BCN wishes Happy Birthday to IM Neil H Bradbury (09-v-1964)

Neil became an International Master in 1988 ans achieved a peak rating at the age of 20 of 2395 in January of 1984.

Neil stopped playing in 1998 but in 2018 restarted with appearances in Gibraltar, The London Chess Classic and the British Championships in Hull and Torquay.

Neil has played in 4NCL for The ADs

Here is a recent game of Neil’s :

[pgn]
[Event “GBR-ch 106th”]
[Site “Torquay”]
[Date “2019.08.04”]
[Round “9”]
[White “Bradbury, Neil H”]
[Black “Fernandez, Daniel Howard”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “A40”]
[WhiteElo “2322”]
[BlackElo “2466”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “77”]
[EventDate “2019.07.27”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “9”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[SourceTitle “CBM 191 Extra”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2019.09.30”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2019.09.30”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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88,29,29,104,151,208,208,127,143,150,143,134,196,129,151,163,173,112,220,125,
130,26,26,-84,-84,-61,-61,-34,-49,-82,174,189,327,34,-3,-3,140,-85,-42,-98,
-102,-42,-25,-24,193,190,203,203,252,237,242,138,132,167,160,153,198,202,29995,
29996]} 1. d4 b5 2. e4 Bb7 3. Nd2 b4 4. Ngf3 e6 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 d5 7. exd5 Bxd5
8. O-O bxc3 9. bxc3 Nf6 10. Ne5 cxd4 11. Bb5+ Nbd7 12. c4 Bb7 13. Ndf3 Qc7 14.
Bg5 a6 15. Ba4 Bc8 16. Bc6 Bb7 17. Ba4 Bc8 18. Bc6 Rb8 19. Qxd4 Rb6 20. Ba4 Bc5
21. Nxd7 Bxd4 22. Nxb6+ Kf8 23. Nxd4 Qxb6 24. Nc6 Qc5 25. Bd2 Qh5 26. Rab1 g6
27. Rb3 Bd7 28. Rf3 Ne4 29. Bb4+ Kg7 30. Rd1 Bxc6 31. Bxc6 Rc8 32. Bxe4 Rxc4
33. Be7 h6 34. Bf6+ Kh7 35. Bd3 Rf4 36. Rxf4 Qxd1+ 37. Bf1 Qd2 38. Rd4 Qxa2 39.
Rd8 1-0
[/pgn]