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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Nigel Short (01-vi-1965)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Nigel Short a happy birthday on this day (June 1st) in 1965. \nIn the 1999 Queen’s Birthday Honours List Nigel was awarded the MBE. The citation read simply : “For services to Chess”. \nHere is his extensive Wikipedia entry. \nFor the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display this was written : “Rating 213. World No.1\, 13 year old. First Evening Standard under-10s\, 1975. First under-14s\, 1976. First under-21s\, 1978. \nBritish Men’s Lightning (10 seconds per move) champion 1978 – the youngest National Men’s Champion in chess history. Bronze medallist world under-17 championship 1979. \nIn simuls Nigel has beaten Korchnoi and Petrosian. World Nos. 2 and 4. Now he plays Spassky\, World No.3.” \nNigel Short plays Joel Benjamin at Lloyd’s Bank\, 1976. 1-0\, Maroczy Bind\nAnatoly Karpov plays Nigel Short\, London\, Philips & Drew\, French Winawer\, 1/2-1/2\, Stewart Reuben looking on\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nNigel Short\nNigel analyses with Viktor Korchnoi\, unknown date and venue\n\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nNigel Short\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nNigel Short Simultaneous display at the 2012 London Chess Classic\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nNigel Short : Chess Prodigy (1981)\nNigel Short’s Chess Skills (1989)\nNew Ideas in the French Defence (1991)\nNigel Short
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,History,Player
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Robin Matthews (16-vi-1927 19-vi-1983)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Robin Matthews CBE\, FBA who died in Cambridge aged 83 on June 19th 2010. Probate (3367272) was granted in Ipswich\, Suffolk on September 6th\, 2010. \nRobert (Robin) Charles Oliver Matthews was born in Edinburgh on Thursday\, June 16th 1927. Born on the same day was England cricketer\, Tom Graveney. \nHis English father\, Oliver Harwood Matthews became an Edinburgh solicitor and his mother was Ida Matthews (née) Finlay.  Robin had a daughter Alison. \nAcademia\nHe was educated at Edinburgh Academy and then Corpus Christi College\, Oxford becoming a Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford. He went on to become a highly successful economist authoring at least twelve publications on the subject. \nAccording to Wikipedia “He was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1965 to 1975 and the Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge from 1980 to 1991. He was also the Master of Clare College\, Cambridge from 1975 to 1993.” \nFor a detailed description of this part of his life there is an excellent obituary / biography from the Australian economist\, Geoffrey Harcourt. \nProblem Composer\nBrian Stephenson (BCPS) writes : “Probably the UK’s greatest composer of ‘mate in 3’ #ChessProblems . His chapters in the book you note were what got me hooked on chess composition. Nearly all of his output can be viewed at The Meson Database” \nBlack Correction: Quaternary Play \nFirst Prize\, The Observer\, 1964 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nMate in three \nAccording to David McKittrick in The Independent: \n“Outside academia\, Matthews was keen on chess\, in particular setting problems and publishing two books on what are known as three-mover directmates\, in which white is to move and checkmate black in no more than three moves against any defence. \nAlthough this might be thought a particularly narrow point of interest\, one enthusiast said of him that his writings “demonstrated a deep knowledge along with the feeling of wonder and curiosity about the subject”. \nRCO Matthews\nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld: \n“British Composer\, International Judge of Chess Compositions (1957)\, International Master for Chess Compositions (1965)\, economist\, appointed Master of Clare College\, Cambridge in 1975. He has specialised in orthodox three movers and is among the world’s leaders in this field.” \n\nHere is an obituary from The Daily Telegraph \nand an obituary from The Independent \nChess Problems : Introduction to an Art\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess by Anne Sunnucks : \nInternational Master of the F.I.D.E. for chess compositions (1965) and International Judge of the F.I.D.E. for Chess Compositions (1957). President of the British Chess Problem Society for 1971 and 1972. Professor of Economics at Oxford University. \nCyclic Overload Doubled \nFirst Prize\, British Chess Magazine\, 1968 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nMate in three \nBorn on 16th June 1927. Professor Matthews has composed about 200 problems\, about 40 of them 1st prize winners\, mainly strategic three-movers\, He is one of the world’s best three move composers. \nNowotnys \nBritish Chess Magazine\, 1967 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nHis best problems give clear-cut expression of complex themes\, with proper attention given to key-move and by-play in the best English tradition. \nChess Problems : Introduction to an Art\nThe results are massive rather than elegant\, but carefully constructed. Themes he has specialised in include overload White self-weakening and reciprocal change.” \nR.C.O. Matthews\nBritish Chess Magazine\n1956 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nWhite to play and mate in three moves \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Robert (Robin) Charles Oliver Matthews (16 June 1927 – 19 June 2010) was an economist and chess problemist. \nMatthews was born in Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College\, Oxford\, and was a Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford. He was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1965 to 1975 and the Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge from 1980 to 1991. He was also the Master of Clare College\, Cambridge from 1975 to 1993.”
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Sir Richard Clarke KCB CB OBE (13-viii-1910 21-vi-1975)
DESCRIPTION:BCN Remembers Sir Richard Clarke KCB OBE who passed away on June 21st 1975. \nAccording to chess-poster.com : “Clarke died in the University College Hospital\, in London\, on 21 June 1975 and was cremated at Golders Green three days later. He was survived by his wife Brenda Pile (married in 1950\, née Skinner) and their three sons.” \nOne of those sons is Charles Rodway Clarke along with his brothers Mark G and Timothy Rodway. \nRichard William Barnes Clarke was born on August 13th\, 1910 in Basford\, Derbyshire. The birth was registered in Ilkeston in the district of Erewash. His parents were a secondary and technical school schoolmaster of science\, William Thomas Clarke and Helen Rodway Clarke (née Barnes). Richard was baptised on October 1st 1910 in St. Lawrence (Anglican) Church in Heanor\, Derbyshire. \nThe 1911 census records the family living at “Iona” which was a modest property in Fletcher Street in Heanor which had six rooms.  Richard was seven months old and he had a three year old sister\, Stella Helen Clarke. The family retained a nineteen year old domestic servant\, Ada Mary Brown who has been born in Codnor\, Derbyshire. \nRichard was educated at Christ’s Hospital\, London followed by Clare College\, Cambridge. At University he studied mathematics specialising in statistics. He was ranked at the sixth “wrangler“. Subsequently he was awarded the Frances Wood Prize by the Royal Statistical Society. \nIn 1944 Richard was awarded the OBE for his work as Planning Officer for the Ministry of Production followed by Companion of the Bath in 1951 for his work as Under Secretary at HM Treasury and in 1964 he was made Knight Commander of the Bath for his work as Second Secretary at HM Treasury. \nAccording to chess-poster.com : “He was commonly known as Otto Clarke” and according to his son Mark the nickname “Otto” was possibly because of Clarke’s “forceful” personality was considered Germanic. According to Sir Sam Brittan\, “it was because his round glasses and the bridge over the nose looked like OTTO.” \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \nCreator of the British system of grading. He gave up active chess after leaving Cambridge University where he played second board between C.H.O’D. Alexander and Jacob Bronowski. \nAt first a financial journalist (one of the two who created the Financial Times Index)\, he became\, at the outbreak of the Second World War\, a temporary civil servant\, remaining to become one of the most distinguished of them\, and to receive a knighthood. \nAccording to Arpad E. Elo in “Ratings of Chessplayers Past and Present” : “In the chess world\, rating systems have been used with varying degrees of success for over twenty-five years. Those which have survived a share a common principle in that they combine the percentage score achieved by a player with the rating of his competition. They use similar formulae for the evaluation of performance and differ mainly in the elaboration of the scales. The most notable are the Ingo (Hoesskinger 1948)\, the Harkness (Harkness 1956)\, and the British Chess Federation (Clarke 1957) systems. These received acceptance because they produced ranking lists which generally agreed with the personal estimates made by knowledgeable chessplayers.” \nHere is an article in full reproduced from British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 2\, February\, 1963\, pages 49 -53 : \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 2\, February\, 1963\, page 49\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 2\, February\, 1963\, page 50\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 2\, February\, 1963\, page 51\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 2\, February\, 1963\, page 52\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 2\, February\, 1963\, page 53\nThe June 1975 issue of British Chess Magazine announces his passing and promises that a tribute would follow : it never did. \nSir Richard Clarke (13-viii-1910 21-vi-1975)\, National Portrait Gallery\, Rex Coleman\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHere is a small article from chess-poster.com \nHere is detail about the Clarke Grading System \nand more about chess ratings systems in general \nThe Economic Effort of War
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Howard Staunton (??-iv-1810 22-vi-1874)
DESCRIPTION:Here is his Wikipedia entry \nBCN remembers Howard Staunton (??-iv-1810 22-vi-1874) \nA curious article about Staunton \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper and Whyld : \nThe world’s leading player in the 1840s\, founder of a school of chess\, promoter of the world’s first international chess tournament\, chess columnist and author\, Shakespearian scholar. Nothing is known for certain about Staunton’s life before 1836\, when his name appears as a subscriber to Greenwood Walkers Selection of Games at Chess \, actually played in London\, by the late Alexander McDonnell Esq. He states that he was born in Westmorland in the spring of 1810\, that his father’s name was William\, that he acted with Edmund Kean\, taking the part of Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice\, that he spent some time at Oxford (but not at the university) and came to London around 1836. Other sources suggest that as a young man he inherited a small legacy\, married\, and soon spent the money.  \nEdmund Kean (4 November 1787 – 15 May 1833)\nHe is supposed to have been brought up by his mother\, his father having left home or died. He never contradicted the suggestion that he was the natural son of the fifth Earl of Carlisle\, a relationship that might account for his forename\, for the Earl’s family name was Howard: but the story is almost certainly untrue\, not least because in all probability Howard Staunton was not his real name. A contemporary\, Charles Tomlinson (18O8- 97)\, writes: ‘Rumour . . . assigned a different name to our hero [Staunton] when he first appeared as an actor and next as a chess amateur. \nA stamp printed in Guinea-Bissau shows Howard Staunton\, Chess players serie\, circa 1988\nAt the unusually late age of 26 Staunton became ambitious to succeed at chess; a keen patriot\, his motivation may in part have sprung from a desire to avenge McDonnell’s defeat at the hands of a Frenchman. A rook player in 1836 (his own assessment)\, Staunton rose to the top in a mere seven years. In 1838 he played a long series of games with W. D. Evans and a match of 21 games with Alexandre in which he suffered ‘mortifying defeat’ during the early sittings; but he continued to study and to practise with great determination.  \nIn 1840 he was strong enough to defeat H. W. Popert\, a leading German player then resident in London. In the same year he began writing about the game. A short-lived column in the New Court Gazette began in May and ended in Dec. because\, says G. Walker\, there were ‘complaints of an overdose’. More successful was his work for the British Miscellany which in 1841 became the Chess Player’s Chronicle\, England’s first successful chess magazine\, edited by Staunton until 1854\, Throughout 1842 Staunton played several hundred games with John Cochrane\, then on leave from India\, a\nvaluable experience for them both.  \nJohn Cochrane\nIn 1843 the leading French player Saint-Amant visited London and defeated Staunton in a short contest -(+3 = 1—2)\, an event that attracted little attention; but later that year these two masters met in a historic encounter lasting from 14 Nov. to 20 Dec. This took place before large audiences in the famous Café de la Régence. Staunton’s decisive victory ( + 11 = 4—6) marked the end of French chess supremacy\, an end that was sudden\, complete\, and long-lasting. From then until the 1870s London became the world’s chess centre. In Oct. 1844 Staunton travelled to Paris for a return match\, but before play could begin he became seriously ill with pneumonia and the match was cancelled. Unwell for some months afterwards\, he never fully\nrecovered: his heart was permanently weakened. In Feb. 1845 he began the most important of his journalistic tasks\, one that he continued until his death: in the Illustrated London News he conducted the world’s most influential chess column. Each week he dealt with a hundred or more letters; each week he published one or more problems\, the best of the time. In 1845 he conceded odds of pawn and two moves and defeated several of his countrymen and in 1846 he won two matches playing level: Horwitz (+14=3 — 7) and Harrwitz (+ 7). In 1847 Staunton published his most famous chess book\, the Chess Player’s Handbook\, from which many generations of English-speaking players learned the rudiments of the game: the last of 21 editions was published in 1939. He published the Chess Players Companion in 1849.  \nIn 1851 Staunton organized the world’s first international tournament\, held in London. He also played in it\, an unwise decision for one burdened with the chore of organization at the same time. After defeating Horwitz (+4=1—2) in the second round he lost to Anderssen\, the eventual winner. Moreover he was defeated by Williams\, his erstwhile disciple\, in the play-off for places. Later that year Staunton defeated Jaenlsch ( + 7=1 — 2) and scored +6 = 1—4 against Williams\, but lost this match because he had conceded his opponent three\ngames’ start. In 1852 Staunton published The Chess Tournament\, an excellent account of this first international gathering. Subsequently he unsuccessfully attempted to arrange a match with Anderssen\, but for all practical purposes he retired from the game at this time.  \nThe Chess Tournament London 1851\nAmong his many chess activities Staunton had long sought standardization of the laws of chess and\, as England’s representative\, he crossed to Brussels in 1853 to discuss the laws with Lasa\, Germany’s leading chess authority. Little progress was made at this time\, but the laws adopted by FIDE in 1929 are substantially in accordance with Staunton’s views. This trip was also the occasion of an informal match\, broken off when the score stood +5=3-4 in Lasa’s favour. Staunton took the match seriously\, successfully requesting his English friends to send him their latest analyses of the opening.  \nOriginal Staunton chess pieces\, left to right: pawn\, rook\, knight\, bishop\, queen\, and king. Photo used by permission of Frank A. Camaratta\, Jr.; The House of Staunton\, Inc.; houseofstaunton.com\nStaunton had married in 1849 and\, recognizing his new responsibilities\, he now sought an occupation less hazardous than that of a chess-player. In 1856. putting to use his knowledge of Elizabethan and Shakespearian drama\, he obtained a contract to prepare an annotated edition of Shakespeare’s plays. This was published in monthly instalments from Nov. 1857 to May 1860\, a work that ‘combined commonsense with exhaustive research’. (In 1860 the monthly parts ready for binding in three volumes were reissued\, in 1864 a four-volume reprint without illustrations was printed\, and in 1978 the original version was published in one volume.) Staunton\, who performed this task in a remarkably short period\, was unable to accept a challenge from Morphy in 1858: his publishers would not release him from his contract. After the proposal for a match was abandoned Frederick Milnes Edge (c. 1830-82)\, a journalist seeking copy\, stirred up a quarrel casting Staunton as the villain. Morphy unwisely signed some letters drafted by Edge\, while Staunton\, continuously importuned by Edge\, was once driven to make a true but impolitely worded comment about Morphy. Generally however these two great masters behaved honourably\, each holding the other in high regard; but Edge’s insinuations unfairly blackened Staunton’s reputation.  \nSubsequently Staunton wrote several books\, among them Chess Praxis (I860) and the Great Schools of England (1865)\, revised with many additions in 1869. At the end of his life he was working on another chess book when\, seized by a heart attack\, he died in his library chair.  \nStaunton was no one’s pupil: what he learned about chess he learned by himself. For the most part he played the usual openings of his time but he introduced several positional concepts. Some of these had been touched upon by Philidqr\, others were his own: the use of the ranch mo for strategic ends\, the development of flank openings specially suited to pawn play. He may be regarded as the precursor of the hypermodern movement\, the Staunton system the precursor of the Reti opening. In his Chess Players Companion Staunton remarks that after 1 e4 e5 Black’s game is embarrassed from the start\, a remark anticipating Breyer’s ideas about the opening by more than half a century\, Fischer wrote in 1964: “Staunton was the most profound opening analyst of all time. He was more theorist than player but none the less he was the strongest player of his day. Playing over his games I discover that they are completely modern.\nWhere Morphy and Steinitz rejected the fianchetto. Staunton embraced it. In addition he understood all the positional concepts which\nmodern players hold so dear\, and thus with Steinitz must be considered the first modern player. \nTall\, erect\, broad-shouldered\, with a leonine head\, Staunton stood out among his fellows\, walking like a king’. He dressed elegantly\, even ostentatiously\, a taste derived perhaps from his\nbackground as an actor. G. A. Macdonnell describes him: “… wearing a lavender zephyr outside his frock coat. His appearance was slightly gaudy\, his vest being an embroidered satin\, and his scarf gold-sprigged with a double pin thrust in\, the heads of which were connected by a glittering chain . . .’ A great raconteur\, an excellent mimic who could entertain by his portrayals of Edmund Kean\, Thackeray\, and other celebrities he had met\, he liked to hold the stage\, ‘caring for no man’s anecdote but his own’. He could neither understand nor tolerate the acceptance of mediocrity\, the failure of others to give of their best.  \nHoward Staunton (01-iv-1810 22-vi-1874)\nA man of determined opinions\, he expressed them pontifically\, brooking little opposition. Always outspoken\, he often behaved\, writes Potter\, ‘with gross unfairness towards those whom he disliked\, or from whom he suffered defeat\, or whom he imagined to stand between himself and the sun’; ‘nevertheless’\, he continues\, ‘there was nothing\nweak about him and he had a backbone that was never curved with fear of anyone.’ Widely disliked\, Staunton was widely admired\, a choice that would have been his preference. Reminiscing in 1897\, Charles Edward Ranken (1828-1905) wrote: “With great defects he had great virtues; there was nothing mean\, cringing\, or small in his nature\, and\, taking all in all\, England never had a more worthy\nchess representative than Howard Staunton. \nR. D. Keene and R. N. Coles Howard Staunton the English World Chess Champion (1975) contains biography\, 78 games\, and 20 parts of games.  \nHoward Staunton\, The English World Chess Champion\nThe Staunton Defence has remained a completely playable gambit versus the Dutch Defence : \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nBlue Plaque for Howard Staunton\nHoward Staunton’s tombstone
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Marmaduke Wyvill (22-xii-1815 25-vi-1896)
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Marmaduke Wyvill (22-xii-1815 25-vi-1896) \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHere is an excellent article from the Yorkshire Chess History web site. \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \nHe was winner of second prize in the first international tournament\, London 1851. He developed his chess skill in the 1840s\, meeting Dubois in Rome\, Kieseritzky in Paris\, and many players\, including Buckle\, in London\, His style was that of the English school\, and he understood well the positional ideas of the English opening and the Sicilian Defence. In 1847 he was elected Member of Parliament for Richmond\, Yorkshire\, a seat he held until 1868 except for a break of two years. The London 1851 tournament consisted of a series of knock-out matches. After defeating Williams (+4-3) in the third round and losing to Anderssen ( + 2=1-4) in\nthe fourth and final round\, Wyvill was placed second. His score against Anderssen was better than that made by other players (Kieseritzky\n“1—2\, Szen +2—4\, Staunton +1—4)\, Wyvill had\nproved himself one of the leading players of his time. Although he played in no more tournaments he retained an interest in the game throughout his\nlife. \nHere is an example of the Wyvill pawn formation : \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nThe Wyvill formation is a name given by Tarrasch to a pawn formation with doubled pawns as shown above. This formation was not unfamiliar to Wyvill but could with more justification have\nbeen named after Winawer who so frequently doubled his opponent’s c-pawns that this and similar formations became known as his trademark. The technique for attacking the Wyvill formation was also understood by Neumann and before him by Carl Hamppe (1814-76)\, the leading\nViennese player of the 1850s. \nMarmaduke Wyvill at Leamington Spa\, seated third from left.
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