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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Graham Burgess (24-ii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Graham K Burgess (24-ii-1968) \nFIDE Master Graham Burgess needs no introduction to readers of English language chess books ! Minnesota\, USA based\, Graham has authored more than twenty five books and edited at least 250 and is editorial director of Gambit Publications Ltd. In 1994 Graham set a world record for marathon blitz playing and has been champion of the Danish region of Funen ! \nDesert Island Chess Puzzle Omnibus\, Adams\, Nunn\, Burgess\, So\, Gambit Publications Ltd.\, 2021\, ISBN-13 : 978-1911465652\n 
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-graham-k-burgess-24-ii-1968/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,Player,Writer
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210225
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Jonathan Rogers (24-ii-1972)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-jonathan-w-rogers-24-ii-1972/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM David Goodman (25-ii-1958)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM David Simon Charles Goodman (25-ii-1958) \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“David Simon Charles Goodman was awarded the IM title in 1983. He was World Under 18 Champion in 1975. He played #10 on the English national team in Moscow.\nHe currently resides in New York City where he is a chess trainer for promising young students.” \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nIM David Goodman\n[pgn]\n[Event “England”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1978.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Goodman\, David SC”]\n[Black “Nunn\, John DM”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A28”]\n[WhiteElo “2320”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “47”]\n[EventDate “1978.??.??”]\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\,47\,19\,-12\,-27\,-33\,-27\,-19\,-14\,-26\,-23\,-26\,-17\,-43\,-6\,-64\,-44\,-47\,-47\,\n-47\,-8\,-33\,-30\,-11\,-28\,-50\,21\,17\,38\,19\,9\,21\,-23\,-12\,-20\,-56\,350\,345\,346\,347\,\n347\,347\,347\,347\,381\,392\,760\,29996\,29997\,29998]} 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6\n4. e3 Bb4 5. Qc2 O-O 6. Nd5 Re8 7. Qf5 {First played in 1977 by Keene versus\nKorchnoi.} d6 8. Nxf6+ gxf6 9. Qh5 d5 10. a3 Bf8 11. d4 Be6 12. Bd3 e4 13. Bc2\nNe7 14. Nd2 f5 15. cxd5 Qxd5 16. f3 Qc6 $11 17. Nxe4 Qxc2 $2 (17… Nd5 18. Nc5\nBxc5 19. dxc5 Qxc5 20. Bd3 $11) 18. Nf6+ $18 Kg7 19. e4 Qxc1+ 20. Rxc1 Kxf6 21.\nQxh7 Ng6 22. e5+ Kg5 23. h4+ Kf4 24. Kf2 1-0\n[/pgn] \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\nShaun Taulbut (upper right) and David Goodman (lower right) from the 1978 U26 Olympiad
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-david-simon-charles-goodman-25-ii-1958/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210302
DTSTAMP:20210305T164044Z
CREATED:20200221T113359Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Richard Tozer (01-iii-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Richard John D Tozer (01-iii-1970) \nRichard became a FIDE Master in 1989 and an International Master in 1995. According to Felice his peak rating was 2400 in January 1996. He has played for White Rose in the Four Nations Chess League. He currently plays for Cambridge City and maintains a 222 ECF grading. \nThe Cambridge Examiners Team\n[pgn]\n[Event “Lloyds Bank op 13th”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1989.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Adams\, Michael J”]\n[Black “Tozer\, Richard”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B45”]\n[WhiteElo “2505”]\n[BlackElo “2235”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “120”]\n[EventDate “1989.08.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\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\,120\,19\,31\,72\,53\,33\,22\,31\,23\,31\,41\,37\,8\,27\,-5\,33\,4\,13\,13\,-1\,20\,16\,17\,\n34\,38\,47\,45\,29\,25\,20\,20\,-20\,-54\,-57\,-64\,-61\,-54\,-71\,-71\,-89\,-103\,-101\,-87\,-84\,\n-94\,-89\,-93\,-96\,-96\,-90\,-88\,-79\,-86\,-65\,-70\,-87\,-92\,-65\,-102\,-109\,-109\,-34\,-83\,\n-48\,-54\,-29\,-92\,-104\,-74\,-48\,-38\,-38\,-27\,-11\,-1\,-10\,-165\,-123\,-123\,-86\,-172\,\n-208\,-208\,-186\,-263\,-256\,-358\,-273\,-425\,-245\,-220\,-259\,-258\,-244\,-301\,-318\,\n-329\,-353\,-360\,-362\,-367\,-367\,-367\,-367\,-364\,-378\,-369\,-364\,-377\,-281\,-280\,\n-261\,-276\,-319\,-430\,-223\,-316\,-352\,-348\,-103\,-348\,-383]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.\nd4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. e5 Nd5 8. Ne4 Qc7 9. f4 Qb6 10.\nc4 Ne3 11. Qd3 Bb4+ 12. Bd2 a5 13. b3 O-O 14. Bxb4 Qxb4+ 15. Ke2 Nxc4 16. Kf3\nNb6 17. a3 Qe7 18. Qd6 Qxd6 19. exd6 Ba6 20. Nc5 Bxf1 21. Rhxf1 Ra7 22. Rac1 f6\n23. g4 Kf7 24. h4 Re8 25. Rfe1 Raa8 26. h5 h6 27. Rc2 Rh8 28. Rh2 Ra7 29. a4\nNd5 30. Rg1 Nb4 31. g5 hxg5 32. fxg5 Na6 33. Ne4 Rb7 34. g6+ Kg8 35. h6 Rxb3+\n36. Kf4 e5+ 37. Kg4 gxh6 38. Kh5 Kg7 39. Rf2 Rf8 40. Ng3 Rxg3 41. Rxg3 Nc5 42.\nRb2 f5 43. Rc3 Ne4 44. Rb7 Nf6+ 45. Kh4 Kxg6 46. Rc5 e4 47. Rxa5 f4 48. Re5 e3\n49. Rb1 Nd5 50. Rf1 f3 51. Kg3 f2 52. Re4 h5 53. Re5 Ra8 54. Re4 Kf5 55. Kf3\nRg8 56. Rh4 Ke6 57. Rxh5 Kxd6 58. Rxd5+ Kxd5 59. Kxe3 Ra8 60. Ra1 Rxa4 0-1\n[/pgn]
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-richard-jd-tozer-01-iii-1970/
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DTSTAMP:20210305T164208Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Stuart Conquest (01-iii-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Stuart Conquest (01-iii-1967) \nStuart Conquest (far left) at Paul Buswell’s house\nStuart Conquest
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-stuart-conquest-01-iii-1967/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTAMP:20210305T164410Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Peter Large (02-iii-1956)
DESCRIPTION:Peter Graham Large (Front row \, far left)\nBirthday of IM Peter Graham Large (02-iii-1956)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-peter-graham-large-02-iii-1956/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,History,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Daniel Fernandez (05-iii-1995)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Daniel Fernandez who at 26 is currently England’s youngest Grandmaster. The previous GM title holder was Jonathan Hawkins in 2014 making two in seven years. \nDaniel Howard Fernandez was born in Stockport\, Manchester on Sunday\, March 5th 1995.  “Think Twice” by Celine Dion was top of the UK hit parade. \nDaniel started playing chess at the age of seven (after his father taught him the rules) and at this time attended King’s School\, Harpenden.  His first chess club was Little Heath which became the ECF Small Club of the Year in 2015. They play in the Potter’s Bar area and include IM John Pigott in their membership. \nAt Little Heath Chess Club Daniel was coached by Mark Uniacke (who worked extensively on the early chess engine HIARCS). \nDaniel went up to Queen’s College\, Cambridge to read mathematics and left to become a Data Analyst at Mu Sigma Inc. He can speak several languages (including Serbian!) and works as a translator when opportunities arise. \nHe currently lives in Australia offering coaching and writing chess books (for Thinkers Publishing) and columns for Chessbase. In his spare time (!) Daniel is studying for The Master of Complex Systems degree at The University of Sydney. \nDaniel’s first ECF graded game was rapidplay on July 5th 2003 in the SCCU Junior Under-14 Final. \nHis first standard play game was in August 2003 at the Edinburgh based British Under-8 Championship. \nDaniel Fernandez\nDaniels ECF grading profile demonstrated rapid improvement : \nECF grading profile for Daniel Fernandez\nOn August 13th 2004 in Scarborough Daniel became British Under-9 Champion sharing the title with Daniel Hunt & Saravanan Sathyanandha. \nThe Fernandez family relocated to Singapore in August\, Daniel attending the Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore. He was swiftly recruited into the Singapore Chess Federation’s (SCF) National Junior Squad. Also in that squad were Danielle Ho and Howard Chiu (remember this for later!). \nBarely three weeks after his Scarborough triumph on September 4th 2004 Daniel played his first FIDE rated game in the 5th Asian Under-10 Championship organised by the ASEAN Chess Confederation. His performance in this event was rewarded with a FIDE Master title in 2005. Because he was no longer active in English events the ECF had the unusual scenario of having a ten year old FIDE Master with a published grade of ~120! \nIn typically modest fashion Daniel confesses  that he did not “deserve” the FM title at this time and that it was the consequence of the strong position of the ASEAN and SCF organisations  within world chess. At the same event Wesley So gained his FM title in the Under-12 section. \nFM Daniel Fernandez\nAnother interesting consequence of the relocation was that when Daniel returned to England in 2012 his last published grading went from ~ 120 to ~230! \nOne of the motivations of  returning to England was to obtain the necessary entrance requirement to study mathematics at Cambridge. This he did by studying for A-levels at Manchester Grammar School. \nDaniel with IM Jovan Petronic during the 2010 world juniors in Chotowa\, Poland | Photo: Diana Mihajlova\nConsequently Daniel’s FIDE rating profile also showed a fast pace of development: \nFIDE rating profile for Daniel Fernandez\nSydney 2009 and Sydney 2010 both provided IM norms with the third one coming from Kuala Lumpar 2010 and with these Daniel became an International Master in 2010 the title being confirmed at the 3rd quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2010\, 24-25 July 2010\, Tromso in Norway. \nIM Daniel Fernandez\, 100th British Championships\, Round 5\, Torquay. Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nHe won the Budapest Sarkany Tournament in 2014 as follows: \nFull Crosstable from Budapest Sarkany Tournament\, 2014.\nearning his first GM norm in the process. \nIM Daniel Fernandez\, 101st British Championships\, Aberystwyth. Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nBCN asked Daniel for three of his favourite games. The first one is this Polish Defence game from 2015 played at the Visma Arena in Vaxjo\, Sweden. First we have the crosstable showing that Daniel earnt his second GM norm from this event. \nFull Crosstable for Vaxjo\, Visma tournament in Sweden\, 2015.\nand here is the game: \n[pgn]\n[Event “Vaxjo Visma GM”]\n[Site “Vaxjo”]\n[Date “2015.06.27”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Smith\, Axel”]\n[Black “Fernandez\, Daniel Howard”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[WhiteElo “2452”]\n[BlackElo “2447”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “86”]\n[EventDate “2015.06.24”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “SWE”]\n[EventCategory “10”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 167 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2015.09.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2015.09.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,86\,63\,13\,126\,116\,101\,97\,97\,97\,84\,96\,96\,57\,79\,51\,50\,52\,38\,58\,82\,70\,93\,\n31\,-1\,-22\,-19\,-35\,-16\,-50\,29\,-1\,0\,-22\,-36\,-36\,-36\,-92\,-81\,-92\,-84\,-82\,-73\,-104\,\n-95\,-79\,-36\,-33\,-51\,-74\,-42\,-51\,-51\,-91\,-86\,-99\,-91\,-87\,-87\,-82\,-105\,-100\,-127\,\n-111\,-148\,-160\,-139\,-127\,-136\,-254\,-164\,-257\,-259\,-257\,-309\,-663\,-691\,-933\,\n-153\,-747\,-809\,-824\,-875\,-986\,-1014\,-2303\,-2794\,-29999\,-30000]} 1. d4 b5 {\nThe Polish Defence as used by Spassky against Petrosian.} 2. e4 a6 3. Nf3 {\nWhen is it the right time for White to play a4?} Bb7 4. Bd3 e6 5. O-O c5 6. c3\nd6 ({more common is} 6… Nf6 7. Re1 Be7 8. Bg5) 7. Re1 Nd7 8. Nbd2 Qc7 {\nA rare choice but must be reasonable.} (8… Be7 9. Nf1 Ngf6 10. Ng3 O-O 11. h3\nQc7) 9. a4 $18 {[#] and eventually we get the thematic break against …b5 The\nengines are complimentary of White’s position.} c4 10. Bb1 $6 {This would\nappear to be a strange decision.} (10. Bf1 {Maintaining the presssure on\nBlack’s pawns must be superior.}) 10… Be7 11. Nf1 {You’d imagine that b3 at\nsome point would make sense leaving the pressure on c4.} Ngf6 12. Ng3 O-O 13.\nh4 Rfe8 14. h5 {White seems to be struggling to find a decent plan.} e5 15. Nf5\nBf8 16. axb5 axb5 17. Rxa8 Rxa8 18. Nd2 g6 $1 {If Black can expell the knight\non f5 then probably he is better.} 19. hxg6 hxg6 $17 20. Ne3 Bg7 {Strong\npointing e5 further.} 21. d5 Nc5 {[#] Black is gaining the upper hand.} 22.\nNg4 Bc8 23. Nxf6+ Bxf6 24. Qf3 Bg5 25. Nf1 Qe7 26. Ne3 Nb3 27. Bc2 Nxc1 28.\nRxc1 {Black can now really dominate the dark squares.} Ra2 29. b3 Qa7 30. bxc4\nbxc4 31. Qe2 {[#]} Bg4 $1 {Ouch! Perhaps White had missed this shot?} 32. Qe1\nBxe3 33. fxe3 Qa3 $1 {and it is all over bar the shouting…} 34. Kh2 (34. Rb1\nRxc2 35. Rb8+ Kg7 36. Qh4 Qc1+ (36… Bh5 37. Qe7 Qc1+ 38. Kh2 Rxg2+ $1 39.\nKxg2 Qd2+ 40. Kg3 Qe1+ 41. Kh2 Qe2+ 42. Kh3 Qf1+ 43. Kh4) 37. Kh2 Bh5) 34…\nKg7 35. Qf1 Be2 $1 36. Qe1 Qb2 37. Bb1 Ra1 38. Rc2 Qxb1 (38… Qxc2 $1 {\nis more efficient} 39. Bxc2 Rxe1) 39. Qxe2 $2 (39. Qxb1 Rxb1 40. Rxe2 {is a\nbetter defence.}) 39… Qg1+ 40. Kg3 Re1 41. Qf2 Rxe3+ $1 42. Kg4 Qd1+ 43. Kg5\nQh5# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nand during the 2015/15 4NCL season Daniel obtained his final GM norm playing for Wood Green. \nIn March 2015 he made his first of three Varsity match appearences for Cambridge re-uniting with Danielle Ho and Howard Chiu (remember those names from earlier?). \nDaniel won the 10th Jessie Gilbert Memorial in 2017: \nFull Crosstable from the 2017 10th Jessie Gilbert Memorial\nand also in 2017 Daniel was awarded the Grandmaster title at the 88th FIDE Congress 2017\, 7-15 October\, Goynuk\, Antalya\, Turkey. \nOn March 11th Daniel represented Cambridge in the 135th Varsity Match at the RAC Club in Pall Mall.  According to chess24.com ‘IM Daniel Fernandez\, playing board 2 for Cambridge\, was awarded the Brilliancy Prize by GM Ray Keene in consultation with McShane and Speelman\, for his “high-class swindle” after recovering from a bad blunder.’ See here for details. \nGM Daniel Fernandez\, 2019 British Championships\, Torquay. Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nIn 2018 Daniel ventured into the world of book writing when Thinker’s Publishing released The Modernized Caro-Kann on September 8th 2018.  This was a repertoire book for Black based around the Smyslov Variation : \n[fen]r1bqkbnr/pp1npppp/2p5/8/3PN3/8/PPP2PPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nand was reviewed in this place favourably and quickly established Daniel as a significant author. \nThe Modernized Caro-Kann\, Daniel Fernandez\, Thinkers Publishing\, 2018\nFrom the rear cover we have: \n“GM Daniel Fernandez (born 1995) has been an active and accomplished player for several years. He represented his native Singapore twice at Olympiads (2010 and 2012) before transferring to the English chess federation. There\, he won the national classical titles at U-18 and U-21 levels and worked to become a Grandmaster while simultaneously studying at Cambridge. The Caro-Kann was instrumental in his quest for that title. Currently\, Daniel is known in the chess scene not only as a solid player\, but also as a mentor figure to younger English players\, as a producer of well-received commentary and analysis\, and as a multilingual chess coach. This is his first book.” \nFrom January 2019 we have this interesting encounter between Gawain Jones and Daniel from the annual 4NCL meeting of Guildford and Wood Green: \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chTa 1819 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Daventry”]\n[Date “2019.01.13”]\n[Round “4.13”]\n[White “Jones\, Gawain C B”]\n[Black “Fernandez\, Daniel Howard”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2691”]\n[BlackElo “2465”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “124”]\n[EventDate “2018.11.10”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 188 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.02.26”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.02.26”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Guildford”]\n[BlackTeam “Wood Green”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,124\,21\,36\,69\,63\,74\,50\,56\,34\,45\,48\,52\,37\,37\,37\,46\,8\,46\,16\,76\,62\,52\,40\,\n40\,13\,13\,29\,32\,28\,16\,22\,24\,9\,9\,14\,15\,11\,11\,-15\,33\,8\,42\,8\,-4\,-4\,0\,0\,-14\,0\,0\,-63\,\n-75\,-75\,-21\,-61\,-23\,-91\,-96\,-75\,-106\,-110\,-113\,-111\,-111\,-111\,-111\,-111\,-111\,\n-111\,-111\,-111\,-78\,-102\,-123\,-119\,-124\,-122\,-122\,-128\,-128\,-125\,-82\,-62\,-92\,\n-111\,-102\,-130\,-126\,-123\,-137\,-182\,-142\,-164\,-127\,-127\,-127\,-127\,-122\,-202\,\n-196\,-196\,-209\,-204\,-173\,-242\,-218\,-303\,-244\,-244\,-244\,-244\,-242\,-222\,-98\,-98\,\n-89\,-87\,-57\,-52\,-26\,-31\,-9\,-13\,-11\,-8\,-8]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h5\n5. Bd3 (5. c4) 5… Bxd3 6. Qxd3 e6 7. Bg5 Qb6 8. Nd2 Ne7 (8… c5) 9. Ngf3 Qa6\n10. c4 Nf5 11. O-O Bb4 12. b3 Nd7 13. Rfd1 O-O 14. a3 $146 (14. Nf1) 14… Bxd2\n15. Rxd2 Nb6 16. c5 Qxd3 17. Rxd3 Nd7 $11 18. b4 {[#]} b6 $1 19. Rc1 $6 (19.\nRb3 f6) 19… Rfc8 {Black now proceeds to outplay his higher rated opponent.} (\n19… bxc5 20. bxc5 Rfb8 $17) 20. Bd2 f6 21. Re1 Kf7 22. g3 bxc5 23. bxc5 Rcb8\n24. Bf4 Rb2 25. Rdd1 Rb3 26. Kg2 a5 27. a4 Ra7 28. Re2 Rab7 29. Ra2 Rc3 30.\nRaa1 Rbb3 31. Nd2 Rb2 32. exf6 gxf6 33. Nf3 Rbb3 34. Nd2 Rb4 35. Nf3 Rcc4 36.\nRab1 Kg6 37. Bd6 Rxb1 38. Rxb1 Nxd4 39. Nxd4 Rxd4 40. Rb6 Ne5 41. Bxe5 fxe5 42.\nRxc6 Kf6 {[#]} 43. Ra6 $2 (43. Rc8 Rxa4 44. Rf8+ Ke7 45. Rh8 e4 $19) 43… Rxa4\n$19 {Black has the upper hand.} 44. f3 d4 45. Ra7 Ra2+ 46. Kf1 Ra3 47. Kf2 e4\n48. fxe4 Ke5 49. g4 hxg4 50. h5 Rf3+ 51. Kg2 Kxe4 {Surely Black is winning?}\n52. c6 Rc3 53. Rc7 d3 ({Better is} 53… Kd5 {but White’s h-pawn is little\nconcerning.}) 54. h6 d2 55. Rd7 Rxc6 $6 (55… Rd3 56. Rxd3 Kxd3 57. c7 d1=Q\n58. c8=Q Qf3+ 59. Kg1) 56. h7 Rc8 $6 {Sadly this lets the win slip.} ({Better\nwas} 56… Rc2 57. Kf1 d1=Q+ 58. Rxd1 Rh2) 57. Rxd2 Rh8 58. Rd7 Kf5 59. Kg3 a4\n60. Rf7+ Ke5 61. Kxg4 a3 62. Ra7 a2 {and the position is drawn.} 1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nWith the White pieces Daniel has played  a wide range of first moves but the majority move by far is 1.e4. His choice versus the Najdorf is some eclectic : sometime ago 6. Rg1 was the favourite and now 6.a4 is preferred. \n[fen]rnbqkb1r/1p2pppp/p2p1n2/8/3NP3/2N5/PPP2PPP/R1BQKBR1 b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nAgainst 1…e5 Daniel offers a main line Ruy Lopez. \nWhat does a Caro-Kann expert play against the Caro-Kann? Nowadays the Two Knights Variation is employed! \nAs the second player he plays the Sicilian Najdorf as well as the Caro-Kann plus an equal mixture of the Grünfeld and King’s Indian Defences. \nIn 2019 Daniel was interviewed by Edwin Lam on behalf of ChessBase : fascinating reading! \nIn the same year Daniel joined IM Adam Taylor’s venture Making Grandmasters. \nOur final games is from July 2019 : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Gent Eastman op 42nd”]\n[Site “Gent”]\n[Date “2019.07.22”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Fernandez\, Daniel Howard”]\n[Black “Michiels\, Bart”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A03”]\n[WhiteElo “2466”]\n[BlackElo “2563”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “2019.07.20”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “BEL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 191 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.09.30”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.09.30”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,19\,-30\,-33\,-42\,-34\,-34\,-35\,-26\,-27\,-27\,-5\,-28\,-2\,5\,14\,-30\,-62\,-77\,\n-39\,-90\,-40\,-79\,-59\,-73\,-56\,-52\,-37\,-37\,-38\,-105\,44\,60\,63\,56\,98\,17\,60\,3\,86\,32\,\n61\,68\,65\,66\,96\,95\,118\,109\,136\,153\,132\,211\,211\,202\,269\,280\,383\,424\,450\,477\,542\,\n539\,782\,836]} 1. f4 d5 2. b3 {Larsen would have been proud!} Nf6 3. Bb2 Bf5 4.\nNf3 e6 5. e3 h6 {Black creates a luft on h7 for his light squared bishop.\nOtherwise with a knight on e5 combined with a h-pawn push Black could get into\ntrouble. You might not think it but …h6 scores best for Black and is\nlabelled “Hot” by Megabase 2020.} (5… Be7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O c5 8. Ne5 h6 9.\nd3 {is a more usual way to proceed.}) 6. h3 (6. Be2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Ne5 Nbd7\n9. d3 Nxe5 10. Bxe5 Nd7 11. Bb2 Bf6 12. d4 c5) {The first appearence for this\nTN.} 6… a5 $146 7. g4 Bh7 {As facilitated by h6….} {Now pause the video….\n} 8. Bxf6 $5 {I bet you did not predict this capture and nor did I!} Qxf6 9. d4\na4 (9… c5) 10. bxa4 g5 $1 11. fxg5 hxg5 $17 {I’d give Black the nod here but\nonly just.} 12. Bd3 {[#]} Bd6 (12… Nc6 {would take advantage of White’s lack\nof control of b4 and is a bit awkard to meet. Black threatens ….Nb4}) 13. Ke2\n{an ugly requirement with the h-file open. This is needed so as White may\nre-capture on d3 with the queen.} Nd7 (13… Bxd3+ 14. Qxd3 Nc6) 14. Bxh7 Rxh7\n15. c4 dxc4 16. Nbd2 Qg6 17. Nxc4 Ke7 18. Qb1 (18. Qb3) 18… Qxb1 (18… Rxa4\n{seems natural}) 19. Rhxb1 Rxh3 20. Nxg5 Rh2+ 21. Kd3 Ra7 ({Why not} 21… Rxa4\n{I don’t understand.}) 22. Ne4 $1 $18 {[#] white is getting on top.} Nf6 $2 23.\nNxf6 Kxf6 24. a5 $1 {black must be regretting leaving this pawn on and is\ndefinately worse now.} Bf8 25. Rb5 Rf2 26. a4 Bh6 27. Rh1 Kg6 28. Rhb1 b6 29.\nNe5+ Kh7 30. Rh1 f6 31. Nc6 Ra6 32. Rbh5 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDaniel’s most recent publication is The Modernized Modern Defence from Thinker’s Publishing: \nThe Modernized Modern Defence\, Daniel Fernandez\, Thinker’s Publishing\, 2021\nand BCN has been told that Daniel has a book in the pipeline about the Tata Steel 2021 tournament at Wijk aan Zee.
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-daniel-fernandez-05-iii-1995/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Adam Ashton (05-iii-1980)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Adam G Ashton (05-iii-1980)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-adam-g-ashton-05-iii-1980/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM James Cobb (08-iii-1977)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM James E Cobb (08-iii-1977)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-james-e-cobb-08-iii-1977/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Bogdan Lalić (08-iii-1964)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Bogdan Lalić (08-iii-1964)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-bogdan-lalic-08-iii-1964/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Mark Lyell (09-iii-1961)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Mark Lyell (09-iii-1961)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-mark-lyell-09-iii-1961/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Douglas Bryson (12-iii-1957)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Douglas Marshall Bryson (12-iii-1957)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-douglas-marshall-bryson-12-iii-1957/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Mandy Hepworth (12-iii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Mandy Hepworth Happy Birthday (12-iii-1968) \nMandy Allison S. Hepworth was born in Scunthorpe\, (now) Humberside (but at the time Lincolnshire)  on Tuesday\, March 12th 1968 to Neville Ian Hepworth and Alice Hepworth (née Ma). Neville was a Computer Manager and Alice Ma was originally from Singapore. The family  moved to “Mulgoa”\, The Fleet\, Fittleworth\, Pulborough\, RH20 1HS\, West Sussex. \n(Thanks to David Mills who updated us on the Lincolnshire / Humberside issue) \nNeville taught Mandy how to play chess. \nShe attended Westergate Comprehensive and Community School where Peter Barton coached both the boys and the girls teams. \nFrom The Bognor and Arun Chess Club Archive we have : \n“One particular junior\, Mandy Hepworth\, came to notice. In the British championships at Brighton in 1980 she came first equal in the girls under-14 competition. Peter Barton also organised some external competitions and from 1981 for a few years he organised young masters’ tournaments at the Westergate School after receiving sponsorship from the Amey Roadstone Corporation. ” \nFrom The Bognor Regis Observer we have : \nWestergate girls were chess queens in 1980 \nThis group of girls had every reason to smile ‘“ they had just pulled off the school chess world’s equivalent of David v Goliath. \nIt was January 1980 and they all attended Westergate Comprehensive and Community School and had just beaten the mighty Dorothy Skinner High School\, in Brighton\, to qualify for the final of the Sussex Girls under-16 chess championships. Pictured from left: Melaine Wright\, 11\, Mandy Hepworth\, 11\, Lesley Glen\, 11\, Deborah Baxter\, 12\, Gail Curryer\, 11\, and Tracey Redding\, 12. \n“It was January 1980 and they all attended Westergate Comprehensive and Community School and had just beaten the mighty Dorothy Skinner High School\, in Brighton\, to qualify for the final of the Sussex Girls under-16 chess championships. \nThe team’s captain\, Mandy Hepworth\, who was just 11-years-old at the time\, was lauded by the school’s chess teacher as “one of the hottest properties in junior chess”. \nHis name was Peter Barton and\, according to the report published in the Observer on January 25 1980\, he had masterminded something of a chess resurgence at Westergate.” \nSome 50 youngsters at the school were playing chess proficiently and 10 of them were girls. \nEven though junior chess was somewhat dominated by boys at the time\, Mr Barton was confident his girls could deal with any challenge thrown at them by anyone – and he had high hopes for Mandy. \nHe told the paper: ‘For a girl she has remarkable ability and we would hope to enter her for the British junior championships later this year. \nIn the past it has always been a boys’ game but\, if you can catch the girls when they are young and keep their enthusiasm\, there is no reason why they cannot go on to become masters.’ \nDoes anyone know if the girls won the final? Did Mandy make it to the British junior championships?” \nMandy Hepworth \nMandy entered her first major competition when she was 11 and beat her father when she was 14. She became the Under-12 British Girls’ Champion (Ed: this is not correct) and the Under-14 Champion in Brighton\, 1980 (shared with Susan Walker)\, the Under-16 Champion in Brighton\, 1984 \nIn 1985 she played in the Eileen Tranmer Memorial in Brighton. All the players resided in the same guest house. The event was organised by Ray Keene. Mandy was 4th with a TPR of 2296. \nIn 1986 she represented England in the Women’s Olympiad (Dubai) and scored an excellent 75% on the Reserve Board. \nIn 1988 she played at the Oakham Young Masters and had a tough time scoring 2.5/9 \nIn October 1988 she travelled to Adelaide\, Australia to play in the World Under-20 Girls’ Championship. \nFollowing that we have no further information. It would appear (perhaps you can help?) that Mandy gave up competitive chess and did not play again. \n1986 Press Release for Mandy Hepworth. Warning : some details are not entirely accurate. \nWe end with this against an experienced opponent : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Eileen Tranmer Memorial-07”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “1985.12.??”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Jackson\, Sheila”]\n[Black “Hepworth\, Mandy”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B90”]\n[WhiteElo “2235”]\n[BlackElo “1960”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “86”]\n[EventDate “1985.12.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\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{[%evp 0\,86\,30\,32\,53\,51\,86\,86\,63\,26\,26\,37\,65\,44\,89\,54\,38\,40\,41\,46\,20\,25\,31\,31\,\n32\,38\,34\,23\,25\,23\,23\,26\,35\,19\,30\,32\,56\,62\,166\,150\,152\,154\,154\,132\,223\,227\,217\,\n210\,206\,145\,309\,279\,266\,208\,218\,205\,174\,141\,136\,155\,171\,161\,209\,146\,188\,136\,\n177\,-54\,-40\,-165\,-104\,-87\,-177\,-177\,-172\,-172\,-172\,-195\,-260\,-419\,-331\,-377\,\n-486\,-497\,-499\,-1081\,-1121\,-1180\,-1198]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4\nNf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Qc7 7. a4 e5 8. Nf3 h6 9. a5 Be6 10. Nd5 Nxd5 11. exd5 Bf5\n12. c4 Nd7 13. b4 Be7 14. Be2 O-O 15. O-O Bh7 16. Nd2 f5 17. f3 Bf6 18. Rc1 b6\n19. axb6 Nxb6 20. c5 Nd7 21. cxd6 Qb8 22. Rc7 Nb6 23. Rc6 Bd8 24. Bc5 Rf6 25.\nQa1 Bg6 26. Qxe5 a5 27. Bd4 axb4 28. Rb1 Nd7 29. Qf4 Rf8 30. h4 Nf6 31. Bc4 Nh5\n32. Qh2 Be8 33. Ra6 Rxa6 34. Bxa6 f4 35. Ne4 Bb6 36. Bf2 Bxf2+ 37. Nxf2 Qxd6\n38. Bc4 Qc5 39. Bb3 Bg6 40. Rd1 Qc3 41. Ba4 b3 42. Ne4 Bxe4 43. fxe4 Qe3+ 0-1\n[/pgn]
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-mandy-hepworth-12-iii-1968/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,History,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jonathan Mestel (13-iii-1957)
DESCRIPTION:GM Jonathan Mestel \nBirthday of GM Jonathan Mestel\, 13-iii-1957
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-jonathan-mestel/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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UID:1042-1615680000-1615766399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM David Levy (14-iii-1945)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes IM David Levy happy birthday (14-iii-1945) \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 \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHere is his entry from the chessprogramming wiki \nThe PCW Microchess Championship \nFrom chessgames.com : \n“International Master and International Arbiter David Neil Lawrence Levy was born in London\, England. Awarded the IM title in 1969\, he won the Scottish Championship in 1968 and 1975 (=Stephen Swanson). He scored +6=5-7 at the top Olympiad board for Scotland in 1972. He is also a noted chess author and computer expert. \nIn 1968 he started a landmark wager of (initially) £500 with two Artificial Intelligence luminaries that no computer program would win a chess match against him within 10 years. \nHe won his bet in 1978 at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto by beating computer chess program CHESS 4.7 (Computer)\, which ran on a CDC Cyber 176 mainframe computer. These events led to a prize of $5\,000 offered by Omni magazine to the authors of the first chess program to defeat Levy. The prize was not won until 1989\, when IBM accepted the challenge with their chess computer Deep Thought (Computer). \nHistory of Computer Chess: An AI perspective. http://video.google.com/videoplay?d… Wikipedia article: David Levy (chess player)” \nThe PCW Microchess Championship \nHere are his games from chessgames.com \nVideo Chess Event (See caption below) \nA famous letter from David to Raymond Keene. \nVideo Chess Caption \nMichael Stean chats with David Levy at the London Chess Classic \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1969/70-45 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1970.01.03”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Levy\, David Neil Lawrence”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, John Eric”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C44”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “1969.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\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\,31\,34\,25\,18\,10\,8\,8\,-57\,-44\,-43\,50\,58\,117\,58\,66\,81\,126\,119\,125\,136\,\n149\,149\,195\,183\,212\,-5\,197\,223\,236\,258\,258\,268\,291\,268\,342\,318\,463\,289\,316\,334\,\n334\,339\,345\,334\,366\,362\,296\,344\,344\,276\,210\,298\,370\,368\,501\,405\,1039\,1123\,1351\,\n1439\,1521\,1549\,1576\,1576\,1576\,2105\,2285\,2344\,2550\,2354\,29987\,29992]} 1. e4 e5\n2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. c3 Nf6 5. e5 Ne4 6. Qe2 d5 7. exd6 f5 8. Nxd4 Bxd6 9.\nNxc6 bxc6 10. f3 O-O 11. fxe4 fxe4 12. Be3 Rb8 13. Na3 Qf6 14. Nc4 Ba6 15.\nO-O-O Qe6 16. b3 Rf5 17. Qg4 Qf6 18. Kc2 Bc8 19. Qe2 Bf8 20. g4 Rf3 21. g5 Qe7\n22. Bg2 Bf5 23. Qd2 a5 24. Qd4 a4 25. Rde1 axb3+ 26. axb3 Ra8 27. Kb2 Be6 28.\nBxf3 Ra3 29. Qxe4 Rxb3+ 30. Kxb3 Qa3+ 31. Kc2 Qa2+ 32. Kd3 Bd5 33. Qxd5+ cxd5\n34. Bxd5+ Kh8 35. Rhf1 Bd6 36. Ra1 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7bsn9VS0kA[/embedyt] \nThe Chess Scene \nThe Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov \nThe Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov \nHow to Play the Sicilian Defence\, Batsford\, 1978 \nBritish Chess\, Pergamon Press\, 1983. Editors : GS Botterill\, DNL Levy\, JM Rice and MJ Richardson \n 
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-neil-laurence-levy/
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IA Stewart Reuben (14-iii-1939)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of Stewart Reuben (14-iii-1939) \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHis personal catchphrase is “If only I had been consulted eariler” \nJimmy Adams and Stewart Reuben \nRichard W. O’Brien and Stewart Reuben working on a bulletin \nSR attempting to dance \nStewart Reuben interviews Stewart Reuben at the home of Stewart Reuben \nThe Chess Scene \nLeonard Barden\, Stewart Reuben and Michael Franklin at the 1978 Aaronson Masters \nThe Chess Organiser’s Handbook \nLondon 1980: Phillips and Drew Kings Chess Tournament
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-stewart-reuben-14-iii-1939/
CATEGORIES:Arbiter,Birthday,British Championships,Official,Player,Writer
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UID:4223-1615680000-1615766399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of GM John Emms (14-iii-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM John M Emms (14-iii-1967)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-john-m-emms-14-iii-1967/
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UID:4264-1615680000-1615766399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Owen Hindle (14-iii-1940)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Owen Mark Hindle (14-iii-1940)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-owen-mark-hindle-14-iii-1940/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,History,Player
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Gerald Abrahams (15-iv-1907 15-iii-1980)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Gerald Abrahams who passed away in Liverpool on Saturday\, March 15th 1980. He was buried in the Allerton Cemetery in the Jewish Springwood plot. \nGerald Abrahams was born in Liverpool on Monday\, April 15th 1907.  On this day the Triangle Fraternity was formed at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. \nHis parents were Harry (b. 10th September 1880) and Leah (b. 12th March 1884) Abrahams (née Rabinowitz) who married in West Derby in the third quarter of 1903. \nGerald learnt chess at the age of ten during the first world war. He obtained an Open Scholarship to Wadham College\, Oxford in 1925 reading PPE and earning himself an MA in Law in 1928. He became a practising barrister at Law. \nFrom the 1939 register we learnt that Harry was a Drapery manufacturer and Leah carried out “unpaid domestic duties”. Gerald was not an only child: the first born was Winnie (b. 22nd November 1903) who was a Secretary and Clerk Typist and factory assistant. Elsie Abrahams (b. 14th April 1905) helped her mother with “unpaid domestic duties”. Blanche was Gerald’s older brother and he was “General Assistant In Fathers Business Drapery Manufacturer”. Gerald is listed (aged 32) as a Barrister at Law and author. The family resided at 51 Prince Alfred Road\, Liverpool\, Lancashire (now L15 6TQ) and their original property has been since replaced. \nHistorical map showing the 1939 residence of Gerald Abrahams \nWe learn from “Philanthropy\, Consensus\, and broiges: managing a Jewish Community A history of the Southport Jewish Community\nby John Cowell” of an incident in January 1942 that was to cause ripples in the community. The headline was \nPOLICE RAID DISTURBS CLUB CARD PLAYERS \nThe full list of people present seems to have been largely or entirely Jewish in religion or ethnicity: it included a famous chess-playing barrister from Liverpool\, Gerald Abrahams\, representing himself\, who had taken a First in P.P.E. at Oxford\, and later married Elsie Krengel\, who had also been present\, and with Leslie Black representing the rest of the defendants\, apart from the hosts and Captain Lionel Husdan\, who sent a letter to the court. \nThe full list of those present\, charged with “resorting and playing in a common gaming house\,” and bound over was as follows:- Mott Alexander\, Fannie Finn\, Maxwell Glassman\, Kate Lippa\, Myer Lister\, Gertrude Mannheim\, Joseph Mannheim\, Rita Mannheim\, Simon Mannheim\, Harry Peters\, Sadie Peters\, Lily Leah Ross\, Harry Sapiro\, Benjamin Stone. Those charged with “resorting in a common gaming house” and bound over\, were:- Gerald Abrahams\, Joseph Appleton Bach\, Samuel Myer Barnett\, Herbert Solomon Isaacson\, Elsie Krengel\, Manuel Mannheim\, Louis Michaelson\, Abraham Ross\, Bernard and Elsie Ross. \n“Gerald Abrahams\, the barrister charged\, said he was interested to protect his reputation from being stigmatised by a conviction\, and asked Sergeant Laycock about alcohol: the latter replied that none was being consumed. He submitted that the club was not a gaming house\, and that draw poker had not been proved other than as a game of skill. Charges were dismissed against Henry\, Eva and Marjorie Black\, Myer Waldman\, and Captain Lionel Husdan\, of Ryde\, Isle of Wight\, all of whom had said that they were merely taking refreshments in the club\, and had not played. David Platt said that he had not the slightest idea that they were breaking the law\, and Mrs Platt said that it had not been a paying venture.” \nThe Complete Chess Addict (Faber& Faber\, 1987)\, Fox & James notes: that Gerald Abrahams as authority on bridge cast doubt on assertions that Emanuel Lasker “was good enough to represent Germany” \nGerald’s comparisons of chess and bridge are discussed by Edward Winter in Chess Facts and Fables (McFarland\, 2005) page 130 in GAs 1962 book Brains in Bridge: \nBrains in Bridge\, Gerald Abrahams\, Constable and Company\, 1962\, ISBN ? \nGerald eventually married Elsie Krengel (born 15th January 1909) in the fourth quarter of 1971 in Liverpool at the age of 64. Elsie had lived in the Southport area for most of her life and her family was associated with the manufacture of handbags.  They had known each other for many years (at least since 1942 as mentioned previously). \nGerald Abrahams \nLeonard Barden modestly recounts : \n“At the end of Nottingham 1954  Gerald claimed that Alan Phillips had accepted his draw offer so tieing Gerald for the British championship with some rabbit whose name escapes me.  When Phillips strongly denied having accepted the draw\, Gerald collapsed on the floor and had to be aided by his old enemy Dr. Fazekas.” \nFrom The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match (1946) by Klein and Winter: \n“G. Abrahams was born in Liverpool in 1907. He learned chess at the age of ten\, and showed an early aptitude for tactical complications. He has played with varying success\, his best performances being third and fourth with Rossolimo\, behind Klein and Najdorf\, but head of List at Margate\, 1938\, and fourth\, fifth and sixth with Sir George A. Thomas and König in London\, 1946. He has made two valiant bids for the British Championship. \nA graduate of Oxford\, he is a barrister by profession and has written several books\, including some fiction. He has solidified his chess without allowing it to become dry. Indeed\, most of his games sparkle with interesting complications.” \nHarry Golombek OBE wrote (in The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)): \n“Brilliant British amateur who in the 1930s was playing master-chess. In that period he was the most dangerous attacking player in England. \nGerald Abrahams watching the opening at the Hastings Chess Congress 1947. Also watching is Sir George Thomas who was GAs round one opponent. The Mayor was Alderman W. J. Fellows and he is opposite Sir Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key. Second from left is Percy J. Morren who was the Hasting’s Club President \nHe was in the prize-list (i.e. in the first four) in the British championship on three occasions 1933\, 1946 and 1954. His best international performance was in the Major Open at Nottingham in 1936 where he came =3rd with Opocensky. Another fine result was his score of 1.5-0.5 against the Soviet Grandmaster Ragozin\, in the 1946 Anglo-Soviet radio match. \nHe is the inventor of the Abrahams variation in the Semi-Slav Defence to the Queen’s Gambit: 1.P-Q4\, P-Q4;2.P-QB4\, P-QB3;3.N-QB3\, P-K3;4.N-B3\, PXP;5.P-QR4\, B-N4;6.P-K3\,P-QN4;7.B-Q2\, P-QR4; 8.PxP\, BxN;9.BxB\,PxP;10.P-QN3\,B-N2; \n[fen]rn1qk1nr/1b3ppp/4p3/pp6/2pP4/1PB1PN2/5PPP/R2QKB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nThis is sometimes known as the Noteboom variation after the Dutch master who played it in the 1930s\, but Abrahams was playing it in 1925 long before Noteboom. \nHe is a witty and prolific writer on many subjects: on law (he is a barrister by profession)\, philosophy\, and chess; he also writes fiction. His main chess works are: The Chess Mind\, London 1951 and 1960 \nThe Chess Mind\, Gerald Abrahams\, The English Universities Press\, 1951\, ISBN 0 340 19492 8 \nand here is a later cover: \nThe Chess Mind\, Gerald Abrahams\, The English Universities Press\, 1951\, ISBN 0 340 19492 8 \nand Not Only Chess\, London 1974. \nNot Only Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.\, 1974\, ISBN 0 04 794005 0 \nEdward Winter in Kings\, Commoners and Knaves\, cites the subtitle of the above book in his page 235 list of chessy words: “A selection of Chessays”. \nFrom Not Only Chess we learn that GAs favourite game was played in 1930 against Edmund Spencer of Liverpool. “Edmund Spencer was a man who is remembered with affection by all players who ever met him\, and who is remarkable in that his strength developed in what should have been hid middle life. When he died\, lamentably early\, in the 1930s\, at about 53 he was at his best\, and of recognised master status. \nThis game was played in 1930.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Liverpool”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1930.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Abrahams\, Gerald”]\n[Black “Spencer\, Edmund”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D93”]\n[Annotator “Gerald Abrahams & BCN”]\n[PlyCount “39”]\n[SourceTitle “Not Only Chess\, page 237.”] \n{[%evp 0\,19\,31\,43\,13\,-4\,39\,28\,30\,9\,55\,33\,67\,69\,40\,41\,68\,33\,36\,53\,30\,24]} {\nThe notes for this game are sourced from Not Only Chess\, page 237. One of the\nmost delightful chess books in chess book history.} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3\nNf6 4. Nc3 g6 {BCN: The Schlecter Slav} 5. Bf4 Bg7 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd3 b6 $6 {\nGA: There is a slight error of order.} ({Better is} 7… Nbd7 8. O-O dxc4 9.\nBxc4 Nb6 10. Bb3 Nbd5 11. Be5 Bg4 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3) {Now with} 8. Ne5 $1\n$146 {I am able to give shape to the game. BCN: although 7…b6 is rare it is\nsurprising that on-one else played 8.Ne5 since.} (8. O-O Bb7 9. Qe2) 8… Bb7 (\n8… Nbd7 $2 9. Nxc6) 9. cxd5 cxd5 {[#]} 10. h4 $1 {BCN: Strong in 1930 and\nstrong in 2021!} h6 $2 $19 {This P-KR3 is made in reliance on quite a clever\ndefensive method which only fails against an extraordinary sacrifice.} ({\nBCN: Best is} 10… Nh5 {although GA did not like it since it invited} 11. Be2\n({although GA did not like 10…h6 since it invited} 11. g4) 11… Nxf4 12.\nexf4 Nc6 13. h5 e6 14. Qd2 $16) ({The decision was a difficult one because}\n10… h5 {invites} 11. g4) ({GA: Best was probably} 10… Nbd7 {then after} 11.\nh5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Ne4 {and there are defences}) 11. h5 g5 12. Bxg5 {GA: The\nobvious sacrifice} hxg5 13. h6 Bxh6 {GA : My opponent had expected equality\nafter this} ({GA: Interesting is} 13… Bh8 14. h7+ Kg7 15. f4 gxf4 16. Qf3 {\nGA: The theme song of this game. Black would be helpless.}) 14. Rxh6 Kg7 {\n[#] with this Black is threatening …Rh8} 15. f4 $1 (15. Rh7+ {My opponent\nhad expected} Nxh7 ({GA: I had myself rejected Rh7+ because of} 15… Kg8 {\n\, ignoring it. Also I had a preconceived idea. what my opponent had not seen\nis a move that the late Emanuel Lasker described as one of the best sacrifices\nin the history of chess.}) 16. Qh5 f5 17. Qg6+ Kh8 18. Bxf5 Rxf5 19. Qxf5 Qg8 {\nand decided he could hold the attack.}) 15… Kxh6 {GA: There is nothing\nbetter.} ({If} 15… gxf4 16. Qf3 {GA: When one gives a gift one gives it.})\n16. fxg5+ Kxg5 {GA: In answer to this} ({GA: Observe that if} 16… Kg7 17.\ngxf6+ Kxf6 18. Qf3+ Ke6 19. Qf5+ Kd6 20. Nb5#) {I played} 17. Qf3 {GA: a quiet\nmove} Kh6 ({GA: If} 17… Nh5 18. Qf5+ Kh6 19. Nxf7+ Kg7 20. Qg6#) 18. Qf4+ Kg7\n19. Qg5+ Kh8 {[#]} 20. O-O-O {GA: and my opponent resigned. The late\nZnosko-Borovski\, who printed the game in Novoye Vremya\, wanted to know why\n0-0-0 is a better move than K-K2. I (GA) told him that I always wanted to\ndemonstrate that castling is an attacking move\, not a defensive one. BCN:\nReaders of this game should recall the finish of Lasker-Thomas\, 1912 and\ncompare Dr. Lasker’s final move!} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand for an alternative view of the same game: \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQr81C23CG8[/embedyt] \nGA is amongst a rare breed of game annotators claiming the title of An Immortal for one of his own games. Edward Winter devotes a couple of column inches discussing exactly which year the game was played between 1929 and 1936. Here is the game: \n[pgn]\n[Event “Liverpool : An Immortal”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1930.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Abrahams\, Gerald”]\n[Black “Thynne\, RS.”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D64”]\n[Annotator “Gerald Abrahams & BCN”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[SourceTitle “Not Only Chess\, page 246”] \n{[%evp 0\,21\,31\,13\,38\,-4\,-4\,3\,13\,-51\,12\,16\,27\,40\,38\,35\,34\,8\,42\,33\,56\,41\,68\,30]\nThis game is sourced from Not Only Chess\, page 246. There is some doubt over\nthe veracity of the year played as discussed by Edward Winter in Chess Facts\nand Fables\, page 278.} 1. d4 {[%mdl 512]} Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Be7 5.\ne3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Rc1 c6 8. Qc2 Re8 9. Bd3 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Nd5 11. Ne4 $5 ({\nBCN: more common is} 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. O-O Nxc3 13. Qxc3 e5 14. dxe5 Nxe5 15.\nNxe5 Qxe5 16. Qxe5 Rxe5 17. Rfd1 Bf5 18. Rd4 Rae8 19. Rcd1 Kf8) 11… Bxg5 $146\n{This move was a TN in 1930 and has not been seen since in master games.} (\n11… Qa5+ $1 12. Kf1 f6 13. Bh4 $15) 12. Nexg5 N5f6 {GA: Best} 13. Kf1 $5 {\nGA: So as to make possible Ne5} h6 {[#]} 14. h4 $1 hxg5 $2 ({BCN: The Knight\nshould remain on g5 and be ignored.} 14… Qa5 {is more cicumspect.}) 15. hxg5\ne5 {BCN: Much too loosening} (15… Nd5 16. Qh7+ Kf8 17. Rh4 Ke7 18. g6) 16.\ngxf6 Qxf6 17. Qh7+ Kf8 18. Nh4 $2 (18. Rh4 $1 Ke7 19. dxe5 Nxe5 20. Rf4 Nxc4\n21. Rxf6 gxf6 22. Rxc4 $18) 18… Nb6 $1 {GA: Preventing the threatened Nf5}\n19. dxe5 (19. Bxf7) 19… Qxe5 $4 {[#] GA: Here is a fine example of luck in\nchess. [We have good luck\, never bad luck: “we should have seen it.”] In\nanswer to …Qxe5 I had been saving something up. In fact I’d invited an old\ngentleman who was pottering towards the door\, to stay\, because in a few\nminutes I’d have a good move for him to see.} (19… Rxe5 {BCN : keeps Black\non the board. GA: leaves me still trying to win.} 20. Nf3 Bf5 21. Qh2 $11) 20.\nQg8+ $3 {and the rest is history.} (20. Bxf7 {is what my opponent was\nexpecting.}) 20… Ke7 ({If} 20… Kxg8 21. Ng6 {forces mate.}) 21. Qxf7+ Kd8\n22. Rd1+ Bd7 23. Ng6 Qf6 24. Qxe8+ {and Black resigned.} Kxe8 (24… Kc7 25.\nQf7 $18) 25. Rh8+ Qf8 26. Rxf8# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFor more of GAs excellent games see the superb article further on by Steve Cunliffe. Also\, Not Only Chess in Chapter 28 (“A Score of my Scores”) contains a veritable feast of entertaining games of GAs). \nGerald famously fell out with Anne Sunnucks when he discovered she had omitted him from her 1970 Encyclopaedia of Chess. Despite this the 1976 edition was also devoid of a mention. \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984 & 1996)\, Hooper & Whyld: \n“The English player Gerald Abrahams (1907-80) introduced the move when playing against Dr. Holmes in the Lancastrian County Championship in 1925 (ed: January 31st in fact) . Abrahams played the variation against his countryman William Winter (1898-1955) in 1929 and in the same year Winter played it against Noteboom\, after whom it is sometimes named. (Dr\, Holmes was the favourite pupil of Amos Burn and a leading ophthalmologist). \nGerald Abrahams \nThe precursor\, known from a 16th-century manuscript\, was published by Salvio in 1604: \n1.d4 d5;2.c4 dxc4;3.e4 b5;4.a4 c6;5.axb5 cxb5;6.b3 b4;7.bxc4 a5; 8.Bf4 Nd7;9.Nf3 \n[fen]r1bqkbnr/3npppp/8/p7/1pPPPB2/5N2/5PPP/RN1QKB1R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nWriting in 1617\, Carrera made his only criticism of Salvio’s analysis in this variation. He suggested 8…Bd7 instead of 8…Nd7\, or 9.Qa4 instead of 9.Nf3. Salvio nursed his injured pride for seventeen years and then devoted a chapter of his book to a bitter attack on Carrera. The argument was pointless: all these variations give White a won game.” \nGA famously wrote : \nChess is a good mistress\, but a bad master \nand also \nThe tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do. \nand \nIn chess there is a world of intellectual values \nand \nGood positions don’t win games\, good moves do \nand \nWhy some persons are good at chess\, and others bad at it\, is more mysterious than anything on chess board. \nIn the recently (February 25th\, 2020) published “Attacking with g2 – g4” by GM Dmitry Kryakvin writes about Abrahams as follows : \n[fen]rnbqkbnr/pp4pp/2p1p3/3p1p2/2PP2P1/2N1P3/PP3P1P/R1BQKBNR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \n“It is believed that the extravagant 5.g2-g4 was first applied at a high level\, namely in the British Championship by Gerald Abrahams. Abrahams was a truly versatile person – a composer\, lawyer\, historian\, philosopher\, politician (for 40 years a member of the Liberal Party) and the author of several books. Of his legal work\, the most famous is the investigation into the murder of Julia Wallace in 1931 in Liverpool\, where her husband was the main suspect. As an alibi\, William Herbert Wallace claimed he was at a chess club. Dozens of books and films have been devote to the murder of Mrs. Wallace – indeed\, this is a script worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie! \nby Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd)\, whole-plate film negative\, 21 August 1933 \nAbrahams played various card games with great pleasure and success\, but the main passion of the Liverpool resident was chess. Abrahams achieved his greatest success in the championships of Great Britain in 1933 and 1946\, when he won bronze medals. The peak of his career was undoubtedly his participation in the USSR-Great Britain radio match (1946) where on the 10th board Abrahams beat Botvinnik’s second and assistant grandmaster Viacheslav Ragozin with a score of 1.5-0.5 \nGerald Abrahams had a taste of studying opening theory\, and made a distinct contribution to the development of the Noteboom Variation\, which is often known as the Abrahams-Noteboom. \n[fen]rnbqk1nr/5ppp/2p1p3/pp6/PbpP4/2N1PN2/1P1B1PPP/R2QKB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nTen years after he introduced the move 5.g2-g4 to the English public (1953)\, the famous grandmaster Lajos Portisch brought it into the international arena.” \nGerald Abrahams \nGerald was also a keen studies composer. Here are some examples of his work: \nGerald Abrahams\, 1923 \n[fen]r7/4P1k1/3P1b1p/7P/8/5RPK/p7/8 w – – 0 1[/fen] \n1/2-1/2 \nSolution: 1. Ra3! Ra3 […a1=q;2.Ra1 Ba1;3.d7 Kf7;4.d8=q];2.e8=q a1=q;3.Qd7 \nand \nGerald Abrahams\, 1924 \n[fen]k7/p5p1/5b2/P5Pp/7P/5N2/8/r4R1K w – – 0 1[/fen] \n1-0 \nHere is an interesting article by Tim Harding on the naming of the Abrahams-Noteboom Variation of the Semi-Slav Defence \nHere is an article about GA and a blindfold exhibition \nGerald Abrahams contributed to opening theory in the Queen’s Gambit Declined / Semi-Slav Defence with his creation of the Abrahams-Noteboom Defence as discussed in the following video : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFI0nON4QDg[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Sunday Chronicle-B”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1946.01.??”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Abrahams\, Gerald”]\n[Black “Winter\, William”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B20”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1946.01.14”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\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\,59\,25\,18\,41\,-57\,-27\,-68\,-35\,-42\,-42\,-61\,14\,-8\,1\,8\,5\,-3\,8\,-36\,-37\,-47\,\n-34\,-51\,-53\,-97\,-4\,-28\,-19\,-53\,-26\,-46\,-21\,-56\,-50\,-50\,26\,-117\,-117\,-139\,-141\,\n-141\,-131\,-146\,-146\,-147\,-176\,-176\,-143\,-166\,-136\,-202\,-102\,-62\,105\,130\,135\,\n498\,29985\,29986\,29987\,29988]} 1. e4 c5 2. b4 cxb4 3. Bb2 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. c4\nbxc3 6. Nxc3 Qd8 7. Nf3 Nf6 8. d4 e6 9. Bd3 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. Re1 Nc6 12. Re3\nNd5 13. Nxd5 exd5 14. Ne5 Bg5 15. Rg3 g6 16. Ba3 Re8 17. Bb5 Bf4 18. Bxc6 bxc6\n19. Nxc6 Qh4 20. Qb3 Bxg3 21. hxg3 Qe4 22. Qb4 Kg7 23. Ne7 Ba6 24. Re1 Qd3 25.\nQd6 Qc4 26. Bc5 Rf8 27. Nxd5 Rfe8 28. Qf6+ Kg8 29. Rxe8+ Rxe8 30. Bf8 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHere is a nine page article (Gerald Abrahams – Talent without Discipline) written by Steve Cunliffe that appeared in British Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 292-300: \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 292 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 293 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 294 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 295 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 296 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 297 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 298 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 299 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 300 \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nttq5zKNS0[/embedyt] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nSee his games at Chessgames.com \nHow to Teach Yourself Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, D Van Nostrand Company\, Inc\, New York\, 1950 \nTechnique in Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, George Bell & Sons Ltd.\, 1961\, \nTest Your Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, Constable and co\, 1963\, ISBN 0 330 24336 5 \nThe Pan Book of Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, Pan\, 1965\, 10: ISBN 0330230735 \nTeach Yourself Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, The English Universities Press Ltd\, 1965\, \nTechnique in Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, Dover\, 1973\, ISBN ISBN 13: 9780486229539 \nBrilliance in Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, Pitman Publishing\, 1977\, ISBN 10: 0273000349
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Michael Basman (16-iii-1946)
DESCRIPTION:IM Michael John Basman \nBirthday of IM Michael John Basman (16-iii-1946)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jim Plaskett (18-iii-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday GM Harold James Plaskett born on this day (March 18th) in 1960 \nGM Harold James Plaskett \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nJim accepts the 1981 Grand Prix shield from ? \nHere are his games \nJim obtained his FM norm in 1980 according to Gino de Felice. \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Harold James (Jim) Plaskett was born in Dkeliha\, Cyprus. He was awarded the IM title in 1981 and became a GM in 1985. Plaskett’s tournament results include first place at Plovdiv 1984 and a tie for second at Hastings 1984-85. He was British champion in 1990.” \nJim with David Anderton OBE at the 1983 Benedictine International (Manchester) \nJames Plaskett almost became a millionaire \nTrends in the Sicilian Richter Rauzer \nTrends in the Sicilian Sozin \nTrends in the Gruenfeld without cd5 \nThe English Defence \nPlaying to Win \nThe Sicilian Taimanov \nThe Sicilian Grand Prix \nCoincidences \nCan You Be a Tactical Chess Genius? \nThe Scandinavian Defence \nStarting Out: Attacking Play \nCatastrophe In The Opening \nThe Queen’s Bishop Attack Revealed. \nBad Show
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Justin Tan (19-iii-1997)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Justin Hsien Y Tan (19-iii-1997) \nGM Justin Tan \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Grandmaster (2018). \nFM (2013); IM (2015). \nJustin Tan is one of Australia’s promising juniors\, and is one of two juniors amongst Australia’s top ten players. \nInternational Master Norms \nTan won his first IM norm during the 2013-14 NCL. His 2nd IM norm came at the Caissa GM tournament held in Kecskemet in Hungary in February 2014\, and he secured his 3rd IM norm \, and the IM title\, at the Bunratty Classic 2015 in Ireland on 22 February 2015. \nChampionships \nTan scored his first positive result against an accredited Master when he drew with WIM Narelle Szuveges in the Noble Park Club Championship in February 2008. Six months later he scored his first win against a master at the Noble Park Grade A Championship when he defeated FM Al-Rashid Abdul Wahab of Iraq. At the age of 12\, he competed in the World U16 Championship 2009 that was held in Antalya in Turkey\, scoring a solid rating-enhancing 5.5/11. He scored 5.5/9 in the 2011 U14 World Championship\, beating the eventual winner FM (and now GM) Kirill Alekseenko in their individual encounter. He first played in the Oceania Zonal 3.6 in 2011 and scored 6.5/9 in the Zonal 3.6 tournament in 2013\, earning his FM title under the 50% rule. He placed second to Alastair Cameron in the 2012 Australian U18 Open with 7.5/9 and did well in scoring 6/11 in the 2012 Australian Championship. He was equal second at the Victorian Championship in 2013. In September 2015\, he was equal first at the Illinois Open State Chess Championship. \nIn October and November 2015\, Tan contested the World U18 Championship staged in Greece\, and placed =4th with 8/11. \nTournaments \n<2007-2009> Tan’s first FIDE-rated event was the Arthur Tan Malaysian Open Championship in 2007. His first significant result at the sharp end of the leader board was equal first at the Noble Park Chess Club Open in Melbourne in May 2009. \n<2010-2012> In May 2010\, he scored his first win against an International Master when he defeated Mirko Rujevic at the City of Melbourne Open. He was equal first at the MCC ANZAC Day Weekender in 2010 alongside Erik O M C Teichmann and Mirko Rujevic\, and won the same event in 2012 in Melbourne with 6.5/7. He won the Noble Park Grade A event in 2011\, was equal first (second on tiebreak) at the 2011 Noble Park Club Championship\, placed fourth in the Noble Park Club Championship 2012\, and was equal first at the Noble Park Masters 2012. He finished 2012 by winning the Bob Brooking Round Robin ahead of IMs James Morris and Rujevic. \n<2013-2015> 2013 started with equal first at the Noble Park Club Championship. He was equal first at the Canterbury Summer Swiss 2013 held in December 2013 in Melbourne. He chanced his arm at the powerful Isle of Man Masters (2015) held in October 2015\, and scored a rating-neutral 4.5/9. \nTeam Events \n6/10 on board 2 at the 2012 World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad\, helping the Australia “A” team to 8th place. Tan played board 2 for Oxford 1 in the 2013-14 4NCL\, winning his first IM norm during that event. \nRating and Ranking \nTan’s initial rating was 1802 in April 2008. His highest rating and ranking to date is 2446 and Australian #6 in November 2015.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Bunratty”]\n[Site “Bunratty”]\n[Date “2015.02.21”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Tan\, Justin Hy”]\n[Black “Hunt\, Adam”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B81”]\n[WhiteElo “2383”]\n[BlackElo “2428”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “127”]\n[EventDate “2015.02.18”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[EventCategory “8”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 164 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2015.03.02”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2015.03.02”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,127\,19\,38\,72\,47\,88\,61\,62\,50\,48\,26\,55\,24\,51\,12\,12\,15\,23\,22\,26\,21\,9\,47\,\n61\,33\,47\,71\,63\,87\,87\,46\,162\,8\,125\,77\,85\,122\,149\,157\,157\,149\,157\,108\,335\,164\,\n135\,103\,145\,218\,173\,173\,173\,80\,92\,114\,135\,71\,148\,-6\,-4\,-49\,-35\,-78\,-78\,-94\,-96\,\n-104\,-107\,-123\,152\,-23\,85\,31\,115\,-74\,-126\,-126\,-122\,-133\,-121\,-122\,-124\,-132\,\n-89\,-146\,-26\,-26\,0\,0\,0\,0\,122\,122\,164\,166\,149\,156\,162\,159\,157\,180\,138\,138\,138\,\n138\,138\,138\,149\,149\,284\,293\,509\,527\,537\,507\,527\,537\,527\,537\,537\,537\,29971\,\n29972\,29975\,29970\,29971\,29972\,29973\,29974]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4.\nNxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e6 7. g4 d5 8. Bg2 Bb4 9. O-O Bxc3 10. bxc3 Nxe4 11.\nBa3 Nd6 12. Nf5 Nxf5 13. gxf5 Nc6 14. c4 d4 15. Rb1 Qa5 16. Qd3 Qc3 17. Bxc6+\nbxc6 18. Qe4 Qxa3 19. Qxc6+ Ke7 20. Qxa8 Qxh3 21. Qa7+ Bd7 22. Qc5+ Kf6 23.\nQxd4+ e5 24. Qd6+ Be6 25. Rb3 Qxf5 26. Rg3 g5 27. Re1 Rc8 28. c5 h5 29. Kg2 e4\n30. c6 Qd5 31. Rd1 Qxc6 32. Qd4+ Kg6 33. c3 h4 34. Re3 f5 35. Qe5 Kf7 36. Rd6\nQc4 37. Rb6 Qd5 38. Qxd5 Bxd5 39. Rd6 Bxa2 40. Rxa6 Bd5 41. Rd6 Rc5 42. Kg1 Bc6\n43. Re1 Rxc3 44. Ra1 Ke7 45. Rg6 Be8 46. Ra7+ Bd7 47. Rg7+ Kf6 48. Rgxd7 Rc5\n49. Rh7 Ke5 50. Rag7 Kf4 51. Rc7 Rb5 52. Kg2 Rb2 53. Rc3 Kg4 54. Re7 h3+ 55.\nRxh3 Rxf2+ 56. Kxf2 Kxh3 57. Rg7 Kg4 58. Ke3 Kh4 59. Rh7+ Kg3 60. Rf7 g4 61.\nRxf5 Kh2 62. Rh5+ Kg2 63. Rg5 g3 64. Kf4 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKAvBjbm624[/embedyt] \nGM Justin Tan
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-justin-tan-19-iii-1997/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM James Jackson (21-iii-1991)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM James P Jackson (21-iii-1991) \nJames became a FIDE Master in 2014 and an International Master in 2019
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-james-p-jackson-21-iii-1991/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Peter Roberson (22-iii-1989)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Peter Thomas Roberson (22-iii-1989) \nIM Peter Roberson \nPeter is IM Squirlolz on chess.com \nIM Peter Roberson \nPeter’s games from chessgames.com \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 1617 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Reading”]\n[Date “2017.01.14”]\n[Round “3.83”]\n[White “Moreby\, James”]\n[Black “Roberson\, Peter T”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A21”]\n[WhiteElo “2192”]\n[BlackElo “2388”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “70”]\n[EventDate “2016.11.19”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2018”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “North East England”]\n[BlackTeam “Grantham Sharks”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,70\,19\,-12\,-27\,-51\,-4\,2\,20\,9\,14\,13\,15\,31\,36\,31\,45\,45\,55\,43\,73\,60\,69\,77\,\n74\,30\,30\,0\,34\,12\,36\,0\,36\,27\,23\,-16\,-11\,-50\,-37\,-37\,-36\,-33\,-34\,-69\,-33\,-11\,-7\,\n-4\,5\,5\,9\,-5\,20\,-1\,22\,0\,-73\,-86\,-77\,-91\,-87\,-123\,-116\,-105\,-84\,-87\,-79\,-121\,-90\,\n-304\,-317\,-756\,-799]} 1. c4 e5 2. g3 d6 3. Bg2 f5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e3 Be7 6. Nge2\nO-O 7. O-O c6 8. d4 Nbd7 9. b3 Qe8 10. Ba3 e4 11. Nf4 Nb6 12. f3 g5 13. Nfe2 d5\n14. Bxe7 Qxe7 15. c5 exf3 16. Rxf3 Nbd7 17. Qd3 Ne4 18. Nxe4 dxe4 19. Qc4+ Kg7\n20. Rf2 Nf6 21. Bh3 Be6 22. Qc1 Nd5 23. Nc3 Rf6 24. Nxd5 cxd5 25. Qd2 Raf8 26.\nRaf1 h5 27. b4 h4 28. gxh4 g4 29. Bg2 Rh6 30. Bh1 Qxh4 31. Rg2 Qg5 32. Rf4 Rh3\n33. Qf2 Rfh8 34. Qe2 g3 35. Rxg3 Qxg3+ 0-1\n[/pgn]
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-peter-thomas-roberson-22-iii-1989/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTAMP:20210305T190138Z
CREATED:20200319T124618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T190138Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Craig Hanley (23-iii-1984)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Craig A Hanley (23-iii-1984) \nIM Craig Hanley
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-craig-hanley-23-iii-1984/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTAMP:20210305T190227Z
CREATED:20200716T112123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T190227Z
UID:7445-1585008000-1585094399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of Christopher Feather (24-iii-1947)
DESCRIPTION:Christopher John Feather \nBirthday of Christopher John Feather (24-iii-1947)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-christopher-john-feather-24-iii-1947/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Composer,Problemist
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210327
DTSTAMP:20210305T192111Z
CREATED:20200319T125443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T192111Z
UID:3597-1616716800-1616803199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Chris Ward (26-iii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Christopher Geoffrey Ward (26-iii-1968)Here is his Wikipedia entry \nGM Chris Ward \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Grandmaster and British Chess Champion in 1996. He is the author of several chess books\, among them Winning With the Sicilian Dragon 2 (2001)\, Winning with the Dragon (2003) and The Controversial Samisch King’s Indian (2004).” \nChris plays Jiang Chuan Ye at the 1997 England – China match \nHere are his games \nChris Ward commentating during the Hastings Congress \nChris earned his IM title in 1990 and his GM title in 1996. According to Chessbase and Felice his peak rating was 2531 in July 2003 when he was 35. \nChris is President of the English Primary Schools Chess Association (EPSCA)\, Chris is the Chief Coach of the Kent Junior Chess Association (KJCA). Chris plays for KJCA Kings in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nChris with the British Championship Trophy from 1996 (Nottingham) \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch 83rd”]\n[Site “Nottingham”]\n[Date “1996.??.??”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Ward\, Christopher”]\n[Black “Summerscale\, Aaron”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D10”]\n[WhiteElo “2460”]\n[BlackElo “2500”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “35”]\n[EventDate “1996.08.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 054 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1996.11.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1996.11.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,35\,19\,31\,19\,-16\,26\,44\,57\,1\,11\,9\,1\,0\,15\,-55\,-61\,-68\,-64\,-68\,-50\,-160\,\n18\,45\,12\,-52\,40\,-117\,-37\,-55\,-41\,-41\,98\,-126\,483\,234\,29997\,29998]} 1. d4 d5 2.\nc4 c6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. e4 b5 5. a4 b4 6. Nb1 Ba6 7. Nf3 (7. Qc2 $142 Nf6 8. Nd2\nQxd4 9. Ngf3 b3 10. Nxd4 bxc2 11. f3 c3 12. bxc3 Bxf1 13. Kxf1 $14) 7… Nf6 8.\ne5 Nd5 9. Ng5 (9. e6 f6 10. Be2) 9… h6 $146 10. Qh5 {[#]} hxg5 $2 (10… g6\n$142 11. Qh3 e6 12. Ne4 $17) 11. Qxh8 Nf4 12. Be3 (12. Bxf4 gxf4 13. Nd2 Qxd4\n14. O-O-O Nd7 $13) 12… Qd5 $17 13. f3 Ne6 14. Nd2 Nxd4 15. O-O-O c3 16. Nc4\nBxc4 $2 17. Rxd4 (17. Bxc4 $142 Qxe5 18. Bxd4 $18) 17… Qxe5 $4 18. Qxf8+ {[#]\n} 1-0\n[/pgn] \n“Not sure about best\, but 18.Qxf8+ against Summerscale en route to winning the 1996 British Championship will be forever ingrained in my mind. Sorry\, Aaron!”\n– GM Chris Ward (when asked for his best move) \nSource: Chess Monthly 2017 December \nGM Chris Ward \nEndgame Play \nThe Queen’s Gambit Accepted \nThe Genius of Paul Morphy \nImprove your Opening Play \nWinning With the Sicilian Dragon 2 \nStarting Out: The Nimzo-Indian \nIt’s Your Move: Improvers \nUnusual Queen’s Gambit Declined \nWinning with the Dragon \nIt’s Your Move: Tough Puzzles \nStarting Out: Rook Endgames \nThe Controversial Samisch King’s Indian \nPlay the Queen’s Gambit \nStarting Out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-chris-ward-26-iii-1968/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Hastings,Player,Writer
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CREATED:20200411T140719Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WIM Heather Richards (27-iii-1983)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of WIM Heather S Richards (27-iii-1983)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-wim-heather-s-richards-27-iii-1983/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210329
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210330
DTSTAMP:20210305T192622Z
CREATED:20190922T080954Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Peter Sowray (29-iii-1959)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday FM Peter John Sowray (29-iii-1959)Born in London\, Peter obtained his FM title in 1984. He has been a regular member of the very strong Wood Green team. His peak rating (according to Chessbase) was 2384 aged 59 in March 2018. He currently plays for Barbican in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nPeter Sowray at the South Bank See image below for caption \nCaption for above image \nPeter Sowray watchign Tony Miles at the Lloyds Bank Masters. Sir Jeremy Morse watches. \nPeter Sowray (top right) with a victorious Wood Green team \nFM Peter Sowray \nHere are Peter’s games from chessgames.com \n[pgn]\n[Event “Barcelona Sants op 16th”]\n[Site “Barcelona”]\n[Date “2014.08.26”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Sowray\, Peter John”]\n[Black “Granda Zuniga\, Julio E”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E42”]\n[WhiteElo “2325”]\n[BlackElo “2663”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “2014.08.22”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ESP”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 162 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2014.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2014.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,59\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,4\,33\,33\,34\,18\,8\,34\,27\,13\,-2\,1\,21\,3\,30\,6\,17\,-9\,41\,\n43\,43\,59\,47\,55\,53\,38\,53\,53\,70\,44\,50\,51\,33\,-1\,0\,0\,44\,0\,75\,148\,168\,163\,155\,198\,\n143\,222\,259\,233\,235\,240\,254\,254\,348\,421\,517\,558]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4\n4. e3 b6 5. Nge2 c5 6. a3 Ba5 7. Rb1 Qe7 8. Bd2 Na6 9. Ng3 Bb7 10. d5 O-O 11.\nBd3 g6 12. O-O exd5 13. Nxd5 Nxd5 14. cxd5 Bxd2 15. Qxd2 Nc7 16. e4 d6 17. f4\nNe8 18. Rbe1 Nf6 19. e5 dxe5 20. fxe5 Nxd5 21. Qh6 Rfe8 22. Ne4 Qf8 23. Qh4 Qg7\n24. Nd6 Rxe5 25. Rxe5 Qxe5 26. Rxf7 Qe3+ 27. Kh1 h5 28. Rf3 Qc1+ 29. Rf1 Qd2\n30. Qe4 1-0\n[/pgn]
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-peter-j-sowary/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210330
DTSTAMP:20210329T110426Z
CREATED:20200408T125142Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Tony Corkett (29-iii-1958)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Anthony R Corkett (29-iii-1958)
URL:http://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-anthony-r-corkett-29-iii-1958/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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