We send best wishes to IM Michael Hennigan.

Michael Thomas Hennigan was born on October 8th, 1970 in Hammersmith, London. His mother’s name was Donnelly.

Michael attended the City of London School.

Michael became World Under-18 Youth Champion in 1988 in Aguadilla (Puerto Rico).

He became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master title in 1991 and in the same year was British Under-21 Champion at Eastbourne and was British Champion in 1993 in Dundee beating Dharshan Kumaran in the play-off.

In 1995 he was 1st= in the Arnold Cup in Gausdal with Igor Rausis

His peak FIDE rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2465 in July 1994 at the age of 24.

He played for North West Eagles in the Four Nations Chess League.

Michael married WIM Rita Zimmersmann and settled in London. Rita subsequently became Rita Atkins.

Michael stopped playing in 2010 but has recently in 2020 started playing online chess on the chess.com platform.

Michael is a Senior Director with FTI Consulting

With the white pieces Michael used to be an e4 player but in 2020 has switched to 1.g3 to get back into the swing of things.

As the second player he plays the Sicilian Four Knights and the King’s Indian Defence.

[pgn]
[Event “BCF-ch”]
[Site “Dundee”]
[Date “1993.??.??”]
[Round “4”]
[White “Hennigan, Michael”]
[Black “Ward, Christopher”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “A04”]
[WhiteElo “2415”]
[BlackElo “2460”]
[Annotator “Bulletin”]
[PlyCount “67”]
[EventDate “1993.08.??”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “11”]
[EventCountry “SCO”]
[SourceTitle “CBM 038”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “1994.02.01”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “1994.02.01”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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-18,-26,-22,-15,-18,-7,-19,5,11,21,3,17,-4,1,-16,13,-22,28,26,17,134,134,134,
140,142,185,196,181,170,149,152,219,203,203,203,187,195,247,236,244,265,234,
240,249,111,840,919]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. O-O Nc6 5. e4 e6 6. c3
Nge7 (6… d5 7. exd5 exd5 8. Re1+ Nge7 9. d4 cxd4 10. Bg5 $5 dxc3 11. Nxc3 O-O
) 7. d4 cxd4 8. cxd4 d5 9. e5 f6 10. Re1 fxe5 11. dxe5 O-O 12. Bf4 (12. Nc3 $5
d4 13. Ne4 Nxe5 14. Nxd4 Qxd4 15. Qxd4 Nf3+ 16. Bxf3 Bxd4 17. Kg2 e5 $13) 12…
h6 (12… Rxf4 13. gxf4 Qf8 14. Qd2 Bh6 15. Ng5 Nf5 16. Nc3 $14) 13. h4 Bd7 (
13… Rxf4 14. gxf4 Nf5 15. h5 $1 gxh5 (15… g5 16. Bh3 $16) 16. Bh3 $16) 14.
Qd2 Nf5 15. Nc3 Qe7 16. Rad1 Kh7 17. Kh2 $1 Rac8 18. Bf1 Qb4 19.
Bd3 h5 (19… Na5 20. Nxd5 $1 Qxd2 21. Bxd2 $18) 20. Bb1 Nce7 $2 (20… a5) 21.
Nxd5 $3 Qxd2 22. Nf6+ $1 Bxf6 23. Rxd2 Bc6 24. exf6 Bxf3 25. fxe7 Rfe8 26. Bg5
Kg7 (26… Bd5 27. f3 $1 Bxf3 (27… Nxe7 28. Bxe7 Rxe7 29. Rxd5) 28. Be4 (28.
Rxe6 $4 Rc1) 28… Bxe4 29. Rxe4 Kg7 30. Rxe6 Kf7 31. Rf6+ Kg7 32. Rd8 Nxe7 33.
Rd7 $18) 27. Be4 Bxe4 28. Rxe4 Kf7 29. Kg2 Rc5 (29… Rc7 30. Rd8) 30. Rd7 Rb5
31. b3 e5 32. Rc4 Nd4 33. Rcc7 Ra5 34. Rd8 1-0

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