BCN wishes IM Andrew Martin many happy returns on his birthday (18-v-1957)

From ChessBase :

Andrew David Martin (born 18th May 1957 in West Ham, London) is an English chess player with the title of international master. Martin has won various national and international tournaments. He has been playing for years in the Four Nations Chess League, at present (July 2009) for Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher, previously for the Camberley Chess Club. Martin received his title as international master in 1984. He earned his first grandmaster norm in the British Championship of 1997 in Brighton. Martin was a commentator on the chess world championship between Kasparov and Kramnik in 2000.
On the 21st February 2004 Martin set a new world record for simultaneous chess.

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCi3zvhNYH8[/embedyt]

He faced 321 chess players at the same time. His result was: 294 wins, 26 draws and only one loss. Martin is known as a professional chess teacher and head trainer of the English youth team. He trains eight schools (Yateley Manor, Aldro, Millfield, Sunningdale, Waverley School, St Michael’s Sandhurst, Wellington College, Salesian College). Martin is a chess columnist, an author of chess books and the author of various instructional videos. He was the publisher of the series Trends Publications. Martin lives in Sandhurst, England, is married and the father of two daughters and two sons. His present Elo rating is 2423 (as of July 2009).

The above is somewhat inaccurate and out of date. Andrew came from East Ham rather than West Ham. He was the editor rather than the publisher of Trends Publications and he lives in Bramley, Surrey with his partner Naomi.

On July 23rd 1981 a world record attempt of continuous blitz games was undertaken at the National Film Theatre in London with much support of the membership of London Central YMCA.

Andrew now plays for Camberley and Guildford clubs in the Berkshire and Surrey Border Leagues and is former member of East Ham, Ilford, London Central YMCA (CentYMCA), Wood Green and Barbican clubs.

Andrew has written many books starting as Editor of the “Trends Series” for Tournament Chess owned by Richard W. O’Brien (Not of The Crystal Maze). He has authored numerous DVDs for Foxy Videos and ChessBase and has a YouTube Channel focused on young and improving players called “Andrew Martin – Chess Explorations“.

Below Andrew annotates his game (with black) versus GM Stephen Gordon from 4NCL in 2005 :

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loR7lNhO72o[/embedyt]

Andrew’s first book as author was this one :

Here is one his favourite games :

[pgn]
[Event “Christmas Congress 1984/85-60 Premier”]
[Site “Hastings”]
[Date “1985.01.07”]
[Round “9”]
[White “Martin, Andrew D”]
[Black “Ravikumar, Vaidyanathan”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “B82”]
[BlackElo “2370”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “80”]
[EventDate “1984.12.29”]
[EventType “tourn”]
[EventRounds “13”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[EventCategory “9”]
[SourceTitle “MCD”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

{[%evp 0,80,32,25,47,60,60,46,42,12,13,32,22,38,82,85,71,71,60,62,78,14,12,21,
21,-16,-8,2,104,106,106,-70,-73,-68,0,0,191,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,
90,167,167,243,239,109,99,99,344,369,387,414,413,493,482,482,482,497,497,495,
503,503,512,543,543,548,543,548,540]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 e6 4. Nf3 a6 5.
d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 d6 7. Be3 Nf6 8. Qf3 Bd7 9. O-O-O Qc7 10. g4 Nxd4 11. Rxd4 e5 {
[#]} 12. Rd2 $146 Bxg4 $11 13. Qg3 Bd7 $6 14. fxe5 dxe5 15. Rxd7 $5 Qxd7 16.
Bh3 Qe7 17. Rf1 h6 18. Rxf6 $5 (18. Rf5 Nd7 19. Nd5 $18 Qd6 20. Bd2 $18) 18…
gxf6 19. Nd5 Qd6 20. Bb6 {[%csl Gc7]} h5 $1 21. Nc7+ Ke7 22. Nd5+ Ke8 23. b4
Qc6 24. Nc7+ Ke7 25. Nd5+ Ke8 26. Qg1 {[#]} Rc8 $2 (26… Rb8) 27. Bxc8 Qxc8
28. Nxf6+ Ke7 29. Nd5+ Kd7 30. Qf1 $18 Qc6 (30… Ke8 31. Qf6 Rh6 32. Qxe5+ Re6
33. Nc7+ Kd7 34. Nxe6 fxe6 35. Qd4+ Ke8 36. Qh8 $18) 31. Qxf7+ $18 Kc8 32. Bc7
Bh6+ 33. Kb2 Rf8 34. Qh7 Be3 35. Ne7+ Kxc7 36. Nxc6+ Kxc6 37. Qg6+ Kd7 38. Qg7+
Ke8 39. Qxe5+ Kd7 40. Qg7+ Ke8 1-0
[/pgn]

Here is a second memorable game :

[pgn]
[Event “EU-Cup 08th round of 16”]
[Site “London”]
[Date “1991.11.19”]
[Round “2.1”]
[White “Rajkovic, Dusan”]
[Black “Martin, Andrew D”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “E45”]
[WhiteElo “2475”]
[BlackElo “2415”]
[Annotator “Martin,A”]
[PlyCount “50”]
[EventDate “1991.11.??”]
[EventType “team-match”]
[EventRounds “2”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]
[SourceQuality “1”]
[WhiteTeam “Smederevska Palanka Gosa”]
[BlackTeam “London Wood Green”]
[WhiteTeamCountry “YUG”]
[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”]

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-39,-23,-19,-20,-18,16,6,20,10,-30,-30,-14,-14,-57,-137,-8,-6,0,0,0,0,0,0,345,
-29995,-29996,-29997,-29998]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 b6 5. Nge2
Ba6 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. Nxc3 d5 8. cxd5 Bxf1 9. Kxf1 exd5 10. b4 $6 O-O 11. Qb3 {N}
(11. g3) 11… Nc6 $1 12. a4 Qd7 13. Ba3 Rfe8 14.
h3 Re6 $1 15. Rc1 Rae8 16. Kg1 {[#]} Nxd4 $1 17. exd4 Re1+ 18. Kh2 $8 (18. Rxe1
$2 Rxe1+ 19. Kh2 Ng4+ $1 20. Kg3 (20. hxg4 Qd6+) 20… Qd6+ 21. Kxg4 (21. f4
Re3+ 22. Kxg4 Qg6+ $19) 21… h5+ $3 22. Kf3 (22. Kxh5 Qf4 $19) 22… Qf6+ 23.
Kg3 Qg5+ 24. Kf3 Qf5+ 25. Kg3 h4+ 26. Kxh4 Qf4+ 27. g4 Re6 28. Qxd5 Rh6+ 29.
Qh5 g5#) 18… Ng4+ $1 19. hxg4 Qd6+ 20. Kh3 Qh6+ 21. Kg3 R8e3+ $1 22. fxe3
Qxe3+ 23. Kh4 Qf2+ 24. Kh3 $4 {[#]} (24. g3 $8 g5+ 25. Kxg5 (25. Kh5 Qf6 26.
Qc2 Re4 27. Qxe4 dxe4) (25. Kh3 Re6) 25… Qe3+ 26. Kh5 (26. Kf5 Qe6+ 27. Kg5
Qg6+ 28. Kh4 Qh6#) 26… Kg7 27. g5 $8 Qf3+ 28. Kh4 f5 $8 (28… Qxh1+ $2 29.
Kg4) 29. gxf6+ $8 Qxf6+ 30. Kg4 Qe6+ 31. Kf3 Qe3+ 32. Kg2 Qd2+ $10) 24… g5 $1
25. g3 Re6 0-1
[/pgn]

and finally this game was very pleasing :

[pgn]
[Event “London 56/320”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “1992.??.??”]
[Round “?”]
[White “Martin, Andrew D”]
[Black “Adams, Michael”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “C25”]
[WhiteElo “2420”]
[BlackElo “2610”]
[Annotator “Martin,Andrew”]
[PlyCount “73”]
[EventDate “1992.??.??”]
[SourceTitle “Paramount 2015”]
[Source “Chess Informant”]
[SourceDate “2015.06.22”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2015.06.22”]
[SourceQuality “2”]

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120,399,270,296,304,291,193,260,225,225,270,232,97,127,122,134,119,125,149,149,
151,161,177,202,138,193,167,196,192,214,311,29989,29990,29997,29998]} 1. e4 e5
2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 exf4 4. d4 (4. Nf3 {- 56/(320)}) 4… Qh4+ 5. Ke2 b6 (5… d5
$142) (5… d6) 6. Nb5 (6. Qd2 $5 {- 56/(320)}) 6… Ba6 7. a4 O-O-O {N} (7…
Qe7 8. Kf3 $1 Bxb5 9. axb5 Nd8 10. Bxf4 Nf6 11. Bd3 Ne6 12. Be3 d5 13. e5 Nd7
14. g3 $1 $14 ) 8. Nf3 Qe7 9. Kf2 Bb7 (9… Qxe4
$2 10. Nxa7+ Nxa7 (10… Kb7 11. Bxa6+ Kxa6 12. Re1 $16) 11. Bxa6+ Kb8 12. Re1
) 10. Bxf4 Qxe4 11. Qd2 (11. Bxc7 Re8 12. Qd2 Nf6 13. Bd3 $16) 11…
Nf6 12. Bd3 Qd5 13. Rhe1 d6 {[#]} 14. a5 $1 (14. Bg5 Ng4+ (14… Na5 15. b4 Nc4
16. Qc3) 15. Kg3 f6 16. c4 Qf7 $8 (16… Qg8 $2 17. Bf5+ Kb8 18. Be6) 17. Kxg4
h5+ $3 $13 (17… fxg5 18. Nxg5 Qf6 19. Re6)) 14… Qh5 (14… Nxa5 15. Rxa5
bxa5 16. Qxa5 Rd7 17. c4 Qh5 18. Re8+ $1 Nxe8 19. Nxa7+ Kb8 20. Qxh5 Kxa7 21.
Qa5+ Kb8 22. d5 $18) 15. axb6 axb6 {[#]} 16. c4 $1 Be7 (16… g5 $142 $5 17.
Bxg5 Bg7) 17. Kg1 Rhe8 (17… g5 $142) 18. d5 Ne5 19. Nfd4
Kb8 (19… Nxd3 20. Qxd3 Kd7 21. Na7 $1 ) 20. Be2 (20. Na7 $1 {
Adams,Mi}) 20… Nxc4 $138 21. Bxh5 Nxd2 22. Bxf7 Nde4 23. Bxe8 $18 Rxe8 24.
Nc6+ Kc8 25. Rac1 Bf8 26. Nb4 Nc5 27. Rxe8+ Nxe8 28. Bg5 Nf6 29. Bxf6 gxf6 30.
Re1 Kd7 31. Nd4 Na4 {[#]} 32. Nbc6 $1 Nxb2 33. Nb8+ $1 Kd8 34. Ne6+ Kc8 35. Nc6
Bh6 36. Nc5 $1 dxc5 37. Re8+ 1-0[/pgn]