960 serving in various legal and operational roles and eventually becoming its Chief Financial Officer. He was CFO at Triangle Industries from 1983 to 1984\, rejoining GAF Corporation as Vice Chairman from 1985 to 1990. \nIM James T Sherwin \nWhile at GAF\, in 1988\, he was indicted by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York\, Rudolph Giuliani\, for stock manipulation in connection with the 1986 sale of stock owned by GAF.[2] He was convicted after three trials\, but the conviction was reversed on appeal[3] and dismissed with prejudice.[4] In 1991 he was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hunter Douglas N.V.\, a Dutch multinational company\, in which capacity he served until 1999. Since then he has been a Director and an adviser to Hunter Douglas. \nIM James T Sherwin \nHe is an Overseer of the International Rescue Committee and member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Bath in December\, 2007.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “USA-ch”]\n[Site “New York”]\n[Date “1957.??.??”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Sherwin\, James T”]\n[Black “Reshevsky\, Samuel Herman”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E87”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1957.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “13”]\n[EventCountry “USA”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,38\,37\,37\,37\,10\,-5\,9\,12\,25\,32\,14\,62\,41\,48\,46\,55\,56\,\n58\,55\,43\,44\,71\,74\,90\,54\,74\,104\,120\,125\,113\,109\,172\,302\,336\,272\,273\,275\,294\,418\,\n478\,486\,486\,330\,341\,342\,342\,329\,329\,313\,314\,273\,265\,254\,246\,274\,279\,274\,300\,\n297\,297\,289\,299\,299\,300\,320\,353\,350\,359\,362\,369\,369\,405\,405\,409\,410\,416\,430]}\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 Nh5 8. Qd2 a6\n9. O-O-O f5 10. exf5 gxf5 11. Bd3 Qe8 12. Nge2 Nd7 13. Rde1 Kh8 14. Bc2 Nc5 15.\nf4 Qe7 16. Ng3 Nxg3 17. hxg3 Bd7 18. g4 Rae8 19. gxf5 Qf6 20. Bxc5 dxc5 21. Ne4\nQb6 22. f6 Rxf6 23. Nxf6 Qxf6 24. fxe5 Rxe5 25. Rxe5 Qxe5 26. Bxh7 Bf6 27. Kb1\nKg7 28. Qh6+ Kf7 29. Qh5+ Qxh5 30. Rxh5 Bg4 31. Rh1 Be2 32. b3 b5 33. Re1 Bg4\n34. Bd3 Bd7 35. Kc2 b4 36. Rf1 Kg7 37. Bf5 Be8 38. g4 a5 39. Rh1 Kf8 40. Rh7\nBg7 41. Kd3 1-0\n[/pgn] \n“In chess\, Sherwin finished third and tied for third in the US Chess Championship four times and tied for fourth three times.[5] He was Intercollegiate Champion and New York State Champion in 1951 and US Speed Champion in 1956–57 and 1959–60. He earned the International Master title in 1958.[1] He played in the Portorož Interzonal in 1958\, which was part of the 1960 World Championship cycle. While he finished only 17th out of 21 players\, he scored (+2–2=2) against the six players who qualified from the tournament to the Candidates tournament at Bled 1959. He is a previous President of the American Chess Foundation. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydJglx-0Sp0[/embedyt] \nSherwin resides with his wife\, Hiroko\, near Bath\, United Kingdom.” \nJames Sherwin\, middle row\, third from right \n  \n[pgn]\n[Event “Log Cabin 50-50 (05)”]\n[Site “Log Cabin 50-50 (05)”]\n[Date “1957.03.31”]\n[EventDate “?”]\n[Round “5”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[White “James T Sherwin”]\n[Black “Robert James Fischer”]\n[ECO “E87”]\n[WhiteElo “?”]\n[BlackElo “?”]\n[PlyCount “81”] \n1. c4 Nf6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. f3 d6 6. Be3 e5\n7. d5 Nh5 8. Qd2 f5 9. exf5 gxf5 10. O-O-O a6 11. Bd3 Nd7\n12. Nge2 Nc5 13. Bc2 b5 14. Ng3 Nf4 15. Nge2 b4 16. Na4 Nxe2+\n17. Qxe2 Nxa4 18. Bxa4 Bd7 19. Bc2 a5 20. c5 a4 21. c6 b3\n22. axb3 axb3 23. Bxb3 Qb8 24. Qc4 Be8 25. h4 f4 26. Bf2 Bg6\n27. h5 Bf5 28. h6 Bf6 29. Kd2 Ra5 30. Ra1 Rb5 31. Ba7 Rxb3\n32. Bxb8 Rxb2+ 33. Kc1 Rfxb8 34. Rd1 Bh4 35. Ra2 R2b4 36. Qa6\nR8b5 37. Kd2 Rxd5+ 38. Ke2 Rxd1 39. Kxd1 Rd4+ 40. Ke2 Bd3+\n41. Qxd3 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6UxTLhDSds[/embedyt]
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201029
DTSTAMP:20201027T193508Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Susan Lalic (28-x-1965)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes IM Susan Lalic Happy Birthday \nSusan Kathryn Walker was born on Thursday\, October 28th\, 1965 in Chatham\, Kent. Her mother’s maiden is / was Bacon. She has a brother\, Stephen. \nShe attended Nonsuch High School for Girls from 1977 to 1984. \nSusan married Keith Arkell in 1986 and then Bogdan Lalic in Lewes\, East Sussex in 1994 and finally Graeme Buckley in Sutton in 2001. \nWith Bogdan she had a son\, Peter D\, who is a strong player in his own right.  \nThere are ten players in MegaBase 2020 whose surname is Lalic. \nShe became a Woman’s FIDE Master in 1986\, Woman’s International Master in 1987\, Woman’s Grandmaster in 1988 and an International Master in 1996. \nSusan Walker \nAccording to Felice and Megabase 2020 Susan achieved a peak rating of 2405 in January 1997 at the age of 29. \nFrom the Praxis Bath Zonal Tournament of 1987. Susan Walker is at the rear on the left. \nSusan has played in the Four Nations Chess League for Slough\, Wood Green and Guildford and her most recent games in MegaBase 2020 are from 2012. \nKeith Arkell\, Susan Walker and Jeremy Morse at the Lloyds Bank Masters \nShe is five-time British Women’s Chess Champion: 1986\, 1990–1992\, and 1998 and has represented England in nine Olympiads. \nLK Semenova vs Susan Walker at the 1984 Women’s Olympiad \nSusan is very active is Surrey junior chess and teaches in many schools. \nIM Susan Lalic at a Surrey Megafinal \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GivfGnl_l1w[/embedyt] \nWith the White pieces Susan is almost exclusively an e4 player (preferring the Scotch Game) but curiously (and why not you might ask) she has employed The Polish Opening more than once with success. \nAs the second player she defends the Caro-Kann\, Larsen-Spassky\, Smyslov and the Classical Variations and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \nWFM Helen Milligan vs Susan Arkell \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 98th”]\n[Site “Sheffield”]\n[Date “2011.07.26”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Lalic\, Susan”]\n[Black “Hebden\, Mark”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C47”]\n[WhiteElo “2277”]\n[BlackElo “2533”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “91”]\n[EventDate “2011.07.24”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 143 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,91\,29\,33\,34\,20\,6\,24\,21\,14\,-15\,-4\,-10\,-10\,-10\,16\,5\,5\,4\,10\,7\,0\,16\,0\,3\,\n-15\,-9\,-31\,-32\,-36\,-20\,-18\,-15\,-15\,-7\,0\,11\,26\,32\,38\,64\,53\,50\,33\,29\,40\,65\,60\,24\,\n0\,30\,-27\,31\,48\,49\,0\,3\,-53\,-52\,-52\,-95\,-88\,-105\,-132\,-40\,-23\,0\,0\,122\,132\,132\,\n140\,173\,155\,165\,128\,131\,103\,110\,157\,215\,130\,231\,188\,127\,195\,212\,181\,1163\,1463\,\n29985\,29986\,29987\,29988]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4\n6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O d5 9. exd5 cxd5 10. Bg5 c6 11. Qf3 Rb8 12. Rab1\nRe8 13. a3 Bd6 14. Bxf6 Qxf6 15. Qxf6 gxf6 16. b4 Be6 17. Na4 d4 18. Nc5 Bxc5\n19. bxc5 Rbd8 20. Rb7 Rd5 21. Rxa7 Rxc5 22. Re1 Rd8 23. h3 Rc3 24. Bxh7+ Kf8\n25. g4 c5 26. Kh2 Bd5 27. a4 Kg7 28. Be4 Re8 29. Bxd5 Rxe1 30. Rxf7+ Kg6 31. h4\nRe2 32. Kg2 Rcxc2 33. Kg3 Rxf2 34. h5+ Kh6 35. Be4 f5 36. Bxc2 Rxc2 37. Rxf5 d3\n38. Rd5 c4 39. Kf4 Re2 40. Rd6+ Kg7 41. g5 Re7 42. h6+ Kh7 43. Kg4 Rc7 44. Kh5\nRc5 45. Rd7+ Kh8 46. h7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSusan Lalic and friends \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Susan Kathryn Lalic (née Walker; born 28 October 1965) is an English chess player\, holding both International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) titles. She is five-time British Women’s Chess Champion: 1986\, 1990–1992\, and 1998.[2] \nLalic has played for England nine times in Chess Olympiads\, from 1984 to 2000\, inclusive. From 1986 to 1998\, she played on the top board.[3] \nLalic was educated at Nonsuch High School for Girls from 1977 to 1984\, and has been married in the past to Keith Arkell and then to Bogdan Lalić. Currently she is married to International Master Graeme Buckley.[4][5] \nHighest rating from 1987-2012 is 2356(within 133 games)[6]” \nSusan Lalic and friends\, rear\, second from left \nYour Chess Questions Answered by Susan Lalic\,\, 1999
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-susan-kathryn-lalic-28-xi-1965/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201029
DTSTAMP:20201009T141133Z
CREATED:20191028T104539Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Chris Beaumont (28-X-1952)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM Christopher R Beaumont on his birthday\, 28th October 1952. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0203 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “West Bromwich”]\n[Date “2003.04.13”]\n[Round “8.4”]\n[White “Beaumont\, Chris”]\n[Black “Gormally\, Daniel”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E14”]\n[WhiteElo “2328”]\n[BlackElo “2496”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “69”]\n[EventDate “2002.11.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2004”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Bristol”]\n[BlackTeam “Guildford”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,69\,19\,29\,23\,-13\,4\,4\,43\,17\,29\,25\,27\,11\,11\,11\,14\,28\,35\,25\,25\,19\,19\,19\,\n25\,19\,19\,23\,54\,54\,67\,36\,42\,58\,35\,42\,60\,70\,70\,70\,197\,122\,122\,124\,138\,138\,156\,\n156\,187\,202\,272\,223\,241\,247\,331\,328\,355\,365\,406\,357\,364\,441\,512\,521\,519\,569\,\n610\,614\,605\,633\,29999\,-30000]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. d4 Bb4+ 4. Nbd2 b6 5. e3\nBb7 6. Bd3 O-O 7. O-O d5 8. a3 Bxd2 9. Bxd2 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Nbd7 11. Qe2 c5 12.\nRfd1 Ne4 13. Be1 cxd4 14. Nxd4 Qe7 15. f3 Nd6 16. Ba2 e5 17. Nb5 Ba6 18. Qd2\nBxb5 19. Qxd6 Qg5 20. Rd5 a6 21. Rxb5 axb5 22. Qxd7 Qxe3+ 23. Kf1 Qh6 24. Bb4\nRfd8 25. Bxf7+ Kh8 26. Qh3 Qf4 27. Bg6 Qc4+ 28. Ke1 h6 29. Be4 Qd4 30. Qf5 Kg8\n31. Qh7+ Kf7 32. Bg6+ Ke6 33. Bf5+ Kf7 34. Be6+ Ke8 35. Qg8# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM Chris Beaumont
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-christopher-k-beaumont-28-x-1952/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201030
DTSTAMP:20201028T124304Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Reginald Broadbent (03-viii-1906 29-x-1988)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Reginald Broadbent who passed away on October 29th 1988. \nReginald Joseph Broadbent was born on Friday\, August 3rd 1906 (the year of the San Francisco earthquake) in Durban\, South Africa. His father was Joseph Edward Broadbent (born 1879) who married Alice Cook on January 4th\, 1930 in Durban. \nAccording to the 1911 Isle of Man Census (FindMyPast\, Richard James; thanks!) the Broadbent family (sans father) stayed at a guest house in Onchan on the night of February 2nd 1911. Reg (aged 4) was a boarder together with mother Alice (33)\, brother Roland (1) and sister Laura (4). Since Reg and Laura are both recorded as 4 years old it is reasonable to suppose that they were born as twins. We think that Reg had an additional sibling who had passed away and that the name is not recorded. Reassuringly Steve Mann agrees with this conclusion. \nHe married Catherine H Broadbent (born 19th September 1895) and were recorded as living  (in 1939) in “Cheadle and Gately”\, Cheshire. His profession was as a  “Telephone Traffic Superintendent\, Class II\, Post Office Telephones” which was a a civil service occupation. Catherine carried out “unpaid domestic duties”. \nThey resided at 72\, South Park Road\, Gatley\, Cheshire : \n72\, South Park Road\, Gatley\, Cheshire. SK8 4AN \nAccording to Steve Mann in his excellent Yorkshire Chess web site : \n“At some time in 1946 or 1947\, Broadbent moved down south to live in the general vicinity of East Grinstead\, at Far End\, Limes Estate\, Felbridge\, 2 miles NW of East Grinstead\, and later at Southway\, Priory Road\, Forest Row\, 3 miles SE of East Grinstead” \nThe British Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (108\, 1988)\, #12 (December)\, p. 553 records this brief death announcement : \n“Reginald J. Broadbent\, British Champion 1948 and 1950 died on October 29 at the age of 82. He was a member of Manchester and Bradford Chess Clubs in his day\, and was famous for his remarkable record in Anglo-Dutch matches. \nAfter he moved to London around 1950 he was less free to play due to his senior post with the Post Office. A fuller notice will appear next month.” \n As advertised in the British Chess Magazine\, Volume CIX (109\, 1989)\, #1 (January)\, p. 27 we have : \n“Reginald Broadbent (3 viii 1906-29x 1988) was born at Durban and was British Champion in 1948 and 1950. In the latter content he actually won his last six games in a row to reach a score of 8.5 points\, ahead of Klein\, Penrose and Milner-Barry. He was often spoken of as “playing himself into form” in the first half of a contest as his work as a civil servant (the GPO) did not allow him the chance to practise regularly against strong opposition. \nHe was a member of the Manchester and Bradford clubs before the war when he built up a fine record in Anglo-Dutch matches and Northern Counties champion on many occasions.  \nBrian Reilly recalls that Broadbent was selected for the BCF Olympiad side in 1954\, but was forced to turn down the invitation due to the exacting nature of his work in London\, and thereafter his main connection with the game was a chess column in a West of England newspaper. He was a subscriber to BCM right up to his death.” \nWith the white pieces Broadbent was a die-hard 1.e4 player who allowed the Marshall Attack against the Ruy Lopez. \nAs the second player RJB defended the Nimzo-Indian Defence and played Open games. \nHere is one of his best games : \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-35 Championship”]\n[Site “London (Bishopsgate)”]\n[Date “1948.09.08”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Broadbent\, Reginald Joseph”]\n[Black “Aitken\, James Macrae”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C79”]\n[Annotator “Reginald Joseph Broadbent & BCN”]\n[PlyCount “57”]\n[EventDate “1948.08.30”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2008”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,57\,19\,31\,34\,19\,13\,4\,13\,-2\,34\,38\,27\,12\,9\,-7\,4\,-13\,-6\,-8\,-7\,-6\,-6\,-6\,-6\,\n-1\,4\,-34\,45\,20\,32\,15\,13\,9\,11\,12\,25\,18\,23\,26\,31\,-7\,34\,17\,60\,59\,98\,31\,63\,72\,224\,\n312\,646\,699\,974\,978\,1026\,1013\,29995\,29996]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4.\nBa4 d6 5. Bxc6+ {At this point White has several good moves. The text suits\nplayers who like a solid and clear-cut position with possibilities of enduring\npressure\, slight though that pressure may be.} bxc6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 c5 {\nIt is important to attack the knight quickly – that is\, before any advantage\ncan be obtained from Nf5.} 8. Nf3 Bb7 9. Nc3 Nf6 10. O-O Be7 11. Re1 O-O 12.\nQd3 (12. Bg5) 12… Nd7 {White plays to utilise his superiority in space by\nrapidly mobilising his pieces and then opening up the game by e5. Black must\nstrive to prevent e5 or\, failing that\, to minimize its force.} 13. Bf4 {[#]}\nKh8 $6 $146 {Preparing for the next move\, which certainly prevents e5 for a\nlong time\, but at the same time cramps Black’s position.} (13… Re8 {however\,\nseems playable\, to be followed by …Bf6.} {If then} 14. e5 dxe5 15. Nxe5 Nxe5\n16. Bxe5 Qxd3 17. cxd3 Bd6 {Black would then have two powerful bishops in\ncompensation for his weak pawns.}) ({Black no doubt disliked\, if} 13… Bf6 {\nthe continuation} 14. e5 dxe5 15. Nxe5 Nxe5 16. Bxe5 {after which is Q-side\npawn position would have become noticeably weak.}) 14. Rad1 $14 f6 15. Nd2 {\nWhite plans to fix the Black K-side by advancing his pawns to f5 and then to\nmass his pieces for a mating attack. At the same time he has to prevent\, if\npossible\, any freeing manoeuvre by his opponent.} Ne5 16. Qe2 a5 17. Nd5 Ba6\n18. c4 Re8 19. Bg3 Nc6 20. f4 Bf8 21. f5 (21. Nf3) 21… Bc8 22. Qh5 {[%cal\nGd5c7\,Gh5e8]} Ra7 {White had threatened Nxc7} 23. Bh4 $16 Nb4 $2 {[#]} (23…\nNe5) 24. Nxf6 $1 {A break-through combination which allows White to bring all\nhis pieces into effective play.} gxf6 25. e5 Rxe5 ({If} 25… Bg7 26. exf6 {\nwins} Rxe1+ 27. Rxe1 $18) (25… fxe5 26. Bxd8 (26. Ne4) 26… Rxd8 27. Ne4 $18\n) ({if} 25… dxe5 26. Ne4 {wins the Queen.}) 26. Rxe5 Be7 (26… fxe5 27. Ne4\n{wins}) ({If} 26… dxe5 27. Ne4 $18 Qxd1+ 28. Qxd1 {followed by Qd8 or Qg4\naccording to circumstances with an easy win – CHO’D Alexander.}) 27. Rxe7 (27.\nBxf6+ Bxf6 28. Re8+ Kg7 29. Qg4+ Kh6 30. Qh3+ Kg7 31. Qg3+ Kh6 32. Rxd8 Bxd8\n33. Rf1 $18) 27… Qxe7 28. Re1 Qd7 29. Bxf6+ {Source: BCM\, Nov 1948\, p401  An\nexcellent example of the new champion’s style. I (CHO’D A) should like to take\nthis chance of voicing what I know to be the general opnion of the\nChampionship competitors : that Broadbent unquestionably deserved his victory\,\nand is in every way a worthy champion.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFor an element of déjà vu here is RJBs obituary from the 1989 – 1990 BCF Yearbook\, page 14 : \n(The Yearbook editor was Brian Concannon and it would appear standard practise\, at the time\,  not to credit or attribute sources for obituaries.) \nBCF Yearbook\, 1989-1990\, page 14 \nA detailed biography may be found here \n[pgn]\n[Event “Staunton Memorial”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “1951.??.??”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Broadbent\, Reginald Joseph”]\n[Black “Bogoljubow\, Efim”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C87”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “1951.05.26”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,38\,41\,14\,14\,9\,9\,7\,7\,7\,25\,-5\,24\,-2\,18\,22\,27\,-18\,0\,0\,0\,0\,11\,2\,1\,8\,\n6\,3\,-1\,-13\,-21\,-13\,0\,0\,62\,13\,107\,100\,103\,82\,100\,100\,167\,87\,83\,115\,171\,212\,169\,\n241\,205\,214\,437\,29988\,29989\,29990\,29991\,905\,29987\,1375\,29993\,29994]} 1. e4 Nc6\n2. Nf3 e5 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O d6 6. Re1 Bd7 7. c3 Be7 8. d4 O-O 9. Nbd2\nexd4 10. cxd4 Re8 11. Bb3 Bg4 12. Nf1 $146 (12. h3) 12… d5 13. e5 Bb4 14. Re3\nNe4 15. Ng3 Ng5 16. Rd3 Bxf3 $6 17. gxf3 Ba5 18. f4 $18 Ne4 19. Qf3 Nxg3 20.\nhxg3 Bb6 21. Be3 Rb8 22. Kg2 Qd7 23. Rh1 g6 $6 (23… Ne7) 24. g4 Rbd8 25. f5\ngxf5 26. gxf5 Kh8 27. Rxh7+ $1 Kxh7 28. Qh5+ Kg8 29. Bh6 Ne7 30. e6 (30. Rg3+\nNg6 31. fxg6 f5 32. exf6) 30… Nxf5 31. Rg3+ $18 1-0\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Eddie Dearing (30-x-1980)
DESCRIPTION:BCN send best wishes to IM Eddie Dearing on his birthday. \nEdward J Dearing was born on Sunday\, October 30th\, 1980 in Scotland. \nEddie Dearing publicity photograph\, from EDs Facebook page. \nIn 2002 Eddie shared first place (with Karl Mah) in the Smith and Williamson Young Masters  with 6/9  with a TPR of 2458 : \nCross table for the 2012 Smith and Williamson Young Masters \nHe became an International Master in 2002 and\, according to Felice and Megabase 2020 achieved a peak rating of 2420 in July 2005 aged 25. He is currently ranked 8th in Scotland. \nEddie Dearing by Cathy Rogers\, ChessBase profile image \nEddie studied law at the University of Cambridge and did an MBA at the London Business School. Currently Eddie is a fund manager at MFS Investment Management. \nEddie is currently registered for Battersea in the London League and previously has played for Drunken Knights but has not been active since 2014. \nWith the white pieces Eddie prefers the Queen’s Gambit\, Exchange Variation. \nAs the second player Eddie plays the Sicilian Dragon and the Semi-Slav Defence. \nEddie has plus scores against : James Cobb\, Richard Palliser\, Simon Williams\, Karl Mah\, Jacob Aagard\, Colin McNab to name but a few. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0708 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Sunningdale”]\n[Date “2008.03.01”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Dearing\, Eddie”]\n[Black “Cherniaev\, Alexander”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D07”]\n[WhiteElo “2381”]\n[BlackElo “2491”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “41”]\n[EventDate “2007.09.15”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2009”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2008.11.26”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2008.11.26”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,41\,34\,28\,15\,-3\,30\,-10\,34\,34\,31\,7\,38\,21\,33\,31\,40\,28\,28\,45\,20\,47\,57\,34\,\n61\,47\,68\,48\,119\,16\,137\,155\,155\,155\,155\,100\,101\,75\,321\,321\,321\,433\,599\,415]} 1.\nd4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bf4 Bxf3 6. gxf3 dxc4 7. e3 Bb4 8. Bxc4\nNge7 9. Rg1 $146 (9. Qc2) (9. Qb3) 9… Ng6 10. Bg3 Qe7 11. Qc2 O-O 12. O-O-O\nRfd8 13. h4 {[#]} Na5 (13… Bxc3 14. Qxc3 Qf6 $14) 14. Be2 $16 c5 (14… Nxh4\n15. Ne4 Ng6 16. f4 $14) 15. d5 c4 16. h5 $18 Nf8 {[#]} 17. Rd4 $1 f6 18. Bh4\nBxc3 19. Qxc3 e5 20. Rdg4 b6 $2 21. Qxe5 (21. Rxg7+ Qxg7 22. Rxg7+ Kxg7 23. e4\n$18) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nPlay the Sicilian Dragon by Eddie Dearing \nPlay the Nimzo-Indian by Eddie Dearing
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201104
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DTSTAMP:20201030T104555Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Gary Lane (04-xi-1964)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes “down under” to IM Gary Lane on his birthday. \nTeresa Needham and Gary Lane \nGary William Lane was born this day (November 4th) in 1964 in Paignton\, Devon. \nIM Gary Lane \nGary lived in Brixham\, Devon and attended Churston Ferrers Grammar School (also in Brixham) leaving in 1983. \nGary became a FIDE Master in 1984 and an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988. According to Felice and Megabase2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2464 in July 2001 aged 37. \nIM Gary Lane \nThis was written about Gary aged 14 prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n“Churston Grammar and Paignton. Rating 173. BCF Junior squad U-14 co-champion\, 1978.” \nGary Lane and Michael Adams \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFWWwDnCKI[/embedyt] \nIn 2004 won the Australian Championship and was voted Player of the Year. According to Sharpen Your Chess Tactics Gary is a well-known trainer\, and has been involved in coaching some of England and Australia’s top junior players. \nIM Gary Lane at British Chess Championships 2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \n[pgn]\n[Event “Doeberl Cup 39th”]\n[Site “Canberra”]\n[Date “2001.04.16”]\n[Round “7.2”]\n[White “Lane\, Gary William”]\n[Black “Djuric\, Stefan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B22”]\n[WhiteElo “2434”]\n[BlackElo “2508”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “2001.04.13”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “AUS”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 082 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2001.07.03”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2001.07.03”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,38\,25\,41\,46\,53\,13\,21\,26\,27\,0\,62\,44\,63\,58\,64\,56\,54\,39\,47\,26\,40\,18\,\n21\,0\,0\,-31\,-20\,-17\,-39\,0\,0\,8\,0\,-23\,40\,41\,33\,36\,30\,14\,28\,22\,49\,57\,67\,27\,85\,85\,\n92\,25\,68\,100\,121\,186\,173\,92\,75\,48\,37\,37\,168\,458\,1748\,1773]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6\n3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 Nf6 7. Nc3 Qd8 8. Bd3 Be7 9. O-O O-O\n10. Qe2 Nc6 11. Rd1 Nb4 12. Bb1 b6 13. a3 Ba6 14. Qe5 Nbd5 15. Qg3 Nh5 16. Qh3\ng6 17. Ne5 Rc8 18. Nxd5 Qxd5 19. Bh6 Ng7 20. Ba2 Qe4 21. f3 Qe2 22. Bc4 Rxc4\n23. Rd2 Qxd2 24. Bxd2 Rxd4 25. Bc3 Bc5 26. Kh1 Rd6 27. Ng4 Rfd8 28. Re1 h5 29.\nNh6+ Kf8 30. Qh4 e5 31. Bxe5 Rd1 32. Bd6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nGary and friends at the NatWest Bank Young Masters \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Gary William Lane (born 4 November 1964) is a professional chess player and author. He became an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988. He has written over thirty books on chess\, including Find the Winning Move\, Improve Your Chess in 7 Days and Prepare to Attack. There have been translations in French\, Italian\, Portuguese and Spanish. In the 1980s the ITV documentary “To Kill a King” was screened nationwide in Great Britain.It featured a young Michael Adams and Lane. This feature is shown regularly at chess film festivals.” \nIM Gary Lane \n“After his marriage to Woman International Master Nancy Jones\, he moved to Australia\, winning the Australian Chess Championship in 2004. He won the 2005 Oceania Chess Championship and represented Oceania at the Chess World Cup 2005. \nHe has also represented Australia in the 2002\, 2004\, and 2006 Chess Olympiads.[2] In the 2004 Olympiad he helped Australia score a 2–2 draw with his former country England\, scoring a decisive win over Nigel Short.[3] He has been a chess coach for England or Australia at the World Junior and also European Junior championship for over a decade[when?].” \nGary Lane & family at the London Chess Classic\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \n“In 2012 he won the George Trundle Masters in Auckland\, New Zealand with a score of 7/9\,[4] and the NZ South Island Championships in Dunedin\, with a score of 8/9.[5] He was unbeaten in both events. \nIn 2015 at the Australian tournament the Doeberl Cup he beat Loek van Wely the reigning Dutch Champion and one of the world’s leading players. [6] He played the Closed Sicilian which he has also written about in two books. In 2016 he came =1st at George Trundle Masters in Auckland\, New Zealand with a score of 7/9\,[7] and followed this up with =1st place scoring 8/9 at the NZ South Island Championships in Canterbury.[8] He did not lose any games in the two events. At the 2nd Fiji International Open Chess Tournament Lane dominated the event winning with the perfect score of 7/7.[9] A score of 9/9 and clear first place was the result at the 1st Fiji International Rapid Open.[10] \nLane is a supporter of Torquay United F.C. [11]” \nPeter Wells\, Gary Lane\, John Emms and David Norwood \nJon Manley as editor of Kingpin Magazine wrote a spoof version of Gary’s Agony Aunt column \nGary has written almost 30 chess books : \n(1990) The C3 Sicilian: Analysis and Complete Games. The Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1-852233-18-1. \n(1990) The C3 Sicilian: Analysis and Complete Games. The Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1-852233-18-1.\, Gary Lane \nLane\, Gary (1991). The Ruy Lopez for the Tournament Player. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713468-12-0. \nLane\, Gary (1991). The Ruy Lopez for the Tournament Player. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713468-12-0. \nLane\, Gary (1992). Winning with the Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713469-72-1. \nLane\, Gary (1992). Winning with the Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713469-72-1. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Bishop’s Opening. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713471-13-7. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Bishop’s Opening. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713471-13-7. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Scotch. Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Scotch. Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Beating the French. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713473-90-2. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Beating the French. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713473-90-2. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Winning with the Fischer-Sozin Attack. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713475-80-7. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Winning with the Fischer-Sozin Attack. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713475-80-7. \nLane\, Gary (1995). Blackmar–Diemer Gambit. Batsford Chess Library / An Owl Book / Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-4230-X. \nLane\, Gary (1995). Blackmar–Diemer Gambit. Batsford Chess Library / An Owl Book / Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-4230-X. \nLane\, Gary (1996). A Guide to Attacking Chess. B.T.Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-8010-6. \nLane\, Gary (1996). A Guide to Attacking Chess. B.T.Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-8010-6. \nLane\, Gary (1997). The Grand Prix Attack: attacking lines with f4 against the Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1997). The Grand Prix Attack: attacking lines with f4 against the Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1999). Victory in the Opening. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713484274. \nLane\, Gary (1999). Victory in the Opening. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713484274. \nLane\, Gary (2000). The Vienna Game. Everyman Chess. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2000). The Vienna Game. Everyman Chess. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Colle. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713486865. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Colle. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713486865. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713486-87-2. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713486-87-2. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Ideas Behind the Modern Chess Openings: Attacking With White. Batsford. ISBN 9780713487121. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Ideas Behind the Modern Chess Openings: Attacking With White. Batsford. ISBN 9780713487121. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Find the Checkmate. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Find the Checkmate. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2004). The Bishop’s Opening Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8917-0. \nLane\, Gary (2004). The Bishop’s Opening Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8917-0. \nLane\, Gary (2004). ‘Find the Checkmate. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713488-61-6.\nLane\, Gary (2004). Playing Chess: Step by Step. Mud Puddle Books. ISBN 978-1-594120-55-8. \nLane\, Gary (2004). Playing Chess: Step by Step. Mud Puddle Books. ISBN 978-1-594120-55-8. \nLane\, Gary (2005). Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black. Batsford. ISBN 9780713489507.\nLane\, Gary (2005). The Scotch Game Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8940-5. \nLane\, Gary (2005). The Scotch Game Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8940-5. \nLane\, Gary (2006). The Ruy Lopez Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8978-2. \nLane\, Gary (2007). Improve Your chess In 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-9050-3. \nLane\, Gary (2007). Improve Your chess In 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-9050-3. \nLane\, Gary (2008). The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445770. \nLane\, Gary (2008). The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445770. \nLane\, Gary (2009). Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 9781906388287. \nLane\, Gary (2009). Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 9781906388287. \nLane\, Gary (2011). Prepare to Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857446500. \nLane\, Gary (2011). Prepare to Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857446500. \nLane\, Gary (2013). Gary Lane’s Chess Puzzle Book. e+books. ISBN 978-1-927179-14-7. \nLane\, Gary (2013). Gary Lane’s Chess Puzzle Book. e+books. ISBN 978-1-927179-14-7. \nIM Gary Lane\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Philip Morris (05-xi-1957)
DESCRIPTION:We wish IM Philip J Morris all the best on his birthday\, this day (November 5th) in 1967. \nPhil plays regularly for Beckenham & Charlton Chess Club in the London Chess League and has played for Invicta Knights Maidstone in the Four Nations League. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Telecom op”]\n[Site “Dublin”]\n[Date “1991.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Suba\, Mihai”]\n[Black “Morris\, Philip”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A34”]\n[WhiteElo “2540”]\n[BlackElo “2405”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “50”]\n[EventDate “1991.03.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[SourceTitle “TD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1994.03.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1994.03.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,50\,19\,-12\,11\,19\,14\,21\,86\,76\,67\,21\,23\,35\,73\,30\,59\,-20\,11\,23\,4\,8\,27\,20\,\n25\,12\,17\,9\,-2\,21\,25\,32\,39\,37\,30\,-8\,-8\,-27\,-27\,-27\,-48\,-52\,-78\,-78\,-80\,-258\,\n-275\,-335\,-342\,-532\,-609\,-614\,-635]} 1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5\n5. d4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 g6 7. Bg5 Bg7 8. Qa4+ Nc6 9. e3 Bd7 10. Qa3 Qa5 11. Qxa5\nNxa5 12. Rb1 Rc8 13. Bd3 cxd4 14. cxd4 Rc3 15. Ke2 f6 16. Bf4 Kf7 17. h3 Rhc8\n18. e4 Ra3 19. Rb2 Nc4 20. Rxb7 Rxa2+ 21. Nd2 Nxd2 22. Bxd2 Bh6 23. f4 Bxf4 24.\nRxd7 Rxd2+ 25. Kf3 Bg5 0-1\n[/pgn]
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201107
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Jacob Sarratt (?-?- 1772 06-xi-1819)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Jacob Henry Sarratt who died 201 years ago today (November 6th) in 1819. \nChess historians will\, of course\, be familiar with JHS but the name is (probably) not well known outside these exalted circles. \nPossibly his most obvious contribution to chess in England was in 1807 when he influenced the result of games that ended in stalemate. You may not know that in England prior to 1807 a game that ended in stalemate was recorded as a win for the party who was stalemated. JHS was able to encourage various major chess clubs so that the result be recorded as a draw. Much endgame theory would be different if it wasn’t for JHS ! \nOutside of chess\, JHS was an interesting chap : \nThe content below has been copied (and we have corrected a number of typos along the way) from http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/Sarratt.html \nAlso\, http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/articles/Sarratt.htm is worthy of consultation. \n“Jacob Henry Sarratt\, born in 1772\, worked primarily as schoolmaster but was much better known for his advocations which\, of course\, included chess. \nAfter Philidor’s death\, Verdoni (along with Leger\, Carlier and Bernard – all four who co-authored Traité Théorique et Pratique du jeu des Echecs par une Societé d’ Amateurs) was considered one of the strongest players in the world\, especially in England. Verdoni had taken Philidor’s place as house professional at Parsloe’s. He mentored Jacob Sarratt until he died in 1804. That year Sarratt became the house professional at the Salopian at Charing Cross in London and most of his contemporaries considered him London’s strongest player. \nThere he claimed the title of Professor of Chess while teaching chess at the price of a guinea per game. \nBy any measure Surratt was not a particularly strong player\, but he was able to maintain the illusion that he was by avoiding the stronger players as he lorded over his students who didn’t know better. \nSarratt’s most important contribution to chess was that he mentored William Lewis who in turn mentored Alexander McDonnell. \nSurratt had a strange notion that chess culminated in the 16th century and that everything since then had been a step backwards. This odd notion had a positive side. Philidor was the darling of the English chess scene. Almost all books at that time were versions of\, or at least based on\, Philidor’s book. Surratt at least kept open the possibility that there were ideas beyond those of Philidor. \nIn 1808\, true to his role as a teacher\, Surratt published his Treatise on the Game of Chess\, a book that mainly concentrated on direct attacks on the king which he lifted from the Modense writers. \nHe translated several older writers whom he admired (though his translations are not considered particularly good):\nThe Works of Damiano\, Ruy Lopez and Salvio in 1813.\nThe Works of Gianutio and Gustavus Selenus in 1817. \nIn 1921 a posthumous edition of his Treatise\, A New Treatise on the Game of Chess\, was published. This copy covered the game of chess as a whole and was designed for the novice player. It also contained a 98 page analysis of the Muzio Gambit \nIn addition to his chess books\, Surratt also published\n[i]History of Man in 1802\,\nA New Picture of London[/i] in 1803\nHe translated Three Monks!!! from French in 1803 and Koenigsmark the Robber from German in 1803. \nHis second wife\, Elizabeth Camillia Dufour\, was also a writer. In 1803 (before they were married\, which was 1804)\, she published a novel called Aurora or the Mysterious Beauty. \nThey were married the following year. His first wife had died in 1802 at the age of 18. Both his wives were from Jersey. \nContrary to what one might expect\, Sarratt has been described tall\, lean and muscular and had even been a prize-fighter at one point. He had also bred dogs for fighting. He was regarded as a very affable fellow and very well-read but with limited taste (Ed : surely this applies to everyone ?) \nWilliam Hazlitt\, in his essay On Coffee-House Politicians wrote: \n[Dr. Whittle] was once sitting where Sarratt was playing a game at chess without seeing the board… Sarratt\, who was a man of various accomplishments\, afterwards bared his arm to convince us of his muscular strength…\nSarratt\, the chess-player\, was an extraordinary man. He had the same tenacious\, epileptic faculty in other things that he had at chess\, and could no more get any other ideas out of his mind than he could those of the figures on the board. He was a great reader\, but had not the least taste. Indeed the violence of his memory tyrannised over and destroyed all power of selection. He could repeat [all] Ossian by heart\, without knowing the best passage from the worst; and did not perceive he was tiring you to death by giving an account of the breed\, education\, and manners of fighting-dogs for hours together. The sense of reality quite superseded the distinction between the pleasurable and the painful. He was altogether a mechanical philosopher.” \nSomewhere along the way there must have come about a complete reversal of his fortunes because Surratt died impoverished in 1819\, leaving his wife destitute. But the resilient Elizabeth Sarratt was able to support herself by giving chess lessons to the aristocracy of Paris. \nShe must have been very well liked. In 1843 when she herself became old and unable to provide for herself\, players from both England and France took up a fund to help her out. She lived until 1846. \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984 & 1992) by Hooper & Whyld : \nReputedly the best player in England from around 1805 until his death. As a young man he met Philidor. Subsequently he developed his game by practice with a strong French player Hippolyte du Rourblanc (d. 1813)\, with whom he had a long friendship dating from 1798\, and with Verdoni\, Sarratt’s first important contribution to the game was in connection with the laws of chess: he persuaded the London club\, founded in 1807\, to accept that a game ending in stalemate should be regarded as a draw and not as a win for the player who is stalemated. He became a professional at the Salopian coffee house at Charing Cross\, London\,  \nNos. 39-41\, Charing Cross and the Timber Yard \nand in 1808 wrote his Treatise on the Game of Chess.  \nTreatise on the Game of Chess by JH Sarratt\, 1808 \nThis\, largely a compilation from the work of the Modenese masters\, advocated that players should seek direct attack upon the enemy king\, a style that dominated the game until the 1870s. An Oxford surgeon\, W. Tuckwell\, wrote that he learned chess ‘from the famous Sarratt\, the great chess teacher\, whose fee was as a guinea a lesson’. Lewis\, who played many games with Sarratt from 1816\, wrote in 1822 (after he had met both Deschapelles and Bourdonnais) that Sarratt was the most finished player he had ever met\, Sarratt translated the works of several early writers on the game\, making them known for the first time to English readers: The Works of Damiano\, Ruy Lopez and Selenus (1813) and The Works of Gianutio and Gustavus Selenus (1817). \nHe died impoverished on 6 Nov. 1819 after a long illness during which he was unable lo earn a livelihood by teaching. Instead he wrote his New Treatise on the Game of Chess published posthumously in 1821\, This is the first book to include a comprehensive beginner’s section: in more than 200 pages Sarratt teaches by means of question and answer. Another feature is a 98-page analysis of the Muzio gambit : \n[fen cal=Gf1f7\,Gc4f7]rnbqkbnr/pppp1p1p/8/8/2B1Ppp1/5N2/PPPP2PP/RNBQ1RK1 b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nHad it been Sarratt’s ambition to become a chess professional there would have been scant opportunity during the lifetime of Philidor and Verdoni. A tall\, lean\, yet muscular man\, sociable and talkative\, he seems in his younger days to have had interests of a different kind\, among them prize fighting and the breeding of fighting dogs. Hazlitt\, who met Sarratt around 1812 wrote ‘He was a great reader\, but had not the least taste. Indeed the violence of his memory tyrannised over and destroyed all power of selection. He could repeat Ossian by heart\, without knowing the best passage from the worst.’  \nSarratt’s early publications were History of Man (1802): translations of two Gothic novels\, The Three Monks!!! (1803)\, from the French of Elisabeth Guénard (Baronne de Méré) \, and Koenigsmark the Robber (1803)\, from the German of R. E. Raspe; A New Future of London (1803)\, an excellent guide that ran to several editions\, the last in 1814\, When war broke out with France in 1803 Sarratt became\, for a short period\, a lieutenant in the Royal York Mary-le-Bone Volunteers and published Life of Bonaparte * a propaganda booklet detailing Napoleon’s alleged war crimes\, and warning of the desolation that would follow if he were to invade.  \nNot long after the birth of his second child in 1802 Sarratt’s wife died and in 1804 he married a Drury Lane singer\, Elisabeth Camilla Du four. Tt would be difficult to find a more accomplished\, a more amiable\, or a happier couple than Mr and Mrs Sarratt’ – Mary Julia Young\, Memoirs of Mrs Crouch (1806)\, Mrs Sarratt too was a writer contributing tales to various journals and publishing Aurora or the Mysterious Beauty (1803)\, a translation of a French novel. She survived her husband until 1846\, ending her days giving chess lessons to the aristocracy in Paris. In 1843 Louis-Philippe and many players from England and France subscribed to a fund on her behalf. ” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“Self-styled ‘Professor of Chess’\, Sarratt was the first professional player to teach the game in England. He was the author of a A Treatise on the Game of Chess\, The  (1808)\, The Works of Damiano\, Ruy Lopez and Salvio (1813)\, The Works of Gianutio and Gustavas Selenus (1817) and a New Treatise on the Game of Chess (1821). \nThere is no record of Sarratt’s date or place of birth\, He began his career as a schoolmaster and later taught chess at Tom’s Coffee House\, Cornhill\, London\, and at the London Chess Club\, and was in his day considered to be the strongest player in London.” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1983)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“Leading English player of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Famed in his day as a teacher and author. Sarratt adopted the title of ‘Professor of Chess’\, His writings include A Treatise on the Game of Chess\, London 1808\, The Works of Damiano\, Ruy Lopez and Salvio (1813). \nSarratt is usually credited with introducing into England the Continental practise of counting a game ending in stalemate as a draw. (RDK)” \nSome games by Jacob Henry Sarratt: \n[pgn]\n[Event “Unknown”]\n[Site “Unknown”]\n[Date “1810.??.??”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[White “J Sarratt”]\n[Black “NN”] \n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. O-O gxf3 6. Qxf3 Bh6\n7. c3 Nc6 8. d4 Qe7 9. e5 Nxe5 10. dxe5 Qc5+ 11. Kh1 Qxc4\n12. Na3 Qc6 13. Qh5 Qg6 14. Qf3 Ne7 15. Nb5 Kd8 16. Bxf4 Bxf4\n17. Qxf4 Rg8 18. Rf2 a6 19. Nd4 b6 20. g3 Bb7+ 21. Kg1 Rg7\n22. Qf6 Ke8 23. Raf1 Bd5 24. b3 c5 25. c4 cxd4 26. cxd5 Nxd5\n27. Qf3 Qc6 28. e6 dxe6 29. Re1 Rc8 30. Re5 Ne3 31. Rxe3 Qc1+\n32. Kg2 dxe3 33. Rf1 Qd2+ 34. Kh3 e2 35. Rf2 Qh6+\n36. Kg2 e1=N+ 37. Kh1 Nxf3\n0-1\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Unknown”]\n[Site “Unknown”]\n[Date “1810.??.??”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[White “NN”]\n[Black “J Sarratt”] \n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. O-O gxf3 6. Qxf3 Qe7\n7. d4 Nc6 8. c3 Ne5 9. dxe5 Qc5+ 10. Kh1 Qxc4 11. Bxf4 Bh6\n12. Nd2 Qe6 13. Nb3 d6 14. Nd4 Qg4 15. exd6 Qxf3 16. Rxf3 Bxf4\n17. Rxf4 cxd6 18. Nb5 Ke7 19. Rd1 Be6 20. Nxd6 Rd8 21. e5 Nh6\n22. c4 b6 23. b4 Rhg8 24. c5 Rg5 25. Re1 Nf5 26. h3 Ng3+\n27. Kh2 Bd5 28. Rf2 Rdg8 29. c6 Nf5 30. Nxf5+ Rxf5 31. Ree2 Rxf2\n32. Rxf2 Bxg2\n0-1\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Unknown”]\n[Site “Unknown”]\n[Date “1810.??.??”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[White “Unknown”]\n[Black “J Sarratt”] \n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. O-O gxf3 6. Qxf3 Bh6\n7. e5 Nc6 8. c3 Qe7 9. Qd5 Nxe5 10. Bb3 Nf6 11. Qb5 c6\n12. Qe2 f3 13. gxf3 Rg8+ 14. Kh1 d5 15. Na3 Ng6 16. Qf2 Nf4\n17. Re1 Be6 18. Qd4 Nh3 19. Qh4 Bg5 20. Qa4 Bxd2 21. Rf1 Qc5\n22. Qd4 Qxd4 23. cxd4 Bxc1 24. Raxc1 Kd7 25. f4 Bg4 26. Rc3 Ne4\n27. Rg3 Be2 28. Re1 Bf3+ 29. Rxf3 Nhf2+ 30. Rxf2 Nxf2#\n0-1\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Unknown”]\n[Site “Unknown”]\n[Date “1816.??.??”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[White “J Sarratt”]\n[Black “W Lewis”] \n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 g4 5. Ne5 Qh4+ 6. Kf1 f3\n7. g3 Qh3+ 8. Kf2 Qg2+ 9. Ke3 Bh6+ 10. Kd3 d5 11. Bxd5 c6\n12. Bxf7+ Ke7 13. Qf1 Kf6 14. Bxg8 Kxe5 15. Bb3 Rd8+ 16. Kc3 Bg7\n17. d3 Kd6+ 18. d4 Kc7 19. Bf4+ Kb6 20. e5 a5 21. Nd2 Ka7\n22. Qxg2 fxg2 23. Rhg1 b5 24. Ne4 Bf5 25. Rae1 Na6 26. a3 c5\n27. Nxc5 Rac8 28. Bf7 Nxc5 29. dxc5 Rxc5+ 30. Kb3 Rxc2\n31. Rc1 Rdc8 32. Rxc2 Rxc2 33. Bd5 Re2 34. Rxg2 Re1\n1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “London”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1818.??.??”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[White “Sarratt”]\n[Black “NN”] \n1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. e3 b5 4. a4 Bd7 5. axb5 Bxb5 6. Nc3 Ba6 7. Qf3 c6\n8. Rxa6 Nxa6 9. Qxc6+ Qd7 10. Qxa8+ Qd8 11. Qc6+ Qd7 12. Qxa6\n1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Unknown”]\n[Site “Unknown”]\n[Date “1818.??.??”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[White “J Sarratt”]\n[Black “NN”] \n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4 h6 6. d4 d6\n7. c3 c6 8. Qb3 Qe7 9. O-O b5 10. Bd3 g4 11. Nh2 Qxh4\n12. Rxf4 Nf6 13. e5 Nd5 14. Rf1 g3 15. Nf3 Qh5 16. exd6 Bg4\n17. Re1+ Kd7 18. Nbd2 Re8 19. Rxe8 Kxe8 20. Qd1 Nd7 21. Qe1+ Kf8\n22. Qxg3 Re8 23. Ne4 Bxf3 24. Qxf3 Qxf3 25. gxf3 f5 26. Nc5\n1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “England”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1818.??.??”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[White “J Sarratt”]\n[Black “NN”] \n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4 h6 6. d4 d6\n7. c3 Bg4 8. Qb3 Bxf3 9. Bxf7+ Kf8 10. gxf3 b6 11. hxg5 hxg5\n12. Rxh8 Bxh8 13. Bxg8\n1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Unknown”]\n[Site “Unknown”]\n[Date “1818.??.??”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[White “J Sarratt”]\n[Black “NN”] \n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4 g4 6. Ng5 Nh6\n7. d4 f6 8. Bxf4 fxg5 9. hxg5 Ng8 10. Qxg4 d5 11. Qh5+ Kf8\n12. Bxd5 Qe7 13. O-O Bxd4+ 14. Be3+ Bf6 15. gxf6 Nxf6\n16. Bh6+ Qg7 17. Qf7#\n1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “ENG”]\n[Site “ENG”]\n[Date “1818.??.??”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[White “J Sarratt”]\n[Black “NN”] \n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4 h6 6. d4 d6\n7. c3 c6 8. Qb3 Qe7 9. O-O Nd7 10. hxg5 hxg5 11. Nxg5 Qxg5\n12. Bxf7+ Kf8 13. Bxf4 Qh4 14. Bxd6+ Ne7 15. Bg6+ Nf6 16. Qf7#\n1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Unknown”]\n[Site “Unknown”]\n[Date “1818.??.??”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[White “J Sarratt”]\n[Black “NN”] \n1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 g5 4. Bc4 Bg7 5. h4 h6 6. d4 d6\n7. c3 c6 8. Qb3 Qe7 9. O-O b5 10. Bd3 Bb7 11. a4 a6\n12. axb5 axb5 13. Rxa8 Bxa8 14. Qa3 Bb7 15. Qa7 Na6\n16. hxg5 hxg5 17. Nxg5 Qxg5 18. Qxb7 Qh4 19. Qxc6+ Ke7\n20. Bxf4 Qh1+ 21. Kf2 Qh4+ 22. g3 Qh2+ 23. Ke1 Qxb2\n24. Bxd6+ Kd8 25. Qb6+ Kd7 26. Bxb5+ Ke6 27. d5#\n1-0\n[/pgn]
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTSTAMP:20201104T112226Z
CREATED:20191028T135928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T112226Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Gary Quillan (07-xi-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Best wishes to IM Gary M Quillan on his birthday\, this day (November 7th) in 1970. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Gibraltar Masters 16th”]\n[Site “Caleta”]\n[Date “2018.01.23”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Quillan\, Gary”]\n[Black “Dubov\, Daniil”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B06”]\n[WhiteElo “2340”]\n[BlackElo “2694”]\n[Annotator “Ftacnik\,L”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “2018.01.23”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “GGB”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 183”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.03.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.03.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,31\,80\,74\,88\,-29\,71\,24\,67\,68\,50\,47\,17\,18\,20\,1\,0\,-50\,-4\,-25\,-27\,\n-36\,-18\,-9\,2\,-14\,-16\,4\,14\,-15\,15\,0\,15\,16\,75\,75\,87\,49\,55\,44\,44\,44\,130\,87\,87\,38\,\n142\,142\,116\,172\,189\,69\,335\,424\,669\,733\,1385\,1579\,1579\,1649\,1676\,1841]} 1. e4 g6\n2. d4 Bg7 3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 Bg4 {This is not a variation that strong players\nwould try often. Dubov is very unconventional player and believes\, that he can\noutsmart his lesser opponent on the unknown territory.} 5. c3 Nd7 6. Bc4 e6 7.\nO-O (7. h3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3 Nb6 (8… c6 9. f5 exf5 10. O-O d5 11. exd5 cxd5 12.\nQxd5 Qe7 13. Qxb7 Rb8 14. Qxa7 Ngf6 15. Bf4 O-O 16. Nd2 Ra8 17. Qb7 Nh5 18.\nRae1 $18 {1-0 (30) Pym\,T (2099)-Dignam\,M (2194) Douglas 2005}) 9. Bd3 d5 10. e5\nBf8 11. Be3 h5 12. g3 Qd7 13. Nd2 c5 14. dxc5 Na4 15. b4 Nxc3 16. O-O Qa4 17.\na3 a5 18. Rfc1 axb4 19. Qf1 Ra5 20. axb4 $18 {1-0 (22) Matic\,Z (2176)-Jurkovic\,\nA (2339) Zagreb 2006}) (7. Be3 Ngf6 8. Nbd2 d5 9. Bd3 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nd5 11. Bd2\nQe7 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 O-O 14. h4 c5 15. Nxc5 Nxc5 16. dxc5 Qxc5 17. h5 Rfd8\n18. hxg6 hxg6 19. g4 Rac8 20. Kf1 Rd6 21. Re1 Rcd8 22. Bb1 Qb5+ 23. Kg1 Qxb2 {\n0-1 (23) Schlechter\,C-Pillsbury\,H Monte Carlo 1903}) (7. f5 exf5 8. Qb3 Qe7 9.\nNg5 fxe4 10. Nxf7 Kf8 11. Nxh8 Bxh8 12. Bxg8 Nf6 13. O-O $18 {1-0 (45)\nRaedisch\,P-Rossbach\,M Kiel 2000}) 7… Ne7 (7… Nb6 8. Bd3 d5 9. e5 Ne7 10. a4\na5 11. Na3 Qd7 12. b3 O-O 13. Nc2 Rac8 14. Ne3 Bxf3 15. Rxf3 c5 16. Bb5 Qd8 17.\nBd2 cxd4 18. cxd4 Na8 19. Qe1 b6 20. Ba6 Rc7 21. b4 Nc6 22. bxa5 Nxd4 $11 {\n1-0 (90) Vucko\,J (2187)-Babits\,A (2270) Hungary 2005}) (7… c6 8. Nbd2 (8. f5\ngxf5 9. h3 fxe4 10. hxg4 exf3 11. Qxf3 Qe7 12. b4 d5 13. Bb3 f6 14. b5 h5 15.\nbxc6 bxc6 16. g5 f5 17. Qf4 Nf8 18. Ba3 Qd7 19. Re1 Ne7 20. Nd2 $16 {1/2-1/2\n(39) Novak\,I-Trapl\,J Harrachov 1966}) 8… Qc7 9. b4 Ngf6 10. Bd3 Nh5 11. Nb3\nNxf4 12. Bxf4 O-O 13. Qe1 e5 14. dxe5 Bxf3 15. Rxf3 Nxe5 16. Rh3 Nxd3 17. Qh4\nh5 18. Rxd3 $18 {1-0 (44) Rodriguez Dorado\,V-Gomez Velasco\,J Valladolid 1997})\n8. Qe1 (8. h3 Bxf3 9. Qxf3 O-O 10. e5 (10. f5 exf5 11. Bg5 Kh8 12. Bxe7 Qxe7\n13. exf5 c6 14. Nd2 Rae8 15. Rf2 d5 16. Bd3 Qe3 17. Nf1 Qxf3 18. Rxf3 Bh6 19.\nNg3 Re7 $15 {1/2-1/2 (55) Levi\,E (2215)-Ker\,A (2300) Melbourne 1989}) 10… d5\n11. Bd3 c5 12. Be3 Qb6 13. Qf2 c4 14. Be2 Qxb2 15. Nd2 Qxc3 16. Nf3 Qa5 17. g4\nf6 18. Qh4 g5 19. Qh5 gxf4 20. Bxf4 Ng6 $19 {0-1 (24) Metz\,H-Zysk\,R (2400)\nBaden-Baden 1987}) (8. Be3 O-O 9. Nbd2 c5 10. h3 cxd4 11. cxd4 Bxf3 12. Qxf3\nNb6 13. Bb3 d5 14. e5 Qd7 15. Rfc1 Rfc8 16. Rc5 Rxc5 17. dxc5 Na4 18. Bxa4 Qxa4\n$15 {0-1 (52) Bonnaire\,R-Zunker\,R (2165) Bad Wildungen 1998}) (8. Bb3 O-O 9.\nBe3 d5 10. e5 Nf5 11. Bf2 f6 12. Nbd2 Bh6 13. g3 fxe5 14. dxe5 g5 15. c4 c6 16.\ncxd5 cxd5 17. fxg5 Bxg5 18. Nxg5 Qxg5 19. Nf3 Qh5 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. Qxd5+ Kh8\n$19 {0-1 (55) Ponizil\,C (2478)-Petenyi\,T (2454) Czech Republic 2017}) 8… O-O\n9. Bb3 {The first part of the opening phase is over and Black must be\nespecially careful about his potentially stranded bishop on g4.} (9. Nbd2 c5\n10. Bb3 cxd4 11. Nxd4 Nc5 12. Bc2 e5 $11) 9… Bxf3 10. Rxf3 c5 11. Be3 cxd4\n12. cxd4 {Trading the bishops on d4 might have some merit\, but White would be\npractically forced to sacrifice the pawn.} (12. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 13. cxd4 Qb6 14. Kh1\nQxd4 15. Nc3 $44) 12… Nf6 13. Nc3 Ng4 14. Rd1 Qb6 (14… d5 15. e5 Nxe3 16.\nQxe3 Rc8 $11) 15. Na4 {The fight is obviously concentrated around the d4-pawn.\nQuillan does not like the black queen interfering on the a7-g1 diagonal.} (15.\nBf2 Nc6 16. e5 Nxf2 17. Qxf2 $11) 15… Qa6 (15… Qc7 16. Bc1 b5 17. Nc3 b4\n18. Na4 Nf6 $11) 16. Bc1 b5 (16… Nc6 17. e5 Rad8 18. h3 Nh6 $11) 17. Nc3 Qb6\n$2 {Dubov has failed to notice the very clever answer of his opponent\, the\nposition was still equal.} (17… b4 18. Ne2 Qb7 19. e5 Nh6 $11) 18. Qh4 $1 Nf6\n{The shock must have been very unpleasant. The attack against the d4-pawn\nloses its merit and the black pieces are scrambling to get coordinated again.}\n(18… h5 $5 19. Qxe7 Bf6 20. Qd7 a6 21. Bxe6 Bxd4+ (21… Rad8 22. Bxg4 $16)\n22. Kh1 Nf6 23. Bxf7+ Rxf7 24. Qh3 Bxc3 25. Be3 Qc6 26. bxc3 $16) (18… Bxd4+\n19. Kh1 Nf2+ 20. Rxf2 Bxf2 21. Qxe7 b4 22. Na4 Qd8 23. Qg5 $1 $16) 19. g4 $1\nQb7 20. Rh3 h5 $2 {Defence in chess is an art that very few top players have\nmastered properly. The radical move with the h-pawn is objectively bad\, but it\nmust be admitted that Dubov was under intense pressure.} (20… h6 $1 21. e5\ndxe5 22. dxe5 Nh7 23. f5 gxf5 24. Bxh6 Ng6 25. Qh5 fxg4 26. Qxg4 $16) 21. gxh5\nNxh5 22. f5 $1 {[%mdl 128]} exf5 (22… d5 23. Bg5 Nc6 24. f6 Bh8 25. exd5 $18)\n23. exf5 (23. Bg5 Rae8 24. Bxe7 Qxe7 25. Qxe7 Rxe7 26. exf5 Kh7 27. Nxb5 $16)\n23… Nxf5 24. Qg5 {A fine move that hints at the numerous problems Black is\nexperiencing with his pieces. The knights on f5 and h5 are vulnerable\, but it\nis the soft g6-pawn that causes the catastrophe of the black position.} Ne7 (\n24… d5 25. Rxh5 Rac8 26. Nxd5 $18) 25. Rxh5 $1 gxh5 26. Rd2 d5 {Completely\ndesperate attempt to close the diagonal a2-g8 as it prevents Black from even\ndreaming about a sufficient defence.} (26… Qb6 27. Qxe7 Qd8 28. Qxd8 Raxd8\n29. Nxb5 $18) (26… Qf3 27. Rg2 Nf5 28. Bd5 Qd3 29. Be4 Qxd4+ 30. Kh1 Ne7 31.\nBxa8 $18) 27. Nxd5 Rfe8 (27… Rfc8 28. Nxe7+ Kf8 29. Ng6+ Kg8 30. Rg2 $18) 28.\nRg2 {White was very efficient in opening up the kingside\, the defender can\nonly choose the form of honourable undoing.} Ng6 (28… Nf5 29. Qxf5 Re1+ 30.\nKf2 Rxc1 31. Qf6 $18) 29. Nf6+ Kf8 (29… Bxf6 30. Qxg6+ $18) 30. Nh7+ Kg8 31.\nQxg6 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nGarry Quillan
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Gerald Bennett (07-xi-1949)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Gerald Howard Bennett (07-xi-1949)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-gerald-h-bennett/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201108
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DTSTAMP:20201108T122806Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Alan Merry (08-xi-1996)
DESCRIPTION:BCN send Birthday greetings to IM Alan Merry \nAlan Baxter Merry was born on Friday\, November 8th\, 1996 in Bury St. Edmunds\, Suffolk. His mother’s maiden name is Guymer. Alan has a younger brother James Clayton Merry (born 1999). James is also registered with Suffolk CCA but have never had a published grading or rating. \nFIDE rating profile for IM Alan Merry \nCrosstable for Purley Big Slick International\, 2013 \nHe became a FIDE Master in 2013 and an International Master in 2016. His peak rating according to Felice was 2396 in July 2016. However this has been surpassed and according to MegaBase 2020 it is 2460 in June 2018 at the age of 22. \nAlan won the 2014 Golders Green Open with a convincing 5.5/6 : \nPart crosstable for 2014 Golders Green Open \nand has won further events since including the Kingsley Healthcare Great Yarmouth Congress in 2018. \nIM Alan Merry at the 2019 Basingstoke 4NCL Congress \nAlan plays for Suffolk County Chess Association and in 4NCL started with Anglian Avengers\, then the ADs and finally moving to Barbican in the 2015/16 season. His current ECF grading is 237A for standard-play and 236A for rapid-play. His FIDE standard play rating is 2427. \nAlan has a plus score against : James Jackson\, Ravi Haria\, John Nunn\, Peter Sowray\, James Adair\, Matthew Wadsworth\, Jack Rudd and Simon Williams to name but a few. \nWith the white pieces Alan has a varied repertoire favouring (unusually) the Four Knights game. \nAs the second player he champions the French Winawer and the Modern Benoni.  \n[pgn]\n[Event “4NCL-ch rapid”]\n[Site “Daventry”]\n[Date “2013.10.06”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Jones\, Gawain C B”]\n[Black “Merry\, Alan B”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A22”]\n[WhiteElo “2638”]\n[BlackElo “2297”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “134”]\n[EventDate “2013.10.06”]\n[EventType “swiss (rapid)”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 156 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.10.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.10.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,134\,19\,-12\,-27\,-45\,-60\,-44\,-41\,-20\,-50\,-35\,12\,-9\,-16\,-15\,20\,1\,-12\,32\,\n6\,-9\,90\,55\,52\,18\,34\,36\,27\,9\,-8\,-64\,-22\,-14\,-29\,-18\,-32\,-16\,-65\,-65\,-63\,-63\,-87\,\n-157\,-52\,-82\,-77\,-85\,-88\,-85\,-87\,-141\,-171\,-234\,-235\,-245\,-257\,-211\,-235\,-249\,\n-266\,-460\,-453\,-453\,-456\,-444\,-449\,-472\,-470\,-488\,-469\,-477\,-443\,-463\,-483\,\n-487\,-504\,-504\,-508\,-523\,-510\,-509\,-509\,-516\,-439\,-447\,-413\,-531\,-532\,-547\,\n-538\,-547\,-543\,-574\,-576\,-592\,-527\,-596\,-534\,-584\,-594\,-608\,-551\,-629\,-672\,\n-659\,-621\,-659\,-717\,-734\,-666\,-705\,-755\,-994\,-606\,-606\,-559\,-564\,-575\,-589\,\n-580\,-585\,-597\,-628\,-638\,-679\,-624\,-644\,-621\,-628\,-686\,-737\,-718\,-918\,-1002\,\n-1022\,-1015]} 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nc3 Nb6 6. e3 Nc6 7.\nNge2 Be6 8. O-O Qd7 9. f4 f6 10. Qc2 Nb4 11. Qe4 Nc6 12. f5 Bf7 13. d4 Bd6 14.\nQg4 O-O 15. d5 Ne7 16. e4 Kh8 17. Be3 Nc4 18. Bf2 Nxb2 19. Rab1 Nd3 20. Be3 Bc5\n21. Qf3 b6 22. g4 c6 23. Rfd1 Bxe3+ 24. Qxe3 Nc5 25. d6 Nc8 26. Rb2 Nxd6 27. g5\nNc4 28. Qh3 Qe7 29. g6 Bg8 30. gxh7 Nxb2 31. hxg8=Q+ Kxg8 32. Rf1 Ncd3 33. Qg3\nQc5+ 34. Kh1 Rad8 35. Bf3 Nf4 36. Rg1 Rf7 37. Qh4 Nbd3 38. Rf1 Qe3 39. Nd1 Qd2\n40. Nxf4 Nxf4 41. Nf2 Qe3 42. Qg3 Rd2 43. Ng4 Qd3 44. Rg1 Kf8 45. Nf2 Qc3 46.\nNd1 Qd4 47. Qh4 Ke7 48. Qe1 Kd7 49. Ne3 Kc7 50. Ng4 Re2 51. Qb1 Rb2 52. Qf1 Rd7\n53. Qa6 Kb8 54. Qa3 Qd3 55. Qxd3 Rxd3 56. Bd1 Rb1 57. Bb3 Rxg1+ 58. Kxg1 Rd4\n59. Kf2 Rxe4 60. Kf3 Rd4 61. Nf2 c5 62. Ne4 c4 63. Bc2 b5 64. h4 b4 65. Nc5 Kc7\n66. Na6+ Kb6 67. Nxb4 a5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Alan Merry
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-alan-baxter-merry-08-xi-1996/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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UID:3994-1604793600-1604879999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Simon Bibby (08-xi-1974)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Simon Bibby (08-xi-1974)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-simon-bibby-08-xi-1974/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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UID:4217-1604793600-1604879999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Richard Eales (08-xi-1949)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Richard Geoffrey Eales (08-xi-1949)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-richard-geoffrey-eales-08-xi-1949/
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