We offer IM Adam Hunt best wishes on his birthday.

Adam Ceiriog Hunt was born on Tuesday, October 21st, 1980 in Oxford and his mother’s maiden name was Williams. The UK Number one single was “Woman in Love” by Barbara Streisand. Adam shares his birthday with Kim Kardashian.

(Ceiriog was the bardic name of John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–87)

Adam attended The Cherwell School and The University of Sussex to study general biology.

Adam became an International Master in 2001 and then a FIDE Trainer in 2016. According to Felice and Megabase 2020 his attained his peak FIDE rating of 2466 in January 2008 at the age of 28.

In 2004 Adam was living in Headington, Oxfordshire and in 2007 he moved to Ipswich in Suffolk and was married in 2019. Recently, Adam and his partner became parents to Henry.

As a junior (and together with Harriet) Adam first played for Cowley Chess Club.

Most recently Adam has played for 4NCL Blackthorne Russia, prior to that Bettson.com, Midlands Monarchs and Perceptron Youth with Witney being his original team.

He is Director of Chess at Woodbridge School in Suffolk and is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt

With the white pieces is (almost exclusively) an e4 player playing the main line of Ruy Lopez (8.c3) and favouring the Fischer-Sozin against the Najdorf.

As the second player Adam plays the Sicilian Najdorf and a 50:50 mixture of the King’s Indian and Grünfeld Defences.

Adam is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt

[pgn]
[Event “Livigno op-A 2nd”]
[Site “Livigno”]
[Date “2011.09.15”]
[Round “5”]
[White “Hunt, Adam C”]
[Black “Fedorchuk, Sergey A”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “B84”]
[WhiteElo “2437”]
[BlackElo “2635”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “81”]
[EventDate “2011.09.12”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “9”]
[EventCountry “ITA”]
[SourceTitle “CBM 144 Extra”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2011.10.28”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2011.10.28”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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335,275,272,313,323,341,372,372,372,373,407,411,472,475,853,855]} 1. e4 c5 2.
Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be3 Be7 7. Be2 a6 8. Qd2 Qc7 9. a3
b5 10. O-O-O O-O 11. f3 Bb7 12. g4 Nc6 13. g5 Nd7 14. h4 b4 15. axb4 $146 (15.
Nxc6) 15… Nxb4 16. h5 $14 Rfc8 $6 (16… Nc5) 17. Kb1 Rab8 18. Nb3 Bc6 19. g6
hxg6 $6 20. hxg6 $16 fxg6 21. Bd4 Nf6 22. Qg5 Be8 (22… Nxc2 $1 23. Kxc2 Qb7)
23. e5 Nfd5 24. Qg4 $1 Qd7 25. Qh3 $18 Kf7 26. exd6 (26. Qh7 $142) 26… Bf6
27. Bxf6 Nxf6 28. Ne4 Nxc2 29. Ng5+ Kf8 30. Nxe6+ Kf7 31. Nbc5 (31. Bd3 $142)
31… Rxc5 32. Nxc5 Qxh3 33. Rxh3 Ne3 34. Rd4 Bb5 35. Nxa6 Bxa6 36. Bxa6 g5 37.
d7 Rd8 38. Bb5 Nf5 39. Rd3 Ke7 40. Rh2 Rb8 41. Re2+ 1-0
[/pgn]