Happy birthday WGM Dr. Jana Bellin on this day (December 9th) in 1947.

From The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale, 1970 & 1976), Anne Sunnucks :

“International Woman Master (1969), Czech Woman Champion in 1965 and 1967 and British Woman Champion since 1970.

Jana was born in Prague on the 9th December 1947 and learned to play chess at the age of eleven. She made her first appearance in the international field when she played 2nd board for Czechoslovakia in Women’s Chess Olympiad in Oberhausen in 1966.

In the same year she represented Czechoslovakia in the Zonal tournament at Varna and came 11th.

She is now married to the British International Master, William Hartston, and played 1st board for England in the Women’s Chess Olympiad in Skopje in 1972 and represented England in the Zonal tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 1973 in which she tied for 1st place. In the same year she came =6th in the Interzonal Tournament. She is a doctor.”

From The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford, 1977), Harry Golombek OBE :

“Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, but moved to England in 1970 after her marriage to WR Hartston. Czechoslovak Woman champion in 1965 and 1967 (under her maiden name of Malypetrova) and British Ladies champion in the five years 1970 to 1974. International Woman master since 1969.”

From British Chess (Pergamon Press, 1983) Botterill, Levy, Rice and Richardson :

“Jana Miles was born 9 December 1947 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She moved to England when she married Bill Hartston. Divorced from Hartston in 1978, she subsequently married Tony Miles.

She was Czech woman champion in 1965 and 1967 and has regularly been the British Ladies Champion since moving to this country. She is a doctor of medicine.”

[pgn]
[Event “Olympiad Women-09”]
[Site “Valetta”]
[Date “1980.12.06”]
[Round “14”]
[White “Bellin, Jana M”]
[Black “Fischdick, Gisela”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “A72”]
[WhiteElo “2220”]
[BlackElo “2235”]
[Annotator “Jana Miles & British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “119”]
[EventDate “1980.11.20”]
[EventType “team-swiss”]
[EventRounds “14”]
[EventCountry “MLT”]
[SourceTitle “EXT 2019”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2018.10.10”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2018.10.10”]
[SourceQuality “1”]
[WhiteTeam “England (W)”]
[BlackTeam “Germany (W)”]
[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]
[BlackTeamCountry “GER”]

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591,609,617,617,619,655,670,669,670,695,1012,28087]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3
c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. e4 Bg7 8. Bg5 a6 ({Another possibility
is to chase the bishop immediately e.g.} 8… h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nh5 11. Bb5+
Kf8 12. e5 Nxg3 13. fxg3 dxe5 14. O-O a6 15. Bd3 b5 16. Nd2 c4 17. Qh5 f6 $146
(17… Ra7 18. Bg6) 18. Bc2 Bd7 19. a4 Be8 20. Bg6 Nd7 21. axb5 Bxg6 22. Qxg6
axb5 23. Rxa8 Qxa8 24. Nde4 Qe8 25. Qf5 Qd8 26. Kh1 Kg8 27. Nxb5 {winning
(Miles-Hernandez, Biel 1977). No wonder Benoni players seem to have abandoned
this particular line.}) 9. Nd2 {Last played in 2005} b5 10. Be2 O-O 11. Qc2 {
[#]} {Curiously this same game appears with two move orders in the same (1981)
year of BCM. This move order is game #19833 on page 83 of volume CI (101).}
Nbd7 ({and this move order with annotations appears in the same BCM volume as
game #20197 on page 545. This version is reproduced in British Chess, page 189.
} 11… h6 12. Bh4 Nbd7 (12… Re8 13. O-O Qc7 14. Rae1 Nbd7 15. a4 b4 16. Nd1
b3 17. Qb1 Rb8 18. Ne3 Rb4 19. Nec4 Rxa4 20. Bg3 Bf8 21. f4 Nb6 22. Nxb6 Qxb6
23. Nc4 Qd8 24. Bh4 Be7 25. Bd3 Bb7 {as in J.Miles – D. Cramling, Oslo, 1980;}
{the game continued} 26. e5 $1 dxe5 27. fxe5 $4 ({but} 27. d6 $1 {should win
for White e.g.} Bxd6 28. fxe5 Bxe5 29. Bxf6 Bxf6 30. Rxe8+ Qxe8 31. Rxf6 $18)
27… Qxd5 {and Black won,}) 13. a4 b4 14. Nd1) 12. a4 b4 13. Nd1 h6 14. Bh4
Re8 {A new move in 1980 was} 15. Ne3 $146 {and now, as any hyponotist might
say, we are back in the room. The two versions of this game have transposed to
the same position.} (15. f3 {was the previous move from 1977.}) 15… b3 16.
Qb1 Qe7 $146 (16… Rb8 {has become the modern move in this position}) 17. O-O
Rb8 18. Ra3 $5 Rb4 19. f3 {With the idea of stabilising the centre and
surrounding the b3 pawn. After this move I left my boarda and went to survey
the situation of our men’s team.} {On returning I found that Black had played}
Nxe4 $2 {BCN : Despite the ? mark in BCM modern day engines find that this IS
the best move and asses the position as =(0.00) Am curious to know what the
annotater thought was better for Black since no alternative was provided.} (
19… Ne5 20. Rxb3 Rxb3 21. Nxb3 g5 22. Be1 Nh5 23. g3 $16) {At first the
situation looked grim} 20. Bxe7 Nxd2 21. Qc1 Nxf1 {[#]} {Eventually I realised
I could recapture on f1 with the king! So} 22. Kxf1 $1 $15 {protecting the
bishop and neutralising any unpleasing pins.} (22. Bxf1 $2 Rxe7 23. Nc4 Bd4+
24. Kh1 Rxc4 25. Bxc4 Bxb2 $1 $19 {and Black wins.}) (22. Nxf1 $2 Rxe7 23. Bd3
Ne5 $19 {and White is getting squashed.}) 22… Rxe7 23. Nc4 Bb7 24. Qd1 $1 {
To get rid of the miserable rook on a3} Bd4 25. Rxb3 Rxb3 26. Qxb3 Bxd5 27. Qc2
$11 Re6 {At last a defensive move from Black. By now she realised things were
not going to plan.} 28. Na5 Nf6 29. Bxa6 g5 $6 {BCN : This does not help
Black’s cause one little bit : quite the opposite.} (29… Be5) 30. Bc4 $1 {
The only move but sufficient} Bxc4+ 31. Nxc4 d5 32. Na3 c4 33. a5 Be5 34. g3
Bc7 $2 {By now we were both in considerable time trouble.} 35. Qa4 $1 {Black
spotted the tactic below and played in desperation} c3 ({Intending to answer}
35… Ra6 {with} 36. Nxc4 $1) 36. bxc3 Ra6 37. Nc4 $1 {(Anyway!)} dxc4 38. Qxc4
Rxa5 (38… Ra7 39. Qc5 Rb7 40. a6 Rb1+ 41. Ke2 Rb2+ 42. Kd3 Bb8 43. a7 Bxa7
44. Qxa7 Rxh2 45. c4 {and wins}) 39. Qxc7 Ra1+ 40. Kg2 Ra2+ 41. Kg1 $1 $18 {
[#] A sealed move} ({If} 41. Kh3 $2 g4+ 42. fxg4 Nh7 43. Qd8+ ({and Black can
probably hold the draw.} 43. g5 Nxg5+ 44. Kg4 Rxh2) 43… Kg7 44. Qd4+ Kg6 45.
Qd3+ Kg7 46. g5 Nxg5+ 47. Kg4 Rxh2 48. Qd1 Kf6 {gives Black hope of hanging in.
}) 41… Ra1+ 42. Kf2 Ra2+ 43. Ke1 {The king is safest here.} Rxh2 44. c4 Nh7
45. c5 Nf8 46. c6 Rc2 47. Qd6 Ne6 48. f4 gxf4 49. gxf4 Nxf4 50. Qd8+ (50. c7 $4
Ne6 $11 {was the annotation in 1981 and probably is the correct assesment.} 51.
Qd8+ Nxd8 52. cxd8=Q+ Kg7 53. Qd4+ Kg8 54. Qg4+ Kf8 55. Qa4 Rc1+ 56. Kf2 Rb1 {
makes the task difficult for White}) 50… Kg7 51. c7 Ne6 52. c8=Q Rxc8 53.
Qxc8 Ng5 54. Qf5 Ne6 55. Kf2 Nf8 56. Kg3 Ng6 57. Kg4 Nf8 58. Kh5 Ng6 59. Qg4
Kh7 60. Qd4 {and at last 1-0.} 1-0
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From Wikipedia :

“Jana Bellin (née Malypetrová; born 9 December 1947) is a British, formerly Czechoslovak chess player. She was awarded the Woman International Master chess title in 1969 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1982.

Bellin was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She was the Czech Women’s Champion in 1965 and 1967 under her maiden name of Malypetrová. After her marriage to William Hartston she moved to England in 1970 and won the British Women’s Championship in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977 (after a play-off), and 1979.

She has fifteen appearances in the Women’s Chess Olympiads, representing Czechoslovakia in 1966 and 1969 and England thirteen times from 1972 through 2006, seven times on first board.

At the Olympiad she earned individual silver medals in 1966 and 1976, a team bronze medal in 1968 with the Czechoslovakian team, and a team silver in 1976 with England.

[pgn]
[Event “Troll Masters”]
[Site “Gausdal”]
[Date “1990.??.??”]
[Round “9”]
[White “Tisdall, Jonathan D”]
[Black “Bellin, Jana”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “E20”]
[WhiteElo “2480”]
[BlackElo “2240”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “44”]
[EventDate “1990.01.??”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “9”]
[EventCountry “NOR”]
[SourceTitle “CBM 016 Extra”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “1990.07.01”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “1990.07.01”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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-221,-224,-224]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 c5 5. d5 Nh5 6. g3 f5 7.
e4 O-O 8. Nh3 d6 9. dxe6 Bxe6 10. Ng5 $146 Qe7 11. Nxe6 Qxe6 12. Qd5 $6 Qxd5
13. exd5 Bxc3+ 14. bxc3 Nd7 $15 15. Kf2 Ne5 16. Be2 Rae8 17. Bd2 Nf6 18. Rab1
Re7 19. h3 $6 (19. Kg2) 19… Rfe8 20. Rhe1 h6 21. g4 $4 fxg4 22. hxg4 Nexg4+
$1 $19 {and White resigned.} 0-1

[/pgn]

“Bellin is a medical doctor specialising in anaesthetics, and works in intensive care at Sandwell General Hospital, West Bromwich, England.

She is also Chairman of the FIDE Medical Commission, which supervises drug testing of chess players.

Bellin was married first to International Master William Hartston, then to Grandmaster Tony Miles, and after that to International Master Robert Bellin. She and Bellin have two sons: Robert (born 1988) and Christopher (born 1991).”

She is the granddaughter of thrice Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, Jan Malypetr. and cousin of author and human rights campaigner Jiří Stránský.