Happy Birthday IM Craig Alexander Hanley (23-iii-1984)

Craig was born in Pontefract in West Yorkshire.

He became a Candidate Master in 2001, a FIDE Master in 2002 and an IM in 2007. His peak rating was 2447 in April 2007.

Craig plays for Spirit of Atticus in 4NCL (Four Nations Chess League) and has a current ECF standard play grading of 242.

Here is his FIDE player card

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVanqcJNELk[/embedyt]

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[Event “GBR-ch 104th”]
[Site “Llandudno”]
[Date “2017.08.06”]
[Round “9”]
[White “Zhou, Yang Fan”]
[Black “Hanley, Craig A”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “B90”]
[WhiteElo “2468”]
[BlackElo “2441”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “70”]
[EventDate “2017.07.29”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “9”]
[EventCountry “WLS”]
[SourceTitle “CBM 179 Extra”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2017.08.23”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2017.08.23”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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Ra1 Rd4 29. Qxh5 Rdxe4 30. f6 g6 31. Qxc5 Qf4 32. Qc3 Qf2 33. h3 Re1 34. Rxe1
Rxe1 35. Kh2 Qf4+ 0-1
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