Dharshan Kumaran (born 7 June 1975) is an English chess grandmaster.[1] He won the World Under-12 Championship in 1986, the World Under-16 Championship in 1991, and finished 3rd equal in the World Under-20 Championship in 1994. He currently works as a neuroscience research scientist at DeepMind.[2]
For 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.
British 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.
In simuls Nigel has beaten Korchnoi and Petrosian. World Nos. 2 and 4. Now he plays Spassky, World No.3.”
Nigel Short plays Joel Benjamin at Lloyd’s Bank, 1976. 1-0, Maroczy BindAnatoly Karpov plays Nigel Short, London, Philips & Drew, French Winawer, 1/2-1/2, Stewart Reuben looking on
Nigel ShortNigel analyses with Viktor Korchnoi, unknown date and venue
Nigel Short
Nigel Short Simultaneous display at the 2012 London Chess Classic, courtesy of John Upham PhotographyNigel Short : Chess Prodigy (1981)Nigel Short’s Chess Skills (1989)New Ideas in the French Defence (1991)Nigel Short
“Charles Dealtry Locock (1862 – 1946) was a British literary scholar, editor and translator, who wrote on a wide array of subjects, including chess, billiards and croquet.[1]”
From The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld :
The Locock Gambit is in the Philidor Defence, named after the English player Charles Dealtry Locock (1862 – 1946). The gambit is probably sound; Black should play 4…Bey instead of 4…h6
BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Joseph Gerald Gallagher (04-v-1964)
Streatham & Brixton becoming BCF National Club Champions in 1989. The team was Tony Kosten, Mark Hedben, Daniel King, Nigel Povah (Captain), Joe Gallagher and Julian Hodgson : quite a strong team
GM Joe GallagherWinning With the King’s Gambit, Batsford, ISBN 0-7134-6944-7Beating the Anti-Sicilians, Batsford/Henry Holt and Company, ISBN 0-8050-3575-3Beating the Sicilian 3Beating the Anti-King’s Indians, Batsford/International Chess Enterprises, ISBN 1-879479-36-2The Trompovsky, Chess Press, ISBN 1-901259-09-9101 Attacking Ideas in Chess, Gambit Publications, ISBN 1-901983-20-XThe Magic of Mikhail Tal, Everyman Chess, ISBN 1-85744-266-0Starting Out: the Caro-Kann, Everyman Chess, ISBN 1-85744-303-9Starting Out: King’s Indian, Everyman Chess, ISBN 1-85744-234-2Starting Out: The Pirc/Modern, Everyman Chess, ISBN 1-85744-336-5Play the King’s Indian, Everyman Chess, ISBN 1-85744-324-1
BCN wishes GM John Nunn Happy Birthday (25-iv-1955)
From The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek :
British International master and European Junior Champion, 1975. Born in London, Nunn learned chess at the age of four and soon revealed a great aptitude for the game.
Graham Ladds and John Nunn. See full caption below.Supplied caption for above picture.
He came 6th in the Norwich Junior international tournament in 1970 and went up to Oxford University to take a mathematics degree at a very early age. He played on top board for the University from 1972-6 and is now preparing for a doctorate there.
John DM Nunn
He won the European Junior Championship and with it the international master title in Groningen in 1975. In that year too he was equal first in the IBM Master tournament, and at London in 1975 he reached an international master norm coming 5th in the international tournament there. He played on bottom board at the Haifa Olympiad 1976 and scored 64.2%
GM John Nunn
From The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld :
English player. International Grandmaster (1978), British champion 1980. He went to Oxford at the unusually young age of 15, graduated in 1973. Gained his B.Sc. the following year and his
doctorate in 1978.
GM John Nunn
A Junior Research Fellow, he lectured in mathematics until 1981 when he became a professional player. By then he had already achieved several good results in international tournaments: Budapest 1978, first; Hastings 1979-80, first (4-5 = 10) equal with Andersson; Baden-bei-Wien 1980, category 12, third (+5=10) after Spassky and Belyavsky: Helsinki 1981, first (+5 = 6) equal with Matulovich; and Wiesbaden 1981, first (+6=3). In the category 12 Wijk aan Zee tournament 1982, Nunn came first ( + 5=7 — 1) equal with Balashov ahead of Tal, Hubner, and Timman and at Helsinki 1983 he came second (+5 = 6) after Karlsson.
Maia Chiburdanidze and John Nunn from Lloyds Bank, 1985
Possessing a remarkably quick sight of the board, Nunn is an expert solver: he made the second highest individual score in the world team solving championship, 1978, and won the solving championship of Great Britain in 1981.
The Benoni for the Tournament PlayerSolving in StyleThe Complete PircSecrets of Rook EndingsSecrets of Pawnless EndingsNew Ideas in the Pirc DefenceBeating the Sicilian 3The King HuntSecrets of Grandmaster ChessSecrets of Practical ChessNunn’s Chess OpeningsJohn Nunn’s Chess Puzzle Book101 Brilliant Chess MiniaturesLearn ChessSecrets of Minor-Piece EndingsUnderstanding Chess Move by MoveJohn Nunn’s Best GamesEndgame ChallengeTactical Chess EndingsLearn Chess TacticsMammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess GamesGrandmaster Chess Move by MoveUnderstanding Chess EndgamesNunn’s Chess EndingsUnderstanding Chess MiddlegamesChess Tactics Workbook for Kids
Chess Endgame Workbook for KidsGM John Nunn
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