BCN sends IM Andrew Greet best wishes on his birthday.

Andrew Neil Greet was born on Friday, October 5th, 1979 to Brian and Janet Greet (née) Neal in the cathedral city of Truro, Cornwall and has resided in St. Austell, Cornwall.

“Message in a Bottle” by The Police held the number one spot in the UK singles chart (three weeks in total). Andrew has a brother David who played as a junior.

Andrew attended Truro School leaving in 1998.

Andrew became a FIDE Master in 2004 and an International Master in 2005. His peak rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2456 in April 2016 at the age of 37.

Andrew was British Under-18 Champion in 1996 at the age of 16 sharing the title with Oliver Rosten & Rohan Churm. In 1998 Andrew won the title outright.

From 1998 – 2001 had a break from chess to study Psychology at The University of Kent in Canterbury.

In 2005 he scored a record breaking 11/11 in the Four Nations League playing for Hillsmark Kingfisher. By now, Andrew had moved to Glasgow and had changed his FIDE federation from England to Scotland.

Andrew was joint winner (with Simon Knott) of the Southend Open in 2006.

In April 2009 Andrew joined Quality Chess in Sales and Marketing which led to the position of editor.

In 2010 Andrew became Scottish Champion outright.

In 2017 won outright the Dundee grandmaster tournament : here is the story of the tournament.

In 2018 he played board one for Scotland in the 43rd Olympiad in Batumi.

Andrew is a successful martial artist specialising in a a discipline known as Brazilian Jiujitsu, which is a form of grappling.

Here is an article (by Dave Regis) concerning a simultaneous display at Exeter Chess Club in 2010

From britishchess.co.uk :

“He has a very friendly personality which works well when coaching, and he has coached England juniors on foreign trips.”

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[Event “Wellington College op 6th”]
[Site “Crowthorne”]
[Date “2005.01.29”]
[Round “3”]
[White “Cox, John J”]
[Black “Greet, Andrew N”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “E25”]
[WhiteElo “2311”]
[BlackElo “2389”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “48”]
[EventDate “2005.01.28”]
[EventType “swiss”]
[EventRounds “9”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[SourceTitle “EXT 2006”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2005.11.24”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2005.11.24”]
[SourceQuality “1”]

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email 2004}) 14… Na5 15. Qc2 $146 (15. Qd5) 15… Be6 $14 {[#]} 16. c4 $146 (
16. Nb4) ({Predecessor:} 16. Nb4 Nd7 17. Nd5 Bxd5 18. exd5 Nxc5 19. Rb1 Nd7 20.
c4 Nb6 21. Rb5 Nbxc4 22. Bd2 Rac8 23. Bxa5 Qd7 24. Qb3 Nxa5 25. Rxa5 Qc7 26.
Ra4 Qc1+ 27. Kf2 Rc2+ 28. Kg3 f5 29. Kh3 e4 30. d6+ Kh8 31. Qe6 Qg5 32. Qe7
Qh6+ 33. Qh4 Qxd6 34. fxe4 f4 35. Ra5 Rf6 36. Rh5 Qe6+ 37. Qg4 Qxe4 38. Qd7
Rc3+ 39. g3 Rxg3+ 40. hxg3 Qxh1+ 41. Kg4 Rg6+ 42. Rg5 h5+ 43. Kf5 Rxg5+ 44.
Kxg5 Qxf1 {1/2-1/2 (44) Heim,S (2379)-Ostmoe,G (2327) Gausdal 2003}) 16… Nxc4
17. Bf2 Qa5+ 18. Ke2 Nc6 $19 19. g3 Rfd8 20. Bh3 Rxd3 $1 21. Qxd3 Rd8 22. Bxe6
Rxd3 23. Kxd3 Qd2+ 24. Kxc4 Qc2+ {and White resigned} 0-1
[/pgn]

[pgn]
[Event “BCF-chT 0506 (4NCL)”]
[Site “Birmingham”]
[Date “2005.10.23”]
[Round “2.1”]
[White “Greet, Andrew N”]
[Black “Rowson, Jonathan”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “E11”]
[WhiteElo “2428”]
[BlackElo “2599”]
[Annotator “British Chess News”]
[PlyCount “81”]
[EventDate “2005.10.22”]
[EventType “team”]
[EventRounds “11”]
[EventCountry “ENG”]
[SourceTitle “EXT 2007”]
[Source “ChessBase”]
[SourceDate “2006.11.23”]
[SourceVersion “1”]
[SourceVersionDate “2006.11.23”]
[SourceQuality “1”]
[WhiteTeam “Hilsmark Kingfisher”]
[BlackTeam “Guildford”]
[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]
[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”]

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3. c4 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Qe7 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Bxd2+ 7. Nbxd2 d6 8. O-O a5 9. e4 e5 10.
d5 Nb8 11. Ne1 h5 12. h4 Bg4 13. f3 Bd7 14. Qb3 ({Relevant:} 14. Nd3 Na6 15.
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Predecessor:} 16. Nd3 Nc5 17. Nf2 {1/2-1/2 (17) Loemker,M-Groenegress,W Lemgo
1983}) 16… Nc5 17. Rc1 c6 18. a3 cxd5 19. cxd5 Bb5 20. Rf2 O-O 21. Bf1 Qd7
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28. Rfc2 Rf7 29. Ne3 b5 30. Qg6 Nb6 $6 31. Rc6 (31. Rc7) 31… Ra2+ 32. N1g2
Rf6 33. Qxh5 {[#]} e4 $2 34. f4 (34. Rc7) 34… Nc4 35. Nxc4 bxc4 36. R1xc4 Qa7
37. Qe8+ Rf8 38. Qxe4 Nf6 39. Qe6+ Kh8 (39… Kh7) 40. Rc8 $1 Qf2 41. Rxf8+ 1-0
[/pgn]

Andrew has written a number of publications as follows :