We offer best wishes to IM Simon John Bradley Knott on his birthday

Simon was born on Sunday, October 19th 1958 in Lambeth, London to Simon Harold John Arthur Knott and Josephine Whowell.

Simon attended Trinity College, Cambridge.

He became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master in 2001. According to Felice and Megabase 2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2401 in October 2002 at the age of 43.

Simon was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1995-96 and 2001-02 seasons.

Simon plays for Hertford and Barbican in the Four Nations Chess League.

As white Simon plays the Queen’s Gambit via a 1.Nf3 or 1.c4 move order. There are zero 1.e4 games!

As the second player he plays the French Winawer and the Grünfeld Defence.

[pgn]
[Event “GBR-ch”]
[Site “Scarborough”]
[Date “2004.08.02”]
[Round “1”]
[White “Knott, Simon JB”]
[Black “Adams, David M”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “D19”]
[WhiteElo “2359”]
[BlackElo “2180”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “45”]
[EventDate “2004.08.02”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “11”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[SourceTitle “CBM 101 Extra”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2004.09.01”]
[SourceVersion “2”]
[SourceVersionDate “2004.09.01”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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17,25,24,7,64,72,72,67,47,31,99,95,81,101,93,174,218,210,235,299,295,297]} 1.
Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. e3 e6 7. Bxc4 Bb4 8. O-O O-O
9. Qe2 Bg6 10. Ne5 Nbd7 11. Nxg6 hxg6 12. Rd1 Qc7 (12… Qa5 $142) 13. e4 e5
14. d5 cxd5 (14… Rac8) 15. Nxd5 Nxd5 16. Bxd5 Nf6 17. Bg5 Qb6 $2 18. Be3 Bc5
19. a5 $1 Qb4 20. Bd2 Qxb2 21. Rdb1 Qc2 22. Rc1 Qb2 23. Ra2 $18 1-0
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