BCN sends best wishes to GM Jonathan Francis Parker on his birthday, this day, in 1976.

Jonathan became a FIDE Master in 1991, and International Master in 1993 and a Grandmaster in 2001. His peak rating was 2570 in July 2002.

Jonathan plays for Cavendish in the London League and Barbican in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL).

According to chessgames.com : “Grandmaster from England. Parker won the Berlin Summer Open in August 1998.”

[pgn]
[Event “BCF-chT 0001 (4NCL)”]
[Site “Birmingham”]
[Date “2001.05.06”]
[Round “10.1”]
[White “Parker, Jonathan”]
[Black “Mestel, A Jonathan”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “E70”]
[WhiteElo “2545”]
[BlackElo “2488”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “35”]
[EventDate “2000.09.??”]
[EventType “team”]
[EventRounds “11”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[SourceTitle “EXT 2002”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2001.11.25”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2001.11.25”]
[SourceQuality “1”]
[WhiteTeam “Barbican”]
[BlackTeam “IND II”]
[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]
[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”]

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181,289,264,262,293,319,323,386,282,350,356,412,402,402,410,410,430]} 1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. f4 c5 6. dxc5 Na6 $6 (6… d6) 7. e5 $1 $146
Ne8 8. Be3 $16 d6 9. cxd6 exd6 {[#]} 10. c5 Bf5 11. cxd6 $18 Nb4 12. Rc1 Qa5
13. Qd2 Rc8 14. Nf3 Nc2+ 15. Rxc2 Bxc2 16. d7 Rd8 17. Qxc2 Rxd7 18. Bb5 1-0
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