BCN wishes Happy Birthday to IM Ezra Kirk (02-ix-1996)

Ezra Gillie Kirk was born on Monday, September 2nd 1996 in Waltham Forest, Essex.

Ezra attended Varndean College, Brighton and then the University of Bath to read Natural Sciences and was an intern at AIR INDUSTRIE THERMIQUE and is currently a Data Product Consultant at the Kubrick Group and is based in France.

He edits chess books written by non-English speaking authors and is an accomplished musician publishing works on Spotify.

Ezra became a FIDE Master in 2013 and an International Master in 2018

His peak rating is likely to be in the future but currently is 2445 in December 2018 aged 22.

Ezra plays for 4NCL Cheddleton in the Four Nations Chess League.

Here is one of Ezra’s best wins :

[pgn]
[Event “Teplice op 12th”]
[Site “Teplice”]
[Date “2017.06.13”]
[Round “4”]
[White “Kirk, Ezra”]
[Black “Turov, Maxim”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “B12”]
[WhiteElo “2324”]
[BlackElo “2595”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “71”]
[EventDate “2017.06.10”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “9”]
[EventCountry “CZE”]
[SourceTitle “CBM 178 Extra”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2017.06.22”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2017.06.22”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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4,16,17,8,21,5,19,21,22,22,22,-28,-15,-6,25,11,-3,-7,30,9,24,24,41,41,41,36,36,
-1,72,63,164,166,174,174,219,206,318,232,267,270,408,161,161,148,221,166,538,
560,668,684]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 Nd7 6. O-O h6 7.
Nbd2 Ne7 8. Nb3 Qc7 (8… g5) 9. Ne1 {is unusual} (9. Bd2) 9… c5 10. c3 c4
$146 (10… Nc6) 11. Nd2 (11. g4 $5 Bg6 12. Nd2) 11… b5 12. Nc2 {[%csl Gb4]}
Nb6 $6 (12… Bh7) 13. f4 (13. b3) 13… Bh7 14. Ne3 Nf5 15. Nxf5 Bxf5 16. g4
Bh7 17. Rf2 Be7 18. Nf1 Qd7 19. Ng3 Bh4 20. Rf3 O-O-O 21. b3 Be7 22. a4 $1 (22.
f5) 22… bxa4 23. bxc4 $16 dxc4 24. f5 f6 25. fxe6 Qxe6 {[#]} 26. Rxa4 $1 Kb8
(26… Nxa4 27. Qxa4 $40) 27. exf6 $18 Bd6 28. fxg7 Rhe8 29. Ra2 Rg8 30. g5
hxg5 31. Bxg5 Rd7 32. Bf6 (32. Rf6 $18) 32… Rdxg7 33. Bxg7 Rxg7 34. Qf1 Qd5 (
34… Be4) 35. Rf8+ Nc8 36. Rb2+ {and Black resigned} 1-0
[/pgn]