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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201009
DTSTAMP:20200724T180625Z
CREATED:20200410T215732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200724T180625Z
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201012
DTSTAMP:20261003T115845Z
CREATED:20200410T165757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T115845Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Andrew P Lewis (11-xi-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Andrew P Lewis (11-xi-1960) \nAndrew was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2007-08 season
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-andrew-p-lewis-11-xi-1960/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201014
DTSTAMP:20261013T102059Z
CREATED:20200412T101508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261013T102059Z
UID:4533-1602547200-1602633599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Alex Golding (13-x-2003)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-alex-golding-13-x-2003/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201015
DTSTAMP:20201010T163934Z
CREATED:20200411T111529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201010T163934Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Simon Brown (14-x-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Simon D Brown (14-x-1960)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-simon-d-brown-14-x-1960-2/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Official,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201017
DTSTAMP:20201015T160120Z
CREATED:20191016T155427Z
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UID:1558-1602806400-1602892799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of GM John Shaw (16-x-1968)
DESCRIPTION:BCN offers birthday greetings to GM John Shaw  \nJohn K Shaw was born on Wednesday\, October 16th\, 1968. On this day Americans Tommie Smith (gold 19.83 WR) and John Carlos (bronze) famously give the Black Power salute on the 200m medal podium during the Mexico City Olympics to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans. \nJohn was born in Irvine\, North Ayrshire in Scotland.  \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1994 at the age of 26. Five years later in 1999 he became an International Master and finally a Grandmaster in 2006 at the age of 38. \nHe won the Scottish Championship in 1995 (with IM Steve Mannion and GM Colin McNab)\, outright in 1998 and in 2000 with AJ Norris. \nNot that many years previously (1988) John had a rating of 1700 at the age of 19 and therefore he falls into that rather rare category of GMs who were not strong players as juniors. \nAccording to Felice and Megabase 2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2506 in January of 2002. \nFIDE Rating profile for GM John Shaw\nJohn’s FIDE federation is Scotland and is currently ranked fifth in that country. \nIn 2005 John was interrogated by ChessBase upon his return from Gibraltar. \nHe acquired his three GM norms at Gibraltar 2003\, Calvia Olympiad 2004 and 4NCL Season 2005/6. \nAccording to ChessBase (in 2005) : \n“IM John Shaw has written two books for Everyman Chess and co-edited Experts vs. the Sicilian. He has represented Scotland on many occasions\, recently in the Olympiad in Calvià\, where he obtained his second GM-norm. As John has once had 2500 in Elo\, it is his hope that he will complete his Grandmaster title in 2005 with a third GM-norm. \nTogether with Jacob\, John constitutes two thirds of the new chess publisher Quality Chess Europe which has published Experts vs. the Sicilian by ten different authors and Learn from the Legends – Chess Champions at their Best by Romanian GM Mihail Marin.” \nJohn plays / has played for 4NCL Alba and his peak ECF grading was 240B in July 2009. \nWith the white pieces almost exclusively plays 1.e4 and the Ruy Lopez\, Exchange Variation. \nAs the second player John has a wide repertoire versus 1.e4 essaying the Sicilian La Bourdonnais (Löwenthal) and against 1.d4 the Slav is the weapon of choice. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 1415 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2015.02.15”]\n[Round “6.113”]\n[White “Palliser\, Richard”]\n[Black “Shaw\, John”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B83”]\n[WhiteElo “2444”]\n[BlackElo “2424”]\n[Annotator “John Saunders”]\n[PlyCount “50”]\n[EventDate “2014.11.15”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2016”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “White Rose”]\n[BlackTeam “Wood Green”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,50\,19\,38\,40\,41\,41\,60\,56\,30\,35\,37\,27\,37\,57\,45\,45\,57\,50\,42\,63\,89\,49\,50\,\n62\,7\,1\,5\,1\,-1\,8\,-5\,-5\,11\,-4\,-20\,-7\,-115\,-77\,-77\,-76\,-88\,-13\,-91\,-9\,-149\,-178\,\n-188\,-1\,-1548\,-1728\,-1802\,-1854]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5.\nNxd4 Nf6 6. Be2 d6 7. Be3 Be7 8. O-O Bd7 9. f4 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 Bc6 11. b4 {\nA move apparently first played by James Tarjan in 1980. Curiously\, the\naforementioned player has also made a reappearance recently after some\ndecades’ absence from the game.} b6 12. Bf3 O-O 13. Rad1 Rc8 14. Bf2 Qc7 15. a3\nRfd8 16. Qe3 Bb7 {Perhaps White was now regretting his overly bold 11th move\nas it has noticeably weakened the c-file.} 17. Nb5 Qxc2 18. e5 ({Life gets\ndifficult after this.} 18. Nxa7 Rc3 19. Rc1 $5 Rxe3 20. Rxc2 Rxa3 21. Nb5 Raa8\n22. e5 {is suggested by Houdini.}) 18… Nd5 19. Bxd5 Bxd5 20. exd6 Bf8 21.\nNxa7 ({It was a tough choice between this and} 21. Rc1 Qg6 22. Qg3 Rxc1 23.\nRxc1 Qe4 {\, which looks pretty good for Black.}) 21… Rc3 22. Qxb6 ({The\nalternative was to grovel with} 22. Qe1 Rxa3 23. Nb5 Ra2 {when} 24. Nc3 {\nmay be answered by} Bb7 $1 {since} 25. Nxa2 $4 {allows mate with} Qc6 {\, etc.})\n22… Rxd6 23. Qb8 Rd3 ({Houdini suggests} 23… Qe4 {\, forcing} 24. Rxd5 Rxd5\n{. Though this does not appear wholly convincing to the human eye\, the\ncomputer thinks it’s game\, set and match.}) 24. Rc1 $2 {[diag]} ({This meets\nwith a scintillating refutation. The alternative was} 24. Rxd3 $1 Qxd3 25. Re1\n{(To cover Qe4)} Qg6 26. Bg3 $1 {when Black still has work to do\, e.g.} Rd7 27.\nQb6 h5 28. f5 $1 Qxf5 29. Qf2 Qg6 30. Nb5 {\, etc.}) 24… Rg3 $3 {Lawrence\nCooper\, with an eye to the g3 square\, the location of a famous Frank Marshall\nsacrifice back in 1912\, asked if the board was showered with gold coins after\nthis move.} 25. hxg3 (25. Rxc2 Rxg2+ 26. Kh1 Rg3# {mate.}) 25… Qe4 (25… Qe4\n{White has a choice between being mated in one move\, or in 13 moves after} 26.\nQxf8+ {- I’ll leave readers to amuse themselves working out how White can keep\nthe game going that long.}) 0-1\n[/pgn] \nA writer of chess books\, John is the Chief Editor of the publishing house Quality Chess and has written the following (amongst others) : \nstarting out : the ruy lopez\nstarting out : the queen’s gambit\nQuality Chess Puzzle Book\nThe King’s Gambit\nPlaying 1.e4\nGrandmaster versus Amateur by John Shaw\nExperts on the Anti-Sicilian (Grandmaster Repertoire Series)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-john-k-shaw/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201017
DTSTAMP:20260817T135728Z
CREATED:20200411T221804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T135728Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Julian Way (16-x-1968)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Julian Way (16-x-1968)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-julian-way-16-x-1968/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201019
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201020
DTSTAMP:20260817T135719Z
CREATED:20191013T173648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T135719Z
UID:1517-1603065600-1603151999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Simon Knott (19-X-1958)
DESCRIPTION:We offer best wishes to IM Simon John Bradley Knott on his birthday \nSimon was born on Sunday\, October 19th 1958 in Lambeth\, London to Simon Harold John Arthur Knott and Josephine Whowell. \nSimon attended Trinity College\, Cambridge. \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master in 2001. According to Felice and Megabase 2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2401 in October 2002 at the age of 43. \nSimon was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1995-96 and 2001-02 seasons. \nSimon plays for Hertford and Barbican in the Four Nations Chess League. \nAs white Simon plays the Queen’s Gambit via a 1.Nf3 or 1.c4 move order. There are zero 1.e4 games! \nAs the second player he plays the French Winawer and the Grünfeld Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch”]\n[Site “Scarborough”]\n[Date “2004.08.02”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Knott\, Simon JB”]\n[Black “Adams\, David M”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D19”]\n[WhiteElo “2359”]\n[BlackElo “2180”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “45”]\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{[%evp 0\,45\,19\,29\,23\,27\,34\,-23\,30\,10\,4\,-9\,-23\,4\,3\,6\,19\,26\,32\,3\,22\,25\,9\,8\,27\,21\,\n17\,25\,24\,7\,64\,72\,72\,67\,47\,31\,99\,95\,81\,101\,93\,174\,218\,210\,235\,299\,295\,297]} 1.\nNf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. e3 e6 7. Bxc4 Bb4 8. O-O O-O\n9. Qe2 Bg6 10. Ne5 Nbd7 11. Nxg6 hxg6 12. Rd1 Qc7 (12… Qa5 $142) 13. e4 e5\n14. d5 cxd5 (14… Rac8) 15. Nxd5 Nxd5 16. Bxd5 Nf6 17. Bg5 Qb6 $2 18. Be3 Bc5\n19. a5 $1 Qb4 20. Bd2 Qxb2 21. Rdb1 Qc2 22. Rc1 Qb2 23. Ra2 $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSimon Knott (front\, keeling)\nIM Simon Knott
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-simon-john-bradley-knott/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201022
DTSTAMP:20260817T135644Z
CREATED:20191020T120956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T135644Z
UID:1591-1603238400-1603324799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Adam Hunt (21-x-1980)
DESCRIPTION:We offer IM Adam Hunt best wishes on his birthday. \nAdam Ceiriog Hunt was born on Tuesday\, October 21st\, 1980 in Oxford and his mother’s maiden name was Williams. The UK Number one single was “Woman in Love” by Barbara Streisand. Adam shares his birthday with Kim Kardashian. \n(Ceiriog was the bardic name of John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–87) \nAdam attended The Cherwell School and The University of Sussex to study general biology. \nJeremy Morse\, Adam Hunt (12)\, Nick Pert (11) and Nigel Short at the Lloyds Bank Masters\nAdam became an International Master in 2001 and then a FIDE Trainer in 2016. According to Felice and Megabase 2020 his attained his peak FIDE rating of 2466 in January 2008 at the age of 28. \nAdam Hunt in 1998  Cathy Rogers\nIn 2004 Adam was living in Headington\, Oxfordshire and in 2007 he moved to Ipswich in Suffolk and was married in 2019. Recently\, Adam and his partner became parents to Henry. \nMost recently Adam has played for 4NCL Blackthorne Russia\, prior to that Bettson.com\, Midlands Monarchs and Perceptron Youth with Witney being his original team. \nHe is Director of Chess at Woodbridge School in Suffolk and is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt \nWith the white pieces is (almost exclusively) an e4 player playing the main line of Ruy Lopez (8.c3) and favouring the Fischer-Sozin against the Najdorf. \nAs the second player Adam plays the Sicilian Najdorf and a 50:50 mixture of the King’s Indian and Grünfeld Defences. \nAdam is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTZvVe5_c-w[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Livigno op-A 2nd”]\n[Site “Livigno”]\n[Date “2011.09.15”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Hunt\, Adam C”]\n[Black “Fedorchuk\, Sergey A”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B84”]\n[WhiteElo “2437”]\n[BlackElo “2635”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “2011.09.12”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ITA”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 144 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.10.28”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.10.28”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,31\,72\,69\,43\,27\,31\,44\,44\,25\,87\,93\,61\,49\,57\,39\,71\,45\,40\,21\,28\,28\,\n35\,41\,34\,30\,41\,1\,59\,12\,27\,60\,49\,49\,97\,53\,102\,101\,100\,127\,91\,95\,20\,-104\,-70\,0\,\n53\,38\,111\,22\,217\,43\,234\,169\,234\,177\,322\,471\,471\,555\,555\,306\,310\,311\,311\,330\,\n335\,275\,272\,313\,323\,341\,372\,372\,372\,373\,407\,411\,472\,475\,853\,855]} 1. e4 c5 2.\nNf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be3 Be7 7. Be2 a6 8. Qd2 Qc7 9. a3\nb5 10. O-O-O O-O 11. f3 Bb7 12. g4 Nc6 13. g5 Nd7 14. h4 b4 15. axb4 $146 (15.\nNxc6) 15… Nxb4 16. h5 $14 Rfc8 $6 (16… Nc5) 17. Kb1 Rab8 18. Nb3 Bc6 19. g6\nhxg6 $6 20. hxg6 $16 fxg6 21. Bd4 Nf6 22. Qg5 Be8 (22… Nxc2 $1 23. Kxc2 Qb7)\n23. e5 Nfd5 24. Qg4 $1 Qd7 25. Qh3 $18 Kf7 26. exd6 (26. Qh7 $142) 26… Bf6\n27. Bxf6 Nxf6 28. Ne4 Nxc2 29. Ng5+ Kf8 30. Nxe6+ Kf7 31. Nbc5 (31. Bd3 $142)\n31… Rxc5 32. Nxc5 Qxh3 33. Rxh3 Ne3 34. Rd4 Bb5 35. Nxa6 Bxa6 36. Bxa6 g5 37.\nd7 Rd8 38. Bb5 Nf5 39. Rd3 Ke7 40. Rh2 Rb8 41. Re2+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nChess Strategy: Move by Move\, Adam Hunt\, Everyman\, 2013\nIM Adam Hunt
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-adam-ceiriog-hunt-21-x-1980/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201029
DTSTAMP:20201027T193508Z
CREATED:20191028T103717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201027T193508Z
UID:1687-1603843200-1603929599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Susan Lalic (28-x-1965)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes IM Susan Lalic Happy Birthday \nSusan Kathryn Walker was born on Thursday\, October 28th\, 1965 in Chatham\, Kent. Her mother’s maiden is / was Bacon. She has a brother\, Stephen. \nShe attended Nonsuch High School for Girls from 1977 to 1984. \nSusan married Keith Arkell in 1986 and then Bogdan Lalic in Lewes\, East Sussex in 1994 and finally Graeme Buckley in Sutton in 2001. \nWith Bogdan she had a son\, Peter D\, who is a strong player in his own right.  \nThere are ten players in MegaBase 2020 whose surname is Lalic. \nShe became a Woman’s FIDE Master in 1986\, Woman’s International Master in 1987\, Woman’s Grandmaster in 1988 and an International Master in 1996. \nSusan Walker\nAccording to Felice and Megabase 2020 Susan achieved a peak rating of 2405 in January 1997 at the age of 29. \nFrom the Praxis Bath Zonal Tournament of 1987. Susan Walker is at the rear on the left.\nSusan has played in the Four Nations Chess League for Slough\, Wood Green and Guildford and her most recent games in MegaBase 2020 are from 2012. \nKeith Arkell\, Susan Walker and Jeremy Morse at the Lloyds Bank Masters\nShe is five-time British Women’s Chess Champion: 1986\, 1990–1992\, and 1998 and has represented England in nine Olympiads. \nLK Semenova vs Susan Walker at the 1984 Women’s Olympiad\nSusan is very active is Surrey junior chess and teaches in many schools. \nIM Susan Lalic at a Surrey Megafinal\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GivfGnl_l1w[/embedyt] \nWith the White pieces Susan is almost exclusively an e4 player (preferring the Scotch Game) but curiously (and why not you might ask) she has employed The Polish Opening more than once with success. \nAs the second player she defends the Caro-Kann\, Larsen-Spassky\, Smyslov and the Classical Variations and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \nWFM Helen Milligan vs Susan Arkell\n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 98th”]\n[Site “Sheffield”]\n[Date “2011.07.26”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Lalic\, Susan”]\n[Black “Hebden\, Mark”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C47”]\n[WhiteElo “2277”]\n[BlackElo “2533”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “91”]\n[EventDate “2011.07.24”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 143 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,91\,29\,33\,34\,20\,6\,24\,21\,14\,-15\,-4\,-10\,-10\,-10\,16\,5\,5\,4\,10\,7\,0\,16\,0\,3\,\n-15\,-9\,-31\,-32\,-36\,-20\,-18\,-15\,-15\,-7\,0\,11\,26\,32\,38\,64\,53\,50\,33\,29\,40\,65\,60\,24\,\n0\,30\,-27\,31\,48\,49\,0\,3\,-53\,-52\,-52\,-95\,-88\,-105\,-132\,-40\,-23\,0\,0\,122\,132\,132\,\n140\,173\,155\,165\,128\,131\,103\,110\,157\,215\,130\,231\,188\,127\,195\,212\,181\,1163\,1463\,\n29985\,29986\,29987\,29988]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4\n6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O d5 9. exd5 cxd5 10. Bg5 c6 11. Qf3 Rb8 12. Rab1\nRe8 13. a3 Bd6 14. Bxf6 Qxf6 15. Qxf6 gxf6 16. b4 Be6 17. Na4 d4 18. Nc5 Bxc5\n19. bxc5 Rbd8 20. Rb7 Rd5 21. Rxa7 Rxc5 22. Re1 Rd8 23. h3 Rc3 24. Bxh7+ Kf8\n25. g4 c5 26. Kh2 Bd5 27. a4 Kg7 28. Be4 Re8 29. Bxd5 Rxe1 30. Rxf7+ Kg6 31. h4\nRe2 32. Kg2 Rcxc2 33. Kg3 Rxf2 34. h5+ Kh6 35. Be4 f5 36. Bxc2 Rxc2 37. Rxf5 d3\n38. Rd5 c4 39. Kf4 Re2 40. Rd6+ Kg7 41. g5 Re7 42. h6+ Kh7 43. Kg4 Rc7 44. Kh5\nRc5 45. Rd7+ Kh8 46. h7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSusan Lalic and friends\nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Susan Kathryn Lalic (née Walker; born 28 October 1965) is an English chess player\, holding both International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) titles. She is five-time British Women’s Chess Champion: 1986\, 1990–1992\, and 1998.[2] \nLalic has played for England nine times in Chess Olympiads\, from 1984 to 2000\, inclusive. From 1986 to 1998\, she played on the top board.[3] \nLalic was educated at Nonsuch High School for Girls from 1977 to 1984\, and has been married in the past to Keith Arkell and then to Bogdan Lalić. Currently she is married to International Master Graeme Buckley.[4][5] \nHighest rating from 1987-2012 is 2356(within 133 games)[6]” \nSusan Lalic and friends\, rear\, second from left\nYour Chess Questions Answered by Susan Lalic\,\, 1999
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-susan-kathryn-lalic-28-xi-1965/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201031
DTSTAMP:20201030T123812Z
CREATED:20200408T191409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T123812Z
UID:4211-1604016000-1604102399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Eddie Dearing (30-x-1980)
DESCRIPTION:BCN send best wishes to IM Eddie Dearing on his birthday. \nEdward J Dearing was born on Sunday\, October 30th\, 1980 in Scotland. \nEddie Dearing publicity photograph\, from EDs Facebook page.\nIn 2002 Eddie shared first place (with Karl Mah) in the Smith and Williamson Young Masters  with 6/9  with a TPR of 2458 : \nCross table for the 2012 Smith and Williamson Young Masters\nHe became an International Master in 2002 and\, according to Felice and Megabase 2020 achieved a peak rating of 2420 in July 2005 aged 25. He is currently ranked 8th in Scotland. \nEddie Dearing by Cathy Rogers\, ChessBase profile image\nEddie studied law at the University of Cambridge and did an MBA at the London Business School. Currently Eddie is a fund manager at MFS Investment Management. \nEddie is currently registered for Battersea in the London League and previously has played for Drunken Knights but has not been active since 2014. \nWith the white pieces Eddie prefers the Queen’s Gambit\, Exchange Variation. \nAs the second player Eddie plays the Sicilian Dragon and the Semi-Slav Defence. \nEddie has plus scores against : James Cobb\, Richard Palliser\, Simon Williams\, Karl Mah\, Jacob Aagard\, Colin McNab to name but a few. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0708 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Sunningdale”]\n[Date “2008.03.01”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Dearing\, Eddie”]\n[Black “Cherniaev\, Alexander”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D07”]\n[WhiteElo “2381”]\n[BlackElo “2491”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “41”]\n[EventDate “2007.09.15”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2009”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2008.11.26”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2008.11.26”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,41\,34\,28\,15\,-3\,30\,-10\,34\,34\,31\,7\,38\,21\,33\,31\,40\,28\,28\,45\,20\,47\,57\,34\,\n61\,47\,68\,48\,119\,16\,137\,155\,155\,155\,155\,100\,101\,75\,321\,321\,321\,433\,599\,415]} 1.\nd4 d5 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bf4 Bxf3 6. gxf3 dxc4 7. e3 Bb4 8. Bxc4\nNge7 9. Rg1 $146 (9. Qc2) (9. Qb3) 9… Ng6 10. Bg3 Qe7 11. Qc2 O-O 12. O-O-O\nRfd8 13. h4 {[#]} Na5 (13… Bxc3 14. Qxc3 Qf6 $14) 14. Be2 $16 c5 (14… Nxh4\n15. Ne4 Ng6 16. f4 $14) 15. d5 c4 16. h5 $18 Nf8 {[#]} 17. Rd4 $1 f6 18. Bh4\nBxc3 19. Qxc3 e5 20. Rdg4 b6 $2 21. Qxe5 (21. Rxg7+ Qxg7 22. Rxg7+ Kxg7 23. e4\n$18) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nPlay the Sicilian Dragon by Eddie Dearing\nPlay the Nimzo-Indian by Eddie Dearing
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201105
DTSTAMP:20201030T104555Z
CREATED:20191104T233855Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Gary Lane (04-xi-1964)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes “down under” to IM Gary Lane on his birthday. \nTeresa Needham and Gary Lane\nGary William Lane was born this day (November 4th) in 1964 in Paignton\, Devon. \nIM Gary Lane\nGary lived in Brixham\, Devon and attended Churston Ferrers Grammar School (also in Brixham) leaving in 1983. \nGary became a FIDE Master in 1984 and an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988. According to Felice and Megabase2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2464 in July 2001 aged 37. \nIM Gary Lane\nThis was written about Gary aged 14 prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n“Churston Grammar and Paignton. Rating 173. BCF Junior squad U-14 co-champion\, 1978.” \nGary Lane and Michael Adams\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFWWwDnCKI[/embedyt] \nIn 2004 won the Australian Championship and was voted Player of the Year. According to Sharpen Your Chess Tactics Gary is a well-known trainer\, and has been involved in coaching some of England and Australia’s top junior players. \nIM Gary Lane at British Chess Championships 2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\n[pgn]\n[Event “Doeberl Cup 39th”]\n[Site “Canberra”]\n[Date “2001.04.16”]\n[Round “7.2”]\n[White “Lane\, Gary William”]\n[Black “Djuric\, Stefan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B22”]\n[WhiteElo “2434”]\n[BlackElo “2508”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “2001.04.13”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “AUS”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 082 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2001.07.03”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2001.07.03”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,38\,25\,41\,46\,53\,13\,21\,26\,27\,0\,62\,44\,63\,58\,64\,56\,54\,39\,47\,26\,40\,18\,\n21\,0\,0\,-31\,-20\,-17\,-39\,0\,0\,8\,0\,-23\,40\,41\,33\,36\,30\,14\,28\,22\,49\,57\,67\,27\,85\,85\,\n92\,25\,68\,100\,121\,186\,173\,92\,75\,48\,37\,37\,168\,458\,1748\,1773]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6\n3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 Nf6 7. Nc3 Qd8 8. Bd3 Be7 9. O-O O-O\n10. Qe2 Nc6 11. Rd1 Nb4 12. Bb1 b6 13. a3 Ba6 14. Qe5 Nbd5 15. Qg3 Nh5 16. Qh3\ng6 17. Ne5 Rc8 18. Nxd5 Qxd5 19. Bh6 Ng7 20. Ba2 Qe4 21. f3 Qe2 22. Bc4 Rxc4\n23. Rd2 Qxd2 24. Bxd2 Rxd4 25. Bc3 Bc5 26. Kh1 Rd6 27. Ng4 Rfd8 28. Re1 h5 29.\nNh6+ Kf8 30. Qh4 e5 31. Bxe5 Rd1 32. Bd6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nGary and friends at the NatWest Bank Young Masters\nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Gary William Lane (born 4 November 1964) is a professional chess player and author. He became an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988. He has written over thirty books on chess\, including Find the Winning Move\, Improve Your Chess in 7 Days and Prepare to Attack. There have been translations in French\, Italian\, Portuguese and Spanish. In the 1980s the ITV documentary “To Kill a King” was screened nationwide in Great Britain.It featured a young Michael Adams and Lane. This feature is shown regularly at chess film festivals.” \nIM Gary Lane\n“After his marriage to Woman International Master Nancy Jones\, he moved to Australia\, winning the Australian Chess Championship in 2004. He won the 2005 Oceania Chess Championship and represented Oceania at the Chess World Cup 2005. \nHe has also represented Australia in the 2002\, 2004\, and 2006 Chess Olympiads.[2] In the 2004 Olympiad he helped Australia score a 2–2 draw with his former country England\, scoring a decisive win over Nigel Short.[3] He has been a chess coach for England or Australia at the World Junior and also European Junior championship for over a decade[when?].” \nGary Lane & family at the London Chess Classic\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\n“In 2012 he won the George Trundle Masters in Auckland\, New Zealand with a score of 7/9\,[4] and the NZ South Island Championships in Dunedin\, with a score of 8/9.[5] He was unbeaten in both events. \nIn 2015 at the Australian tournament the Doeberl Cup he beat Loek van Wely the reigning Dutch Champion and one of the world’s leading players. [6] He played the Closed Sicilian which he has also written about in two books. In 2016 he came =1st at George Trundle Masters in Auckland\, New Zealand with a score of 7/9\,[7] and followed this up with =1st place scoring 8/9 at the NZ South Island Championships in Canterbury.[8] He did not lose any games in the two events. At the 2nd Fiji International Open Chess Tournament Lane dominated the event winning with the perfect score of 7/7.[9] A score of 9/9 and clear first place was the result at the 1st Fiji International Rapid Open.[10] \nLane is a supporter of Torquay United F.C. [11]” \nPeter Wells\, Gary Lane\, John Emms and David Norwood\nJon Manley as editor of Kingpin Magazine wrote a spoof version of Gary’s Agony Aunt column \nGary has written almost 30 chess books : \n(1990) The C3 Sicilian: Analysis and Complete Games. The Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1-852233-18-1. \n(1990) The C3 Sicilian: Analysis and Complete Games. The Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1-852233-18-1.\, Gary Lane\nLane\, Gary (1991). The Ruy Lopez for the Tournament Player. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713468-12-0. \nLane\, Gary (1991). The Ruy Lopez for the Tournament Player. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713468-12-0.\nLane\, Gary (1992). Winning with the Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713469-72-1. \nLane\, Gary (1992). Winning with the Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713469-72-1.\nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Bishop’s Opening. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713471-13-7. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Bishop’s Opening. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713471-13-7.\nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Scotch. Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Scotch. Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0.\nLane\, Gary (1994). Beating the French. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713473-90-2. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Beating the French. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713473-90-2.\nLane\, Gary (1994). Winning with the Fischer-Sozin Attack. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713475-80-7. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Winning with the Fischer-Sozin Attack. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713475-80-7.\nLane\, Gary (1995). Blackmar–Diemer Gambit. Batsford Chess Library / An Owl Book / Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-4230-X. \nLane\, Gary (1995). Blackmar–Diemer Gambit. Batsford Chess Library / An Owl Book / Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-4230-X.\nLane\, Gary (1996). A Guide to Attacking Chess. B.T.Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-8010-6. \nLane\, Gary (1996). A Guide to Attacking Chess. B.T.Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-8010-6.\nLane\, Gary (1997). The Grand Prix Attack: attacking lines with f4 against the Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1997). The Grand Prix Attack: attacking lines with f4 against the Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0.\nLane\, Gary (1999). Victory in the Opening. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713484274. \nLane\, Gary (1999). Victory in the Opening. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713484274.\nLane\, Gary (2000). The Vienna Game. Everyman Chess. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2000). The Vienna Game. Everyman Chess. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0.\nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Colle. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713486865. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Colle. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713486865.\nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713486-87-2. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713486-87-2.\nLane\, Gary (2003). Ideas Behind the Modern Chess Openings: Attacking With White. Batsford. ISBN 9780713487121. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Ideas Behind the Modern Chess Openings: Attacking With White. Batsford. ISBN 9780713487121.\nLane\, Gary (2003). Find the Checkmate. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Find the Checkmate. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0.\nLane\, Gary (2004). The Bishop’s Opening Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8917-0. \nLane\, Gary (2004). The Bishop’s Opening Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8917-0.\nLane\, Gary (2004). ‘Find the Checkmate. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713488-61-6.\nLane\, Gary (2004). Playing Chess: Step by Step. Mud Puddle Books. ISBN 978-1-594120-55-8. \nLane\, Gary (2004). Playing Chess: Step by Step. Mud Puddle Books. ISBN 978-1-594120-55-8.\nLane\, Gary (2005). Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black. Batsford. ISBN 9780713489507.\nLane\, Gary (2005). The Scotch Game Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8940-5. \nLane\, Gary (2005). The Scotch Game Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8940-5.\nLane\, Gary (2006). The Ruy Lopez Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8978-2.\nLane\, Gary (2007). Improve Your chess In 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-9050-3. \nLane\, Gary (2007). Improve Your chess In 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-9050-3.\nLane\, Gary (2008). The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445770. \nLane\, Gary (2008). The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445770.\nLane\, Gary (2009). Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 9781906388287. \nLane\, Gary (2009). Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 9781906388287.\nLane\, Gary (2011). Prepare to Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857446500. \nLane\, Gary (2011). Prepare to Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857446500.\nLane\, Gary (2013). Gary Lane’s Chess Puzzle Book. e+books. ISBN 978-1-927179-14-7. \nLane\, Gary (2013). Gary Lane’s Chess Puzzle Book. e+books. ISBN 978-1-927179-14-7.\nIM Gary Lane\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201206
DTSTAMP:20201204T143723Z
CREATED:20191014T230918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T143723Z
UID:1524-1607126400-1607212799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Gavin Wall (05-xii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:Best Wishes to IM Gavin Wall on this birthday\, this day (December 5th) in 1968. Gavin is an Irish International Master whose peak rating (according to Chessbase) was 2413 at the age of 35. \nIM Gavin Wall\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0304 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “West Bromwich”]\n[Date “2004.03.21”]\n[Round “6.1”]\n[White “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Black “Wall\, Gavin”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[WhiteElo “2651”]\n[BlackElo “2413”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “78”]\n[EventDate “2003.10.18”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2005”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Wood Green”]\n[BlackTeam “Richmond”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,78\,30\,23\,23\,10\,65\,71\,75\,56\,61\,57\,44\,16\,13\,10\,36\,13\,13\,18\,57\,69\,80\,88\,\n89\,88\,88\,65\,95\,86\,110\,47\,60\,14\,14\,20\,-32\,-28\,-71\,-89\,-92\,-31\,-13\,-20\,0\,-13\,129\,\n0\,-22\,-21\,-51\,-122\,-127\,-113\,-105\,-224\,-237\,-494\,-494\,-497\,-495\,-533\,-494\,-591\,\n-625\,-630\,-662\,-666\,-709\,-711\,-709\,-728\,-722\,-715\,-726\,-712\,-709\,-710\,-710\,\n-710\,-716]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. Qf3 O-O 7.\nNf5 Bxf5 8. Qxf5 Nc6 9. Be3 Ne5 10. Be2 b5 11. Nxb5 g6 $6 $146 (11… Rb8) 12.\nQf4 $16 Rb8 13. Bc1 Nh5 14. Qe3 f5 15. exf5 Rxf5 $18 16. Nd4 $2 Bg5 17. Qc3 $15\nBxc1 18. Rxc1 Qg5 19. Rd1 Qxg2 20. Nxf5 Qxh1+ 21. Kd2 Qd5+ 22. Kc1 $15 Qxa2 $6\n(22… Nf4 $142) 23. Nh6+ (23. Bxh5 $18 gxf5 24. f4 $18) 23… Kf8 24. Bxh5\ngxh5 25. f4 Rb5 26. b4 Qc4 27. Qd2 $2 Ng6 (27… Nc6 $142 $19) 28. f5 Nf4 $19\n29. c3 Rd5 30. Qc2 Rxd1+ 31. Qxd1 Qxc3+ 32. Kb1 Qxb4+ 33. Ka2 Qc4+ 34. Ka1 Kg7\n35. Ng4 hxg4 36. Qxg4+ Kf7 37. Qh4 Qc1+ 38. Ka2 Qc2+ 39. Ka3 Qxf5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Gavin Wall
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201106
DTSTAMP:20201105T110737Z
CREATED:20201105T001005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T110737Z
UID:1709-1604534400-1604620799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Philip Morris (05-xi-1957)
DESCRIPTION:We wish IM Philip J Morris all the best on his birthday\, this day (November 5th) in 1967. \nPhil plays regularly for Beckenham & Charlton Chess Club in the London Chess League and has played for Invicta Knights Maidstone in the Four Nations League. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Telecom op”]\n[Site “Dublin”]\n[Date “1991.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Suba\, Mihai”]\n[Black “Morris\, Philip”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A34”]\n[WhiteElo “2540”]\n[BlackElo “2405”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “50”]\n[EventDate “1991.03.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[SourceTitle “TD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1994.03.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1994.03.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,50\,19\,-12\,11\,19\,14\,21\,86\,76\,67\,21\,23\,35\,73\,30\,59\,-20\,11\,23\,4\,8\,27\,20\,\n25\,12\,17\,9\,-2\,21\,25\,32\,39\,37\,30\,-8\,-8\,-27\,-27\,-27\,-48\,-52\,-78\,-78\,-80\,-258\,\n-275\,-335\,-342\,-532\,-609\,-614\,-635]} 1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5\n5. d4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 g6 7. Bg5 Bg7 8. Qa4+ Nc6 9. e3 Bd7 10. Qa3 Qa5 11. Qxa5\nNxa5 12. Rb1 Rc8 13. Bd3 cxd4 14. cxd4 Rc3 15. Ke2 f6 16. Bf4 Kf7 17. h3 Rhc8\n18. e4 Ra3 19. Rb2 Nc4 20. Rxb7 Rxa2+ 21. Nd2 Nxd2 22. Bxd2 Bh6 23. f4 Bxf4 24.\nRxd7 Rxd2+ 25. Kf3 Bg5 0-1\n[/pgn]
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTSTAMP:20201104T112226Z
CREATED:20191028T135928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T112226Z
UID:1714-1604707200-1604793599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Gary Quillan (07-xi-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Best wishes to IM Gary M Quillan on his birthday\, this day (November 7th) in 1970. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Gibraltar Masters 16th”]\n[Site “Caleta”]\n[Date “2018.01.23”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Quillan\, Gary”]\n[Black “Dubov\, Daniil”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B06”]\n[WhiteElo “2340”]\n[BlackElo “2694”]\n[Annotator “Ftacnik\,L”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “2018.01.23”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “GGB”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 183”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.03.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.03.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,31\,80\,74\,88\,-29\,71\,24\,67\,68\,50\,47\,17\,18\,20\,1\,0\,-50\,-4\,-25\,-27\,\n-36\,-18\,-9\,2\,-14\,-16\,4\,14\,-15\,15\,0\,15\,16\,75\,75\,87\,49\,55\,44\,44\,44\,130\,87\,87\,38\,\n142\,142\,116\,172\,189\,69\,335\,424\,669\,733\,1385\,1579\,1579\,1649\,1676\,1841]} 1. e4 g6\n2. d4 Bg7 3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 Bg4 {This is not a variation that strong players\nwould try often. Dubov is very unconventional player and believes\, that he can\noutsmart his lesser opponent on the unknown territory.} 5. c3 Nd7 6. Bc4 e6 7.\nO-O (7. h3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3 Nb6 (8… c6 9. f5 exf5 10. O-O d5 11. exd5 cxd5 12.\nQxd5 Qe7 13. Qxb7 Rb8 14. Qxa7 Ngf6 15. Bf4 O-O 16. Nd2 Ra8 17. Qb7 Nh5 18.\nRae1 $18 {1-0 (30) Pym\,T (2099)-Dignam\,M (2194) Douglas 2005}) 9. Bd3 d5 10. e5\nBf8 11. Be3 h5 12. g3 Qd7 13. Nd2 c5 14. dxc5 Na4 15. b4 Nxc3 16. O-O Qa4 17.\na3 a5 18. Rfc1 axb4 19. Qf1 Ra5 20. axb4 $18 {1-0 (22) Matic\,Z (2176)-Jurkovic\,\nA (2339) Zagreb 2006}) (7. Be3 Ngf6 8. Nbd2 d5 9. Bd3 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nd5 11. Bd2\nQe7 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 O-O 14. h4 c5 15. Nxc5 Nxc5 16. dxc5 Qxc5 17. h5 Rfd8\n18. hxg6 hxg6 19. g4 Rac8 20. Kf1 Rd6 21. Re1 Rcd8 22. Bb1 Qb5+ 23. Kg1 Qxb2 {\n0-1 (23) Schlechter\,C-Pillsbury\,H Monte Carlo 1903}) (7. f5 exf5 8. Qb3 Qe7 9.\nNg5 fxe4 10. Nxf7 Kf8 11. Nxh8 Bxh8 12. Bxg8 Nf6 13. O-O $18 {1-0 (45)\nRaedisch\,P-Rossbach\,M Kiel 2000}) 7… Ne7 (7… Nb6 8. Bd3 d5 9. e5 Ne7 10. a4\na5 11. Na3 Qd7 12. b3 O-O 13. Nc2 Rac8 14. Ne3 Bxf3 15. Rxf3 c5 16. Bb5 Qd8 17.\nBd2 cxd4 18. cxd4 Na8 19. Qe1 b6 20. Ba6 Rc7 21. b4 Nc6 22. bxa5 Nxd4 $11 {\n1-0 (90) Vucko\,J (2187)-Babits\,A (2270) Hungary 2005}) (7… c6 8. Nbd2 (8. f5\ngxf5 9. h3 fxe4 10. hxg4 exf3 11. Qxf3 Qe7 12. b4 d5 13. Bb3 f6 14. b5 h5 15.\nbxc6 bxc6 16. g5 f5 17. Qf4 Nf8 18. Ba3 Qd7 19. Re1 Ne7 20. Nd2 $16 {1/2-1/2\n(39) Novak\,I-Trapl\,J Harrachov 1966}) 8… Qc7 9. b4 Ngf6 10. Bd3 Nh5 11. Nb3\nNxf4 12. Bxf4 O-O 13. Qe1 e5 14. dxe5 Bxf3 15. Rxf3 Nxe5 16. Rh3 Nxd3 17. Qh4\nh5 18. Rxd3 $18 {1-0 (44) Rodriguez Dorado\,V-Gomez Velasco\,J Valladolid 1997})\n8. Qe1 (8. h3 Bxf3 9. Qxf3 O-O 10. e5 (10. f5 exf5 11. Bg5 Kh8 12. Bxe7 Qxe7\n13. exf5 c6 14. Nd2 Rae8 15. Rf2 d5 16. Bd3 Qe3 17. Nf1 Qxf3 18. Rxf3 Bh6 19.\nNg3 Re7 $15 {1/2-1/2 (55) Levi\,E (2215)-Ker\,A (2300) Melbourne 1989}) 10… d5\n11. Bd3 c5 12. Be3 Qb6 13. Qf2 c4 14. Be2 Qxb2 15. Nd2 Qxc3 16. Nf3 Qa5 17. g4\nf6 18. Qh4 g5 19. Qh5 gxf4 20. Bxf4 Ng6 $19 {0-1 (24) Metz\,H-Zysk\,R (2400)\nBaden-Baden 1987}) (8. Be3 O-O 9. Nbd2 c5 10. h3 cxd4 11. cxd4 Bxf3 12. Qxf3\nNb6 13. Bb3 d5 14. e5 Qd7 15. Rfc1 Rfc8 16. Rc5 Rxc5 17. dxc5 Na4 18. Bxa4 Qxa4\n$15 {0-1 (52) Bonnaire\,R-Zunker\,R (2165) Bad Wildungen 1998}) (8. Bb3 O-O 9.\nBe3 d5 10. e5 Nf5 11. Bf2 f6 12. Nbd2 Bh6 13. g3 fxe5 14. dxe5 g5 15. c4 c6 16.\ncxd5 cxd5 17. fxg5 Bxg5 18. Nxg5 Qxg5 19. Nf3 Qh5 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. Qxd5+ Kh8\n$19 {0-1 (55) Ponizil\,C (2478)-Petenyi\,T (2454) Czech Republic 2017}) 8… O-O\n9. Bb3 {The first part of the opening phase is over and Black must be\nespecially careful about his potentially stranded bishop on g4.} (9. Nbd2 c5\n10. Bb3 cxd4 11. Nxd4 Nc5 12. Bc2 e5 $11) 9… Bxf3 10. Rxf3 c5 11. Be3 cxd4\n12. cxd4 {Trading the bishops on d4 might have some merit\, but White would be\npractically forced to sacrifice the pawn.} (12. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 13. cxd4 Qb6 14. Kh1\nQxd4 15. Nc3 $44) 12… Nf6 13. Nc3 Ng4 14. Rd1 Qb6 (14… d5 15. e5 Nxe3 16.\nQxe3 Rc8 $11) 15. Na4 {The fight is obviously concentrated around the d4-pawn.\nQuillan does not like the black queen interfering on the a7-g1 diagonal.} (15.\nBf2 Nc6 16. e5 Nxf2 17. Qxf2 $11) 15… Qa6 (15… Qc7 16. Bc1 b5 17. Nc3 b4\n18. Na4 Nf6 $11) 16. Bc1 b5 (16… Nc6 17. e5 Rad8 18. h3 Nh6 $11) 17. Nc3 Qb6\n$2 {Dubov has failed to notice the very clever answer of his opponent\, the\nposition was still equal.} (17… b4 18. Ne2 Qb7 19. e5 Nh6 $11) 18. Qh4 $1 Nf6\n{The shock must have been very unpleasant. The attack against the d4-pawn\nloses its merit and the black pieces are scrambling to get coordinated again.}\n(18… h5 $5 19. Qxe7 Bf6 20. Qd7 a6 21. Bxe6 Bxd4+ (21… Rad8 22. Bxg4 $16)\n22. Kh1 Nf6 23. Bxf7+ Rxf7 24. Qh3 Bxc3 25. Be3 Qc6 26. bxc3 $16) (18… Bxd4+\n19. Kh1 Nf2+ 20. Rxf2 Bxf2 21. Qxe7 b4 22. Na4 Qd8 23. Qg5 $1 $16) 19. g4 $1\nQb7 20. Rh3 h5 $2 {Defence in chess is an art that very few top players have\nmastered properly. The radical move with the h-pawn is objectively bad\, but it\nmust be admitted that Dubov was under intense pressure.} (20… h6 $1 21. e5\ndxe5 22. dxe5 Nh7 23. f5 gxf5 24. Bxh6 Ng6 25. Qh5 fxg4 26. Qxg4 $16) 21. gxh5\nNxh5 22. f5 $1 {[%mdl 128]} exf5 (22… d5 23. Bg5 Nc6 24. f6 Bh8 25. exd5 $18)\n23. exf5 (23. Bg5 Rae8 24. Bxe7 Qxe7 25. Qxe7 Rxe7 26. exf5 Kh7 27. Nxb5 $16)\n23… Nxf5 24. Qg5 {A fine move that hints at the numerous problems Black is\nexperiencing with his pieces. The knights on f5 and h5 are vulnerable\, but it\nis the soft g6-pawn that causes the catastrophe of the black position.} Ne7 (\n24… d5 25. Rxh5 Rac8 26. Nxd5 $18) 25. Rxh5 $1 gxh5 26. Rd2 d5 {Completely\ndesperate attempt to close the diagonal a2-g8 as it prevents Black from even\ndreaming about a sufficient defence.} (26… Qb6 27. Qxe7 Qd8 28. Qxd8 Raxd8\n29. Nxb5 $18) (26… Qf3 27. Rg2 Nf5 28. Bd5 Qd3 29. Be4 Qxd4+ 30. Kh1 Ne7 31.\nBxa8 $18) 27. Nxd5 Rfe8 (27… Rfc8 28. Nxe7+ Kf8 29. Ng6+ Kg8 30. Rg2 $18) 28.\nRg2 {White was very efficient in opening up the kingside\, the defender can\nonly choose the form of honourable undoing.} Ng6 (28… Nf5 29. Qxf5 Re1+ 30.\nKf2 Rxc1 31. Qf6 $18) 29. Nf6+ Kf8 (29… Bxf6 30. Qxg6+ $18) 30. Nh7+ Kg8 31.\nQxg6 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nGarry Quillan
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-gary-m-quillan-07-xi-1970/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTSTAMP:20201031T001250Z
CREATED:20200402T174535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201031T001250Z
UID:3988-1604707200-1604793599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Gerald Bennett (07-xi-1949)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Gerald Howard Bennett (07-xi-1949)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-gerald-h-bennett/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTSTAMP:20201108T122806Z
CREATED:20191107T111045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T122806Z
UID:1795-1604793600-1604879999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Alan Merry (08-xi-1996)
DESCRIPTION:BCN send Birthday greetings to IM Alan Merry \nAlan Baxter Merry was born on Friday\, November 8th\, 1996 in Bury St. Edmunds\, Suffolk. His mother’s maiden name is Guymer. Alan has a younger brother James Clayton Merry (born 1999). James is also registered with Suffolk CCA but have never had a published grading or rating. \nFIDE rating profile for IM Alan Merry\nCrosstable for Purley Big Slick International\, 2013\nHe became a FIDE Master in 2013 and an International Master in 2016. His peak rating according to Felice was 2396 in July 2016. However this has been surpassed and according to MegaBase 2020 it is 2460 in June 2018 at the age of 22. \nAlan won the 2014 Golders Green Open with a convincing 5.5/6 : \nPart crosstable for 2014 Golders Green Open\nand has won further events since including the Kingsley Healthcare Great Yarmouth Congress in 2018. \nIM Alan Merry at the 2019 Basingstoke 4NCL Congress\nAlan plays for Suffolk County Chess Association and in 4NCL started with Anglian Avengers\, then the ADs and finally moving to Barbican in the 2015/16 season. His current ECF grading is 237A for standard-play and 236A for rapid-play. His FIDE standard play rating is 2427. \nAlan has a plus score against : James Jackson\, Ravi Haria\, John Nunn\, Peter Sowray\, James Adair\, Matthew Wadsworth\, Jack Rudd and Simon Williams to name but a few. \nWith the white pieces Alan has a varied repertoire favouring (unusually) the Four Knights game. \nAs the second player he champions the French Winawer and the Modern Benoni.  \n[pgn]\n[Event “4NCL-ch rapid”]\n[Site “Daventry”]\n[Date “2013.10.06”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Jones\, Gawain C B”]\n[Black “Merry\, Alan B”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A22”]\n[WhiteElo “2638”]\n[BlackElo “2297”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “134”]\n[EventDate “2013.10.06”]\n[EventType “swiss (rapid)”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 156 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.10.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.10.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,134\,19\,-12\,-27\,-45\,-60\,-44\,-41\,-20\,-50\,-35\,12\,-9\,-16\,-15\,20\,1\,-12\,32\,\n6\,-9\,90\,55\,52\,18\,34\,36\,27\,9\,-8\,-64\,-22\,-14\,-29\,-18\,-32\,-16\,-65\,-65\,-63\,-63\,-87\,\n-157\,-52\,-82\,-77\,-85\,-88\,-85\,-87\,-141\,-171\,-234\,-235\,-245\,-257\,-211\,-235\,-249\,\n-266\,-460\,-453\,-453\,-456\,-444\,-449\,-472\,-470\,-488\,-469\,-477\,-443\,-463\,-483\,\n-487\,-504\,-504\,-508\,-523\,-510\,-509\,-509\,-516\,-439\,-447\,-413\,-531\,-532\,-547\,\n-538\,-547\,-543\,-574\,-576\,-592\,-527\,-596\,-534\,-584\,-594\,-608\,-551\,-629\,-672\,\n-659\,-621\,-659\,-717\,-734\,-666\,-705\,-755\,-994\,-606\,-606\,-559\,-564\,-575\,-589\,\n-580\,-585\,-597\,-628\,-638\,-679\,-624\,-644\,-621\,-628\,-686\,-737\,-718\,-918\,-1002\,\n-1022\,-1015]} 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nc3 Nb6 6. e3 Nc6 7.\nNge2 Be6 8. O-O Qd7 9. f4 f6 10. Qc2 Nb4 11. Qe4 Nc6 12. f5 Bf7 13. d4 Bd6 14.\nQg4 O-O 15. d5 Ne7 16. e4 Kh8 17. Be3 Nc4 18. Bf2 Nxb2 19. Rab1 Nd3 20. Be3 Bc5\n21. Qf3 b6 22. g4 c6 23. Rfd1 Bxe3+ 24. Qxe3 Nc5 25. d6 Nc8 26. Rb2 Nxd6 27. g5\nNc4 28. Qh3 Qe7 29. g6 Bg8 30. gxh7 Nxb2 31. hxg8=Q+ Kxg8 32. Rf1 Ncd3 33. Qg3\nQc5+ 34. Kh1 Rad8 35. Bf3 Nf4 36. Rg1 Rf7 37. Qh4 Nbd3 38. Rf1 Qe3 39. Nd1 Qd2\n40. Nxf4 Nxf4 41. Nf2 Qe3 42. Qg3 Rd2 43. Ng4 Qd3 44. Rg1 Kf8 45. Nf2 Qc3 46.\nNd1 Qd4 47. Qh4 Ke7 48. Qe1 Kd7 49. Ne3 Kc7 50. Ng4 Re2 51. Qb1 Rb2 52. Qf1 Rd7\n53. Qa6 Kb8 54. Qa3 Qd3 55. Qxd3 Rxd3 56. Bd1 Rb1 57. Bb3 Rxg1+ 58. Kxg1 Rd4\n59. Kf2 Rxe4 60. Kf3 Rd4 61. Nf2 c5 62. Ne4 c4 63. Bc2 b5 64. h4 b4 65. Nc5 Kc7\n66. Na6+ Kb6 67. Nxb4 a5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Alan Merry
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-alan-baxter-merry-08-xi-1996/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTSTAMP:20201030T105437Z
CREATED:20200402T175751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T105437Z
UID:3994-1604793600-1604879999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Simon Bibby (08-xi-1974)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Simon Bibby (08-xi-1974)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-simon-bibby-08-xi-1974/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTSTAMP:20201031T205429Z
CREATED:20200408T212812Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201031T205429Z
UID:4217-1604793600-1604879999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Richard Eales (08-xi-1949)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Richard Geoffrey Eales (08-xi-1949)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-richard-geoffrey-eales-08-xi-1949/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,History,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20211109T093940Z
CREATED:20191028T140720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T093940Z
UID:1717-1604880000-1604966399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM James Adair (09-xi-1992)
DESCRIPTION:IM James Adair playing GM Hikaru Nakamura at the London Chess Classic 2014\nBCN wishes Happy birthday to IM James Adair. \nJames Robert Adair was born on Monday\, November 9th in 1992 in Reading\, Berkshire. \nJames attended Little Heath School\, Tilehurst\, Reading and joined Reading Chess Club and was an active player in the Berkshire League and in the Surrey Border League. His father Andrew took up chess to support James as a junior. \nHe then read Mathematics at The University of York and now is employed by Aviva plc (formerly Norwich Union Assurance) in the field of insurance. \nJames became a FIDE Master in 2012 and gained his International Master title in August 2014.  \nAccording to Felice his best FIDE rating was 2489 in December 2016. According to MegaBase 2020 it was 2492 in August 2018 at the age of 26. \nJames started his 4NCL career in the 2006/7 season with Conquistadors and then transferred to Guildford not long after. By 2010/11 James was playing for the bar loving Sambuca Sharks team. In 2011 James transferred to 4NCL White Rose as he had just started University in Yorkshire. He was also playing for York RI. \nIn 2009 he shared equal 1st (4.5/5) with Alexei Slavin in the Uxbridge Open\, a sadly missed e2-e4 event. Since then James has had various tournament successes. \nFIDE rating profile for IM James Adair\n[pgn]\n[Event “UK-ch blitz op”]\n[Site “Solihull”]\n[Date “2018.12.01”]\n[Round “13”]\n[White “Adair\, James R”]\n[Black “Pert\, Nicholas”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B32”]\n[WhiteElo “2500”]\n[BlackElo “2563”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “2018.12.01”]\n[EventType “tourn (blitz)”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,73\,28\,28\,58\,51\,39\,32\,1\,43\,26\,25\,28\,10\,10\,6\,12\,9\,9\,18\,26\,-13\,29\,19\,31\,\n20\,54\,15\,17\,10\,61\,66\,96\,99\,99\,90\,130\,131\,127\,135\,127\,120\,117\,113\,120\,102\,88\,88\,\n231\,231\,235\,235\,321\,319\,354\,396\,391\,391\,656\,754\,637\,779\,803\,809\,809\,617\,630\,\n668\,673\,764\,812\,940\,1057\,1080\,2209\,29980]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.\nNxd4 e5 5. Nb5 d6 6. N1c3 a6 7. Na3 Be7 8. Nc4 b5 9. Ne3 Nf6 10. g3 {Bologan}\nBe6 (10… O-O 11. Bg2 b4 12. Ncd5) 11. Bg2 Rc8 (11… O-O 12. O-O) 12. O-O Nd4\n13. Bd2 $146 (13. Ncd5) 13… O-O {[#]} 14. a4 b4 15. Ncd5 a5 $6 (15… Bxd5\n16. exd5 Rb8) 16. c3 Nc6 17. cxb4 Bxd5 18. exd5 Nxb4 19. Bxb4 axb4 20. a5 $16\nNd7 21. Bh3 $1 Rb8 22. Bxd7 Qxd7 23. Qa4 Qh3 $6 ({Better was} 23… Qc7) 24. a6\n$18 f5 {[#]} 25. Qd7 $1 Bg5 26. Nc4 (26. Qe6+ Kh8 27. a7 Ra8 28. Qxd6 f4 29.\nQxf8+ Rxf8 30. a8=Q Kg8 31. Qa6 fxe3 32. fxe3 Bxe3+ 33. Kh1 Rd8 $18) 26… Rbd8\n27. Qe6+ Kh8 28. Nxd6 h5 29. Nf7+ Rxf7 30. Qxf7 h4 31. Qh5+ Bh6 32. Qxh4 (32.\na7) 32… Qxh4 33. gxh4 Ra8 34. a7 e4 35. d6 Bf4 36. d7 Bc7 37. Rfc1 {and\nBlack resigned.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nJames has plus scores against : Peter Roberson\, Jack Rudd\, Richard Bates and Matthew Turner amongst others. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 98th”]\n[Site “Sheffield”]\n[Date “2011.07.24”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Adair\, James”]\n[Black “Palliser\, Richard”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B42”]\n[WhiteElo “2212”]\n[BlackElo “2454”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “77”]\n[EventDate “2011.07.24”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 143 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,77\,19\,38\,72\,47\,56\,34\,40\,22\,64\,48\,61\,61\,61\,52\,57\,47\,60\,53\,44\,-16\,8\,2\,\n58\,34\,50\,42\,42\,9\,36\,33\,27\,30\,52\,54\,88\,78\,81\,42\,35\,50\,70\,20\,36\,31\,66\,-21\,30\,65\,\n36\,36\,36\,36\,36\,61\,85\,148\,221\,195\,281\,287\,288\,288\,288\,194\,288\,175\,176\,192\,193\,\n197\,255\,240\,271\,227\,250\,248\,248\,243]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6\n5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. Qg4 Nf6 8. Qg3 d6 9. Nc3 Nc6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bd2 e5 12.\nO-O-O Nh5 13. Qf3 Nf6 14. Qg3 Nh5 15. Qf3 Nf6 16. h3 $146 (16. Nd5) 16… Be6\n17. Nd5 Nd7 $6 18. Qg3 $16 g6 19. f4 exf4 20. Nxf4 Nde5 21. Bc3 $6 $11 (21. Kb1\n$16) 21… b5 $2 (21… Qg5 $142) 22. Na5 Nd4 23. Ne2 Nxe2+ 24. Bxe2 Qc7 25.\nNb7 Qxb7 26. Rxd6 Qxe4 27. Bxe5 Bf2 28. Qf3 Qxe5 29. Rxe6+ (29. Qxa8+ Ke7 30.\nRxe6+ fxe6 31. Qb7+ Kf6 32. Qf3+) 29… Qxe6 (29… fxe6) 30. Qxa8+ Ke7 31.\nQxh8 Qxe2 32. Qc3 Kf8 33. Qf3 Be3+ 34. Kb1 Qxf3 35. gxf3 Kg7 36. Re1 Bc5 37. c3\nKf6 38. Kc2 Kf5 39. Re4 $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM James Adair
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-james-r-adair-09-xi-1992/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20201030T123251Z
CREATED:20200408T105233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T123251Z
UID:4169-1604880000-1604966399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Stuart W Clarke (09-xi-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Stuart W Clarke (09-xi-1970)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-stuart-w-clarke-09-xi-1970/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20201030T124334Z
CREATED:20200411T123533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T124334Z
UID:4416-1604880000-1604966399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Mark JL Orr (09-xi-1955)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Mark JL Orr (09-xi-1955)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-mark-jl-orr-09-xi-1955/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201115
DTSTAMP:20201112T205953Z
CREATED:20200410T091929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201112T205953Z
UID:4311-1605312000-1605398399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of GM David Howell (14-xi-1990)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM David Wei Lang Howell (14-xi-1990) \nDavid was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2010-11 season sharing with Danny Gormally.
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-david-wei-lang-howell-14-xi-1990/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201116
DTSTAMP:20201030T125410Z
CREATED:20191110T180217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T125410Z
UID:1897-1605398400-1605484799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Charles Cobb (15-xi-1978)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Charles A Cobb (15-xi-1978)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-charles-a-cobb-15-xi-1978/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201116
DTSTAMP:20201030T125543Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Ben Hague (15-xi-1973)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Ben Hague (15-xi-1973)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-ben-hague-15-xi-1973/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201118
DTSTAMP:20201117T184423Z
CREATED:20191110T180622Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Michael Adams (17-xi-2019)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Michael Adams on his birthday\, this day (November 17th) in 1971 \nMichael was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1996-97 season. \nHis Wikipedia entry is here \nMichael Adams\n[pgn]\n[Event “Dortmund SuperGM 41st”]\n[Site “Dortmund”]\n[Date “2013.07.28”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Caruana\, Fabiano”]\n[Black “Adams\, Michael J”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C67”]\n[WhiteElo “2796”]\n[BlackElo “2740”]\n[Annotator “Adams\,M”]\n[PlyCount “82”]\n[EventDate “2013.07.26”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[EventCategory “19”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 156”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.09.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.09.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,82\,28\,24\,24\,28\,21\,7\,28\,17\,34\,55\,49\,71\,66\,64\,54\,63\,63\,59\,100\,87\,75\,74\,\n62\,57\,55\,2\,6\,8\,15\,-31\,22\,27\,39\,46\,59\,83\,97\,29\,42\,19\,0\,0\,0\,-46\,-50\,-48\,-45\,-149\,\n-210\,-215\,-213\,-212\,-230\,-234\,-225\,-227\,-221\,-229\,-231\,-226\,-189\,-181\,-198\,\n-192\,-206\,-203\,-204\,-201\,-197\,-190\,-189\,-190\,-201\,-188\,-217\,-241\,-242\,-237\,\n-247\,-256\,-284\,-310\,-317]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6\n6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 {Although I have spent an unhealthy amount of my life\nanalysing the endgame arising from the Berlin variation my only previous\nouting on the Black side against Peter Leko occurred back in 2004. The 101\nmoves of suffering didn’t encourage me to rush into a second outing.} 8. Qxd8+\nKxd8 9. h3 {The new fashion which enables White to advance his kingside pawns\nvery rapidly in some variations.} Bd7 10. Rd1 Kc8 11. g4 Ne7 12. Ng5 Be8 13. f4\nh5 14. Kf2 ({I was only aware of the previously played} 14. f5 {and}) (14. Kg2\n{This novelty is quite clever as the king is ready to cover the g-pawn but\navoids possible bishop checks on the light squares. White’s positional assets\nlooked rather daunting over the board but his king will not feel comfortable\nfor some time.}) 14… b6 ({The pawn is safe for now as} 14… hxg4 15. hxg4\nRh2+ 16. Kg3 Rxc2 17. Nh7 {wins material. My move improving Black’s king\nposition seems logical.}) 15. f5 Kb7 16. Nc3 ({If White can complete\ndevelopment without incident his advanced pawns will be a crucial asset} 16. c4\n{was the alternative.}) 16… hxg4 ({Accepting the challenge as} 16… Nd5 17.\nNxd5 cxd5 18. Kg3 {looks pleasant for White.}) 17. hxg4 Rh2+ 18. Kg3 Rxc2 19.\nNh7 {My bishop is destined to perish on its starting square but my other\npieces become very active.} ({Play remains murky after the alternative} 19. e6\nf6 20. Nh7 c5 21. Nxf8 Bc6 22. Ng6 Nxg6 23. fxg6 Rg2+ 24. Kf4 Rf2+) 19… c5\n20. Nxf8 ({If White wants to play for a win I think} 20. Rd2 Rxd2 21. Bxd2 Bc6\n22. Rd1 {which offers good compensation for a pawn is worth a try.}) 20… Bc6\n21. f6 ({Unusually my opponent seriously miscalculates; I was expecting the\nbetter} 21. Bg5 Nxf5+ 22. gxf5 Rg2+ 23. Kf4 Rf2+ 24. Kg4 (24. Ke3 Rxf5 25. Nh7\nRh8 {is ok for Black}) 24… Rg2+ {repeating}) ({White is also in difficulties\nafter} 21. Nd7 Rg2+ 22. Kf4 Rh8 23. Nxc5+ bxc5 24. Rd2 Rg1) 21… Rg2+ 22. Kf4\n({White is already in dire straits as his king can’t find a safe spot} 22. Kh4\ngxf6 23. exf6 Nf5+ 24. gxf5 Rxf8 {wins}) (22. Kh3 gxf6 23. Bh6 f5 24. g5 f4 {\nis also bad.}) 22… gxf6 23. exf6 Rf2+ 24. Ke3 (24. Ke5 Re8 {forces mate in 2}\n) (24. Kg5 Rxf8 25. fxe7 Rg8+ 26. Kh4 Rg2 {only lasts a little longer.}) 24…\nRxf6 25. Nh7 Rf3+ 26. Kd2 ({The alternative} 26. Ke2 Rh8 27. Ng5 Rh2+ 28. Ke1\nRff2 29. Be3 (29. Rd2 Rxd2 30. Bxd2 Rh1+) 29… Rfg2 {is no better.}) 26…\nRd8+ 27. Kc2 ({Or} 27. Ke1 Rh8 28. Ng5 Rh1+ 29. Kd2 Rh2+) 27… Rxc3+ 28. bxc3\nBa4+ 29. Kb2 Rxd1 {With 2 extra pawns and the better position the rest is\nsimple.} 30. Bg5 Nc6 31. Rxd1 ({If} 31. Bf4 Rd3) 31… Bxd1 32. Bf4 (32. Nf6\nNe5 {wins another pawn.}) 32… Bxg4 33. Nf6 Bf3 34. Ne8 Na5 35. Nxc7 Bc6 {\nNow the white knight is dominated.} 36. Kc2 Kc8 37. Kd3 Kd7 38. Kc2 Nc4 39. Na6\nBb7 40. Nb8+ Kc8 41. Kd3 b5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nMichael\, Tara and friend
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-michael-adams-17-xi-2019/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201118
DTSTAMP:20260817T135635Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Yichen Han (17-xi-2007)
DESCRIPTION:Newcastle Upon Tyne resident Yichen Han became the youngest Dutch holder of the FIDE Master (FM) title at the age of twelve years and two months. \nYichen was born in Eindhoven\, Noord-Brabant\, The Netherlands. \nThe games required to complete the FM title were played at the recent 4NCL Harrogate Congress . The final game was a win versus Robert Starley of Crowthorne Chess Club having started with a win versus CM Peter Ackley. \nYichen plays for Forest Hall and is a student at RGS Newcastle. \nHe currently has a FIDE rating of 2257 for standard play and an ECF grading of 215. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Midland-ch”]\n[Site “Telford”]\n[Date “2018.08.10”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Hebden\, Mark”]\n[Black “Han\, Yichen”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D01”]\n[WhiteElo “2425”]\n[BlackElo “1952”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “172”]\n[EventDate “2018.08.10”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2019”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,172\,19\,31\,14\,23\,52\,45\,37\,10\,15\,-39\,-39\,-14\,-20\,-34\,-54\,-30\,-20\,-30\,-9\,\n-16\,-18\,-22\,4\,-7\,27\,1\,-1\,37\,19\,12\,23\,2\,34\,-50\,65\,29\,132\,23\,6\,-13\,62\,93\,102\,25\,\n27\,-77\,-54\,-114\,-111\,-101\,-101\,-130\,-130\,-163\,-152\,-144\,-157\,-147\,-223\,-216\,\n-239\,-247\,-265\,-281\,-314\,-314\,-296\,-297\,-307\,-548\,-564\,-617\,-309\,-316\,-365\,\n-473\,-286\,-314\,-332\,-329\,-265\,-245\,-188\,-328\,-255\,-323\,-363\,-469\,-418\,-462\,\n-484\,-541\,-468\,-477\,-503\,-503\,-464\,-508\,-536\,-536\,-508\,-602\,-651\,-1399\,-775\,\n-855\,-844\,-922\,-998\,-1251\,-573\,-844\,-599\,-680\,-571\,-571\,-596\,-596\,-620\,-656\,\n-700\,-1016\,-760\,-832\,-985\,-1294\,-703\,-781\,-775\,-764\,-764\,-783\,-783\,-783\,-999\,\n-999\,-1014\,-1049\,-1173\,-1306\,-1306\,-1306\,-815\,-972\,-815\,-1002\,-1002\,-1025\,-998\,\n-1025\,-1041\,-1124\,-905\,-1033\,-930\,-935\,-935\,-982\,-940\,-972\,-915\,-972\,-992\,-992\,\n-992\,-992\,-915\,-1688\,-1949\,-29997\,-29998\,-29999\,-30000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 g6 3.\nNc3 d5 4. Qd2 Bg7 5. Bh6 O-O 6. Bxg7 Kxg7 7. f3 c5 8. e3 Nc6 9. g4 e6 10. Bb5\ncxd4 11. exd4 Na5 12. Nge2 a6 13. Bd3 b5 14. h4 Nc4 15. Bxc4 dxc4 16. h5 Bb7\n17. Rh3 Qe7 18. a3 e5 19. dxe5 Qxe5 20. O-O-O Rfe8 21. hxg6 fxg6 22. Qh6+ Kg8\n23. g5 Nh5 24. Rd7 Re7 25. Rxe7 Qxe7 26. Kb1 Rd8 27. f4 Bc8 28. Rxh5 gxh5 29.\nQxh5 Bf5 30. Qf3 Rd2 31. Ka1 Bxc2 32. f5 Qxg5 33. f6 Rd7 34. Qc6 Qd2 35. Qe6+\nKf8 36. Na2 Qd5 37. Qxa6 Kf7 38. Nec1 Bd1 39. Nc3 Qd2 40. N3a2 Ba4 41. Qc6 Qd6\n42. Qc8 Kxf6 43. Nc3 Bc2 44. Nxb5 Qd2 45. Qf8+ Rf7 46. Qh8+ Kg6 47. Qg8+ Kh6\n48. Qg1 Re7 49. Qh1+ Kg7 50. Qg1+ Bg6 51. Ka2 Re1 52. Qc5 Bf7 53. Nc3 Qxc1 54.\nQd4+ Kg6 55. Qd6+ Re6 56. Qc7 Qg5 57. a4 Qe5 58. Qb7 h5 59. Qg2+ Qg5 60. Qc2+\nKg7 61. Nb5 h4 62. Nd4 Rf6 63. Qc3 Kh6 64. Nf3 Qf4 65. Ne5 Be6 66. Nc6 h3 67.\nNd4 h2 68. Nxe6 Rxe6 69. Qh3+ Kg7 70. Qxe6 h1=Q 71. a5 Qhh6 72. Qc8 Qf7 73.\nQg4+ Qhg6 74. Qd4+ Kh6 75. Qh8+ Qgh7 76. Qc3 Qff5 77. Qe3+ Kg7 78. Qe7+ Kg6 79.\nQd6+ Qf6 80. Qg3+ Kh6 81. Qh2+ Kg7 82. Qc7+ Qf7 83. Qe5+ Kf8 84. a6 c3+ 85. b3\nQc2+ 86. Ka3 Qcxb3# 0-1 \n[/pgn] \nYichen Han at the 2018 Terafinal
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-yichen-han-17-xi-2007/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201121
DTSTAMP:20201120T112029Z
CREATED:20191117T181258Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Andrew Kinsman (20-xi-2019)
DESCRIPTION:Best wishes to IM Andrew Kinsman born on this day Friday November 20\, 1964. His mother’s maiden name was (Yvonne) Greening. Andrew has a sister Casandra Suzie Kinsman. \nAndrew Peter Harry Kinsman was born in North East Surrey and grew up in Kingston-Upon-Thames near Kingston Hospital (thanks Richard James!). He was a member of Richmond Junior Chess Club. \nIM Andrew Kinsman\nAndrew was a member of the University of Sussex chess team in 1983 along with IM Byron Jacobs. Andrew became an editor of chess publisher BT Batsford Ltd. following in the footsteps of Bob Wade\, Paul Lamford and others. \nAndrew was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1986-87 and 1991-92 seasons. \nHe made his first Grandmaster norm with his victory in the 1997 Owens Corning International in Wrexham. \nAndrew’s peak rating was 2430 in January 1998. He played for Guildford in the Four Nations Chess League and for Wimbledon in other leagues. His last ECF grading was 222D in July 2002 and highest may have been 230B in July 2000. \nHe left chess and turned to poker becoming a successful player and author and was married to Pauline.  They lived in Ditchling Rise in Brighton. \nHe joined Byron Jacobs to form Chess Press which eventually morphed into First Rank Publishing. \nIM Andrew Kinsman\nWith the white pieces Andrew was consistently a d4 player with the occasional Nf3 thrown in. He played a “slow” Queen’s Gambit (Nf3 inserted before c4) and the Trompowski Attack for variety. \nAs the second player Andrew played the French Winawer and the Benko Gambit.  \nAndrew is registered for both Wimbledon and Guildford and represented Wuppertal in the Bundesliga. Andrew’s most recent appearance in 4NCL was the final weekend of the 2001/2 season beating JA Toothill. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 9798 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1998.05.24”]\n[Round “10.2”]\n[White “Kinsman\, Andrew PH”]\n[Black “Hodgson\, Julian M”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B08”]\n[WhiteElo “2430”]\n[BlackElo “2580”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “1997.11.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 064 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.07.07”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.07.07”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Guildford”]\n[BlackTeam “Slough”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,31\,54\,61\,57\,85\,87\,87\,71\,81\,85\,57\,67\,67\,87\,34\,118\,87\,95\,84\,146\,\n49\,97\,64\,66\,77\,88\,68\,53\,52\,78\,57\,58\,76\,107\,41\,37\,24\,29\,24\,29\,3\,69\,80\,92\,93\,181\,\n96\,107\,106\,76\,88\,93\,81\,98\,82\,200\,82\,632\,645\,622\,597]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3\ng6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Be3 c6 6. Qd2 Qa5 7. h3 Na6 8. a4 b5 9. Bd3 b4 10. Ne2 c5 11.\nc3 bxc3 12. bxc3 O-O 13. O-O Rb8 14. e5 Nd5 15. exd6 Nxe3 16. dxe7 Nxf1 17.\nexf8=Q+ Kxf8 18. Kxf1 cxd4 19. Nfxd4 Qc7 20. Nb5 Qd7 21. Qe3 Bb7 22. Rd1 Re8\n23. Qxa7 Qc6 24. f3 Nc5 25. Ned4 Bxd4 26. Nxd4 Qc7 27. Nb5 Qc6 28. Nd4 Qd6 29.\nNb5 Qxd3+ 30. Rxd3 Nxd3 31. Kg1 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe has written several books on chess (and poker) as follows : \nFrench Winawer by Andrew Kinsman\nThe Benko Gambit by Andrew Kinsman & Byron Jacobs\nSpanish Exchange by Andrew Kinsman\nModern Benoni by Andrew Kinsman\nImprove Your Middlegame Play by Andrew Kinsman\nIM Andrew Kinsman
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-andrew-peter-harry-kinsman-20-xi-2019/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201122
DTSTAMP:20201118T220219Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Peter Lee (21-xi-1943)
DESCRIPTION:We wish Peter Lee all the best on his birthday. \nPeter Nicholas Charles Lee was born on Sunday\, November 21st in 1943 in Lambeth\, London. His mother’s maiden name was Paganucci. \nPeter attended Exeter College\, Oxford from 1962-1966 to read mathematics followed by postgraduate statistics gaining an MA in 1969. \nSome of the participants in the Paul Keres display on November 25th\, 1962\, at St Pancras Town Hall\, London WC1. Back row : AJ. Whiteley\, D\, Floyer\, PJ Collins\, PJ Adams\, RC Vaughan\, KB Harman\, D. Parr\, DNL Levy\, Front row : MV Lambshire\, AE Hopkins (selector) Paul Keres\, Miss D. Dobson\, RE Hartley\, BC Gillman\, WR Hartston and PN Lee. Photograph by AM Reilly. Source : BCM\, 1963\, page 13\nIn 1963 Peter represented Oxford in the 81st Varsity Match played at the University of London Union in Malet Street on Korchnoi’s birthday (March 23rd). Peter had black on board 5 and drew with Frederick Michael Akeroyd in a King’s Gambit Declined. \nHere is the winning Oxford (4-3) Team : \nThe winning 1963 Oxford Varsity match team : From left to right (standing): PN Lee\, JWF May\, GC Taylor\, AIN Brodie\, PD Yerbury; (sitting) JK Footner\, RW Morgan. Thanks : John Saunders in Britbase.\nPeter moved to top board in 1964 and had white against the son of BH Wood\, FM Christopher Baruch Wood and won. The match was drawn. \n1965 saw a 5.5 – 1.5 Oxford victory with Peter beating Graham Arthur Winbow. \nDuring this period Peter found time to win the British Championship at Hastings in 1965. Peter Clarke reported in the October 1965 British Chess Magazine: \n“Seventy years on from the great international tournament of 1895\, which sowed the seeds of the Christmas congresses. the fifty-second in the British Chess Federation’s annual series-and this too began at Hastings\, 1904 – saw victory and the national title go to the youngest player ever. Peter N. Lee\, of London\, a twenty-one-year-old Oxford University graduate in mathematics\, made light of playing in the Championship for the first time and led from start to finish. Jonathan Penrose and Norman Littlewood vied with him all the way but in the last round had to be content with draws sharing second place 1/2 point behind with 8. ” \nPeter Lee\nPeter played at Hastings in 1965 and we can see him here in this silent movie at 1’40” in : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuXignAhNpw[/embedyt] \nPeter’s final Varsity appearance as British Champion in 1966 saw another drawn match but Peter’s best Varsity result when he beat Bill Hartston with the white pieces in a King’s Indian Attack. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Varsity Oxford-Cambridge”]\n[Site “Atlantic House\, Holborn”]\n[Date “1966.03.19”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Lee\, Peter NC”]\n[Black “Hartston\, William Roland”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “75”]\n[EventDate “1966.03.19”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “The Times”]\n[WhiteTeam “Oxford University”]\n[BlackTeam “Cambridge University”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,75\,19\,38\,30\,3\,11\,3\,12\,31\,5\,3\,-5\,9\,9\,-2\,-6\,-9\,31\,-19\,20\,-15\,-10\,-12\,-8\,\n-56\,13\,-51\,-19\,-11\,16\,-22\,-16\,-34\,-18\,-35\,-64\,0\,-3\,7\,7\,-43\,-29\,-68\,-78\,-67\,-69\,\n-113\,-42\,-134\,-123\,-113\,-144\,-172\,-90\,-137\,-117\,-138\,-114\,-122\,-71\,-84\,-119\,\n-167\,-172\,-95\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,62\,511\,29991\,29992\,29995\,29996]} 1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3.\nNd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 b5 9. e5 Ne8 {\nthe rarer alternative} (9… Nd7 10. Nf1 a5 11. h4 b4 12. Bf4 Ba6 13. N1h2 a4\n14. a3 {has been seen numerous times.}) 10. Nf1 a5 11. h4 a4 (11… b4) 12. h5\n$146 (12. a3 b4) 12… Nc7 13. N1h2 {A thematic KIA idea : heading for f6.} Bb7\n14. h6 g6 15. Bf4 {Is this required?} (15. Ng4 {seems fine.}) 15… a3 16. b3\nd4 17. Qd2 Nd5 18. Bg5 Ncb4 19. Bxe7 Qxe7 20. Ng4 (20. Ng5 Nc3 21. Bxb7 Qxb7\n22. Ng4 Qe7 23. Nf6+ Kh8 24. Nfxh7 Rfd8 25. Nf6 Nbxa2 {Nice symmetry !}) 20…\nKh8 $15 21. Ng5 Nxc2 {[#]} 22. Nxf7+ $6 Qxf7 23. Qxc2 Nb4 $2 (23… Qf5 $1 $17)\n24. Qe2 Bxg2 $19 (24… Bf3 $19 {Flank Openings (Raymond Keene\, 1st ed\, p115)})\n25. Kxg2 Qf5 $19 {Black is winning} 26. Red1 Nd5 $2 (26… c4 $1 $19 {“was\nalso very strong” (Peter Clarke\, BCM)}) 27. Qe4 Qxe4+ 28. dxe4 Nc3 29. Rd3 Nxe4\n30. f3 Nc3 31. b4 cxb4 (31… Rfd8) 32. Rxd4 Nxa2 $2 (32… Nd5 {keeps an edge\nfor black.}) 33. Rd7 $11 Nc3 34. Nf6 Rxf6 $11 35. exf6 {[#]} Nd5 $2 {The\nlosing blunder} (35… Kg8 $11) 36. Rxd5 $1 (36. f7 {is also crushing} Ne3+ 37.\nKf2 Nf5 38. Rad1 Rf8 39. Rd8) 36… exd5 37. f7 a2 38. Re1 {Source: The Times\,\n21 Mar 1966} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn world cup year Peter was selected by the BCF to represent England at the Havana Olympiad on board two below Peter Clarke in Group 4 and then Final B scoring a creditable +4=7-1. \nLugano 1968 saw Peter playing as first reserve and scoring an excellent +7=4-2 (Penrose on top board scored a wonderful 83.3% for the silver medal. \nIn another world cup year (1970) in his final Olympiad appearance Peter played on board four and recorded +4=9-2 \nPeter Nicholas Lee (to the left of RD Keene)\nPeter played in the British Championships again in 1967\, 1968\, 1971 and finally in 1972 withdrawing after five rounds following a loss to David Pritchard. This is Peter’s last recorded game in Megabase2020. \nWith the white pieces Peter was a committed 1.e4 fan playing 8.c3 in the Lopez and open sicilians. \nAs the second player he played the Sicilian Najdorf and the Dragon along with the King’s Indian. \nAccording to Wikipedia : “Later\, he turned to contract bridge\, at which he has also been highly successful. He has won the English Bridge Union’s National Pairs title four times\, the first time in 2003\, and has also been a member of the team that won the Gold Cup\, the premier teams event in Britain\, in 2003 and 2011. This makes him the only person who has won British championships in both chess and bridge.” \nUntil 1979 he worked as a statistician to the Tobacco Research Council\, in Harrogate and then in London. From 1979 to 1984 he was an independent consultant in statistics and advisor in epidemiology and toxicology to a number of tobacco\, pharmaceutical and chemical companies. \nHe formed P N Lee Statistics and Computing Ltdin 1984 to widen these activities. Peter is a Chartered Statistician who has published over 200 papers\, letters and articles\, and several books.\nPeter is currently a director of PNLSC based in Palmers Green\, London\, N13. \nPeter Lee\nAs a consultant in medical statistics and epidemiology\, he has also published over 200 papers\, many on the effects of tobacco on health.[2] \nPeter reached a peak Elo rating of 2390 aged 47 in July 1990 according to MegaBase 2020. However\, his peak playing strength was probably in or around 1971. \n[pgn]\n[Event “WchT Students 12th Group2”]\n[Site “Sinaia”]\n[Date “1965.07.28”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Lee\, Peter N”]\n[Black “Radulov\, Ivan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “79”]\n[EventDate “1965.07.26”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ROU”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Bulgaria”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “BUL”] \n{[%evp 0\,79\,16\,16\,26\,9\,1\,-40\,34\,27\,17\,5\,5\,10\,8\,8\,-2\,-16\,-23\,-25\,-19\,-43\,-19\,\n-54\,-56\,-67\,-1\,-7\,-3\,-27\,-20\,-17\,-15\,-47\,-20\,-23\,-12\,-16\,-13\,-29\,-7\,-27\,7\,10\,8\,\n4\,4\,122\,251\,251\,275\,275\,275\,292\,289\,303\,314\,344\,362\,384\,383\,392\,401\,307\,415\,\n421\,422\,428\,426\,450\,523\,488\,498\,463\,463\,336\,346\,445\,445\,421\,481\,471]} 1. e4 e6\n2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. e5 Nd7 9. Re1\nb5 10. h4 a5 11. Nf1 a4 12. h5 b4 13. h6 g6 14. Bf4 a3 15. b3 Ba6 $146 (15…\nBb7) 16. Qd2 $14 Rc8 17. N1h2 Na7 18. Bg5 Nb5 19. Qf4 Rc7 20. Ng4 Nd4 $6 (20…\nBxg5 21. Nxg5) 21. Bxe7 Nxf3+ 22. Bxf3 Qxe7 23. Bxd5 $1 $18 exd5 (23… Bb7 24.\nBxb7 Rxb7 25. Rad1 $18) 24. e6 $18 Nb6 25. Qxc7 $3 Qxc7 26. Nf6+ Kh8 27. e7 Qb8\n28. exf8=Q+ Qxf8 29. Re8 Qxe8 30. Nxe8 Bc8 31. Nf6 Be6 32. Re1 Nc8 33. Nxd5 Nd6\n34. Nf4 Nb5 35. Re5 Nc3 36. Rxc5 Kg8 37. Rxc3 bxc3 38. Nxe6 fxe6 39. Kg2 Kf7\n40. Kf3 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAccording to Paul Littlewood currently Peter “plays Bridge for Surrey and chess for the Athenaeum in London”.
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