We wish happy birthday to IM John Hawksworth born on Friday, December 6th, 1963.
John Crofton Hawksworth was born in Brighton, England, in December 1963 to Robert Marshall Hawksworth and Norah Connor Hawksworth née Crofton. He was baptised at St Saviour’s Church of England church in Pimlico, London, in 1964.
The following was written (presumably by LWB) about John who was 15 just prior to the Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display in 1979 :
“Bradford Grammar and Bradford. Rating 194. Yorkshire under-18 champion.”
He was awarded the IM title in 1986.
According to ChessBase his highest FIDE rating was 2370 in January, 1990 aged 27 which was the last year of serious competition at the 77th British Championships in Eastbourne.
He then pursued a highly successful career in the financial sector and became the Chief Economist for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
John now maintains his Hawkonomics blog and is a keen user of Twitter.
[pgn]
[Event “Lloyds Bank op 06th”]
[Site “London”]
[Date “1982.09.02”]
[Round “9”]
[White “Hawksworth, John Crofton”]
[Black “Kortschnoj, Viktor Lvovich”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “E15”]
[BlackElo “2645”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “49”]
[EventDate “1982.08.??”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “9”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[SourceTitle “EXT 2008”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]
[SourceQuality “1”]
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1,1,2,-1,3,5,0,10,12,25,30,20,28,15,18,75,84,6,36,153,167,306,289,310,324]} 1.
d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Nbd2 Bb4 6. Qa4 c5 7. a3 Bxd2+ 8. Bxd2
cxd4 9. Bg2 Bb7 10. O-O Bc6 11. Qd1 Bxf3 12. Bxf3 Nc6 13. Bf4 O-O 14. Bd6 Re8
15. Bxc6 dxc6 16. Qxd4 Nd5 $146 (16… c5 17. Qf4 Nh5 18. Qe5 f6 19. Qxh5 Qxd6
20. Rfd1 Qe7 $14) 17. c5 e5 18. Qa4 Qd7 19. e4 bxc5 $6 20. Bxc5 Nf4 21. Qd1 Qh3
$2 22. gxf4 exf4 23. f3 Re5 24. Qc2 $1 {and Black resigned.} Rg5+ 25. Kh1 1-0
[/pgn]
