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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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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]
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-jacob-henry-sarratt/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTSTAMP:20201104T112226Z
CREATED:20191028T135928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T112226Z
UID:1714-1604707200-1604793599@britishchessnews.com
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
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-gary-m-quillan-07-xi-1970/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTSTAMP:20201031T001250Z
CREATED:20200402T174535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201031T001250Z
UID:3988-1604707200-1604793599@britishchessnews.com
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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTSTAMP:20201108T122806Z
CREATED:20191107T111045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T122806Z
UID:1795-1604793600-1604879999@britishchessnews.com
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTSTAMP:20201030T105437Z
CREATED:20200402T175751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T105437Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTSTAMP:20201031T205429Z
CREATED:20200408T212812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201031T205429Z
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/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,History,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20201030T105554Z
CREATED:20190823T175611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T105554Z
UID:1086-1604880000-1604966399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Charles Edward Kemp (09-xi-1986)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Charles Edward Kemp (09-xi-1986)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-charles-edward-kemp/
CATEGORIES:Composer,Death Anniversary,History,Problemist
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20211109T093940Z
CREATED:20191028T140720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T093940Z
UID:1717-1604880000-1604966399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM James Adair (09-xi-1992)
DESCRIPTION:IM James Adair playing GM Hikaru Nakamura at the London Chess Classic 2014\nBCN wishes Happy birthday to IM James Adair. \nJames Robert Adair was born on Monday\, November 9th in 1992 in Reading\, Berkshire. \nJames attended Little Heath School\, Tilehurst\, Reading and joined Reading Chess Club and was an active player in the Berkshire League and in the Surrey Border League. His father Andrew took up chess to support James as a junior. \nHe then read Mathematics at The University of York and now is employed by Aviva plc (formerly Norwich Union Assurance) in the field of insurance. \nJames became a FIDE Master in 2012 and gained his International Master title in August 2014.  \nAccording to Felice his best FIDE rating was 2489 in December 2016. According to MegaBase 2020 it was 2492 in August 2018 at the age of 26. \nJames started his 4NCL career in the 2006/7 season with Conquistadors and then transferred to Guildford not long after. By 2010/11 James was playing for the bar loving Sambuca Sharks team. In 2011 James transferred to 4NCL White Rose as he had just started University in Yorkshire. He was also playing for York RI. \nIn 2009 he shared equal 1st (4.5/5) with Alexei Slavin in the Uxbridge Open\, a sadly missed e2-e4 event. Since then James has had various tournament successes. \nFIDE rating profile for IM James Adair\n[pgn]\n[Event “UK-ch blitz op”]\n[Site “Solihull”]\n[Date “2018.12.01”]\n[Round “13”]\n[White “Adair\, James R”]\n[Black “Pert\, Nicholas”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B32”]\n[WhiteElo “2500”]\n[BlackElo “2563”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “2018.12.01”]\n[EventType “tourn (blitz)”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,73\,28\,28\,58\,51\,39\,32\,1\,43\,26\,25\,28\,10\,10\,6\,12\,9\,9\,18\,26\,-13\,29\,19\,31\,\n20\,54\,15\,17\,10\,61\,66\,96\,99\,99\,90\,130\,131\,127\,135\,127\,120\,117\,113\,120\,102\,88\,88\,\n231\,231\,235\,235\,321\,319\,354\,396\,391\,391\,656\,754\,637\,779\,803\,809\,809\,617\,630\,\n668\,673\,764\,812\,940\,1057\,1080\,2209\,29980]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.\nNxd4 e5 5. Nb5 d6 6. N1c3 a6 7. Na3 Be7 8. Nc4 b5 9. Ne3 Nf6 10. g3 {Bologan}\nBe6 (10… O-O 11. Bg2 b4 12. Ncd5) 11. Bg2 Rc8 (11… O-O 12. O-O) 12. O-O Nd4\n13. Bd2 $146 (13. Ncd5) 13… O-O {[#]} 14. a4 b4 15. Ncd5 a5 $6 (15… Bxd5\n16. exd5 Rb8) 16. c3 Nc6 17. cxb4 Bxd5 18. exd5 Nxb4 19. Bxb4 axb4 20. a5 $16\nNd7 21. Bh3 $1 Rb8 22. Bxd7 Qxd7 23. Qa4 Qh3 $6 ({Better was} 23… Qc7) 24. a6\n$18 f5 {[#]} 25. Qd7 $1 Bg5 26. Nc4 (26. Qe6+ Kh8 27. a7 Ra8 28. Qxd6 f4 29.\nQxf8+ Rxf8 30. a8=Q Kg8 31. Qa6 fxe3 32. fxe3 Bxe3+ 33. Kh1 Rd8 $18) 26… Rbd8\n27. Qe6+ Kh8 28. Nxd6 h5 29. Nf7+ Rxf7 30. Qxf7 h4 31. Qh5+ Bh6 32. Qxh4 (32.\na7) 32… Qxh4 33. gxh4 Ra8 34. a7 e4 35. d6 Bf4 36. d7 Bc7 37. Rfc1 {and\nBlack resigned.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nJames has plus scores against : Peter Roberson\, Jack Rudd\, Richard Bates and Matthew Turner amongst others. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 98th”]\n[Site “Sheffield”]\n[Date “2011.07.24”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Adair\, James”]\n[Black “Palliser\, Richard”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B42”]\n[WhiteElo “2212”]\n[BlackElo “2454”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “77”]\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\,77\,19\,38\,72\,47\,56\,34\,40\,22\,64\,48\,61\,61\,61\,52\,57\,47\,60\,53\,44\,-16\,8\,2\,\n58\,34\,50\,42\,42\,9\,36\,33\,27\,30\,52\,54\,88\,78\,81\,42\,35\,50\,70\,20\,36\,31\,66\,-21\,30\,65\,\n36\,36\,36\,36\,36\,61\,85\,148\,221\,195\,281\,287\,288\,288\,288\,194\,288\,175\,176\,192\,193\,\n197\,255\,240\,271\,227\,250\,248\,248\,243]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6\n5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. Qg4 Nf6 8. Qg3 d6 9. Nc3 Nc6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bd2 e5 12.\nO-O-O Nh5 13. Qf3 Nf6 14. Qg3 Nh5 15. Qf3 Nf6 16. h3 $146 (16. Nd5) 16… Be6\n17. Nd5 Nd7 $6 18. Qg3 $16 g6 19. f4 exf4 20. Nxf4 Nde5 21. Bc3 $6 $11 (21. Kb1\n$16) 21… b5 $2 (21… Qg5 $142) 22. Na5 Nd4 23. Ne2 Nxe2+ 24. Bxe2 Qc7 25.\nNb7 Qxb7 26. Rxd6 Qxe4 27. Bxe5 Bf2 28. Qf3 Qxe5 29. Rxe6+ (29. Qxa8+ Ke7 30.\nRxe6+ fxe6 31. Qb7+ Kf6 32. Qf3+) 29… Qxe6 (29… fxe6) 30. Qxa8+ Ke7 31.\nQxh8 Qxe2 32. Qc3 Kf8 33. Qf3 Be3+ 34. Kb1 Qxf3 35. gxf3 Kg7 36. Re1 Bc5 37. c3\nKf6 38. Kc2 Kf5 39. Re4 $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM James Adair
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-james-r-adair-09-xi-1992/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20201204T145135Z
CREATED:20191109T140642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T145135Z
UID:1853-1604880000-1604966399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of David Welch (30-x-1945 09-xi-2019)
DESCRIPTION:Just over a year ago today we learnt the sad news that popular longtime Arbiter and Organizer David Welch had passed away at the age of 74 after a long illness : he was being cared for in The Royal Liverpool Hospital. The funeral took place at Landican Crematorium\, Arrowe Park CH49 5LW at 12 noon on Friday 6th December. Following the funeral\, the wake took place at the Grove House Hotel\, Grove Road\, Wallasey CH44 4BT. \nDavid was born on Tuesday\, October 30th 1945 in Brampton\, Chesterfield\, Derbyshire and attended Chesterfield Grammar School (see below). \nHe played for Wallasey Chess Club for many years having initially been a member of Liverpool Chess Club. \nDavid attended Queens’ College\, Cambridge reading Natural Sciences (Chemistry) and (according to John Swain) David served Cambridge University Chess Club as Junior Treasurer\, Librarian and Bulletin Editor. \nIn 1968 David and Peter Purland started teaching at the same Liverpool school (Liverpool College) on the same day and continued their friendship from there. David also ran the college scout troop. \nIn the same year David joined Liverpool Chess Club and became a leading light fairly early on. \nDavid Welch (30-x-1945 09-xi-2019)\, photograph by John Upham at 2012 4NCL\nDavid became a BCF arbiter in the early 1970s eventually becoming the BCFs Chief Arbiter and then the ECFs Chief Arbiter and was heavily involved in many British Championships around the country. \nDavid was curator of ECF equipment for some time and personally funded much of the BCFs and ECFs early equipment stock. \nHe became a FIDE International Arbiter as early as 1977 and was awarded the FIDE International Organizer title in 2010. \nIn 2007 David received the ECF Presidents Award from Gerry Walsh. Here is the citation in full (from the 2008 ECF Yearbook) : \n“David Welch started chess organisation early being captain of the Chesterfield Grammar School team that played both in the school’s league and in the local adult league. He joined the Liverpool Chess Club after leaving University in 1968 and has held various posts with them \, he is now their President. He set-up the Liverpool Chess Congress in about 1978. \nAdditionally\, he was the director of the Liverpool Chess Congress. Although now defunct this was in its day the largest junior event in the UK (perhaps even the world) having 2000 entrants at the time of Spassky-Fisher (sic). He has also been involved in the Liverpool city of culture initiative. \nHe had also had a considerable involvement with the ECF. He is the the Merseyside representative to the ECF. He has been helping run the British Championships since 1981; starting at one of the arbiting team he has been Director/Manager of the congress since 2005. He has been Chief Arbiter of the Federation since about 1992. He also does the arbiting at a number of congresses and is\, in particular\, the Chief Arbiter of the 4NCL.” \nDavid Welch receives FIDE Arbiter Award\nDavid shared the exact same date of birth as long time friend and fellow arbiter\, Peter Purland. \nHere is an excellent tribute from John Saunders \nHere is a tribute from Liverpool College \n[pgn]\n[Event “Gibraltar Challengers-B 11th”]\n[Site “Caleta”]\n[Date “2013.01.29”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Welch\, David”]\n[Black “Gravett\, Alan David”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A38”]\n[WhiteElo “1617”]\n[BlackElo “1925”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “2013.01.26”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “GGB”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2014”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.11.20”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.11.20”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,25\,30\,30\,4\,14\,18\,12\,10\,29\,30\,18\,6\,16\,7\,0\,13\,0\,0\,7\,7\,-2\,-2\,6\,7\,8\,5\,\n18\,5\,13\,17\,11\,-4\,41\,43\,35\,56\,69\,63\,73\,42\,28\,66\,49\,39\,78\,25\,56\,10\,17\,6\,205\,283\,\n272\,273\,547\,745\,765\,838\,872\,913\,1595\,29984]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6 4.\ng3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O O-O 7. d3 d6 8. Bd2 a6 9. Rb1 Rb8 10. a3 b5 11. cxb5\naxb5 12. b4 cxb4 13. axb4 Ng4 $6 (13… Bd7 14. Qc1 Qc8 15. Bh6 Bh3 16. Bxg7\nKxg7 17. Qb2 Bxg2 18. Kxg2 $11) 14. Qc1 $1 Nge5 15. Nxe5 Nxe5 16. Bh6 f6 17.\nBxg7 Kxg7 18. d4 Ng4 19. h3 Nh6 20. e4 Be6 21. d5 Bd7 22. Qe3 Qc8 23. Kh2 Ra8\n24. Ra1 Qc4 25. Ra7 $11 Bxh3 26. Rxe7+ $1 Rf7 27. Rxf7+ Kxf7 28. Qxh6 $18 Bxg2\n29. Qxh7+ Kf8 30. Kxg2 Ra3 31. Rh1 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nin 2016 David received recognition from FIDE for his long service as an International Arbiter. David was the third English arbiter to receive the honour\, following Stewart Reuben and Gerry Walsh in 2014. \nWe send our condolences to all of his many family and friends. \nDavid Welch\, photograph by John Upham
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-david-welch-30-x-1945-09-xi-2019/
CATEGORIES:Arbiter,British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Official
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20201030T123251Z
CREATED:20200408T105233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T123251Z
UID:4169-1604880000-1604966399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Stuart W Clarke (09-xi-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Stuart W Clarke (09-xi-1970)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-stuart-w-clarke-09-xi-1970/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20201030T124334Z
CREATED:20200411T123533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T124334Z
UID:4416-1604880000-1604966399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Mark JL Orr (09-xi-1955)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Mark JL Orr (09-xi-1955)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-mark-jl-orr-09-xi-1955/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201112
DTSTAMP:20201111T140324Z
CREATED:20190101T000111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201111T140324Z
UID:1140-1605052800-1605139199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Fred Dewhirst Yates (16-i-1884 11-xi-1932)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Fred Yates who passed (or\, at least was recorded as passing) on Friday\, November 11th\, 1932. \nFred (not Frederick) Dewhirst (not Dewhurst) was born in Birstall\, Leeds on Wednesday\, January 16th 1884\, the same year as Harry S Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt. \nAn obituary appeared in Volume LII (52\, 1932)\, Number 12 (December)\, pp.525-528 of the British Chess Magazine by PW Sergeant : \n“The chess world has had many heavy bereavements during the year which is coming to an end; but to the British section of it there has been no bereavement like the last\, which robbed it of F.D.Yates\, when still in the prime of his chess career. The circumstances of his end were tragic. On the night of Tuesday\, November 8th\, he gave a very successful exhibition at Wood Green\, only dropping one half-point in 16 games. On the following night he was in the company of a chess friend until fairly late\, and then went back to his room in Coram Street\, Bloomsbury. He was never seen alive again. It was not until Friday morning that anxiety was felt at Coram Street as to what he might be doing; for he was in the habit of secluding himself for many hours at a stretch when busy with work. \n  \nFred Dewhirst Yates\nOn Friday\, however\, when no answer could be got to knocks on the door of his room\, which was locked\, and a smell of gas was noticed\, the door was at last broken open\, and he was found dead in bed. \nIt came out at the inquest before the St. Pancras coroner on November 15 that \, though the gas-taps in the room were securely turned off\, there had been an escape from what a gas companies official described as an obsolete type of fitting attached to the meter in the room. The meter\, it appears\, was on the floor\, and the fitting must have been accidentally dislodged. A verdict was recorded of Accidental Death; and the coroner directed that the gas-pipes from the room should remain in the custody of the court. The body was conveyed to Leeds for burial on the morning of November 16. \nSo prematurely passed away one who may with justice be called one of the finest exponents of British chess\, and an international master whose strength was recognised all over the world. \n  \nFred Yates as drawn by WH Cozens for BCM\nFrederick Dewhurst (sic) was born at Birstall\, near Leeds\, on January 16\, 1884. He did not develop his chess power very young\, at the B.C.F. congress at the Crystal Palace in 1907 only playing in the Second Class\, though he then won first prize in one of the two sections. At Tunbridge Wells next year he tied for fourth place in a section of the First Class. He was admitted to the British Championship at Scarborough in 1909 (in which year he was Yorkshire Champion)\, and there tied with Blackburne for fourth and fifth prizes\, after HE Atkins\, JH Blake\, and W. Ward. \nIn the same event at Oxford in 1910 he again tied with Blackburne\, but this time for second and third prizes\, Atkins being first\, though losing in his individual encounter with Yates. In 1911\, at Glasgow\, Yates still further improved his position\, this time tieing with Atkins for first place; but in the tie-match Atkins won somewhat easily. \nAtkins stood down for the first time at Richmond in 1912; but the success of RC Griffith left Yates second\, in company with the late HG Cole. At last in 1913\, Yates gained his ambition\, and at Cheltenham won the British Championship with the fine score of 9 out of a possible 11\, 1.5 points above J. Mahood and 2 above Blackburne. In the ruined Congress at Chester in 1914 he tied for first place with Blackburne; and\, as Blackburne was unable to play a deciding match\, Yates won his second championship. \nFred Dewhirst Yates\, Jacoby Archive\nSince the War he gained the title again in 1921\, 1926\, 1928 and 1931\, thus making a record of six championships\, second only to Atkin’s record of nine (ed : in 1969 at the Rhyl Congress Jonathan Penrose OBE was to surpass Atkin’s record by one.) \nYate’s six victories were gained in sixteen attempts In addition must be mentioned his success in the Hastings tournament\, in the New Year of 1921\, for holders of the British Championship only. \nFred Yates\nHis other successes in this country\, including his two wins in the in the Anglo-American cable match\, in 1910-11\, need not detain us; for limitations of space demand that we shall come to Yates as an international master. His first essay was at Hamburg in 1910\, on the invitation of the German Chess Federation. Though he did badly\, only getting one win in 16 games\, the win was a remarkable effort\, at the expense of no less a celebrity than Dr. Tarrasch. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kABtIdnTRfk[/embedyt] \nAt Pistyan two years later he did a little better. He had to wait until after the War for a third attempt; but it will be best to give what we believe to be a full record of his performances in international event:- (to be added). \nThese lists\, however\, furnish no just view of the strength of Yates’s play\, which always was most fully exhibited against the leading competitors in tournaments. Among his triumphs must be noted his particularly his wins against Alekhine at Hastings\, 1922\, and Carlsbad 1923 (a brilliancy prize game); against Euwe\, Scarborough\, 1928; against Nimzowitsch \, Carlsbad\, 1929; against Bogoljuboff\, London\, 1922\, and Baden-Baden\, 1925; against Tartakover\, Hastings and Kecskemet\, 1927; against Kmoch and Rubinstein\, Budapest\, 1926; against Spielmann and Vidmar\, San Remo\, 1930; and his draws with Alekhine and Capablanca at New York\, 1924. The harder the opposition\, the better his play. Conversely\, against what should have proved easier opponents he was apt. at times\, to show less of his skill. In this\, of course\, he was not peculiar\, even among the experts. \nGenerally speaking\, however\, he was a remarkably tenacious player\, who would not abandon a game while there was the slightest chance of a win or a draw. This was not due to mere obstinacy\, as may sometimes have appeared\, but to the depth of his vision\, which gained for him among the German commentators the title of ein tiefe Denker(ed : a deep thinker) – no small testimony from those from whom it came. With a robuster physique there is no knowing to what a position he might have attained in the chess world. The late Amon Burn always had the highest opinion of is powers\, and always pointed out\, too\, the handicap under which a player labours who has to report the events in which he takes part – equivalent\, he would say\, to giving the other competitors Pawn and move! \nYates was unfortunate in embracing professionalism in an era when the rewards were becoming less and less\, and finally reached a stage when they scarcely provided the means of a bare existence. He was a fine simultaneous player\, whose exhibitions always delighted by their combination of speed\, precision and flashes of brilliance. \nAs commentator he was very good indeed\, and his contributions\, especially to The Manchester Guardian\, where noted alike for their accuracy and for a sense of style. \nHe had a journalistic training\, outside chess. He was not\, in fact\, ‘a mere chessplayer’\, in spite of his intense devotion to the game. It was his extreme reticence which gave such an impression to all but those whom he admitted to intimacy. They at least knew his widespread interest in other things; and W. Winter’s recent tribute to him in the Guardian in no way exaggerates his charm as a companion among those who knew him best. To them his loss is one which cannot be replaced.” \nAn Appeal \nNo doubt all chessplayers in England will have read with sorrow of the death of F.D.Yates at the early age of 46\, and more especially will the circumstances of it be a shock to many. \nAn inquest was held\, as has already been reported\, and was attended by his two sisters\, who have practically no means\, as was the case of Yates himself. Certain chessplayers who attended the funeral agreed to make themselves responsible for the funeral expenses\, but as the body was removed to Birstall in Yorkshire for burial in the family grave\, the expenses were considerably heavier than was anticipates and\, with the money owing to the landlady\, comes to a total of £51 2s and 0d. \nThe Gravestone of FD Yates\, courtesy of Matthew Sadler\nWe feel quite sure that when our readers know\, they will like to show their last recognition of the value which F.D.Yates was to English chess by giving a donation towards the sum. \nThe London Chess League\, whose finances are not in a very satisfactory state\, as in the case of most chess concerns\, has agreed to donate £3 towards this. Their president has given £1 1s 0d.\, and one or two other members have promised donations. We shall be happy to receive any contributions towards this fund\, and will give acknowledgment in future issues.” \nHere is an in-depth article by Edward Winter in Chess Notes on the circumstances of FDYs death. \nHere is a more modern article by Matthew Sadler \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper and Whyld : \n“English player. British Champion 1913\,1914\,1921\,1926\,1928\, and 1931\, Around 1909 he gave up his profession in accountancy to become a chess professional. Of the many international tournaments in which he competed from Hamburg 1910 to Hastings 1931—2 he made his best results in the B Final\, Kecskemet 1927\, first (+4=2-1) equal with Tartakower\, and at San Remo 1930\, the strongest tournament of the year\, when he came fifth after Alekhine\,\, Nimzowitsch\, Rubinstein\, and Bogoljubow ahead of Spielmann\,\nVidmar\, and Tartakower. \n[pgn]\n[Event “San Remo”]\n[Site “San Remo”]\n[Date “1930.02.03”]\n[Round “14”]\n[White “Vidmar\, Milan Sr”]\n[Black “Yates\, Frederick Dewhurst”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D66”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “122”]\n[EventDate “1930.01.15”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ITA”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,122\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,0\,0\,-3\,6\,15\,23\,36\,46\,3\,43\,44\,63\,59\,37\,52\,37\,37\,\n50\,55\,27\,29\,25\,24\,61\,5\,-1\,-5\,11\,-29\,-37\,-30\,-31\,-31\,-21\,-44\,-9\,-13\,-30\,-35\,-29\,\n-14\,-36\,-20\,0\,-5\,-20\,-51\,24\,-69\,0\,-121\,-31\,-119\,41\,-93\,42\,-52\,-53\,-53\,3\,8\,0\,0\,\n6\,6\,6\,-22\,-50\,-58\,-66\,-120\,-117\,-119\,-230\,-397\,-403\,-376\,-349\,-397\,-190\,-367\,\n-565\,-565\,-593\,-577\,-467\,-467\,-481\,-481\,-251\,-269\,-269\,-267\,-267\,-256\,-39\,-267\,\n-256\,-256\,-267\,-278\,-278\,-278\,-286\,-278\,-274\,-280\,-280\,-333\,-302\,-323\,-354\,\n-354\,-581\,-354\,-475\,-500\,-501]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3\nBe7 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Rc1 c6 8. Bd3 a6 $5 (8… dxc4 9. Bxc4 Nd5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11.\nNe4 (11. O-O Nxc3 12. Rxc3 e5 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 Qxe5 15. f4 Qe4 16. Qe2\nBf5 17. Bd3 Qd5 18. e4 Qd4+ 19. Qf2 Qxf2+ 20. Kxf2 Bd7 21. Rd1 Rfd8 22. Bc4 $14\n)) 9. O-O dxc4 10. Bxc4 b5 11. Bd3 c5 {[#]} 12. a4 (12. dxc5 Nxc5 13. Bb1 Bb7\n14. Qc2) 12… c4 13. Bb1 Nd5 14. Bxe7 Qxe7 15. axb5 (15. b3) 15… Nxc3 16.\nbxc3 axb5 17. e4 Rd8 18. e5 Bb7 19. Nd2 Ra3 20. f4 g6 21. Be4 Nb6 $1 $15 22.\nBxb7 Qxb7 23. Qe1 Nd5 24. Ne4 Ra2 (24… Qe7) 25. Qh4 Rda8 26. Rf2 Kg7 $6 (\n26… Ra1 $17 27. Rxa1 Rxa1+ 28. Rf1 Qa8) 27. Rcf1 Qe7 (27… Rxf2) 28. Qg3 Kh8\n(28… Rxf2 29. Qxf2 b4 $19) 29. Ng5 Kg7 (29… Rxf2 30. Rxf2 Ra1+ 31. Rf1\nRxf1+ 32. Kxf1 b4 $19) 30. Ne4 Ra1 31. f5 exf5 32. Rxf5 b4 33. R5f2 R8a3 34.\nNd6 Nxc3 35. Qg4 h5 36. Qc8 Ne2+ 37. Kh1 Qe6 38. Qd8 Ra8 39. Qg5 Nxd4 {[#]} 40.\nNxf7 $2 Nf5 $1 41. Nd6 Nxd6 (41… Rxf1+ 42. Rxf1 Rf8) 42. exd6 b3 (42… Rxf1+\n43. Rxf1 Rf8 $19) 43. h3 b2 44. Qb5 c3 45. Qb7+ Kg8 (45… Kh6 $1) 46. d7 Rd8\n47. Qb4 Rxd7 (47… Qxd7) 48. Qxc3 Rxf1+ 49. Rxf1 Rb7 50. Rb1 Rb3 51. Qc2 Rb8\n52. Qc3 Qb6 53. Qc4+ Kg7 54. Qc3+ Kh7 55. Qe5 Rb7 56. Qe2 Qb4 {[#]} 57. Qf2 $2\nQc3 $1 58. Qf1 Kg7 59. Kh2 Qe5+ 60. Kh1 Rc7 61. Qd1 Qf4 (61… Ra7) 0-1\n[/pgn] \nA tenacious player\, he could be a dangerous opponent. In tournament play he defeated most of the greatest masters of his time on one occasion or another\, and among these victories were two defeats of Alekhine (Hastings 1922\, Carlsbad 1923)\, and three defeats of Bogoljubow (London 1922\, Baden-Baden 1925\, Scarborough 1927) and Rubinstein (London 1925\, Moscow 1925\, Budapest 1926)\, A careful and conscientious writer\, he conducted a chess column in the Yorkshire Post\, was chess correspondent of the Manchester Guardian \, and wrote three books (see foot of article) in collaboration with William Winter (1898-1955). \nGames Played In the World’s Championship Match between Jose Paul Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine\, FD Yates and W\, Winter\, 1928\, Printing Craft Limited\nGames Played in the World’s Championship Match between Alexander Alekhine (Holder of the Title) and E D Bogoljubow (Challenger)\, Printing Craft Limited\, 1930\, FD Yates and W. Winter\nA leak from a faulty gas pipe connection killed Yates while he was asleep. His book One-hundred- and-one of My Best Games of Chess was published in 1934.” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master and British Champion in 1913\, 1914\, 1921\, 1926\, 1928 and 1931. \nBorn in Birstall\, near Leeds in Yorkshire\, on 16th January 1884\, Yates was 25 before he played in the British Championship for the first time. In 1909\, having won the Yorkshire Championship\, his entry was accepted for the British Championship at Scarborough\, and he tied with Blackburne for 4th prize. The following year he again tied with Blackburne\, this time for 2nd prize\, and in 1911 he tied with Atkins for 1st prize but lost the play-off for the title. In 1913\, he succeed in winning the British Championship for the first time.. During his career he competed in the British Championship 16 times and won the title on six occasions. \nIn International tournaments his record did not do him justice as far as his final placings were concerned. However\, in studying his performance in detail\, his wins were often against the strongest players and his losses against those at the bottom of the tables. This was particularly apparent in the results of the 1926 Budapest tournament. \nCross Table for Budapest 1926\nDuring the course of his career\, Yates beat practically every contemporary Grandmaster\, with the exception of Lasker and Capablanca. His victory over Alekhine at Carlsbad 1923 came at the end of a combination 18 moves deep and won the brilliancy prize\, while his victory over Vidmar at San Remo in 1930 was described by Alekhine as the finest game played since the war. \nOther outstanding wins were against Bogoljubow at London 1922\, against Rubinstein at Budapest 1926\, against Tartakover at Hastings 1927\, against Euwe at Scarborough 1928 and against Nimzowitsch at Scarborough 1929. The stronger the opposition the better Yates played. \nHis losses against weaker players may well have been due to ill-health and lack of necessary stamina to play consistently throughout a long tournament. He was continually troubled by a hacking cough and could not afford to carry out the medical advice that he should go to the Riviera for a cure. \nHe was a professional chess player at a time when it was difficult to make a livelihood out of chess and he was often handicapped by having to report an event in which he was playing. A number of his contemporaries believed that\, had he lived in different circumstances his talent would have placed him among the contenders for the World Championship. \nFor some years Yates ran the chess column for The Manchester Guardian. He was co-author with Winter of Modern Master Play and of books on the Capablanca vs Alekhine and Alekhine v. Bogoljubov World Championship matches. \nModern Master Play\, FD Yates and W. Winter\, 1930\nYates had a great number of interests apart from chess and had a very versatile mind which enabled him to talk on a wide range of subjects. He was extremely modest and rarely kept the scores of his games and never submitted them to the press. \nHe died in tragic circumstances\, On 11th November 1932\, he was found dead in his bedroom from gas poisoning. At the inquest it was established that there was a faulty connection in the gas meter in his room and a verdict of accidental death was returned.” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek : \n“A British master. Yates trained as an accountant but in 1909 abandoned this career in favour of chess and journalism. In 1911 he tied for first prize with Atkins in the British Championship losing the play-off match. Two years later he won the event – the first of six such victories (1913\, 1914\, 1921\, 1926\, 1928 and 1931). \nIn international tournaments Yate’s results were generally mediocre\, but he was capable on occasion of defeating the strongest opposition and his victims included Alekhine\, Reti\, Bogoljubow\, Tartakower\, Rubinstein\, Euwe\, Nimzowitsch and Vidmar. He was a regular competitor at the Hastings Christmas Congresses\, winning in 1920/1 and finishing in 3rd place on four occasions: 1923/4\, 1924/5\, 1926/7 and 1929/30. \nYates was for many years the chess correspondent of The Manchester Guardian and\, in addition\, wrote Modern Master Play\, London\, Philadelphia 1929 (with W. Winter as co-author) and books of the 1927 Capablanca-Alekhine\, London 1928\, and the 1929 Alekhine-Bogoljubow World Championship matches\, London\, 1930. \nHe died from being accidentally asphyxiated in his rooms by a faulty gas connection.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Northern Counties Chess Union-ch”]\n[Site “Manchester”]\n[Date “1921.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Wahltuch\, Victor Leonard.”]\n[Black “Yates\, Fred Dewhirst”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D55”]\n[Annotator “Yates\,Fred”]\n[PlyCount “62”]\n[EventDate “1921.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\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\,62\,19\,31\,19\,23\,28\,-16\,0\,-27\,17\,17\,27\,21\,43\,21\,45\,35\,31\,25\,32\,27\,29\,15\,\n22\,10\,32\,7\,-4\,2\,-7\,-17\,-15\,-39\,-31\,-48\,-36\,-123\,-52\,-103\,-86\,-91\,-91\,-79\,-79\,\n-72\,-86\,-101\,-83\,-119\,-122\,-122\,-45\,-117\,-96\,-194\,-218\,-217\,-265\,-426\,-380\,\n-481\,-481\,-483\,-518]} 1. d4 {1)De Felice: Chess Results 1921-1930. McFarland p.\n16. 2)BCM 1921\, p.200 [Yates]. 1.-2. Wahltuch and Yates 6/7 3.Lund 4\,5/7 4.\nDuncan 3\,5/7 5\,-6. Briggs and Kelly 3/7 7.-8. Jackson and Parry 1/7.} d5 2. Nf3\nNf6 3. c4 e6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 O-O 7. Nc3 b6 8. cxd5 exd5 9. O-O Bb7\n10. Rc1 c5 11. Qe2 Ne4 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Rfd1 Nxc3 14. Rxc3 c4 15. Bb1 b5 16.\nNd2 f5 17. Qf3 g6 18. b3 Nf6 (18… b4 19. Rxc4 dxc4 20. Qxb7 c3 $17) 19. bxc4\nb4 20. Rcc1 dxc4 $17 21. Qe2 c3 22. Nb3 a5 23. Nc5 Bd5 24. f3 Rae8 25. Re1 Qa7\n26. Qa6 Qc7 27. e4 $2 fxe4 28. fxe4 Ng4 $1 $19 29. e5 Nxe5 30. Be4 Bc4 31. Qb7\nQd6 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom Wikipedia : (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Yates_(chess_player)) \n“Yates almost won the British Championship in 1911\, when he tied for first place with Henry Atkins\, but lost the play-off. He went on to secure the title in 1913\, 1914\, 1921\, 1926\, 1928 and 1931 \nDespite considerable domestic success\, his record in international tournaments did not do him justice. Often the winner against his strongest opponents\, he would then lose to those at the bottom of the table. This was particularly apparent at the Budapest tourney of 1926. \nHis lack of consistency was attributed to poor health and loss of stamina. A constant hacking cough went unchecked\, as his funds did not stretch to a holiday in warmer climes; the advice given by his doctor. He was also subjected to journalistic pressures\, frequently reporting on the tournaments in which he was playing. Yet\, dedicating himself to the playing side of chess would have earned him insufficient sums to make a living. A number of his contemporaries believed that his talent could have placed him among the world championship contenders\, had his circumstances been different. Nevertheless\, in his time\, he defeated most of his illustrious adversaries\, the most notable exceptions being Emanuel Lasker and José Raúl Capablanca. His victory against Alexander Alekhine at Karlsbad in 1923 won the brilliancy prize\, while his win against Milan Vidmar at San Remo in 1930 was described by Alekhine as the finest game played since the war.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Karlsbad-03 International Masters”]\n[Site “Karlsbad”]\n[Date “1923.05.06”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Alekhine\, Alexander”]\n[Black “Yates\, Frederick Dewhurst”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E62”]\n[Annotator “Yates\,F”]\n[PlyCount “104”]\n[EventDate “1923.04.30”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “17”]\n[EventCountry “CSR”]\n[SourceTitle “MainBase”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,104\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,23\,16\,16\,17\,17\,17\,29\,25\,30\,43\,30\,34\,25\,45\,29\,32\,\n16\,16\,7\,17\,-1\,-1\,1\,0\,0\,10\,-11\,13\,16\,30\,11\,10\,12\,30\,2\,49\,0\,-2\,-14\,-15\,-15\,-15\,\n-84\,-79\,-62\,-72\,-97\,-82\,-71\,-11\,-81\,-38\,-87\,-108\,-135\,-132\,-146\,-146\,-131\,-164\,\n-386\,-409\,-481\,-517\,-515\,-599\,-518\,-570\,-579\,-579\,-576\,-587\,-591\,-600\,-608\,\n-613\,-613\,-613\,-589\,-589\,-606\,-615\,-615\,-615\,-591\,-592\,-614\,-621\,-29989\,-29990\,\n-29991\,-29992\,-29993\,-29994\,-29995\,-29996\,-29997\,-29998\,-29999\,-30000]} 1. d4 {\n[%mdl 1] 1)Turnierbuch Karlsbad 1923. S.12 2)Kagans Neueste Schachnachrichten\n1923\, S.227 3)Yates: 101 of My Best Games. p.50 4)Skinner:Alekhine.p.192.5)BCM\n1923. p.259 [Blake\,JH] 6)Tarrasch’s Schachzeitung 1932\,H.5\, S.70.} Nf6 2. c4 g6\n3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. Nc3 d6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. d5 Nb8 (7… Na5 {The modern line}\n) 8. O-O Nbd7 (8… c6) 9. e4 a5 10. Be3 ({In Round 9 Bernstein played} 10. h3\nNc5 11. Nd4 e5 12. Nde2 Nh5 13. g4 Nf6 14. Be3 Ne8 15. Ng3 {1-0 (89) Bernstein\,\nJ-Yates\,F Karlsbad 1923}) 10… Ng4 11. Bd4 Nge5 12. Nxe5 Nxe5 13. c5 (13. f4\nBg4 $1 (13… Nxc4 $2 14. Bxg7 Kxg7 15. Qd4+) 14. Qb3 (14. Qd2 Nxc4) 14… Nf3+\n15. Bxf3 Bxd4+ {Yates}) 13… dxc5 14. Bxc5 b6 15. Bd4 Ba6 16. Re1 Qd6 $1 {\nYates:Very clever} (16… c5 17. dxc6 Nxc6 18. Bxg7 Kxg7 19. e5 Rc8 20. e6 $14)\n(16… Re8) (16… e6) 17. Bf1 (17. f4 Nd3 18. Bxg7 $2 (18. e5 Qb4) 18… Qc5+\n$19) (17. Rb1) 17… Bxf1 18. Rxf1 (18. Kxf1) 18… c5 19. Bxe5 (19. dxc6 $2\nQxd4 $19) 19… Qxe5 20. Qb3 (20. Qe2 $142) 20… Rab8 21. Qb5 f5 $1 {Yates:\nBlack has now a definite superiority.} 22. Rae1 ({ares: Perhaps White would\nhave done better to capture this pawn} 22. exf5 {but even then} Qxf5 23. Rae1 {\nfollowed by} Bd4 {would exert powerful pressure on the f-file.}) 22… f4 $1\n23. Qd7 Rbd8 24. gxf4 Qxf4 25. Qe6+ (25. Qxe7 Qg4+ (25… Rfe8 $1 $19 26. Qb7\nBe5) 26. Kh1 Qf3+ 27. Kg1 Rde8 28. Qd7 (28. Qg5 $142 $15) 28… Re5 (28… Bd4)\n29. Ne2 Rxe4 30. Ng3 Rxe1 $19 {Yates}) 25… Kh8 26. f3 Qg5+ 27. Kh1 (27. Qg4\nQd2 28. Re2 Qd3 $17 {wins a pawn} 29. Qg2 Bd4+ 30. Kh1 Bxc3 31. bxc3 Qxc3)\n27… Rd6 (27… Bxc3 28. bxc3 Rd6 29. Qh3 Qd2 $17) 28. Qh3 (28. Qg4 $142 Qd2\n29. e5 $11) 28… Be5 $17 (28… Bxc3 29. bxc3 Qd2 $17) 29. Re2 (29. Nd1 Rdf6\n30. Ne3 Bd4 31. Nc4 b5 32. Nxa5 Qd2 33. Nb3 Qxb2 34. Nxd4 cxd4 $17) 29… Rdf6\n30. Nd1 (30. Rg1 Qf4 31. Rf1 g5 32. Rg2 Qe3 33. Qh5 Rg6 $17) 30… Rf4 (30…\nBd4 $1) 31. Ne3 $2 (31. Rg2 Qf6 32. Ne3 Bd4 33. Re2 a4 $17) 31… Rh4 $19 32.\nQe6 Qh5 33. Ng4 Rxg4 $1 {Yates: !! A magnificent combination which forces the\nwin} 34. fxg4 Rxf1+ 35. Kg2 Qxh2+ 36. Kxf1 Qh1+ 37. Kf2 Bd4+ 38. Kg3 Qg1+ 39.\nKh3 (39. Rg2 Qe3+ 40. Kh2 Qf4+ 41. Kh1 Qh6+ 42. Rh2 Qc1+ 43. Kg2 Qd2+ 44. Kf1\nQd1+ 45. Kg2 Qe2+ 46. Kg3 Qe3+ 47. Kg2 Qf2+ 48. Kh3 Qf3+ 49. Kh4 Bf6+ 50. g5\nQf4+ 51. Kh3 Be5 $19) 39… Qf1+ 40. Rg2 Qh1+ 41. Kg3 (41. Rh2 Qf3+ 42. Kh4\nBf6+ 43. g5 Qf4+ 44. Kh3 Be5 $19) 41… Qe1+ 42. Kh3 g5 $1 {Yates: !!} 43. Rc2\nQf1+ 44. Kh2 Qg1+ 45. Kh3 Qh1+ 46. Kg3 Qd1 $1 {Yates: !! The finsl stroke.} 47.\nRc3 Qg1+ 48. Kh3 Qf1+ 49. Kg3 Bf2+ 50. Kf3 Bg1+ 51. Kg3 Qf2+ 52. Kh3 Qh2# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nAs a journalist he was the chess columnist of The Manchester Guardian and with William Winter\, the co-author of Modern Master Play (1929). He wrote accounts of two world championship encounters; those between Capablanca and Alekhine\, and Alekhine and Bogoljubow. \nIn team competition\, he played at the first\, third and fourth Olympiads\, representing the ‘British Empire’ team. On each occasion\, he made a plus score and at London 1927\, earned a team bronze medal/ \nHis life ended prematurely\, when a leaking gas pipe caused him to asphyxiate during his sleep. \nAccording to the inscription on Yates’ gravestone\,[7] his birth name was actually Fred Dewhirst Yates. However\, throughout his chess career he was known by the name at the head of this article or simply as F.D. Yates\, both of which featured in his posthumously published\, part-biographical\, ‘My Best Games’ Collection. \nHere is an interesting discussion of Posthumous publications\, part 1. by Michael Clapham \nLetter to BCM from WH Watts of Printing Craft Limited announcing the publication of One-Hundred-and-one of my Best Games of Chess\, by F. D. Yates\, London 1934.\nOne-Hundred-and-one of my Best Games of Chess\, by F. D. Yates\, London 1934.\nOne Hundred and One of My Best Games of Chess\, FD Yates
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of GM Anthony Miles (23-iv-1955 12-xi-2001)
DESCRIPTION:We remember one of the most innovative and best loved English players of all time\, Tony Miles. \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) by Bernard Cafferty : \n“If one had to forecast at the start of the 1970s the British chess would have a player in the next decade who would win the World Junior Championship\, make plus score against Soviet players in his first years of play against them\, and beat such household names as Geller\, Bronstein\, Larsen\, Gligoric\, Smyslov\, Spassky and Karpov…one would have been called a romantic dreamer. \nEnglish chess grandmaster Tony Miles (1955 – 2001)\, UK\, 6th May 1973. (Photo by Hoare/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\nIf one had gone further and said that the same grandmaster X would become only the second British player this century to beat a reigning world champion\, and that as Black in an irregular opening (1 e4 a6 2 d4 b5) then incredulity would indeed have been a fitting reaction. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGVc_IdcPlU[/embedyt] \nYet all this has come to pass; all the above is fact not fiction\, reality not a day dream. Who is grandmaster X? Where did he develop? \nAnthony John Miles was born on the 23rd April\, 1955\, in Birmingham (his birthplace is incorrectly marked (Ed: as London) on the map in Elo’s book on ratings.) He learned the moves at the age of five\, became seriously interested in the game at the age of nine or ten\, and almost straight away won the Birmingham Primary Schools Championship. \nEnglish chess grandmaster Tony Miles (1955 – 2001)\, UK\, 15th May 1973. (Photo by Adam/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\nIn 1965 he joined the Birmingham Chess club and the following year became a pupil at King Edward School (KES) (the alma mater of other strong British players\, such as Hugh Alexander and Malcolm Barker\, runner-up to Ivkov in the inaugural World Junior Championship held at Birmingham in 1951.) \nTony Miles\nAt the Birmingham Club he met strong opposition (another grandmaster-to-be\, the postal player Keith Richardson was a member there for a time) since the club’s four teams were all in the higher divisions of the local league. Yet Tony’s school work meant that he could not be called a frequent attender at the club – he turned up for league matches and the club championship\, but rarely for skittles except in the summer. \nTony Miles and possibly (?) Peter Clarke at Birmingham 1973\nSoon he was playing in the Second Division\, by 1968 he was in the First Division\, and in the 1969-70 season he was on top board for one of the Club’s three teams in the top Division. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUDLhFHjRQ[/embedyt] \nTony made his debut in the BCF Congress at Oxford\, 1967\, where he was equal 11th in the under-14 Boys Championship won by another rising star\, John Nunn. Strangely enough when Tony won this title the following year at Bristol Nunn was 3rd equal! \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiH8TZJJHEY[/embedyt] \nThe Edgbaston player was also a regular competitor in the annual Easter Congress held in the same suburb of Birmingham where he lived. \nTony Miles\nThe breakthrough to national status came when he was a sixth-former at KES. At the BCF Congress\, Blackpool\,\n1971\, he won the under-2l Championship (with Nunn and Jon Speelman equal 2nd and the same year made his international debut in a junior tournament at Nice which he won ahead of various prominent players including the Swiss Hug who was to win the World Junior championship some 4 months later! \nTony Miles and unknown opponent\nIn the 1971-72 Birmingham and District League season he set up a scoring record\, mainly on top board\, that may never be equalled (9.5 out of 10). \nTony Miles\nDuring these school years Tony was a rather taciturn teenager (perhaps to be expected in an only child) but he never fitted in with the conventional image of chessplayer as weedy bookworm. \nTony being presented with the trophy in the photograph below\nHe always had a fine physique\, played rugger at school and later became keen on squash and skiing as a means of keeping fit\, though he is the first to admit that he can be rather lethargic (especially in the mornings!) \nTony Miles\nAt the time I knew one of his teachers professionally\, and heard the occasional report that he was not always up to the best academic standards of KES. My reaction must have seemed heresy at the time\, but subsequent events in the post-Fischer era have confirmed that the ability to play chess to international standard may lead to a more worthwhile career than being a run-of-the-mill university graduate. \nTony Miles at Hastings\nA sign of Tony’s growing understanding of the finer points of the game came when he strolled into the Birmingham Club the day after the first game of the Spassky-Fischer match and pointed out (correctly as was shown later) the reason why Fischer had made his famous Bxh2 sacrifice/oversight. \nTony Miles & Bill Hartston admire a Rolls-Royce\nInternational recognition came in 1973 when he finished 2nd to Romanishin in the European Junior Championship at Groningen\, and Second to Belyavsky in the World Junior at Teeside\, as well as sharing 4-6th place in the British Championship at Eastbourne at only the second attempt. His first game to be published round the world was his victory over Bisguier in the Birmingham Easter tournament which he won ahead of Adorjan and Bisguier in the same year. \nEngland plays Italy at Haifa 1976. Miles played Tatai\, Keene played Toth\, Hartston played Grinza and Mestel played Micheli\nThe main event of 1974\, a break-through for British chess\, was the World Junior Championship played in August in sub-tropical Manila. Here he played one of his finest games\, against Kochiev\, to take the title with a round to spare\, thereby becoming lnternational Master. Tony’s physical strength showed up to good effect here\, not just lasting out the 4 weeks in the baking humidity but coping with the huge load of luggage (on the outward journey huge cases full of Chess Player\, Informator and the like; on the return journey this load reinforced with prizes and souvenirs!). \nTony Miles at Wijk aan Zee 1976. Korchnoi was first. Photo taken by Brian or Freddy Reilly\nGaining the title brought regular invitations to tournaments which could not be fitted in well with the demands of his maths course at Sheffield University. In the summer of 1975 he gave up the course after two years\, while the University authorities showed their recognition of his distinction at chess by the award of an honorary MA degree. \nTony Miles in relaxed mood\nOnce free to concentrate wholeheartedly on his true calling he took the grandmaster title in a rush. The first norm came with first prize\, August\, 1975\, at the London Chess Fortnight ahead of Adorjan\, Sax and Timman. \nTony Miles\nHastings 1975-76 was not too good a result\, but only a few weeks later he was on his way to a great triumph despite\nforced late acceptance of the invitation to the USSR due to lack of finance. He got his visa just in time and went to snowy Dubna\, a scientific centre near Moscow\, to achieve that most difficult feat – a GM norm in a Soviet tournament ahead of eight GM’s and others\njust as strong. \nTony Miles plays Tony Miles : see full caption below\nCaption for above photograph\nThus Tony Miles became the first official British grandmaster (the title dates officially only from 1949\, so excluding the likes of Staunton\, Blackburne and Burn) and took the £5000 Slater prize for the first British GM to add to the £1000 prize for victory in the 1975 Cutty Sark series of weekend and other tournaments. The availability of sponsorship\, it goes without saying\, has done much to encourage Tony on his chosen path as a chess professional\, a far from easy vocation that demands will-power and strong nerves to be successful. \nTony Miles : See full caption below\nFull caption for above photograph\nAccompanying letter for above photograph\n1977 confirmed that here was a genuine grandmaster with first prizes at the Amsterdam IBM and Biel tournaments\, and second prize behind Karpov\nat the first of the new series of Super grandmaster tournaments (Tilburg\, Holland.) \nTony Miles in pensive mood\nAfter his Promotion to the ranks of grandmaster Tony\, with his usual directness\, said that the only thing left to achieve was to have a crack at Karpov. (His fans might react by saying that there were other mountains to climb such as first place at Hastings and in the British Championship\, but then Karpov has not achieved the first either\, and only became Soviet Champion after he had taken the world title!) \nTony Miles and Michael Stean at the FIDE Zonal in Amsterdam\, 1978. (Source: http://gahetna.nl)\nThe first chance for this ‘crack’ came with their meeting in the super tournaments at Tilburg and Bugojno\, as well as in the 1977 BBC2 TV Master Game’ The\nresults went much in favour of the (slightly) older man. Tony had to wait till January\, 1980 before he could celebrate a victory over Fischer’s successor. \nPeter Sowray watching Tony Miles at the Lloyds Bank Masters. Sir Jeremy Morse watches.\nBy this time Tony had failed in his first bid to get to a title match with the Russian when he fell away after a good start in the 1979 Riga Interzonal (the\nsecond stage of the three-part qualifying cycle). It is a pity that our leading professional in Britain still has to accept so many invitations merely to make a\ndecent living. As Botvinnik has commented\, some properly directed study and training at home may be preferable to too frequent public appearances at the board. \nTony Miles and Sergey Kudrin at a Benedictine International in Manchester\nWhat sort of person and player is Tony Miles? He has become a more outgoing person in recent years\, and has even overcome his legitimate aversion to\nmedia representatives who attempt to interview him without any background in the game. \nTony Miles\nHis style has also gone through various changes. At first he was purely a 1 e4 player with a penchant for tricky Nc6 variations of the Four Knights. This repertoire brought him a string of wins\, but once he began meeting masters regularly he had to change his repertoire to include the flank openings and 1 d4 as well as the Sicilian Defence. Some notable contributions to opening theory include Bf4 against the Oueen’s Indian\, the defence 1…b6\, perhaps now 1…a6. \nTony Miles\, now playing under the US flag\nYet his real strength is not in the openings\, and he rarely scores quick knockouts. His strength lies in the ability to play a wide variety of positions\, to have the patience to play on when there is nothing special in the position and then to recognize the crisis (sometimes more psychological than positional). At this point his fitness and energy tell. It is significant that one of his best wins in the Dubna tournament came in a queen and pawn ending that demanded great patience and technical ability. \n10th April 1980: Tony Miles (left) plays 14-year-old Nigel Short in the opening match of the Phillips and Drew Chess Tournament at County Hall\, London. (Photo by Wesley/Keystone/Getty Images)\nAs readers of his weekly column will know he loves to analyse ever more deeply\, and seems happier here than in taking intuitive decisions. In the play of the first British grandmaster we see a confirmation of the fact that modern competitive chess is more of a sport (Denksport as the Germans have it) than\nan art\, more a bitter struggle of strong personalities than an orthodox game.\nBernard Cafferty\n” \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K35XeuifzXg[/embedyt] \nIn British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXII (122\, 2002)\, Number 1 (January) pp. 6-13 appeared this wonderful obituary from John Saunders with contributions from Bernard Cafferty\, Colin Crouch\, Jon Levitt and Malcolm Hunt : \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXII (122\, 2002)\, Number 1 (January) pp. 6-13\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXII (122\, 2002)\, Number 1 (January) pp. 6-13\nTony Miles at Tilburg 1985\nTony Miles at Tilburg 1985\nTony Miles at Tilburg 1985\nBy Bogaerts\, Rob / Anefo – Interpolisschaaktoernooi Tilburg; Miles (met rugklachten) ligt op massagetafel te wachten op zijn tegenstanderDutch National Archives\, The Hague\, Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANeFo)\, 1945-1989\,Auteursrechthebbende Nationaal Archief\, Nummer toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer 933-4181\, CC0\, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23134281\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXII (122\, 2002)\, Number 1 (January) pp. 6-13\nTony receives the Leigh Grand Prix award from ?\nTony receives the Leigh Grand Prix award from ? and David Anderton OBE\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXII (122\, 2002)\, Number 1 (January) pp. 6-13\nTony playing under the Union flag\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXII (122\, 2002)\, Number 1 (January) pp. 6-13\nTony Miles reflecting on an adjourned position. Courtesy of Stephanie Bureau.\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXII (122\, 2002)\, Number 1 (January) pp. 6-13\nTony : always popular with the ladies at a Lloyds Bank event\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXII (122\, 2002)\, Number 1 (January) pp. 6-13\nTony at a Lloyds Bank event with Ray Keene\, Yasser Seirawan and Vassily Smyslov\nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess\, (OUP\, 1984 & 1994)\, Hooper & Whyld : \n“English-born player\, International Grandmaster (1976). While an undergraduate he entered and won by a margin of one and a half points the World Junior Championship\, Manila 1974. The following year his university\, Sheffield\, awarded him an honorary MA degree for his chess achievements\, and he left without completing his studies\, to become a chess professional. The successes came quickly; London 1975\, first (+6=3-1); Amsterdam 1976\, first equal with Korchnoi; Amsterdam 1977\, first (+7=7-1); Biel 1977\, first (+ 8=6-l); Tilburg 1977\, second (+5:4-2)\, after Karpov\, ahead of Hort and Hübner; Tilburg 1978\, third (+4=4-3) equal with Dzindzichashvili and Hübner\, after Portisch and Timman; London 1980\, first (+6=5-2) equal with Andersson and Korchnoi; Las Palmas 1980\, first (+6=5) equal with Geller and Petrosian; Baden-Baden 1981\, first (+6=7) equal with Ribli\, ahead of Korchnoi; Porz Koln l98l-2\, second (+8=l-2)\, behind Tal\, ahead of Hort; Biel 1983\, first (+5=6)\, shared with Nunn; Tilburg 1984\, first (+5=6)\, ahead of Belyavsky\, Ribli\, and Hübner; Portoroz-Ljubljana 1985\, first (+4=6-l) equal with Portisch and Ribli; and Tilburg 1985\, first (+6=5-3) equal with Hübner and Korchnoi. \nTony making a getaway !\nAround this time Miles began to feel the strain of ten years at the top. He was the first British player of modern times who could be seen as a possible challenger for the world title\, and in the late 1970s he was well clear of his British rivals. However\, largely inspired by Miles’s success\, a new generation\,led by Short\, was in pursuit\, and by the mid 1980s Miles was no longer top board in the Olympiad side. Successes became fewer\, his marriage ended\, and his confidence was weakened. \nTony enjoyed flamboyant shirts\nDetermined to make a new start\, he transferred his allegiance to the USA in 1987\, and immediately shared first place with Gulko\, who won the play-off\, in the US Open Championship. \nTony Miles\nThe move was not a lasting success. Miles had indifferent results and was not selected for the US Olympiad team in 1988. He had maintained a home in Germany and commuted to play in the Bundesliga and by 1990 he was spending an increasing proportion of his time in Europe. His confidence began to return\, and with it more victories. He was first in two Swiss system events\, Rome 1990\, ahead of Barayev\, Chernin\, Smyslov etc\, and Bad Worishofen 1990 (shared)\, and at Biel 1990 was equal\nthird (+3=9-2) alter Karpov and Andersson.” \nTony Miles\n[pgn]\n[Event “Montilla Moriles”]\n[Site “Montilla Moriles”]\n[Annotator “Raymond Keene”]\n[Date “1978.??.??”]\n[EventDate “?”]\n[Round “2”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[White “Anthony Miles”]\n[Black “Boris Spassky”]\n[ECO “E12”]\n[WhiteElo “?”]\n[BlackElo “?”]\n[PlyCount “55”] \n1.d4 {Notes by Raymond Keene\, with excerpts from Jan Timman\,\nand Tony Miles. *** It was Boris Spassky who was partly\nresponsible for the generally awakened interest in chess after\n1972. This\, of course\, was a consequence of his sensational\nworld title fight with Fischer. Six years later\, the ex-world\nchampion was to lose a brilliant game to one of the young men\nwho had been inspired by the contest in Reykjavik. This great\ngame was played at Montilla\, the so-called ‘Wine Tournament’\n(Torneo del Vino)\, August 15-24\, 1978. In spite of his setback\nhere\, Spassky still won first prize with 6 1/2 out of 9\, ahead\nof Miles\, Gligoric and Hort on 6. At his best\, Miles’ style\nexhibited a broad penchant for attack. A tip-top Miles game\nalways seemed to show him having unlimited reserves ready to\nthrow into the offensive\, however many exchanges had taken\nplace beforehand. The following beautiful game against a\nformer world champion is\, in my opinion\, his best. It\ndemonstrates clearly not only Miles’ quality of imagination\nbut also the relentless formation of Tsunami\, or attacking\nwaves\, which so magically appeared in his best games. } Nf6\n2.Nf3 b6 3.c4 e6 4.Bf4 {“My latest anti-Nimzo-Indian\nvariation. It has the merit of being completely untried at\nmaster level (consequently unanalysed) and having played it\nall of three times\, I am now undoubtedly the world’s leading\nauthority on it. Indeed\, after one or two more it will\nprobably be named after me!” — Tony Miles. “Miles had a\npatent on this system against the Queen’s Indian.” — Timman}\nBb7 5.e3 Be7 {“According to Chess Encyclopaedia 5…Ne4 is\ngood for Black. I\, of course\, disagree as\, it seems\, do my\nopponents.” — Miles. “Spassky goes for a passive set-up\,\nallowing White to get a clear opening advantage.” — Timman }\n6.h3 {“6 Nc3 Nh5! gives Black less trouble\, otherwise Black\nmight get the bishop pair.” — Timman} O-O 7.Nc3 d5 8.cxd5\nexd5 {“8…Nxd5 9 Nxd5 Bxd5 10 Bd3 is slightly better for\nWhite\, as in Browne-Miles\, Amsterdam 1978. It was probably\nbetter to swap a couple of knights\, but even then Black would\nfeel the pressure.” — Timman.} 9.Bd3 c5 10.O-O Nc6 {The stage\nis set. White has prospects against Black’s kingside\, while\nSpassky has chances on the other side of the board.} 11.Ne5 c4\n{!? “11…cxd4 12 Nxc6 Bxc6 13 exd4+=” — Miles} 12.Bc2 a6\n13.g4 {The signal for the attack. — Timman} b5 14.g5 Ne8 {In\nthe diagram\, White has already burned his boats. Black has a\ndangerous queenside pawn majority and\, by advancing his\ng-pawn\, White has weakened his kingside. White has apparently\nstaked all on attacking Black’s king\, rendered somewhat\nexposed by the forced retreat of the knight from f6 How should\nWhite pursue the attack? 15 Qh5 allows Black to play …g6 (a\nmove he intends to play anyway) with gain of tempo. The\nobvious attacking try is 15 Bxh7+ Kxh7 16 Qh5+ Kg8 17 g6 fxg6\n(17…Nf6 18 gxf7+) 18 Nxg6 but Black can then defend\nsatisfactorily by 18…Rf6 when 19 Nxd5 loses to 19…Rxg6+;\n18…Nf6 19 Qh8+ Kf7 20 Nxf8 Qxf8 is also not bad for\nBlack. So Miles played 15 Qg4\, a multi-purpose move\,\ntransferring the queen to the kingside\, defending the pawn on\ng5\, vacating d1 for a rook and eyeing d7.} 15.Qg4 g6 16.Rad1\n{“White prepares his assault with natural developing\nmoves. The black counter-offensive on the queenside makes\nlittle difference.” — Timman} Ng7 17.h4 Bb4 {? Up to this\npoint\, the game had been fairly balanced\, with White’s\nkingside attack countered by defence in depth plus a black\nqueenside pawn majority. But now Spassky removes a key\ndefensive piece\, clearly miscalculating the tactics that\nfollow. Probably best is 17…b4 18 Ne2 f6.} 18.Nd7 {!\n“Already the final blow. But it needed accurate\ncalculation.”–Timman} Bc8 {“Forced. 18…Bxc3 19 Nf6+ Kh8 20\nbxc3 followed by h5 is hopeless for Black. 18…f5 19 gxf6+/-”\n— Miles} 19.Nxd5 {“19 Nf6+? Qxf6 20 Qxc8 Qe6!=+” — Miles}\nKh8 {“If 19…Bxd7 not 20 Nf6+\, which is refuted by\n20…Qxf6!\, when White’s queen would be hanging. Stronger\nwould be 20 Qxd7 Qxd7 21 Nf6+” — Miles. This game is replete\nwith such delicate tactics.} 20.N5f6 Ra7 {Best. If 20…Be7 21\nBe4 or 20…Ne8 21 Be5. Now White must lose the knight on d7\,\nbut his attack becomes decisive.} 21.d5 { Now the point of\nmove 16 is revealed.” — Timman} Ne7 {If 21…Na5 22 h5! Rxd7\n23 Qh4 gxh5 24 Be5 Re7 [24…Qe7 25 Qe4] 25 Bd4!+ — Miles}\n22.Be5 {! Now 22 h5 is not so clear\, e.g. 22…Bxd7 23 Qh4\ngxh5 with …Ng6 to follow. With the point that 22…Bxd7\nfails to 23 Qd4″ — Timman} Rxd7 {Not 22…Bxd7 23 Qd4!} 23.h5\n{! “23 Qd4? Nc6! or 23 Nxd7? Qxd7 and …Qg4+. The attack is\nstill rolling along but it still requires accurate\ncalculation.” — Timman. Despite exchanges the attack steadily\nmounts. } Rxd5 {“23…Rb7 24 Qf4+” — Miles} 24.Qf4 {! The\nbest square for the queen.} Rxd1 25.Rxd1 Qa5 {Though a piece\nahead\, Black is lost. The more natural 25…Qb6 allows 26h6\nwhen the attacked knight cannot move because of Nd5+.} 26.Ne8\n{! The death blow.} f6 {Or if 26…Rxe8 27 Qf6 Rg8 (27…Nef5\n28 Bxf5 Rxe5 29 h6 Bf8 30 hxg7+ Bxg7 31 Rd8++) 28 h6 mates\nquickly: 28…Nef5 29 Bxf5 Bf8 30 Bxc8+.} 27.gxf6 Kg8 {If\n27…Nxe8 28 f7+ or 27…Rxe8 28 f7! Rf8 29 h6 Nef5 30 Qxf5\nBxf5 31 hxg7#} 28.Nxg7 {If 28…Nc6 29 hxg6 soon forces\nmate. “And Black resigned\, crushed. A magnificent attacking\nwin\, all the more considering that Spassky\, together with\nKarpov\, had won the first Bugojno tournament earlier that\nyear”–Timman. Many players would find Miles’ 18th or 19th\nmoves more impressive than his fifteenth. But these moves were\nsusceptible to precise calculation\, whereas 15 Qg4 was not. 15\nQg4 stands out as a star move\, because White displayed good\njudgement in rejecting the tempting 15 Bxh7+ and correctly\nchose to pursue the attack by slower means. I think this is\nMiles’ best game.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “EU Team-ch07 Final”]\n[Site “Skara”]\n[Date “1980.01.20”]\n[Round “1.1”]\n[White “Karpov\, Anatoly”]\n[Black “Miles\, Anthony John”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[WhiteElo “2725”]\n[BlackElo “2545”]\n[Annotator “Knaak\,R”]\n[PlyCount “92”]\n[EventDate “1980.01.20”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “SWE”]\n[SourceTitle “100 Jahre Schach”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Soviet Union”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “URS”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,92\,19\,31\,60\,53\,120\,107\,113\,82\,92\,58\,70\,53\,70\,70\,71\,85\,85\,92\,48\,73\,55\,\n59\,58\,35\,10\,14\,19\,20\,50\,57\,51\,74\,54\,36\,33\,31\,26\,11\,5\,5\,5\,0\,-16\,-11\,-7\,-79\,-81\,\n-97\,-97\,-190\,-238\,-353\,-325\,-302\,-196\,-202\,-197\,-187\,-212\,-196\,-205\,-218\,-201\,\n-203\,-203\,-204\,-209\,-213\,-196\,-233\,-213\,-217\,-176\,-224\,-234\,-251\,-244\,-254\,\n-267\,-244\,-242\,-248\,-240\,-241\,-234\,-227\,-196\,-238\,-156\,-145\,-142\,-188\,-168] Um\n1980 herum dominierte Karpov die Schachwelt völlig. Miles hatte das Pech\,\ngegen den Weltmeister fast immer die schwarzen Steine führen zu müssen\, denn\nKarpov war mit Weiß fürchterlich\, während er als Nachziehender schon mal ein\nschnelles Remis mitmachte. Demzufolge war die persönliche Bilanz in den\nSpielen gegeneinander katastrophal für den Engländer. Doch dieses eine Mal\nsollte alles anders sein…} 1. e4 a6 $1 {Eine aus psychologischer Sicht\ninteressante Wahl: Alles andere als ein Sieg ist nun für Karpov ein Misserfolg.\nNatürlich klappt so ein Trick nur einmal.} 2. d4 b5 3. Nf3 Bb7 4. Bd3 Nf6 (4…\ne6 $142) 5. Qe2 (5. e5 Nd5 6. Ng5 $5 ) 5… e6 6. a4 c5 (6… b4 {(Miles)\n}) 7. dxc5 (7. e5 c4 $13 {(Miles)}) (7. c3 c4 8. Bc2 d5 )\n7… Bxc5 8. Nbd2 b4 9. e5 Nd5 10. Ne4 Be7 11. O-O $6 {Ein solider Zug\, aber\ner verpasst eine Chance.} (11. Bg5 $142 {und Weiß kommt zu klarem Vorteil.})\n11… Nc6 12. Bd2 (12. Bg5 f6 $1 ) 12… Qc7 13. c4 (13. Ng3 h5\n$5) 13… bxc3 14. Nxc3 Nxc3 15. Bxc3 Nb4 $1 {Laut Miles mit ‘=’. Aber\nvielleicht ist diese Einschätzung nicht korrekt und Weiß hat noch Vorteil..}\n16. Bxb4 Bxb4 17. Rac1 Qb6 18. Be4 (18. Ng5 $5 Be7 19. Qh5 (19. Nxh7 g6 20.\nNf6+ Bxf6 21. exf6 Qd4 $15) 19… Bxg5 20. Qxg5 O-O $13 {(Miles)}) 18… O-O\n19. Ng5 {Verpasst die Chance zum Läuferopfer auf h7. Wenn Karpov auf Gewinn\nspielen wollte (wovon man ausgehen kann)\, so war es gegenüber dem Partiezug\nauf jeden Fall die bessere Fortsetzung. Der Beweis der Korrektheit des Opfers\nmit Computerhilfe ist freilich eine ganz andere Sache als das Spielen am Brett.\n} (19. Bxh7+ $1 {ist auf jeden Fall chancenreich:} Kxh7 20. Ng5+ Kg6 $1 21. Qg4\n{Komplizierter ist} f5 $1 (21… f6 $2 {!? (Miles)} {aber} 22. Nxe6+ Kf7 23.\nNxf8 Kxf8 (23… Bxf8 24. Qxd7+ Kg8 25. e6 $18) 24. exf6 gxf6 25. Qxd7 Rd8 26.\nQh7 {und Weiß sollte gewinnen.}) 22. Qg3 Qd4 $1 {=/+ (Miles)\, aber das ist\nnicht richtig:} (22… Rg8 23. Rc7 $1 {(Fritz)} Bc6 $1 (23… Rae8 24. Nxe6+\nKf7 25. Ng5+ Ke7 26. e6 $18) 24. Nxe6+ Kf7 25. Qb3 $1 Ke8 (25… Rgf8 26. Rd1\nKe7 27. Rxc6 Qxc6 (27… dxc6 28. Nf4 $18) 28. Qxb4+ $18) 26. Rc1 Ba5 27. Qd1\ndxe6 (27… Qxc7 28. Nxc7+ Bxc7 29. e6 $18) 28. R7xc6 $16) 23. h3 $1 (23. Nxe6+\nQg4 24. Nxf8+ Bxf8 25. Qxg4+ fxg4 26. Rfd1 $11) (23. Rc7 Bc6 24. h3 Qxb2 $1 (\n24… f4 $2 25. Qg4 Kh6 26. Qh4+ Kg6 27. Rxc6 dxc6 28. Qh7+ Kxg5 29. h4+ Kg4\n30. Qg6+ Kxh4 31. Kh2 $18) 25. Nxe6+ Kf7 $13) 23… Kh5 $1 (23… f4 $2 24. Qg4\nKh6 25. Rfd1 Qxe5 26. Qh4+ Kg6 27. Rxd7 $1 Rh8 28. Nf7 $18) 24. Nh7 $1 (24. Rc7\nBd5 25. Nh7 Be7 26. Rxd7 (26. Nxf8 Bxf8 27. Rxd7 Qh4 $1) 26… Bh4 (26… Rh8\n27. Rxe7 Rxh7 28. Rxg7 Rxg7 29. Qxg7 Ra7 $11) 27. Qxg7 Rg8 28. Nf6+ Bxf6 29.\nQh7+ Kg5 30. exf6 Kxf6 $11) 24… Be7 (24… Bd2 $6 25. Rfd1 Qf4 26. Qxg7 Bxc1\n27. Nxf8 Rxf8 28. Qxf8 Bc6 29. Qf7+ Kh6 30. Rd3 $16) 25. Rcd1 Qxa4 (25… Qh4\n26. Qxg7 Rg8 27. Nf6+ Bxf6 28. Qh7+ Kg5 29. f4+ $18) 26. Qxg7 Rg8 27. Nf6+ Bxf6\n28. Qh7+ Kg5 29. f4+ Qxf4 30. Rxf4 Kxf4 31. exf6 (31. Qxd7 Rxg2+ 32. Kf1 Rg1+\n33. Kxg1 Rg8+ 34. Kf1 Bg2+ 35. Ke1 Bh4+ $11) 31… Rxg2+ 32. Kf1 Be4 {Schwarz\ndroht nun 33…Rh2 und 33…Rag8.} 33. Rd2 $5 Rxd2 34. Qh6+ Ke5 35. Qxd2 Kxf6\n36. Qxd7 {Weiß kann ohne Risiko auf Gewinn spielen.}) 19… h6 20. Bh7+ $6 {\nEs ist wahrscheinlich genau an dieser Stelle\, wo Karpov ganz gegen seine\nGewohnheit der Sinn für Gefahren verloren geht – vielleicht auch wegen der\nprovokativen Eröffnung von Schwarz.} ({Nach} 20. Bxb7 Qxb7 21. Qe4 Qxe4 22.\nNxe4 {ergibt sich ein völlig ausgeglichenes Endspiel.}) 20… Kh8 21. Bb1 $6 (\n21. Be4) 21… Be7 22. Ne4 (22. Qd3 g6 $15 {(Miles)}) 22… Rac8 {Stellt einen\nBauern ein\, denn Kompensation durch etwaige Drohungen auf der Diagonale b1-h7\nergeben sich nicht.} 23. Qd3 $2 ({Nach} 23. Rcd1 {verfügt Schwarz über einen\nkleinen Vorteil.}) 23… Rxc1 24. Rxc1 Qxb2 25. Re1 $6 ({Besser} 25. Rd1 $5 g6\n26. Nd6) 25… Qxe5 $19 26. Qxd7 Bb4 $1 {Am stärksten\, aber auch 26…Rb8 wäre\neine Möglichkeit wegen des fehlenden weißen Luftlochs.} 27. Re3 Qd5 28. Qxd5\nBxd5 {Der Rest ist Sache der Technik\, auch ein Karpov kann gegen Läuferpaar +\nMehrbauer nichts machen.} 29. Nc3 Rc8 30. Ne2 g5 31. h4 Kg7 32. hxg5 hxg5 33.\nBd3 a5 34. Rg3 Kf6 35. Rg4 Bd6 36. Kf1 Be5 37. Ke1 Rh8 38. f4 gxf4 39. Nxf4 Bc6\n40. Ne2 Rh1+ 41. Kd2 Rh2 42. g3 Bf3 43. Rg8 Rg2 44. Ke1 Bxe2 45. Bxe2 Rxg3 46.\nRa8 Bc7 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Biel SKA”]\n[Site “Biel”]\n[Date “1996.07.30”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Miles\, Anthony John”]\n[Black “Tukmakov\, Vladimir B”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E12”]\n[WhiteElo “2630”]\n[BlackElo “2580”]\n[Annotator “Miles\,Anthony John”]\n[PlyCount “133”]\n[EventDate “1996.07.22”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “SUI”]\n[EventCategory “16”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 055”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1996.12.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1996.12.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,133\,19\,27\,5\,-3\,25\,31\,17\,26\,28\,25\,58\,31\,17\,22\,36\,12\,8\,6\,19\,-8\,51\,28\,21\,\n7\,4\,-23\,-15\,-20\,-21\,2\,9\,-8\,-5\,-34\,-26\,-25\,-19\,-46\,0\,8\,-4\,-4\,5\,-19\,40\,-3\,7\,16\,4\,\n22\,19\,18\,18\,15\,38\,30\,44\,38\,41\,25\,60\,58\,58\,24\,0\,38\,50\,19\,56\,82\,84\,91\,108\,88\,94\,\n123\,108\,108\,164\,208\,222\,233\,236\,231\,209\,238\,243\,16\,1\,39\,55\,0\,0\,0\,40\,0\,0\,0\,64\,\n54\,26\,25\,39\,49\,55\,34\,451\,451\,458\,475\,570\,570\,593\,621\,621\,556\,788\,1016\,730\,1047\,\n1047\,998\,1098\,1098\,1098\,1142\,1226\,1279\,29975\,1098\,29989\,1279\,29989\,29990]} 1.\nNf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. d4 e6 5. a3 g6 $5 6. g3 Bg7 (6… Bxf3 $5) 7.\nBg2 Ne4 (7… O-O 8. O-O Ne4 9. Nxe4 Bxe4 10. Bg5 { Qd2+/=}) 8. Nxe4 Bxe4 9.\nBg5 $5 (9. O-O) 9… Qc8 10. Qd2 h6 11. Be3 Nc6 {Nc6-e7-f5} 12. Rc1 (12. d5\nNa5 $1) 12… Ne7 13. g4 $5 Qb7 14. h3 f5 $2 (14… O-O-O $1 {g5\,f5 /=/+})\n15. g5 $1 h5 (15… hxg5 16. Bxg5 Nc6 17. d5 $1 $36) 16. O-O d6 {17…e5}\n17. Nh4 $1 {x g6} Bxg2 18. Nxg2 e5 19. f4 $1 {+/=/+/-} exd4 20. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 21.\nQxd4 O-O-O 22. Rf3 $1 {23.Re3} c5 23. Qf6 Rhf8 24. Qe6+ Qd7 25. Qxd7+ Rxd7 (\n25… Kxd7) 26. Nh4 $1 $16 {>< g6} Rg8 27. Re3 $1 d5 28. Re6 $1 dxc4 29. Rxc4\nRd1+ 30. Kf2 Kd7 31. Rf6 $1 Rd6 32. Rf7 $1 Ke6 33. Rh7 Nc6 34. Rc3 $1 {35.\nRe3} Rd4 35. Re3+ Kd6 36. Kg3 Rd2 37. Rf7 $18 Nd4 38. Rf6+ (38. Kf2 $18) 38…\nKd7 39. Nxg6 (39. Rf7+ {40.Kf2}) 39… Nxe2+ 40. Kh4 Rxg6 41. Rxg6 Nxf4 42.\nRg7+ Kd6 43. Rf3 Rd4 44. Rxf4 $1 Rxf4+ 45. Kxh5 $18 Rf2 46. Rf7 $2 (46. Rxa7\n$18) 46… Rxb2 47. Rxf5 c4 48. h4 $1 c3 49. Rf3 c2 50. Rc3 Kd5 51. Kh6 $2 (51.\nKg6 $1) (51. g6 $2 Kd4 52. Rc8 Rb5+ {53…Rc5}) 51… Kd4 52. Rc8 Kd3 53. g6\nRb1 $4 (53… Rb3 $10) 54. g7 Rg1 55. h5 b5 56. Kh7 a5 57. g8=Q Rxg8 58. Kxg8\nb4 59. h6 b3 60. h7 b2 61. h8=Q c1=Q 62. Qh7+ Kd4 63. Qg7+ Kd3 64. Qg6+ Kd4 65.\nQf6+ Kd3 66. Qf5+ Kd4 67. Rd8+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom Wikipedia :\n“Personal life \nMiles was an only child\, born 23 April 1955 in Edgbaston\, a suburb of Birmingham\, and attended King Edward’s School\, Birmingham.[1][2] He was married and divorced twice\, and had no children.[1] Miles’ first wife was Jana Hartston\, who had previously been married to William Hartston.[2] \nEarly achievements in chess\nHe learned the game of chess early in life and made good progress nationally\, taking the titles of British under-14 Champion and under-21 Champion in 1968[1] and 1971\,[3][4] respectively. \nIn 1973\, Miles won the silver medal at the World Junior Chess Championship at Teesside\, his first important event against international competition. Both he and compatriot Michael Stean defeated the tournament winner Alexander Beliavsky\, but were unable to match the Soviet player’s ruthlessness in dispatching lesser opponents. Miles went on to win this prestigious title the following year in Manila\, while a mathematics undergraduate of the University of Sheffield.[1][2] \nTaking the decision to pursue the game professionally\, Miles did not complete his studies\, but\, in 1975\, was awarded an MA by the University in respect of his chess achievements.[2] \nFurther career highlights\nIn 1976\, Miles became the first UK-born\, over-the-board chess grandmaster\, narrowly beating Raymond Keene to the accolade.[2] The naturalised\, German-born Jacques Mieses was awarded the GM title in 1950\, while Keith Bevan Richardson had been awarded the GM title for correspondence chess earlier in 1975. For his achievement\, Miles won a £5\,000 prize\, put up by wealthy businessman and chess backer Jim Slater.[1][2] \nMiles had a string of good results in the late 1970s and 1980s. He matured into a world class player and won games against high calibre opponents\, such as former World Chess Champions Vasily Smyslov\, Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky. \nIn 1980 at the European Team Championship in Skara\, he beat reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov with Black\, using the extremely unorthodox opening 1. e4 a6!?\, the St. George Defence. It is often said that Miles learned the line from offbeat openings enthusiast Michael Basman\, but in his book Play the St. George\, Basman asserts there is no truth to this. Miles beat Karpov again three years later in Bath in a game that was part of the BBC’s Master Game series\, but it was shown only by the (co-producing) German television network\, due to a BBC technicians’ strike at the time of broadcast. \nMiles won the British Championship just once\, in 1982 when the event was held in Torquay. His prime time as a chess player was the mid-1980s. On 20 May 1984 in Roetgen (Germany)\, Miles set a European record in blind simultaneous chess with 22 games (+10−2=10);[5] this record was not broken until 2009. On the January 1984 Elo rating list\, he ranked No. 18 in the world with a rating of 2599. One of his best results occurred at the Tilburg tournament in 1984\, where\, from a strong field\, he emerged sole winner by a clear margin of one and one-half points. The following year\, he tied for first at the same event with Robert Hübner and Viktor Korchnoi\, playing several of his games while lying face down on a table\, having injured his back.[6] \nThe result was controversial\, as many of Miles’ opponents felt they were distracted by the unusual circumstances. A string of good performances culminated in a good showing on the January 1986 Elo rating list\, where he climbed to a best-ever position of World No. 9 with a rating of 2610. During this period\, there was considerable rivalry with Nunn over who was the United Kingdom’s best player\, the two protagonists regularly leapfrogging each other in the world rankings. Nigel Short and Speelman soon added to the competition\, as the English national squad entered its strongest period. \nNever able to qualify out of the Interzonal stages into the Candidates’ series\, Miles eventually lost the race to become the first British Candidate when Short did so in 1985. However\, he retained top board for England at the Thessaloniki and Dubai Olympiads of 1984 and 1986\, helping the team to silver medals at each. \nAgainst Garry Kasparov\, Miles had little success\, not winning a game against him\, and losing a 1986 match in Basel by the score of 5½–½. Following this encounter\, Miles commented “I thought I was playing the world champion\, not a monster with a thousand eyes who sees everything” (some sources alternatively quote Miles as having the opinion that Kasparov had 22 or 27 eyes). \nMiles on a stretcher with back pain\, playing in Tilburg (1985)\nAfter he was hospitalised because of a mental breakdown in late 1987\, Miles moved to the United States. He finished last in the 1988 U.S. Championship\, but continued to play there and had some good results. In 1991\, he played in the Championship of Australia\, but eventually moved back to England and began to represent his native country again. He was equal first at the very strong Cappelle-la-Grande Open in 1994\, 1995\, and 1997\, and caused a shock at the PCA Intel Rapid Chess Grand Prix in London in 1995\, when he knocked out Vladimir Kramnik in the first round and Loek van Wely in the second. His bid to win the event was finally halted in the semifinal by English teammate Michael Adams. \nThere were four notable victories at the Capablanca Memorial in Cuba (1994\, 1995\, 1996\, and 1999). Miles also tied for first in the 1999 Continental Open in Los Angeles with Alexander Beliavsky\, Ľubomír Ftáčnik and Suat Atalık. His last tournament victory was the 2001 Canadian Open Chess Championship in Sackville\, New Brunswick. \nMiles entered and played at the 2001 British Championship in Scarborough\, but withdrew before the final round\, apparently because of ill health. His final two games before his death were short draws in the Four Nations Chess League. Miles played in an extraordinary number of chess events during his career\, including many arduous weekend tournaments. \nThe Miles Variation (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.Bf4) in the Queen’s Indian Defence is named after him.” \nOf course there are numerous articles about Tony for example : \nVlastimil Hort Remembers Tony Miles \nHort stories: Wrong place wrong time \nChess Corner – Original Maverick: Remembering Tony Miles \nBritain’s first chess grandmaster\, he paved the way for today’s international competitors \nTony Miles 1955-2001 \nKingpin \nTony Miles (1955-2001) by Edward Winter \nHow Anthony Miles beat a World Champion (Karpov-Miles\, Skara 1980) \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIt7McTLy4Y[/embedyt] \nLawrence Trent plays Tony Miles in 2001 at the British Championships in Scarborough\nIt’s Only Me\, edited by Geoff Lawton\nTony Miles : England’s Chess Gladiator\, Ray Keene\, 2006\nTony Miles : England’s Chess Gladiator\, Ray Keene\, 2006\nA Tony Miles memorial
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-tony-miles/
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM David Howell (14-xi-1990)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM David Wei Lang Howell (14-xi-1990) \nDavid was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2010-11 season sharing with Danny Gormally.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Charles Cobb (15-xi-1978)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Charles A Cobb (15-xi-1978)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-charles-a-cobb-15-xi-1978/
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Ben Hague (15-xi-1973)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Ben Hague (15-xi-1973)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-ben-hague-15-xi-1973/
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Edward Sergeant OBE (3-xii-1881 16-xi-1961)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Edward Sergeant OBE (3-xii-1881 16-xi-1961) \nEdward Guthlac Sergeant was born on Saturday\, December 3rd 1881 : in the same year British Chess Magazine was founded by John Watkinson. \nHe was born in Crowland\, South Holland\, Lincolnshire. The registration district was Peterborough and the inferred county was Northamptonshire. His father was William R Sergeant (aged 27) and his mother was Frances E Sergeant (aged 25). He had a sister\, Hilda who was one year older. William was a registered general medical practitioner. \nHe was named Guthlac after a monk who “came to what was then an island in the Fens to live the life of a hermit.” \nSignature of EG Sergeant from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Margate 1936.\nAccording to the 1891 census EGS was aged 9 and living with his father\, mother\, sister and their domestic servant Margaret A George who was their general domestic servant who hailed from Scotland. They lived at 2\, Gladstone Terrace\, Gateshead\, NE8 4DY. This was in the Ecclesiastical parish of Christchurch. \n2\, Gladstone Terrace\, Gateshead\, NE8 4DY\nIn the 1911 census aged 29 as nephew to the head of the household (5 St Peters Terrace\, Cambridge) EGS is listed as a solicitor who is single. The size of the household in 1911 was relatively modest at 12. He was living with George Edward Wherry (59\, surgeon university professor) and his wife Albinia Lucy Wherry (53). Albinia Lucy Wherry was a nurse and also writer. During WWI she was stationed in Paris at the Gare du Nord where she supported British forces from 1915-18. the sub-registration district was St Andrew the Great. \nAccording to Edward Winter in Where did they live? in April 1916 EGS was living at 39 Chichele Road\, Cricklewood\, London NW2 3AN\, England. EGWs source for this is : Chess Amateur\, April 1916\, page 202. \n39 Chichele Road\, Cricklewood\, London NW2 3AN\n1918 was an important year for Edward when he married Dorothy Frances Carter (born 1887) in Gravesend. In the same year Dorothy and Edward had a son Richard who passed away in 2014 \nTwo years later Dorothy and Edward had a son Lewis Carter Sergeant born on January 30th 1920. The birth was registered in Paddington. Lewis lived at 3 Woodhill Court\, 175 Woodhill\, London\, SE18 5HSL and passed away in 2004 the death being registered in Greenwich. \nOn the 1920 Electoral Roll\, EGS was now living with Dorothy Frances Sergeant at St. Stephen’s Mansions\, 5\, Monmouth Road\, Edmonton. \nIn 1923 they upped sticks and moved to 27. King Edward’s Grove\, Teddington.  \nSadly Dorothy passed away in 1926 at the modest age of 39. \nCoventry Evening Telegraph 10 October 1933\nAccording to the 1939 census EGS was listed as a widowed\, civil servant living at 24\, Gloucester Road\, Kingston Upon Thames\, KT2 7DX. This would be the address that Edward saw out the rest of his life. \n24\, Gloucester Road\, Kingston Upon Thames\, KT2 7DX\nHe shared this address with Edith Carter (born 4th May 1878) who is described as being of “Private Means” and Ada M Wenman (6th August 1881) who is described as being a “domestic”. \nIn 1949 he was awarded the OBE in the Birthday Honours in recognition of his 39 years’ service in the office of the Solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue. \nAccording to John Saunders : EGS died in the New Victoria Hospital\, New Malden\, Surrey\, on 16 November 1961. His residence at death had been 24 Gloucester Road\, Kingston Hill. Probate (26 Jan 1962) granted to Lewis Carter Sergeant\, a Lieutenant-Colonel in HM Army. Effects £6\,586. \nE.G. Sergeant in characteristic pose v. Miss Vera Menchik at Margate\, 1939\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \nA British master who had a long and solidly distinguished career in British chess but never quite succeeded in breaking through the barrier to international success. A civil servant by profession\, he was awarded the OBE for his services in the Inland Revenue and Sergeant on Stamp Duties was regarded as an authoritative work. \nSergeant’s earliest performance in the British Championship\, at the Crystal Palace in London 190\, was one of his best. He came =2nd with JH Blackburne. RP Mitchell and GE Wainwright with 6.5 points\, a point below the winner of the title\, HE Atkins. \nHe was 3rd at Edinburgh in 1920 and his best result in the competition came in Brighton 193\, where he came equal second with H. Golombek\, a 1/2 point below the winner\, CHO’D Alexander. \nA stalwart supporter of the City of London Chess Club\, he won its championship in two successive years\, 1916 and 1917. He played for Britain against the USA in the 1908 and 1909 cable matches and also played on a high board for London against various American cities in the Insull Trophy matches in the years 1926-31. \nAs a player he was strongly influenced by the scientific principles of Siegbert Tarrasch and did well during the period when the Tarrasch school enjoyed its heyday. But he was at a loss when confronted with more modern methods.” \nBoth Sunnucks and Hooper & Whyld are silent on EGS : surprising! \nEGS was a cousin of PW Sergeant. \nWe asked  Leonard Barden of his memories of EGS and he was kind enough to reply :  \n“People have different ways of expressing satisfaction with their position. Botvinnik adjusted his tie\, Kasparov put his watch back on\,  Sergeant rubbed his hands together….He liked to counter the Queen’s Gambit Declined in the classical way with a kind of Lasker Defence.” \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXII\, March\, 1962\, Number 3\, pages 76 -80 we reproduce an obituary from Bruce Hayden entitled “E.G. Sergeant – An Appreciation” as follows : \n(note the incorrect birth location presumably based on the 1891 census information) \nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part one\nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part two\nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part three\nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part four\nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part five\nSergeant on Stamp Duties\n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1924/25-05 Premier B”]\n[Site “Hastings Town Hall”]\n[Date “1924.12.30”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Sergeant\, Edward Guthlac”]\n[Black “Tartakower\, Saviely”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B43”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1924.12.28”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,59\,19\,38\,72\,47\,56\,29\,25\,39\,82\,57\,75\,78\,66\,74\,72\,71\,100\,100\,126\,126\,\n143\,90\,89\,116\,117\,76\,74\,165\,299\,441\,522\,429\,415\,440\,449\,433\,556\,549\,554\,391\,\n382\,382\,473\,492\,565\,501\,630\,680\,751\,789\,29991\,1363\,29987\,1703\,29997\,933\,933\,\n959\,959\,980]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Bd3 Bb4 7.\nBd2 Nc6 8. Qg4 Nge7 9. Nxc6 dxc6 10. Qxg7 Rg8 11. Qd4 c5 12. Qf6 Rxg2 13. Bf4\nBxc3+ 14. bxc3 Qc6 15. Bg3 c4 16. Qh8+ Kd7 17. O-O-O Rxg3 18. hxg3 cxd3 19.\nRxd3+ Kc7 20. Qd8+ Kb8 21. Qxe7 Ka7 22. Rxh7 Rb8 23. e5 Qc4 24. Rxf7 Ra8 25.\nQc7 Qxa2 26. Rd8 Qa3+ 27. Kd2 Qa2 28. Rxc8 Qd5+ 29. Kc1 Qh1+ 30. Kb2 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Gordon Crown (20-vi-1929 17-xi-1947)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Gordon Crown who died this day (November 17th) in 1947. \nGordon Thomas Crown was born on Thursday\, June 20th\, 1929 to James Crown (born 18th November 1899) and Hilda M Crown (born 3rd October 1900\, née Sharrott). \nJames was a refrigerating engineer and Hilda carried out unpaid domestic duties. The birth was registered in the district of West Derby\, Lancashire. \nGordon attended Holt Secondary School which is now known as Childwall Sports and Science Academy. \nAccording to the electoral register of 1939 they lived at 8 Ingledene Road\, Liverpool\, Liverpool C.B.\, Lancashire\, England. (This is L18 3HJ in this day and age.) \nAccording to Zoopla : “This 4 bed freehold semi-detached house is located at 8 Ingledene Road\, Liverpool L18 3HJ and has an estimated current value of £581\,000. Ingledene Road has 19 properties on it with an average current value of £492\,220\, compared to an average property value of £325\,035 for L18. There have been 5 property sales on Ingledene Road\, L18 over the last 5 years with an average house price paid of £474\,900. There are currently 108 properties for sale in L18 with an average asking price of £372\,163 and 59 properties to rent in L18 with an average asking rent of £408 pw.” \n8 Ingledene Road\, Calderstones\, Liverpool\, L18 3HJ\nLiverpool Echo 15 April 1946\nBoth Sunnucks and Hooper & Whyld are silent on GTC : surprising! \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“Gordon Crown is one the sad might-have-beens of the world of chess. In his short life he had already shown himself to be of master strength and a potentially very great player when suddenly\, at the age of eighteen\, he died during an operation. \nHe learnt chess when aged nine and soon became one of the best players\, first in Liverpool\,\, his home town\, and then in Lancashire\, of which county he won the Junior Championship three years in succession. \nCrown first came into national prominence when he came second in the British Boys Championship in 1946. (Ed : the winner was John Fuller) In the Hastings Congress of 1946/7 he won first place in a strong Premier Reserves Section. \nThe last year of his life even saw him reaching out to international success\, Playing on board 9 for Britain against The Netherlands he scored 1.5 out of 2 against L.J. Tummers. Then he won third prize in the British Championship at Harrogate. As a result of this success he was promoted to board 4 for Britain against Australia in a radio match when he beat Dr. M. Gellis. \nHarry Golombek and Gordon Crown in around 1946-47.\nIn September 1947 he was hurried to hospital suffering from peritonitis and\, being a diabetic\, succumbed under the operation. \nAs a player he excelled in both the opening and endgame phases and possessed a style of play that stamped him as a future grandmaster. As a person he was modest\, clever and a very agreeable companion. This was great loss for British and\, almost certainly\, world chess.” \nWe have reproduced his obituary from British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXVII (1947)\, Number 12 (December)\, Page 387-8 and we assume that this was written by TJ Beach: \n“The tragic death of Gordon on November 17th  after an operation\, will be felt keenly-by chess players throughout the country. Although only l8 years of age he had risen to a high place in British chess circles. Learning the elements of the game in 1938\, he had won the Lancashire Junior Championship in three successive years\, was champion of the Liverpool Chess Club and Merseyside champion with 100 per cent scores last season\, headed his section of the Premier Tournament at the last Hastings Christmas Congress\, and\, filling the vacancy caused by the late withdrawal of R. F. Combe the 1946 champion\, took third prize in the British Championship played at Harrogate in August of this year. \nIn three international team matches he scored l.5 points on Board 9 against Tummers\, of Holland; was one of the two British players to score a full point against the visiting U.S.S.R. team\, sharing honours with Kotov in two finely played games on Board 4; and followed this with a win over Dr. Gellis\, of Victoria\, in the recent radio match with Australia\, despite the earlier loss of the exchange through an oversight. His full match record for the past twelve months in international\, county\, and club matches read: won 16\, drawn 2\, and lost l. (to Kotov). \nHis play was notable for his exceptional knowledge of opening and end-game strategy\, but his prowess was not by any means confined to “book” knowledge. Possessing deep positional insight\, real combinational ability\, and chess experience beyond his years\, his concentration\, tenacity\, and\ndetermination to win had already made him one of the most formidable match and tournament players in the country. Many of us felt that he would become a worthy British champion within the next few years\, and possibly reach even greater heights in the international sphere\, and it is\, perhaps\, not too much to say that many chess players were already looking forward to the day when Gordon Crown would lead British chess to a high place in international esteem: Now those dreams have been rudely shattered\, and the loss to British chess is great indeed. \nGordon Crown was not merely a youthful chess prodigy. Although suffering for many years from the physical disability which has now caused his premature death\, he had a distinguished record at the Holt High School\, Liverpool\, and had entered Liverpool University only a month ago to read for the degree of B.A. Unable to play football and cricket\, in which latter he was deeply interested\, he became a tennis and table-tennis player of well above average ability and was an excellent exponent of billiards and snooker. Among other interests were cycling\, and military history and strategy\, in which he had read and studied widely. \nNo study of Gordon Crown would be complete without reference to his personality quite apart from his ability. Possessed of a quiet assurance and confidence in matters pertaining to chess\, he was modest in victory\, generous in his rare defeats\, and ever ready to help small clubs by means of a lecture or simultaneous display. \nNever too busy to play the humblest novice\, he gave untold pleasure and a new interest in life to many men who had suffered during the war by introducing them to the\nfascination of chess\, and by this means helped materially in the vital task of rehabilitation. With charm and dignity Gordon Crown won a warm place in the hearts and affections of those who were fortunate enough to be counted among his friends\, and whilst our deepest sympathy goes out to his parents in their tragic loss\, they may well ae proud that their son achieved so much that was really worth while within so few years\, for we shall remember Gordon with affection long after his chess exploits are but a dim memory.-T. J. B.” \nThe following is one of the last games\, if not the last; played by Crown in competitive chess. Score and notes from “The Field” \n[pgn]\n[Event “corr”]\n[Site “ENG-NED”]\n[Date “1947.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Crown\, Gordon Thomas”]\n[Black “Leeson\, John Thorn”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B02”]\n[Annotator “The Field & British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “47”]\n[EventDate “1947.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 1947\, page 387”]\n[Source “Hastings & St. L”] \n{[%evp 0\,47\,19\,38\,89\,42\,36\,3\,81\,11\,15\,8\,47\,34\,-3\,15\,63\,60\,70\,49\,46\,41\,27\,58\,58\,\n-23\,8\,-28\,7\,6\,18\,18\,109\,-45\,270\,271\,961\,1091\,29997\,29990\,29991\,29992\,29993\,\n29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 ({\nThe alternative} 3… d4 4. exf6 dxc3 5. fxe7 Qxe7+ 6. Qe2 {is in White’s\nfavour} {for if} Qxe2+ 7. Bxe2 $11 {[#] and now Black must exchange pawns and\,\nwhichever pawn he captures\, White is well ahead in development.}) 4. e6 {\nA manoeuvre used by Spielmann in this and other openings and named by him “an\nobstructive sacrifice”. It is particularly apposite in this position as Black\ncould otherwise obtain a favourable variation of the French Defence\, in which\nthe White Knight would be badly placed at c3.} fxe6 5. d4 c5 ({Black’s problem\nis the development of his bishops. The most likely move is} 5… g6 {; though\nhe would soon be subjected to a fierce attack in which White’s KB\, QB\, Q and\nthe KRP would take part.}) 6. dxc5 (6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Bb5 g6 8. h4 $15) 6… Nc6 7.\nNf3 {[#]} ({Relevant:} 7. Bd3 Nf6 8. Nf3 g6 9. O-O Bg7 10. Qe2 O-O 11. Bg5 Kh8\n12. a3 e5 13. Nd2 e4 14. Bb5 Nd4 15. Qd1 Nxb5 16. Nxb5 a6 17. Nc3 Be6 18. Nb3\nh6 19. Bh4 Bg8 20. Na4 Rc8 21. Bg3 Nh5 22. Qg4 Nxg3 23. hxg3 Qe8 24. Nb6 Rd8\n25. Na5 Qb5 26. b4 Bxa1 27. Rxa1 Rf6 28. Nxb7 Rdf8 29. c4 dxc4 30. Qxe4 Rxf2\n31. Qxe7 Qc6 32. Qe5+ R8f6 {0-1 (32) Khavin\,A-Mikenas\,V Moscow 1944}) 7… Nxc5\n$146 ({Predecessor:} 7… Nf6 8. Bb5 Qc7 9. O-O Bd7 10. Re1 g6 11. Ng5 a6 12.\nBa4 Bg7 13. Nxe6 Bxe6 14. Rxe6 Kf7 15. Bb3 Rad8 16. Nxd5 Qc8 17. Rd6 Rxd6 18.\ncxd6 e6 19. Nc7 Nd8 20. Qe2 Ne8 21. Bg5 Nxc7 22. dxc7 Qxc7 23. Bxd8 Rxd8 24.\nQxe6+ Kf8 25. Re1 {1-0 (25) Van Steenis\,H-Stumpers\,L Amsterdam 1939}) (7… g6\n8. h4 Bg7 9. h5 Nxc5 10. hxg6 hxg6 11. Rxh8+ Bxh8 12. Bd3) 8. Bb5 Qd6 9. g3 Nd7\n10. O-O $14 {[#] White’s position is both secure and well-developed and with\nboth the black Bishops still shut in on their original squares. It is to be\nexpected that White will find an opportunity for a fierce attack.} g6 11. Re1\nBg7 12. Ng5 Bxc3 ({After the obvious} 12… Nf8 {White has the following\ncontinuation} 13. Qf3 Bf6 14. Bf4 e5 15. Nxd5 exf4 16. Ne4 {and Black is\nthreatened with the loss of his Queen\, which he can save only at the risk of\nfalling into a mating net.}) 13. Rxe6 Qc5 14. Bxc6 bxc6 15. bxc3 $16 {It is\ninstructive to note that the Black KP is still blockaded.} h6 $2 ({Better was}\n15… Nf6 16. Re1 Bg4 17. Be3 $14) 16. Qe2 $1 $18 {Finely played.} ({Stronger\nis} 16. Be3 $1 Qa3 17. Qd4 Rf8 18. Re1 $18) 16… Nf8 ({After} 16… hxg5 17.\nBxg5 {affords White an irresistible attack.} Rh7 18. Re1) {The point of\ninterpolating} 17. Be3 $1 {driving off the Queen is that White’s KBP is not\nnow attacked.} Qc4 {[#]} ({As Crown points out\, Black’s} 17… Qa3 {was\nnecessary in order to defend the KP.} {White’s main line was then} 18. Bf4 Nxe6\n(18… hxg5 19. Bd6) 19. Nxe6 Bxe6 20. Qxe6 g5 21. Be5 Rf8 22. Re1 {and Black\nhas no defence}) 18. Rxe7+ $1 {The prelude to a fine finish.} Kd8 ({If} 18…\nKxe7 19. Bc5+ Kf6 (19… Kd7 20. Qe7#) (19… Kd8 20. Qe7#) 20. Qe7+ Kf5 21.\nBd4 {etc}) 19. Nf7+ ({Slightly more brutal was} 19. Bb6+ axb6 20. Nf7#) 19…\nKxe7 20. Bc5+ Kf6 21. Qe5+ Kxf7 22. Qe7+ Kg8 23. Qxf8+ Kh7 24. Qf7# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand here is the scan of the original article: \nObituary of Gordon Thomas Crown\, part one\nand \nObituary of Gordon Thomas Crown\, Part Two\nWe are grateful to Leonard Barden on the identity of T.J.B. : \n“Thomas John Beach\, wartime RAF navigator with Distinguished Flying Cross\, leading light of Liverpool chess\, regular British championship player for many years\, chairman of BCF junior selectors\, father of a leading Midlands expert\, a good and dedicated man” TJB was the father of Richard Beach who won the British Boys Under 18 title in 1961. \nAccording to the British Chess Magazine\, 1943\, March\, page 56 GTC lived at 8 Ingledene Road\, Calderstones\, Liverpool 18\, England. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Match/Nation ENG-URS”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1947.09.20”]\n[Round “1.4”]\n[White “Crown\, Gordon Thomas”]\n[Black “Kotov\, Alexander”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B24”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “69”]\n[EventDate “1947.09.20”]\n[EventType “team-match”]\n[EventRounds “2”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,69\,19\,38\,40\,46\,33\,10\,25\,23\,17\,19\,58\,41\,40\,8\,36\,40\,9\,28\,14\,14\,29\,11\,12\,\n-5\,-22\,-32\,-19\,-23\,-31\,-31\,31\,-46\,0\,-18\,-18\,-23\,0\,-33\,-36\,-67\,-19\,-44\,-19\,0\,80\,\n28\,119\,172\,195\,168\,288\,142\,108\,90\,184\,202\,131\,112\,292\,177\,507\,494\,619\,618\,620\,\n644\,661\,661\,653\,660]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 e6 6. Be3\nb6 (6… d6 $142) (6… Nd4 $2 7. Nce2 $1 {Smyslov}) 7. Nge2 Nf6 (7… Nge7 8.\nd4) 8. h3 (8. d4 Ng4) 8… Ba6 9. Qd2 (9. e5 Nxe5 10. Bxa8 Qxa8 $40) 9… d5\n10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Bg5 Qd7 12. Nxd5 exd5 13. Bh6 Bxb2 $6 (13… O-O) 14. Rb1 Be5\n15. O-O d4 16. Rfe1 O-O-O 17. Nf4 Rhe8 (17… Bxf4 18. Bxf4) 18. Nd5 Qd6 19. Nxb6+ $1 axb6 20. Rxb6 Bb7 21. Reb1 Re7 (\n21… Rd7 22. Qc1 Rc7 23. Qa3 Rd8 24. Rxb7 Rxb7 25. Qa6 Rdd7 26. Bxc6 $18) 22.\nQc1 Rdd7 23. Bf8 Rc7 24. Qa3 $1 Qe6 25. Bxe7 Qxe7 26. Qa4 Nd8 27. Qb5 h5 28. a4\nh4 29. gxh4 Bd6 30. a5 Qd7 (30… Qe5 31. Rxb7 Nxb7 32. a6 Nd8 33. Qb8+ Kd7 34.\na7 $18 Nc6 35. Bxc6+ Rxc6 36. Rb7+ Rc7 37. Rxc7+ Bxc7 38. Qb5+ ) 31.\na6 Qxb5 32. axb7+ Kb8 33. R1xb5 Bf4 34. Ra6 Nxb7 35. Rab6 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Match/Nation GBR-AUS”]\n[Site “Radio”]\n[Date “1947.10.04”]\n[Round “1.4”]\n[White “Gellis\, Max”]\n[Black “Crown\, Gordon Thomas”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B74”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “92”]\n[EventDate “1947.10.04”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2002”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,92\,19\,38\,72\,47\,51\,22\,17\,32\,19\,34\,47\,21\,58\,58\,34\,36\,36\,19\,24\,23\,38\,32\,\n8\,-6\,-24\,-24\,-22\,-45\,-55\,-44\,-48\,-58\,-66\,-44\,-30\,-30\,-33\,-69\,-75\,-84\,-52\,-78\,\n-43\,-63\,-59\,-80\,-76\,-60\,-58\,-57\,-57\,-85\,-40\,-20\,-55\,-34\,-27\,-21\,-33\,-29\,-50\,\n-46\,5\,-46\,133\,-41\,103\,123\,161\,150\,155\,101\,110\,76\,71\,53\,70\,57\,27\,0\,0\,-80\,-274\,\n-124\,-1053\,-1075\,-1300\,-1361\,-1421\,-1393\,-1671\,-29991\,-29992]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3\nNc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be2 g6 7. O-O Bg7 8. Be3 O-O 9. Nb3 Be6\n10. f4 Qc8 11. h3 Rd8 12. g4 d5 13. e5 Ne4 14. Nxe4 dxe4 15. Qe1 f6 16. exf6\nexf6 17. c3 f5 18. Qh4 b6 19. gxf5 Bxf5 20. Kh2 Qc7 21. Rg1 Kh8 22. Rg2 Qe7 23.\nQf2 Bf6 24. Bb5 Rac8 25. Bxc6 Rxc6 26. Bd4 Bxd4 27. Nxd4 Rc5 28. Rg3 Bc8 29.\nQe3 Rf8 30. Re1 Bb7 31. Reg1 Qd6 32. Rf1 b5 33. a3 a6 34. Ne6 Rd5 35. Nxf8 Qxf8\n36. Qb6 Qe7 37. Re3 Rd6 38. Qa7 Rd2+ 39. Kh1 Qc7 40. Kg1 g5 41. Rg3 gxf4 42.\nRg4 f3 43. Rf2 Rd3 44. Rf1 e3 45. Rxf3 Rd1+ 46. Rf1 Rxf1+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \nGordon Thomas Crown\, from CHESS\, 1948\, January\, page 86\nOn 17 November 1947 he was admitted to hospital\, complaining of a stomach upset. Diagnosed too late with appendicitis\, complicated by his diabetes\, he died in the operating theatre. \nHis friend (and former British champion) Leonard Barden speculates that had he lived\, Crown would have become at least a strong Grandmaster\, further noting that he was ” … open\, friendly and modest as well as a clear and enthusiastic explainer of his chess ideas; I think he would have been like Keres or Gligoric in their countries\, a model for our young players.” \nHarry Golombek was similarly impressed with Crown’s play\, stating that “In his short life\, he had already shown himself to be of master strength and was potentially a very great player.” \nWe are grateful to be able to use comments from long time friend\, Leonard Barden posted under the nom de plume of Roberts Partner on chessgames.com : \n“As to the circumstances of Crown’s death. The finger of blame must be pointed at the family doctor for failing to make a timely correct diagnosis. On Sunday 16 November 1947 a chess friend visited the Crown home at Ingledene Road\, Liverpool\, and found Crown in bed. He explained that his doctor had diagnosed a stomach upset and had recommended rest. The friend and Crown played and analysed together for several hours\, and Crown did not appear in any physical discomfort. But that night after the friend left his condition deteriorated and he was rushed to hospital where he died in the early morning hours of 17 November. There was also a belief among some Liverpool chess players that the hospital procedures could have been better.” \nand \n“On another thread some CG posters expressed surprise at the Ritson Morry v Crown game where Morry fell into a well-known opening trap. \nThe British championship at Harrogate in August 1947 was played in a spa building where the underfloor heating was still switched on. This coincided with one of the warmest summers on record (it was the year in which Compton and Edrich made their memorable cricket achievements for Middlesex). By the second week of the BCF congress older and overweight players (the latter group including Ritson Morry) were wilting. Ritson also had some long adjourned games\, and by the time of his game with Crown in the final round was exhausted. The game finished in 15-20 minutes so by the time other players went to spectate after their opening moves there was just a reset board with no sign of the players and no indication of what had transpired. Other final round results went Crown’s way so that he finished third outright and thus got selected on a high board for the USSR match.” \nWestern Daily Press 22 September 1947\nand here is an article by ddtru (?) in chess.com : full article \nWe are grateful to renowned chess historian\, Taylor Kingston for supplying these scans of an article from Chess Life in 1947 about Gordon Crown written by Reuben Fine : \nChess Life article about Gordon Thomas Crown\, Part One\nand \nChess Life article about Gordon Thomas Crown\, Part Two\nFrom Wikipedia: \n“Gordon Thomas Crown (20 June 1929 – 17 November 1947) was a promising British chess player who died of appendicitis at the age of eighteen. He is best known for his win against the Russian Grandmaster Alexander Kotov shortly before his death. \nCrown was born in Liverpool in 1929. He finished second in the British under 18 championship in 1946 and improved rapidly\, winning the Premier Reserve section of the 1946/7 Hastings International Chess Congress. This led to his being placed on the reserve list for the 1947 British Chess Championship. Following the withdrawal of the defending champion Robert Forbes Combe\, he was allowed to play in the championship\, where he finished third (Harry Golombek won). \nConsequently\, he was selected to play for the British team in the 1947 Britain-USSR match\, where he caused a sensation by defeating the Soviet Grandmaster Alexander Kotov\, though he lost the return game. He also defeated Max Gellis in a Britain-Australia radio match.” \nInterestingly\, via the EC Forum\, Geoff Chandler pointed out a note by Edward Winter in which Bill Hartston recounts advice from David Bronstein : “Look at the games of Gordon Crown. He really understood chess”. From NOW! magazine\, (6-12 February 1981\, page 80.): thanks Geoff ! \nGordon Thomas Crown
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Michael Adams (17-xi-2019)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Michael Adams on his birthday\, this day (November 17th) in 1971 \nMichael was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1996-97 season. \nHis Wikipedia entry is here \nMichael Adams\n[pgn]\n[Event “Dortmund SuperGM 41st”]\n[Site “Dortmund”]\n[Date “2013.07.28”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Caruana\, Fabiano”]\n[Black “Adams\, Michael J”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C67”]\n[WhiteElo “2796”]\n[BlackElo “2740”]\n[Annotator “Adams\,M”]\n[PlyCount “82”]\n[EventDate “2013.07.26”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[EventCategory “19”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 156”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.09.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.09.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,82\,28\,24\,24\,28\,21\,7\,28\,17\,34\,55\,49\,71\,66\,64\,54\,63\,63\,59\,100\,87\,75\,74\,\n62\,57\,55\,2\,6\,8\,15\,-31\,22\,27\,39\,46\,59\,83\,97\,29\,42\,19\,0\,0\,0\,-46\,-50\,-48\,-45\,-149\,\n-210\,-215\,-213\,-212\,-230\,-234\,-225\,-227\,-221\,-229\,-231\,-226\,-189\,-181\,-198\,\n-192\,-206\,-203\,-204\,-201\,-197\,-190\,-189\,-190\,-201\,-188\,-217\,-241\,-242\,-237\,\n-247\,-256\,-284\,-310\,-317]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6\n6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 {Although I have spent an unhealthy amount of my life\nanalysing the endgame arising from the Berlin variation my only previous\nouting on the Black side against Peter Leko occurred back in 2004. The 101\nmoves of suffering didn’t encourage me to rush into a second outing.} 8. Qxd8+\nKxd8 9. h3 {The new fashion which enables White to advance his kingside pawns\nvery rapidly in some variations.} Bd7 10. Rd1 Kc8 11. g4 Ne7 12. Ng5 Be8 13. f4\nh5 14. Kf2 ({I was only aware of the previously played} 14. f5 {and}) (14. Kg2\n{This novelty is quite clever as the king is ready to cover the g-pawn but\navoids possible bishop checks on the light squares. White’s positional assets\nlooked rather daunting over the board but his king will not feel comfortable\nfor some time.}) 14… b6 ({The pawn is safe for now as} 14… hxg4 15. hxg4\nRh2+ 16. Kg3 Rxc2 17. Nh7 {wins material. My move improving Black’s king\nposition seems logical.}) 15. f5 Kb7 16. Nc3 ({If White can complete\ndevelopment without incident his advanced pawns will be a crucial asset} 16. c4\n{was the alternative.}) 16… hxg4 ({Accepting the challenge as} 16… Nd5 17.\nNxd5 cxd5 18. Kg3 {looks pleasant for White.}) 17. hxg4 Rh2+ 18. Kg3 Rxc2 19.\nNh7 {My bishop is destined to perish on its starting square but my other\npieces become very active.} ({Play remains murky after the alternative} 19. e6\nf6 20. Nh7 c5 21. Nxf8 Bc6 22. Ng6 Nxg6 23. fxg6 Rg2+ 24. Kf4 Rf2+) 19… c5\n20. Nxf8 ({If White wants to play for a win I think} 20. Rd2 Rxd2 21. Bxd2 Bc6\n22. Rd1 {which offers good compensation for a pawn is worth a try.}) 20… Bc6\n21. f6 ({Unusually my opponent seriously miscalculates; I was expecting the\nbetter} 21. Bg5 Nxf5+ 22. gxf5 Rg2+ 23. Kf4 Rf2+ 24. Kg4 (24. Ke3 Rxf5 25. Nh7\nRh8 {is ok for Black}) 24… Rg2+ {repeating}) ({White is also in difficulties\nafter} 21. Nd7 Rg2+ 22. Kf4 Rh8 23. Nxc5+ bxc5 24. Rd2 Rg1) 21… Rg2+ 22. Kf4\n({White is already in dire straits as his king can’t find a safe spot} 22. Kh4\ngxf6 23. exf6 Nf5+ 24. gxf5 Rxf8 {wins}) (22. Kh3 gxf6 23. Bh6 f5 24. g5 f4 {\nis also bad.}) 22… gxf6 23. exf6 Rf2+ 24. Ke3 (24. Ke5 Re8 {forces mate in 2}\n) (24. Kg5 Rxf8 25. fxe7 Rg8+ 26. Kh4 Rg2 {only lasts a little longer.}) 24…\nRxf6 25. Nh7 Rf3+ 26. Kd2 ({The alternative} 26. Ke2 Rh8 27. Ng5 Rh2+ 28. Ke1\nRff2 29. Be3 (29. Rd2 Rxd2 30. Bxd2 Rh1+) 29… Rfg2 {is no better.}) 26…\nRd8+ 27. Kc2 ({Or} 27. Ke1 Rh8 28. Ng5 Rh1+ 29. Kd2 Rh2+) 27… Rxc3+ 28. bxc3\nBa4+ 29. Kb2 Rxd1 {With 2 extra pawns and the better position the rest is\nsimple.} 30. Bg5 Nc6 31. Rxd1 ({If} 31. Bf4 Rd3) 31… Bxd1 32. Bf4 (32. Nf6\nNe5 {wins another pawn.}) 32… Bxg4 33. Nf6 Bf3 34. Ne8 Na5 35. Nxc7 Bc6 {\nNow the white knight is dominated.} 36. Kc2 Kc8 37. Kd3 Kd7 38. Kc2 Nc4 39. Na6\nBb7 40. Nb8+ Kc8 41. Kd3 b5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nMichael\, Tara and friend
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Yichen Han (17-xi-2007)
DESCRIPTION:Newcastle Upon Tyne resident Yichen Han became the youngest Dutch holder of the FIDE Master (FM) title at the age of twelve years and two months. \nYichen was born in Eindhoven\, Noord-Brabant\, The Netherlands. \nThe games required to complete the FM title were played at the recent 4NCL Harrogate Congress . The final game was a win versus Robert Starley of Crowthorne Chess Club having started with a win versus CM Peter Ackley. \nYichen plays for Forest Hall and is a student at RGS Newcastle. \nHe currently has a FIDE rating of 2257 for standard play and an ECF grading of 215. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Midland-ch”]\n[Site “Telford”]\n[Date “2018.08.10”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Hebden\, Mark”]\n[Black “Han\, Yichen”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D01”]\n[WhiteElo “2425”]\n[BlackElo “1952”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “172”]\n[EventDate “2018.08.10”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2019”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,172\,19\,31\,14\,23\,52\,45\,37\,10\,15\,-39\,-39\,-14\,-20\,-34\,-54\,-30\,-20\,-30\,-9\,\n-16\,-18\,-22\,4\,-7\,27\,1\,-1\,37\,19\,12\,23\,2\,34\,-50\,65\,29\,132\,23\,6\,-13\,62\,93\,102\,25\,\n27\,-77\,-54\,-114\,-111\,-101\,-101\,-130\,-130\,-163\,-152\,-144\,-157\,-147\,-223\,-216\,\n-239\,-247\,-265\,-281\,-314\,-314\,-296\,-297\,-307\,-548\,-564\,-617\,-309\,-316\,-365\,\n-473\,-286\,-314\,-332\,-329\,-265\,-245\,-188\,-328\,-255\,-323\,-363\,-469\,-418\,-462\,\n-484\,-541\,-468\,-477\,-503\,-503\,-464\,-508\,-536\,-536\,-508\,-602\,-651\,-1399\,-775\,\n-855\,-844\,-922\,-998\,-1251\,-573\,-844\,-599\,-680\,-571\,-571\,-596\,-596\,-620\,-656\,\n-700\,-1016\,-760\,-832\,-985\,-1294\,-703\,-781\,-775\,-764\,-764\,-783\,-783\,-783\,-999\,\n-999\,-1014\,-1049\,-1173\,-1306\,-1306\,-1306\,-815\,-972\,-815\,-1002\,-1002\,-1025\,-998\,\n-1025\,-1041\,-1124\,-905\,-1033\,-930\,-935\,-935\,-982\,-940\,-972\,-915\,-972\,-992\,-992\,\n-992\,-992\,-915\,-1688\,-1949\,-29997\,-29998\,-29999\,-30000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 g6 3.\nNc3 d5 4. Qd2 Bg7 5. Bh6 O-O 6. Bxg7 Kxg7 7. f3 c5 8. e3 Nc6 9. g4 e6 10. Bb5\ncxd4 11. exd4 Na5 12. Nge2 a6 13. Bd3 b5 14. h4 Nc4 15. Bxc4 dxc4 16. h5 Bb7\n17. Rh3 Qe7 18. a3 e5 19. dxe5 Qxe5 20. O-O-O Rfe8 21. hxg6 fxg6 22. Qh6+ Kg8\n23. g5 Nh5 24. Rd7 Re7 25. Rxe7 Qxe7 26. Kb1 Rd8 27. f4 Bc8 28. Rxh5 gxh5 29.\nQxh5 Bf5 30. Qf3 Rd2 31. Ka1 Bxc2 32. f5 Qxg5 33. f6 Rd7 34. Qc6 Qd2 35. Qe6+\nKf8 36. Na2 Qd5 37. Qxa6 Kf7 38. Nec1 Bd1 39. Nc3 Qd2 40. N3a2 Ba4 41. Qc6 Qd6\n42. Qc8 Kxf6 43. Nc3 Bc2 44. Nxb5 Qd2 45. Qf8+ Rf7 46. Qh8+ Kg6 47. Qg8+ Kh6\n48. Qg1 Re7 49. Qh1+ Kg7 50. Qg1+ Bg6 51. Ka2 Re1 52. Qc5 Bf7 53. Nc3 Qxc1 54.\nQd4+ Kg6 55. Qd6+ Re6 56. Qc7 Qg5 57. a4 Qe5 58. Qb7 h5 59. Qg2+ Qg5 60. Qc2+\nKg7 61. Nb5 h4 62. Nd4 Rf6 63. Qc3 Kh6 64. Nf3 Qf4 65. Ne5 Be6 66. Nc6 h3 67.\nNd4 h2 68. Nxe6 Rxe6 69. Qh3+ Kg7 70. Qxe6 h1=Q 71. a5 Qhh6 72. Qc8 Qf7 73.\nQg4+ Qhg6 74. Qd4+ Kh6 75. Qh8+ Qgh7 76. Qc3 Qff5 77. Qe3+ Kg7 78. Qe7+ Kg6 79.\nQd6+ Qf6 80. Qg3+ Kh6 81. Qh2+ Kg7 82. Qc7+ Qf7 83. Qe5+ Kf8 84. a6 c3+ 85. b3\nQc2+ 86. Ka3 Qcxb3# 0-1 \n[/pgn] \nYichen Han at the 2018 Terafinal
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201119
DTSTAMP:20201117T182639Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Jim Slater (13-iii-1929 18-xi-2015)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Jim Slater (13-iii-1929 18-xi-2015) \nJames Derrick Slater was born on Wednesday\, March 13th\, 1929. On the same day “Leon Trotsky gave his first interview to the foreign press in his apartment in Turkey\, saying he was writing a book tracing the history of his opposition to Joseph Stalin and expressing a desire to go to Germany because he preferred the care of German physicians.” \nHe was born in Heswall\, Cheshire (Wirral\, Merseyside was the registration district) to Hubert Slater and Jessica Alexandra Barton. \nHe arrived (aged 31) in Southampton on board the Pretoria Castle as a first class passenger whilst resident in 16\, Stafford Terrace\, Kensington and his occupation was given as Company Director. \nHe died on 18th November 2015 in Cranleigh\, Surrey aged 86. He had four children one of which is Mark Slater. \nJames Slater\, Chairman Slater Walker Securities plcDirector\, British Leyland. (Photo by Photoshot/Getty Images)\nJim wrote his chess autobiography as follows : \n(This text was retrieved using the Wayback machine via https://web.archive.org/web/20110909053137/http://www.jimslater.org.uk/views/chess/) \n“As a boy Jim Slater enjoyed playing Monopoly and draughts but his main indoor hobby was chess. He stopped playing chess after leaving school as he found it took too much time and concentration while studying for accountancy. \nIt was not until a colleague asked Jim to teach him to improve his game in the late 1960s that his interest in chess was rekindled. For a short while Jim joined a London chess club (Richard James reveals that this is West London Chess Club as mentioned in their internal magazine) but found he preferred correspondence chess which he could play much more conveniently when he returned home in the evening. Jim did quite well in his correspondence club\, going up a few grades\, until he reached a level at which it became hard work. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ces3-UaGDAc[/embedyt] \nJim had maintained a link with Leonard Barden\, who was a British Champion and a chess correspondent. With his help Jim began subsidising the annual Hastings Tournament with a view to expanding it so that leading players would have a chance to qualify as international masters. Other countries would not invite British players to play in their tournaments until they became international masters so they were in an impossible situation. The small amount of help Jim was able to give to Hastings was arranged in a very low-key way and attracted very little publicity. The World Chess Championship would prove to be a very different proposition. \nBritish accountant\, investor and business writer Jim Slater (1929 – 2015) signing documents at a desk\, UK\, 11th May 1965. (Photo by Reg Burkett/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\nFor the previous two decades the Russians had dominated world chess and then the West produced two exceptional players – Bobby Fischer of the USA and Bent Larsen of Denmark. In particular\, Fischer had fantastic potential but he was handicapped by being extremely temperamental. \nIn the final rounds of the World Chess Championship the players were playing the best of ten games. In the quarter finals Fischer won six games to nil. In the semi-final Fischer was paired with Larsen and also beat him six games to nil. This had never happened before in world chess\, and for the first time it looked as if the Russians were going to get a run for their money. \nPersonalities\, Crime\, pic: 3rd December 1976\, Financier Jim Slater arriving at London’s Mansion House Police Court to face fraud charges involving more than 4\,000\,000 (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)\nIn the last qualifier Fischer came up against Petrosian\, a brilliant defensive player. Fischer won the first game but lost the second. The next three games were drawn. It was said by some that Fischer had a bad cold and everyone wondered if he could regain his earlier momentum. After this relapse he won the next four games. This made Fischer challenger to Spassky. Spassky too was a brilliant attacking player and had been a chess genius since early childhood\, so it promised to be an exceptional match. \nWhile preparations were being made for the World Championship in Iceland\, Fischer started to complain about the prize money which he thought should be doubled.\n‘I was driving into London early one Monday morning in mid-July feeling disappointed that after all this build-up Fischer might not be taking on Spassky\, when it suddenly occurred to me that I could easily afford the extra prize money personally. As well as providing me with a fascinating spectacle for the next few weeks it would give chess players throughout the world enormous pleasure for the match to proceed.’ \nJim Slater \nFrom The Complete Chess Addict (Faber&Faber\, 1987) \, Mike Fox & Richard James: \n“Jim Slater\, the financier and children’s author\, was a strong schoolboy player. He gave up chess for finance. This turned out a very good thing for chess\, since he was able to tempt Bobby Fischer (with a £50\,000 increase in stake-money) into playing Boris Spassky for the world title in 1972. Here’s what the young Slater was capable of:” \n[pgn]\n[Event “West London Chess Club Championship”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1947.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Slater\, James Derrick”]\n[Black “Tomlin\, Peter Charles”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “A00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[SourceTitle “The Complete Chess Addict”]\n[WhiteTeam “West London”]\n[BlackTeam “Harrow”] \n{[%evp 0\,48\,19\,-61\,-57\,-61\,8\,-10\,-10\,-4\,-20\,-33\,-33\,-23\,-5\,-14\,7\,-8\,3\,9\,11\,-5\,\n46\,16\,69\,31\,47\,49\,49\,45\,43\,43\,43\,51\,30\,3\,-5\,-52\,46\,-52\,-61\,-23\,-57\,-45\,-26\,-91\,\n-55\,-105\,-40\,-46\,-89]} 1. b4 Nf6 2. Bb2 g6 3. g4 {It probably does not pay to\nexamine this game too closely.} (3. c4 Bg7 4. Nf3 O-O 5. g3 d6) 3… Bg7 4. g5\nNh5 5. Bxg7 Nxg7 6. Bg2 c6 $146 7. c4 e5 8. h4 d6 9. Nc3 Be6 10. d3 Qb6 11. Qd2\nBf5 12. Rb1 Nd7 13. b5 Qc7 14. bxc6 bxc6 {[#]} 15. Nb5 $1 cxb5 16. Bxa8 bxc4\n17. e4 c3 18. Qc2 O-O 19. exf5 Rxa8 20. fxg6 hxg6 21. Ne2 Qc6 22. Rg1 Rc8 23.\nRb3 Nf5 24. Rxc3 Nd4 $1 {and draw agreed. Curiously this game was played\nagain in 2006 in the Czech Republic in the game between Alfons Tomicek and\nTomas Sanitrak played in their national championship. How strange !} 1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nBobby Fischer Goes to War\, Faber&Faber\, 2004\nFrom Bobby Fischer Goes to War \, David Edmonds and John Eidinow\, Faber & Faber\,  2004 we have a fuller account as follows : \n“Driving to work in London early on Monday morning\, 3 July\, Jim Slater was upset by a radio report on the challenger’s non-appearance in Reykjavik. Slater was a businessman who had set up his own company\, Slater Walker Securities\, in 1964\, when he was in his mid-thirties. His partner\, Peter Walker\, had left the business to become a Conservative member of parliament and a government minister under Edward Heath and\,later\, Margaret Thatcher. At the time of the Fischer-Spassky match\, the company reportedly had a controlling interest in 250 companies around the world. Supremely confident\, decisive\, ruthless in business\, Slater had by then amassed a fortune of\, in his own words\,’£6 million and rising’. A gambler by nature\, the one big luxury he allowed himself was to play bridge for thousands of pounds with stronger opponents. \nHe was also a chess fan and supporter of the game\, subsidizing the annual Hastings tournament. In the years following Fischer-Spassky\, he would\, alongside the former British champion and journalist Leonard Barden (who provided the vision and organization)\, transform the state of British chess by channelling funds into junior competition. Now he decided that he could easily afford the money to send Fischer to Reykjavik – or expose the American as a coward. He would double the prize\, putting an additional £50\,000 ($125\,000) into the pot. Arriving at his office that Monday morning\, he passed on his offer through Barden\, who then spoke to Marshall\, giving the US attorney some background details about this championship angel. Marshall then talked to Fischer. Slater says he also telephoned his friend David Frost\, who in turn rang his friend Henry Kissinger’ Kissinger then contacted Fischer. What motivated Slater?’As well as providing me with a fascinating spectacle for the next few weeks\, I could give chess players throughout the world enormous pleasure’ \nSlater’s offer made headlines in London’s Evening Standard and his house was soon swarming with reporters. When he returned from work\, he told his astonished wife\,’I had a good idea on the way to the office.’The good idea was couched in challenging terms: ‘If he isn’t afraid of Spassky\, then I have removed the element of money’ \nHere is the famous headline from the July 3rd\, 1972\, London edition of the Evening Standard retrieved from Edward  Winters‘ https://chesshistory.com/winter/extra/spasskyfischer.html \nLondon Edition of the Evening Standard\, July 3rd\, 1972. Retrieved from https://chesshistory.com/winter/extra/spasskyfischer.html\nIt is not altogether clear how the British offer finally persuaded Fischer. Paul Marshall certainly had a hand\, initially pushing it as the answer to all Fischer’s financial demands.’But he wouldn’t accept it; he says.’His experiences with people promising things had taught him not to believe them\, particularly with money. And he wanted proof. And he said no.’Marshall tried to change his mind. Phoning Barden\, the attorney took his place in the gallery of callers that saved the match.’I said if I were them I would rephrase the offer. Slater should say he didn’t think his money was at risk\, because Fischer was just making excuses. He should say that deep down Fischer was frightened. I said Bobby might be piqued by that challenge – and he was. I knew Bobby was very very competitive and combative and would not like to be thought of as a chicken.’ Slater denies this version of events. He maintains it was always his idea to express his offer as a taunt. He never spoke to Fischer and never received a word of gratitude from him.’Fischer is known to be rude\, graceless\, possibly insane\,’he says.’I didn’t do it to be thanked. I did it because it would be good for chess.'” \nThe match between Fischer and Spassky was a most exciting one and fully up to everyone’s expectations. Fischer won the match. \nA few months later\, in an endeavour to help our young players\, Jim Slater offered on behalf of The Slater Foundation to give a prize of £5\,000 (about £75\,000 in today’s money) to the first British grand master and £2\,500 to the next four. Over the next few years Great Britain went from having no grand masters to twenty and became one of the strongest teams of young chess players in the world.” \nHere is an obituary written by Stewart Reuben \nand here is an obituary from Liberal England \nHere is an item from the Slater Foundation \nand here is his entry from chessgames.com which lists  one game from 1947 : “James Derrick Slater\, better known as Jim Slater\, was an English accountant\, investor and business writer. Slater became a well-known chess patron in the 1970s\, when he stepped in to double the prize fund of the Fischer-Spassky world championship match at a time when Fischer was threatening not to play\, thereby enabling the match to go forward. Afterwards he provided significant financial backing for the development of young British players\, many of whom later contributed to Britain becoming one of the world’s strongest chess countries in the 1980s.” \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper and Whyld : \n“British chess patron\, financier\, children’s author\, Slater achieved wide fame in the chess world on the occasion of the Spassky-Fischer world championship match of 1972. Fischer showed reluctance to play and apparently decided to do so when Slater added £50\,000 to the prize fund. Slater has also made contributions to many other chess causes and in 1973 set-up the Slater Foundation\, a charitable trust which\, among other activities\, pays for the coaching of young players and provides help for their families if needed. Leonard Barden advises the trust on chess matters. In the 1970s\, partly owing to this patronage\, junior players in Britain became as strong as those in any other country.” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek: \n“An English financier\, a great patron and benefactor of chess\, both on a national and world level. Passionately devoted to chess from schooldays. He said that on leaving school he hesitated between the alternatives of become a chess master and of going into business\, opting for the latter on the grounds that he was not sure of his chess-playing prowess. \nIt is perhaps a fortunate thing for chess that he did not become a chess-master\, since he offer of a £50\,000 increase to the stake at the match at Reykjavik in Iceland in 1972 may well have swayed Fischer into consenting to play. He established a Slater Foundation Fund which helps young English players to go and play abroad.” \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHere is a small item from Dennis Monokroussos \nThe Zulu Principle\, Jim Slater\nInvestment Made Easy\, Jim Slater\nReturn to Go\, Jim Slater\nThe Tricky Troggle\, James and Christopher Slater\nThe Great Gulper\, James and Christopher Slater
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-james-derrick-slater/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,Fischer,History,Sponsor
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201120
DTSTAMP:20261003T124050Z
CREATED:20210224T120404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T124050Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of SIM Graham Mitchell (04-xi-1905 19-xi-1984)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of SIM Graham Mitchell (04-xi-1905 19-xi-1984)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-sim-graham-mitchell-04-xi-1905-19-xi-1984/
CATEGORIES:Correspondence,Death Anniversary,English,History,Remembering
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201121
DTSTAMP:20201120T112029Z
CREATED:20191117T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Andrew Kinsman (20-xi-2019)
DESCRIPTION:Best wishes to IM Andrew Kinsman born on this day Friday November 20\, 1964. His mother’s maiden name was (Yvonne) Greening. Andrew has a sister Casandra Suzie Kinsman. \nAndrew Peter Harry Kinsman was born in North East Surrey and grew up in Kingston-Upon-Thames near Kingston Hospital (thanks Richard James!). He was a member of Richmond Junior Chess Club. \nIM Andrew Kinsman \nAndrew was a member of the University of Sussex chess team in 1983 along with IM Byron Jacobs. Andrew became an editor of chess publisher BT Batsford Ltd. following in the footsteps of Bob Wade\, Paul Lamford and others. \nAndrew was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1986-87 and 1991-92 seasons. \nHe made his first Grandmaster norm with his victory in the 1997 Owens Corning International in Wrexham. \nAndrew’s peak rating was 2430 in January 1998. He played for Guildford in the Four Nations Chess League and for Wimbledon in other leagues. His last ECF grading was 222D in July 2002 and highest may have been 230B in July 2000. \nHe left chess and turned to poker becoming a successful player and author and was married to Pauline.  They lived in Ditchling Rise in Brighton. \nHe joined Byron Jacobs to form Chess Press which eventually morphed into First Rank Publishing. \nIM Andrew Kinsman \nWith the white pieces Andrew was consistently a d4 player with the occasional Nf3 thrown in. He played a “slow” Queen’s Gambit (Nf3 inserted before c4) and the Trompowski Attack for variety. \nAs the second player Andrew played the French Winawer and the Benko Gambit.  \nAndrew is registered for both Wimbledon and Guildford and represented Wuppertal in the Bundesliga. Andrew’s most recent appearance in 4NCL was the final weekend of the 2001/2 season beating JA Toothill. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 9798 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1998.05.24”]\n[Round “10.2”]\n[White “Kinsman\, Andrew PH”]\n[Black “Hodgson\, Julian M”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B08”]\n[WhiteElo “2430”]\n[BlackElo “2580”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “1997.11.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 064 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.07.07”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.07.07”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Guildford”]\n[BlackTeam “Slough”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,31\,54\,61\,57\,85\,87\,87\,71\,81\,85\,57\,67\,67\,87\,34\,118\,87\,95\,84\,146\,\n49\,97\,64\,66\,77\,88\,68\,53\,52\,78\,57\,58\,76\,107\,41\,37\,24\,29\,24\,29\,3\,69\,80\,92\,93\,181\,\n96\,107\,106\,76\,88\,93\,81\,98\,82\,200\,82\,632\,645\,622\,597]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3\ng6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Be3 c6 6. Qd2 Qa5 7. h3 Na6 8. a4 b5 9. Bd3 b4 10. Ne2 c5 11.\nc3 bxc3 12. bxc3 O-O 13. O-O Rb8 14. e5 Nd5 15. exd6 Nxe3 16. dxe7 Nxf1 17.\nexf8=Q+ Kxf8 18. Kxf1 cxd4 19. Nfxd4 Qc7 20. Nb5 Qd7 21. Qe3 Bb7 22. Rd1 Re8\n23. Qxa7 Qc6 24. f3 Nc5 25. Ned4 Bxd4 26. Nxd4 Qc7 27. Nb5 Qc6 28. Nd4 Qd6 29.\nNb5 Qxd3+ 30. Rxd3 Nxd3 31. Kg1 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe has written several books on chess (and poker) as follows : \nFrench Winawer by Andrew Kinsman \nThe Benko Gambit by Andrew Kinsman & Byron Jacobs \nSpanish Exchange by Andrew Kinsman \nModern Benoni by Andrew Kinsman \nImprove Your Middlegame Play by Andrew Kinsman \nIM Andrew Kinsman
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-andrew-peter-harry-kinsman-20-xi-2019/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201122
DTSTAMP:20201118T220219Z
CREATED:20190822T224042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201118T220219Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Peter Lee (21-xi-1943)
DESCRIPTION:We wish Peter Lee all the best on his birthday. \nPeter Nicholas Charles Lee was born on Sunday\, November 21st in 1943 in Lambeth\, London. His mother’s maiden name was Paganucci. \nPeter attended Exeter College\, Oxford from 1962-1966 to read mathematics followed by postgraduate statistics gaining an MA in 1969. \nSome of the participants in the Paul Keres display on November 25th\, 1962\, at St Pancras Town Hall\, London WC1. Back row : AJ. Whiteley\, D\, Floyer\, PJ Collins\, PJ Adams\, RC Vaughan\, KB Harman\, D. Parr\, DNL Levy\, Front row : MV Lambshire\, AE Hopkins (selector) Paul Keres\, Miss D. Dobson\, RE Hartley\, BC Gillman\, WR Hartston and PN Lee. Photograph by AM Reilly. Source : BCM\, 1963\, page 13 \nIn 1963 Peter represented Oxford in the 81st Varsity Match played at the University of London Union in Malet Street on Korchnoi’s birthday (March 23rd). Peter had black on board 5 and drew with Frederick Michael Akeroyd in a King’s Gambit Declined. \nHere is the winning Oxford (4-3) Team : \nThe winning 1963 Oxford Varsity match team : From left to right (standing): PN Lee\, JWF May\, GC Taylor\, AIN Brodie\, PD Yerbury; (sitting) JK Footner\, RW Morgan. Thanks : John Saunders in Britbase. \nPeter moved to top board in 1964 and had white against the son of BH Wood\, FM Christopher Baruch Wood and won. The match was drawn. \n1965 saw a 5.5 – 1.5 Oxford victory with Peter beating Graham Arthur Winbow. \nDuring this period Peter found time to win the British Championship at Hastings in 1965. Peter Clarke reported in the October 1965 British Chess Magazine: \n“Seventy years on from the great international tournament of 1895\, which sowed the seeds of the Christmas congresses. the fifty-second in the British Chess Federation’s annual series-and this too began at Hastings\, 1904 – saw victory and the national title go to the youngest player ever. Peter N. Lee\, of London\, a twenty-one-year-old Oxford University graduate in mathematics\, made light of playing in the Championship for the first time and led from start to finish. Jonathan Penrose and Norman Littlewood vied with him all the way but in the last round had to be content with draws sharing second place 1/2 point behind with 8. ” \nPeter Lee \nPeter played at Hastings in 1965 and we can see him here in this silent movie at 1’40” in : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuXignAhNpw[/embedyt] \nPeter’s final Varsity appearance as British Champion in 1966 saw another drawn match but Peter’s best Varsity result when he beat Bill Hartston with the white pieces in a King’s Indian Attack. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Varsity Oxford-Cambridge”]\n[Site “Atlantic House\, Holborn”]\n[Date “1966.03.19”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Lee\, Peter NC”]\n[Black “Hartston\, William Roland”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “75”]\n[EventDate “1966.03.19”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “The Times”]\n[WhiteTeam “Oxford University”]\n[BlackTeam “Cambridge University”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,75\,19\,38\,30\,3\,11\,3\,12\,31\,5\,3\,-5\,9\,9\,-2\,-6\,-9\,31\,-19\,20\,-15\,-10\,-12\,-8\,\n-56\,13\,-51\,-19\,-11\,16\,-22\,-16\,-34\,-18\,-35\,-64\,0\,-3\,7\,7\,-43\,-29\,-68\,-78\,-67\,-69\,\n-113\,-42\,-134\,-123\,-113\,-144\,-172\,-90\,-137\,-117\,-138\,-114\,-122\,-71\,-84\,-119\,\n-167\,-172\,-95\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,62\,511\,29991\,29992\,29995\,29996]} 1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3.\nNd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 b5 9. e5 Ne8 {\nthe rarer alternative} (9… Nd7 10. Nf1 a5 11. h4 b4 12. Bf4 Ba6 13. N1h2 a4\n14. a3 {has been seen numerous times.}) 10. Nf1 a5 11. h4 a4 (11… b4) 12. h5\n$146 (12. a3 b4) 12… Nc7 13. N1h2 {A thematic KIA idea : heading for f6.} Bb7\n14. h6 g6 15. Bf4 {Is this required?} (15. Ng4 {seems fine.}) 15… a3 16. b3\nd4 17. Qd2 Nd5 18. Bg5 Ncb4 19. Bxe7 Qxe7 20. Ng4 (20. Ng5 Nc3 21. Bxb7 Qxb7\n22. Ng4 Qe7 23. Nf6+ Kh8 24. Nfxh7 Rfd8 25. Nf6 Nbxa2 {Nice symmetry !}) 20…\nKh8 $15 21. Ng5 Nxc2 {[#]} 22. Nxf7+ $6 Qxf7 23. Qxc2 Nb4 $2 (23… Qf5 $1 $17)\n24. Qe2 Bxg2 $19 (24… Bf3 $19 {Flank Openings (Raymond Keene\, 1st ed\, p115)})\n25. Kxg2 Qf5 $19 {Black is winning} 26. Red1 Nd5 $2 (26… c4 $1 $19 {“was\nalso very strong” (Peter Clarke\, BCM)}) 27. Qe4 Qxe4+ 28. dxe4 Nc3 29. Rd3 Nxe4\n30. f3 Nc3 31. b4 cxb4 (31… Rfd8) 32. Rxd4 Nxa2 $2 (32… Nd5 {keeps an edge\nfor black.}) 33. Rd7 $11 Nc3 34. Nf6 Rxf6 $11 35. exf6 {[#]} Nd5 $2 {The\nlosing blunder} (35… Kg8 $11) 36. Rxd5 $1 (36. f7 {is also crushing} Ne3+ 37.\nKf2 Nf5 38. Rad1 Rf8 39. Rd8) 36… exd5 37. f7 a2 38. Re1 {Source: The Times\,\n21 Mar 1966} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn world cup year Peter was selected by the BCF to represent England at the Havana Olympiad on board two below Peter Clarke in Group 4 and then Final B scoring a creditable +4=7-1. \nLugano 1968 saw Peter playing as first reserve and scoring an excellent +7=4-2 (Penrose on top board scored a wonderful 83.3% for the silver medal. \nIn another world cup year (1970) in his final Olympiad appearance Peter played on board four and recorded +4=9-2 \nPeter Nicholas Lee (to the left of RD Keene) \nPeter played in the British Championships again in 1967\, 1968\, 1971 and finally in 1972 withdrawing after five rounds following a loss to David Pritchard. This is Peter’s last recorded game in Megabase2020. \nWith the white pieces Peter was a committed 1.e4 fan playing 8.c3 in the Lopez and open sicilians. \nAs the second player he played the Sicilian Najdorf and the Dragon along with the King’s Indian. \nAccording to Wikipedia : “Later\, he turned to contract bridge\, at which he has also been highly successful. He has won the English Bridge Union’s National Pairs title four times\, the first time in 2003\, and has also been a member of the team that won the Gold Cup\, the premier teams event in Britain\, in 2003 and 2011. This makes him the only person who has won British championships in both chess and bridge.” \nUntil 1979 he worked as a statistician to the Tobacco Research Council\, in Harrogate and then in London. From 1979 to 1984 he was an independent consultant in statistics and advisor in epidemiology and toxicology to a number of tobacco\, pharmaceutical and chemical companies. \nHe formed P N Lee Statistics and Computing Ltdin 1984 to widen these activities. Peter is a Chartered Statistician who has published over 200 papers\, letters and articles\, and several books.\nPeter is currently a director of PNLSC based in Palmers Green\, London\, N13. \nPeter Lee \nAs a consultant in medical statistics and epidemiology\, he has also published over 200 papers\, many on the effects of tobacco on health.[2] \nPeter reached a peak Elo rating of 2390 aged 47 in July 1990 according to MegaBase 2020. However\, his peak playing strength was probably in or around 1971. \n[pgn]\n[Event “WchT Students 12th Group2”]\n[Site “Sinaia”]\n[Date “1965.07.28”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Lee\, Peter N”]\n[Black “Radulov\, Ivan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “79”]\n[EventDate “1965.07.26”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ROU”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Bulgaria”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “BUL”] \n{[%evp 0\,79\,16\,16\,26\,9\,1\,-40\,34\,27\,17\,5\,5\,10\,8\,8\,-2\,-16\,-23\,-25\,-19\,-43\,-19\,\n-54\,-56\,-67\,-1\,-7\,-3\,-27\,-20\,-17\,-15\,-47\,-20\,-23\,-12\,-16\,-13\,-29\,-7\,-27\,7\,10\,8\,\n4\,4\,122\,251\,251\,275\,275\,275\,292\,289\,303\,314\,344\,362\,384\,383\,392\,401\,307\,415\,\n421\,422\,428\,426\,450\,523\,488\,498\,463\,463\,336\,346\,445\,445\,421\,481\,471]} 1. e4 e6\n2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. e5 Nd7 9. Re1\nb5 10. h4 a5 11. Nf1 a4 12. h5 b4 13. h6 g6 14. Bf4 a3 15. b3 Ba6 $146 (15…\nBb7) 16. Qd2 $14 Rc8 17. N1h2 Na7 18. Bg5 Nb5 19. Qf4 Rc7 20. Ng4 Nd4 $6 (20…\nBxg5 21. Nxg5) 21. Bxe7 Nxf3+ 22. Bxf3 Qxe7 23. Bxd5 $1 $18 exd5 (23… Bb7 24.\nBxb7 Rxb7 25. Rad1 $18) 24. e6 $18 Nb6 25. Qxc7 $3 Qxc7 26. Nf6+ Kh8 27. e7 Qb8\n28. exf8=Q+ Qxf8 29. Re8 Qxe8 30. Nxe8 Bc8 31. Nf6 Be6 32. Re1 Nc8 33. Nxd5 Nd6\n34. Nf4 Nb5 35. Re5 Nc3 36. Rxc5 Kg8 37. Rxc3 bxc3 38. Nxe6 fxe6 39. Kg2 Kf7\n40. Kf3 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAccording to Paul Littlewood currently Peter “plays Bridge for Surrey and chess for the Athenaeum in London”.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201123
DTSTAMP:20201121T151805Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of WIM (Patricia) Anne Sunnucks (21-ii-1927 22-xi-2014)
DESCRIPTION:We remember WIM Patricia Anne Sunnucks who passed away this day\, November 22nd\, 2014\, aged 87 years. \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1983)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“International Woman master and British Women’s Champion 1957\, 1958 and 1964. Her best international result was a 2nd in the 1954 Western European Zonal. This qualified her for the 1955 Women’s Candidates tournament\, but as this held in the USSR and she was at the time serving as a Major in the British Army\, the authorities would not give her leave to participate. \nMiss Sunnucks has represented England a number of times in Olympiads and team matches. She has compiled The Encyclopedia of Chess\, London\, 1970.” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Woman Master (1954) and winner of the British Ladies’ Championship in 1957\, 1958 and 1964. \nBorn on 21st February 1927 Anne learned the moves at the age of 8 but did not take up chess seriously until she was 21\, when she joined the same club as International Master\, Imre König” whose pupil she became. \nIn the 1954 Western European Zonal tournament\, she came 2nd and qualified for the 1955 Women’s Candidates tournament but was unable to compete. \nShe played for Great Britain v. the USSR in 1954 and for the British Chess Federation team in the Women’s Chess Olympiads of 1966 and 1972. She also represented the BCF in the Western European Zonal tournaments of 1963 and 1966.” \nAnne Sunnucks vs Chaudé de Silans (Amsterdam\, 1962) \nThe Encyclopedia of Chess by Anne Sunnucks \nAnne created Camberley Chess Club in 1972. She offered to open her spacious home at 28\, Brackendale Close\, Camberley for weekly club nights and matches. \nAnne Sunnucks (third from left) playing in the 1971 British Ladies Championship in Palatine School\, Blackpool. Courtesy of Lancashire Evening Post. \nAnne was a director of BMS (?\, Mothersill\, Sunnucks) Chess Supplies Ltd. which retailed chess books and equipment which the grateful membership purchased ! \nIn September 1984 in Bracknell\, Berkshire Anne married Richard C Mothersill. \nAnne passed away on November 22nd\, 2014 at a retirement village in Meadow Park\, Braintree\, Essex. \nFrom Brian Towers : It is also worth noting that she was an occasional contributor to the weekly chess ‘Magazine’ programme which was broadcast on the Third Network (the precursor to Radio 3) between Autumn 1958 and Summer 1964. \nAccording to Megabase2020\, her highest Elo rating was 2045 but we suspect it was in reality\, quite a bit higher. \nIn 1972 Anne was awarded with a FIDE Medal of Merit. \nWIM Patricia Anne Sunnucks \nFor much of her early chess life Anne was coached by IM Imre (Mirko) König. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad Women-05 Final A”]\n[Site “Skopje”]\n[Date “1972.10.12”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Lehmann\, Christina”]\n[Black “Sunnucks\, Patricia Anne”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B06”]\n[WhiteElo “2140”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[EventDate “1972.10.03”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “YUG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “German Dem Rep (W)”]\n[BlackTeam “England (W)”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “DDR”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,48\,19\,38\,82\,72\,97\,86\,75\,42\,98\,72\,87\,49\,45\,36\,14\,9\,4\,28\,13\,-2\,28\,32\,32\,\n19\,35\,8\,8\,-39\,-57\,-55\,-41\,-47\,-48\,-44\,-48\,-45\,-29\,-46\,-8\,-123\,-86\,-89\,-89\,-75\,\n-11\,-292\,-470\,-667\,-580]} 1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. f4 a6 5. Nf3 b5 6. a3\nBb7 7. Be3 Nd7 8. Be2 Ngf6 9. e5 Ng4 10. Bg1 e6 11. h3 Nh6 12. Bf2 Nf5 13. g4\n$146 Ne7 14. exd6 $2 (14. Qd2) 14… cxd6 15. Bd3 Qc7 16. Qe2 $19 Nd5 17. Nxd5\nBxd5 18. O-O Qb7 $15 19. Ng5 Nf6 20. b3 h6 21. Nxe6 fxe6 22. Bxg6+ Kf8 23. g5\n$4 hxg5 24. fxg5 Rxh3 $19 0-1\n[/pgn] \nWIM Patricia Anne Sunnucks \nFull Caption \nFrom Wikipedia :\nPatricia Anne Sunnucks (21 February 1927 – 22 November 2014[1]) was an author and three-times British Women’s Chess Champion (1957\, 1958\, 1964). During her chess career she was always known as Anne Sunnucks. \nShe was educated at Wycombe Abbey School[2]\, Buckinghamshire. Although she learned how to play chess at the age of 8\, she did not play seriously until the age of 21\, when she joined the same chess club as Imre König\, who became her tutor. By finishing tied for second place in the 1953 British Women’s Championship she became one of three British representatives in the 1954 Western European Zonal. \nSunnucks earned the Woman International Master title by placing second in the 1954 Western European Zonal. Although this result qualified her to play in the next event in the Women’s World Championship sequence\, she was a major in the Women’s Royal Army Corps and the authorities would not allow her to travel to the USSR where the 1955 Women’s Candidates tournament was being held. Sunnucks represented England several times in Olympiads and team matches\, including Great Britain vs. USSR 1954\, the Anglo-Dutch match in 1965\, and top board for the British Chess Federation (BCF) team at the 1966 Women’s Chess Olympiad at Oberhausen. She participated in the Women’s World Championship cycle two more times\, representing the BCF in the Western European Zonal tournaments of 1963 and 1966. Sunnucks won both the Army and the Combined Services Championships in 1968\, and was the only woman to compete in either. Sunnucks compiled The Encyclopaedia of Chess (1970\, second edition: 1976). \nHer married name was Anne Mothersill.”
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201123
DTSTAMP:20201121T152309Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Mary Rudge (06-ii-1842 22-xi-1919)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Mary Rudge who passed away one hundred and one years this day on Saturday\, 22-xi-1919. \nShe was born in Leominster\, Herefordshire on February 6th\, 1842. Her father was Henry Rudge (born 1794 in Gloucestershire) who was a surgeon and General Practitioner. Her mother was Eliza Rudge (née Barrett) who was born in Ledbury\, Herefordshire in 1802. \nMary was part of a typically large household and according to the 1851 census she had sisters Sarah (23)\, Caroline (18)\, Emily H (12)\, brothers Henry (14) and Alfred (10). Assisting Henry with medical matters was Wiliam S Boyce and acting as a “General Servant” was Thomas Rotheroe (18).  Their address is given as “21\, Middle Marsh\, Leominster\, Herefordshire\, England” (HR6 8UP). According to HM Land Registry : “Middlemarsh is in the Leominster North & Rural ward of Herefordshire\, County of\, Herefordshire\, Worcestershire and Warwickshire.” \nBy 1861 the household had relocated to 62\, Broad Street\, Leominster and the servants were James Price (18) whose occupation is given as a Groom and Sarah Gardener (21) who was the House Servant. \nMary moved\, “helpless from rheumatism”\, at some point\, to Truro and then to the British Home for Incurables\, Streatham. She died in Guys Hospital\, London\, on 22 November 1919.  \nEditor of British Chess Magazine at the time of her obituary was Isaac McIntyre Brown who afforded Mary a pathetic three lines.  \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Mary Rudge (6 February 1842 in Leominster – 22 November 1919 in London) was an English chess master. \nRudge was born in Leominster\, a small town in Herefordshire\, England. She began playing chess in a correspondence tournament in 1872. The first mention of over the board competition is in August 1874 when she played in the second class at the Meeting of the Counties’ Chess Association at Birmingham. After the death of her father\, Henry Rudge\, she moved to Bristol where she started playing chess seriously. \nRudge was the first woman member of the Bristol Chess Club\, which did not allow women to be members of the club until she joined in 1872. She played against Joseph Henry Blackburne\, who gave a blindfold simultaneous display against ten opponents. The following year she played in another blindfold simultaneous display given by Johannes Hermann Zukertort. In March 1887 she played and drew on board six for Bristol against Bath at the Imperial Hotel in Bristol. At the beginning of 1888\, Rudge played and won on board six for Bristol & Clifton against City Chess & Draughts Club. The following year\, she won the Challenge Cup of Bristol & Clifton Chess Club. In 1889\, she became the first woman in the world to give simultaneous chess exhibitions. She won the Ladies’ Challenge Cup at Cambridge 1890\, and won the second class at the Southern Counties’ tournament at Clifton 1896.[1]” \nMiss Stevenson  & Mary Rudge \n“First Women’s International Chess Congress\nShe was a winner of the first Women’s International Chess Congress under the management of the Ladies’ Chess Club of London in conjunction with the Women’s Chess Club of New York. Lady Newnes was president of the Tournament Committee\, and Sir George Newnes\, Baron Albert Salomon von Rothschild\, Mr. Harry Nelson Pillsbury and some others offered prizes. The tournament was played at the Hotel Cecil in the Masonic Hall for six days\, but the final rounds were decided at the Ideal Café\, the headquarters of the Ladies’ Chess Club\, from 22 June to 3 July 1897.[2] Miss Rudge was 55 years old and the oldest of the 20 players\,[3] and had substantial experience playing chess at the time. She was a well-known English player\, ranking in chess strength with the first class of the leading men’s clubs. She won the event with 18 wins and 1 draw\, followed by Signorina Louisa Matilda Fagan (Italy)\, Miss Eliza Mary Thorold (England)\, Mrs. Harriet Worrall (USA)\, Madame Marie Bonnefin (Belgium)\, Mrs. F.S. Barry (Ireland)\, Lady Edith Margaret Thomas (England)\, among others.” \nHere is an in-depth article about this event from Chesscafe.com \nMrs. Bowles (Hon. Sec.); Miss Rudge; and Mrs. Fagan from chesscafe.com \n“Over the next years\, she took part in various competitions\, playing in Bristol and Dublin. In 1898\, she played against world champion Emanuel Lasker in a simultaneous display at the Imperial Hotel. Lasker was unable to finish all the games in the time available\, and Rudge’s was one of those unfinished. He conceded defeat because he would be lost with best play.” \nMary Rudge \nHere is an article from the Bristol Chess Times \nand another from the same source. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lasker Emanuel sim tour”]\n[Site “Great Britain”]\n[Date “1898.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Lasker\, Emanuel”]\n[Black “Rudge\, Mary”]\n[Result “*”]\n[ECO “C45”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “1898.??.??”]\n[EventType “simul”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\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{[%evp 0\,55\,19\,31\,34\,19\,13\,14\,26\,19\,50\,59\,101\,79\,95\,67\,66\,68\,72\,70\,97\,39\,85\,62\,\n90\,81\,81\,81\,89\,68\,112\,82\,130\,77\,88\,76\,44\,44\,49\,-62\,-83\,-97\,-34\,-34\,-59\,-144\,\n-130\,-137\,-137\,-226\,-220\,-229\,-237\,-232\,-168\,-180\,-225\,-236]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3\nNc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nxd4 5. Qxd4 d6 6. Nc3 h6 7. Bd3 Nf6 8. h3 Bd7 9. Bf4\nBe6 10. Bh2 Nd7 11. f4 Nc5 12. O-O Nxd3 13. cxd3 c5 14. Qf2 f6 15. d4 Be7 16.\nd5 Bf7 17. e5 fxe5 18. fxe5 O-O 19. e6 Bxe6 20. Qe2 Rxf1+ 21. Rxf1 Bf7 22. Rxf7\nKxf7 23. Qe6+ Kf8 24. Ne4 Qc8 25. Qg6 Qe8 26. Qh7 Rd8 27. Qh8+ Kf7 28. Qh7 *\n[/pgn] \nThe International Ladies Congress
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201125
DTSTAMP:20201123T173646Z
CREATED:20190823T091032Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Rev. John Owen (08-iv-1827 24-xi-1901)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Reverend John Owen who passed away on the 24th November 1901) \nJohn Owen was born on April 8th\, 1827 to John and Sarah Owen in Marchington\, Uttoxeter\, Staffordshire. \nHe was baptised at Marchington\, St. Peter on April 9th\, 1827 by H. Bennett and their residence was recorded as “Brook House”. His father is recorded as being a gentleman. \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“English player\, vicar of Hooten\, Cheshire\, from 1862 to 1900. In 1858\, playing under the pseudonym ‘Alter’\, he lost (=2-5) a match against Morphy\, who conceded pawn and a move. (Hoffer attributed this poor result to Owen’s just being married.) Subsequently Owen played better. He drew a match with Kolisch in 1860 (+4-4) and at the London tournament of 1862 took third prize after Andersen (whom he defeated) and L. Paulsen ahead of Dubois\, GA MacDonnell\, Steinitz and Blackburne. \nFrom 1857 to 1898 Owen played in more than a dozen tournaments\, all of them in Great Britain. \nHe liked close openings and often played the Queen’s Fianchetto Defence\, sometimes named after him\, and the Larsen Opening.” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \nProbably\, the strongest of all the chess-playing reverends of the nineteenth century. Owen came 3rd at Birmingham 1858\, below Löwenthal and Falkbeer\, but ahead of Saint-Amant\, Staunton and Bird; but is should be pointed out that the method of play was still by the old knock-out system. \nHe was also =3rd with MacDonnell in the first congress of the British Chess Association at London in 1862. \nHe also had the distinction of losing matches to Morphy\, Zukertort and Burn\, though he beat Burn in a later match. He drew a match with Kolisch in 1860. \nSunnucks is silent on Owen. \nAccording to The Complete Chess Addict (Faber&Faber\, 1987)\, Mike Fox & Richard James : \n“For the record (and because it’s so impressive) here is the most devout team of all time\, If there is anything in the efficacy of prayer they’d be tough to stop : \n\nFr Ruy Ruy López (de Segura)\nFr William Lombardy\nRevd GA MacDonnell\nRevd J Owen\nHis Holiness Pope Leo XIII\nHis Holiness Pope Innoncent III\nSt Teresa of Ávila (capt.)\nThomas à Becket”\n\nA much fuller biography may be found at the excellent Yorkshire Chess History web site  \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZlsydt8iqA[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Casuals Morphy-Owen +2-1=0”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1858.07.03”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Morphy\, Paul”]\n[Black “Owen\, John”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “92”]\n[EventDate “1858.07.03”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “3”]\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{[%evp 0\,92\,19\,31\,80\,69\,69\,66\,53\,-10\,-4\,-59\,22\,23\,11\,11\,23\,15\,6\,20\,14\,10\,43\,24\,\n40\,40\,64\,7\,72\,72\,143\,62\,84\,67\,52\,57\,40\,13\,6\,15\,4\,-18\,13\,0\,18\,-39\,57\,56\,65\,66\,\n71\,54\,53\,98\,98\,66\,76\,69\,69\,65\,75\,77\,105\,94\,106\,98\,91\,88\,52\,47\,73\,-15\,-18\,-25\,\n-42\,-94\,-100\,-104\,-128\,-93\,-192\,-194\,-204\,-191\,-192\,-188\,-197\,-203\,-202\,-202\,\n-205\,-209\,-214\,-212\,-212]} 1. e4 b6 $1 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 e6 4. Nh3 c5 5. c3 cxd4\n6. cxd4 Nc6 7. Be3 Nb4 8. Nc3 Nxd3+ 9. Qxd3 Bb4 10. O-O Bxc3 11. bxc3 Nf6 12.\ne5 Nd5 13. c4 Ba6 $6 14. Bd2 Rc8 15. Rac1 (15. Qg3 $18) 15… O-O 16. Qb3 Ne7\n17. Bb4 Re8 18. Rfd1 Nf5 19. g4 $6 Nh4 20. f4 f6 21. Be1 fxe5 22. dxe5 Qe7 23.\nNg5 h6 24. Ne4 Bb7 25. Qd3 Rf8 26. Bxh4 Qxh4 27. Nf6+ $1 Rxf6 28. exf6 Qxg4+\n29. Qg3 Qxg3+ 30. hxg3 Bc6 31. fxg7 Kxg7 32. Kf2 Kf6 33. g4 h5 34. g5+ Kf5 35.\nKe3 $2 (35. Kg3 $16) 35… h4 36. Rd2 h3 37. Rh2 Bg2 38. Rc2 d5 39. g6 dxc4 40.\ng7 Rg8 41. Rcxg2 hxg2 42. Rxg2 Kf6 43. Rc2 Rxg7 $19 44. Rxc4 Rg3+ 45. Ke4 Ra3\n46. Rc2 Ra4+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QBhgUes_dM[/embedyt] \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“John Owen (8 April 1827 – 24 November 1901) was an English vicar and strong amateur chess master. He ranked among the world’s top ten chess players for certain periods of the 1860s. He was a major figure in English chess from the mid 1850s to the 1890s. \nOwen was born in Marchington\, and obtained his early schooling at Repton School\, Derbyshire. In 1850 he graduated from Trinity College\, Cambridge\, and received his M.A. from Cambridge three years later. He was ordained by the Church of England in 1851\, and served as Vicar of Hooton\, Cheshire from 1862 to his retirement in 1900. \nIn 1858 he won a chess game against the young American master Paul Morphy\, the world’s best player\, who was then touring Europe. ” \nThis led to a match between the two. Despite being given odds of pawn and the move (meaning he started the game with an extra pawn and always moved first)\, Owen lost the match 6–1\, never winning a game. \nHis performance in the very strong 1862 London tournament\, the first international round-robin event (in which each participant plays every other) was more impressive. He finished third\, ahead of future world champion Wilhelm Steinitz\, and was the only player to win against the eventual tournament winner\, Adolf Anderssen. Louis Paulsen placed second. This result was arguably Owen’s top lifetime chess achievement. \nOwen continued to play frequently and often successfully in British tournaments into the 1890s\, and performed strongly in several matches against top British players\, who were essentially chess professionals. He never competed outside the British Isles. He died in Twickenham. \nOwen is the eponym of Owen’s Defence\, a chess opening characterised by the moves 1.e4 b6. Owen was the first strong player to play this frequently\, including in his victory over Morphy.” \nAmos Burn (left) and Rev. John Owen circa 1885.
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Amos Burn (31-xii-1848 25-xi-1925)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Amos Burn who passed away on November 25th\, 1925. \nAmos Burn was born in Kingston-upon-Hull on Sunday\, December 31st 1848 to Amos and Mary Burn (née Webster). His father is recorded as a merchant. Amos and Mary were residents of Bourne Street at the time of the birth. \nOn February 15th 1849 Amos was baptized in All Saints Anglican Church\, Sculcoates\, Kingston-Upon-Hull \nAmos married Martha Ann Jäger in Birkenhead on Dec 27th 1879. They had two daughters Elsie Martha\, born 24th Oct 1880 and Hilda Marian\, born  26th Oct 1881. \nFor further detail of ABs family please consult the excellent Amos Burn : A Chess Biography by Richard Forster \nIn 2006 an article by WD Rubinstein was published in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984)\, Hooper & Whyld : \n“One of the world’s top ten players at the end of the 19th century. Born in Hull : he learned chess when 16\, came to London at the age of 21\, and rapidly established himself as a leading English player\, A pupil of Steinitz\, he developed a similar style; both he and his master were among the world’s best six defensive players\, according to Nimzowitsch. Not wishing to become yet another impecunious professional. Burn decided to put his work (first a cotton broker then a sugar broker) before his chess\, and he remained an amateur. He made several long visits to America\, and was often out of practice when he played serious chess. \nUntil his thirty-eighth year he played infrequently and only in national events\, always taking first or second prize. From 1886 to 1889 he played more often. In 1886 he drew matches with Bird (+9-9) and Mackenzie (+4=2-4); at London 1887 he achieved his best tournament result up to this time\, first prize (+8—1) equal with Gunsberg (a play-off was drawn +1=3—1); and at Breslau 1889 he took second place after Tarrasch ahead of Gunsberg\, After an isolated appearance at Hastings 1895 he entered another spell of chess activity\, 1897-1901\, The best achievement of his career was at Cologne 1898\, first prize ( + 9=5-1) ahead of Charousek\, Chigorin\, Steinitz\, Schlechter\, and Janowski. At Munich 1900 he came fourth (+9=3—3). His Last seven international tournaments began with Ostend 1905 and ended with Breslau 1912. A comparative success\, in view of his age. was his fourth prize shared with Bernstein and Teichmann after Schlechter\, Maroczy\, and Rubinstein at Ostend 1906; 36 players competed in this five-stage event\, 30 games in all for those who completed the course. \nRetired from both business and play he made his home in London and edited the chess column of The Field from 1913 until his death. A shy and retiring man\, a loyal companion to those who came to know him\, he freely gave advice to young and aspiring players.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Ostend”]\n[Site “Ostend”]\n[Date “1906.06.06”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Maroczy\, Geza”]\n[Black “Burn\, Amos”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C32”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “74”]\n[EventDate “1906.06.05”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “31”]\n[EventCountry “BEL”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,60\,19\,38\,25\,3\,36\,-19\,51\,38\,60\,16\,26\,53\,75\,49\,115\,151\,218\,217\,245\,292\,\n293\,233\,233\,233\,247\,93\,77\,92\,88\,92\,99\,99\,140\,110\,119\,117\,104\,102\,219\,219\,206\,\n184\,203\,187\,187\,170\,191\,43\,40\,26\,32\,0\,0\,42\,0\,0\,0\,-278\,-298\,-504\,-533]} 1. e4 e5\n2. f4 d5 3. exd5 e4 4. d3 Nf6 5. dxe4 Nxe4 6. Nf3 Bc5 7. Qe2 Bf2+ $6 (7… Bf5\n8. Nc3 Qe7 9. Be3) 8. Kd1 Qxd5+ $6 (8… Qe7) 9. Nfd2 (9. Nbd2 $2 {This knight\nneeds to go to c3.} f5) 9… f5 10. Nc3 Qd4 11. Ncxe4 fxe4 12. c3 Qe3 {[#]} 13.\nNxe4 $2 (13. Qh5+ $18 Kf8 14. Bc4 Qxf4 15. Qd5 $18 {is good for white.}) 13…\nQxe2+ 14. Bxe2 $16 Bb6 15. Ng5 Nc6 16. Re1 Ne7 17. Bf3 c6 18. Be3 Bf5 19. g4\nBd3 20. Ne6 Kf7 21. Nxg7 Rhd8 {Black has defended well and now gains some\ncounter-attack.} 22. Ne6 Rd6 23. Bxb6 axb6 24. Nd4 $6 (24. Ng5+ $18 {retains\nthe advantage}) 24… c5 $11 25. Nb3 Ng6 26. Kd2 Nxf4 27. Ke3 (27. Re3) 27…\nNh3 28. Bxb7 Ra7 29. Bg2 $2 Re7+ 30. Kf3 {[#]} (30. Kd2 Be4+ 31. Kc1 Bxg2 32.\nRxe7+ Kxe7 33. Nd2) 30… Be2+ $1 {White resigns. He can delay mate only by\ngiving up a piece.} 31. Kg3 Re3+ 32. Bf3 Rxf3+ 33. Kg2 Rf2+ 34. Kxh3 Rd3+ 35.\nKh4 Rxh2+ 36. Kg5 Rf3 37. Rh1 h6# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nThe front cover of the November 1975 issue of the British Chess Magazine featured Amos Burn : \nAmos Burn – See W.H.Cozen’s ‘Half a Century Back’…from the front cover of the November 1975 issue of British Chess Magazine \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, 1975\, November\, pp. 481-483 : \nHalf a Century Back\nChess in 1925\nby W.H. Cozens\n  \nAmos Burn was a very different figure and his career is poorly documented. He is overdue\, not for a reappraisal but simply an appraisal\, He was born (in Hull) in 1848 – an incredible 127 years ago. All the years that could have been his prime as a chessplayer he devoted to business. (Marine insurance was his speciality.) He was based in Liverpool but travelled considerably\, including several crossings of the Atlantic – quite an undertaking in those days. He played some casual chess\, soon overshadowing the Rev. John Owen to become Liverpool’s answer to Manchester’s Blackburne. He also played for the City of London Chess Club; but it was not until he was nearly 40\, presumably with his financial position secured\, that he entered the international chess arena. Between the ages of 38 and 64 he played in 22 international tournaments. At Breslau (1889) he was second to Tarrasch\, above Louis Paulsen\, Blackburne\, Schallop … In Amsterdam the same year he was first\, ahead of Emanuel Lasker. His finest achievement was first place at Cologne 1898\, in front of Charousek\, Chigorin\, Steinitz\, Schlechter et al.\, (16 in all) with a win against Steinitz. The lack of a book on Cologne 1898 is – since the publication of Mannheim 1914′: the biggest gap in tournament literature. \nAt Karlsbad 1911 he defeated not only the winner\, as mentioned above\, but also Alekhine\, whom he steered into a knight versus bad bishop ending. His style was unashamedly modelled on that of Steinitz\, and marked by extreme tenacity. To him is attributed the epigram ‘He who combinates is lost’. He could play a combination when in the mood but he much preferred to let the opponent break his own back by attacking too impetuously. Nimzowitsch wrote: ‘The number of really great defensive players is very small’\, adding that he knew of only six: Steinitz\, Emanuel Lasker\, Burn\, Bernstein\, Duras and Louis Paulsen. \nIn the 1911 Cable Match between G.B. and the U.S.A. Marshall came from San Sebastian straight to London and asked permission for his top board game to be played over the board. When he found that his opponent was to be the 64-year-old Amos Burn he must have smiled\, for he had twice defeated him resoundingly – at Paris 1900 (also having some fun at Burn’s expense in his annotations to the game) and again at Ostend 1905. This time he was in for a shock. Within twenty moves the old man had won his queen for two pieces. Marshall played on\, probably with a red face\, until move 37\, rather than have his loss cabled home too early. Against Burn he might have spared himself the trouble. \nBurn was a superb annotator. His work\, notably in ‘The Field‘ from 1913 on\, sets a standard to which one looks back nostalgically in these days of hieroglyphics. The day before he died\, at the age of 77\,he had been at work on analysis and annotation. Tournaments were now plentiful enough for it to be possible to pick out the band of regular professionals\, and to assess their prowess. Tartakower was placed 2\, 5\, l\, 5; Reti 5\, 5’ 5\,-11; Grunfeld 4\,8\,8\,9; Nimzowitsch was erratic with 1\,2\,9; so was Rubinstein with 1\, 2\, 3\, 12. Marshall was consistent with 3\, 4\, 5. Lasker\, Capablanca and Alekhine appeared once each – with distinction\, of course.” \nThe Burn Variation is a line in the french defence dating from the 1870s\, played regularly by Burn at the tournaments of Hastings\n1895\, Cologne 1898\, and Vienna 1898. More recently it has been favoured by Petrosyan. \n[fen cal=Gd5e4]rnbqkb1r/ppp2ppp/4pn2/6B1/3Pp3/2N5/PPP2PPP/R2QKBNR w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“A leading British player of his day\, Amos Burn was born in Hull on 31st December 1848. He learned the game when he was 16 and an apprentice with a firm of Liverpool cotton-brokers\, but it was not until 1886 that he achieved his first major tournament success by coming 2nd in the London tournament and 1st at Nottingham. These results gained him an invitation to Frankfurt 1887\, which marked the beginning of his career as an international player. \nBurn’s greatest successes were 1st at Amsterdam 1889\, ahead of Lasker\, 2nd at Breslau 1889\, behind Tarrasch but ahead of Mieses\, Von Bardeleben\, Bauer\, Gunsberg and Paulsen; and 1st at Cologne 1898\, ahead of Charousek\, Steiniitz\, Tchigorin and Schlecter. \nAfter the St. Petersburg 1909 tournament\, Burn’s results began to deteriorate and he finally retired from tournament chess after the Breslau 1912 tournament. \nFrom 1913 until his death\, Burn was chess editor of The Field. He died on 25th November 1925.” \nAmos Burn (31-xii-1848\, 25-xii-1925) circa 1920 \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings International Masters”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1895.??.??”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Marco\, Georg”]\n[Black “Burn\, Amos”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C13”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “66”]\n[EventDate “1895.08.05”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “21”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,62\,19\,17\,41\,51\,29\,30\,57\,31\,31\,31\,49\,12\,8\,-10\,-5\,4\,34\,14\,18\,-2\,9\,-25\,\n12\,6\,50\,-17\,-26\,-34\,-5\,-49\,-37\,-57\,9\,-2\,73\,61\,61\,34\,26\,-38\,24\,-47\,-51\,-80\,-75\,\n-141\,-82\,-126\,-46\,-114\,-18\,-212\,58\,-110\,-110\,-588\,-595\,-689\,-692\,-715\,-719\,\n-776\,-948]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6 gxf6\n7. c3 f5 8. Ng3 c5 9. Nf3 Nc6 10. Bb5 Qb6 11. Bxc6+ (11. Qe2) 11… bxc6 12.\nO-O $146 h5 $1 13. Qd2 h4 14. Ne2 Ba6 15. Rfe1 {[#]} O-O-O {Black is taking\nthe initiative.} 16. a3 $2 (16. Ne5) 16… Rh7 17. b4 c4 18. a4 Rg7 19. Reb1\nRdg8 20. Ne1 Bb7 21. f3 Qd8 22. b5 $2 c5 $17 (22… Bg5) 23. Qe3 Qc7 (23…\ncxd4 24. Qxd4 Qc7) 24. a5 Bg5 25. f4 Be7 {[#]} (25… cxd4) 26. g3 $2 Qd7 (\n26… hxg3 27. hxg3 Bd6) 27. dxc5 hxg3 28. hxg3 $2 Qd5 $1 $19 {white is busted}\n29. c6 Bc5 30. cxb7+ Kxb7 31. Nd4 Rxg3+ $1 {White resigns} 32. Qxg3 Rxg3+ 33.\nKh2 Rxc3 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“British Grandmaster and second only to Blackburne in late nineteenth-century British chess. He was born in Hull and learned to play chess at sixteen\, but devoted little time to the game at first\, preferring to establish himself in a commercial career. \nHe returned to chess in his middle thirties\, his first major national success being first prize at Nottingham 1886 and second prize at London 1886. Within three years he had gained an international reputation by winning at Amsterdam 1889\, ahead of Lasker\, and finishing 2nd to Tarrasch at Breslau 1889. Burn continued to appear in international tournaments until the age of sixty-four\, his most notable triumph being first prize at Cologne 1898 in front of Charousek\, Steinitz\, Chigorin and Schlechter. He was chess editor of The Field from 1913 until his death in 1925.” \nEdward Winter wrote a feature article on the game McDonald-Burn\, Liverpool\, 1910 \nHis Wikipedia article is here \nAccording to Edward Winter in Chess Notes Burn lived at 19 Luxemburg Gardens\, London W6\, England (Amos Burn\, The Quiet Chessmaster by R.N. Coles\, page 7). \nAmos Burn (31-xii-1848\, 25-xii-1925) \nand an excellent article from the Liverpool Museum is here \nAmos Burn (left) and Rev. John Owen circa 1885. \nAmos Burn\, the quiet chessmaster\, RN Coles \nAmos Burn : A Chess Biography by Richard Forster
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