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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Ezra Kirk (02-ix-1996)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to IM Ezra Kirk (02-ix-1996)\n\nEzra G Kirk was born on Monday\, September 2nd 1996 in France.\n\nEzra Kirk\, Sautron\, 2007\, Courtesy of Dominique Primel / Chessbase\n\nEzra 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.\n\nHe edits chess books written by non-English speaking authors and is an accomplished musician publishing works on Spotify.\n\nEzra became a FIDE Master in 2013 and an International Master in 2018\n\nHis peak rating is likely to be in the future but currently is 2445 in December 2018 aged 22.\n\nEzra plays for 4NCL Cheddleton in the Four Nations Chess League.\n\nIM Ezra Kirk\, Tours\, 2020\, Courtesy of Dominique Primel / Chessbase\n\nHere is one of Ezra’s best wins :\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “Teplice op 12th”]\n[Site “Teplice”]\n[Date “2017.06.13”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Kirk\, Ezra”]\n[Black “Turov\, Maxim”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2324”]\n[BlackElo “2595”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “2017.06.10”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “CZE”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 178 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.06.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.06.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,71\,19\,38\,60\,60\,55\,57\,67\,52\,56\,39\,40\,29\,57\,39\,8\,7\,43\,7\,14\,-18\,-21\,-21\,\n4\,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\,\n-1\,72\,63\,164\,166\,174\,174\,219\,206\,318\,232\,267\,270\,408\,161\,161\,148\,221\,166\,538\,\n560\,668\,684]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 Nd7 6. O-O h6 7.\nNbd2 Ne7 8. Nb3 Qc7 (8… g5) 9. Ne1 {is unusual} (9. Bd2) 9… c5 10. c3 c4\n$146 (10… Nc6) 11. Nd2 (11. g4 $5 Bg6 12. Nd2) 11… b5 12. Nc2 {[%csl Gb4]}\nNb6 $6 (12… Bh7) 13. f4 (13. b3) 13… Bh7 14. Ne3 Nf5 15. Nxf5 Bxf5 16. g4\nBh7 17. Rf2 Be7 18. Nf1 Qd7 19. Ng3 Bh4 20. Rf3 O-O-O 21. b3 Be7 22. a4 $1 (22.\nf5) 22… bxa4 23. bxc4 $16 dxc4 24. f5 f6 25. fxe6 Qxe6 {[#]} 26. Rxa4 $1 Kb8\n(26… Nxa4 27. Qxa4 $40) 27. exf6 $18 Bd6 28. fxg7 Rhe8 29. Ra2 Rg8 30. g5\nhxg5 31. Bxg5 Rd7 32. Bf6 (32. Rf6 $18) 32… Rdxg7 33. Bxg7 Rxg7 34. Qf1 Qd5 (\n34… Be4) 35. Rf8+ Nc8 36. Rb2+ {and Black resigned} 1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nIM Ezra Kirk\, Hastings 2012-2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Anthony J Stebbings (03-ix-1951)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Anthony J Stebbings (03-ix-1951)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Michael Stean (04-ix-1953)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Michael Stean on his birthday\,  \nMichael Francis Stean was born Michael Francis Stein on Friday\, September 4th\, 1953 in Pancras\, London. His mother’s maiden name was Feldman. Michael has a brother\, Howard.  \nMichael Stean \nHe attended Latymer Upper School and Cambridge University. \nHis early chess days were spent at Richmond Junior Chess Club. \nHe became an International Master in 1975 and England’s third (OTB) Grandmaster in 1977 winning £2\,500 from the Jim Slater Foundation. \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2540 in January 1979.  \nHis mother (Jean) presented a trophy to the Marlow Congress (now the Berks and Bucks Congress) which became the Mrs. Jean Stean Cup. \nTony Miles and Michael Stean at the FIDE Zonal in Amsterdam\, 1978. (Source: http://gahetna.nl) \nAccording to British Chess (Pergamon\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : \n“Stean was educated at Cambridge University\, He was equal first in the British Championship\, Clacton\, 1974\, although only 4th in the playoff. He has been an important member of Korchnoi’s team for the last 5 years\, and this perhaps has been responsible more than anything for the rounding out and maturing of his style from the sharp tactical play of the early 1970s to the solid positional GM (especially with the White pieces) of today. \nKorchnoi\, Stean and Keene try out matching vests and T-shirts from The University of Sussex sports centre\, Falmer\, East Sussex. It is likely that the yellow one was only worn for this press photo shoot. \nStean is a fine author; Simple Chess and the Sicilian Najdorf are both excellent books. \nMichael Stean at the 1977 Lord John Cup \nTemperamentally he is generally pleasant\, good humoured and self confident\, although he suffers from intermittent poor health which might help to explain his at times erratic results.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Birmingham”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “1976.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Stean\, Michael F”]\n[Black “Nunn\, John DM”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A71”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “70”]\n[EventDate “1976.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2010”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2010.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2010.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,65\,29\,25\,24\,4\,29\,42\,45\,64\,84\,82\,72\,74\,131\,106\,97\,91\,78\,67\,70\,82\,79\,61\,\n73\,42\,25\,27\,25\,30\,62\,39\,46\,47\,46\,36\,36\,36\,42\,24\,16\,58\,64\,9\,14\,-43\,30\,20\,73\,108\,\n216\,207\,445\,501\,613\,402\,574\,485\,679\,650\,915\,785\,800\,997\,1007\,1007\,1027\,1029]}\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nf3 g6 7. e4 Bg7 (7… a6\n{is the most accurate move order in recent times.} 8. a4 Bg4 9. Be2 Bxf3 10.\nBxf3 (10. gxf3) 10… Nbd7 11. O-O Bg7 12. Bf4 Qe7 13. Re1 O-O) 8. Bg5 {\nThis has gone out of fashion.} ({The Modern Main Line is} 8. h3 O-O 9. Bd3 a6 (\n9… b5)) 8… h6 (8… Qa5 9. Nd2 Qxa2) 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nh5 11. Bb5+ Kf8 (\n11… Bd7 $2 12. Bxd7+ (12. Bxd6 Bxc3+ 13. bxc3 Bxb5) 12… Qxd7 13. Ne5 $1 {\n[%cal Gd1h5\,Ge5d7]} Bxe5 14. Qxh5 $16 (14. Bxe5 dxe5 15. Qxh5)) 12. e5 $1 {\nThis was big novelty at the time.} (12. Ne5 Nxg3) 12… Nxg3 13. fxg3 $1 dxe5\n14. O-O a6 15. Be2 Ra7 {[%cal Ga7f7]} (15… f5) 16. a4 b6 17. Qb3 f5 18. Nd2\n$2 (18. Rad1 $16) 18… e4 $14 19. g4 (19. Bg4 $142) (19. Ndxe4 Bd4+ 20. Kh1\nKg7 21. Nd2 Re7) 19… Bd4+ 20. Kh1 e3 21. Nc4 f4 22. Nxb6 Rb7 23. a5 h5 $1 24.\ngxh5 Nd7 25. Bxa6 Nf6 (25… Rxh5 $1 {Nunn} 26. Bxb7 Kg7 (26… Bxb7) 27. h3 (\n27. Bxc8 Rxh2+ 28. Kxh2 Qh8+ 29. Kg1 e2+ 30. Rf2 Qh4 31. Ne4 Nf6 32. Qh3 Nxe4\n33. Qxh4 gxh4 34. a6 Nxf2) 27… Qh8 (27… Bxb7 28. a6) 28. Qc2 Rxh3+ 29. gxh3\nQxh3+ 30. Qh2) 26. Bxb7 $18 Nxh5 27. Ne2 $1 (27. Ra2 $4 Ng3+ 28. Kg1 e2+ 29.\nRf2 e1=R#) 27… Bg4 28. Nxd4 Ng3+ 29. Kg1 Rxh2 (29… cxd4) 30. Kxh2 Qe8 31.\nNe6+ Bxe6 32. Qxe3 $1 Qh5+ 33. Kg1 {and Black resigned.} Qh1+ 34. Kf2 fxe3+ 35.\nKxg3+ Qxf1 1-0[/pgn] \nAccording to Chessgames.com : \n“Michael Francis Stean was born on the 4th of September 1953 in London\, England. He finished 3rd at the 1973 World Junior Chess Championships behind Alexander Beliavsky and Tony Miles. Awarded the IM title in 1975 and the GM title in 1977 (The third Englishman to attain the title after Miles and Keene).  \nHe finished 1st= in the 1974 British Championship but lost the play-off. He played on 5 English Olympiad teams from 1974 – 1983 and has won 1st prizes at Vrsac 1979\, Smederevska Palanka 1980 and Beer Sheba 1982.  \nA specialist in Opening Theory he served as one of Viktor Korchnoi’s seconds in the 1977 – 1981 period. He is the author of Simple Chess\, an introduction to chess strategy.” \nMchael Stean\, Hastings 1972-1973. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume 93\, Number 2\, page 53 \nThe Robert Silk Fellowship Tournament\, Canterbury\, 1973. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume 93\, Number 5\, page 192 \nPost-banquet photograph – left to right : Harry Golombek\, Andras Adorjan\, Danny Wright\, Brian Eley\, Michael Stean\, D. Silk\, Robert Silk\, AK Henderson. The Robert Silk Fellowship Tournament\, Canterbury\, 1973. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume 93\, Number 5\, page 192 \n[pgn][Event “Olympiad-22”]\n[Site “Haifa”]\n[Date “1976.11.06”]\n[Round “11.4”]\n[White “Stean\, Michael F”]\n[Black “Schneider\, Lars Ake”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B89”]\n[BlackElo “2365”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “1976.10.25”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “13”]\n[EventCountry “ISR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Sweden”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “SWE”] \n{[%evp 0\,47\,39\,31\,58\,32\,48\,14\,38\,32\,37\,43\,42\,31\,62\,40\,43\,19\,45\,11\,26\,18\,12\,-1\,\n-13\,-2\,-13\,1\,-6\,-22\,-15\,-87\,-81\,-200\,-81\,-103\,-85\,-85\,-85\,-112\,-10\,-42\,-30\,-93\,\n-93\,11\,113\,1559\,1385\,1956]} 1. e4 {[%mdl 512]} c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4\nNf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 {The Sozin (or indeed Fischer-Sozin) Variation : White\ndevelops his f1 bishop actively\, to put pressure on Black’s king side and to\ninhibit the latter’s thematic freeing move …d5. Another point is the\nkingside castling is made possible\, although this is sometimes deferred or\ncompletely rejected in favour of other operations. depending upon Black’s\nresponse  Veniamin Sozin (1896 – 1956)} (6. Bg5 {is most popular}) 6… e6 {\nBlack\, in his turn\, can hope to exploit the position of the bishop\,\ntemporarily unguarded and on an exposed square\, to accelerate his Queenside\ncounterplay or by seeking the advantage of the two bishops. The positions that\ncan result are some of the keenest in chess\, yet it is only in the last ten\nyears or so that the interest of players and theoreticians alike has come to\nfocus on 6.Bc4.} (6… g6 $2 7. Nxc6 $1 bxc6 8. e5 {The Magnus Smith Variation}\ndxe5 $4 (8… Ng4 9. Bf4 d5 10. Nxd5 $1) 9. Bxf7+) 7. Be3 Be7 (7… Qc7 8. Qe2\na6 9. Bb3 Na5 $11) 8. Qe2 {[%cal Ge1c1\,Ga1d1] The Velimirovic Attack} a6 (8…\nO-O 9. O-O-O Nxd4 (9… a6 {is most common}) 10. Bxd4 Qa5 11. e5 dxe5 12. Bxe5\n$14) 9. O-O-O Qc7 10. Bb3 O-O {[#]  and we reach the Tabiya position for the\nVelimirovic Attack.} 11. Rhg1 $1 ({The marginaly more popular} 11. g4 {was the\nfavourite of Velimirovic and Fischer} Nxd4 12. Rxd4 $14 e5 13. Rdd1) (11. Nxc6)\n{Perhaps still more precise is} 11… Na5 (11… b5 $142 $1 12. g4 b4 $15) 12.\ng4 b5 {transposing} 13. g5 Nxb3+ 14. axb3 Nd7 {[%csl Gc2\,Gc7\,Ge4\,Ge7][%cal\nGa1a5] Paoli and Ribli’s provacative set-up\, designed to highlight White’s\npotential weaknesses : e4\, c2 and in some cases\, the a-file. Great\ncomplications arise as White can sacrifice everything he has in the attempt to\nmate\, but it is quite possible that Black already stands better.} 15. Rg3 {\nNunn’s new idea in this book line\, for which see the Batsford book\, The\nSicilian Sozin.} ({An immediate} 15. Qh5 {allows the defence} g6 (15… Bb7 16.\nRg3 Rfc8 (16… Rfe8) 17. Rh3 Nf8 {is a road to nowhere for White.}) 16. Qh6\nRe8 {followed by Bf8 and then Bg7.}) 15… b4 {[#]} (15… Bb7 $142 ) ({Safer is} 15… Re8 16. Nf5 $2 exf5 17. Nd5 Qc6 $19) 16. Nf5 $1 {\nThe old Tal technique : Black can only take one piece at a time. In fact\, this\nis the only way to continue for White otherwise Black is better.} {Best is}\nexf5 (16… Re8 $142 17. Nxe7+ Rxe7 18. Na4 $16 a5 {[%cal Gc8a6]}) (16… Qd8\n17. Nxe7+ Qxe7 18. Na4 a5 19. Qd3 $16) ({If} 16… Nc5 17. Qh5 $1 g6 18. Qh6 $1\n(18. Bd4 $1 e5 19. Qh6 Bxf5 20. Nd5 Nxe4 21. Nxc7 $18) (18. Qxg6+) (18. Qxh7+\nKxh7 19. Rh3+ Kg8 20. Nh6+) 18… gxf5 19. Rh3 {mating}) 17. Nd5 Qd8 18. exf5 {\n[%cal Gf5f6]} Re8 {[%csl Gf8]} 19. Qf3 (19. f6 Bf8 20. fxg7 Bxg7 21. Nf6+ Nxf6\n22. gxf6 Qxf6 {[%cal Gf6b2]} 23. Rdg1 Qxb2+ 24. Kd2 Qc3+ 25. Kd1 Qa1+ 26. Kd2\n$11) (19. Qh5 g6 20. Qh4 {is a dead end.}) (19. Nxe7+) 19… Bf8 $15 (19… Ne5\n20. Nxe7+ {(seguido de 21. Qxa8)}) (19… Rb8 $142) 20. Nf6+ $1 Nxf6 (20…\ngxf6 21. gxf6+ (21. Rdg1) 21… Kh8 22. Qg2 $18 (22. Rdg1 h6 23. Bd4) 22…\nNxf6 23. Rg1 Bh6 24. Bxh6 Nh5 25. Qf3 Nxg3 26. Qxg3 Rg8 27. Bg7+ Rxg7 28. Qxg7#\n) 21. gxf6 Bd7 $2 ({Imperative is} 21… Rb8 {with defensive chances based\naround the Rb5 rook lift.} 22. fxg7 Be7 23. Rh3 Rb5 $1 $19 {[%cal Gb5f5]} 24.\nRxh7 Bxf5 $1 {Only move to survive} 25. Rh8+ Kxg7 $19 26. Bd4+ f6 27. Rh5 Bg6\n28. Rg1 {which the post-mortem showed to be drawish.}) 22. Bd4 $1 (22. Rxd6\n$142) 22… Qa5 $2 {totally losing} (22… g6 23. Qd5 {and White is clearly\nbetter}) 23. Rxg7+ $1 Kh8 (23… Bxg7 24. Qg2) 24. Qg4 {and Black resigned.\nComentarios: Franco Luis Di Luca (h)} (24. Qg4 h6 25. Rg8+ Kh7 26. Qg6+ fxg6\n27. fxg6+ Kxg8 28. f7#) {Resignation spoilt THE checkmate of the Olympiad :}\n24… h6 25. Rg8+ Kh7 26. Qg6+ fxg6 27. fxg6+ Kxg8 28. f7# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHarry Golombek wrote this about Michael in a 1980 Dataday chess diary : \n“The fact that he has sprung up into second place among English players as regards Elo ratings demonstrates the considerable advance Michael Stean has made in the course of a year.  \nKorchnoi vs Stean at the Philips & Drew Masters of 1980. The game was drawn in 19 moves. \nIn the 1978 diary I wrote that it would not be long before he gained the grandmaster title since he already possessed one norm of the title. The forecast proved to be correct as he duly acquired the title a few months after I wrote the prophecy.  \nHe had though to take two more bites at the cherry before he managed to gain the required norms since the tournaments in which he played were not long events. They were Montilla in August 1977 where he came third below Gligoric and Kavalek and the Lord John Cup Tournament in London in September 1977 where he was equal 2nd with Quinteros and Mestel\, first place being occupied by the Czechoslovak grandmaster\, Hort. \nJan Timman plays Michael Stean at the 1978 Amsterdam FIDE Zonal. The Dutch GM won in 39 moves. \nBefore that he had assisted Keene in seconding Korchnoi in his candidates match versus Polugayevsky and had done this to such effect that Korchnoi asked him and Keene to act as his seconds at his final match in the Candidates at Belgrade and later on still at the World Championship match against Karpov in the Philippines. \nNigel Short\, Lubomir Kavalek and Michael Stean \nHe also played successfully in Yugoslavia in 1977 (equal 2nd at Virovitica and equal 2nd at Bar). In 1978 he was 3rd at Beersheba below Korchnoi but head of Keene. Five points out of nine at the very strong Swiss System tournament at Lone Pine was followed by an excellent equal 4th with Miles at the tournament at Las Palmas. He has shown that he not only possesses the title of grandmaster but also plays like one. \nMichael Stean (far right) at an unknown event \nA good example in the following game (Stean-Sax) against one of the joint first prize winners at the Las Palmas event. It was awarded the prize for the best game :” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Las Palmas-07”]\n[Site “Las Palmas”]\n[Date “1978.??.??”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Stean\, Michael F”]\n[Black “Sax\, Gyula”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B33”]\n[BlackElo “2550”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “1978.04.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ESP”]\n[EventCategory “10”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,55\,19\,38\,40\,41\,51\,40\,25\,22\,32\,46\,60\,45\,53\,-3\,-5\,-21\,3\,-12\,21\,21\,50\,16\,\n14\,14\,5\,-4\,31\,39\,33\,14\,49\,50\,0\,0\,51\,24\,72\,72\,28\,10\,102\,102\,89\,89\,111\,108\,119\,\n102\,123\,150\,126\,119\,116\,145\,197\,241]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4\nNf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8. Na3 b5 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. Nd5 f5 11. Bd3\nBe6 12. Qh5 Bg7 13. O-O f4 14. c4 bxc4 15. Bxc4 O-O 16. Rac1 Rb8 17. b3 Bxd5\n18. Bxd5 Nb4 19. Rfd1 Nxa2 20. Rc6 Rb6 21. Rxb6 Qxb6 22. Nc4 Qc7 23. Nxd6 Nc3\n24. Nf5 Kh8 25. Rd3 Nxd5 26. Rxd5 f6 27. h3 Rg8 28. Qd1 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“English player\, International Grandmaster (1977). At Nice 1974\, in the first of his several Olympiads\, he won the brilliancy prize for his game against\nBrowne.  \nSince then he has had several good results: Montilia 1976\, equal second with Kavalek and Ricardo Calvo (1943— ) after Karpov; Montilia 1977\, third (-1-3 = 6)after Gligoric and Kavalek ahead of R. Byrne\, Taimanov\, and Andersson; London 1977. second (+4=4—1) equal with Mestel and Quinteros after Hort ; Vrsac 1979\, first (+ 8=5—1); Smederevska Palanka 1980\, first (+7-6); Beersheba 1982\, first\, Stean was one of Korchnoi’s seconds in the world championship cycles of 1977-8 and 1980-1\, and the two became close friends.  \nIn particular Stean provided help with the openings\, a subject on which he specialises. He published a book on the Najdorf variation of the Sicilian defence in 1976\, and Simple Chess\, a guide to the understanding of positional ideas\, in 1978.” \nGM Michael Stean \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Michael Francis Stean (born 4 September 1953) is an English chess grandmaster\, an author of chess books and a tax accountant. \nMichael Stean chats with David Levy at the London Chess Classic \nThe game below (Stean-Browne) was the first winner of the World Brilliancy Prize established in 1974 by Isador Samuel Turover. The value of the prize was $1\,000.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-21 Preliminaries B”]\n[Site “Nice”]\n[Date “1974.06.15”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Stean\, Michael Francis”]\n[Black “Browne\, Walter Shawn”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B94”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “1974.06.07”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “FRA”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “US of America”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “USA”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,19\,38\,40\,41\,66\,77\,66\,55\,55\,20\,79\,39\,64\,47\,62\,62\,46\,12\,5\,-27\,40\,6\,\n-3\,-7\,12\,-20\,-29\,-29\,7\,180\,177\,177\,204\,204\,194\,194\,363\,246\,253\,253\,258\,324\,324\,\n324\,328\,328\,331\,331\,911\,1032\,1094\,1208\,1238\,1272\,1279\,1317\,2579\,3022\,29981\,\n29984\,29987\,1511\,1562\,1568]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3\na6 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. Bc4 e6 8. O-O h6 9. Bxf6 $146 Nxf6 10. Bb3 b6 11. f4 Bb7 12.\nQd3 Be7 13. Nxe6 fxe6 14. Bxe6 b5 15. e5 Qb6+ 16. Kh1 dxe5 17. Qg6+ Kd8 18. Qf7\nQc5 19. fxe5 Bxg2+ 20. Kxg2 Rf8 21. Rad1+ Kc7 22. Qxg7 Rg8 23. exf6 Rxg7+ 24.\nfxg7 Bd6 25. Rf7+ Kc6 26. Bd5+ Kb6 27. Bxa8 Qg5+ 28. Kh1 Be5 29. b4 a5 30. Rb7+\nKc6 31. g8=Q Qxg8 32. Rb8+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSee Michael Stean’s Wikipedia entry  for more \nVideo Chess Event (See caption below) \nVideo Chess Caption \nIn 1983 at the height of his powers Michael left the chess work and became a tax accountant.  He is now a senior partner at RSM UK. \nMchael Stean\, tax accountant \nMichael Francis Stean \nSimple Chess by Michael Stean \nSicilian Najdorf by Michael Stean \nSimple Chess by Michael Stean
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200905
DTSTAMP:20200904T154337Z
CREATED:20190823T081958Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Stephen Gordon (04-ix-1986)
DESCRIPTION:We wish Stephen Gordon all the best on his birthday\, this day (September 4th) in 1986. \nStephen John Gordon was born on Thursday\, September 4th 1986 in Oldham\, Lancashire where he has lived since. \nHe attended The Blue Coat School in Oldham \nHe became a FIDE Master in 2004\, an International Master in 2006 and a Grandmaster in 2009. \nIn 2012 he shared first place with Gawain Jones in the British Championships in North Shields. \n2012 British Championships part crosstable \nAccording to Felice his peak FIDE rating was 2556 in September 2012 at the age of 26. \nCrosstable from the 2013 Budapest First Saturday GM Tournament \nStephen plays for 3Cs in the Manchester Chess League and for Wood Green in the London League and for 4NCL 3Cs in the Four Nations Chess League. \nStephen Gordon at the final 4NCL weekend in 2014. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nWith the White pieces Stephen almost always plays 1.d4 aiming for a Queen’s Gambit and other main lines. \nAs the second player\, Stephen plays the Sicilian Najdorf and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 94th”]\n[Site “Great Yarmouth”]\n[Date “2007.08.07”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Gordon\, Stephen J”]\n[Black “Rowson\, Jonathan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A57”]\n[WhiteElo “2487”]\n[BlackElo “2599”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “83”]\n[EventDate “2007.07.30”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 119 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.09.04”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.09.04”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,83\,18\,18\,18\,-14\,15\,36\,58\,50\,61\,35\,35\,29\,29\,32\,34\,30\,39\,25\,27\,43\,24\,26\,\n13\,12\,42\,35\,52\,39\,43\,25\,54\,26\,81\,27\,34\,40\,43\,43\,43\,36\,37\,21\,36\,73\,102\,104\,86\,\n63\,58\,75\,62\,52\,97\,51\,52\,52\,49\,59\,71\,41\,56\,32\,50\,17\,3\,0\,103\,83\,101\,101\,273\,299\,\n522\,362\,411\,454\,454\,480\,480\,526\,29969\,29972\,29993\,29994]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3.\nd5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. b6 d6 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. e4 Nxb6 8. a4 g6 9. a5 Nbd7 10. f4 Bg7\n11. Nf3 O-O 12. Bc4 Ne8 13. O-O Nc7 14. Qd3 Rb8 15. Re1 Rb4 16. b3 Nb5 17. Bd2\nNxc3 18. Bxc3 Bxc3 19. Qxc3 Nf6 20. Ra2 Bb7 21. Re3 Nh5 22. Ne1 Nxf4 23. Nc2\nRxc4 24. bxc4 e5 25. Ne1 Bc8 26. Rf2 Nh5 27. g3 f5 28. exf5 gxf5 29. Ng2 Qg5\n30. Kh1 Nf6 31. Rf1 Kh8 32. Ref3 Rg8 33. Nh4 f4 34. gxf4 Qxh4 35. fxe5 Ne4 36.\nQb2 Bf5 37. e6+ Rg7 38. Qb8+ Rg8 39. Qb2+ Rg7 40. e7 Ng3+ 41. Rxg3 Be4+ 42. Kg1\n1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Stephen J. Gordon (born 4 September 1986) is an English chess grandmaster. \nIn September 2004 he took a break from his A-level studies at The Blue Coat School\, Oldham to compete in the thirteenth Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International. \nIn 2005\, while still a FIDE Master\, he finished 6th in the British Championships ahead of a Grandmaster and several International Masters. \nAt the EU Individual Open Chess Championship held at Liverpool in 2006\, he led the tournament after eight rounds and finished a very creditable (joint) second\, a half point behind winner Nigel Short and level with Luke McShane among others. \nProbably his best result to date however\, was second place in the 2007 British Championship\, narrowly losing his share of the lead in the final round. In previous rounds\, he defeated both tournament victor Jacob Aagaard and previous champion Jonathan Rowson. \nBy 2008\, his rating had reached grandmaster level\, although the title itself had not yet been secured. At the British Championship in Liverpool\, he almost repeated his performance of the previous year\, by taking a share of third place. He was the British under-21 Champion each consecutive year between 2005 and 2008. He became a grandmaster on 1 August 2009. \nHe has been one of the co-presenters of the chess podcast The Full English Breakfast since its inaugural show in October 2010.” \nStephen Gordon at The Plough Public House in 2014 for the annual Drunken Knights vs Wood Green London League match. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nFor more see Wiki Entry for Stephen Gordon \nGM Stephen Gordon\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-stephen-john-gordon/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200905
DTSTAMP:20200904T082751Z
CREATED:20200410T213141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200904T082751Z
UID:4381-1599177600-1599263999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Joseph McPhillips (04-ix-1997)
DESCRIPTION:BCN says Happy Birthday to IM Joseph McPhillips (04-ix-1997) \nJoe became a FIDE Master in 2015 and an International Master in 2018. \nHis peak FIDE rating is 2434 as at August 2019 and we predict it will increase. \nFIDE rating profile of IM Joseph McPhillips \nIn Joseph won outright the Kecskemet IM Tournament : \nKecskemet 2015 IM Tournament \nIn 2016 Joseph won the Delancey UK Chess Challenge Terafinal to become a “Strat”* for the first time. \n*Only Mike Basman knows what this means! \nIM Joseph McPhillips\, UKCC Terafinal 2016 Winner\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \nJoseph plays for Bolton and for Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League. \nJoseph won outright the Budapest First Sunday IM tournament in 2018 : \nCrosstable for Budapest First Sunday IM 2018 \nWith the white pieces Joseph prefers a main line Ruy Lopez and the Open Sicilian and he has recently started dabbling with 1.d4 \nAs the second player Joseph employs the Classical French and the Queen’s Indian Defences. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Shropshire op”]\n[Site “Telford”]\n[Date “2020.01.05”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “McPhillips\, Joseph”]\n[Black “Ghasi\, Ameet K”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A48”]\n[WhiteElo “2434”]\n[BlackElo “2497”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “89”]\n[EventDate “2020.01.03”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Mega2020 Update 12”]\n[Source “Chessbase”]\n[SourceDate “2020.01.09”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2020.01.09”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,89\,19\,27\,5\,9\,-2\,-2\,1\,-1\,1\,-8\,6\,-3\,68\,56\,53\,34\,64\,-5\,24\,34\,22\,11\,0\,4\,2\,\n0\,6\,-4\,-6\,-6\,48\,1\,8\,-25\,55\,45\,101\,85\,93\,87\,95\,112\,141\,131\,157\,155\,143\,149\,145\,\n128\,136\,108\,122\,124\,95\,99\,127\,127\,123\,124\,143\,165\,147\,156\,191\,212\,211\,210\,275\,\n210\,225\,241\,263\,270\,372\,257\,257\,226\,281\,331\,349\,247\,366\,364\,595\,590\,774\,817\,\n911\,1031]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 g6 3. Bb2 Bg7 4. e3 O-O 5. Be2 d6 6. d4 Nfd7 7. O-O\nNc6 8. c4 e5 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. Nc3 $11 e4 (10… Re8) 11. Nd4 Nxd4 12. exd4 Re8\n13. d5 $6 (13. Re1) 13… Qh4 14. Qc2 a6 15. Rfe1 Nf6 16. g3 Qg5 17. Qc1 Qf5\n18. Nd1 $1 $14 {[#]} Ng4 $2 (18… Nd7 $142) 19. Bxg4 Qxg4 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21.\nQc3+ Kg8 22. f3 $1 $18 Qf5 23. Nf2 (23. Rxe4 Rxe4 24. fxe4 Qxe4 $2 25. Nf2 Qe8\n26. Re1 $18) 23… Qe5 24. Qxe5 Rxe5 25. Nd3 Re7 26. fxe4 Bg4 27. Kf2 Rae8 28.\ne5 b6 29. b4 Bf5 30. d6 cxd6 31. exd6 Rxe1 32. Nxe1 Kg7 33. c5 bxc5 34. bxc5\nKf6 35. Nf3 Rc8 36. Rc1 Bd7 37. Ke3 Rb8 38. Kd4 Rb4+ 39. Rc4 Rb1 40. c6 Be6 41.\nc7 (41. Rc3) 41… Bc8 (41… Rb6) 42. Kc5 Rb5+ 43. Kc6 Bb7+ 44. Kd7 Bd5 45.\nRf4+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM Joseph McPhillips\, UKCC Terafinal 2014\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-joseph-mcphillips-04-xi-1997/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200905
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200906
DTSTAMP:20200905T111548Z
CREATED:20200408T110419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200905T111548Z
UID:4173-1599264000-1599350399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Sam Collins (05-ix-1982)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Sam Collins (05-ix-1982) \nSamuel E Collins was born on Sunday\, September 5th\, 1982 in Dublin\, Republic of Ireland. \nHe attended  Gonzaga College\, Ranelagh\, Dublin (founded in 1950) and famously very active at chess. \nSam became a FIDE Master in 2003 and an International Master in 2004 and holds two GM norms. \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2495 in August 2014 at the age of 32. \nAccording to chessgames.com : \n“Collins won the Irish Championship twice\, in 2002 and 2014\, and the Japanese Championship in 2009.” \nAccording to The Tarrasch Defence\, move by move : \n“Sam Collins is an International Master with two Grandmaster norms\, and a former Irish and Japanese Champion\, He has represented Ireland at seven Olympiads\, winning an individual gold medal at Bled 2002. He has a wealth of teaching and writing experience\, and has produced many books\, DVDs and magazine articles on chess.” \nAccording to An Opening Repertoire for White : \n“Sam Collins is a chess writer who regularly contributes to Chess\, British Chess Magazine\, Chess Mail and Chess Today. He is a former Irish Champion and Olympic gold medal winner.” \nCrosstable for Dublin City\, 2007 \nCrosstable from Budapest First Saturday GM Tournament 2008 \nThe Irish Mail on Sunday\, February 8th 2015 \nWith the white pieces Sam essays 1.e4 and prefers a main line Ruy Lopez when possible along with open Sicilians. \nAs the second players Sam enjoys the black side of a main line Ruy Lopez and main line Slavs. \nFirstly an aperitif : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op 85th”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2009.12.30”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Collins\, Sam E”]\n[Black “Spanton\, Timothy”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C67”]\n[WhiteElo “2431”]\n[BlackElo “2026”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “25”]\n[EventDate “2009.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 134 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2010.03.03”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2010.03.03”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,25\,31\,31\,26\,13\,20\,14\,13\,13\,45\,28\,28\,45\,4\,26\,26\,7\,32\,33\,253\,264\,492\,\n474\,494\,505\,29997\,29998]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6\n6. Nxe5 Nxe5 7. Rxe5+ Be7 8. Nc3 Nxb5 9. Nd5 O-O 10. Nxe7+ Kh8 11. Qh5 g6 12.\nQh6 Re8 13. Rh5 1-0[/pgn] \nand then the main course : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Monarch Assurance 08th”]\n[Site “Port Erin”]\n[Date “1999.11.11”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Ellison\, Derek George”]\n[Black “Collins\, Sam E”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B22”]\n[WhiteElo “2100”]\n[BlackElo “2097”]\n[Annotator “Hecht\,H”]\n[PlyCount “138”]\n[EventDate “1999.11.06”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “IOM”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 074”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.02.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.02.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,138\,19\,38\,40\,6\,54\,53\,60\,60\,70\,64\,93\,51\,61\,44\,46\,54\,46\,57\,50\,27\,30\,24\,\n24\,-1\,-1\,-18\,29\,-15\,-4\,-4\,-5\,0\,-29\,-38\,-28\,-6\,-16\,-17\,-5\,-5\,53\,3\,13\,-15\,2\,-9\,\n-5\,0\,8\,8\,0\,-4\,-4\,-16\,-25\,-26\,-25\,-96\,-89\,-88\,-82\,-91\,-105\,-87\,-87\,-102\,-123\,\n-127\,-89\,-88\,-91\,-119\,-102\,-143\,-97\,-174\,-166\,-261\,-164\,-182\,-162\,-166\,-156\,\n-176\,-202\,-218\,-158\,-154\,-156\,-170\,-146\,-165\,-156\,-161\,-158\,-167\,-155\,-180\,\n-174\,-189\,-135\,-127\,-129\,-131\,-134\,-100\,-98\,-105\,-94\,-101\,-109\,-120\,-118\,-128\,\n-129\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-822\,-972\,-982\,-982\,-982\,-1002\,-1012\,-1012\,-1012\,-1012\,\n-1022\,-1022\,-1032\,-1032\,-29977\,-29978]} 1. e4 c5 2. c3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bc4 Qc7\n5. O-O d6 6. Ng5 Nd8 7. f4 h6 8. Nf3 exf4 9. d4 cxd4 10. Qxd4 Be6 11. Bb5+ Bd7\n12. Bxd7+ Qxd7 13. Bxf4 Ne6 14. Qd2 Nf6 15. e5 Ne4 16. Qd5 Qc6 17. Qxc6+ bxc6\n18. Be3 d5 19. Nbd2 Nxd2 20. Nxd2 g6 21. b4 Bg7 22. Bd4 O-O 23. Nb3 Rfe8 24.\nNa5 Nd8 25. Rae1 a6 26. Re3 Rc8 27. Rfe1 Bf8 28. Nb3 Ne6 29. Kf2 a5 30. a3 a4\n31. Nd2 c5 32. bxc5 Nxc5 33. Kf3 Ne6 34. Ra1 Rb8 35. Ra2 h5 36. Re1 Bh6 37. Be3\nBg7 38. Bd4 f6 39. Kf2 Nxd4 40. cxd4 fxe5 41. dxe5 Rxe5 42. Rc1 Rf5+ 43. Nf3\nRb2+ 44. Rxb2 Bxb2 45. Rc8+ Rf8 46. Rc6 Rf6 47. Rc8+ Kg7 48. Ra8 Rf4 49. Ra5\nBxa3 50. Rxd5 Bf8 51. Ke3 Rf5 52. Rxf5 gxf5 53. Kd3 a3 54. Kc2 Bd6 55. Kb3 Kf6\n56. Nd2 Ke6 57. Nc4 Kd5 58. Nxd6 Kxd6 {[#] Thema: Abgedrängter weißer König\nmit einer teuflischen Pointe. Der weiße Fehler ist bei Zug 62 zu finden.} 59.\nKxa3 Kc5 60. Kb2 Kd4 61. Kc2 Ke3 62. Kd1 $4 {[%mdl 12288]} ({Die Zugumstellung\n} 62. g3 $1 Kf3 63. Kd3 Kg2 64. Ke3 $1 Kh3 65. Kf3 Kxh2 66. Kf2 $11 {läßt den\nweißen König das Feld e3 erreichen\, das er im Text nicht bekommt.}) 62… Kf2\n63. g3 Kg2 64. Ke2 h4 $3 (64… Kxh2 65. Kf2 Kh1 66. Kf1 $11) 65. Ke3 hxg3 66.\nhxg3 Kxg3 67. Ke2 f4 68. Kf1 Kf3 69. Kg1 Ke2 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nIM Sam Collins at the fourth 4NCL weekend in 2012 \nHere is Sam talking about his Alapin Sicilian DVD from GingerGM \nAn attacking repertoire for White by Sam Collins\, Batsford\, 2005. \nChess explained: The c3 Sicilian by Sam Collins\, Gambit Publications\, 2007. \nThe French Advance \nThe King’s Indian Defence\, move by move \nKarpov\, move by move \nUnderstanding the Chess Openings \nA Simple Chess Opening Repertoire for White \nKnow the Terrain Vol. 6 \nGambit Busters\, 2002 \nThe Greatest Ever Chess Strategies
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-sam-e-collins-05-ix-1982/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200905
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200906
DTSTAMP:20200905T132216Z
CREATED:20200408T185401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200905T132216Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Lorin D'Costa (05-ix-1984)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Lorin D’Costa (05-ix-1984) \nLorin Alexander P D’Costa was born on Wednesday\, September 5th 1984. “What’s Love Got To Do With It” by Tina Turner was number one in the UK singles chart. His mother’s maiden name was Antheunis. \nAccording to Wikipedia : “Lorin is a masculine given name. The meaning of Lorin derives from a bay or laurel plant; of Laurentum (wreathed/crowned with laurel). Laurentum\, in turn is from laurus (laurel)\, from the place of laurel trees\, laurel branch\, laurel wreath. Laurentum was also a city in ancient Italy.” \nLorin was born in Lambeth\, London and became a FIDE Master in 2004 and an International Master in 2008. \nHis first ever BCF/ECF grading was 36D in July 1994 aged 10 but his grading very quickly improved : \nBCF/ECF Grading Profile \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2485 in April 2009. \nLorin’s FIDE Rating Profile \nLorin has the unique distinction of gaining the title of “Strat” four times for winning the UK Chess Challenge Terafinal in 2000\, 2001\, 2002 and 2003. Only four other players have won the title more than once : Peter Poobalasingam\, Félix José Ynojosa Aponte\, Marcus Harvey and Koby Kalavannan. \nLorin plays for Hendon in the London League and 4NCL Barbican in the Four Nations Chess League. \nIM Lorin D’Costa at the 2017 Michael Uriely Memorial Tournament \nLorin was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2008-09 season. \nLorin became a Director of Lorinchess Ltd in March 2020 and currently resides in Wembley\, Middlesex. \nWith the white pieces Lorin prefers the Queen’s Gambit but does also play 1.e4\, 1.c4 and 1.Nf3 so a fairly wide repertoire. \nAs the second player Lorin prefers the Sicilian Kan and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \nHere is a convincing win against Ian Nepomniachtchi from Budva\, 2009 : \n[pgn]\n[Event “EU-ch 10th”]\n[Site “Budva”]\n[Date “2009.03.10”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “D’Costa\, Lorin AR”]\n[Black “Nepomniachtchi\, Ian”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A57”]\n[WhiteElo “2445”]\n[BlackElo “2628”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “109”]\n[EventDate “2009.03.06”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “MNE”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 130”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2009.05.20”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2009.05.20”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,109\,31\,16\,30\,-32\,36\,33\,72\,46\,91\,98\,94\,34\,36\,47\,84\,62\,62\,54\,62\,39\,47\,\n46\,40\,45\,38\,7\,0\,17\,27\,-28\,51\,34\,43\,40\,41\,26\,39\,10\,7\,7\,48\,84\,36\,83\,111\,133\,143\,\n144\,144\,138\,105\,90\,181\,118\,113\,153\,205\,207\,206\,222\,187\,151\,181\,122\,130\,109\,145\,\n167\,154\,138\,152\,139\,138\,141\,193\,157\,204\,210\,224\,219\,259\,279\,274\,272\,300\,292\,\n319\,319\,299\,387\,402\,312\,312\,312\,312\,303\,303\,339\,366\,398\,413\,407\,399\,415\,424\,\n440\,444\,454\,884\,1005]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Nf3 g6 5. cxb5 a6 6. b6\nd6 7. Nc3 Nfd7 8. e4 Bg7 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Nxb6 11. a4 a5 12. Bf4 Na6 13. h3\nNb4 14. Bb5 Bd7 15. Qe2 Bxb5 16. axb5 a4 17. Rfd1 Qd7 18. e5 Qf5 19. Bg3 Rfd8\n20. Ne4 dxe5 21. d6 exd6 22. Nxd6 Qd7 {[#]} 23. Nxe5 $1 Qe7 24. Ndxf7 Rd5 25.\nRxd5 N4xd5 26. Qd2 Qf8 27. Ng5 Qe8 28. Nc6 a3 29. Rxa3 Rxa3 30. bxa3 c4 31. Nf3\nQe4 32. Qe1 Qxe1+ 33. Nxe1 Na4 34. Nc2 Ndc3 35. N6d4 Bf8 36. Kf1 Bc5 37. f3 Nb1\n38. Be1 c3 39. Ke2 Kf7 40. Kd3 Nb2+ 41. Ke4 Na4 42. Kd5 Bxa3 43. Ne2 Be7 44.\nKc6 Bd8 45. Bf2 Nb2 46. b6 Nc4 47. Kb5 Nd6+ 48. Ka6 Ke6 49. Bd4 Nd2 50. Nxc3 h5\n51. b7 Bc7 52. Nb5 Nxb5 53. Kxb5 Bb8 54. Nb4 g5 55. Nc6 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM Lorin D’Costa at the 2013 King’s Place Rapidplay\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \nIn 2012 Lorin and Nick Murphy created Chess on Toast  and published a series of introductory DVDs including : \nChess On Toast \nLorin has published several chess books including : \nWho Dares Wins!\, Everyman\, 2010 \nThe Sicilian Scheveningen\, Move by Move\, Everyman\, 2012 \nThe Panov-Botvinnik Attack\, Move by Move\, Everyman\, 2013 \nThe Queen’s Indian\, Move by Move\, Everyman\, 2016 \nand several Chessbase DVDs including : \nThe Giuoco Piano\, Chessbase\,  2013 \nFritz Trainer : A Repertoire Against the Sicilian\, 2015 \nIM Lorin D’Costa at GM Matthew Sadler at the 2017 Michael Uriely Memorial Tournament\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-lorin-ar-dcosta-05-ix-1984/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200909
DTSTAMP:20200905T153355Z
CREATED:20190823T082205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200905T153355Z
UID:1040-1599523200-1599609599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Yang-Fan Zhou (08-ix-1994)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM Yang-Fan Zhou on his birthday. \nYang-Fan George Zhou was born on Thursday\, September 8th\, 1994 in Wandsworth\, London. His mother’s maiden name was Yang. “Parklife” by Blur was number one in the UK Singles chart. \nHe attended Whitgift School\, Croydon (founded by John Whitgift in 1596) and then Churchill College\, The University of Cambridge. \nHere is an article from the Guardian which included\n“The Whitgift 13-year-old recently won the Coulsdon Premier with 8.5/9\, gaining nearly 100 world rating points which will make him England’s highest ranked under-18 after Howell in the July FIDE list.” \nHe became a FIDE Master in 2009 and an International Master in 2011. \nYang-Fan claimed the title of UK Chess Challenge “Strat” in 2011 for winning the Terafinal outright. \nIM Yang-Fan Zhou at a Wellington College Training Event in 2014\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \nHe scored 9/9 in the 2011 e2e4 Brighton Masters Closed tournament\, including beating the two grandmasters (Keith Arkell and Alexander Cherniaev) in the tournament. \nIn 2012 he won the Hong Kong International Open \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2486 in October 2013 at the age of 19. \nFIDE Rating Profile of IM Yang-Fan Zhou \nIn 2014 Yang-Fan Zhou represented Cambridge in the annual Varsity match (the 132nd) and played on top board drawing with David Zakarian. \nYang-Fan Zhou plays board one in the 2014 Varsity Match\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chTc 1112 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2012.04.01”]\n[Round “8.21”]\n[White “Zhou\, Yang-Fan”]\n[Black “Williams\, Simon Kim”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B54”]\n[WhiteElo “2438”]\n[BlackElo “2506”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “45”]\n[EventDate “2011.11.12”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2013”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2012.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2012.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Guildford”]\n[BlackTeam “Jutes of Kent”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,45\,31\,31\,49\,49\,52\,32\,34\,39\,97\,77\,83\,74\,80\,68\,68\,58\,105\,86\,93\,98\,79\,\n100\,160\,22\,59\,20\,25\,25\,25\,47\,308\,377\,384\,393\,401\,401\,401\,445\,455\,455\,442\,460\,\n460\,478\,481\,489]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 d6 5. Nc3 a6 6. g4 b5\n7. Bg2 Bb7 8. O-O g5 $6 $146 (8… Nd7 9. g5 (9. a4 b4 10. Na2 Ngf6) 9… Ne7\n10. f4) 9. a4 $16 b4 10. Na2 h6 (10… a5 11. c3 $1 $16) 11. Nxb4 d5 {[#]} 12.\nexd5 (12. Nxd5 $1 exd5 13. exd5 $18) 12… Bxb4 13. Nc6 Bxc6 14. dxc6 Qxd1 15.\nRxd1 {[#]} Ra7 $2 (15… Ne7 16. c7 Nbc6 17. c3 Ba5 18. Rd6 $16) 16. Be3 $18\nRc7 17. Bb6 Rc8 18. c7 Nd7 19. Bc6 Ngf6 20. Rxd7 $1 Nxd7 21. Rd1 Ke7 22. Rxd7+\nKf6 23. Bb7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand this article from Leonard Barden \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Classic op 4th”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “2012.12.04”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Zhou\, Yang-Fan”]\n[Black “Gundavaa\, Bayarsaihan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B36”]\n[WhiteElo “2419”]\n[BlackElo “2530”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “2012.12.01”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 151 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2012.12.18”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2012.12.18”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,55\,19\,31\,72\,53\,111\,102\,131\,87\,66\,11\,40\,33\,38\,36\,11\,13\,10\,-2\,9\,-3\,43\,\n46\,66\,47\,74\,46\,22\,52\,34\,36\,43\,60\,39\,56\,56\,68\,74\,56\,54\,73\,71\,101\,105\,89\,85\,123\,\n126\,124\,251\,226\,272\,158\,199\,167\,553\,553]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4\nNc6 5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Be2 Nxd4 8. Qxd4 Bg7 9. Be3 O-O 10. Qd2 a5 11. Rd1\nBe6 12. O-O a4 13. f4 Qa5 14. Bd4 Rfc8 15. b3 axb3 16. axb3 Re8 17. Qe3 Ng4 18.\nBxg4 Bxg4 19. Rd3 Bxd4 20. Qxd4 Bd7 21. Nd5 Bc6 22. b4 Qd8 $6 (22… Qa4 $142)\n23. f5 $18 Bxd5 24. exd5 Ra4 $2 (24… f6 $142) 25. Rh3 Rf8 26. Qh4 (26. Qf4\n$142) 26… h5 27. Qg5 e5 28. f6 $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM Yang-Fan Zhou at the Big Slick Tournament\, June 2013. Courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-yang-fan-zhou/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200910
DTSTAMP:20260816T134314Z
CREATED:20200411T184638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260816T134314Z
UID:4494-1599609600-1599695999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Graham A Waddingham (09-ix-1965)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Graham A Waddingham (09-ix-1965)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-graham-a-waddingham-09-ix-1965/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200912
DTSTAMP:20200909T173222Z
CREATED:20200408T104440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T173222Z
UID:4165-1599782400-1599868799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM William Claridge-Hansen  (11-ix-1999)
DESCRIPTION:We wish FM William Claridge-Hansen all the best on his birthday. \nWilliam Joseph Claridge-Hansen was born on Saturday\, September 11th in 1999 in Chesham in the registration district of Chiltern\, Buckinghamshire. \n“Mambo No 5 (A Little Bit of …)” by Lou Bega was top of the UK singles chart. \nWilliam learnt chess at the age of 5 and his father Hans-Peter\, is a strong county player having been over 200ECF for a number of years. \nWilliam is a keen table-tennis player as is his chess playing brother\, Douglas. \nWhilst living in Chartridge William attended Great Missenden Church of England School and whilst there was selected for England : \nWilliam Claridge-Hansen. Source : Bucks Free Press \nWilliam attends The University of Exeter and resides in London. \nWilliam plays for Exeter University\, Buckinghamshire CCA and 4NCL Oxfordshire and has a current ECF grading for 230B and a FIDE rating of 2290 for standard play. \nHis first BCF / ECF grading was 63D in July 2008 aged 8. \nWilliam Claridge-Hansen\, Southern Gigafinal\, 2012\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \nHis first title was to win the West of England Junior (U12 Challengers) in 2008 with 5.5/6 and followed by sharing the British U8 title with Mark Kenyon & Rohan Shiatis. In the following year William shared the British U10 title with future IM Matthew Wadsworth \nHe was rapidly recruited to the AMCA (Andrew Martin Chess Academy) 4NCL squad and quickly climbed the board order within the squad. The AMCA squad morphed into the BCM (British Chess Magazine) squad. \nFIDE rating profile for FM William Claridge-Hansen \nIn 2013 William won (with 6/7) the British U-13 Championship in Torquay. \nIn 2015 William became a FIDE Master. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Coulsdon Jessie Gilbert 10th”]\n[Site “Coulsdon”]\n[Date “2017.08.24”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Claridge Hansen\, William”]\n[Black “Wall\, Gavin”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A21”]\n[WhiteElo “2273”]\n[BlackElo “2329”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “57”]\n[EventDate “2017.08.21”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 180 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.06”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.06”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,57\,19\,-12\,31\,26\,23\,-10\,32\,14\,19\,12\,6\,-47\,-33\,-23\,-5\,-6\,-17\,1\,1\,-7\,8\,9\,\n66\,34\,29\,60\,58\,57\,31\,62\,65\,49\,35\,8\,43\,39\,77\,87\,138\,101\,138\,138\,151\,147\,245\,245\,\n251\,251\,223\,242\,225\,225\,225\,246\,251\,293\,276\,274]} 1. c4 f5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d6\n4. Nc3 e5 5. d3 Be7 6. e4 fxe4 7. dxe4 O-O 8. Nge2 c6 9. O-O Be6 10. b3 Qd7 (\n10… a6) 11. f4 exf4 {[#]} 12. gxf4 $1 $146 (12. Nxf4 {is also fine}) 12…\nBh3 13. f5 (13. Ba3) 13… Bxg2 14. Kxg2 Na6 15. Nd4 Nc7 16. Qf3 Qe8 17. Ba3\nNd7 18. Rad1 Ne5 19. Qg3 Rf6 $6 20. Nf3 $16 Nf7 21. c5 $1 {[%cal Gg3c7]} Rd8\n22. cxd6 Bxd6 23. e5 $1 Bxe5 24. Rxd8 Bxg3 25. Rxe8+ Nxe8 26. hxg3 $18 Rxf5 27.\ng4 Rf4 28. Kg3 g5 29. Bc1 {and Black resigned} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn 2016 William was British U-18 Champion and now had an ECF grading of 220. He scored 7/11 in the British Championship. \nBy now William was playing for Oxford in the Four Nations Chess League. \nWith the white pieces William plays the English Opening with an early king side fianchetto. \nAs the second player William plays the Hyper Accelerated Dragon and the Queen’s Indian Defence so clearly a student of the Hypermodern School of the 1920s!  \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 103rd”]\n[Site “Bournemouth”]\n[Date “2016.07.29”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Claridge-Hansen\, William”]\n[Black “Oyama\, Akito”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A36”]\n[WhiteElo “2299”]\n[BlackElo “2183”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “2016.07.25”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 173 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2016.08.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2016.08.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,87\,20\,-27\,12\,25\,11\,18\,0\,14\,3\,3\,46\,6\,-35\,-57\,-16\,-52\,-28\,-20\,-26\,-72\,1\,\n12\,69\,57\,57\,73\,80\,64\,92\,111\,116\,69\,79\,81\,174\,154\,149\,101\,124\,84\,144\,149\,162\,\n159\,158\,166\,158\,165\,164\,164\,98\,123\,227\,221\,276\,274\,263\,204\,230\,210\,247\,252\,234\,\n253\,268\,100\,155\,44\,54\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,611\,612\,607\,607\,603\,603\,29993\,29994\,29995\,\n29996\,29997\,29998]} 1. c4 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. a3 e6 6. Rb1\nNge7 7. b4 d6 8. e3 cxb4 9. axb4 d5 10. c5 e5 11. b5 Nb8 $6 (11… Na5 $142)\n12. d4 Bf5 13. Ra1 e4 14. Qb3 Be6 15. Nge2 O-O 16. Ra3 Nd7 17. Nf4 g5 $2 18.\nNxe6 fxe6 19. Bh3 (19. Nxe4 $142 dxe4 20. Qxe6+ Kh8 21. Qxe4 $18) 19… Rf6 20.\nQa2 Rh6 21. Bg4 Qc8 22. Bd2 a6 23. Be2 Nb8 24. Ra5 Qd8 25. Na4 e5 $6 (25… Nd7\n$142) 26. dxe5 (26. Nb6 Ra7 27. dxe5 Kh8 28. Bg4 $18) 26… Bxe5 27. Nb6 Ra7\n28. Nxd5 Nxd5 29. b6 Ra8 30. Bc4 Kg7 31. Bxd5 Nc6 32. Ra4 Qe7 33. Rxe4 Qxc5 34.\nBxc6 (34. Qc4 $142) 34… Qxc6 35. Rxe5 $5 Qxh1+ 36. Ke2 Rf6 37. Rxg5+ Kh6 38.\nRf5 $11 Rxf5 $2 (38… Raf8 $142 $11) 39. Qe6+ $18 Kg7 40. Bc3+ Kf8 41. Qxf5+\nKe7 42. Bb4+ Kd8 43. Qf8+ Kd7 44. Qd6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFM William Claridge-Hansen\, British Championships 2019\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-william-claridge-hansen-11-ix-1999/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200913
DTSTAMP:20200911T104643Z
CREATED:20190911T095612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T104643Z
UID:1321-1599868800-1599955199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of WGM Anya Sun Corke (12-ix-1990)
DESCRIPTION:We wish happy birthday to WGM Anya Sun Corke on her birthday. \nAnya Sun Corke was born in California\, USA on Wednesday\, September 12th 1990. \nIn 2013\, Anya graduated from Wellesley College summa cum laude with a B.A. in Russian and Philosophy \nShe became a woman’s Grandmaster in 2004.  \nHe peak FIDE rating (according to Felice) was 2301 in October 2008. \nFIDE rating profile of WGM Anya Sun Corke \nWith the white pieces Anya played the Queen’s Gambit and Trompowski Attack \nAs the second player Anya played the Sicilian Kan\, French Rozentalis (3…Nc6) and the Grünfeld Defence. \nAnya won outright the 2007 Budapest First Saturday FM tournament : \nBudapest First Saturday FM Tournament\, 2007 \nShe gave up competitive chess in 2014. \nAn almost miniature from the 2006 British Championship : \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 93rd”]\n[Site “Swansea”]\n[Date “2006.08.10”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Corke\, Anya Sun”]\n[Black “Shaw\, Peter”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[WhiteElo “2179”]\n[BlackElo “2122”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “37”]\n[EventDate “2006.08.07”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “WLS”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 113 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2006.09.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2006.09.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,37\,30\,27\,44\,50\,58\,62\,48\,67\,63\,48\,53\,71\,71\,87\,81\,14\,162\,182\,263\,62\,87\,\n120\,203\,131\,158\,141\,332\,313\,447\,409\,457\,459\,453\,485\,490\,488\,687\,733]} 1. d4 e6\n2. e4 b6 3. Bd3 Bb7 4. Nf3 c5 5. d5 $1 exd5 6. exd5 Bxd5 7. Nc3 Bb7 $6 (7…\nBe6) 8. Bc4 $1 $16 {[#]} Nc6 9. O-O Nge7 $2 {[%csl Gd6] The weakness of the d6\nsquare decides.} (9… d5 10. Nxd5 Be7 $16) 10. Qd6 ({Crushing is} 10. Re1 $18\n{and Black can resign with dignity}) 10… Na5 11. Nb5 Rc8 12. Qf4 (12. Qxc5 $3\nRxc5 (12… bxc5 13. Nd6#) 13. Nd6#) 12… Nxc4 13. Ne5 Nf5 14. Nxc4 Bd5 15.\nRe1+ Be7 16. Qxf5 Bxc4 17. Nd6+ Kf8 18. Nxc4 Rc6 19. Ne5 {and Black threw in\nthe towel.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Anya Sun Corke (born 12 September 1990 in California\, USA) is an English chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for Hong Kong\, where she was the top ranked chess player\, until 2009.[1] \nCorke earned the WGM title with her performance in the 36th Chess Olympiad\, playing for the Hong Kong men’s team.[2][3] \nShe was the 2004\, 2005\, 2006 and 2008 Hong Kong National Champion (for men and women)\, one of the youngest national champions ever at the age of 13 years and 9 months. \nShe was the British Junior Under-11 Champion in 2002[4] and the Under-12 Champion in 2003\,[5] the first girl to win either of these age groups. In 2004\, she became joint British U-14 Champion.[6] \nIn December 2004\, she won the Asian Youth Girls U-14 Championship in Singapore.[7] \nIn August 2005\, she jointly won with Alisa Melekhina and Abby Marshall the second annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls under-19.[8] \nCorke represented the England Women’s team at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul\, Turkey\,[9][10] and the 2013 European Team Championship in Warsaw\, Poland.[11] \nIn 2013\, she graduated from Wellesley College summa cum laude with a B.A. in Russian and Philosophy.[12][13] \nIn 2014\, she started a Ph.D. program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.” \nWGM Anya Sun Corke
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-anya-sun-corke/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200917
DTSTAMP:20210916T134921Z
CREATED:20200716T112733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T134921Z
UID:7452-1600214400-1600300799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of Frank Boyd (16-ix-1935)
DESCRIPTION:He was British Correspondence Champion in 1972 and awarded the IMC title in 1981. \nAccording to Kings Indian I Attacking Systems : \n“British Correspondence Champions  1971/72. Placed second in an ICCF master tourney 1973/76. A member of the British team in the 9th Olympiad 1977/80. Gained the IMC title in the European Team Championship 1978/81.” \nAccording to Chessbase Correspondence Database 2020 Frank achieved his highest (ICCF) rating in January 1991 of 2410. \nIncomplete crosstable from the European Championship\, 1973. \nAs White Frank would play the Queen’s Gambit via a 1.Nf3 move order. He did not play 1.e4 \nAs the second player he would defend the closed Ruy Lopez and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “9th corr Olympiad 1977-80”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1977.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Boyd\, Frank”]\n[Black “Karker\, Norbert”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A38”]\n[Annotator “Hugh Myers”]\n[PlyCount “101”]\n[EventDate “1977.??.??”]\n[EventType “team (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[SourceTitle “Hugh Myers”]\n[Source “Myers”]\n[SourceDate “2012.11.12”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2012.11.12”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%mdl 36912][%evp 0\,101\,29\,23\,29\,0\,30\,18\,86\,82\,69\,6\,26\,17\,14\,29\,32\,3\,-3\,40\,25\,\n10\,-5\,0\,19\,21\,-1\,0\,4\,4\,7\,8\,11\,11\,4\,10\,15\,15\,25\,18\,31\,17\,24\,29\,65\,31\,48\,54\,66\,\n66\,72\,89\,88\,84\,88\,89\,94\,91\,93\,89\,82\,64\,71\,78\,78\,80\,80\,91\,81\,78\,76\,73\,76\,79\,79\,\n76\,102\,98\,106\,229\,225\,286\,286\,252\,257\,321\,321\,315\,375\,435\,460\,533\,540\,545\,712\,\n997\,1058\,1101\,1203\,1209\,1201\,1270\,1299\,1491]} 1. Nf3 {Myers} Nf6 2. c4 c5 3.\nNc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. g3 g6 6. Bg2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. Nxd5 Qxd5 9. d3 Nc6 10.\nBe3 Bxb2 11. Rb1 Bf6 12. Qa4 Qd6 (12… Nb4 13. Nd2 (13. a3 Na2 14. Ng5 Nc3 15.\nBxd5 Nxa4 16. Ne4 Bd4 17. Bxb7 Bxb7 18. Rxb7 f5 19. Bxd4 fxe4 20. Be5 exd3 21.\nexd3 Rf7 22. Rc1 e6 23. Rxf7 Kxf7 24. Rc4 Nb6 25. Rxc5 Nd7 26. Rc7 Ke7 27. d4\na5 28. a4 Ra6 29. Rc8 Nb6 30. Rc6 Kd7 31. Rd6+ Kc7 32. Rxe6+ Kb7 33. Re7+ Kc6\n34. Rc7+ Kd5 35. Rc5+ Ke6 36. Rc6+ Kd5 37. Rf6 Kc4 38. Bc7 {1-0 Jansa\,V-Pribyl\,\nJ/Luhacovice 1973/}) (13. Rfc1 Bd7 14. Qd1 Qxa2 15. Bxc5 Nd5 16. d4 b6 17. Ra1\nQb2 18. Ba3 Qb5 19. e4 Nb4 20. Bf1 Qa5 21. Qb3 Nc6 22. Bxe7 Bxe7 23. Rxa5 Nxa5\n24. Qe3 Rfc8 25. Ba6 Rd8 26. Ne5 Be8 27. d5 Bc5 28. Rxc5 bxc5 29. Qc3 Rab8 30.\nQxa5 Rb1+ 31. Kg2 Rd6 32. Qc7 Rbb6 33. Nc4 {1-0 Williams\,A-Handoko\,E/La\nValetta 1980/}) 13… Bd7 14. Qa5 (14. Bxd5 Bxa4 15. Bxb7 Rab8 16. Bxc5 Rxb7\n17. Rxb4 Rxb4 18. Bxb4 Rc8 19. Nc4 Bd7 20. Rc1 e5 21. f3 Be6 22. Kf2 Bd8 23.\nBd2 Bb6+ 24. Be3 Bd4 25. f4 f6 26. fxe5 fxe5 27. Bxd4 exd4 28. Kf3 Rf8+ 29. Ke4\nRf2 30. Rc2 Rxh2 31. Kxd4 Rg2 32. Ne5 Rxg3 33. e4 h5 34. Rc6 h4 35. Rxe6 h3 36.\nRe8+ Kg7 37. Re7+ Kh6 38. Nf7+ Kh5 39. Re8 Rg2 40. Rh8+ Kg4 41. e5 h2 42. e6\nRe2 43. Rxh2 {1-0 Neverov\,V-Kristjansson\,S/Hastings ENG 2005/}) 14… Qxa2 15.\nQxc5 a5 16. Ne4 Bc6 17. Nxf6+ exf6 18. Bxc6 bxc6 19. Bh6 Rfe8 20. Qc3 Qe6 21.\ne4 Red8 22. Rfd1 Qe5 23. Qb3 Rd7 24. Rd2 Re8 25. Rbd1 Qh5 26. Be3 Qb5 27. Qc3\nRe6 28. g4 h5 29. h3 hxg4 30. hxg4 Qe5 31. Qc4 Re8 32. Qc1 Qe6 33. f3 Qd6 34.\nKg2 Rc8 35. Qc3 Kg7 36. g5 Rh8 37. f4 Qe6 38. f5 gxf5 39. Bd4 Rh5 40. Bxf6+ Kg6\n41. Rh1 fxe4 42. Rxh5 Qg4+ 43. Kf1 Qxh5 44. Qe5 Qf3+ 45. Kg1 Rxd3 46. Rxd3 Nxd3\n47. Qb8 Qf2+ 48. Kh1 Qh4+ 49. Kg1 Qg4+ 50. Kh1 Qd1+ 51. Kh2 Qe2+ 52. Kg1 Qf2+\n53. Kh1 Qf1+ 54. Kh2 Qf4+ 55. Qxf4 Nxf4 {0-1 Bitansky\,I-Porat\,S/Tel Aviv ISR\n2002/}) (12… Qe6 13. Rfc1 Nd4 (13… b6 14. d4 Nxd4 15. Nxd4 cxd4 16. Bh6 Bd7\n17. Qa6 Bg7 18. Bxg7 Kxg7 19. Bxa8 Rxa8 20. Qb7 Rd8 21. Qxa7 Qxe2 22. Qxb6 Bh3\n23. Qb3 Be6 24. Qa3 Qxa2 25. Qxe7 Rc8 26. Qg5 Rxc1+ 27. Rxc1 Qe2 28. Qf4 d3 29.\nQd4+ Kh6 30. Qh4+ Kg7 {1/2-1/2 Klatt\,O-Waschk\,A/corr DDR 1987/}) 14. Kf1 Bd7\n15. Qc4 Bc6 16. Bxd4 cxd4 17. Qxe6 fxe6 18. Nd2 Bg5 19. f4 e5 20. Bxc6 bxc6 21.\nNf3 Bf6 22. fxe5 Bxe5 23. Rxc6 Bf6 24. Ra6 h5 25. h4 Rac8 26. Rxa7 Rc2 27. Ke1\nRfc8 28. Kd1 Kf8 29. Ra5 Bg7 30. Nd2 Bh6 31. Nc4 Rc3 32. Rd5 Be3 33. Nxe3 dxe3\n34. Re5 Rc2 35. Ra1 Rd2+ {1/2-1/2 Clemens\,C-Kestler\,H/Bad Pyrmont 1961/}) (\n12… Qd7 13. Bxc5 (13. Rfc1 b6 14. Ng5 Bb7 15. Ne4 Bd4 16. Nxc5 Bxc5 17. d4\nBxd4 18. Bxc6 Bxc6 19. Rxc6 Bf6 20. Rd1 Qb7 21. Rdc1 Be5 22. Qe4 Bf6 23. Qa4 h5\n24. Rc7 Qd5 25. Rxa7 b5 26. Qb3 Qxb3 27. axb3 b4 {0-1 Perez Fungueiro\,M-Moreno\nCarnero\,J/Spain 1998/}) 13… Nd4 (13… b6 14. Nd2 Bb7 15. Ne4 Bg7 16. d4 Rfd8\n17. Rfd1 Nxd4 18. Qxd7 Rxd7 19. Bxd4 Rxd4 20. Rxd4 Bxd4 21. Rd1 Bg7 22. Rd7 Bc6\n23. Rc7 Bd5 24. Rxe7 Kf8 25. Rc7 Be5 26. Rc2 Rb8 27. Nf6 Be6 28. Nxh7+ Kg7 29.\nNg5 Bf5 30. e4 Bd7 31. Nf3 Bf6 32. e5 Be7 33. Nd4 Bc5 34. Nb3 Bf5 35. Rd2 Bb4\n36. Rd4 Bc3 37. Ra4 a5 38. Nd4 b5 39. Nxf5+ gxf5 40. Ra3 b4 41. Ra4 Rd8 42. e6\nRd1+ 43. Bf1 fxe6 44. Rxa5 Kf6 45. Ra4 Rb1 46. Ra8 Rb2 47. Bc4 Bd4 48. Ra6 Rxf2\n49. Rxe6+ Kg5 50. Kh1 f4 51. gxf4+ Kxf4 52. Re8 Rd2 53. Re2 Rd1+ 54. Kg2 Rg1+\n55. Kh3 Rg7 56. Bd3 Kf3 57. Re8 Ra7 58. Be2+ Kf4 59. Bc4 Rh7+ 60. Kg2 Rg7+ 61.\nKf1 Be3 62. Rg8 Rh7 63. Kg2 Ke4 64. Rg4+ Bf4 65. Bd3+ Kxd3 66. Rxf4 Rg7+ 67.\nKf2 Rh7 68. Kg3 Rg7+ 69. Kf2 Rh7 70. h4 Kc3 71. Rf3+ Kc2 72. Rf4 Rb7 73. Ke3\nKb1 74. Rf2 Ra7 75. h5 Rxa2 {1/2-1/2 Van Hoolandt\,P-Ezat\,M/Cairo EGY 2003/})\n14. Qd1 Nxf3+ (14… Ne6 15. Be3 Rb8 16. d4 Rd8 17. Qb3 b6 18. Qa3 Bb7 19. Qxa7\nBxf3 20. Qxd7 Rxd7 21. Bxf3 Nxd4 22. Bg4 Ra7 23. Rfd1 Nf5 24. Bxf5 gxf5 25. Rd2\nRba8 26. Rxb6 Rxa2 27. Rd5 Rxe2 28. Rxf5 Kg7 29. Rb4 Rea2 30. Rff4 Rb2 31. Rbe4\nRb5 32. Kg2 h6 33. Rf3 Rba5 34. Rg4+ Kh7 35. Rc4 Ra4 36. Rc7 Kg6 37. h4 Ra3 38.\nRb7 R8a5 39. Rb8 Ra8 {1/2-1/2 Tal\,M-Pytel\,K/Skopje YUG 1972/}) 15. Bxf3 Rb8 16.\nBxa7 Ra8 17. Be3 Rxa2 18. Qb3 Ra5 19. Rfc1 h5 20. Bh6 Re8 21. Bd2 Ra8 22. Be4\nQa4 23. Qd5 Qa2 24. Bf4 Qxd5 25. Bxd5 e5 26. Bd2 Re7 27. Rb6 Kg7 28. h4 Rd7 29.\nBe4 Be7 30. Rc4 Bd6 31. Bc3 f6 32. Bb2 Rb8 33. d4 exd4 34. Rxd4 Be7 35. Rd5\nRxd5 36. Bxd5 Bd8 37. Rb3 b5 38. Re3 Bb7 39. Bb3 Bc6 40. Re6 Bd7 41. Rd6 Rb7\n42. e4 Be7 43. Ra6 Be8 44. e5 f5 45. Ra8 Bc6 46. Rc8 Bf3 47. Rc3 Be2 48. Bd5\nRd7 49. e6 Rxd5 50. Rc8+ Bf6 51. Rc7+ Kg8 52. Bxf6 {1-0 Tal\,M-Pribyl\,J/Tallinn\nEST 1973/}) (12… Bd7 13. Rxb7 Nb8 14. Qb3 Bc6 15. Qxd5 Bxd5 16. Nd2 Bxb7 17.\nBxb7 Nd7 18. Bxa8 Rxa8 19. Rb1 Rb8 20. Rxb8+ Nxb8 21. Bxc5 Nc6 22. Kg2 Bc3 23.\nNb3 Kg7 24. d4 f5 25. d5 Nb4 26. a3 Nxd5 27. Bxa7 e5 28. a4 Kf6 29. f3 Ke6 30.\ne4 Nc7 31. Kf2 Kd6 32. Bb8 Kc6 33. Bxc7 Kxc7 34. Ke3 {1-0 Verleur\,J-Title\,R/\ncorr USA 1998/}) 13. Nd2 (13. Rfc1 $5 Nd4 (13… b6 14. Ne5 Bxe5 15. Bxc6 Rb8\n16. Bf3 a5 17. Bc6 Be6 18. Bb5 Bd5 19. Bc4 Bc6 20. Bb5 Ba8 21. Bc4 Kg7 22. Bb5\nRfd8 23. f3 Qe6 24. Kf2 Qh3 25. Kg1 Rd5 26. Rc4 Bxg3 27. Rg4 Qxh2+ 28. Kf1 Qh3+\n29. Kg1 Rh5 {0-1 Wesseln\,K-Sievers\,S/Germany 1996/}) 14. Nxd4 cxd4 15. Bh6 Rd8\n16. Bxb7 Bxb7 17. Rxb7 a6 18. Rc6 Qe5 19. Rxa6 Rac8 20. Rc6 Qxe2 21. Rxc8 Rxc8\n22. Qd7 Qe6 23. a4 Qxd7 24. Rxd7 Bg7 25. Bd2 Kf8 26. a5 Ke8 27. Rb7 Rc6 28. Bg5\nBf6 29. Bxf6 Rxf6 30. Rb4 Ra6 31. Ra4 e5 32. f4 exf4 33. gxf4 Ke7 34. Kf2 Ke6\n35. Kf3 f5 36. h4 h6 37. Kg3 Kf6 38. Ra2 Kf7 39. Ra1 Kf6 40. Ra2 Kf7 41. Kf2\nKf6 42. Ke1 Kf7 43. Kd1 Kf6 44. Ra1 g5 45. hxg5+ hxg5 46. fxg5+ Kxg5 47. Ke2\nKg4 48. Kf2 f4 49. Rg1+ Kf5 50. Rh1 Kg5 {1/2-1/2 Marin\,M-Kempinski\,R/Krynica\n1998/}) 13… Nd4 $1 (13… Bd4 14. Ne4 Qe5 15. Bf4 Qf5 16. e3 Be5 17. Bxe5\nQxe5 18. Rb5 Qc7 19. Rxc5 Bd7 20. d4 Qb6 21. Rb5 Nd8 22. Rxb6 Bxa4 23. Rb2 Bc6\n24. Rd1 f5 25. d5 Be8 26. Nc5 Rb8 27. Rc1 Rc8 28. Rbc2 b6 29. Ne6 Rxc2 30. Rxc2\nNxe6 31. dxe6 Bb5 32. Rc7 Rd8 33. Bf3 a5 34. Rb7 Rd6 35. Rxe7 Bc4 36. Re8+ Kg7\n37. e7 Kf7 38. Rh8 Kxe7 39. Rxh7+ Ke6 40. a3 b5 41. Rc7 Rd7 42. Rc8 Bd3 43. Rb8\nRc7 44. Rb6+ Ke7 {1/2-1/2 Schilling\,H-Prange\,E/corr 1994/}) 14. Bxd4 Qxd4 15.\nQxd4 cxd4 16. Bxb7 Rb8 $1 (16… Bh3 17. Bxa8 Bxf1 18. Kxf1 Rxa8 19. Nc4 $16 {\nMyers}) 17. Bxc8 Rfxc8 18. Nc4 Kf8 (18… e5 $5) 19. Kg2 (19. f4 $5) 19… h5\n20. Kf3 (20. Rb3 $5 {[%cal Yf1b1]}) 20… e6 21. a4 (21. Rb3 $5) 21… Ke7 (\n21… Bg7 $5) 22. h3 (22. a5 $5) 22… e5 23. Rb5 Rxb5 24. axb5 Rb8 25. Ra1 $1\nRxb5 (25… Rb7 26. Ke4 Bg7 27. Nxe5 f5+ 28. Kf4 Bxe5+ 29. Kxe5 Rxb5+ 30. Kxd4\na5 31. Ra4 $16 {Myers}) 26. Rxa7+ Ke6 27. Rxf7 $1 Kxf7 28. Nd6+ Ke6 29. Nxb5\nKd5 30. Na3 (30. e4+ $5 dxe3 31. fxe3 Be7 32. Nc3+ Ke6 33. d4 exd4 34. exd4 Bb4\n35. Ne2 Kf5 36. g4+ $18 {Myers}) 30… g5 31. Nb1 Be7 32. Nd2 $1 Bd8 (32… Bd6\n33. e3 Be7 34. Ne4 Ke6 35. g4 h4 36. Ke2 $18 {Myers}) 33. g4 h4 34. Ne4 Be7 35.\nKg2 $1 Kc6 36. Kf1 Kb5 37. Ke1 Kb4 (37… Kc6 $5) 38. e3 $1 Kb3 (38… dxe3 39.\nfxe3 Bd8 40. Kf2 Kb5 41. Nc3+ Kc6 42. d4 Ba5 43. Ne4 $18 {Myers}) 39. exd4 exd4\n40. Ke2 Kc2 41. f4 (41. f3 $5) 41… gxf4 42. Nd2 Kc3 43. Nf3 (43. g5 $1 Bf8 (\n43… Bxg5 $2 44. Ne4+ Kb3 45. Nxg5 $18) 44. Nf3 Be7 45. g6 Bf6 46. Nxh4 $18 {\nMyers}) 43… Bf6 44. g5 Bh8 45. Nxh4 Be5 46. Nf3 Bd6 47. h4 (47. g6 $5 Bf8 48.\nNg5 Bh6 49. Ne6 f3+ 50. Kxf3 Kxd3 51. g7 $18 {Myers}) 47… Bf8 48. h5 Bg7 49.\nh6 Bf8 50. Nh4 Kc2 51. Nf5 1-0\n[/pgn] \nKing’s Indian I by Frank Boyd\, Chess Praxis\, 1981
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM James E Vigus (17-ix-1978)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM James E Vigus (17-ix-1978)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Richard Palliser (18-ix-1981)
DESCRIPTION:We wish IM Richard Palliser all the very best on his birthday\n\nRichard Julian David Palliser was born September 18th in 1981 in Birmingham\, West Midlands. His mother’s maiden name was Hyde.\n\nHe became a FIDE Master in 2000 and an International Master in 2001.\n\nRichard Palliser\n\nHis peak FIDE rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2482 in July 2012 at the age of 31.\n\nIn 1995 Richard was joint British U13 Champion together with David Hodge and Richard S. Jones.\n\nPalliser was joint British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 2006. He writes regularly for ChessMoves and “Everyman Chess” who also employ him as an editor and advisor.\n\nRichard represents in matches 4NCL White Rose\, York RI\, Yorkshire CA\, and ‘Eagle and Child’\n\nAccording to “Play 1.d4!” :\n\n“is an international master and recipient of a special British Chess Federation young player’s award for achievement. In addition to being a very active tournament and match player he also writes regularly for CHESS magazine and other periodicals and is noted for his theoretical knowledge and analytical ability.”\n\nIM Richard Palliser at the King’s Place  Rapidplay\, 2013.\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch”]\n[Site “Scarborough”]\n[Date “2004.08.09”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Palliser\, Richard J D”]\n[Black “Rudd\, Jack”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A45”]\n[WhiteElo “2411”]\n[BlackElo “2281”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “2004.08.02”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 101 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.09.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,51\,26\,37\,30\,2\,-3\,5\,29\,36\,34\,26\,30\,40\,34\,37\,32\,36\,43\,30\,35\,36\,33\,16\,26\,\n14\,41\,24\,85\,84\,35\,65\,178\,156\,153\,143\,256\,140\,135\,143\,143\,92\,942\,1002\,1095\,1150\,\n29991\,29992\,29993\,29994\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4\nc5 4. f3 Qa5+ 5. c3 Nf6 6. d5 Qb6 7. b3 e6 8. e4 exd5 9. exd5 Bd6 10. Bg5 O-O\n$6 ({better is} 10… Be7 11. Bc4 O-O 12. Ne2 $14) 11. Bxf6 Re8+ 12. Ne2 gxf6\n13. Nd2 Qc7 ({better is} 13… Be7 14. Ne4 f5) 14. Ne4 Be5 15. Qd2 {[%cal\nGd2h6]} Kh8 (15… d6) 16. Qh6 $18 Qb6 {[%cal Gf6f5]} 17. d6 $1 c4 (17… Bxd6\n$2 18. Nxf6) 18. Rc1 (18. O-O-O Rg8 19. N2g3 Qd8 20. Bxc4 Nc6 21. Nf5 Rg6 22.\nQd2) 18… cxb3 19. axb3 {[#]} Qxb3 $2 {Too ambitious : Black’s Queen is well\noff-side and Black’s Queen side pieces are on their starting blocks.} (19…\nNa6 {The queenside pieces need to come out to play.}) 20. f4 {[#]} (20. Nd4)\n20… f5 $4 ({Better was} 20… Qc4 21. Nd4 Qd5 22. Bd3 Bxd4) (20… Qd5 21.\nN4g3 Qe6) 21. fxe5 fxe4 22. Nd4 {[%cal Gd4b3\,Gd4f5]} Qd5 (22… Qe6 {was the\nbest the engine could find !}) 23. Qf6+ Kg8 24. Nf5 Qxe5 25. Nh6+ Kf8 26. Qxf7#\n1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nAccording to “tango!” :\n\n“His debut book Play 1.d4! was very well received by critics and the chess public alike”\n\nHis handle on the Internet Chess Club is “worcester”.\n\nIM Richard Palliser\n\n\nWith the White pieces Richard plays 1.d4(!) and the Queen’ Gambit\, Exchange Variation is the main weapon of choice.\n\nAs the second player Richard plays the Sicilian Najdorf and the King’s Indian Defence.\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “Guernsey op 21st”]\n[Site “Guernsey”]\n[Date “1995.10.16”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Palliser\, Richard”]\n[Black “Coathup\, Roger”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E81”]\n[Annotator “Palliser\,Richard”]\n[PlyCount “93”]\n[EventDate “1995.10.15”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “GCI”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2005”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,93\,14\,19\,39\,4\,38\,33\,42\,41\,40\,16\,3\,-16\,-11\,-7\,23\,-37\,22\,-56\,8\,9\,16\,16\,\n16\,16\,55\,-2\,-2\,9\,9\,13\,41\,21\,39\,7\,90\,0\,141\,-90\,-83\,-52\,78\,85\,85\,103\,224\,202\,202\,\n128\,122\,78\,74\,54\,60\,58\,65\,57\,196\,150\,153\,153\,272\,318\,340\,342\,325\,325\,327\,329\,\n456\,481\,481\,270\,399\,425\,433\,428\,1028\,489\,505\,517\,517\,414\,960\,1064\,1165\,1272\,\n1378\,1471\,1471\,1514\,1533\,1525\,29961\,29958]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4\nd6 5. f3 {The sharp Samisch system.} O-O 6. Bg5 {This is more positional than\nthe main move} (6. Be3) 6… c5 7. d5 a6 8. a4 Qa5 9. Ra3 {White wants to play\nQd2 and if b5\, axb5. However the a4 pawn would be pinned and so White moves\nthe rook.} e6 10. Qd2 exd5 11. cxd5 Re8 12. Be2 Qc7 13. Bh6 Nbd7 14. Bxg7 Kxg7\n15. g4 {White now decides to go for a kingside attack.} h6 ({Possibly} 15… h5\n{would have been a better defence.}) 16. h4 Ne5 17. Nh3 Rb8 18. h5 {White gets\non with attack\, because b5 can no longer be prevented.} ({If} 18. a5 b5 19.\naxb6 Rxb6 {Black will have counterplay down the c-file.}) 18… b5 19. Ra1 b4\n20. Nd1 Nexg4 {Black decides to complicate the issue\, unfortunately for him\,\nWhite can turn down the offer and still emerge with the better game.} 21. hxg6\nfxg6 22. Nhf2 Nxf2 23. Qxh6+ Kf7 24. Nxf2 Qe7 25. Qf4 {This threatens 26.Rh7+\,\nBlack decides to exchange before White brings more pieces into the attack.} Qe5\n26. Qxe5 Rxe5 27. Kd2 a5 28. Bb5 g5 (28… Rg5 {was better\, however White\nstill retains an edge}) 29. Rh8 g4 30. fxg4 Nxe4+ 31. Nxe4 Rxe4 32. Rf1+ Kg7\n33. Rff8 {White is now winning.} Rd4+ 34. Ke3 Rxd5 35. Rhg8+ {This is a slight\ninnacuracy\, because it drives the King towards the pawn. Black does however\nreturn the error with 36…Re5.} Kh6 36. Rxc8 Re5+ 37. Kf4 Rxc8 38. Rxc8 Re1\n39. g5+ Kg7 40. Rc7+ Kf8 41. g6 Rg1 42. Kf5 Rg2 43. Kf6 {White has lots of\nways to win\, however because of time trouble\, he does probably not choose the\nquickest.} Rf2+ 44. Ke6 d5 45. g7+ Kg8 46. Kxd5 Rxb2 47. Kxc5 {Black never\nreally had enough counterplay and probably did not defend well enough on the\nKingside.} 1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nIM Richard Palliser and IM Jovanka Houska\, British Championships\, 2019\n\nRichard is Editor of “CHESS”  and has authored a number of publications :\n\nPlay 1.d4 !\, Batsford\, 2003\n\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2005). Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1 d4. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-388-8.\n\nTango! A Dynamic Answer to 1 d4\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2006). Beating Unusual Chess Openings. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-429-9.\n\nBeating Unusual Chess Openings\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2006). Starting Out: Closed Sicilian. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-414-8.\n\nStarting Out: Closed Sicilian\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2007). Starting Out: Scilian Najdorf. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-601-2.\n\nStarting Out: Scilian Najdorf\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2007). Starting out: the Colle. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-527-5.\n\nStarting out: the Colle\n\n\nThe Complete Chess Workout\, Everyman\, 2007\n\nPalliser\, Richard; Kosten\, Tony; Vigus\, James (2008). Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-583-1.\n\nDangerous Weapons: Flank Openings\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2008). Starting out: d-pawn attacks. The Colle-Zukertort\, Barry and 150 Attacks. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-578-7.\n\nStarting out: d-pawn attacks\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2009). Starting Out: the Trompowsky Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-562-6.\n\nStarting Out: the Trompowsky Attack\n\nPalliser\, Richard; Williams\, Simon; Vigus\, James (2010). Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-624-1.\n\nDangerous Weapons: The Dutch\n\nDangerous Weapons  : The Caro-Kann\, Everyman\, 2010\n\nThe Complete Chess Workout II\, Everyman\, 2012\n\n\nIM Richard Palliser
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Daniel Abbas (19-ix-1999)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Daniel Abbas (19-ix-1999)
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CREATED:20200407T201752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T230058Z
UID:4141-1600560000-1600646399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM James Cavendish (20-ix-1972)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM James Cavendish (20-ix-1972)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-james-cavendish-20-ix-1972/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200921
DTSTAMP:20260816T135607Z
CREATED:20200411T224210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260816T135607Z
UID:4527-1600560000-1600646399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Timothy Woodward (20-ix-1986)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Timothy DM Woodward (20-ix-1986)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-timothy-dm-woodward-20-ix-1986/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200923
DTSTAMP:20210922T120400Z
CREATED:20200403T163624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T120400Z
UID:4021-1600732800-1600819199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Daniel Bisby (22-ix-1978)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Daniel L Bisby (22-ix-1978)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-daniel-l-bisby-22-ix-1978/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200926
DTSTAMP:20210922T122207Z
CREATED:20200408T204250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T122207Z
UID:4213-1600992000-1601078399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Neil Dickenson (25-ix-1964)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Neil F Dickenson (25-ix-1964)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-neil-f-dickenson-25-ix-1964/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200928
DTSTAMP:20210922T133018Z
CREATED:20200410T181005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T133018Z
UID:4373-1601164800-1601251199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Andy Mack (27-ix-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Andrew L Mack (27-ix-1970) \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynM29FVjuY[/embedyt]
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-andrew-l-mack-27-ix-1970/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200930
DTSTAMP:20200924T143717Z
CREATED:20190928T215700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T143717Z
UID:1414-1601337600-1601423999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Tom Rendle (29-ix-1986)
DESCRIPTION:Best wishes to IM Tom Rendle on his birthday. \nThomas Edward Rendle was born on Monday\, September 29th 1986. “Stuck with You” by Huey Lewis and the News was the UK’s number one single. \nTom was born in Hastings\, East Sussex and his mother’s maiden name is Jefferies. Tom resides in Hastings. \nTom attended Bede’s School\, Sussex and then St. Leonard’s College. \nTom Rendle aged 11 by David Crump \nTom studied physics at The University of Warwick and has two brothers\, Tim and James and a sister Theresa. \nTom became a FIDE Master in 2004. In 2006 Tom became an International Master and achieved a peak rating (according to Felice) in July 2007 of 2416 at the age of 21. Tom has one Grandmaster norm. \nTom has played for 4NCL Grantham Sharks\, Hammersmith (in the London League)\, Drunken Knights (in the London League)\, West London and Sandhurst (in the Surrey Border and Berkshire Leagues). \nHis first ECF grade to appear on the grading web site was 82A in July 1994 at the age of 7 : \nECF Grading Progress of Tom Rendle \nTom played in the World U12 Championship won by Teimour Radjabov and his first major success was scoring 7.5/10 in the 2001 Smith and Williamson Young Masters. He became Hampshire Champion in 2001 with 5/6 and won the 2004 Rosny Sous Bois tournament with 7/9 and a TPR of 2568. He was runner-up in the Paignton Open of 2005 followed by runner-up in the Coulsdon Christmas tournament of 2005. \n[pgn]\n[Event “EU-ch U14”]\n[Site “Chalkidiki”]\n[Date “2000.10.08”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Rendle\, Thomas E”]\n[Black “Zinchenko\, Yaroslav”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B50”]\n[WhiteElo “2131”]\n[BlackElo “2271”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “2000.10.02”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “GRE”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 078 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,27\,13\,58\,56\,90\,37\,27\,10\,0\,-1\,-13\,-9\,-10\,-18\,-27\,-8\,33\,41\,20\,27\,14\,\n20\,33\,22\,97\,-17\,67\,19\,-4\,-13\,8\,8\,157\,157\,416\,257\,257\,255\,327\,292\,292\,406\,406\,\n773\,727\,1103\,29983\,29984\,29985\,29986\,29987\,29988\,29989\,29990\,29991\,29992\,29993\,\n29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. c3 Nf6 4.\nBe2 Nc6 (4… Nxe4 $4 5. Qa4+) 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 Nxe4 7. d5 Qa5+ 8. Nc3 Nb8 9.\nO-O Nxc3 10. bxc3 g6 (10… Nd7) 11. Qd4 {[%cal Gd4h8]} Rg8 (11… f6 12. Rb1\nBg7 13. Bb5+ Kf7) 12. Rb1 Bg7 $146 {A novelty not since repeated.} (12… a6\n13. c4) 13. Qc4 (13. Qh4) 13… Qc5 14. Qa4+ Nd7 15. Ba3 Qxd5 $6 {This pawn\ngrab enables White to seize the initiative.} ({Safer was} 15… Qc7) 16. Bc4\nQf5 (16… Qc6 {was required} 17. Qb3) 17. Rb5 Qf4 18. Ng5 ({Better was} 18.\nBc1 $18) 18… d5 19. Rxd5 e6 20. g3 (20. Re1) 20… Qc7 21. Rc5 $1 Qd8 {\n[#] Black’s position is painful !} 22. Nxf7 $1 (22. Nxe6 fxe6 23. Bxe6 Rf8 24.\nRd1) 22… Kxf7 23. Bxe6+ $1 Kxe6 (23… Ke8) 24. Qc4+ Kf6 25. Qf4+ Ke6 26.\nRe1+ Ne5 27. Rexe5+ Bxe5 28. Rxe5+ Kd7 29. Qd4+ Kc7 30. Rc5+ Kb6 31. Qb4+ Ka6\n32. Qb5# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nTom’s GM norm was earnt at Gibraltar 2007. \nTom Rendle in 2011 \nTom has his own popular YouTube Channel \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VojrVAgioU[/embedyt] \nWith the white pieces Tom is almost exclusively an e4 player but he has flirted with Bird’s Opening many times. Having shared accommodation with Gawain Jones there are signs of influence in the choice of the Grand Prix Attack. \nAs the second player Tom plays both the Winawer and the Classical French and is a noted expert on the Classical Dutch and Dutch in general. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Chekhov”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “2000.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Kremenietsky\, Anatoly M”]\n[Black “Rendle\, Thomas E”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A89”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “56”]\n[EventDate “2000.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “chessgames.com”] \n{[%evp 0\,56\,32\,32\,77\,49\,38\,38\,58\,43\,67\,60\,82\,58\,66\,47\,29\,0\,64\,64\,53\,48\,43\,25\,\n66\,57\,201\,180\,278\,279\,286\,211\,-270\,-530\,-680\,-840\,-1016\,-1016\,-1016\,-1016\,\n-1085\,-1073\,-926\,-927\,-959\,-1129\,-952\,-950\,-1022\,-1185\,-1123\,-1438\,-1574\,-1574\,\n-1620\,-1686\,-1935\,-29993\,-2397]} 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 d6 4. Nf3 g6 5. g3\nBg7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne5 9. Nxe5 dxe5 10. e4 f4 {[#]} 11. b4 (11.\ngxf4 exf4 12. e5 Ng4 13. e6 Ne5 14. Re1 Nxc4 15. Re4 Nd6 16. Rxf4 c6) 11… g5\n(11… e6) 12. Bb2 Qe8 $5 13. Nb5 $16 Ng4 $2 14. h3 $18 Qh5 {[#]} 15. hxg4 $2 (\n15. gxf4 $18) 15… Bxg4 $19 16. f3 $2 fxg3 $1 17. Rf2 Qh2+ 18. Kf1 gxf2 19.\nfxg4 Qg1+ 20. Ke2 Qxg2 21. Qf1 Qxg4+ 22. Ke3 Qf4+ 23. Kd3 Qf3+ 24. Kd2 g4 25.\nNc3 Bh6+ 26. Kc2 g3 27. Nd1 Qxe4+ 28. Kc3 Qe1+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Tom Rendle at the King’s Place Rapidplay\, 2013\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Thomas Edward Rendle (born 29 September 1986) is a British FIDE International Master chess player and coach. Rendle became an International Master in June 2006 and is part way towards becoming a Grandmaster\, with one GM Norm. \nHe gained an interest in chess at an early age\, and soon entered chess tournaments\, gaining success in his age categories (such as becoming Mini Squad Under 7s Champion\, England Under 11 Champion).[citation needed] He was put on top board for the England under 11 team and won the Sussex Under 18 Championships\, whilst still under 12.” \nIn 1998 Rendle played Garry Kasparov in the BT Wireplay Challenge 1998. In 2005 he was a coach for England’s team at the 1st FIDE World Schools Championship in Halkidiki\, Greece and in 2006 he coached with the England Team at the European Youth Chess Championships in Montenegro. \nRendle currently works as a chess coach\, both online and face-to-face. He is a regular coach of England Juniors.” \nIM Tom Rendle\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-thomas-edward-rendle/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Coach,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201002
DTSTAMP:20210902T123319Z
CREATED:20200410T170314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210902T123319Z
UID:4370-1601510400-1601596799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Alexander Longson (01-x-1982)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Alexander Longson (01-x-1982)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-alexander-longson-01-x-1982/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Organiser,Player,UKCC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201003
DTSTAMP:20211002T102326Z
CREATED:20190824T104835Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jonathan Speelman (02-xi-1956)
DESCRIPTION:We wish GM Jonathan Speelman all the best on his birthday. \nJonathan Simon Speelman was born on Tuesday\, October 2nd\, 1956 in Marylebone\, London. His mother’s maiden name was Freeman. In March 2002 Jon and Lindsey Thomas were married in Camden\, Greater London. They have a non-chess playing son\, Lawrence who studied Ancient Languages at The University of Chicago. \nJonathan attended St. Paul’s School\, London and then Worcester College\, Oxford and read mathematics. \nHe became an International Master in 1978 (England’s tenth) and a Grandmaster in 1980 (England’s fifth) and achieved a peak FIDE rating of 2645 at the age of 32 in July 1988. \nJon is a Life Member of King’s Head Chess Club and has helped them organise a number of tournaments including the NatWest Young Masters where he has adjudicated the winner of the Best Game Prize. \nCurrently\, Jon plays for Wood Green in Four Nations Chess League and in the London League and maintains an ECF grade of 245. \nJon is the chess correspondent for The Observer and The Independent. \nWith the white pieces Jon prefers 1.Nf3 and against 1…Nf6 to follow with c4 and d4. Interestingly\, if black plays 1…d5 then Jon plays an early king-side fianchetto. \nAs the second player Jon prefers the Smyslov Caro-Kann\, the Nimzo-Indian and Queen’s Indian defences. \nHis record against contemporary players is impressive : \nNigel Short : +5\nMurray Chandler : +4\nJonathan Mestel : +4\nJohn Nunn : +3\nJames Plaskett : +4\nMark Hebden : +7\nTony Miles : +1\nTony Kosten : +3\nDaniel King : +2 \nJon Speelman and Nigel Short at the start of their 1989 Candidates match. Jon won 3.5 – 1.5 \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : \n“Having been asked to contribute an article on myself to this book I have decided to concentrate almost exclusively on my ‘relationship with chess’\, but first quickly summarize my life. \nJS \nBorn on 2nd October 1956 I went to a ‘Nursery School’ whose name I forget. Then to Arnold House School followed by St. Paul’s School. I had a ‘Year off’ from January to October\, 1976\, when I went up to Worcester College\, Oxford\, where I studied mathematics. In 1977 I left Oxford with a 2nd degree. Since then I have been a professional chess player. \nI was taught chess at the age of 6 by my cousin on Boxing Day\, 1962. Then as now\, I was an inquisitive person and the idea of a ‘complicated and difficult game’ interested me. Sadly my first game of chess ended in checkmate in four moves; but I persevered and soon became more competent. \nJS at the London based Philips & Drew Kings tournament \nI have always seen life to some in terms of barriers. There are things which one can do easily and which one finds difficult or almost impossible. For any given task the transition from one state to the other is not as smooth. One builds up energy and finally is able to succeed for the first time. After that the task becomes successively easier: Partly because one is aware that one can succeed. \nJonathan Speelman without glasses \nln order to illustrate my chess career to date\, I shall therefore pick out examples of barriers which I managed to break through. \nJonathan was an early follower of fashion \nUntil a few Years ago there were few titled players in Great Britain. But recently\, thanks largely to a change of emphasis in organisation\, several players have broken through to obtain international titles. This is not only because British players have become stronger – which they undoubtedly have – but also because they have received opportunities which were previously denied them. \nJS at the London Robert Silk Fellowship invitational tournament \nI first started seriously to contemplate becoming an international master in 1977. Previously\, I had of course aspired to this but without really investigating the mechanics of obtaining norms. In August\, 1977 England sent a team to the World Student Team Championships in Mexico City. We came third: a year later we were to win the event (though on that occasion it was a World Under 26 Team Championship). On our return there was an invitation tournament in London: the ‘Lloyds Bank Silver Jubilee’. Although I was rather tired after Mexico I decided to play and to my surprise\, I obtained an IM norm with a round to spare. It all seemed rather easy. I drew with six strong players including GM Torre and four IM’s and beat three weaker ones. \nGrandmaster Uses PressTel Chessbox to Play Long Distance Chess. Jonathan Speelman the UK Grandmaster is pictured here deciding his next move in a computer chess game against five simultaneous opponents. Players exchanged moves online via the ChessBox club on PressTel\, BTs videotex service. \nIn December\, 1977 I played for the first time in the Annual Grandmaster Tournament at Hastings. I was very pleased to ‘shut up shop’\, abandoning any pretensions to an exciting style to score one win\, one loss and – wait for it – twelve draws; but 7/14 was sufficient for another international master norm. \nThese two events left me with twenty three games of norm\, one less than the required minimum. Early in 1978 I played in a tournament in London but failed to get my final leg. It was in April that year that I had my next chance at the famous Lone Pine Tournament in California. I have already stressed the importance of barriers. It was in round one of the Lone Pine tournament that I broke through another important one – that of beating a grandmaster. \nJS was a frequent giver of simultaneous displays \nNowadays (and here I hear myself sounding like an old man!) the strongest young players (under twenty-six) beat international masters quite regularly and indeed grandmasters from time to time. ‘In my day’ this was not so much the case. Titled foreign players could still come over to pillage weekend tournaments; and succeed much of the time! When one of them lost to homegrown talent it was news. \nIM Jonathan Speelman vs IM Simon Webb at the 1978 British Championships in Ayr\, Courtesy of John Upham \nI first started to play regularly against grandmasters in my first Hastings tournament\, which I mentioned previously. Of course\, I had played grandmasters before\, but at Hastings seven of the fourteen games were against them. I scored there six draws and a loss to the tournament winner\, Dzindzihashvili. \nJulian Hodgson and Jonathan Speelman prepare to play each other at their own home via CEEEFAX. This was organised by Peter Andrews of BBC Chess Club and was the first match of its kind. \nIn round one of Lone pine I was White against Bent Larsen of Denmark. Given that one is going to beat a strong grandmaster (l hadn’t even beaten a weak one) then White against Larsen is quite a good chance. Although he is an extremely strong player\, Larsen loses quite a lot of games to much weaker opponents and wins an enormous number against them as well\, with not many draws. I was fortunate in obtaining a nice position from the opening and won a good game. That is one of the games I have chosen. \nJS receives one of many awards \nAfter beating Larsen the rest of the tournament was rather an anti-climax for me. I drew some games\, then lost in successive rounds to Browne and Biyiasas. Needing a win to reach fifty per cent the chance of my final norm\, I clawed my way to victory in a dreadful game against a young American P. Whitehead. Two short draws in the final two rounds brought me the title. \nAt the Praxis British Zonal in February 1987 here at the roman baths. Murray Chandler\, Jonathan Speelman\, and Jonathan Mestel \nSome years ago the British Championship really was the Championship of Britain. But in the early seventies there was a decline as several of the strongest players did not enter. In the last two years the decline has been halted and then reversed by the sponsorship of stockbrokers Grievson Grant. In 1979 two of our four Grandmasters\, Miles and Nunn\, competed in the British Championship at Chester and there were no fewer than six International Masters; indeed Nigel Short succeeded in obtaining his first IM norm there. \nJS plays Alexander Khalifman during the SWIFT World Cup in Reykjavik\, 1991. The game was drawn \nI first competed in the British Championship at Brighton in 1972. After a good start\, beating Michael Basman in the first round and drawing with Craig Pritchett in the second\, I lost to Haygarth in round three. Thereafter\, I found it incredibly difficult to win games. My old British Chess Magazine reminds me that I succeeded in winning in round nine\, but that was the only one after round one. I finished with 4.5/11. \nJS\, Jana Bellin and Nigel Short in a publicity shoot outside Simpsons in the Strand \nA year later at Eastbourne I was still finding it hard to win games. Again I finished with 4.5/11. By Clacton\, 1974 I had improved. A loss in the last round to the eventual winner Botterill left me a point behind the seven (!) who had to play off for the title. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWgtaqLhA34[/embedyt] \nI competed at Morecambe\, 1975 and Portsmouth\, 1976\, missing only Brighton\, 1977 when the students team was in Mexico. By Ayr\, 1978 I was probably one of the favourites along with Jonathan Mestel\, who ran away with the tournament in Portsmouth\,\n1976\, George Botterill\, the defending champion\, and some others. \nJonathan shows off his all seeing four eyes \nIn fact I won at Ayr. I played quite well throughout. ln the last round half a point ahead of Mestel I played a quick draw with Webb but was lucky when Mestel could only draw with Clarke. Of course winning the British was a big breakthrough for me. But I feel that the most important psychological change came in 1974 when I started to discover that it is possible to win games in the British Championship. \nJonathan Simon Speelman (02-x-1956) as imagined by Roger Morgan\, 1982 \nSince late 1978 I have made no dramatic breakthrough but have\, I believe\, almost imperceptibly made the change from a ‘medium’ to a ‘strong’ international master. \nJonathan Speelman telephones good news \nI’ve selected three games to go with this article. The one with Larsen I’ve already mentioned. Mihaljcisin-Speelman I like as a game in which I played very actively as Black. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Frunze”]\n[Site “Frunze”]\n[Date “1979.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Mikhalchishin\, Adrian”]\n[Black “Speelman\, Jonathan Simon”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B16”]\n[WhiteElo “2480”]\n[BlackElo “2470”]\n[Annotator “Jonathan Speelman and Murray Chandler”]\n[PlyCount “84”]\n[EventDate “1979.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “URS”]\n[EventCategory “9”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess & TECE”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,84\,15\,10\,81\,81\,81\,41\,41\,33\,28\,44\,44\,19\,67\,21\,52\,8\,17\,0\,11\,-5\,-5\,4\,-2\,\n-65\,-68\,-120\,-122\,-141\,-134\,-147\,-149\,-183\,-180\,-185\,-179\,-185\,-136\,-206\,-199\,\n-189\,-178\,-154\,-179\,-169\,-169\,-162\,-118\,-118\,-99\,-108\,-101\,-107\,-104\,-134\,-124\,\n-120\,-130\,-179\,-184\,-184\,-112\,-131\,-112\,-98\,-46\,-84\,-119\,-207\,-218\,-210\,-218\,\n-225\,-225\,-244\,-250\,-250\,-250\,-278\,-279\,-365\,-374\,-374\,-374\,-1014\,-1014]} 1. e4\n{JS : Mr. Mihaljcisin of Yugoslavia had a very bad tournament at Frunze :\nafter an early win against the Mongolian Miagmasuren he failed to win another\ngame and lost many! When I played him \, having not yet discovered that the GM\nnorm was 13/17 (I thought it was about 12) I was very anxious to win. At the\nbeginning of the tournament I played Sicilian against 1.e4 but without\nreaching very good positions though I drew them all. As Black against\nMiagmasuren I played a French Defence; he played 2.Nf3 and I very quickly\nreached a won position ! In this game I decided to avoid 2.c3 against the\nSicilian which is what we would have had otherwise and to try for the first\ntime in my tournament career a Caro-Kann Defence – I am often lucky in my\nfirst adoption of an opening variation !} c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6\n5. Nxf6+ gxf6 6. Ne2 {My opponent played this move almost instantly. This\nrather disconcerted me since I had expected that he would have a reasonably\nlong think.} (6. c3 Bf5 7. Nf3 e6) {So….} 6… h5 $5 ({JS : If now} 6… Bf5\n7. Ng3 Bg6 8. h4 h5 9. Be2 {and White can prepare for Bxh5 with c3 : this is\nperfectly playable for Black but why follow your opponent’s theory especially\nwhen you don’t know it properly?}) 7. h4 $6 {JS : This seems very dubious to\nme.} ({JS : Surely} 7. Qd3 {is better.}) 7… Bg4 8. Qd3 ({JS :\nYanofsky-Larsen\, Dallas\, 1957 went} 8. c3 Nd7 9. Qb3 Nb6 10. Bf4 Qd7 11. O-O-O\nBe6 12. Qc2 a5 13. Ng3 Qd5 14. a3 Qa2 15. Qb1 Qxb1+ 16. Kxb1 Nd5 {given as =+\nby Larsen in ECO.}) 8… e5 9. Be3 ({Perhaps White should play} 9. c3 {I\nintended} Nd7 ({but perhaps Black should play} 9… Na6) 10. Ng3 exd4 {at the\ntime}) 9… Na6 10. a3 ({White would like to play} 10. O-O-O {but this seems\nto fail tactically \, viz} Nb4 11. Qb3 Be6 $1 12. c4 (12. d5 $2 cxd5 {gives\nWhite nothing}) 12… Bf5 13. Rd2 a5 $1 {\, when White should play} 14. Nc3 ({\nIf instead} 14. dxe5 {but} a4 $1 {which wins. I’m afraid that I hadn’t noticed\nthat 14…Nd3+ is bad and 14…a4! superb\, but my position was\, I think\,\nalready good enough for one to expect that there would be in a reasonable line\na tactical mêlée.} ({not} 14… Nd3+ {when} 15. Kd1 {is very strong})) 14…\na4 $1 15. Nxa4 Qa5 $17 {which is excellent for Black}) ({White should have\nplayed} 10. c3 {when} Nc5 {is conceivable} ({After} 10… Qa5 {Black is\nalready better.})) 10… Qa5+ $1 11. Bd2 Qb6 {Black has got a clear advantage.}\n{So\, White feels obliged to try} 12. dxe5 ({If now} 12. O-O-O O-O-O {the white\nd-pawn is dreadfully weak}) 12… Nc5 13. Qe3 O-O-O 14. b4 {This is a\ndesperate move to force the queens off.} ({If} 14. O-O-O Bh6 15. f4 fxe5 {\nand White’s position collapses.}) {but…} 14… Bh6 $1 15. f4 {[#]} Rxd2 $1\n16. Qxd2 ({if} 16. bxc5 Qb2) ({If} 16. Kxd2 Rd8+ 17. Ke1 Nd3+ $1) 16… Ne4 17.\nQd4 Qxd4 18. Nxd4 Bxf4 19. Nf3 ({If} 19. Be2 Bd2+ 20. Kd1 Bc3 {and White loses\na vast amount of material.}) (19. Bd3 {is best} {but after} Bd2+ 20. Kf1 Ng3+\n21. Kf2 Nxh1+ 22. Rxh1 Bc3 {Black is\, of course\, winning.}) 19… Ng3 {the\nsimplest} 20. Rh3 $1 ({If} 20. Rg1 Be3 {and White cannot prevent …Bxf3 and ..\n.Bxg1 winning a whole rook to come out a piece up.}) 20… Bxh3 {Maybe I could\nhave found something better here but this is perfectly effective so I didn’t\nlook further.} 21. gxh3 Nxf1 22. Kxf1 fxe5 {Black is effectively two pawns up.}\n23. Ng5 {[#]} Rg8 $4 {Here I had a complete hallucination.} (23… Kd7 $1 {\nwould have won easily} {for if} 24. Nxf7 Rf8 25. Rd1+ Kc7 $1 26. Nd6 Rd8 {\nand Black wins a piece.}) 24. Nxf7 e4 25. Ng5 {This is move I had missed.} Bxg5\n26. hxg5 Rxg5 $17 {It is now touch and go whether the position is won (for\nBlack) any more.} 27. Re1 ({White could also try} 27. Kf2 {with the idea} Rf5+\n({Black could also try} 27… h4 28. Re1 Rf5+ 29. Kg2 Rf3 30. Rxe4 Rg3+ 31. Kh2\nRxa3 {which must be winning I imagine\,} {though after} 32. c4 $19 {must be\nworse it would be pretty close.} (32. Rxh4 Rc3)) 28. Ke3 Rf3+ 29. Kxe4 Rxh3 (\n29… Rc3 $1) 30. Kd4 {and 31.c3 which is not too bad for White.}) 27… Rg3\n28. Rxe4 Rxh3 29. Ke2 Rxa3 30. Rh4 {[#]} Ra4 $4 {This is stupid. My opponent\nwas now in time-trouble.} ({I had intended} 30… a5 {but now panicked about}\n31. Rxh5 ({White might try} 31. b5 cxb5 32. Rxh5 b4 {is easily winning for\nBlack.}) 31… axb4 32. Rh4 {Of course} Rc3 33. Kd2 c5 {would win easily for\nBlack.}) 31. Kd3 b6 ({if} 31… a5 $2 32. Rxh5 axb4 ({BCN : but} 32… Ra3+ 33.\nKd2 axb4 {is winning}) 33. Kc4 {and White can draw}) 32. c3 a5 33. Kc4 {\nIn time trouble Mihaljcisin fails to find the defence – I also did not see it\nuntil nearly a month later !} ({After} 33. Rxh5 $1 axb4 34. Rh4 {Black cannot\nplay} c5 ({So} 34… Kb7 35. cxb4 ({not} 35. Rxb4 Rxb4 36. cxb4 Kc7 $19 {\nwinning}) 35… Ka6 36. Rd4 $1 ({also} 36. Rh6 Kb5 37. Kc3 $1 $11) 36… Kb5\n37. Kc3 $11 {seems to be a draw.}) {since} 35. cxb4 cxb4 (35… Rxb4 36. Rxb4\ncxb4 37. Kc4 {is a drawn pawn ending.})) 33… axb4 34. Kb3 ({Or} 34. cxb4 c5\n$19) 34… Ra5 $1 ({not} 34… b5 {(BCN : actually\, this is winning for Black!)\n} 35. cxb4 c5 36. Rxh5 Rxb4+ 37. Ka3 Rc4 38. Rh7 $19) 35. Kxb4 (35. cxb4 {\nalso loses of course}) 35… Rg5 36. c4 Kb7 37. Rf4 Rg4 38. Rf7+ Ka6 39. Kb3 ({\nor} 39. Rf6 c5+ 40. Kb3 Ka5 $1 {etc} ({but not} 40… Rg3+ 41. Ka4 Rc3 $4 (\n41… Rg4 42. Kb3 h4) (41… Rg1 $1) 42. Rxb6+ $1 $11)) 39… Rg3+ 40. Kb4 $2 (\n40. Ka4 c5 41. Rf6 Rg4 42. Kb3 Ka5 {etc}) 40… c5+ 41. Ka4 Rc3 42. Rf4 Rxc4+\n$1 {and white resigns.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nThe game against Biyiasis is a good ‘rough and tumble’ not free from errors of course – but wouldn’t that be boring? \n[pgn] \n[Event “Christmas Congress 1978/79-54 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1979.01.04”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Speelman\, Jonathan Simon”]\n[Black “Biyiasas\, Peter”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “E97”]\n[WhiteElo “2470”]\n[BlackElo “2485”]\n[Annotator “Jon Speelman”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1978.12.28”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “9”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,-12\,51\,17\,33\,22\,32\,56\,38\,50\,39\,35\,41\,29\,62\,58\,58\,40\,36\,36\,33\,43\,\n23\,20\,75\,64\,57\,57\,53\,39\,48\,49\,19\,5\,6\,95\,76\,76\,76\,110\,104\,0\,119\,66\,138\,74\,73\,84\,\n90\,90\,128\,68\,116\,140\,157\,146\,140\,169\,156\,103\,103\,101\,79\,93\,88\,89\,75\,100\,113\,97\,\n218\,271\,256\,160\,180\,32\,34\,35\,35\,0\,0\,0]} 1. c4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. d4 d6 4. Nc3 Nf6\n5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. b4 $5 {This move has been revived\nover the last couple of years with the idea} Nh5 10. c5 (10. g3 {was the old\nmove.}) 10… Nf4 11. Bxf4 exf4 12. Rc1 {White has given-up the bishop pair\nand opened upa beautiful diagonal for Black’s bishop in order to gain lead in\ndevelopment.} Bg4 $5 {[#] This may be a theoretical novelty: Black returns\nsome of his positional advantage in order to decongest his position.} ({\nRelevant:} 12… a5 13. cxd6 cxd6 14. Qd2 axb4 15. Nb5 Bg4 16. Rc7 Nc8 17. Nfd4\nBxe2 18. Nxe2 {1/2-1/2 (18) Grigorian\,K-Geller\,E Leningrad 1971}) ({The usual\nmove is} 12… h6 {preparing g5.}) 13. Nd2 $146 {This is the natural move; but\nWhite must carefully consider the consequences of Black’s kingside expansion.:\nit cost me a rather excessive 23 minutes.} ({Predecessor:} 13. Nd4 Bd7 14. Bb5\na5 15. cxd6 cxd6 16. Bxd7 Qxd7 17. b5 Rac8 18. Nce2 f3 19. Nxf3 Rxc1 20. Qxc1\nQxb5 21. Nfd4 Qb6 22. Qe3 Rc8 23. Nf5 Qxe3 24. Nxe7+ Kf8 25. fxe3 Kxe7 26. Rb1\nBe5 27. Rxb7+ Kf6 28. Kf2 Rc2 29. Kf3 Rxa2 30. Nd4 g5 31. h3 h5 32. Nf5 a4 33.\nRb6 a3 34. Ra6 Ra1 35. Nxd6 Bxd6 36. Rxd6+ Ke5 37. Ra6 a2 38. Kf2 Kxe4 39. d6\nRd1 40. Ra4+ Ke5 41. Rxa2 Rxd6 42. Ra4 Rd2+ {Grigoriou\,M-Trikaliotis\,G (2245)\nKallithea 1978 1/2-1/2}) 13… Bxe2 14. Qxe2 g5 {This move weakens f5\, of\ncourse. But the paramount cosideration for Black is to get complete control of\ne5.} 15. Qh5 Ng6 16. Nf3 h6 17. Nb5 a5 18. Nbd4 axb4 19. cxd6 cxd6 20. Nf5 Qf6\n21. Rc7 Rfc8 22. Rd7 b3 23. Rxd6 Qxd6 24. Nxd6 bxa2 25. Nxc8 a1=Q 26. Nd6 Qb2\n27. h4 Ra1 28. Rxa1 Qxa1+ 29. Kh2 Qf6 30. Ne8 Qe7 31. Nxg7 Kxg7 32. hxg5 hxg5\n33. Nxg5 b5 34. Nf3 Qxe4 35. d6 Qb7 36. Qf5 Kf8 37. Qf6 Ke8 38. Ne5 Nxe5 39.\nQxe5+ Kd7 40. Qe7+ Kc6 41. Qe4+ 1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nTo find out more about JSs chess career we suggest you read his autobiography : \nSpeelman\, Jon (1997). Jon Speelman’s Best Games. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 240 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-6477-1. \nwhich contains many heavily annotated games. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lone Pine op Louis D. Statham Masters”]\n[Site “Lone Pine”]\n[Date “1978.04.02”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Speelman\, Jonathan Simon”]\n[Black “Larsen\, Bent”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A53”]\n[WhiteElo “2410”]\n[BlackElo “2620”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “1978.04.02”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “USA”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,71\,39\,37\,77\,29\,41\,43\,51\,47\,59\,35\,48\,50\,43\,36\,36\,34\,41\,20\,29\,36\,31\,9\,\n26\,24\,38\,27\,62\,51\,64\,51\,56\,51\,53\,67\,54\,50\,67\,74\,79\,71\,109\,97\,159\,167\,162\,179\,\n192\,196\,226\,291\,299\,232\,239\,239\,307\,292\,304\,195\,254\,254\,412\,285\,303\,313\,329\,\n377\,395\,365\,541\,541\,462\,619]} 1. e4 c6 2. c4 e5 3. Nf3 d6 (3… Nf6 4. Nc3 Bb4\n$13 (4… Qa5 $6)) 4. d4 Bg4 5. Be2 (5. dxe5 $6 Bxf3 6. Qxf3 dxe5 {><d4}) 5… Nd7 6. Nc3 Be7 7. O-O Ngf6 {[#] Oldindian} 8. Rb1 $146 {/\b4} (8. Be3) ({ Relevant:} 8. Be3 O-O 9. d5 Qc7 10. h3 Bxf3 11. Bxf3 cxd5 12. cxd5 Rfc8 13. Rc1 Qb8 14. Qe2 Bd8 15. Nb5 Rxc1 16. Rxc1 a6 17. Ba7 Rxa7 18. Nxa7 Qxa7 19. Rc8 Qb6 20. Qe3 Nf8 21. Qxb6 Bxb6 22. Rb8 Bd4 23. Rxb7 g5 24. b4 h5 25. g4 Ng6 26. gxh5 Nh4 27. Bh1 Nxh5 28. a4 Nf4 29. Kh2 Bxf2 30. b5 axb5 31. axb5 Ne2 32. Bg2 Nf4 33. Bh1 Ne2 34. Bg2 Nf4 {1/2-1/2 (34) Balashov\,Y (2545)-Malich\,B (2530) Halle/ Saale 1976}) 8… O-O 9. Re1 Re8 10. Be3 {/\Nd2} Bh5 {Black intends to avoid the exchange of bishops after 11.Nd2. /\11…Ng4} 11. Nd2 Bg6 (11… Bxe2 12. Qxe2 $14) 12. d5 $1 (12. f4 exf4 13. Bxf4 Bf8 14. Bf3 c5 $13) 12… a6 13. b4 h5 $5 14. a4 {><g4} h4 $2 15. h3 Qc7 16. Rb3 {To defend Nc3.} a5 $6 (16… Rab8\n) 17. b5 cxd5 $6 (17… c5 18. Bg5 Nh7 $2 19. Bxe7 Rxe7 20. Nf3 $18) (17…\ncxb5) (17… Nc5 $5) 18. Nxd5 $1 Nxd5 19. cxd5 Rec8 $2 20. Bg4 $1 {Larsen had\nmissed this move.} Rf8 (20… Nc5 $2 21. Bxc5 Qxc5 22. Bxc8 $18) 21. Qc1 Nc5 (\n21… Rac8 $2 22. Qxc7 $1 Rxc7 23. b6 $18) 22. Bxc5 dxc5 23. b6 (23. Nc4 b6)\n23… Qd8 24. Nc4 Bxe4 $6 25. Rxe4 f5 26. Bxf5 $1 (26. d6 $1 Bg5 27. Qd1 fxe4\n28. Qd5+ Kh8 29. Nxe5 $1 $18 {Seirawan}) 26… Rxf5 27. d6 Bf6 28. Qd1 $1 {\nGreat play on the white squares.} Qd7 29. Qg4 Rd8 (29… Qxa4 30. Ra3 Qd7 31.\nNe3 $18) 30. Rb5 Qc8 31. Rxa5 Rf4 32. Qxc8 Rxc8 33. Rxf4 exf4 34. Ra7 Re8 (\n34… Rb8 35. a5 {/\36.Rb7 Rb7 37.a6}) 35. Rxb7 Kh7 {/\Re1+\,Bd4-f2-g3.} 36. Re7\n$1 (36. Re7 Bxe7 37. dxe7 Rxe7 38. a5 $18 {White queens.}) 1-0 \n[/pgn] \n  \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“British Champion in 1978\, Speelman played at Mexico City later that year in the English team that won (ahead of the USSR) the world’s first youth teams (under-26) championship. \n(from l-r) Jonathan Kinlay\, Shaun Taulbut\, Jonathan Speelman\, David Goodman and Jonathan Mestel accepting 1st prize at the 1978 World U26 Student Olympiad in Mexico City \nTwo good performances in 1980\, as score of +5=5-3 to share fourth place in the category 13 London tournament and a second place (+6=7) at Maribor\, brought him the title of International Grandmaster (1980). His subsequent achievements include : Dortmund 1981\, first (+5=6) equal with Ftacnik and Kuzmin; Hastings 1981-2\, second equal with Smyslov after Kupreichik; and London 1982\, category 14\, +2=10-1 to share fourth place. An excellent analyst\, Speelman has written several books\, among them Best Chess Games 1970-1980 (1982).” \nGM Jonathan Speelman \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-72 Championship”]\n[Site “Edinburgh”]\n[Date “1985.08.02”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Black “Speelman\, Jonathan S”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2525”]\n[BlackElo “2530”]\n[Annotator “Keene/Speelman”]\n[PlyCount “60”]\n[EventDate “1985.07.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “SCO”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,60\,22\,14\,73\,68\,74\,74\,57\,50\,50\,-12\,38\,38\,31\,35\,31\,9\,25\,26\,26\,-10\,22\,\n-70\,-47\,-62\,-61\,-78\,-73\,-73\,-82\,-83\,-88\,-89\,-82\,-99\,-118\,-138\,-45\,-81\,-45\,-45\,\n-45\,-90\,-118\,-114\,-90\,-139\,-117\,-234\,-606\,-606\,-675\,-802\,-785\,-944\,-927\,-921\,\n-964\,-910\,-955\,-955\,-977]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h5 5. c4 dxc4 6.\nBxc4 e6 7. Nc3 Nd7 8. Nge2 $5 Be7 9. Ng3 Bg6 10. Nce4 (10. Be2 $5) 10… Nh6 $1\n11. Ng5 $6 (11. Bg5 Bxe4 12. Nxe4 Nf5) (11. Be3 $5) 11… Qa5+ $15 12. Bd2 (12.\nKf1 O-O-O {d4\,e5}) 12… Bb4 13. N3e4 Bxe4 14. Nxe4 Nf5 15. Bc3 $5 Bxc3+ $1 (\n15… Nb6 16. Bb3 Nd5 17. Bxd5 cxd5 18. Qd2 $1 Bxc3 19. Nxc3 $15) 16. bxc3 Rd8\n$1 $17 {( Nxe5)} 17. Bd3 Nxd4 18. Nd6+ Ke7 19. O-O Nf3+ $3 20. gxf3 (20. Qxf3\nNxe5 21. Nf5+ $1 exf5 22. Rfe1 Rhe8 $17) 20… Nxe5 21. Nxb7 Qc7 $5 (21… Qxc3\n$17) 22. Nxd8 (22. Nc5 Rd5 23. f4 Nxd3 24. Nxd3 Rhd8) 22… Rxd8 23. f4 Rxd3\n24. Qxh5 Nf3+ 25. Kg2 Qxf4 26. Rfd1 (26. Rh1 Qe4 27. Kf1 (27. Qc5+ Kf6) 27…\nRd5 28. Qh8 Rd2 $1) 26… Rxc3 $1 27. Rab1 Qh2+ 28. Kf1 Qh3+ 29. Ke2 Rc2+ 30.\nKe3 Nxh4+ 0-1[/pgn] \nFrom Wikipedia :\nA winner of the British Chess Championship in 1978\, 1985 and 1986\, Speelman has been a regular member of the English team for the Chess Olympiad\, an international biennial chess tournament organised by FIDE\, the World Chess Federation. \nIn 1989\, he beat Kasparov in a televised speed tournament\, and then went on to win the event. \nIn the April 2007 FIDE list\, Speelman had an Elo rating of 2518\, making him England’s twelfth-highest-rated active player. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxIHnnC0UJQ[/embedyt] \nHe qualified for two Candidates Tournaments: \nIn the 1989–1990 cycle\, Speelman qualified by placing third in the 1987 interzonal tournament held in Subotica\, Yugoslavia. After beating Yasser Seirawan in his first round 4–1\, and Nigel Short in the second round 3½–1½\, he lost to Jan Timman at the semi-final stage 4½–3½.\nIn the following 1990–93 championship cycle\, he lost 5½–4½ in the first round to Short\, the eventual challenger for Garry Kasparov’s crown.\nSpeelman’s highest ranking in the FIDE Elo rating list was fourth in the world\, in January 1989. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Clare Benedict Cup-23”]\n[Site “Cleveland”]\n[Date “1979.07.18”]\n[Round “5.2”]\n[White “Speelman\, Jonathan Simon”]\n[Black “Van Dop\, Arend J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B96”]\n[WhiteElo “2470”]\n[BlackElo “2300”]\n[Annotator “Murray Chandler”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1979.07.14”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2004”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Netherlands”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “NED”] \n{[%evp 0\,75\,37\,17\,47\,46\,80\,54\,58\,28\,28\,28\,55\,55\,68\,26\,46\,51\,10\,9\,24\,10\,8\,6\,6\,\n-10\,9\,8\,-84\,-60\,-51\,-72\,-72\,-220\,-7\,-7\,141\,144\,250\,329\,329\,261\,261\,233\,334\,334\,\n288\,237\,241\,218\,211\,242\,234\,203\,215\,175\,191\,175\,185\,198\,317\,272\,279\,284\,295\,\n295\,299\,273\,266\,276\,280\,280\,276\,328\,308\,355\,405\,412]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4\ncxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 {Sicilian Najdorf} 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 b5 $5 {MC: An\nidea of Polugaevsky The variations It leads to insanely sharp positions and\nlooks rather unsound\, but no one has refuted it definatively.} (7… Be7 8. Qf3\n({Whereas} 8. e5 $6 {here} dxe5 9. fxe5 Nfd7 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 $15 {does not\nachieve very much for White.}) 8… Qc7 9. O-O-O Nbd7 10. g4 b5 11. Bxf6 Nxf6\n12. g5 Nd7 13. f5 Bxg5+ 14. Kb1 Ne5 15. Qh5 Qd8 16. Nxe6 Bxe6 17. fxe6 g6 18.\nexf7+ Kxf7 {is the main line in 2020.}) 8. e5 {is critical} dxe5 9. fxe5 Qc7 {\n[%cal Gc7e5]} 10. Qe2 (10. exf6 Qe5+ {regains the piece.}) 10… Nfd7 11. O-O-O\nBb7 12. Qg4 ({An alternative here is} 12. Nxe6 fxe6 13. Qh5+ g6 14. Qg4 Nc5 15.\nBxb5+ Nc6 (15… axb5 16. Nxb5 {is too dangerous for Black to contemplate.} Qc8\n17. b4 Nc6 $13) 16. Ne4 $5 axb5 (16… Nxe4 17. Qxe6+ Be7 18. Bxe7 Qxe7 19.\nBxc6+ $18) 17. Nf6+ Kf7 18. Rhf1 Kg7 19. Rd7+ Nxd7 20. Nh5+ gxh5 21. Bf6+ {\nwith a strong attack. Fritz 17 asseses it as = !}) 12… Qxe5 {[#]} 13. Bxb5 {\nA regulation sacrifice to clear lines for an attack against Black’s uncastled\nking.} axb5 14. Rhe1 h5 15. Qh4 Qc5 16. Qg3 {[#]} Be7 {A critical moment.} ({\nAfter the game} 16… h4 {was suggested as an improvement\, but there are\npitfalls here too.} {One possible line is} 17. Bxh4 g5 18. Bxg5 Qxg5+ 19. Qxg5\nBh6 20. Nxe6 fxe6 (20… Bxg5+ 21. Nxg5+ {favours white.}) 21. Rxe6+ Kf7 22.\nRe7+ Kf8 23. Rf1+ {and white wins.}) 17. Bxe7 Qxe7 18. Nf5 {Now Black has to\ngive up his queen. Although he retains more than a nominal material equivalent\,\nthe mobility of White’s queen soon reduces his position to a shambles.} exf5\n19. Rxe7+ Kxe7 20. Qd6+ Kd8 21. Nxb5 $18 Bxg2 22. Qg3 Bc6 23. Qxg7 Re8 24. Qg5+\nf6 25. Qxf6+ Re7 26. Nc7 Kxc7 27. Qxe7 Rxa2 28. Rd4 Ra1+ 29. Kd2 Rf1 30. Qd6+\nKb7 31. Rb4+ Kc8 32. Rc4 Kd8 33. Rxc6 Nxc6 34. Qxc6 Rf2+ 35. Kc3 Rxh2 36. Qf3\nh4 37. Qxf5 h3 38. Qg5+ Kc8 39. Qg8+ Kb7 40. Qg3 Rg2 41. Qxh3 {and Black\nresigned.} 1-0[/pgn] \nJonathan Speelman in happy mood \nWriting\nHe has written a number of books on chess\, including several on the endgame\, among them Analysing the Endgame (1981)\, Endgame Preparation (1981) and Batsford Chess Endings (co-author\, 1993). \nAmong his other books are Best Games 1970–1980 (1982)\, an analysis of nearly fifty of the best games by top players from that decade\, and Jon Speelman’s Best Games (1997). Today he is primarily a chess journalist and commentator\, being the chess correspondent for The Observer and The Independent and sometimes providing commentary for games on the Internet Chess Club. \nJonathan Speelman and Daniel King share headphones at the 2013 FIDE Candidates event in London \nTilburg 1978\, Tony Miles & Jonathan Speelman\, Master Chess Publications\, 1978 \nRiga Interzonal 1979\, AJ Miles & J Speelman\, Batsford\, 1979\, ISBN 0 7134 3429 5 \nSpeelman\, Jonathan (1981). Analysing the Endgame. Batsford (London\, England). 142 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-1909-2. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan (1981). Analysing the Endgame. Batsford (London\, England). 142 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-1909-2. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan (1981). Endgame Preparation. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 177 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-4000-3. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan (1981). Endgame Preparation. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 177 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-4000-3. \nSpeelman\, Jon (1982). Best Chess Games\, 1970-80. Allen & Unwin (London\, England; Boston\, Massachusetts). 328 pages. ISBN 978-0-04-794015-6. \nSpeelman\, Jon (1982). Best Chess Games\, 1970-80. Allen & Unwin (London\, England; Boston\, Massachusetts). 328 pages. ISBN 978-0-04-794015-6. \nSpeelman\, Jon; Livshits\, August (1988). Test Your Endgame Ability. BT Batsford (London\, England). 201 pages. ISBN 0-7134-5567-5 \nSpeelman\, Jon; Livshits\, August (1988). Test Your Endgame Ability. BT Batsford (London\, England). 201 pages. ISBN 0-7134-5567-5 \nSpeelman\, Jon (1992). New Ideas in the Caro-Kann Defence. BT Batsford (London\, England). 155 pages. ISBN 0-7134-6915-3. \nSpeelman\, Jon (1992). New Ideas in the Caro-Kann Defence. BT Batsford (London\, England). 155 pages. ISBN 0-7134-6915-3. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan; Tisdall\, Jon; Wade\, Bob. (1993). Batsford Chess Endings. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 448 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-4420-9. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan; Tisdall\, Jon; Wade\, Bob. (1993). Batsford Chess Endings. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 448 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-4420-9. \nSpeelman\, Jon (1997). Jon Speelman’s Best Games. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 240 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-6477-1. \nModern Defence. Everyman\, 2000 \nSpeelman\, Jon (2008). Jon Speelman’s Chess Puzzle Book. Gambit Publications Ltd. 143 pages. ISBN 978-1-904600-96-1. \nSpeelman\, Jon (2008). Jon Speelman’s Chess Puzzle Book. Gambit Publications Ltd. 143 pages. ISBN 978-1-904600-96-1. \nJonathan Speelman
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-jonathan-simon-speelman/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201003
DTSTAMP:20260829T140741Z
CREATED:20191002T001012Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WFM Sarah Longson (née Hegarty) (02-x-1988)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to WFM Sarah Longson (née Hegarty) on her birthday this day\, (October 2nd) in 1988.\n\nFrom Sarah’s web site:\n\n“I have played competitive chess since the age of 7 when I became UK U7 Girls Chess Champion and appeared on Blue Peter where I met the then world champion Garry Kasparov. Since then I have represented England in many international competitions and in 2013 won the British Ladies Championship.”\n\nIn 2016 Sarah and partner FM Alex Longson made a successful bid for ownership of the UK Chess Challenge which auctioned by the bankruptcy receiver of IM Mike Basman\, the previous owner. Sarah and Alex have \n\nWFM Sarah Longson
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-sarah-longson-nee-hegarty/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,Organiser,Player,UKCC
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201003
DTSTAMP:20260829T140824Z
CREATED:20200424T203521Z
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SUMMARY:Happy Birthday Susan Caldwell (02-x-1958)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday Susan Linda Caldwell (02-x-1958)\n\nSusan is / was a director of the Hallas Foundation Ltd. and Larkham Printers and Publishers Ltd. and is married to former Scottish international Les SF Blackstock.\n\nSusan Caldwell playing board two in the London – Belgrade Telex Match on April 3rd\, 1976 from the St. James Hotel\, Buckingham Gate. Sourced from BCM\, Volume XCVI (96)\, Number 5\, page 192. Photographer probably Freddy Reilly.\n\nA few (11) of her games may be found on chessgames.com\n\nSusan Caldwell\, from the CentYMCA Story by Jimmy Adams\n\nBeginners Guide to Playing Chess\n\nBeginners Guide to Playing Chess
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/happy-birthday-susan-linda-caldwell-02-x-1958/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201003
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201004
DTSTAMP:20201002T185500Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM David Norwood (03-x-1968)
DESCRIPTION:We wish David Norwood all the best on his birthday\, \nDavid Robert Norwood was born in Farnworth\, Bolton\, Greater Manchester on October 3rd 1968 to an electrician. His mother’s maiden name was Mellor. \nMary Hopkin was still UK number one with “Those were the days” and would remain at number one for six weeks in total. \nDavid Norwood \nDavid read history at Keeble College\, Oxford before pursuing a successful business career (see below). \nDavid became an International Master in 1985 and a Grandmaster in 1989 and his peak FIDE rating (Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2545 in July 1994 at the age of 26. \nGM David Norwood \nDavid has a score of +2 against Viswanathan Anand\, +1 against Neil McDonald\, +2 against Keith Arkell and +2 against Mark Hebden. \nPreparing for David would have been fairly straightforward as he played almost the same opening with white and black playing 1.g3 (and less frequently\, 1.d4) and the Modern Defence although his did flick the Modern Benoni into the mix every now and then. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM8wGSBHi2c[/embedyt] \nAs well as moving to Oxford for University he was =1 at the 1988 (fifth) NatWest Young Masters with 6/9 (along with Adams and Kudrin) securing a GM norm : \nCrosstable for 1988 NatWest Young Masters \nIM David Norwood at the 1988 NatWest Young Masters. Photo by Tom Elek \nIn 1990 David became the first Grandmaster to play in the annual Varsity match. This was the 108th such encounter and David played on board one against Jeremy P Sharp of Downing College\, Cambridge. David first played in the 107th match in 1989 on board two below James Howell. David played one more time in 1991 scoring 2/3 from his three appearences. \nIM David Norwood at 1991 Varsity Match. Henry Gerald Mutkin (organiser and sponsor) is seated. \nAccording to FIDE David is registered with Andorra which appropriately (for DN) has Catalan as its national language. David has yet to win the Andorran Championship. He first played in the Andorran Open in 2011 and came close to winning in 2013 with 7/9. Since 2017 David has not played in a FIDE rated event. \nA powerful Unisys personal computer being present to Bolton-born GM David Norwood by Alva Rodger (centre)\, general manager of Unisys banking district ad Dr Brian Bailey\, managing director of Infolink\, a credit referencing agency. \n[pgn]\n[Event “London NWYM”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1988.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Norwood\, David”]\n[Black “Kudrin\, Sergey”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A46”]\n[WhiteElo “2470”]\n[BlackElo “2545”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “1988.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “10”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 009”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1989.04.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1989.04.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,71\,21\,37\,21\,38\,34\,18\,55\,44\,39\,35\,22\,28\,98\,37\,49\,47\,20\,7\,0\,0\,32\,39\,55\,\n60\,65\,46\,41\,49\,33\,43\,31\,54\,57\,53\,59\,51\,59\,71\,79\,83\,108\,90\,97\,74\,78\,70\,105\,127\,\n127\,124\,133\,135\,127\,133\,164\,127\,127\,127\,156\,227\,245\,173\,192\,177\,177\,82\,346\,346\,\n29991\,29992\,29993\,29994]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 b5 {This is more common\nthan you might imagine. There are 3500+ games with 3…b5 in MegaBase 2020.} 4.\nBg2 Bb7 5. O-O Be7 (5… c5) 6. Bg5 (6. a4) 6… c5 7. c3 Na6 8. Na3 Qb6 9. c4\nb4 10. Nb5 cxd4 11. Qxd4 $146 {[#]} (11. a4 {Pantaleev – Malakhatko\, 2009.})\n11… Qxd4 12. Nfxd4 Bxg2 13. Kxg2 O-O 14. Rfd1 Rfc8 15. Rac1 Nc5 16. Bf4 {\nPreparing Nd6 should black play a6.} a6 17. Nd6 Bxd6 18. Bxd6 Nfe4 19. Nb3 $1 {\n[#] with the pawn on g3 the dark squared bishop is perhaps less valuable.} Nxd6\n(19… Na4 $6 20. Bxb4 Nxb2 21. Rd4 $16) 20. Rxd6 $16 Na4 (20… Ra7) 21. Rxd7\nNxb2 22. c5 Na4 23. c6 Nc3 24. Na5 Nxa2 25. Rc4 $18 g6 26. c7 Kg7 27. Nb3 g5\n28. Nc5 (28. Nd4) 28… Kg6 29. Nd3 b3 30. Ne5+ Kf6 31. f4 (31. Rc5) 31… gxf4\n32. gxf4 (32. Nxf7 $1 {is crushing} Kg7 33. Nd8+ Kf6 34. Rxf4+ Kg6 35. Nxe6 {\nand its mate in 5.}) 32… Kg7 33. Rxf7+ Kg8 (33… Kh8) 34. f5 $1 b2 35. Rg4+\nKh8 36. Rgg7 {and Black resigned} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDavid is an active director of Genomics Plc\,  and 4D Pharma Plc. \nDavid Norwood \nAs a writer David wrote a chess column for The Daily Telegraph and has written : \nThe Usbourne Book of Chess Puzzles\, David Norwood\, 1992 \nWinning with the Modern\, David Norwood\, B.T. Batsford Ltd.\, London\, 1994 \nGrandmaster Meets Chess Amateur\, Steve David and David Norwood\, 1995 \nThe Usbourne Guide to Advanced Chess\, David Norwood\, 1995 \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“David Robert Norwood (born 3 October 1968) is an English businessman who runs an investment fund that finances spin-off companies from Oxford University science departments. He is also a chess grandmaster\, chess writer\, former captain of the English chess team and now represents Andorra at chess.” \n“The son of an electrician\, Norwood graduated with a history degree from Keble College\, Oxford University in 1988 before joining city investment bank Banker’s Trust in 1991.” \nPeter Wells\, Gary Lane\, John Emms and David Norwood \n“Norwood cofounded Oxford Sciences Innovation\, a £600m investment company dedicated to funding deep science from Oxford University\, and was its CEO from 2015 to 2019. Formerly he was founder of IP Group plc\, a fund that invested in spinoffs from Oxford University’s Chemistry department\, in exchange for 50% of the revenues from the licensing of the department’s intellectual property. \nIn 2017\, Norwood donated £1.9M to Keble College’s future hub for innovation at Oxford University.” \nFrom The Times of London\, November 20th\, 2008 by Ian King\, Business Editor : \n“Entrepreneur David Norwood swaps City for sun\, sea and writing \nDavid Norwood resigned all his directorships yesterday and is heading to a tiny island in the Bahamas\, where he will write the novel \nOne of the City’s best-known entrepreneurs resigned all his directorships yesterday – to move to a desert island\, where he plans to become a writer. \nIM David Norwood and IM Aldo Haik (France) taking a drink at the bar during Cappelle-Le-Grande\, 1988. Photograph by Caroline Winkler \nDavid Norwood\, a former chief executive of the stockbrokers Evolution and Beeson Gregory\, resigned from the boards of a number of companies\, including Oxford Advanced Surfaces\, ORA Capital\, Oxeco and Plus-listed Green Chemicals. He has also given up his role as special projects director at IP Group\, the intellectual property commercialisation company\, which he started eight years ago and floated on AIM in 2003. Shares of all five companies fell after the news was released.” \nGM David Norwood
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-robert-norwood/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201005
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201006
DTSTAMP:20201005T092720Z
CREATED:20191005T100349Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Andrew Greet (05-x-1979)
DESCRIPTION:IM Andrew Greet \nBCN wishes IM Andrew Greet best wishes on his birthday. \nAndrew Nicholas Greet was born on Friday\, October 5th\, 1979 in the cathedral city of Truro\, Cornwall and has resided in St. Austell\, Cornwall. “Message in a Bottle” by The Police held the number one spot in the UK singles chart (three weeks in total). \nAndrew attended Truro School leaving in 1998. \nAndrew became a FIDE Master in 2004 and an International Master in 2005. His peak rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2456 in April 2016 at the age of 37. \nAndrew was British Under-18 Champion in 1996 at the age of 16 sharing the title with Oliver Rosten & Rohan Churm. In 1998 Andrew won the title outright. \nFrom 1998 – 2001 had a break from chess to study Psychology at The University of Kent in Canterbury. \nIn 2005 he scored a record breaking 11/11 in the Four Nations League playing for Hillsmark Kingfisher. By now\, Andrew had moved to Glasgow and had changed his FIDE federation from England to Scotland. \nAndrew was joint winner (with Simon Knott) of the Southend Open in 2006. \nIn April 2009 Andrew joined Quality Chess in Sales and Marketing which led to the position of editor. \nIn 2010 Andrew became Scottish Champion outright. \nIn 2017 won outright the Dundee grandmaster tournament : here is the story of the tournament. \nIn 2018 he played board one for Scotland in the 43rd Olympiad in Batumi. \nAndrew is a successful martial artist specialising in a a discipline known as Brazilian Jiujitsu\, which is a form of grappling. \nHere is an article (by Dave Regis) concerning a simultaneous display at Exeter Chess Club in 2010 \nFrom britishchess.co.uk : \n“He has a very friendly personality which works well when coaching\, and he has coached England juniors on foreign trips.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Wellington College op 6th”]\n[Site “Crowthorne”]\n[Date “2005.01.29”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Cox\, John J”]\n[Black “Greet\, Andrew N”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E25”]\n[WhiteElo “2311”]\n[BlackElo “2389”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[EventDate “2005.01.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2006”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2005.11.24”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2005.11.24”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,48\,16\,18\,18\,-23\,-3\,4\,22\,-49\,-29\,-30\,-13\,-22\,-32\,-14\,33\,-11\,50\,61\,53\,\n43\,49\,64\,64\,32\,85\,61\,91\,34\,46\,50\,50\,-93\,-104\,-202\,-191\,-191\,-191\,-204\,-241\,\n-411\,-559\,-557\,-570\,-552\,-635\,-671\,-680\,-687\,-724]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3\nBb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. dxc5 Qa5 9. e4 Ne7 10. Be3\nO-O 11. Qb3 Qc7 12. Nh3 e5 13. Nf2 Nec6 14. Nd3 (14. Rb1) 14… Na5 15. Qc2\n$146 (15. Qd5) 15… Be6 $14 {[#]} 16. c4 $2 (16. Nb4) 16… Nxc4 17. Bf2 Qa5+\n18. Ke2 Nc6 $19 19. g3 Rfd8 20. Bh3 Rxd3 $1 21. Qxd3 Rd8 22. Bxe6 Rxd3 23. Kxd3\nQd2+ 24. Kxc4 Qc2+ {and White resigned} 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0506 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “2005.10.23”]\n[Round “2.1”]\n[White “Greet\, Andrew N”]\n[Black “Rowson\, Jonathan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E11”]\n[WhiteElo “2428”]\n[BlackElo “2599”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “2005.10.22”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2007”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2006.11.23”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2006.11.23”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Hilsmark Kingfisher”]\n[BlackTeam “Guildford”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,4\,34\,34\,56\,30\,30\,18\,27\,41\,33\,44\,30\,19\,46\,34\,30\,28\,\n49\,28\,42\,44\,55\,28\,24\,11\,11\,20\,21\,17\,41\,34\,26\,44\,50\,34\,39\,35\,95\,86\,79\,63\,63\,27\,\n50\,58\,85\,90\,80\,81\,112\,84\,102\,105\,140\,93\,213\,100\,124\,68\,126\,167\,179\,184\,184\,188\,\n189\,209\,304\,301\,275\,248\,248\,246\,785\,802\,29991\,29992]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4\nBb4+ 4. Bd2 Qe7 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Bxd2+ 7. Nbxd2 d6 8. O-O a5 9. e4 e5 10. d5\nNb8 11. Ne1 h5 12. h4 Bg4 13. f3 Bd7 14. Qb3 b6 15. Qe3 Na6 16. b3 Nc5 17. Rc1\nc6 18. a3 cxd5 19. cxd5 Bb5 20. Rf2 O-O 21. Bf1 Qd7 22. b4 axb4 23. axb4 Na4\n24. Kh2 Bxf1 25. Nxf1 Nh7 26. Qd3 f5 27. exf5 Rxf5 28. Rfc2 Rf7 29. Ne3 b5 30.\nQg6 Nb6 31. Rc6 Ra2+ 32. N1g2 Rf6 33. Qxh5 e4 34. f4 Nc4 35. Nxc4 bxc4 36.\nR1xc4 Qa7 37. Qe8+ Rf8 38. Qxe4 Nf6 39. Qe6+ Kh8 40. Rc8 Qf2 41. Rxf8+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAndrew has written a number of publications as follows : \nPlay the Ruy Lopez\, Andrew Greet\, Everyman\, 2007 \nDangerous Weapons 1.e4 e5\, Andrew Greet\, John Emms & Glenn Flear\, Everyman\, 2008 \nStarting Out : The Accelerated Dragon\, Andrew Greet\, Everyman\, 2008 \nBeating Unusual Chess Defences to 1.e4\, Andrew Greet\, Everyman\, 2011 \nPlay the Queen’s Indian\, Everyman\, Andrew Greet \nIM Andrew Greet
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-andrew-n-greet/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201007
DTSTAMP:20201002T191926Z
CREATED:20200407T202722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201002T191926Z
UID:4149-1601942400-1602028799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of WIM Sabrina Chevannes (06-x-1986)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of WIM Sabrina L Chevannes (06-x-1986) \nWIM Sabrina Chevannes\,  4NCL\, 2014\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-wim-sabrina-l-chevannes-06-x-1986/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201009
DTSTAMP:20201008T174549Z
CREATED:20191008T000152Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Michael Hennigan (08-x-1970)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM Michael Hennigan. \nMichael Thomas Hennigan was born on October 8th\, 1970 in Hammersmith\, London. His mother’s name was Donnelly. \nMichael attended the City of London School. \nMichael became World Under-18 Youth Champion in 1988 in Aguadilla (Puerto Rico).  \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master title in 1991 and in the same year was British Under-21 Champion at Eastbourne and was British Champion in 1993 in Dundee beating Dharshan Kumaran in the play-off.  \nIn 1995 he was 1st= in the Arnold Cup in Gausdal with Igor Rausis \nHis peak FIDE rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2465 in July 1994 at the age of 24.  \nHe played for North West Eagles in the Four Nations Chess League. \nMichael married WIM Rita Zimmersmann and settled in London. Rita subsequently became Rita Atkins. \nMichael stopped playing in 2010 but has recently in 2020 started playing online chess on the chess.com platform. \nMichael is a Senior Director with FTI Consulting \nWith the white pieces Michael used to be an e4 player but in 2020 has switched to 1.g3 to get back into the swing of things. \nAs the second player he plays the Sicilian Four Knights and the King’s Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch”]\n[Site “Dundee”]\n[Date “1993.??.??”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Hennigan\, Michael”]\n[Black “Ward\, Christopher”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A04”]\n[WhiteElo “2415”]\n[BlackElo “2460”]\n[Annotator “Bulletin”]\n[PlyCount “67”]\n[EventDate “1993.08.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “SCO”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 038”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1994.02.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1994.02.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,67\,19\,29\,53\,4\,49\,19\,15\,24\,18\,24\,25\,34\,34\,53\,32\,24\,10\,-25\,-32\,-32\,-20\,\n-18\,-26\,-22\,-15\,-18\,-7\,-19\,5\,11\,21\,3\,17\,-4\,1\,-16\,13\,-22\,28\,26\,17\,134\,134\,134\,\n140\,142\,185\,196\,181\,170\,149\,152\,219\,203\,203\,203\,187\,195\,247\,236\,244\,265\,234\,\n240\,249\,111\,840\,919]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. O-O Nc6 5. e4 e6 6. c3\nNge7 (6… d5 7. exd5 exd5 8. Re1+ Nge7 9. d4 cxd4 10. Bg5 $5 dxc3 11. Nxc3 O-O\n) 7. d4 cxd4 8. cxd4 d5 9. e5 f6 10. Re1 fxe5 11. dxe5 O-O 12. Bf4 (12. Nc3 $5\nd4 13. Ne4 Nxe5 14. Nxd4 Qxd4 15. Qxd4 Nf3+ 16. Bxf3 Bxd4 17. Kg2 e5 $13) 12…\nh6 (12… Rxf4 13. gxf4 Qf8 14. Qd2 Bh6 15. Ng5 Nf5 16. Nc3 $14) 13. h4 Bd7 (\n13… Rxf4 14. gxf4 Nf5 15. h5 $1 gxh5 (15… g5 16. Bh3 $16) 16. Bh3 $16) 14.\nQd2 Nf5 15. Nc3 Qe7 16. Rad1 Kh7 17. Kh2 $1 Rac8 18. Bf1 Qb4 19.\nBd3 h5 (19… Na5 20. Nxd5 $1 Qxd2 21. Bxd2 $18) 20. Bb1 Nce7 $2 (20… a5) 21.\nNxd5 $3 Qxd2 22. Nf6+ $1 Bxf6 23. Rxd2 Bc6 24. exf6 Bxf3 25. fxe7 Rfe8 26. Bg5\nKg7 (26… Bd5 27. f3 $1 Bxf3 (27… Nxe7 28. Bxe7 Rxe7 29. Rxd5) 28. Be4 (28.\nRxe6 $4 Rc1) 28… Bxe4 29. Rxe4 Kg7 30. Rxe6 Kf7 31. Rf6+ Kg7 32. Rd8 Nxe7 33.\nRd7 $18) 27. Be4 Bxe4 28. Rxe4 Kf7 29. Kg2 Rc5 (29… Rc7 30. Rd8) 30. Rd7 Rb5\n31. b3 e5 32. Rc4 Nd4 33. Rcc7 Ra5 34. Rd8 1-0 \n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDgVbMdyHI[/embedyt] \nStuart Conquest vs Michael Hennigan at 4NCL\,\, photo by Meri Grigoryan
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-michael-thomas-hennigan/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM John Graham Nicholson (08-x-1953)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM John Graham Nicholson (08-x-1953)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-john-graham-nicholson-08-x-1953/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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