We remember Ian Duncan Wells who very sadly passed away on this day (January 25th) in 1982 aged seventeen years.

From Chessgames.com :

Ian Duncan Wells was born in Scarborough, England. He was awarded the FM title in 1982. At the Islington Open in December 1981 he finished 1st= with John Nunn and Tony Miles. Following a 5th= placing in the Golden Pawn of Brazil Junior tournament held in Rio de Janeiro he and other players went swimming outside their hotel. He got into difficulties and although he was brought ashore by lifesavers he died after six days in a coma.

Here is an excellent article from chess.com written by Neil Blackburn.

[pgn]
[Event “Lancashire Open”]
[Site “Morecambe ENG”]
[Date “1979.05.07”]
[Round “7”]
[White “Wells, Ian Duncan”]
[Black “Short, Nigel David”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “C04”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “65”]
[EventDate “1979.??.??”]

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88,59,97,77,222,104,104,80,117,123,175,138,164,137,142,134,127,77,99,67,62,49,
59,49,70,116,106,102,97,104,104,106,107,73,132,123,184,164,145,145,156,130,289,
324]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nc6 4. Ngf3 Nf6 5. e5 Nd7 6. c3 f6 7. Bb5 Be7 $6
(7… fxe5 8. dxe5 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Re1 Qe8 11. Nf1 Nc5 12. Ng3 a6 13. Bf1 a5
$14) 8. exf6 $1 Bxf6 9. O-O O-O 10. Re1 Re8 11. Qa4 $16 (11. Nf1 e5 12. dxe5
Ndxe5 13. Nxe5 Rxe5 14. Bf4 $14) 11… Ncb8 (11… a6 12. Bxc6 bxc6 13. Qxc6
Nb6 14. Ne5 $16) 12. Ne5 c5 13. Ndf3 c4 14. Qd1 a6 15. Ba4 b5 16. Bc2 Nf8 17.
Bf4 Bd7 18. Bg3 a5 19. Qd2 Nc6 20. h4 Nxe5 21. dxe5 (21. Nxe5) 21… Be7 22.
Qf4 h6 23. Qg4 Qc7 $2 (23… Kh8) 24. Bf4 Kh8 25. Re3 (25. Bxh6 $1 gxh6 26. Qf4
(26. Qh5 Bc5 27. Qxh6+ Kg8 28. Qg5+ Kf7 29. Qf6+ Kg8 30. Qg5+ Kf7 31. Re3 $18)
26… Bc6 27. Qxh6+ Kg8 28. Re3 $18) 25… Bc5 26. Nd4 Bxd4 27. cxd4 Bc6 28.
Qh5 (28. Rae1) 28… Re7 29. Rg3 Nh7 30. Qg6 Nf8 31. Qg4 Nh7 32. h5 Rf8 33. Qg6
1-0
[/pgn]