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Birthday of IM Craig William Pritchett (15-i-1949)
January 15, 2021
![IM Craig William Pritchett, Courtesy of John Upham Photography](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CraigPritchett2.jpg)
![IM Craig William Pritchett](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2400065.jpg)
We send birthday wishes to IM Craig Pritchett who was born this day, January 15th in 1949.
![IM Craig William Pritchett](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/IMG_0302-scaled.jpg)
Here is his Wikipedia entry
![IM Craig Pritchett (right) with Leonard Barden and Stewart Reuben](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/img_0303_small.jpg)
From The Encyclopedia of Chess by Harry Golombek :
Scottish international master and teacher. Prtichett, probably the strongest native-born Scottish player since the days of Captain Mackenzie in the nineteenth century, has represented Scotland with success in five Olympiads : 1966, 1970, 1972, 1974 and 1976. He has also played for Scotland in the Students Olympiads of 1968, 1969 and 1970.
![Pritchett playing Karpov at Nice 1974.](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IMG_0305-scaled.jpg)
His first individual success was in the European Junior Championship in Groningen 1969/70 where he came -3rd with Belyavsky. At Decin (Czechoslovakia) 1974 he came 1st in the Masters B section.
He obtained the first part of an international master norm at the Nice Olympiad in 1974 where he scored 60% on top board. In 1975 he again achieved a master norm at the strong Pula Zonal tournament where he came -7th/14.
![IM Craig Pritchett (right) at the Aaronson Masters](http://britishchessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/img_0304_cropped_smaller.jpg)
He was chess correspondent of the Glasgow Herald and author of The Sicilian Scheveningen, Batsford, London, 1977. (article by Harry Golombek)
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