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SUMMARY:Birthday of WFM Sarah Longson (née Hegarty) (02-x-1988)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to WFM Sarah Longson (née Hegarty) on her birthday this day\, (October 2nd) in 1988.\n\nFrom Sarah’s web site:\n\n“I have played competitive chess since the age of 7 when I became UK U7 Girls Chess Champion and appeared on Blue Peter where I met the then world champion Garry Kasparov. Since then I have represented England in many international competitions and in 2013 won the British Ladies Championship.”\n\nIn 2016 Sarah and partner FM Alex Longson made a successful bid for ownership of the UK Chess Challenge which auctioned by the bankruptcy receiver of IM Mike Basman\, the previous owner. Sarah and Alex have \n\nWFM Sarah Longson
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM James Adair (09-xi-1992)
DESCRIPTION:IM James Adair playing GM Hikaru Nakamura at the London Chess Classic 2014 \nBCN wishes Happy birthday to IM James Adair. \nJames Robert Adair was born on Monday\, November 9th in 1992 in Reading\, Berkshire. \nJames attended Little Heath School\, Tilehurst\, Reading and joined Reading Chess Club and was an active player in the Berkshire League and in the Surrey Border League. His father Andrew took up chess to support James as a junior. \nHe then read Mathematics at The University of York and now is employed by Aviva plc (formerly Norwich Union Assurance) in the field of insurance. \nJames became a FIDE Master in 2012 and gained his International Master title in August 2014.  \nAccording to Felice his best FIDE rating was 2489 in December 2016. According to MegaBase 2020 it was 2492 in August 2018 at the age of 26. \nJames started his 4NCL career in the 2006/7 season with Conquistadors and then transferred to Guildford not long after. By 2010/11 James was playing for the bar loving Sambuca Sharks team. In 2011 James transferred to 4NCL White Rose as he had just started University in Yorkshire. He was also playing for York RI. \nIn 2009 he shared equal 1st (4.5/5) with Alexei Slavin in the Uxbridge Open\, a sadly missed e2-e4 event. Since then James has had various tournament successes. \nFIDE rating profile for IM James Adair \n[pgn]\n[Event “UK-ch blitz op”]\n[Site “Solihull”]\n[Date “2018.12.01”]\n[Round “13”]\n[White “Adair\, James R”]\n[Black “Pert\, Nicholas”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B32”]\n[WhiteElo “2500”]\n[BlackElo “2563”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “2018.12.01”]\n[EventType “tourn (blitz)”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,73\,28\,28\,58\,51\,39\,32\,1\,43\,26\,25\,28\,10\,10\,6\,12\,9\,9\,18\,26\,-13\,29\,19\,31\,\n20\,54\,15\,17\,10\,61\,66\,96\,99\,99\,90\,130\,131\,127\,135\,127\,120\,117\,113\,120\,102\,88\,88\,\n231\,231\,235\,235\,321\,319\,354\,396\,391\,391\,656\,754\,637\,779\,803\,809\,809\,617\,630\,\n668\,673\,764\,812\,940\,1057\,1080\,2209\,29980]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.\nNxd4 e5 5. Nb5 d6 6. N1c3 a6 7. Na3 Be7 8. Nc4 b5 9. Ne3 Nf6 10. g3 {Bologan}\nBe6 (10… O-O 11. Bg2 b4 12. Ncd5) 11. Bg2 Rc8 (11… O-O 12. O-O) 12. O-O Nd4\n13. Bd2 $146 (13. Ncd5) 13… O-O {[#]} 14. a4 b4 15. Ncd5 a5 $6 (15… Bxd5\n16. exd5 Rb8) 16. c3 Nc6 17. cxb4 Bxd5 18. exd5 Nxb4 19. Bxb4 axb4 20. a5 $16\nNd7 21. Bh3 $1 Rb8 22. Bxd7 Qxd7 23. Qa4 Qh3 $6 ({Better was} 23… Qc7) 24. a6\n$18 f5 {[#]} 25. Qd7 $1 Bg5 26. Nc4 (26. Qe6+ Kh8 27. a7 Ra8 28. Qxd6 f4 29.\nQxf8+ Rxf8 30. a8=Q Kg8 31. Qa6 fxe3 32. fxe3 Bxe3+ 33. Kh1 Rd8 $18) 26… Rbd8\n27. Qe6+ Kh8 28. Nxd6 h5 29. Nf7+ Rxf7 30. Qxf7 h4 31. Qh5+ Bh6 32. Qxh4 (32.\na7) 32… Qxh4 33. gxh4 Ra8 34. a7 e4 35. d6 Bf4 36. d7 Bc7 37. Rfc1 {and\nBlack resigned.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nJames has plus scores against : Peter Roberson\, Jack Rudd\, Richard Bates and Matthew Turner amongst others. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 98th”]\n[Site “Sheffield”]\n[Date “2011.07.24”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Adair\, James”]\n[Black “Palliser\, Richard”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B42”]\n[WhiteElo “2212”]\n[BlackElo “2454”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “77”]\n[EventDate “2011.07.24”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 143 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,77\,19\,38\,72\,47\,56\,34\,40\,22\,64\,48\,61\,61\,61\,52\,57\,47\,60\,53\,44\,-16\,8\,2\,\n58\,34\,50\,42\,42\,9\,36\,33\,27\,30\,52\,54\,88\,78\,81\,42\,35\,50\,70\,20\,36\,31\,66\,-21\,30\,65\,\n36\,36\,36\,36\,36\,61\,85\,148\,221\,195\,281\,287\,288\,288\,288\,194\,288\,175\,176\,192\,193\,\n197\,255\,240\,271\,227\,250\,248\,248\,243]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6\n5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. Qg4 Nf6 8. Qg3 d6 9. Nc3 Nc6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bd2 e5 12.\nO-O-O Nh5 13. Qf3 Nf6 14. Qg3 Nh5 15. Qf3 Nf6 16. h3 $146 (16. Nd5) 16… Be6\n17. Nd5 Nd7 $6 18. Qg3 $16 g6 19. f4 exf4 20. Nxf4 Nde5 21. Bc3 $6 $11 (21. Kb1\n$16) 21… b5 $2 (21… Qg5 $142) 22. Na5 Nd4 23. Ne2 Nxe2+ 24. Bxe2 Qc7 25.\nNb7 Qxb7 26. Rxd6 Qxe4 27. Bxe5 Bf2 28. Qf3 Qxe5 29. Rxe6+ (29. Qxa8+ Ke7 30.\nRxe6+ fxe6 31. Qb7+ Kf6 32. Qf3+) 29… Qxe6 (29… fxe6) 30. Qxa8+ Ke7 31.\nQxh8 Qxe2 32. Qc3 Kf8 33. Qf3 Be3+ 34. Kb1 Qxf3 35. gxf3 Kg7 36. Re1 Bc5 37. c3\nKf6 38. Kc2 Kf5 39. Re4 $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM James Adair
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WGM Dr. Jana Bellin (09-xii-1947)
DESCRIPTION:Happy birthday WGM Dr. Jana Bellin on this day (December 9th) in 1947. \nJana Malypetrova \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Woman Master (1969)\, Czech Woman Champion in 1965 and 1967 and British Woman Champion since 1970. \nJana Malypetrova \nJana was born in Prague on the 9th December 1947 and learned to play chess at the age of eleven. She made her first appearance in the international field when she played 2nd board for Czechoslovakia in Women’s Chess Olympiad in Oberhausen in 1966. In the same year she represented Czechoslovakia in the Zonal tournament at Varna and came 11th. \nJana Malypetrova \nShe is now married to the British International Master\, William Hartston\, and played 1st board for England in the Women’s Chess Olympiad in Skopje in 1972 and represented England in the Zonal tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 1973 in which she tied for 1st place. In the same year she came =6th in the Interzonal Tournament. She is a doctor.” \nJana & Bill Hartston celebrate a family double at the British Championships in 1973 at Eastbourne \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“Born in Prague\, Czechoslovakia\, but moved to England in 1970 after her marriage to WR Hartston. Czechoslovak Woman champion in 1965 and 1967 (under her maiden name of Malypetrova) and British Ladies champion in the five years 1970 to 1974. International Woman master since 1969.” \nBill and Jana Hartston are shown with some of their many chess sets. CHESS\, August 1973\, page 323 \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : \nHastings International Chess Congress 21 year old Jana Malypetrova From Czechoslovakia And Vassily Smyslov From Russia.  Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Fresco/ANL/Shutterstock (1876232a) \n“Jana Miles was born 9 December 1947 in Prague\, Czechoslovakia. She moved to England when she married Bill Hartston. Divorced from Hartston in 1978\, she subsequently married Tony Miles.  \nHastings International Chess Congress 21 year old Jana Malypetrova From Czechoslovakia And Vassily Smyslov From Russia.  Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Fresco/ANL/Shutterstock (1876232a) \nShe was Czech woman champion in 1965 and 1967 and has regularly been the British Ladies Champion since moving to this country. She is a doctor of medicine.” \nBill and Dr\, Jana Hartston (née Malypetrova) \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad Women-09”]\n[Site “Valetta”]\n[Date “1980.12.06”]\n[Round “14”]\n[White “Bellin\, Jana M”]\n[Black “Fischdick\, Gisela”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A72”]\n[WhiteElo “2220”]\n[BlackElo “2235”]\n[Annotator “Jana Miles & British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “119”]\n[EventDate “1980.11.20”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “14”]\n[EventCountry “MLT”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2019”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England (W)”]\n[BlackTeam “Germany (W)”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “GER”] \n{[%evp 0\,119\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,0\,28\,50\,81\,61\,72\,74\,99\,105\,105\,87\,93\,61\,46\,25\,28\,\n17\,28\,16\,26\,26\,24\,36\,29\,43\,53\,64\,81\,50\,46\,89\,33\,87\,14\,29\,4\,-81\,-89\,-85\,-85\,-19\,\n-20\,14\,0\,0\,0\,0\,18\,17\,0\,0\,24\,35\,64\,97\,148\,64\,109\,117\,135\,140\,232\,151\,200\,227\,\n408\,223\,251\,148\,167\,208\,225\,240\,253\,229\,232\,182\,232\,217\,208\,200\,224\,204\,206\,\n240\,256\,294\,291\,302\,294\,288\,397\,406\,497\,503\,506\,504\,524\,539\,537\,554\,561\,570\,\n591\,609\,617\,617\,619\,655\,670\,669\,670\,695\,1012\,28087]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3\nc5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. e4 Bg7 8. Bg5 a6 ({Another possibility\nis to chase the bishop immediately e.g.} 8… h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nh5 11. Bb5+\nKf8 12. e5 Nxg3 13. fxg3 dxe5 14. O-O a6 15. Bd3 b5 16. Nd2 c4 17. Qh5 f6 $146\n(17… Ra7 18. Bg6) 18. Bc2 Bd7 19. a4 Be8 20. Bg6 Nd7 21. axb5 Bxg6 22. Qxg6\naxb5 23. Rxa8 Qxa8 24. Nde4 Qe8 25. Qf5 Qd8 26. Kh1 Kg8 27. Nxb5 {winning\n(Miles-Hernandez\, Biel 1977). No wonder Benoni players seem to have abandoned\nthis particular line.}) 9. Nd2 {Last played in 2005} b5 10. Be2 O-O 11. Qc2 {\n[#]} {Curiously this same game appears with two move orders in the same (1981)\nyear of BCM. This move order is game #19833 on page 83 of volume CI (101).}\nNbd7 ({and this move order with annotations appears in the same BCM volume as\ngame #20197 on page 545. This version is reproduced in British Chess\, page 189.\n} 11… h6 12. Bh4 Nbd7 (12… Re8 13. O-O Qc7 14. Rae1 Nbd7 15. a4 b4 16. Nd1\nb3 17. Qb1 Rb8 18. Ne3 Rb4 19. Nec4 Rxa4 20. Bg3 Bf8 21. f4 Nb6 22. Nxb6 Qxb6\n23. Nc4 Qd8 24. Bh4 Be7 25. Bd3 Bb7 {as in J.Miles – D. Cramling\, Oslo\, 1980;}\n{the game continued} 26. e5 $1 dxe5 27. fxe5 $4 ({but} 27. d6 $1 {should win\nfor White e.g.} Bxd6 28. fxe5 Bxe5 29. Bxf6 Bxf6 30. Rxe8+ Qxe8 31. Rxf6 $18)\n27… Qxd5 {and Black won\,}) 13. a4 b4 14. Nd1) 12. a4 b4 13. Nd1 h6 14. Bh4\nRe8 {A new move in 1980 was} 15. Ne3 $146 {and now\, as any hyponotist might\nsay\, we are back in the room. The two versions of this game have transposed to\nthe same position.} (15. f3 {was the previous move from 1977.}) 15… b3 16.\nQb1 Qe7 $146 (16… Rb8 {has become the modern move in this position}) 17. O-O\nRb8 18. Ra3 $5 Rb4 19. f3 {With the idea of stabilising the centre and\nsurrounding the b3 pawn. After this move I left my boarda and went to survey\nthe situation of our men’s team.} {On returning I found that Black had played}\nNxe4 $2 {BCN : Despite the ? mark in BCM modern day engines find that this IS\nthe best move and asses the position as =(0.00) Am curious to know what the\nannotater thought was better for Black since no alternative was provided.} (\n19… Ne5 20. Rxb3 Rxb3 21. Nxb3 g5 22. Be1 Nh5 23. g3 $16) {At first the\nsituation looked grim} 20. Bxe7 Nxd2 21. Qc1 Nxf1 {[#]} {Eventually I realised\nI could recapture on f1 with the king! So} 22. Kxf1 $1 $15 {protecting the\nbishop and neutralising any unpleasing pins.} (22. Bxf1 $2 Rxe7 23. Nc4 Bd4+\n24. Kh1 Rxc4 25. Bxc4 Bxb2 $1 $19 {and Black wins.}) (22. Nxf1 $2 Rxe7 23. Bd3\nNe5 $19 {and White is getting squashed.}) 22… Rxe7 23. Nc4 Bb7 24. Qd1 $1 {\nTo get rid of the miserable rook on a3} Bd4 25. Rxb3 Rxb3 26. Qxb3 Bxd5 27. Qc2\n$11 Re6 {At last a defensive move from Black. By now she realised things were\nnot going to plan.} 28. Na5 Nf6 29. Bxa6 g5 $6 {BCN : This does not help\nBlack’s cause one little bit : quite the opposite.} (29… Be5) 30. Bc4 $1 {\nThe only move but sufficient} Bxc4+ 31. Nxc4 d5 32. Na3 c4 33. a5 Be5 34. g3\nBc7 $2 {By now we were both in considerable time trouble.} 35. Qa4 $1 {Black\nspotted the tactic below and played in desperation} c3 ({Intending to answer}\n35… Ra6 {with} 36. Nxc4 $1) 36. bxc3 Ra6 37. Nc4 $1 {(Anyway!)} dxc4 38. Qxc4\nRxa5 (38… Ra7 39. Qc5 Rb7 40. a6 Rb1+ 41. Ke2 Rb2+ 42. Kd3 Bb8 43. a7 Bxa7\n44. Qxa7 Rxh2 45. c4 {and wins}) 39. Qxc7 Ra1+ 40. Kg2 Ra2+ 41. Kg1 $1 $18 {\n[#] A sealed move} ({If} 41. Kh3 $2 g4+ 42. fxg4 Nh7 43. Qd8+ ({and Black can\nprobably hold the draw.} 43. g5 Nxg5+ 44. Kg4 Rxh2) 43… Kg7 44. Qd4+ Kg6 45.\nQd3+ Kg7 46. g5 Nxg5+ 47. Kg4 Rxh2 48. Qd1 Kf6 {gives Black hope of hanging in.\n}) 41… Ra1+ 42. Kf2 Ra2+ 43. Ke1 {The king is safest here.} Rxh2 44. c4 Nh7\n45. c5 Nf8 46. c6 Rc2 47. Qd6 Ne6 48. f4 gxf4 49. gxf4 Nxf4 50. Qd8+ (50. c7 $4\nNe6 $11 {was the annotation in 1981 and probably is the correct assesment.} 51.\nQd8+ Nxd8 52. cxd8=Q+ Kg7 53. Qd4+ Kg8 54. Qg4+ Kf8 55. Qa4 Rc1+ 56. Kf2 Rb1 {\nmakes the task difficult for White}) 50… Kg7 51. c7 Ne6 52. c8=Q Rxc8 53.\nQxc8 Ng5 54. Qf5 Ne6 55. Kf2 Nf8 56. Kg3 Ng6 57. Kg4 Nf8 58. Kh5 Ng6 59. Qg4\nKh7 60. Qd4 {and at last 1-0.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry OBE presents Dr. Jana Hartston with the ? prize \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Jana Bellin (née Malypetrová; born 9 December 1947) is a British\, formerly Czechoslovak chess player. She was awarded the Woman International Master chess title in 1969 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1982. \nMoment of concentration for reigning women’s champion of Great Britain Jana Hartston and some of the 30 Post Officer players – all men who challenged her at postal headquarters London on September 6. Jana beat seven\, drew with sixteen and lost to seven. \nBellin was born in Prague\, Czechoslovakia. She was the Czech Women’s Champion in 1965 and 1967 under her maiden name of Malypetrová. After her marriage to William Hartston she moved to England in 1970 and won the British Women’s Championship in 1970\, 1971\, 1972\, 1973\, 1974\, 1976\, 1977 (after a play-off)\, and 1979. \nMoment of concentration for reigning women’s champion of Great Britain Jana Hartston and some of the 30 Post Officer players – all men who challenged her at postal headquarters London on September 6. Jana beat seven\, drew with sixteen and lost to seven. \nShe has fifteen appearances in the Women’s Chess Olympiads\, representing Czechoslovakia in 1966 and 1969 and England thirteen times from 1972 through 2006\, seven times on first board. \nMoment of concentration for reigning women’s champion of Great Britain Jana Hartston and some of the 30 Post Officer players – all men who challenged her at postal headquarters London on September 6. Jana beat seven\, drew with sixteen and lost to seven. \nAt the Olympiad she earned individual silver medals in 1966 and 1976\, a team bronze medal in 1968 with the Czechoslovakian team\, and a team silver in 1976 with England. \nBritish Speed Chess Championship Grandmaster Nigel Short Playing Chess In The Park With L-r Susan Arkell Sheila Jackson And Dr Jana Miles. Courtesy of Shutterstock \n[pgn]\n[Event “Troll Masters”]\n[Site “Gausdal”]\n[Date “1990.??.??”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Tisdall\, Jonathan D”]\n[Black “Bellin\, Jana”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E20”]\n[WhiteElo “2480”]\n[BlackElo “2240”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “44”]\n[EventDate “1990.01.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “NOR”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 016 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1990.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1990.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,44\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,-3\,33\,-47\,12\,7\,55\,33\,95\,67\,57\,45\,25\,9\,-9\,32\,32\,\n-10\,-24\,-23\,-27\,-27\,-21\,-17\,-14\,-10\,-4\,-34\,-43\,-32\,9\,-6\,5\,-4\,-12\,-9\,-8\,-204\,\n-221\,-224\,-224]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 c5 5. d5 Nh5 6. g3 f5 7.\ne4 O-O 8. Nh3 d6 9. dxe6 Bxe6 10. Ng5 $146 Qe7 11. Nxe6 Qxe6 12. Qd5 $6 Qxd5\n13. exd5 Bxc3+ 14. bxc3 Nd7 $15 15. Kf2 Ne5 16. Be2 Rae8 17. Bd2 Nf6 18. Rab1\nRe7 19. h3 $6 (19. Kg2) 19… Rfe8 20. Rhe1 h6 21. g4 $4 fxg4 22. hxg4 Nexg4+\n$1 $19 {and White resigned.} 0-1 \n[/pgn] \n“Bellin is a medical doctor specialising in anaesthetics\, and works in intensive care at Sandwell General Hospital\, West Bromwich\, England. \nJana with Sheila Jackson to her left \nShe is also Chairman of the FIDE Medical Commission\, which supervises drug testing of chess players. \nBritish Speed Chess Championship Grandmaster Nigel Short Playing Chess In The Street With Woman Grandmaster Dr Jana Miles : Credit : Shutterstock \nBellin was married first to International Master William Hartston\, then to Grandmaster Tony Miles\, and after that to International Master Robert Bellin. She and Bellin have two sons: Robert (born 1988) and Christopher (born 1991).[citation needed] \nDr. Jana Bellin \nShe is the granddaughter of thrice Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia\, Jan Malypetr. and cousin of author and human rights campaigner Jiří Stránský. \nWGM Dr. Jana Bellin\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201211
DTSTAMP:20211210T095748Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Peter Batchelor (10-xii-1996)
DESCRIPTION:Best wishes to FM Peter Batchelor on his birthday. \nPeter J Batchelor was born on Tuesday\, December 10th\, 1996. “Breath” by The Prodigy was the UK Number One Single. His father is the player Guy Batchelor. \nPeter’s first recorded rapidplay event was on the 17th of July 2005 in the Barnet Knights Under-9 tournament where he scored 4/6 and his first (!) standard play event was on August 20th 2005 being the British Land UK Terafinal which was not such a happy result. \nHis first published ECF grading was 56E in July 2006 at the age of ten with a rapidplay grading of 57A. \nPeter played league chess in the Middlesex and London Leagues playing initially for Willesden & Brent and then with Wanstead & Woodford both with his father Guy. \nPeter attended the Capital City Academy which is a “specialist sports and arts Academy in Willesden\, North West London\, in the borough of Brent.” He has returned there post-graduation to teach chess and run the school chess club. \nPeter studied mathematics at the University of Warwick and now lives in London. \nAccording to Ben Purton : “I captain Peter in the 4NCL chess league\, he is one of the most professional and talented players on my squad. He is extremely smart and nice to be around. Peter would be an asset to any organisation in the future and any graduate scheme would be foolish not to take such a person on. \nI have seen him grow in to one of the best U21 chess players in the UK and hope to see him gain his IM title soon.” \nPeter became a FIDE Master in 2015 and\, according to Felice and Megabase 2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2365 in December 2016. \nFIDE rating profile for Peter Batchelor according to Megabase 2020 \nPeter plays for Grantham Sharks in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nWith the white pieces Peter plays the Queen’s Gambit and the Trompowsky Attack. \nAs the second player Peter plays the Classical variation of the Caro-Kann and the Alartortsev Variation. \nOn chess.com Peter plays under the nom de plume of Pbatch. \nPeter Batchelor\, 4NCL Final weekend\, 2014\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 104th”]\n[Site “Llandudno”]\n[Date “2017.08.04”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Rudd\, Jack”]\n[Black “Batchelor\, Peter J”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E24”]\n[WhiteElo “2252”]\n[BlackElo “2309”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “40”]\n[EventDate “2017.07.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “WLS”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 179 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.08.23”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.08.23”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,40\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,4\,33\,-47\,-26\,-31\,-25\,-25\,-4\,-22\,0\,-4\,-6\,-13\,-24\,\n-9\,7\,-9\,-12\,-29\,-29\,-63\,-23\,-32\,-20\,-28\,-26\,-36\,82\,96\,58\,-99\,-86\,-277\,-277\,\n-268\,-271]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. e3\n{the runner-up in this position} (7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. dxc5 Qa5 9. e4 Ne7 10. Be3\nO-O {is more common.}) 7… O-O 8. Bd3 (8. cxd5 exd5 9. Bd3 b6 10. Ne2 Ba6 11.\nO-O) 8… dxc4 (8… Nc6) 9. Bxc4 Qc7 10. Ba2 (10. Qd3 Nc6 11. Ne2 Rd8) 10…\nNc6 $146 (10… b6) 11. Ne2 b6 12. O-O Ba6 $1 13. Rf2 Rfd8 14. Qa4 Na5 15. e4\ncxd4 16. cxd4 $15 {[#]} e5 $6 (16… Rac8) 17. Bb2 Bxe2 18. dxe5 $2 (18. Rxe2\n$16) 18… Rd2 $1 19. exf6 $2 Rxb2 20. Bd5 Qc5 $1 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFM Peter Batchelor at the 2013 British Championships\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201212
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Gawain Jones (11-xii-1987)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Gawain Christopher B Jones (11-xii-1987) \nGawain was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2012-13 season.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-gawain-christopher-b-jones-11-xii-1987/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201223
DTSTAMP:20211222T110618Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM David Eggleston (22-xii-1987)
DESCRIPTION:Best Wishes to IM David Eggleston on his birthday. \nDavid James Eggleston was born on Tuesday\, December 22nd 1987 in Sunderland\, County Durham to Ian and Janet Eggleston (née Robson). David has a brother\, Thomas A\, also born in 1987 who plays chess to a high standard (2178 in 2020). Thomas also plays for Durham City and for 4NCL North East England. \nThere is one game in Megabase between the brothers from round 5 of the Durham Open in 2003 which resulted in a 13 move draw. They shared the 1st prize with 4/5. \nDavid currently resides in Durham and plays for Durham City in the North East League and for Cheddleton in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nDavid became a FIDE Master in 2007 and an International Master in 2013. \nAccording to ChessBase David’s peak FIDE rating was 2434 aged 26 in December 2013. However\, this could easily be surpassed. \nHe has a plus score against Keith Arkell\, James Jackson\, Peter Sowray and Chris Ward to name but a few. \nIM David James Eggleston \nWith the white pieces David is a staunch e4 player playing open Sicilians\, the Italian Game and 3.Nc3 versus the French and the Caro-Kann. \nAs the second player David plays the Najdorf and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 105th”]\n[Site “Hull”]\n[Date “2018.07.29”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Eggleston\, David”]\n[Black “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C54”]\n[WhiteElo “2397”]\n[BlackElo “2669”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “2018.07.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 185 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.06.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.06.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,87\,30\,30\,23\,14\,14\,11\,17\,55\,11\,-5\,35\,29\,35\,-10\,-9\,-13\,12\,4\,15\,20\,23\,\n-34\,-26\,-26\,-31\,-21\,-23\,-50\,-31\,-31\,-7\,-7\,-13\,-23\,-30\,-31\,-37\,-50\,-17\,-69\,-44\,\n-49\,-67\,-70\,-76\,-85\,-45\,-102\,-72\,-103\,-99\,-99\,-95\,-101\,-116\,-120\,-110\,-101\,\n-104\,-114\,-118\,-118\,-77\,-114\,-148\,-210\,-197\,-279\,-101\,-103\,-103\,-103\,85\,154\,\n229\,229\,500\,514\,1303\,1303\,1303\,2218\,29977\,29978\,29979\,29980\,29981\,29982]} 1. e4\ne5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O O-O 7. a4 a5 8. Nbd2 Ne7 9.\nRe1 Ng6 10. Nf1 Be6 11. Ng3 Bxc4 12. dxc4 Qd7 13. h3 Rfe8 14. Nh2 Nf4 15. Qf3\nNe6 16. Nf5 Qd8 17. h4 Kh8 18. g3 Rf8 19. Kg2 Ng8 20. h5 g6 21. Nh4 Ng7 22. h6\nNe6 23. Re2 Qe8 24. Qg4 f6 25. N2f3 Qf7 26. Qh3 Rae8 27. Bd2 f5 28. exf5 gxf5\n29. Rae1 f4 30. b4 Ba7 31. c5 Nxh6 32. Re4 Rg8 33. Rh1 Ng4 34. Kf1 Bb8 35. gxf4\nexf4 36. c4 h5 37. Ng2 Kh7 38. cxd6 Nf6 39. Ne5 Qg7 40. Qf5+ Kh8 41. Rxh5+ Nxh5\n42. Qxh5+ Qh7 43. Nf7+ Kg7 44. Bc3+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDavid has one book\, published in July 2014 : Hacking up the King published by Mongoose Press : \nHacking Up The King \nIM David James Eggleston
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-james-eggleston-22-xii-1987/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201230
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201231
DTSTAMP:20201229T175730Z
CREATED:20200412T131219Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Jonah Willow (30-xii-2002)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday to FM Jonah Willow \nJonah B Willow was born in Nottingham on Monday\, December 30th 2002. Jacob was the most popular boy’s name in 2002. “Lose Yourself” by Enimem was number one. \nJonah’s first recorded graded standard play tournament was the 2010 Delancey UK Chess Challenge Terafinal and his first recorded rapidplay event was the Nottingham Rapidplay in 2011. \nJonah Willow at the 2012 UKK Terafinal. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nJonah’s first published standard play grade was 96D in January of 2012 : \nJonah’s ECF grading progress \nJonah has represented West Nottingham\, 4NCL Wood Green\, Nottinghamshire CA and Syston (Leicester). \nFIDE rating profile for FM Jonah B Willow from Megabase 2020 \nIt is a little curious as to the reason for the rating profile to halt at the end of 2018 since Jonah has played plenty of FIDE rated games since. Compare the above with : \nFIDE rating for FM Jonah Willow from fide.com \nJonah has plus scores against : Mike Surtees\, Richard Pert\, Peter Shaw\, Ranesh Ratnesan\, Shreyas Royal\, Keith Arkell and Ameet Ghasi to name but a few. \nWith the white pieces Jonah is a committed 1.e4 player but he has scored 83% with 1.Nc3! \nJonah plays the unusual Chekhover Variation  (4.Qxd4) in the 2…d6 Sicilian : this is an interesting alternative and is discussed by GM Ben Finegold : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liecBr62eqA[/embedyt] \nand  \nGM Varuzhan Akobian : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNoGIo4yjkM[/embedyt] \nJonah plays the Four Knights game with white. \nAs the second player he plays the Accelerated Dragon and the Modern Benoni. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Titled Tuesday intern op 17th Nov”]\n[Site “Chess.com INT”]\n[Date “2020.11.17”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Willow\, Jonah B”]\n[Black “Svidler\, Peter”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B53”]\n[WhiteElo “2386”]\n[BlackElo “2723”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “2020.11.17”]\n[EventType “swiss (blitz)”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “USA”]\n[SourceTitle “Mega2020 Update 58”]\n[Source “Chessbase”]\n[SourceDate “2020.11.27”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2020.11.27”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,15\,29\,25\,61\,47\,79\,62\,86\,57\,70\,22\,12\,11\,15\,6\,5\,0]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6\n3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 {The Chekhover Variation (Vitaly Checkhover 1908 – 1965)} a6\n{Black wishes to develop the knight without having it pinned. Probably also\nmakes it awkward for White to castle long.} ({The “main line” is} 4… Nc6 5.\nBb5 Bd7 6. Bxc6 (6. Qd3 Nf6 7. c4 g6 8. Nc3 Bg7 9. O-O O-O 10. h3 a6 11. Bxc6\nBxc6 12. Nd4 Nd7 13. Be3 Rc8 14. Rac1 Nc5 15. Qc2 Ne6 16. Nxe6 fxe6 $14) 6…\nBxc6 7. Nc3 Nf6 8. Bg5 e6 9. O-O-O Be7 10. Rhe1 O-O 11. Kb1 Qa5 12. Qd2 Qa6 13.\nNd4 Rfc8 14. f3 $11) 5. c4 Nc6 6. Qe3 g6 7. Be2 Bg7 8. h3 Nf6 9. O-O O-O 10.\nNc3 Nd7 11. Rd1 Nc5 12. Rb1 {[#]} f5 $2 {Probably not correct but active\nnontheless. 13 games with this in MegaBase 2020 and the move is labelled as\n“hot”.} (12… a5) 13. b4 f4 (13… Nxe4 14. Nxe4 fxe4 15. Ng5 $1 Kh8 16. Bb2 {\nRemoving the defender…} Bxb2 17. Rxb2 Bf5 18. g4 $18) 14. Qd2 $18 Bxc3 15.\nQxc3 Nxe4 16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Bxf4 $18 Bf5 18. Bd3 Bxd3 19. Qxd3 $146 (19. Rxd3)\n19… Qc8 20. Bh6 Re8 21. Re1 (21. Qb3) 21… Qf5 22. Qd2 Rad8 23. Nd4 Nxd4 24.\nQxd4 e5 25. Qb6 Rd7 26. Rbd1 (26. b5) 26… Re6 27. Qe3 Kf7 28. Rd2 d5 $2 29.\ng4 Qe4 30. cxd5 {and Svidler resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe has his own Twitch TV channel. \nOn chess.com he is JonahWillow and his highest chess.com rating has been 2863 on April 5th 2020.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-jonah-b-willow-30-xii-2002/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,UKCC
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Keith Arkell (08-i-1961)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to GM Keith Arkell\, born this day (January 8th) in 1961. \nKeith Arkell \nHere is Keith’s Wikipedia entry \nGM Keith Arkell (ENG) \nThis was written about Keith aged 18 prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n“Rednal\, Birmingham. Rating 188. 2nd Lloyds Bank junior international\, 1979.” \nKeith was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2014-15 season sharing with Jonathan Hawkins \nHere is an interview with ChessBase from 2016. \nGM Keith Arkell \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PIzZG4FlZ8[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 1415 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2015.02.14”]\n[Round “5.164”]\n[White “Rogers\, Jonathan”]\n[Black “Arkell\, Keith C”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2277”]\n[BlackElo “2497”]\n[Annotator “Saunders\,J/Arkell”]\n[PlyCount “82”]\n[EventDate “2014.11.15”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2016”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Barbican II”]\n[BlackTeam “Cheddleton”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,82\,19\,38\,72\,69\,71\,77\,64\,2\,30\,17\,14\,9\,29\,24\,35\,-30\,-50\,-74\,-74\,-75\,-88\,\n-128\,-3\,-16\,-56\,-32\,-43\,-43\,10\,5\,20\,16\,16\,-4\,5\,-3\,-68\,-61\,-45\,-40\,-37\,-1273\,68\,\n-201\,-202\,-210\,-197\,-207\,-208\,-228\,-194\,-183\,-149\,-150\,-148\,-143\,-143\,-141\,138\,\n141\,141\,150\,138\,140\,138\,173\,201\,198\,198\,210\,213\,236\,232\,190\,225\,138\,142\,100\,\n114\,95\,114\,95\,92]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c4 e6 5. Nf3 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bb4+\n$5 ({Databases are peppered with games where Keith has played} 6… Nc6 {\nbut perhaps he wanted to keep his opponent guessing.}) 7. Nc3 Ne7 8. h4 Nbc6 9.\na3 $5 {Jonathan\, perhaps with the far-sighted plan of not being strangled\nslowly in a rook and pawn endgame\, wants to provoke something sharp.} Bxc3+ 10.\nbxc3 Nxe5 11. Bf4 N5g6 (11… Nxc4 12. Bxc4 dxc4 {is tempting but maybe} 13.\nNb5 O-O 14. Qxd8 Rxd8 15. Nc7 Nd5 16. O-O-O $5 {gives White a bit of\ncompensation. Instead\, Black gives back material to get some pressure on the\ne-file.}) 12. Bg3 e5 13. h5 exd4 14. hxg6 Nxg6 15. Qxd4 O-O 16. cxd5 Re8+ 17.\nBe2 Ne7 18. Rd1 Nf5 19. Qd3 {[diag]} Qg5 (19… Qg5 {We haven’t quite got\nthere yet\, but we’re coming up to a spectacular mutual oversight which needs\nexplaining. Seeking enlightenment (and also wanting to be sure that the moves\nwere correctly recorded – mix-ups do happen)\, I got in touch with Keith on\nFaceBook to ask what happened. Keith responded at some length\, centring on his\nthoughts as he planned the move 19…Qg5. What followed are his own words\,\nlightly edited by me: “It’s impossible to fully explain how such a thing can\nhappen\, but let me try anyway. So\, I’m sitting there analysing the move I want\nto play in principle – which at the time was 19…Qd8-g5. I know that my\nadvantage increases if I can make the move\, but obviously I am concerned about\nhis possible reply} 20. Qb5 {So I analyse} Re4 {(other moves didn’t look very\ngood to me)} 21. d6 {- the only move that could give me any problem\, as it\nthreatens to win a piece. Visualising the position\, I then hoped that} Be6 {\nwould be strong\, as it threatened the winning 22…Bc4. Of course\, the main\npotential drawback to this is that he can then fork my rooks with} 22. Qxb7 {\nI would then need} Rxe2+ {to work or I would be lost! So – and don’t forget\,\nall this is before playing 19…Qg5 – I set about analysing 22…Rxe2+ as I\n(wrongly!) believed that 19…Qg5 hinged on this. So\, 22…Rxe2+} 23. Kxe2 Bc4+\n24. Kf3 {(obviously forced) and then\, I thought\, ”please let 24…Re8 be a\nwinning move”! It certainly looked winning. It was obvious he had to either\nput a rook on e1 or his bishop on e5 to stop …Be2 mate. I didn’t look beyond}\nRe8 {[diag]} 25. Rde1 ({I saw a pretty mate against} 25. Rhe1 {which was} Qh5+\n26. Kf4 g5+ {(my favourite move!)} 27. Kxf5 Qg6+ 28. Kg4 f5+ 29. Kh3 Qh5+ 30.\nBh4 Qxh4#) ({so that just left the irritating} 25. Be5 {to deal with. Find a\ngood move there and I could play 19…Qg5. I decided that 25…h5 must be\nwinning and anyway certainly left him in trouble.}) 25… Bd5+ 26. Qxd5 Nh4+ {\nSo I analysed no more and plunged in with 19…Qg5. He quickly replied 20 Qb5\nand\, after briefly running through all those nice lines again\, I confidently\nplayed 20…Re4. He continued following my analysis\, with 21 d6?? and I had 21.\n..Be6?? ready for him. So there you have it. The explanation is that we were\nplaying out a variation I had analysed way ahead\, and I didn’t stop properly\nto check if there might be something else going on!”}) 20. Qb5 Re4 21. d6 $4 (\n21. O-O Nxg3 22. fxg3 Re5 $5 {seems to be broadly equal.}) 21… Be6 $4 ({\nWhat Keith had missed in his move 19 analysis\, and what Jonathan also missed\nwhen playing 21.d6\, was the bone-crushing} 21… Nxg3 $3 {\, which is game over\nas} 22. Qxg5 {allows} Rxe2# {mate\, while a capture on g3 loses the queen to 22.\n..Qxb5 as the e2 bishop is pinned.}) 22. Qd3 $4 (22. O-O $1 Rd8 23. Bd3 {\nand White is well in the game.}) 22… Nxg3 {This time Black doesn’t fluff his\nlines.} 23. fxg3 Qe5 $1 24. Rh4 (24. d7 Rd8 {makes no material difference\,\nwhile a king move such as}) (24. Kf1 {loses to} Bc4 {.}) 24… Bg4 25. Qxe4 $1\n({A much better bet than} 25. Rxg4 Rxg4 {\, which looks pretty hopeless for\nWhite.}) 25… Qxe4 26. Rxg4 Qe5 $6 ({There seems to be no reason not to\nsnatch a pawn with} 26… Qxg2 27. d7 Rd8 {\, with very reasonable winning\nchances.}) 27. d7 Qxc3+ $2 ({After this\, Black’s winning chances evaporate.}\n27… Rd8 {keeps the Black flag flying\, though it’s by no means obvious how he\ncan go about winning.}) 28. Kf1 Rd8 29. Re4 $1 {White’s firm control of the\ne-file is his salvation.} Qc6 ({Possibly another oversight\, but it turns out\nto be non-critical as the following tactical sequence doesn’t leave Black too\nmuch to do to save the game. After} 29… Kf8 30. Bb5 Qf6+ 31. Ke1 g6 32. Re8+\nKg7 33. Rxd8 Qxd8 34. Rc1 {\, the game peters out to a draw.}) 30. Re8+ Rxe8 31.\nd8=Q g6 32. Qd5 Qc3 33. Bc4 Qf6+ 34. Kg1 Re7 35. Rf1 Qb6+ 36. Kh1 Qc7 {The\nzenith of White’s game – Houdini scores it at +2.13 – but it is hard to see\nhow White can bring any more pressure to bear on Black’s position or make\nmeaningful progress. Maybe Magnus Carlsen would have found a way.} 37. Qd4 a6\n38. Rd1 b5 39. Bf1 Re8 40. Kh2 Qc2 41. Qd3 Qc5 1/2-1/2 \n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJgiN5MgOns[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Crawley e2e4 Gatwick op 10”]\n[Site “Crawley”]\n[Date “2016.10.26”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Arkell\, Keith C”]\n[Black “Wadsworth\, Matthew J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D23”]\n[WhiteElo “2450”]\n[BlackElo “2290”]\n[Annotator “Keith Arkell”]\n[PlyCount “159”]\n[EventDate “2016.10.26”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Arkell’s Endings : Game 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,159\,19\,29\,23\,-4\,25\,20\,30\,-2\,20\,22\,9\,-6\,15\,-19\,-25\,-6\,-8\,-13\,6\,-4\,-3\,\n-3\,6\,-21\,-8\,-11\,22\,0\,7\,1\,14\,1\,3\,11\,8\,0\,5\,5\,29\,50\,52\,22\,21\,24\,45\,27\,63\,69\,55\,70\,\n72\,80\,74\,14\,33\,25\,26\,42\,34\,44\,48\,48\,68\,63\,89\,99\,98\,92\,126\,116\,115\,116\,116\,122\,\n128\,113\,128\,129\,132\,133\,135\,151\,158\,147\,151\,136\,137\,132\,142\,134\,152\,152\,156\,\n152\,162\,164\,163\,152\,152\,152\,163\,153\,153\,161\,157\,136\,153\,153\,153\,161\,157\,157\,\n162\,157\,157\,157\,157\,157\,158\,134\,158\,134\,208\,189\,189\,189\,189\,141\,189\,165\,182\,\n160\,177\,156\,202\,184\,193\,202\,210\,195\,208\,221\,276\,293\,377\,373\,545\,373\,639\,373\,\n373\,367\,365\,381\,371\,480\,537\,732\,1259\,28004]} {Taken from Arkell’s Endings\,\nGame 14\, pp 68-71} 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Qc2 dxc4 5. Qxc4 Bg4 6. Nbd2\nNbd7 7. g3 e6 8. Bg2 Be7 9. O-O Bh5 10. a4 $1 $146 (10. b3) 10… a5 11. Qb3\nQb6 12. Qxb6 Nxb6 13. b3 Nfd5 14. Bb2 O-O 15. Nc4 Nxc4 {This capture gave me\nsome encouragement as my pawn will gain in stature\, and I will have long-term\nprospects on the b-file.} 16. bxc4 Nb4 17. Rfd1 Rfd8 18. c5 Bf6 19. e3 b6 {\nAgainst a waiting move I planned Rab1 and Ba3} 20. cxb6 Rab8 21. Rac1 Rxb6 22.\nRd2 Bg6 23. Bc3 Be4 {[#]} {I think this was an oversight and he had missed my\n25th move.} 24. Ne5 Bxg2 25. Nc4 Ra6 26. Kxg2 {Now I have the kind of position\nI like: no weaknesses and a guarantee of permanent pressure against his\nqueenside pawns.} Rda8 27. Nxa5 {It was hard to resist playing in this\nstraightforward manner. It will now be a very tough task for Wadsworth to hang\non to his backward c-pawn.} (27. Rb1 {runs into} c5) ({and} 27. Rb2 {allows}\nNd3) 27… Nd5 28. Nb7 Rxa4 29. Rdc2 Ra2 30. Be1 g6 31. Kf3 {[%csl Gc6] With\ne3 defended I’m now threatening to capture his pawn.} Rxc2 32. Rxc2 Ne7 33.\nBb4 Ra6 34. Nc5 Ra7 {The c-pawn is lost whatever he does} ({For example} 34…\nRb6 35. Ba5 Rb5 36. Bd8 {with Nd3 or Ne4 to follow}) 35. Ne4 Kg7 {[#]} 36. Bxe7\n{I could have exchanged both minor pieces\, but felt that the subsequent ending\nwould be more favourable if I kept the knight\, which tends to be more\neffective than a bishop at close quarters.} Bxe7 37. Rxc6 h5 38. h3 {[#]} {\nHow do you set about winning such a position? Clearly not with the pieces\nalone\, but using pawns will unavoidably involve exchanges\, and you don’t\nwant too many swaps as rook\, knight and pawn versus rook and bishop is usually\na simple draw. The answer is somewhere in-between. Ideally you would like to\nfix the kingside with g4-g5\, and then organise e3-e4 and d4-d5.} Rb7 39. g4\nhxg4+ 40. hxg4 Ra7 {[#]} {I was pleased to see this and thought he should\nprefer 40…g5\, but I guess he was reluctant to put a pawn on the same colour\nas his bishop. 40…f5 was also interesting\, but I didn’t expect him to\nweaken his pawns in such a cavalier manner.} 41. g5 {Now I have a free hand to\nslowly improve my position because …f6 will always leave Black with too many\nweaknesses. So many times this is what we strive for in chess – leaving the\nopponent without any real counterplay is often half the battle.} Ra5 42. Kf4\nRa7 43. Rb6 Bd8 44. Rb5 Rd7 45. Kg4 Be7 46. Ra5 Bd8 47. Ra8 {[#]} {If you\nstudy the great endgame players such as Magnus Carlsen and Anatoly Karpov\, you\ncannot fail to observe their endless patience. Maintaining the tension rather\nthan committing oneself to immediate action tends to have a wearisome effect\non the opponent\, as well as forcing them to defend accurately to avoid further\ndamage.} Be7 48. Rc8 Rb7 49. Re8 Rc7 50. Rb8 Rd7 51. f4 Rc7 52. Kf3 Ra7 53. Nc5\nRc7 54. Nd3 Ra7 55. Rc8 Bd6 56. Ke4 Rb7 57. Nf2 {From g4 the knight will have\na choice of entry points into the heart of Black’s position.} Be7 58. Ng4 Ra7\n59. Rb8 Bd6 60. Rb5 Be7 61. Ke5 Ra3 {Spooked by my intention to make progress\nwith e3-e4 and d4-d5\, combined with Nf6 and Rb8\, Matthew gives some ground.}\n62. Rb7 Ra5+ 63. Ke4 Kf8 64. Nf6 Ra8 65. Ke5 Rd8 66. Nh7+ Ke8 67. e4 Ra8 68.\nNf6+ Kf8 69. d5 exd5 70. exd5 Rd8 71. Rb6 {[#]} {Threatening to win on the\nspot with 72 d6.} Bc5 72. Rc6 Ba3 73. d6 {Inch by inch I’ve brought about a\nwinning position. The rest is relatively straightforward.} Kg7 74. Kd5 Bb2 75.\nNg4 Ba3 76. Ne5 f6 77. Rc7+ Kg8 78. Nf7 Bxd6 79. Nxd6 fxg5 80. fxg5 1-0\n[/pgn] \nArkell’s Odyssey \nArkell’s Endings\, Keith Arkell\, GingerGM\, 2020\, ISBN-10 : 1527265595 \nBCN has reviewed Arkell’s Endings in depth
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Shreyas Royal (09-i-2009)
DESCRIPTION:BCN sends birthday wishes to FM Shreyas (known as “Shrey” by his friends) Royal born on Friday\, January 9th\, 2009. “Hallelujah” by Alexandra Burke was number one in the UK hit parade. \nShreyas attended The Pointer School in Blackheath\, London\, SE3 whose motto is “The Lord is my Shepherd”. \nIn October 2021 BCN secured an interview with Shreyas via his father Jitendra and below is mostly from that interview: \nBCN: What caused his initial interest in chess and at what age? \nHis initial interest in chess was capturing or as he used to call it ‘eating’ pieces but as he grew more mature\, he loved that there were so many possibilities in chess\, so much still left to explore! At the Age of 6 he learnt and got an interest in chess. \nBCN: Has Shreyas had any chess teachers or coaches? \n\n\nJyothi Lal N. with a peak of 2250 FIDE but is very knowledgeable and helped from just above beginner to 1800. He was Shreyas’s first coach.\nMeszaros Gyula (Julian) who was an IM with a peak of 2465 FIDE and was an endgame master which helped him from 1800-2100.\nHis Current Coach is GM John Emms with a peak of around 2600 FIDE\, he is an expert in many fields such as Positional Play\, Openings\, Strategic chess etc and has also made a big impact on how to prepare against opponents. He had helped him from 2100-2300 so far in just under a year!\n\n\nBCN: Which chess clubs and/ or Teams does Shreyas represent? \nHe represents SV Erkenschwick from Germany and Wasa SK from Sweden for online events as he has joined them during the pandemic. He started his 4NCL career with KJCA Kings in January 2019 but now mainly represents Wood Green which he has played for in online events in and will also represent them in the upcoming 4NCL weekends. \nHis first appearance in Megabase 2022 comes from the 2015 British Under-8 Championship in Coventry\, the eventual winner being Dhruv Radhakrishnan. \nProgress from those early days has only been interrupted by school examination breaks and the Covid pandemic: \nFIDE Rating progress chart for FM Shreyas Royal \nIn August 2016 in Bournemouth Shreyas scored an impressive 6/6 to win the British Under-8 Championship. \nShreyas Royal at the 2016 UKCC Delancey Terafinal in Loughborough courtesy of John Upham Photography \nBCN: What was his first memorable tournament success? \nThis was the 2016 European Schools Under-7 championship where he was runner-up without any preparation or work on chess! \nShreyas Royal at the 2016 UKCC Delancey Southern Gigafinal in Reading courtesy of John Upham Photography \nIn 2021 Shreyas was awarded the FM title by FIDE: \nFIDE FM Certificate for Shreyas Royal \nBCN: Which chess players past & present are inspirational for him? \n\n\nMagnus Carlsen\, world champion and broke many FIDE records also is an inspiration for most of this generation. He likes his slow grinding and almost winning from any opening or ending. This is his favourite player of all time.\nGarry Kasparov played brilliant attacking chess and calculated like a machine.\nBobby Fischer played a similar style to Kasparov but was more talented than both Magnus and Kasparov in his opinion as he worked all by himself at a time in the USA when chess was not so popular while for the Russians\, they had brilliant coaches and had one good player after the other. He rates him a bit lower because Fischer quit competitive chess a bit too early and could not reach the heights he was worthy of.\nAlireza Firouzja\nFabiano Caruana\n\n\nBCN: What are his favourite openings with the White pieces? \nHe plays 1.d4 pretty much all the time. \nMegaBase 2020 has 294 games with 1.d4 and one solitary 1.g3 from March 2021. The 1.d4 games feature main line Queen’s Gambit / Catalan type positions championing 5.Nge2 against the King’s Indian Defence and the exchange variation against the Grunfeld. \nBCN: and what are his preferred defences as the second player? \nReally depends on what they play\, against every opening he has got one or two lines which he enjoys equally. \nMegabase 2022 informs us that Shreyas defends the main line Closed Variation of the Ruy Lopez and main line Giuoco Piano. Previously he essayed the Sicilian Najdorf. \nBCN: Does he have any favourite chess books? \nNot really as he is not such a big fan of chess books\, but he likes My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer. Fundamental Chess Endings and Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations. \nBCN: Which tournaments are planned for 2022? \nWe have pencilled in a couple of norm and Open (France\, Spain\, Germany etc.) tournaments in European countries. \nBCN: What are his favourite subjects outside of chess? \nHis favourite subjects outside chess are Science\, History\, Maths with Science as his favourite\, History as his second favourite and Maths as his third favourite. \nBCN: Does Shreyas play any physical sports? \nHe does Football\, Cricket and a bit of Lawn Tennis. \nBCN: What are his plans and aspirations for the future? \nTo become a world chess champion one day\, but it’s very expensive to even get to the level of IM! Currently we are looking for sponsors who can help support Shreyas to get there. \nHere is his personal website. \nIn late December 2021 Camberley Chess Club had Shreyas as their weekly Zoom meeting guest speaker. \nand finally three of SRs favourite games: \n[pgn]\n[Event “British Chess Championship Major Open”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “2018.08.05”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Royal\, Shreyas”]\n[Black “Jayawarna\, Nugith”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E70”]\n[WhiteElo “1927”]\n[BlackElo “2013”]\n[Annotator “Shreyas Royal”]\n[PlyCount “57”]\n[SourceTitle “Jitendra”] \n{[%evp 0\,57\,19\,17\,14\,-9\,41\,45\,31\,44\,44\,2\,7\,2\,6\,12\,41\,26\,65\,-13\,27\,39\,44\,41\,87\,\n75\,50\,46\,63\,46\,82\,51\,168\,230\,230\,231\,258\,262\,258\,149\,433\,213\,161\,441\,522\,195\,\n500\,527\,501\,169\,1531\,1211\,1221\,1268\,1296\,1314\,1336\,1370\,1375\,1397]} 1. d4 Nf6\n2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nge2 {This is the Kings Indian Defence Kramer\nvariation} O-O 6. Ng3 e5 7. d5 c6 {I think c6 is a sideline whereas the main\nline goes} (7… Nbd7 8. Be2 a5 9. h4 h5 10. Bg5 Qe8 $1 $14 (10… Nc5 $2 {\nremember not to fall into this trap} 11. Bxh5 $3 {An astonishing move} gxh5 12.\nNxh5 {With pressure and an iniative} Kh8 13. Qf3 Bg4 14. Qxf6 Bxh5 15. Qxd8\nRaxd8 16. Bxd8 Rxd8 17. f3 f5 18. exf5 e4 19. g4 Bf7 20. g5 Bxc3+ 21. bxc3 Bh5\n22. fxe4 Re8 23. Kd2 Nxe4+ 24. Kc2 Ng3 25. Rhe1 Be2 26. f6 Kh7 27. Rg1 Re3 28.\nRae1 Kg6 29. Kb2 Nh5 30. Rgf1 Bxf1 31. Rxe3 Bxc4 32. Re7 Bxd5 33. Rxc7 Bc6 34.\nf7 Kg7 35. g6 Nf4 36. h5 Ne6 37. Rc8 Nf8 38. Rxf8 Kxf8 39. h6 {1-0 (39) Ward\,C\n(2423)-Storey\,C (2245) Coventry 2015})) 8. Be2 a6 {[#]} ({Relevant:} 8… cxd5\n9. cxd5 Nbd7 10. Be3 a5 11. O-O Nc5 12. f3 Bd7 13. Nh1 Qb8 14. a4 Rc8 15. Nf2\nh5 16. Bb5 Kh7 17. Nd3 b6 18. Nxc5 bxc5 19. Qd2 Rc7 20. b3 Rb7 21. Bc4 Ng8 22.\nRab1 Qd8 23. f4 exf4 24. Bxf4 Qe7 25. e5 dxe5 26. d6 Qe8 27. Be3 f5 28. Bxc5\nNf6 29. Nd5 Nxd5 30. Bxd5 Bc6 31. Rfc1 Bxd5 32. Qxd5 Rab8 33. Rd1 Rd7 34. Ba3\ne4 35. Rbc1 Qe5 36. Qxe5 Bxe5 37. Rc7 Rbd8 38. Rxd7+ {Bologan\,V (2640)-Kozul\,Z\n(2613) Doha 2016 1-0}) 9. dxc6 $146 (9. O-O b5 10. Bg5 Bb7 11. Qd2 {might of\nbeen better despite allowing b5}) ({Predecessor:} 9. O-O cxd5 10. cxd5 Nbd7 11.\nRe1 b5 12. b4 Nb6 13. a4 bxa4 14. Nxa4 h5 15. Bg5 Rb8 16. Bxh5 Nbd7 17. Qd2\ngxh5 18. Nxh5 Kh7 19. Ra3 Rh8 20. Rf3 a5 21. Nxg7 Kxg7 22. Bxf6+ Nxf6 23. Qg5+\nKf8 24. Rxf6 Rxb4 25. Nc3 Qc7 26. h4 Bh3 27. Re3 {1-0 (27) Bocharov\,D (2610)\n-Kokarev\,D (2628) Vladivostok 2016}) 9… bxc6 $6 {maybe he might of been\nintending d5} (9… Nxc6 {[%cal Gc6d4] I think is better}) 10. Bg5 h6 11. Be3\nQc7 12. Qd2 {[%cal Ge3h6]} h5 13. O-O Be6 14. Rad1 Rd8 15. f4 Ng4 $4 {the\nlosing blunder} (15… exf4 {is an improvement in my opinion} 16. Bxf4 Nbd7)\n16. f5 $1 Nxe3 17. Qxe3 $18 Bc8 $4 (17… Qa7 18. c5) 18. fxg6 fxg6 19. Qg5 Kh7\n$6 {[#]} 20. Bxh5 $3 (20. Nxh5 $1 {also wins} Bh6 (20… gxh5 21. Bxh5 Qa7+ 22.\nc5 Qxc5+ 23. Kh1 Rd7 24. Qg6+ Kg8 25. Qe8+ Kh7 26. Bg6+ Kh6 27. Bf5) 21. Nf6+\nKg7 22. Qg3) 20… gxh5 21. Nxh5 Ra7 {[#]} 22. Rf6 $1 Qb6+ (22… Bxf6 23.\nNxf6+ Kh8 24. Qg8+) 23. Kh1 Re7 24. Rdf1 (24. Rg6 {is mate in six!} {as follows\n} Kh8 25. Nf6 Qc7 26. Qh5+ Bh6 27. Rxh6+ Kg7 28. Qg6+ Kf8 29. Rh8#) 24… Qc7\n25. Rh6+ Bxh6 26. Nf6+ Kh8 27. Qxh6+ Rh7 28. Nxh7 Qxh7 29. Qf6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand from more recent times: \n[pgn]\n[Event “First Saturday IM July 2021”]\n[Site “Budapest\, Fortuna u. 4. St. G”]\n[Date “2021.07.27”]\n[Round “2.4”]\n[White “Royal\, Shreyas”]\n[Black “Ilincic\, Zlatko”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E11”]\n[WhiteElo “2168”]\n[BlackElo “2395”]\n[Annotator “Shreyas Royal”]\n[PlyCount “95”]\n[EventDate “2021.??.??”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.06.03”] \n{[%evp 0\,95\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,0\,31\,34\,64\,65\,61\,30\,46\,45\,45\,42\,73\,34\,54\,28\,18\,26\,\n45\,50\,48\,40\,39\,41\,36\,26\,37\,39\,58\,43\,39\,16\,19\,17\,22\,9\,17\,9\,22\,-9\,29\,24\,41\,23\,\n119\,119\,130\,126\,212\,208\,256\,229\,200\,221\,222\,222\,222\,222\,224\,139\,167\,157\,206\,\n205\,206\,207\,206\,240\,237\,204\,253\,282\,295\,284\,299\,286\,317\,313\,323\,334\,380\,403\,\n438\,451\,483\,493\,488\,524\,545\,511\,520\,556]} 1. d4 {this is my first win against\na grandmaster in OTB chess and is a brilliant positional game} Nf6 2. c4 e6 3.\nNf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 c5 5. Bxb4 cxb4 6. a3 {this was part of my preparation\, I had\nplayed him 2 times before with g3 and a delayed a3 but with no success\, he\nwould always prepare a different line agianst it so this time I needed to get\nhim out of his comfort zone} bxa3 7. Rxa3 O-O 8. Nc3 d6 9. e3 ({Relevant:} 9.\ne4 Nc6 10. Be2 b6 11. O-O Bb7 12. d5 Nb4 13. Nd4 e5 14. Nf5 g6 15. Nh6+ Kg7 16.\nQd2 Qe7 17. Qg5 Bc8 18. h4 Nc2 19. Ra2 Nd4 20. Bd3 Qd8 21. f4 Nd7 22. Nf5+ Nxf5\n23. exf5 Nc5 24. Bb1 Qxg5 25. hxg5 gxf5 26. fxe5 dxe5 27. Bxf5 a5 28. Bc2 Bd7\n29. Raa1 Rac8 30. Rae1 Rfe8 31. Re3 e4 32. Bxe4 Re5 33. Ref3 Nxe4 34. Rxf7+ Kg6\n35. Nxe4 Rxe4 36. Rxd7 Rcxc4 37. Rd6+ Kxg5 38. Rxb6 Re2 {Banikas\,H (2599)\n-Cordova\,E (2592) Chess.com INT 2020 1/2-1/2 (61)}) 9… b6 (9… Nc6 10. Be2\ne5 11. O-O Bg4 {is the the most popular and probably one of the best ways to\nplay against it}) 10. Be2 Bb7 11. O-O a6 {this structure was not the greatest\nway to deal with this} 12. b4 $1 {I had seen soem structures similiar like\nthis\, when preparing and realized we needed to make use of our queenside\nmajority} Nbd7 13. Qb1 {[#] I was just asking myself\, where do I want my\npieces? It can really help improve your chess if you care about pieces and\nalways want to improve them\, the arrows showed what I wanted my setup to be\nlike} Qc7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13… Qb8 14. Rd1 Rc8 15. e4 a5 16. Rb3 axb4 17.\nRxb4 Ra3 18. Rc1 Ra5 19. d5 e5 20. Nd2 Ra8 21. Na4 Qc7 22. Nxb6 Nxb6 23. Rxb6\nRcb8 24. Rc2 Nd7 25. Rb4 Bc8 26. Rcb2 Rxb4 27. Rxb4 g6 28. Nb3 Kg7 29. Bg4 Nc5\n30. Bxc8 Nxb3 31. Rxb3 Qxc8 32. Rc3 Ra4 33. Qf1 Qc5 34. Rc1 Ra2 35. g3 h5 36.\nQe1 Rb2 37. h4 Ra2 38. Kf1 Kf6 39. Rc3 Kg7 40. Qe3 Qxe3 41. fxe3 Kf6 42. c5\ndxc5 43. Rxc5 {Parligras\,M (2601)-Anton\,T (2412) Calimanesti Caciulata 2017 1/\n2-1/2}) 14. Rc1 Rfc8 15. Nd2 Qb8 {[#]} 16. f3 $1 {Not only is it important to\nimprove your pieces but it is also important to make your opponent’s pieces\nunhappy. I just blunt is potentially dangerous bishop especially when he gets\nhis queen to a8 it also stops some nasty Be4 or ne4 when my knight gets to b3}\nRc7 (16… d5) 17. b5 a5 18. Na4 Qf8 19. Rac3 Rac8 20. Nb3 e5 {if he just sits\nthere and waits I just play R3c2 (to stop Nd5 when c5 happens) and c5} 21. Qb2\n$1 {this is a fantastic move because it brings my queen back to the king with\nQd2 and stops some potential Qe3+\, it also protects my e2 bishop. When the\nqueen is far away from the king it can be dangerous} Qe7 22. Qd2 g6 23. R3c2 h5\n24. c5 $1 {and finally\, after a lot of manoeuvring I get my c5 break in} exd4\n$2 (24… dxc5) 25. c6 $18 dxe3 26. Qd1 Nc5 27. Nxb6 Rd8 28. cxb7 Rxb7 29. Nd5\n$1 Nxd5 30. Qxd5 Nxb3 31. Qxb3 d5 32. Rc8 d4 33. Qd3 Qd7 34. R8c6 Rdb8 $2 (\n34… Kg7) 35. Qc2 (35. R1c5) 35… Kg7 36. Qc5 Rd8 37. Qe5+ Kg8 38. Bc4 Qf5\n39. Qxf5 gxf5 40. Bd3 $18 {[#]} f4 41. Kf1 Kg7 42. R1c5 a4 43. Ra6 Re8 44. Ke2\nh4 45. Rxa4 h3 46. gxh3 Rh8 47. Rxd4 Rxh3 48. Rxf4 {Probably my best game of\nall time} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand finally: \n[pgn]\n[Event “Vezerkepzo IM Aug 2021”]\n[Site “Budapest\, Fortuna u. 4. St. G”]\n[Date “2021.08.23”]\n[Round “3.3”]\n[White “Royal\, Shreyas”]\n[Black “Rohit\, S.”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E01”]\n[WhiteElo “2296”]\n[BlackElo “2268”]\n[Annotator “Shreyas Royal”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “2021.08.21”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “HUN”]\n[SourceTitle “Jitendra”]\n[SourceDate “2018.06.03”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.06.03”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,19\,9\,42\,-10\,-16\,0\,-3\,-37\,13\,6\,29\,25\,20\,13\,57\,36\,38\,38\,52\,58\,58\,72\,\n72\,14\,61\,23\,54\,62\,58\,58\,66\,52\,45\,54\,78\,25\,117\,123\,110\,110\,146\,37\,30\,44\,51\,49\,\n55\,13\,217\,159\,236\,245\,1807\,839]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 Bb4+ 5. Bd2\n({Relevant:} 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. Bg2 b6 7. O-O Bb7 8. Ne5 a5 9. Qc2 a4 10. Rd1 Bd6\n11. cxd5 exd5 12. Ndc4 h6 13. Bf4 Re8 14. Rac1 Na6 15. a3 Bf8 16. Ne3 c5 17.\nNf5 cxd4 18. Nc6 Qd7 19. Bh3 Kh8 20. Ne5 Rxe5 21. Bxe5 Ne4 22. Bxd4 Rc8 23. Qd3\nNac5 24. Qe3 Kh7 25. Bxc5 Nxc5 26. Qf3 d4 27. Rxd4 Qe8 28. Qe3 Qc6 29. f3 Re8\n30. Qf2 g6 31. Ne3 Qf6 32. Ng4 Qg7 33. Rcd1 h5 34. Ne3 Nb3 {Dubov\,D (2702)\n-Carlsen\,M (2862) chess24.com INT 2020 1-0}) 5… Bd6 6. Nc3 $5 {This was all\npart of my preparation as last time I got some equal Stonewall against him\,\nthis line avoids the stonewall and is tricky to play against as black. Black\nneeds to very accurate to still get a slightly worse position} O-O (6… c6 $6\n7. Qc2 $16 {[%cal Ge2e4\,Ge1c1] and now we open the centre and try to\nlong-castle}) 7. Bg5 c6 8. Bg2 Nbd7 (8… h6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. O-O Qd8 11. c5\nBc7 12. e4 {[%cal Gb2b4] is the main line if he knew I was going to play this\,\nNc3 is not so common but effective. Even here we are better because of our\nspace\, centre and better pieces. Our idea now is to do some minority attack})\n9. e4 $1 dxe4 10. Nxe4 {[#]} Bc7 $146 {this was not the right square to move\nthe bishop to\, the best move was Bb4+ but even if he did not see that I would\nexpect Be7 as the pin became very nasty} (10… Bb4+ 11. Nc3 {and once we\nfully develop our better pieces and space will give us an adavantage}) ({\nPredecessor:} 10… Bb4+ 11. Nc3 h6 12. Bf4 Ne4 13. Qc2 Nxc3 14. bxc3 Be7 15.\nO-O b6 16. Rfe1 Bb7 17. Rad1 Re8 18. h4 Qc8 19. Bh3 Nf8 20. Ne5 Bd6 21. Qd2 Qc7\n22. Bg2 {1/2-1/2 (22) Cordova\,E (2571)-Nyzhnyk\,I (2665) Saint Louis 2019}) 11.\nO-O h6 12. Bh4 $1 Qe7 ({No need to be scared of} 12… g5 $2 13. Nfxg5 $1 hxg5\n14. Bxg5 {[%cal Gd1f3\,Ga1d1\,Gd4d5\,Gf1e1] and the pin will be nasty\, along with\nan exposed king}) 13. Re1 {[%cal Ge1e7] put the rook in line in with the queen\nis a normally a good idea} Qb4 $2 {he collapses\, but on the other there was\nnot much better to do because of the pin and I may get some d5 in later} 14.\nNxf6+ Nxf6 15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. Qc1 $1 Kg7 17. c5 $1 {this was a really nice move\nbecause normally when the queen is away from the king the king is in MASSIVE\ndanger and just before I get along with my attack\, I cut of her communications\nwith the king} Bd8 18. Qf4 Qa5 19. Qg4+ Kh7 20. Qh5 Qc7 21. g4 Kg7 {[#]} 22.\nRe3 $1 {I have a lot time and can just slowly improve my pieces\, another good\nprinciple is when attacking try to bring in as much pieces as possible} Qd7 23.\nRd1 $1 Bc7 24. Rdd3 $1 b6 $2 {[#] this was not so stupid because he can’t just\nsit and wait but on the other hand he could of just turned his prophylactic\nbrain on… I am now preparing a killer blow} (24… Rh8 {was better}) 25. g5\n$3 {I had prepared this move from when I played Rd1} hxg5 (25… fxg5 26. Nxg5\nBf4 27. Rg3 $1) 26. Nxg5 Re8 (26… Rh8 {he thought this would work but…} 27.\nNxe6+ $1 Qxe6 (27… fxe6 28. Rg3+ Bxg3 29. Rxg3+ Kf8 30. Qxh8+ Ke7 31. Rg7#)\n28. Rg3+ Bxg3 29. Rxg3+ Kf8 (29… Qg4 30. Rxg4+ Bxg4 31. Qxg4+ Kf8 32. Bxc6)\n30. Qxh8+ Ke7 31. Re3) 27. Bxc6 $1 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFM Shreyas Royal at the London Chess Classic\, 2021 courtesy of John Upham Photography
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Junior
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Shaun Taulbut (11-i-1958)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM Shaun Mark Taulbut born on this day (January 11th) in 1958. \nIM Shaun Mark Taulbut \nHere is his Wikipedia article from the Polish (!) version : \nIn 1974. I shared m. In the championship of Great Britain juniors to 16 years [1] \, whereas in 1977. Won the Brighton title of vice-champion of Great Britain (won the George Botterill ). He achieved the greatest success in his career at the turn of 1977 and 1978 in Groningen \, where he won the title of European champion up to 20 years [2] . In 1978 in Mexico he won the title of team world champion in the category up to 26 years [3] . He achieved another success in 1981 in Copenhagen \, sharing the first town (together with Petyr Welikow and Tom Wedberg ) inopen tournament Politiken Cup . In the same year\, he divided II-IV in New York \, while in 1982 he repeated this achievement in London (after William Watson \, together with Jonathan Tisdall and Mark Hebden ). In 1983 he ended his chess career. \nIM Shaun Mark Taulbut \nHe reached the highest ranking in his career on July 1\, 1982\, sharing 9-10 points with 2465 points. place among English chess players [4] . \nHe is the author of many books on chess\, primarily devoted to the theory of debuts . \nIM Shaun Mark Taulbut (right) playing Adrian Mikhalchishin \nand here is the game from the above photograph : \n[pgn]\n[Event “WchT U26 01 fin-A”]\n[Site “Mexico City”]\n[Date “1978.09.02”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Taulbut\, Shaun M”]\n[Black “Mikhalchishin\, Adrian”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C87”]\n[WhiteElo “2405”]\n[BlackElo “2460”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1978.08.26”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “MEX”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2003”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2002.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2002.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Soviet Union”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “URS”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,19\,31\,34\,19\,13\,4\,13\,-2\,-9\,0\,7\,-5\,7\,30\,9\,9\,9\,11\,6\,4\,4\,6\,-4\,10\,41\,15\,\n43\,36\,44\,18\,24\,13\,60\,33\,52\,42\,52\,78\,167\,167\,303\,301\,291\,278\,302\,303\,451\,495\,\n495\,507\,527\,515\,513\,549]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7\n6. Re1 d6 (6… b5) 7. Bxc6+ $5 bxc6 8. d4 exd4 9. Nxd4 Bd7 10. Nc3 O-O 11. Qf3\n{[%cal Gd4f5]} Rb8 $146 (11… Re8 {Keres\,P-Spassky\,B URS-chT Leningrad 1962 1/\n2-1/2}) 12. Rb1 (12. b3) 12… Rb6 $6 13. h3 g6 14. Nb3 {[%csl Rb6][%cal Gc1e3]\n} Nh5 15. Be3 $14 Rb8 16. e5 dxe5 17. Bh6 Re8 18. Rxe5 Ng7 19. Rd1 $16 {\n[%cal Gd1d8]} Ne6 $2 (19… Bd6 $142) 20. Ne4 $40 Rb5 21. Rxe6 $1 fxe6 22. Qc3\ne5 23. Qc4+ Kh8 24. Qf7 Rg8 25. Nf6 Bxf6 26. Rxd7 Qxd7 27. Qxd7 {Avec ce score\nde 3-1\, il s(agissait de la première défait en match d’une équipe soviétique\ndepuis trés longtemps.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \n(from l-r) Jonathan Kinlay\, Shaun Taulbut\, Jonathan Speelman\, David Goodman and Jonathan Mestel accepting 1st prize at the 1978 World U26 Student Olympiad in Mexico City \nShaun Taulbut (upper right) and David Goodman (lower right) from the 1978 U26 Olympiad \nShaun coached strong juniors especially Michael Adams. In MAs case it was by means of correspondence and this was funded by the Friends of Chess. \nShaun largely gave up competitive chess in 1983 to pursue a financial services career. He reached a senior position in ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group) reporting to Ian Snape. In ANZ Shaun met Stephen Lowe and on September 19th 2005 they became Directors and owners of British Chess Magazine Ltd. Shaun lives in Wokingham with his wife\, Christine and several pets including a wormery. \n(second from right standing ) Shaun Taulbut \nShaun occasionally plays for Crowthorne in the Berkshire League and the Surrey Border League and has played for the BCM Dragons 4NCL team managed by John Upham. \nPositional Chess by Shaun Taulbut
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CATEGORIES:2023,4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Andrew Horton (15-i-1998)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Andrew P Horton (15-i-1998) \nAndrew became a FIDE Master in 2015 and an International Master in 2018.
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DTSTAMP:20230118T103106Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Paul Littlewood (18-i-1956)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to Paul Littlewood \nPaul Edwin Littlewood was born on Wednesday\, January 18th\, 1956 in Skegness\, East Lindsey\, Lincolnshire. His parents were John and Jean Littlewood (née) Hadwick. Paul’s chess playing uncle was Norman Littlewood. \nJohn and Paul on Skegness beach circa 1958. Kindly supplied by Paul Littlewood. George and Ringo are out of shot ! \nJohn\, Jenny and Paul Littlewood\, circa 1962. Kindly supplied by Paul Littlewood. \nPaul attended Glenburn Comprehensive School in Skelmersdale from 1967 and then read Natural Sciences at Christ’s College\, Cambridge from 1974. \nPaul played badminton for Lancashire and Cambridge and\, in 1971\, won the English Schools Mixed Championship when he was 15 years old. \nPaul and family receive a chess lesson from John following John’s win in the 1972 Southport Open \nOn leaving University Paul taught science at Southbrook Comprehensive\, Daventry. Four years later Paul became a dealer at Phillips & Drew and followed this as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs. Stays at Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan were followed by a change of direction and since then Paul has been director of various food supply companies retiring in 2014. \nPaul is married (3rd November 2006) to (his second wife) Fiona and lives in St. Albans\, Hertfordshire. \nPEL won the ECF President’s Award in 2007 and from the 2008 ECF Yearbook we have the following citation : \n“International Master and accomplished bridge player. From British Chess champion (1981) Paul has presided over the 4NCL as chairman during its most successful period. When he became chairman over ten years ago the league consisted of two divisions and 32 teams. The league has now expanded to four divisions and a total of 72 teams. Most of England’s juniors play 4NCL. During this time 4NCL became one of the strongest leagues in Europe\, at one time boasting a Division 1 rivalling the Bundesliga in strength in the top matches. \nPaul has demonstrated the sound judgement of Solomon when dealing with league disputes and has drawn on his business acumen\, honed during a successful career in the City with Goldman Sachs to make 4NCL the financially stable and expanding league it is today.” \nRoll of Honour \n\nBritish U18 Champion 1972\nBritish U21 Champion 1975\nBritish Champion 1981\nAs a junior represented England in Glorney Cup\nInternational Master 1980\n\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy. Rice and Richardson we have this article from Richard W. O’Brien : \n“Paul Littlewood was destined to become a strong player from birth. His father John was for some time one of the strongest players in the country and represented England on many occasions. His uncle Norman was for a few years not far behind. Paul\, however\, has surpassed them both and has become the first in the family to reach IM status. (Ed: JEL was very much worthy of the IM title but insufficient events of the right type held him back). \nA. Howard Williams\, Martyn J. Corden\, Paul E. Littlewood and A. Jonathan Mestel \nAll three are essentially attacking players. There have been times in recent years when play at the Hastings Premier has become dull. However\, Paul one of the English representatives at the last three tournaments\, was certainly not to blame. (His game against Brito of Brazil which follows is a striking example of this).” \nCoached by his father\, Paul became British U18 champion in 1972 and three years later became British U21 champion. \nClearly more interested in an academic career he went up to Cambridge and then followed his father into the teaching profession. Opportunities to play in strong tournaments were thus very limited. These opportunities\, however\, were grasped in both hands. Three times in thirteen months between August 1978 and August 1979 he obtained an IM norm and thus the title. \nPartial crosstable for the Lloyds Bank Open\, 1978 \nThe first caused a sensation as it was totally unexpected. He shared first place at Lloyds Bank ahead of several grandmasters including Shamkovich\, who was the first grandmaster he ever defeated. \nLeonid Shamkovich plays Paul Littlewood during the 1978 Lloyds Bank Masters. Paul won the game. \nEight months later Aaronson Masters was won and then came the final norm\, also at Lloyds Bank. \nTournaments abroad were limited although he represented England students. He did play at Kringsja (2nd equal) in 1978 and Borovo where he scored 6.5.13 finishing ahead of 3 GMs. \nIn 1981 came his finest achievement – winning the British Championship with a massive 9/11. \nPartial crosstable from the 1981 British Championship in Morecambe \nHis father who was also competing in the championship was as proud as could be and deservedly so (he also coached Sheila Jackson who retained her British Ladies Championship that year). His excellent all round play took him to the title and only once during the tournament did he stand worse. His endgame play was so good that CHESS even published an article solely on these endings. \nPaul Littlewood and friends during the 1978 Lloyds Bank Masters \nDuties at school in Daventry meant he was\, in February 1982\, unable to take part in the zonal at Marbella. This followed an excellent Hastings when as British Champion he made a plus score – a rare event indeed. \nIM Paul Littlewood during filming for the “Trick of the Mind” series from Derren Brown \nIn the summer he gave up teaching and joined Phillips & Drew (stockbrokers). He now (ed : this was in 1983) lives with his (first) wife Sue and family in the wilds of Essex (Billericay). \nIM Paul Littlewood\, event and photographer unknown \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1980/81-56 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1980.12.29”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Brito\, Luismar Jorge”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, Paul E”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C89”]\n[BlackElo “2440”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “82”]\n[EventDate “1980.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “10”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,74\,38\,46\,10\,19\,22\,18\,17\,-4\,3\,-20\,5\,-11\,-3\,-3\,3\,-22\,16\,28\,6\,41\,12\,18\,\n37\,37\,37\,-8\,19\,23\,29\,24\,24\,2\,29\,38\,18\,6\,23\,17\,-122\,-311\,-312\,-312\,0\,-228\,-322\,\n-287\,-271\,-271\,-271\,-271\,-303\,-827\,-205\,-205\,-230\,-195\,-152\,-193\,-193\,-180\,\n-193\,-172\,-240\,-866\,-1079\,-1149\,-1149\,-1281\,-1152\,-1149\,-1277\,-1272\,-1275\,\n-1275\,-1332]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7.\nBb3 O-O 8. c3 d5 $1 {The Marshall Gambit and why not!} 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5\nNxe5 11. Rxe5 c6 12. d4 Bd6 13. Re1 Qh4 14. g3 Qh3 15. Be3 Bg4 16. Qd3 Rae8 17.\nNd2 Re6 {[#]} 18. c4 $6 {An idea of Byrne but not played since 2002.} ({\n2021 thinking is} 18. a4 $1 f5 19. Qf1 Qh5 20. f4 bxa4 21. Rxa4 g5 22. Rxa6\ngxf4 23. Bxf4 {is a modern main line.}) (18. Qf1 Qh5) 18… Bf4 $1 $17 19. cxd5\n$2 (19. Qf1 {was required} Nxe3 20. Qxh3 Bxh3 21. cxb5 Nc2 {[#] A pretty wild\nposition! Do you know what is going on here?}) 19… Rh6 $19 20. Qe4 Qxh2+ 21.\nKf1 f5 (21… Bxe3 {is possibly more accurate.} 22. Rxe3 Rf6 23. f3 Bh3+ 24.\nKe1 cxd5 25. Qh4 Rh6 26. Qf4) 22. dxc6+ $146 (22. d6+ Kh8 23. Qxc6 Rxd6 24. Qb7\nBxe3 25. Rxe3 f4 26. Re7 fxg3 27. Rf7 Rf6 28. Rxf6 gxf6 29. fxg3 Re8 30. Ne4\nQe2+ 31. Kg1 Bf3 {Gesos – Fabry\, 1977\, 0-1.}) 22… Kh8 23. Qd5 Bxe3 24. Rxe3\nf4 25. gxf4 Qxf4 26. Re2 (26. Nf3 Rh1+ 27. Ke2 Rxa1 28. Bc2 Rxa2 $1 $19) 26…\nRh2 (26… Qh2) 27. f3 Bh3+ 28. Ke1 Rh1+ 29. Kf2 Rh2+ 30. Ke1 Rh1+ {Oh what\nfun!} 31. Kf2 Rxa1 32. Qe4 (32. Qe5) 32… Qg5 33. Nb1 Rxb1 34. Qxb1 Qg2+ 35.\nKe3 Rxf3+ 36. Kd2 Qg5+ 37. Kd1 Rf1+ {and white resigned.} {If} 38. Re1 Bg4+ 39.\nKc2 Rf2+ 40. Kd3 Bf5+ 41. Re4 Qd2# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nPaul gives a simultaneous display in Letchworth. \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Aaronson Masters”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1979.04.16”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Basman\, Michael John”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, Paul E”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A00”]\n[WhiteElo “2405”]\n[BlackElo “2405”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News and George Botterill”]\n[PlyCount “56”]\n[EventDate “1979.04.12”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,54\,19\,-63\,-56\,-53\,-52\,-89\,-55\,-70\,-50\,-46\,-26\,-42\,-48\,-27\,-38\,-13\,-18\,\n-50\,-12\,-67\,-32\,-98\,-56\,-99\,-83\,-83\,-83\,-73\,-38\,-100\,-89\,-89\,-125\,-108\,-163\,\n-159\,-164\,-154\,-163\,-144\,-144\,-446\,-303\,-361\,-364\,-371\,-364\,-812\,-1568\,-2013\,\n-2191\,-29975\,-1329\,-1430\,-1569]} 1. b4 {Mike liked pushing his knight’s pawns.\nOn this day the b2 pawn was the victim.} e5 2. a3 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Bb2 Bd6 5. c4\nc6 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. Nf3 {White’s strategy is to induce the advance ….e4 and\nthereby establish a strong outpost on d4.} Qe7 {Black resists temptation.} 8.\nNc3 Nc6 9. h3 $146 {Hardly an inspired choice. Maybe White thought he was\nworse already?} ({Better is} 9. d3 O-O 10. Be2 Rd8 11. O-O $17) 9… O-O $17 {\nBlack’s lead in development is clear.} 10. g4 $6 {This can hardly be justified\nbut then again we refer to our note after move 1. Michael does sometimes get\ncarried away wit his outlandish ideas : GB.} Be6 11. Ne2 {Heading for f5\ncombined with Rg1 might stir up trouble for Black.} a6 (11… Ne4 12. Bg2 f5 {\nand the f2 square is under some pressure.}) 12. Ng3 e4 {Black finally succumbs\nto temptation\, though not without justification. White’s set-up is too\nartificial.} 13. Nd4 Nxd4 14. Bxd4 Nd7 15. Qb3 {[#]} Ne5 $1 16. Be2 Nc6 $1 {\nThe refutation of White’s strategy. With the loss of his blockade on d4\,\nWhite’s game disintegrates.} 17. Bb2 d4 $1 $19 {The time has come to open the\nposition.} 18. Qd1 Bxg3 19. fxg3 d3 20. Bf1 f5 21. Qc1 {Desperation\,} ({but on\n} 21. gxf5 Rxf5 22. Bg2 Qg5 {he is defenceless.}) 21… fxg4 22. Qc5 Qf7 23.\nO-O-O {White seeks some salvation on his side of the board\, but instead finds\nhimself walking into a mating net.} Ba2 $1 24. hxg4 Na5 $1 {A neat touch} ({\nthough the prosaic} 24… Rac8 {also wins of course.}) 25. bxa5 ({Or} 25. Qxa5\nRac8+ 26. Bc3 Qb3 {forces mate}) 25… Rac8 26. Rh5 Rxc5+ 27. Rxc5 Qxf1 $1 {\nand White resigned} 28. Rxf1 Rxf1# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nChess Tactics\, Paul Littlewood\, Crowood Chess Library\, 1991 \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-68 Championship”]\n[Site “Morecambe/ Lancashire”]\n[Date “1981.08.08”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, Paul E”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E52”]\n[WhiteElo “2455”]\n[BlackElo “2430”]\n[Annotator “Bill Hartston\, George Botterill and British C”]\n[PlyCount “62”]\n[EventDate “1981.08.03”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,62\,19\,35\,34\,-14\,0\,-4\,33\,16\,34\,17\,17\,25\,44\,6\,8\,4\,-4\,3\,-6\,0\,-2\,-2\,17\,-5\,\n-5\,-22\,6\,-22\,-18\,-37\,-21\,-93\,17\,-26\,-13\,-44\,-101\,-101\,-107\,-91\,-152\,-150\,-33\,\n-25\,-100\,-93\,-95\,-108\,-110\,-120\,-117\,-192\,-169\,-187\,-38\,-345\,-312\,-710\,-996\,\n-996\,-1001\,-1027\,-1029]} {Annotations sourced from BCM\, 1981\, page 498\, game #\n20170\, Bill Hartston\, British Chess\, 1983\, George Botterill and British Chess\nNews\, 2021.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 {This is the third time these two\nhave crossed swords in this opening in 1981\, though on the other two occasions\nit was Chandler who had Black. Littlewood won at Hastings in January\, but then\nChandler hit back with a masterly endgame performance in the ARC tournament.}\n4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 b6 ({WRH : Both Chandler and and Littlewood have\nplayed the fashionable line with} 6… c5 7. O-O cxd4 8. exd4 dxc4 9. Bxc4 b6 {\nHere\, perhaps just for a change\, perhaps to avoid any prepared lines\nLittlewood chooses something different.}) 7. a3 {GB : It seems to me that this\nmove would fit i better with the development of the white knight at e2 rather\nthan f3. WRH : This move is usually delayed until after 7.00 Bb7 Now tha game\nquickly develops along unusual paths.} (7. O-O Bb7 8. cxd5 exd5 9. a3 Bd6 10.\nb4 a6 11. Qb3 Qe7 12. b5 axb5 13. Nxb5 Nbd7 14. a4 c5 15. Ba3 Ba6) 7… Bxc3+\n8. bxc3 Ba6 $1 {GB : White squares! WRH : When your opponent has the bishop\npair\, you should exchange one of them. So said Nimzowitsch and here Littlewood\ntakes his advice. Black’s plan is gain control of the white squares after the\nexchange of bishops.} 9. cxd5 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 exd5 11. c4 Nc6 {Black’s play is\nreminiscent of the Tchigorin Defence to the Queen’s Gambit relying on piece\nplay to contest and restrain the centre.} 12. Bb2 $2 $146 {Underestimating the\nactivity of Black’s pieces.} (12. O-O Na5 13. Ne5 c5 14. Bb2 Rc8 15. Rad1) ({\nInstead} 12. Bd2 Ne4 13. O-O {leads to an equal game.}) 12… Na5 13. Nd2 c5\n14. dxc5 {This move indciates that White is still hoping for an advantage from\nthe opening.} ({but he would have done better to settle for slight inferiority\nafter} 14. O-O dxc4 15. Nxc4 Nc6) 14… dxc4 $1 15. Qc3 ({Black’s queenside\npawns give him the better chances after} 15. Qxd8 Rfxd8 16. Bxf6 gxf6 17. O-O-O\nRd3) 15… Qd5 $17 16. cxb6 Rfd8 $1 {A fine pawn sacrifice. White cannot\ncastle kingside because his knight on d2 hangs. Meanwhile the Black major\npieces become very active.} 17. bxa7 Rxa7 ({WRH : note that} 17… Qxg2 {\nwould have been met by} 18. O-O-O Rxd2 19. Rdg1 $1) 18. e4 $6 (18. Nf3) 18…\nRe7 19. O-O-O {At last the king has escaped from the centre\, but its new home\nis also far from safe.} Qa8 $19 20. Kb1 Rd3 21. Qc2 Red7 {Black’s simplest\nthreat now is 22..Qd8 followed\, if necessary\, by Nb3 or Nxe4. The pin on the\nd-file must be broken before it is too late.} 22. e5 Ne8 23. Nf3 Qd5 {Mighty\ncentralisation of the black forces.} 24. Nd4 Rb7 {WRH : The final shift of the\nattack to the b-file proves the last straw for White’s strained defences.} 25.\nRxd3 cxd3 26. Qa4 {Otherwise …Nc4 wins the pinned bishop} (26. Qxd3 {WRH :\nloses to the prosaic} Nc4) 26… Rb8 {WRH : calmly defending the attacked\nknight and renewing the threat of Nc4. To add to his problems\, White was now\nseverly short of time.} 27. Ka1 Nc7 28. Rb1 d2 $1 {GB : White is quite lost\nhere. He has no defence against …Ne6 followed by a fatal check on b3. WRH :\nWith so many white pieces trying simply to plug gaps in his leaky position it\nis almost impossible to find a move which does not lose everything.} 29. Bc3\nRxb1+ 30. Kxb1 Qc4 $1 31. Qc2 ({WRH : the final shock} 31. Qxc4 d1=Q+ {leaves\nBlack a queen ahead.}) 31… Qf1+ {and White resigned. WRH : a total triumph\nfor Black’s white-square strategy.} 0-1\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Ali Mortazavi (20-i-1971)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM Ali Mortazavi on his birthday\, this day (January 20th) in 1971 \nIM Ali Mortazavi \nAli is a British IM who was a successful trader in the financial markets. \nIn the FIDE directory he is listed as a Councillor in the Global Strategy Commission (GSC). \nHe was a professional player and became the CEO of Silence Therapeutics (SLN) : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4jn9ksND5w[/embedyt] \nAli reached his hightest FIDE rating of 2410 in July 1994 aged 23. \nHe has played for Beeson Gregory in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). He played at the Isle of Man Open in 2018 but sadly\, little since. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY3kLjUqZNc[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lloyds Bank op 16th”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1992.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Mortazavi\, Ali”]\n[Black “Van der Sterren\, Paul”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D29”]\n[WhiteElo “2320”]\n[BlackElo “2530”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “47”]\n[EventDate “1992.08.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 031 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1993.01.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1993.01.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,47\,19\,27\,5\,28\,21\,-23\,41\,51\,50\,54\,60\,45\,47\,40\,11\,-15\,-13\,-2\,-17\,4\,-3\,\n-20\,-19\,-23\,-38\,-74\,-86\,-85\,-92\,-101\,-90\,-105\,-83\,-124\,-59\,-81\,247\,245\,274\,271\,\n283\,266\,333\,327\,408\,408\,478\,448]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 d5 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 e6 5.\nBxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. Nc3 b5 8. Bb3 Bb7 9. Qe2 Nbd7 10. Rd1 Qb8 11. a3 Bd6 12.\nBc2 cxd4 $146 13. Rxd4 $6 (13. exd4 O-O 14. Re1) 13… Bxf3 14. Qxf3 Bxh2+ 15.\nKh1 Be5 16. Rh4 h5 $19 17. Ne4 Ng4 $2 (17… Qd8) 18. Bd2 Qd8 $2 19. Qxg4 $1 g6\n20. Qh3 f5 21. Bb4 $18 Rc8 22. Bb3 Rc6 23. Rd1 Qb6 24. f4 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM Ali Mortazavi
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Neil McDonald (21-i-1967)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to GM Neil McDonald born on this day (January 21st) in 1967. \nNeil McDonald \nNeil McDonald \nFrom Wikipedia : \nNeil McDonald (born 21 January 1967) is an English chess grandmaster and a player on the international chess circuit. He is an English Chess Federation coach\,[1] who has trained many of the country’s strongest junior players. McDonald is a regular coach of the English junior team and was Head Coach of the English Chess Federation team at the Greece World Schools Championship in 2013.[2] He regularly escorts blind and partially sighted chess players to international World Championship events and is also a chess writer. \nMcDonald authored the French Defence monthly updates on chesspublishing.com from October 1999 until March 2009\,[3] 1 e4 … updates from November 2009 until January 2010\,[4] 1 e4 … from June 2014 until February 2015[5] and returned to 1 e4 … in March 2017 until January 2018.[6] \nNeil shared first place in the 1986 GLC Masters with Jonathan Levitt\, was outright first at the Elekes Memorial\, 1995\, first at The Leinster IM Tournament in Dublin\, 1997\, and other tournaments since. Neil plays for Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nHe became an International Master in 1986 and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 1996. \nMcDonald obtained his FIDE Trainer qualification in 2016.[7] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IogslcWxKEc[/embedyt] \nNeil is a prolific and successful author\, most recently with “Coach Yourself” \nCoach Yourself : A Complete Guide to Self Improvement at Chess \nbut also thirty eight titles for Chess Press\, BT Batsford Ltd. and Everyman Chess Books. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings op 8889”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1988.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “McDonald\, Neil R”]\n[Black “Gufeld\, Eduard”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B60”]\n[WhiteElo “2375”]\n[BlackElo “2485”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “1988.12.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1997”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1996.11.15”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1996.11.15”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,73\,16\,12\,56\,47\,39\,44\,2\,32\,52\,61\,34\,73\,87\,80\,56\,42\,41\,46\,35\,24\,21\,18\,6\,\n13\,20\,13\,22\,-16\,6\,-19\,-7\,5\,68\,93\,106\,42\,36\,8\,9\,28\,44\,9\,51\,-97\,-159\,-150\,-116\,\n-181\,-97\,-75\,-73\,-78\,-99\,-174\,-145\,-209\,-155\,-155\,-85\,-85\,-55\,-59\,-66\,-53\,112\,\n112\,313\,313\,566\,566\,29989\,29990\,29991\,29992]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.\nNxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bg5 Qb6 7. Nb3 e6 8. Qd2 Be7 9. Be3 Qc7 10. f3 O-O 11. g4\na6 12. g5 Nd7 13. h4 b5 14. a3 $146 Nde5 15. Be2 Rb8 $15 16. h5 b4 $2 (16…\nRe8) (16… Nc4 17. Bxc4 bxc4 18. Nd4 Ne5 $15) 17. axb4 Nxb4 18. Nd4 d5 19. f4\nNc4 20. Bxc4 dxc4 21. g6 fxg6 22. h6 $2 (22. hxg6 h6 $11) 22… gxh6 23. Rxh6\ne5 24. fxe5 Qxe5 (24… Bg4) 25. O-O-O Rf7 (25… Bg4) 26. Qg2 Bf8 27. Rh4 Qa5\n28. Qh2 Rbb7 29. Rg1 Qb6 $2 (29… Rg7) 30. e5 Na2+ $2 31. Nxa2 Qxb2+ 32. Kd2\nQxa2 33. Rxg6+ $1 Rg7 34. Rxh7 c3+ 35. Kd3 Rxg6 36. Rh8+ Kf7 37. Qf2+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nModern Defence. Everyman\, 2000 \nGM Neil McDonald
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Nick Pert (22-i-1981)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to GM Nick Pert born this day (January 22nd) in 1981. \nJeremy Morse\, Adam Hunt\, Nick Pert and Nigel Short at the Lloyds Bank Masters \nNick won the Southern Counties (SCCU) championship for the 2016-17 season sharing with Richard Bates. \nNick and Richard Pert \nHere is Nick’s Wikipedia entry \nNick and Richard Pert \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2007.12.30”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Pert\, Nicholas”]\n[Black “Dinger\, Florian”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E12”]\n[WhiteElo “2539”]\n[BlackElo “2378”]\n[Annotator “Pert\,N”]\n[PlyCount “97”]\n[EventDate “2007.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 122”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2008.01.30”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2008.01.30”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,97\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,4\,27\,41\,33\,17\,24\,8\,18\,-2\,24\,3\,15\,-15\,12\,-2\,3\,-2\,7\,\n-20\,-16\,-17\,-10\,15\,16\,-19\,62\,1\,8\,40\,51\,51\,48\,33\,53\,53\,82\,79\,72\,72\,64\,66\,61\,64\,\n72\,64\,75\,65\,69\,65\,79\,71\,59\,54\,61\,51\,52\,43\,58\,39\,56\,54\,46\,48\,70\,65\,81\,44\,81\,80\,\n65\,62\,65\,48\,47\,-15\,-21\,-17\,-8\,-116\,-109\,-114\,-94\,-88\,233\,311\,397\,396\,414\,407\,\n346\,377\,604\,624]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. a3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5\n7. e3 {The old main line is going through a mini-revival recently\, so I\nthought I would try and keep up with the trends. Here g6 is a popular move for\nBlack\, but the game transposed to a more common variation which can also be\nreached as follows:} (7. Qc2 Be7 8. e4 Nxc3 9. bxc3 O-O 10. Bd3 c5 11. O-O Qc7\n12. Qe2 Nd7 13. Bb2) 7… Nd7 8. Bd3 c5 9. e4 Nxc3 10. bxc3 Qc7 11. O-O Be7 12.\nBb2 O-O 13. Qe2 {By a strange move order we have reached one of the main\npositions of the Petrosian Variation of the Queen’s Indian.} Rac8 14. Nd2 {\nOne of Black’s main plans in this position is to close down the centre\, and\nhence limit the potential of White’s bishops by playing c4 and e5. This move\nis designed to add more control to the c4 square\, whilst readying kingside\nexpansion with f4.} Bg5 $5 {An interesting way to stop f4. Another alternative\nis to put the queen on f4 before the pawn gets there! Then if White wants to\nshift the queen he has to weaken the long diagonal with g3.} 15. Rad1 $146 {\nThis is technically a novelty\, but according to my database the position has\nbeen reached once before by transposition.} e5 $6 {Black goes for it and\nchallenges the centre right away. Rfd8 comes into consideration as a useful\nalternative.} 16. Nf3 (16. d5 Bxd2 17. Qxd2 c4 {I expect this was his\nintention\, closing up the position\, but probably White has slightly the better\nof it with the bishop pair if he can find a way to activate them.}) 16… Bf6\n17. Bb5 $1 {I don’t want Black to close me in with c4.} cxd4 18. cxd4 exd4 19.\nNxd4 Nc5 20. Nf5 $1 Bxb2 {This hands White a comfortable edge. The risky Bxe4\nwas the other option when white has the choice between 2 reasonable ways to\nfight for the advantage.} (20… Bxe4 21. Nh6+ (21. Bxf6 Bxf5 22. Be7 Rfe8 23.\nBxe8 Rxe8 24. Bd6 {with a pull for White.}) 21… Kh8 22. Bxf6 gxf6 {is also\npossible when Black has an extra pawn\, but a weak king provides at least\nsufficient compensation.}) 21. Qxb2 f6 22. Nd6 Rb8 {Forced.} (22… Rcd8 23.\nQa2+ Kh8 24. Nf7+ Rxf7 25. Qxf7 {Wins.}) 23. f3 $6 (23. e5 {I think e5 is\nmarginally preferable. This ensures that White’s king is safer than Black’s.\nHowever the game continuation keeps a strong hold in the centre and blunts\nBlack’s bishop.}) 23… Kh8 $1 24. Rf2 Ba6 {Black is advised to swop his\nbishop for White’s more active counterpart.} 25. Bxa6 Nxa6 26. Rfd2 Nc5 27. Qc3\n(27. Rd5 {I wanted to continue with Rd5 and Qf2 -> kingside but Na4 would have\nbeen irritating threatening a fork on c3.} Na4 28. Qb3 Nc3 29. Nb5 Nxb5 30.\nQxb5 Rbd8 $14) 27… h6 $1 {Black has found some strong moves\, and the task of\nconverting the edge is not easy.} 28. h3 {I tried to look for a way to\nconsolidate my own king position\, but it is not so simple with my pawn on f3.\nMoving the f pawn around a castled king\, can often leave it much more\nvulnerable.} Kh7 {Black hopes to play Rbd8 without any Nf7+ problems.} 29. Kh1\nRbd8 30. Qc2 Kg8 31. Qc4+ Kh7 32. Qd5 Rd7 $6 {Probably Qd7 was better covering\nthe f5 square.} 33. Qf5+ Kg8 34. Qg6 $1 Ne6 $1 (34… Rfd8 {Black would love\nto play this move but it fails tactically.} 35. Ne8 Rxd2 36. Rxd2 Rxd2 37.\nNxf6+ {And mate follows.}) 35. Qg4 Nc5 36. Qg6 Ne6 37. Qg4 {I repeated as my\ntime was getting low and I needed to make it to move 40.} Nc5 38. Rd5 $6 (38.\nf4 $1 {Would have been stronger\, ready to support the d6 knight with e5\nagainst Rfd8 ideas. I rejected this based on a miscalculation.} Qc6 39. Nf5\nNxe4 40. Rxd7 Nf2+ 41. Kg1 Nxg4 42. Ne7+ {Wins for White\, but Black could\nfight on with 39…Rc7. In fact White would probably be best off playing 39.\nKh2 looking after the king – the most important feature of major piece\nendgames.}) 38… Kh7 $1 39. h4 $2 {I start going wrong in time trouble.} (39.\nQf5+ Kg8 40. Qg6 Kh8 41. h4 {is a more accurate version of the same idea.})\n39… Rfd8 $1 40. Nf5 $2 (40. Qf5+ Kg8 41. e5 {Still retains a slight edge.})\n40… Rxd5 41. exd5 g6 $1 {The only move but a very important one. I’d seen\nthis and hoped that h5 might have maintained the initiative for White but…}\n42. Ng3 (42. Qg3 {Moving to an equal ending was probably the best option\, but\nI was still after more.}) (42. h5 gxf5 43. Qg6+ Kh8 44. Qxf6+ Kg8 45. d6 Qd7 {\nLooks at least ok for Black.}) 42… h5 $1 {Before White plays h5 – so now i’m\nobliged to sacrifice a piece.} 43. Nxh5 gxh5 44. Qxh5+ Kg7 $4 {After a fine\nseries of moves\, my young opponent finally cracks.} (44… Kg8 45. d6 (45. Qg6+\nQg7 46. Qf5 Rd7 {And Black is slightly better.}) (45. Rd4 Qh7 {is the point\,\nwhen the black king can hide on h8.}) 45… Rxd6 46. Qg6+ Kf8 47. Qh6+ Ke8 48.\nQg6+ Kd7 49. Rxd6+ Qxd6 50. h5 {It is still not over but Black has the better\nchances.}) 45. Rd4 $1 {Now I think Black is lost\, but he comes up with an\ninteresting last roll of the dice.} Ne6 46. Rg4+ $1 (46. Qg4+ $2 Ng5 47. hxg5\n$4 Qc1+ 48. Kh2 Rh8+ 49. Kg3 Qe1+ 50. Kf4 Qe5#) 46… Kf8 47. Qh6+ $1 Ke7 (\n47… Ng7 48. Qh8+ {Wins}) 48. Re4 $1 Rxd5 49. Qg7+ {And Black resigned since:}\n(49. Qg7+ Kd6 (49… Kd8 50. Qg8+ Kd7 51. Qxe6+ Kd8 52. Qe8#) 50. Rxe6+ {\nwins the queen.}) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nGM Nick Pert \nGM Nick Pert
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Richard Pert (22-i-1981)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday IM Richard Pert (22-i-1981) \nIM Richard Pert \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 106th”]\n[Site “Torquay”]\n[Date “2019.08.02”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Pert\, Richard G”]\n[Black “Pert\, Nicholas G”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D15”]\n[WhiteElo “2430”]\n[BlackElo “2563”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “2019.07.27”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 191 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.09.30”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.09.30”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,31\,43\,-23\,33\,17\,37\,22\,8\,2\,14\,-9\,-16\,-16\,-15\,-24\,-15\,-210\,-201\,\n-116\,-18\,-12\,3\,-38\,23\,18\,29\,-26\,12\,2\,18\,18\,4\,15\,85\,29\,29\,80\,311\,306\,341\,230\,\n223\,246\,215\,215\,336\,309\,321\,322\,285\,264\,325\,275\,317\,341\,339\,333\,333\,152\,172\,\n177\,173\,189\,198\,182\,205\,216\,217\,242\,257\,291\,422\,452\,525\,642\,656\,316\,475\,680\,\n687\,922]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. e4 b5 6. Be2 e6 7. O-O\nBb7 8. b3 Bb4 9. e5 Bxc3 10. exf6 gxf6 11. Rb1 c5 12. bxc4 Bxd4 $6 (12… cxd4\n$142) 13. Rxb5 Bc6 14. Rb3 $16 Rg8 15. g3 Na6 16. Nxd4 cxd4 17. Bf3 Rc8 18.\nBxc6+ Rxc6 19. Qh5 $18 f5 20. Qxh7 Rf8 21. Bh6 Qf6 22. Bxf8 Kxf8 23. Rb7 Rxc4\n24. Rxa7 Nc7 25. Rb1 f4 26. Rab7 Ke7 27. Rb8 e5 28. Qg8 Rc6 29. Qd8+ Ke6 30.\nQxf6+ Kxf6 31. R8b6 Rxb6 32. Rxb6+ Kf5 33. gxf4 Nd5 34. Rb2 Kxf4 35. a4 e4 36.\na5 d3 37. a6 f5 38. a7 Nc7 39. Kg2 Ke5 40. Kf1 f4 41. Rb7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nNick and Richard Pert \nNick and Richard Pert
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CATEGORIES:2023,4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210123
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210124
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Adam Taylor (23-i-1998)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM Adam Taylor on his birthday. \nAdam Christopher Taylor was born on Friday\, January 23rd\, 1998 in Colchester\, Essex. Adam has a sister\, Nathalie Leanne Taylor who also plays and studied History & Economics at The University of York. His mother Deborah was always supportive during his chess career. \nHe attended The Gilberd School\, Colchester until 2014 and then Colchester Sixth Form College and currently resides in Colchester\, Essex. \nECF grading profile for IM Adam C Taylor \nAdam’s first recorded rapidplay event was the Basildon Junior Congress resulting in a published grade of 34D and his first graded standard play event was the 2009 London Junior Under-12 Championships and his first published standard-play grading was 73E. \nIn that same year at Torquay Adam won the British Under-12 title sharing with Radha Jain. \nAdam C Taylor at the 2013 UK Chess Challenge Terafinal. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nAdam made his first 4NCL appearance in May 2012 for SC Stars followed by Anglian Avengers. In 2018 the lure of the big lights of Division One beckoned and Wood Green became Adam’s team now playing for Wood Green Monarchs in the Online 4NCL championship. \nIn 2017 Adam scored an impressive 6/9 (and =2nd) when he travelled to Greece to play in the Heraklion 1st Capablanca Memorial. \nThe Hastings Open in 2018 saw an excellent =7th with 6.5/10. \nAdam’s IM title was ratified in June of 2019 in Baku and currently (January 2021) holds a FIDE standard play rating of 2347 and an ECF standard play rating of 2260A. His highest ECF standard play grading was 230A in July 2019. We expect this to be exceeded once OTB play resumes. \nBattersea Chess Club celebrated Adams’s title in style with this article written by Leon Watson \nFIDE rating profile for IM Adam C Taylor from MegaBase 2020. \nAdam has played for Bury St. Edmunds and Manningtree and now Battersea in the London League and Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) and has made many appearances in the UKCC Terafinal. \nAdam is known as Tayip99 on chess.com and as AdamTaylor2301 on LiChess.com and regularly streams on Twitch and other platforms. \nAdam C Taylor\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nOn the 13th of September 2019 Adam became the sole director of MakingGrandmasters Limited which lists on its web site a number of leading young English players engaging in coaching such as Matthew Wadsworth\, Ravi Haria and Daniel Fernandez to name but a few. \nOne of Adam’s more notable students is Guildford Chess Club member Jessica Mellor who\, in 2018\, won Gold in the Under-11 category of the European Schools Championship. \nMore recently Adam has taken a back seat from chess and has become a golf professional. \nWith the white pieces Adam favours a Reti/English set-up where c4 quickly follows a king side fianchetto. Here is a typical game of Adam’s with the white against a strong opponent : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op 93rd”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2017.12.28”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Taylor\, Adam C”]\n[Black “Sengupta\, Deep”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A11”]\n[WhiteElo “2242”]\n[BlackElo “2586”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “113”]\n[EventDate “2017.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 182 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.02.23”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.02.23”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,113\,19\,27\,26\,-27\,-27\,-10\,18\,10\,9\,17\,14\,30\,26\,1\,-2\,11\,29\,0\,27\,22\,57\,60\,\n161\,161\,161\,74\,81\,89\,88\,143\,136\,155\,133\,155\,131\,132\,152\,158\,156\,85\,92\,99\,115\,\n117\,135\,116\,250\,78\,228\,92\,97\,99\,99\,100\,104\,119\,129\,136\,160\,165\,172\,176\,176\,191\,\n206\,180\,221\,163\,183\,203\,210\,203\,207\,207\,220\,220\,237\,247\,237\,263\,252\,267\,286\,\n232\,274\,213\,233\,206\,223\,234\,246\,234\,232\,228\,234\,255\,335\,364\,384\,338\,350\,371\,\n376\,404\,436\,428\,472\,481\,508\,512\,517\,531\,528\,539]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2\nBg4 4. Ne5 Bf5 5. c4 c6 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. O-O (7. Nc3 {is more common.}) 7… e6\n8. d3 Bd6 9. Qa4+ Nbd7 10. Bf4 Qe7 $2 $146 {presumably missing whites 11th\nmove. [#]} ({required is} 10… Bxe5 11. Bxe5 O-O 12. Bd6 Nb6 13. Qa3 Re8 14.\nNd2 Rc8 15. Rac1 Qd7 16. Be5 a6 17. Qb4 Qb5 18. Qxb5 axb5 19. b3 Nfd7 20. Bc7\nNa8 21. Ba5 Rc6 $2 22. Rxc6 bxc6 23. b4 $18 Nab6 24. Rc1 Rc8 25. Nf3 Bg4 26.\nNd4 Na4 27. f3 Bh5 28. Kf1 h6 29. Rxc6 Rxc6 30. Nxc6 Nc3 31. Ke1 e5 32. Bh3 Nf6\n33. Nxe5 Nxa2 34. Kd2 d4 35. Nc6 Nc3 36. Nxd4 Nfd5 37. Bd7 {Meier-Atefall\,\nVastefas\, 2017\, 1-0.}) 11. e4 $1 dxe4 (11… Bg6 $2 12. Nxg6 hxg6 13. e5 $18 {\nis the simple point.}) (11… Bxe5 12. Bxe5 Bg6 13. Bc3 $18) 12. dxe4 Bg4 13.\nNxd7 Qxd7 14. Qxd7+ Kxd7 15. Bxd6 Kxd6 16. h3 {A very unpleasant position for\nthe Indian GM.} Bh5 {Adam continues in fine style.} 17. f4 Ke7 18. g4 Nxg4 {\nHobson’s choice.} 19. hxg4 Bxg4 20. Bf3 Bxf3 21. Rxf3 Rhd8 22. Nc3 Rd2 23. Rf2\nRad8 24. Raf1 a6 25. Rxd2 Rxd2 26. Rf2 Rd3 27. Kf1 h5 28. Ke2 Rg3 29. e5 f5 30.\nexf6+ gxf6 31. Rh2 Rg8 32. Ne4 Rh8 33. Kf3 h4 34. Rc2 f5 35. Ng5 Kd7 $6 (35…\nRd8) 36. Rd2+ Ke7 37. Re2 Rh6 38. Kg2 Kd7 39. Kh3 Ke7 40. Re3 Kd7 41. a4 b6 42.\nNf3 Kd6 43. Nxh4 Kc5 44. Kg3 Kb4 45. b3 a5 46. Nf3 Rg6+ 47. Ng5 Rg8 48. Kf3 Rd8\n49. Nxe6 Rd7 50. Ke2 Ka3 51. Kf3 Kb2 52. Kg3 Kc2 53. Kh4 Rd6 54. Kg5 Kd2 55.\nRe5 Kc3 56. Kxf5 Kxb3 57. Re4 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nWith the black pieces Adam essays the Berlin Defence and the Sicilian Najdorf as well as the Benko Gambit and Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op 91st”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2016.01.03”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Helbig\, Paul”]\n[Black “Taylor\, Adam C”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C36”]\n[WhiteElo “2122”]\n[BlackElo “2282”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “68”]\n[EventDate “2015.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 170 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2016.02.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2016.02.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,68\,37\,25\,8\,-13\,11\,14\,-16\,14\,7\,-20\,-8\,-69\,-68\,-58\,-54\,-72\,-87\,-110\,\n-107\,-165\,-133\,-115\,-151\,-149\,-157\,-134\,-92\,-111\,-111\,-150\,-168\,-179\,-192\,-176\,\n-176\,-190\,-195\,-204\,-191\,-176\,-171\,-250\,-259\,-270\,-248\,-254\,-248\,-262\,-254\,\n-323\,-337\,-352\,-326\,-358\,-395\,-862\,-886\,-886\,-900\,-900\,-917\,-917\,-925\,-933\,\n-938\,-947\,-417\,-470\,-449]} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 exf4 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bc4\nNxd5 6. Bxd5 ({More common is} 6. O-O Be7 7. d4 O-O 8. Bxd5 Qxd5 9. Bxf4 c5 10.\nNc3 Qc4 11. Qe1 Bf6 12. Bd6 Bxd4+ 13. Kh1 Rd8 14. Ne4) 6… Qxd5 7. O-O (7. Nc3\nQd8 8. d4 Be7 9. Bxf4 O-O 10. O-O c6 11. Qd3 Be6 12. Rad1) 7… Nc6 (7… Be7\n8. d4 O-O 9. Bxf4 c5 10. Nc3) 8. Nc3 Qf5 $17 {[#]} 9. Qe2+ $146 {An unhappy\nchoice but white is simply worse anyway.} (9. d4) 9… Be6 10. Qb5 {Another\nstrange decision} Qxb5 11. Nxb5 O-O-O 12. d3 a6 13. Nc3 Bc5+ 14. Kh1 Nb4 $1 15.\nNe4 Be3 16. Bxe3 fxe3 17. Ne1 Rhe8 18. a3 {[#] White has obtained precisely\nnothing from the opening apart from being behind in development.} Nc6 19. Ng5\nf6 (19… Bd5) 20. Nxe6 Rxe6 21. Rf4 g5 22. Rc4 f5 23. Rc5 Rf8 24. g4 Re5 (\n24… fxg4 $1 25. Rc4 h5 26. Ng2 e2 27. Kg1 Ne5 $19) 25. Rc4 fxg4 26. Rxg4 Rf1+\n27. Kg2 Ref5 28. h4 R5f2+ (28… h5 $1) 29. Kg3 Rg1+ 30. Kh3 Rh1+ 31. Kg3 gxh4+\n32. Rxh4 Rg1+ 33. Kh3 Re2 (33… Ne7) 34. Rg4 Rh1+ {and white gave up the\nunequal struggle.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Adam C Taylor\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
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CATEGORIES:2023,4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Coach,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210128
DTSTAMP:20230126T231702Z
CREATED:20191117T173215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230126T231702Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Richard Bates (27-i-1979)
DESCRIPTION:Best Birthday wishes to IM Richard Adam Bates born on this day (January 27th) in 1979. \nRichard has won the Southern Counties (SCCU) championship in the 2015-16\, 2016-17 (with Nick Pert) and 2017-18 seasons. \nIM Richard Adam Bates \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 9900 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “2000.03.25”]\n[Round “7.3”]\n[White “Bates\, Richard”]\n[Black “Emms\, John M”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A70”]\n[WhiteElo “2368”]\n[BlackElo “2546”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “67”]\n[EventDate “1999.10.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Richmond”]\n[BlackTeam “Wood Green”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,67\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,4\,17\,20\,76\,42\,77\,64\,122\,98\,78\,105\,92\,90\,77\,62\,86\,67\,\n68\,67\,71\,71\,71\,53\,46\,27\,84\,19\,31\,2\,44\,48\,63\,41\,184\,55\,238\,271\,298\,301\,258\,252\,\n211\,222\,222\,248\,248\,200\,259\,294\,411\,179\,294\,364\,361\,379\,379\,385\,641\,559\,625\,\n1032\,1094\,1125]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 c5 4. d5 d6 5. Nc3 exd5 6. cxd5 g6\n7. h3 a6 8. e4 b5 9. Bd3 Bg7 10. O-O c4 11. Bc2 O-O 12. Bf4 Re8 13. Re1 Bb7 14.\nQd2 Qb6 15. Bh6 $1 $146 (15. b4) 15… Bh8 16. Ne2 Nbd7 17. Ng3 Rac8 18. Be3\nNc5 19. Bd4 a5 $2 (19… b4 20. Nf5 b3 21. axb3 (21. Qh6 bxc2 22. Bxf6 Bxf6 23.\nNg5 Rc7 24. Qxh7+ Kf8 25. e5 Rxe5 26. Rxe5 Bxe5) 21… cxb3 22. Nh6+ (22. Bb1)\n22… Kf8 23. Bb1) (19… Bg7 20. Rad1 (20. a4 b4 21. a5 Qb5 22. Qf4 b3 23. Bb1\n(23. Bxf6 bxc2 24. Bxg7 (24. Nf5 Bxf6 25. Nh6+ Kg7 26. Ng4) 24… Kxg7 25. Nf5+\ngxf5 26. Qg5+ Kh8 27. Qf6+ Kg8 28. exf5 Rxe1+ 29. Rxe1 Ne4 30. Rxe4 c1=Q+ 31.\nKh2 h5) 23… Nxd5 24. exd5 Rxe1+ 25. Nxe1 Re8 26. Nf3) 20… Qd8 21. Qf4 h6) (\n19… Nfd7 20. Qh6 Bxd4 21. Nxd4 Kh8 22. Re3) 20. Nf5 $1 $18 Qd8 (20… gxf5\n21. Qg5+ Kf8 22. Bxf6 Bxf6 23. Qxf6 Qd8 24. Qh6+ Ke7 25. e5) 21. Nh6+ Kf8 22.\nNg5 Rc7 23. Bxf6 (23. Qxa5) 23… Bxf6 24. Nxh7+ Kg7 25. Nxf6 Qxf6 26. Ng4 Qd8\n(26… Qh4) 27. Qh6+ Kg8 28. Qf4 (28. f4) 28… Kg7 29. e5 dxe5 30. Rxe5 Rxe5\n31. Qxe5+ Kg8 (31… f6 32. Nxf6 Re7 33. Nh5+ Kh7 34. Qf4) 32. d6 Rc6 33. Nh6+\nKh7 34. Nxf7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nRichard Bates \nIM Richard Bates \nSheen Mount Under Eleven Chess Champion Richard Bates and Robin Laisby enjoying a game during time out from the Teachers Assurance National Primary Schools Chess Championships. Malaysian Elephant Leyang Leyang and her keeper Duncan McGinnie help them not to forget their chess moves.
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CATEGORIES:2023,4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210208
DTSTAMP:20220207T095801Z
CREATED:20200207T144432Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Ravi Haria (07-ii-1999)
DESCRIPTION:BCN sends birthday wishes to GM Ravi Haria. \nRavi Haria was born Sunday\, February 7th\, 1999  in Elstree\, Hertfordshire. “Maria” by Blondie was top of the hit parade. Ravi currently resides in London. \nRavi attended Lonsdale School in Barnet and then The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School  and now reads History at University College\, London. \nECF grading profiles for Ravi Haria \nRavi learnt at the age of 6 and joined Barnet Knights Chess Club in 2005. \nRavi’s first recorded tournament was the 35th Barnet Knights Under-8  rapidplay on September 25th 2005. Also playing of note were Jonathan Pein and Isaac Sanders. \nHis first recorded standard play game  was in the London Junior Under-10 Championships on December 9th 2006. \nBy the time he was eight he had attracted the attention of the England selectors and played in the 2008 Commonwealth Championships in New Delhi coming home with a bronze medal. \nRavi aged 8 photographed by The Borehamwood and Elstree Times in January 2008 \nRavi aged 9 photographed by The Borehamwood and Elstree Times in August 2008 \nIn 2008 Ravi won the British Under-9 title in Liverpool. He said afterwards: \nIt was quite nice to be leading everyone and I felt proud of myself. I’m not sure how I control my nerves but it feels really good to win. \nHis mother Sona said: \nIt’s a bit overwhelming but we just support him. It means you have to give up a lot of time for him but it’s really nice to see that he’s getting somewhere. \nThis was followed in 2014 by winning the British Under-18 championship in Aberystwyth aged 15 and then the same title in 2017 in Llandudno. \nRavi Haria\, UKCC Southern Gigafinal\, 2013 \nIn 2016 Ravi was equal 2nd to Deep Sengupta at the Hastings Masters Open with an impressive 6/9 and a TPR of 2563.  This performance secured his second IM norm. \nThe IM title was conferred at the 88th FIDE Congress 2017\, 7-15 October\, Goynuk\, Antalya\, Turkey. \nHe scored six points after 11 rounds at the 2017 World Junior championship in Italy and 5.5 points at the 2017 WYCC U-18 group in Uruguay. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGT7kcTRlBA[/embedyt] \nRavi completed his British junior titles run by becoming the current (no OTB event in 2020) British Under-21 champion in 2019 in Torquay scoring an emphatic 6.5/9 securing a share of third place. \nPartial crosstable for the 2019 British Championships in Torquay \nRavi became a FIDE Master in 2015 at the age of 16 and and International Master two years later making him England’s second youngest IM after Matthew Wadsworth. \nOTB Elo rating profile for IM Ravi Haria according to MegaBase 2020 \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2497 in October 2021 and currently (February  2022) is 2490. \nIn 2019 Ravi teamed up with IM Adam C. Taylor to join Adam’s Making Grandmasters training venture. \nFM Ravi Haria\, ECF Secondary Schools Rapidplay\, 2016 \nOn January 28th 2021 Thinker’s Publishing released The Modernised Anti-Sicilians\, Volume 1\, Rossolimo Variation which is a massive 520 page tome on the following position : \n[fen]r1bqkbnr/pp1ppppp/2n5/1Bp5/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nwhich was reviewed by FM Richard Webb. \nwhich we hope will be followed by at least Volume 2! \nThe Modernized Anti-Sicilians – Volume 1: Rossolimo Variation\, Ravi Haria\, Thinker’s Publishing\, 2021 \nRavi has plus scores against : Matthew Turner\, Simon Williams\, William Claridge Hansen\, Bob Eames\, David Eggleston and Arul Gupta to name but a few. \nGM John Emms plays IM Ravi Haria in the final round of the 2019 British Championships in Torquay \nWith the white pieces Ravi unsurprisingly plays the Moscow and Rossolimo variations against the Sicilian\,  the Ruy Lopez and\, in recent years\, he has adopted the Reti/English complex. \nAs the second player he plays the French Winawer and (refreshingly) the Abrahams-Noteboom Variation of the Semi-Slav. \nFor your entertainment we have these two  brevities : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op 88th”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2012.12.29”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Haria\, Ravi”]\n[Black “Pooley\, Mark”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[WhiteElo “2032”]\n[BlackElo “1693”]\n[Annotator “British chess News”]\n[PlyCount “27”]\n[EventDate “2012.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 152 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.02.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.02.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,27\,19\,31\,80\,69\,63\,60\,69\,29\,74\,57\,56\,50\,101\,40\,96\,40\,69\,57\,52\,59\,196\,\n71\,56\,-23\,86\,56\,886\,933]} 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 d6 4. Qe2 g6 $146 5. Bf4\nBg7 6. Nf3 e6 $6 7. O-O Nc6 8. c3 Nce7 9. Nbd2 Nf6 10. e5 Nd7 $2 (10… Nfd5)\n11. Ne4 d5 12. Neg5 c5 $2 {[#]} 13. Nxf7 $1 Qc8 14. Nd6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand \n[pgn]\n[Event “Brighton e2e4 Masters”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “2013.02.17”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Haria\, Ravi”]\n[Black “Whitehead\, David J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B51”]\n[WhiteElo “2053”]\n[BlackElo “2055”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “31”]\n[EventDate “2013.02.16”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 153 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.04.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.04.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,31\,19\,38\,72\,69\,49\,32\,64\,9\,10\,5\,11\,-27\,-11\,4\,19\,19\,41\,36\,127\,98\,122\,\n107\,184\,182\,172\,176\,183\,210\,213\,238\,503\,509]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4.\nBxc6+ bxc6 5. O-O e5 6. c3 f5 7. exf5 Bxf5 ({Relevant:} 7… Nf6 8. d4 cxd4 9.\ncxd4 e4 10. Ng5 d5 11. f3 h6 12. Ne6 Bxe6 13. fxe6 Bd6 14. fxe4 dxe4 15. Nc3\nO-O 16. Qe2 Bc7 17. Qc4 Kh8 18. Bf4 Ng4 19. Ne2 Bxf4 20. Nxf4 Qg5 21. Qxc6 Ne3\n22. Qxe4 Nxf1 23. Ng6+ Kg8 24. Nxf8 Qe3+ 25. Qxe3 Nxe3 26. Nd7 Re8 27. Re1 Nc2\n28. Re4 Nb4 29. Nc5 Kf8 30. a3 Nd5 31. Nd3 Ke7 32. Nf4 Nf6 33. Re5 Kd6 34. Ra5\ng5 35. Ra6+ Kc7 36. Nd3 Ne4 37. d5 {Rublevsky\,S (2678)-Moranda\,W (2578) Warsaw\n2010 1-0}) 8. d4 e4 $6 9. dxc5 {[#]} d5 $2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9… exf3 10.\nQxf3 Be6 11. Re1 Kd7 12. cxd6 Qf6 13. Bf4 Qf5 14. Nd2 Nf6 15. Qe2 Re8 16. Qe3\nQa5 17. Nf3 Bxd6 18. Bxd6 Kxd6 19. Nd4 Qd5 20. Qg3+ Kc5 21. Re5 Kb6 22. Rxd5\nBxd5 23. f3 a5 24. Qxg7 Rhf8 25. b4 axb4 26. cxb4 Nh5 27. Qh6 Nf4 28. Rc1 Kb7\n29. b5 cxb5 30. Qd6 Rf7 31. Nxb5 Ree7 32. Nd4 Ka7 33. Rb1 Rb7 34. Nb5+ Ka8 35.\nQd8+ {1-0 (35) Rublevsky\,S (2684)-Sveshnikov\,E (2563) Herceg Novi 1999}) 10.\nNd4 Qd7 11. Be3 Ne7 $6 12. f3 $1 g6 13. Nd2 Bg7 14. fxe4 dxe4 15. Nc4 O-O $2 (\n15… Bxd4 16. Nd6+ Kd8 17. Qxd4 {is crushing}) 16. Nxf5 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nRavi has played for University College London. Hendon and Cavendish in the London and other leagues and in 4NCL he started with Kings Head\, transferring to Cambridge in 2014 and finally moving in 2016 to Wood Green. \nIn this game Ravi punishes IM Malcolm Pein who has a bad day at the office : \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 1314 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2013.11.16”]\n[Round “1.125”]\n[White “Haria\, Ravi”]\n[Black “Pein\, Malcolm”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B09”]\n[WhiteElo “2151”]\n[BlackElo “2371”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “2013.11.16”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2015”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2014.11.20”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2014.11.20”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Kings Head”]\n[BlackTeam “Wood Green Hilsmark II”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,46\,30\,16\,62\,68\,81\,59\,76\,25\,46\,36\,64\,64\,59\,42\,32\,-12\,7\,-7\,63\,101\,101\,\n101\,101\,81\,85\,112\,77\,57\,47\,-1\,-1\,-9\,11\,27\,27\,27\,2\,7\,5\,19\,99\,96\,173\,173\,173\,173\,\n485]} 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 5. Nf3 Nc6 {a favourite line of\nMPs\, Vallejo Pons and Keith Richardson} (5… O-O) 6. d5 (6. Bd3) 6… Nb8 7.\nBc4 (7. Bd3) 7… O-O 8. O-O c6 $11 {[#] You might not expect it but this is\na fairly rare position.} 9. a4 $146 (9. dxc6 Nxc6 10. Kh1) 9… b5 $6 {\nactivating the g7 bishop by a curious route but how weak is the e7 pawn as a\nconsequence?} 10. axb5 cxb5 11. Nxb5 Nxe4 12. Qe2 Nf6 13. Bd2 Nbd7 14. Nxa7 $5\n{probably activating the a8 rook too much!} Bb7 15. Ba5 Qb8 16. Nc6 Bxc6 17.\ndxc6 Rxa5 18. Rxa5 Qb6+ 19. Kh1 Qxa5 20. cxd7 e6 $2 {[#] A strange oversight\nfrom Malcolm} (20… Qc7 {is good enough and Black is fine.}) 21. Bxe6 $1 fxe6\n22. Qxe6+ Kh8 23. Qxd6 $18 Qf5 {and Black resigned.} {Perhaps} 24. d8=Q Ne4 25.\nQ6d7 Rxd8 26. Qxd8+ $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nRavi Haria\, British Championships\, 2014\, Aberystwyth \nRavi is Mesutgm on chess.com and lichess \n[pgn]\n[Event “Reykjavik op”]\n[Site “Reykjavik”]\n[Date “2018.03.06”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Haria\, Ravi”]\n[Black “Karlsson\, Mikael Johann”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B31”]\n[WhiteElo “2424”]\n[BlackElo “2150”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “2018.03.06”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ISL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 183 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.04.19”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,55\,19\,31\,72\,53\,66\,21\,74\,31\,43\,31\,49\,36\,33\,18\,25\,19\,23\,19\,14\,-5\,17\,12\,\n11\,0\,14\,21\,64\,63\,57\,57\,57\,88\,69\,69\,58\,176\,186\,208\,218\,237\,308\,320\,409\,339\,322\,\n280\,318\,283\,297\,287\,294\,329\,469\,562\,848\,696]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4.\nBxc6 dxc6 5. d3 Bg7 6. h3 e5 7. Be3 b6 8. a4 a5 9. Nbd2 f6 10. Nc4 Be6 11. Qc1\n$146 (11. Nfd2) 11… Qc7 12. O-O Rd8 13. Nfd2 Nh6 $6 14. b4 $1 axb4 15. a5 b5\n16. Nb6 $18 Nf7 17. Bxc5 Bf8 18. Nb3 Bxc5 $6 (18… Ng5) 19. Nxc5 Ke7 20. Qe3\nRd4 21. f4 Bc8 $2 22. Nb3 (22. Qf2 $1) 22… Rdd8 23. Qc5+ (23. fxe5 Nxe5 24.\nd4 $18) 23… Qd6 24. fxe5 Nxe5 25. a6 Nd7 26. Nxd7 Rxd7 27. Qf2 Bb7 28. Nc5\n1-0\n[/pgn] \nOver the 19th – 23rd August  2021 Ravi played in the Wood Green Invitational round-robin event at Oddfellows Hall\, Stafford. \nRavi scored 7.5/10 and secured his second Grandmaster Norm and  a TPR of 2680. \nWood Green Invitational Round-Robin event at Oddfellows Hall\, Stafford. August Bank Holiday Weekend\, 2021 \nOver the August Bank Holiday weekend of 2021 Ravi played in the Northumbrian Masters  GM Tournament at the splendid Marriott MetroCentre\, Gateshead winning jointly with Conor Murphy scoring 6.5/9 with a TPR of 2600. This gave Ravi his third and final GM norm. \nThe norm was ratified at a recent FIDE Congress. As of February 2022 Ravi stood at 2490 for standard-play.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Martin Brown (21-ii-1993)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Martin Brown (21-ii-1993)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of John Saunders (22-ii-1953)
DESCRIPTION:[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4phbZ3YwtM[/embedyt] \nBirthday of John Cameron Saunders (22-ii-1953) \nHere is John’s Wikipedia entry \nHere is his excellent blog \nHere is the superb BritBase \nMurray Chandler and John Saunders
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Graham Burgess (24-ii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Graham K Burgess (24-ii-1968) \nFIDE Master Graham Burgess needs no introduction to readers of English language chess books ! Minnesota\, USA based\, Graham has authored more than twenty five books and edited at least 250 and is editorial director of Gambit Publications Ltd. In 1994 Graham set a world record for marathon blitz playing and has been champion of the Danish region of Funen ! \nDesert Island Chess Puzzle Omnibus\, Adams\, Nunn\, Burgess\, So\, Gambit Publications Ltd.\, 2021\, ISBN-13 : 978-1911465652 \n 
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Daniel Fernandez (05-iii-1995)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Daniel Fernandez who at 26 is currently England’s youngest Grandmaster. The previous GM title holder was Jonathan Hawkins in 2014 making two in seven years. \nDaniel Howard Fernandez was born in Stockport\, Manchester on Sunday\, March 5th 1995.  “Think Twice” by Celine Dion was top of the UK hit parade. \nDaniel started playing chess at the age of seven (after his father taught him the rules) and at this time attended King’s School\, Harpenden.  His first chess club was Little Heath which became the ECF Small Club of the Year in 2015. They play in the Potter’s Bar area and include IM John Pigott in their membership. \nAt Little Heath Chess Club Daniel was coached by Mark Uniacke (who worked extensively on the early chess engine HIARCS). \nDaniel went up to Queen’s College\, Cambridge to read mathematics and left to become a Data Analyst at Mu Sigma Inc. He can speak several languages (including Serbian!) and works as a translator when opportunities arise. \nHe currently lives in Australia offering coaching and writing chess books (for Thinkers Publishing) and columns for Chessbase. In his spare time (!) Daniel is studying for The Master of Complex Systems degree at The University of Sydney. \nDaniel’s first ECF graded game was rapidplay on July 5th 2003 in the SCCU Junior Under-14 Final. \nHis first standard play game was in August 2003 at the Edinburgh based British Under-8 Championship. \nDaniel Fernandez \nDaniels ECF grading profile demonstrated rapid improvement : \nECF grading profile for Daniel Fernandez \nOn August 13th 2004 in Scarborough Daniel became British Under-9 Champion sharing the title with Daniel Hunt & Saravanan Sathyanandha. \nThe Fernandez family relocated to Singapore in August\, Daniel attending the Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore. He was swiftly recruited into the Singapore Chess Federation’s (SCF) National Junior Squad. Also in that squad were Danielle Ho and Howard Chiu (remember this for later!). \nBarely three weeks after his Scarborough triumph on September 4th 2004 Daniel played his first FIDE rated game in the 5th Asian Under-10 Championship organised by the ASEAN Chess Confederation. His performance in this event was rewarded with a FIDE Master title in 2005. Because he was no longer active in English events the ECF had the unusual scenario of having a ten year old FIDE Master with a published grade of ~120! \nIn typically modest fashion Daniel confesses  that he did not “deserve” the FM title at this time and that it was the consequence of the strong position of the ASEAN and SCF organisations  within world chess. At the same event Wesley So gained his FM title in the Under-12 section. \nFM Daniel Fernandez \nAnother interesting consequence of the relocation was that when Daniel returned to England in 2012 his last published grading went from ~ 120 to ~230! \nOne of the motivations of  returning to England was to obtain the necessary entrance requirement to study mathematics at Cambridge. This he did by studying for A-levels at Manchester Grammar School. \nDaniel with IM Jovan Petronic during the 2010 world juniors in Chotowa\, Poland | Photo: Diana Mihajlova \nConsequently Daniel’s FIDE rating profile also showed a fast pace of development: \nFIDE rating profile for Daniel Fernandez \nSydney 2009 and Sydney 2010 both provided IM norms with the third one coming from Kuala Lumpar 2010 and with these Daniel became an International Master in 2010 the title being confirmed at the 3rd quarter Presidential Board Meeting 2010\, 24-25 July 2010\, Tromso in Norway. \nIM Daniel Fernandez\, 100th British Championships\, Round 5\, Torquay. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nHe won the Budapest Sarkany Tournament in 2014 as follows: \nFull Crosstable from Budapest Sarkany Tournament\, 2014. \nearning his first GM norm in the process. \nIM Daniel Fernandez\, 101st British Championships\, Aberystwyth. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nBCN asked Daniel for three of his favourite games. The first one is this Polish Defence game from 2015 played at the Visma Arena in Vaxjo\, Sweden. First we have the crosstable showing that Daniel earnt his second GM norm from this event. \nFull Crosstable for Vaxjo\, Visma tournament in Sweden\, 2015. \nand here is the game: \n[pgn]\n[Event “Vaxjo Visma GM”]\n[Site “Vaxjo”]\n[Date “2015.06.27”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Smith\, Axel”]\n[Black “Fernandez\, Daniel Howard”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[WhiteElo “2452”]\n[BlackElo “2447”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “86”]\n[EventDate “2015.06.24”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “SWE”]\n[EventCategory “10”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 167 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2015.09.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2015.09.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,86\,63\,13\,126\,116\,101\,97\,97\,97\,84\,96\,96\,57\,79\,51\,50\,52\,38\,58\,82\,70\,93\,\n31\,-1\,-22\,-19\,-35\,-16\,-50\,29\,-1\,0\,-22\,-36\,-36\,-36\,-92\,-81\,-92\,-84\,-82\,-73\,-104\,\n-95\,-79\,-36\,-33\,-51\,-74\,-42\,-51\,-51\,-91\,-86\,-99\,-91\,-87\,-87\,-82\,-105\,-100\,-127\,\n-111\,-148\,-160\,-139\,-127\,-136\,-254\,-164\,-257\,-259\,-257\,-309\,-663\,-691\,-933\,\n-153\,-747\,-809\,-824\,-875\,-986\,-1014\,-2303\,-2794\,-29999\,-30000]} 1. d4 b5 {\nThe Polish Defence as used by Spassky against Petrosian.} 2. e4 a6 3. Nf3 {\nWhen is it the right time for White to play a4?} Bb7 4. Bd3 e6 5. O-O c5 6. c3\nd6 ({more common is} 6… Nf6 7. Re1 Be7 8. Bg5) 7. Re1 Nd7 8. Nbd2 Qc7 {\nA rare choice but must be reasonable.} (8… Be7 9. Nf1 Ngf6 10. Ng3 O-O 11. h3\nQc7) 9. a4 $18 {[#] and eventually we get the thematic break against …b5 The\nengines are complimentary of White’s position.} c4 10. Bb1 $6 {This would\nappear to be a strange decision.} (10. Bf1 {Maintaining the presssure on\nBlack’s pawns must be superior.}) 10… Be7 11. Nf1 {You’d imagine that b3 at\nsome point would make sense leaving the pressure on c4.} Ngf6 12. Ng3 O-O 13.\nh4 Rfe8 14. h5 {White seems to be struggling to find a decent plan.} e5 15. Nf5\nBf8 16. axb5 axb5 17. Rxa8 Rxa8 18. Nd2 g6 $1 {If Black can expell the knight\non f5 then probably he is better.} 19. hxg6 hxg6 $17 20. Ne3 Bg7 {Strong\npointing e5 further.} 21. d5 Nc5 {[#] Black is gaining the upper hand.} 22.\nNg4 Bc8 23. Nxf6+ Bxf6 24. Qf3 Bg5 25. Nf1 Qe7 26. Ne3 Nb3 27. Bc2 Nxc1 28.\nRxc1 {Black can now really dominate the dark squares.} Ra2 29. b3 Qa7 30. bxc4\nbxc4 31. Qe2 {[#]} Bg4 $1 {Ouch! Perhaps White had missed this shot?} 32. Qe1\nBxe3 33. fxe3 Qa3 $1 {and it is all over bar the shouting…} 34. Kh2 (34. Rb1\nRxc2 35. Rb8+ Kg7 36. Qh4 Qc1+ (36… Bh5 37. Qe7 Qc1+ 38. Kh2 Rxg2+ $1 39.\nKxg2 Qd2+ 40. Kg3 Qe1+ 41. Kh2 Qe2+ 42. Kh3 Qf1+ 43. Kh4) 37. Kh2 Bh5) 34…\nKg7 35. Qf1 Be2 $1 36. Qe1 Qb2 37. Bb1 Ra1 38. Rc2 Qxb1 (38… Qxc2 $1 {\nis more efficient} 39. Bxc2 Rxe1) 39. Qxe2 $2 (39. Qxb1 Rxb1 40. Rxe2 {is a\nbetter defence.}) 39… Qg1+ 40. Kg3 Re1 41. Qf2 Rxe3+ $1 42. Kg4 Qd1+ 43. Kg5\nQh5# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nand during the 2015/15 4NCL season Daniel obtained his final GM norm playing for Wood Green. \nIn March 2015 he made his first of three Varsity match appearences for Cambridge re-uniting with Danielle Ho and Howard Chiu (remember those names from earlier?). \nDaniel won the 10th Jessie Gilbert Memorial in 2017: \nFull Crosstable from the 2017 10th Jessie Gilbert Memorial \nand also in 2017 Daniel was awarded the Grandmaster title at the 88th FIDE Congress 2017\, 7-15 October\, Goynuk\, Antalya\, Turkey. \nOn March 11th Daniel represented Cambridge in the 135th Varsity Match at the RAC Club in Pall Mall.  According to chess24.com ‘IM Daniel Fernandez\, playing board 2 for Cambridge\, was awarded the Brilliancy Prize by GM Ray Keene in consultation with McShane and Speelman\, for his “high-class swindle” after recovering from a bad blunder.’ See here for details. \nGM Daniel Fernandez\, 2019 British Championships\, Torquay. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nIn 2018 Daniel ventured into the world of book writing when Thinker’s Publishing released The Modernized Caro-Kann on September 8th 2018.  This was a repertoire book for Black based around the Smyslov Variation : \n[fen]r1bqkbnr/pp1npppp/2p5/8/3PN3/8/PPP2PPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nand was reviewed in this place favourably and quickly established Daniel as a significant author. \nThe Modernized Caro-Kann\, Daniel Fernandez\, Thinkers Publishing\, 2018 \nFrom the rear cover we have: \n“GM Daniel Fernandez (born 1995) has been an active and accomplished player for several years. He represented his native Singapore twice at Olympiads (2010 and 2012) before transferring to the English chess federation. There\, he won the national classical titles at U-18 and U-21 levels and worked to become a Grandmaster while simultaneously studying at Cambridge. The Caro-Kann was instrumental in his quest for that title. Currently\, Daniel is known in the chess scene not only as a solid player\, but also as a mentor figure to younger English players\, as a producer of well-received commentary and analysis\, and as a multilingual chess coach. This is his first book.” \nFrom January 2019 we have this interesting encounter between Gawain Jones and Daniel from the annual 4NCL meeting of Guildford and Wood Green: \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chTa 1819 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Daventry”]\n[Date “2019.01.13”]\n[Round “4.13”]\n[White “Jones\, Gawain C B”]\n[Black “Fernandez\, Daniel Howard”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2691”]\n[BlackElo “2465”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “124”]\n[EventDate “2018.11.10”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 188 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.02.26”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.02.26”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Guildford”]\n[BlackTeam “Wood Green”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,124\,21\,36\,69\,63\,74\,50\,56\,34\,45\,48\,52\,37\,37\,37\,46\,8\,46\,16\,76\,62\,52\,40\,\n40\,13\,13\,29\,32\,28\,16\,22\,24\,9\,9\,14\,15\,11\,11\,-15\,33\,8\,42\,8\,-4\,-4\,0\,0\,-14\,0\,0\,-63\,\n-75\,-75\,-21\,-61\,-23\,-91\,-96\,-75\,-106\,-110\,-113\,-111\,-111\,-111\,-111\,-111\,-111\,\n-111\,-111\,-111\,-78\,-102\,-123\,-119\,-124\,-122\,-122\,-128\,-128\,-125\,-82\,-62\,-92\,\n-111\,-102\,-130\,-126\,-123\,-137\,-182\,-142\,-164\,-127\,-127\,-127\,-127\,-122\,-202\,\n-196\,-196\,-209\,-204\,-173\,-242\,-218\,-303\,-244\,-244\,-244\,-244\,-242\,-222\,-98\,-98\,\n-89\,-87\,-57\,-52\,-26\,-31\,-9\,-13\,-11\,-8\,-8]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h5\n5. Bd3 (5. c4) 5… Bxd3 6. Qxd3 e6 7. Bg5 Qb6 8. Nd2 Ne7 (8… c5) 9. Ngf3 Qa6\n10. c4 Nf5 11. O-O Bb4 12. b3 Nd7 13. Rfd1 O-O 14. a3 $146 (14. Nf1) 14… Bxd2\n15. Rxd2 Nb6 16. c5 Qxd3 17. Rxd3 Nd7 $11 18. b4 {[#]} b6 $1 19. Rc1 $6 (19.\nRb3 f6) 19… Rfc8 {Black now proceeds to outplay his higher rated opponent.} (\n19… bxc5 20. bxc5 Rfb8 $17) 20. Bd2 f6 21. Re1 Kf7 22. g3 bxc5 23. bxc5 Rcb8\n24. Bf4 Rb2 25. Rdd1 Rb3 26. Kg2 a5 27. a4 Ra7 28. Re2 Rab7 29. Ra2 Rc3 30.\nRaa1 Rbb3 31. Nd2 Rb2 32. exf6 gxf6 33. Nf3 Rbb3 34. Nd2 Rb4 35. Nf3 Rcc4 36.\nRab1 Kg6 37. Bd6 Rxb1 38. Rxb1 Nxd4 39. Nxd4 Rxd4 40. Rb6 Ne5 41. Bxe5 fxe5 42.\nRxc6 Kf6 {[#]} 43. Ra6 $2 (43. Rc8 Rxa4 44. Rf8+ Ke7 45. Rh8 e4 $19) 43… Rxa4\n$19 {Black has the upper hand.} 44. f3 d4 45. Ra7 Ra2+ 46. Kf1 Ra3 47. Kf2 e4\n48. fxe4 Ke5 49. g4 hxg4 50. h5 Rf3+ 51. Kg2 Kxe4 {Surely Black is winning?}\n52. c6 Rc3 53. Rc7 d3 ({Better is} 53… Kd5 {but White’s h-pawn is little\nconcerning.}) 54. h6 d2 55. Rd7 Rxc6 $6 (55… Rd3 56. Rxd3 Kxd3 57. c7 d1=Q\n58. c8=Q Qf3+ 59. Kg1) 56. h7 Rc8 $6 {Sadly this lets the win slip.} ({Better\nwas} 56… Rc2 57. Kf1 d1=Q+ 58. Rxd1 Rh2) 57. Rxd2 Rh8 58. Rd7 Kf5 59. Kg3 a4\n60. Rf7+ Ke5 61. Kxg4 a3 62. Ra7 a2 {and the position is drawn.} 1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nWith the White pieces Daniel has played  a wide range of first moves but the majority move by far is 1.e4. His choice versus the Najdorf is some eclectic : sometime ago 6. Rg1 was the favourite and now 6.a4 is preferred. \n[fen]rnbqkb1r/1p2pppp/p2p1n2/8/3NP3/2N5/PPP2PPP/R1BQKBR1 b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nAgainst 1…e5 Daniel offers a main line Ruy Lopez. \nWhat does a Caro-Kann expert play against the Caro-Kann? Nowadays the Two Knights Variation is employed! \nAs the second player he plays the Sicilian Najdorf as well as the Caro-Kann plus an equal mixture of the Grünfeld and King’s Indian Defences. \nIn 2019 Daniel was interviewed by Edwin Lam on behalf of ChessBase : fascinating reading! \nIn the same year Daniel joined IM Adam Taylor’s venture Making Grandmasters. \nOur final games is from July 2019 : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Gent Eastman op 42nd”]\n[Site “Gent”]\n[Date “2019.07.22”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Fernandez\, Daniel Howard”]\n[Black “Michiels\, Bart”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A03”]\n[WhiteElo “2466”]\n[BlackElo “2563”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “2019.07.20”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “BEL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 191 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.09.30”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.09.30”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,19\,-30\,-33\,-42\,-34\,-34\,-35\,-26\,-27\,-27\,-5\,-28\,-2\,5\,14\,-30\,-62\,-77\,\n-39\,-90\,-40\,-79\,-59\,-73\,-56\,-52\,-37\,-37\,-38\,-105\,44\,60\,63\,56\,98\,17\,60\,3\,86\,32\,\n61\,68\,65\,66\,96\,95\,118\,109\,136\,153\,132\,211\,211\,202\,269\,280\,383\,424\,450\,477\,542\,\n539\,782\,836]} 1. f4 d5 2. b3 {Larsen would have been proud!} Nf6 3. Bb2 Bf5 4.\nNf3 e6 5. e3 h6 {Black creates a luft on h7 for his light squared bishop.\nOtherwise with a knight on e5 combined with a h-pawn push Black could get into\ntrouble. You might not think it but …h6 scores best for Black and is\nlabelled “Hot” by Megabase 2020.} (5… Be7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O c5 8. Ne5 h6 9.\nd3 {is a more usual way to proceed.}) 6. h3 (6. Be2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Ne5 Nbd7\n9. d3 Nxe5 10. Bxe5 Nd7 11. Bb2 Bf6 12. d4 c5) {The first appearence for this\nTN.} 6… a5 $146 7. g4 Bh7 {As facilitated by h6….} {Now pause the video….\n} 8. Bxf6 $5 {I bet you did not predict this capture and nor did I!} Qxf6 9. d4\na4 (9… c5) 10. bxa4 g5 $1 11. fxg5 hxg5 $17 {I’d give Black the nod here but\nonly just.} 12. Bd3 {[#]} Bd6 (12… Nc6 {would take advantage of White’s lack\nof control of b4 and is a bit awkard to meet. Black threatens ….Nb4}) 13. Ke2\n{an ugly requirement with the h-file open. This is needed so as White may\nre-capture on d3 with the queen.} Nd7 (13… Bxd3+ 14. Qxd3 Nc6) 14. Bxh7 Rxh7\n15. c4 dxc4 16. Nbd2 Qg6 17. Nxc4 Ke7 18. Qb1 (18. Qb3) 18… Qxb1 (18… Rxa4\n{seems natural}) 19. Rhxb1 Rxh3 20. Nxg5 Rh2+ 21. Kd3 Ra7 ({Why not} 21… Rxa4\n{I don’t understand.}) 22. Ne4 $1 $18 {[#] white is getting on top.} Nf6 $2 23.\nNxf6 Kxf6 24. a5 $1 {black must be regretting leaving this pawn on and is\ndefinately worse now.} Bf8 25. Rb5 Rf2 26. a4 Bh6 27. Rh1 Kg6 28. Rhb1 b6 29.\nNe5+ Kh7 30. Rh1 f6 31. Nc6 Ra6 32. Rbh5 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDaniel’s most recent publication is The Modernized Modern Defence from Thinker’s Publishing: \nThe Modernized Modern Defence\, Daniel Fernandez\, Thinker’s Publishing\, 2021 \nand BCN has been told that Daniel has a book in the pipeline about the Tata Steel 2021 tournament at Wijk aan Zee.
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of CGM Keith Richardson (02-iv-1942 10-iv-2017)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers CGM Keith Richardson who passed away on Monday\, April 10th\, 2017. \nKeith Bevan Richardson was born in Nottingham\, on Thursday\, April 2nd 1942. On this day : The LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans and US auto factories switch from commercial to war production. \nKeith’s parents were Arthur (30) and Hilda May (née Nicholls\, 25). He married Sandra Sowter on the 11th of September 1971 in Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire. They had two children\, Neil and Ian. They lived at 19\, The Ridings in Camberley\, Surrey. \nSadly\, Keith was diagnosed in the 1990s with Parkinson’s disease and became unwell whilst playing in a chess tournament in Cannes in April 2017 and passed away on the 10th of May 2017. Keith was 75. He continued to actively play chess into his final year. \nCGM Keith Richardson \nKeith was the Treasurer of the Friends of Chess during the period known the English Chess Explosion (late 1970s and 1980s). \nKeith received the ECF President’s Award in 2015 for services to the management of the BCF Permanent Invested Fund (PIF) together with Dr. Julian Farrand and Ray Edwards. \n[pgn]\n[Date “2007.01.26”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith Bevan”]\n[Black “Stefanova\, Antoaneta”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A12”]\n[WhiteElo “2250”]\n[BlackElo “2483”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “103”]\n[EventDate “2007.01.23”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 116 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.03.07”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.03.07”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,103\,19\,-12\,34\,32\,20\,7\,-18\,-16\,-16\,11\,-15\,-16\,5\,12\,23\,32\,74\,89\,89\,90\,\n42\,24\,13\,18\,101\,-57\,31\,54\,64\,86\,86\,27\,14\,-107\,0\,26\,11\,0\,123\,25\,53\,42\,55\,0\,5\,11\,\n10\,22\,20\,24\,45\,34\,61\,61\,60\,52\,49\,43\,49\,51\,43\,16\,25\,-14\,-1\,-24\,-55\,-19\,14\,4\,100\,\n9\,217\,250\,408\,480\,473\,430\,489\,221\,234\,250\,267\,286\,290\,287\,309\,309\,330\,275\,265\,\n259\,253\,4\,6\,6\,567\,567\,817\,809\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} 1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3.\nb3 dxc4 4. bxc4 e5 5. Nc3 Bd6 6. g3 f5 7. d3 Nf6 8. Bg2 e4 9. dxe4 fxe4 10. Ng5\nQa5 11. Qd2 Be5 12. Bb2 Bf5 13. O-O h6 14. f4 Qc5+ 15. e3 Bxc3 16. Bxc3 Nbd7\n17. Rab1 b6 18. g4 hxg5 19. gxf5 g4 20. Bb4 Qxf5 21. Qd6 c5 22. Be1 Kf7 23. Bg3\nRac8 24. a4 Rhe8 25. a5 Re6 26. Qd2 Nf8 27. Ra1 Re7 28. Rfb1 Rd7 29. Qc2 Rd3\n30. axb6 axb6 31. Rxb6 Rxe3 32. Raa6 Nh5 33. Ra7+ Kg8 34. Rbb7 Rd8 35. Re7 Rd4\n36. Re5 Qg6 37. Bf2 Red3 38. Bxd4 Rxd4 39. Bxe4 Qb6 40. Rxh5 Qxa7 41. Bh7+ Kf7\n42. Rf5+ Ke7 43. Qe2+ Ne6 44. Re5 Qd7 45. Qxg4 g6 46. Bxg6 Rxc4 47. Bf5 Qd4+\n48. Kg2 Qb2+ 49. Re2 Qb7+ 50. Kf2 Qh1 51. Rxe6+ Kf8 52. Rf6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom CHESS\, Volume 41 (1975)\, Numbers 729-730 (September)\, pp. 380 the news of Keith’s success was initially reported: \n“BRITAINS’ FIRST CHESS GRAND MASTER \nThe first grand master title to be won by a British player has been achieved in the field of correspondence chess by Keith B. Richardson\, aged 33\, of Camberley. \nThe title of Correspondence Chess grand master is awarded by the lnternational correspondence Chess Federation. Keith Richardson fulfilled the norm by sharing third place in the final of the 7th World Correspondence Chess Championship with a score of 11 points from 16 games. The tournament began in February 1972 and results of the last adjudicated games were recently announced making J. V. Estrin U.S.S.R. first with l2 points; J. Boey Belgium scored 11.5; K. B. Richardson G.B. and Dr. V. Zagorovski U.S.S.R. 11. \nThere are only 25 Correspondence Chess Grand masters throughout the world.” \nThis was followed in the next month’s issue by a correction and more depth in CHESS\, Volume 41 (1975)\, Numbers 731-732 (October)\, pp. 30-31: \n“K. B. Richardson\, though the first Britain to become a grand master by play was preceded by Comins Mansfield as grandmaster of problem composition\, a title he gained in 1972. Our report last month did not make this clear. \nKeith B. Richardson was born 2 April 1942 and was educated at Nottingham High School. At 16\, he passed Grade 8 in Royal\nSchools of Music at pianoforte. At Durham University\, he obtained a B.A. in French and German and was awarded the University Palatinate (equal to a ‘blue’) in cricket and fives. He could have become a professional cricketer or a concert pianist but\nmade his career instead with Barclays Bank which brought him to London and a home in Camberley\, Surrey\, where he has settled down with his wife\, Sandra (from Sutton Coldfield!). They now have two baby sons\, Neil aged three years and Ian who is only two months old – both born since the final of the 7th World Correspondence Chess Championship began. \nCGM Keith Bevan Richardson (from a Barclays publicity article) \nKeith’s other interests include bridge and squash. He plays squash for his bank and is Secretary of the London Squash League. As a young chess player\, Keith won the Notts. under l4 Championship\, held the Notts. under l8 Championship for four years and the Notts. Championship for two years and was British Junior Champion in 1962. In 1963\, he was Durham County Champion and joint winner of the British Universities’ Championship which he won outright the following year. He was twice captain of the British Universities Students’ Olympiad team. He held the Midlands Championship (Forrest Cup) for three years and was joint London Champion and London Banks’ Champion in 1970 but has been content to hold the latter title since then and concentrate on correspondence chess. \nKeith Richardson aged 20 at the 1963 Niemeyer Under-21 Tournament in Groningen. The forerunner of the European Junior Championship \nNiemeyer Under-21 Tournament\, Groningen 1963. The forerunner of the European Junior Championship. \nIn 1964\, Keith Richardson was runner up for the British Correspondence Chess Championship and at the same time won a Master Class tournament of the lnternational Correspondence Chess Federation (I.C.C.F.) which qualified for a place in the World C.C. Championship semi-final. He came second in the 1965-67 semi-final and tried again in the 1968-71 event which he won. At the same time\, he was representing Great Britain on Board 5 in the 1965-67 I.C.C.F. Olympiad Preliminary and on Board 4 in the 1968-71 event. His score of 5 points from 7 games helped the British team to win its section in the 1968-71 Preliminary and qualify for a place in the I.C.C.F. Olympiad Final which started in 1972. When Keith began play in the World C.C. Championship Final involving l6 tames\, he was also asked to take Board 3 in the Olympiad Final involving another 9 games. \nHe accepted – a mistake which might possibly have cost him the World C.C. Championship! His next assault on the World title will be in 1979 and in the meantime he plans to play in the next I.C.C.F. Olympiad Preliminary and write a book on the 7th World C.C. Championship. \n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch07 corr7278”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1972.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith Bevan”]\n[Black “Estrin\, Yakov Borisovich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B36”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “96”]\n[EventDate “1972.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,96\,28\,28\,51\,46\,72\,38\,35\,40\,81\,14\,39\,29\,51\,70\,57\,2\,10\,-24\,3\,15\,14\,-17\,\n-24\,-15\,-26\,-18\,-21\,-36\,-38\,-36\,-48\,-46\,5\,-25\,-4\,-39\,-42\,-35\,88\,91\,93\,95\,98\,95\,\n95\,94\,94\,50\,52\,53\,50\,48\,73\,48\,41\,30\,46\,64\,74\,84\,77\,97\,98\,109\,109\,95\,95\,91\,124\,\n127\,132\,125\,110\,127\,124\,128\,133\,136\,154\,158\,159\,153\,153\,163\,165\,174\,183\,187\,\n199\,191\,191\,202\,217\,219\,220\,220\,209]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6\n5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Nxd4 7. Qxd4 d6 8. Be3 Bg7 9. f3 O-O 10. Qd2 Qa5 11. Nb5 Qxd2+\n12. Kxd2 b6 13. a4 Nd7 14. Ra2 Bb7 15. Be2 Rfc8 16. a5 Bc6 17. axb6 axb6 18.\nNa7 Bb7 19. Rha1 Rc7 20. Nb5 Rcc8 21. Rxa8 Rxa8 22. Rxa8+ Bxa8 23. b4 Bc6 24.\nNa7 Bb7 25. Bd1 Ba6 26. Bb3 e6 27. Kc2 Bf6 28. Ba4 Ne5 29. Bxb6 Nxc4 30. Bf2\nKf8 31. b5 Bb7 32. Nc6 Bxc6 33. bxc6 Bd8 34. f4 Ba5 35. Bb3 Na3+ 36. Kd3 Nb5\n37. g4 Ke8 38. f5 gxf5 39. gxf5 exf5 40. exf5 Ke7 41. Bh4+ f6 42. Bg8 Na7 43.\nKc4 Bb6 44. Bd5 Bg1 45. h3 Bb6 46. Bg3 Bc5 47. Be1 Bb6 48. Bc3 h6 49. Bd2 h5 50.Bc3 1-0 [/pgn] \nIn this position\, with Black in Zugzwang\, the game went for adjudication (after more than three years’ play\, a very necessary evil): \n“In order to substantiate White’s claim for a win\, it was necessary to submit three pages of analysis proving that every possible move loses for Black. If the knight moves\, White’s king claims an entry. If Black moves the bishop along the a7-g1 diagonal\, White plays Ba5. If the Black bishop moves on the d8-a5 diagonal\, White plays Bd4 : KBR” \nThe game was adjudicated a win for White. This was only defeat inflicted upon the new World Champion. \nCGM Keith Richardson in 1975 \nThis article was followed (with some glee no doubt) by an article in  British Chess Magazine\, Volume LIXIV (95\, 1975)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 526 as follows: \n“Keith B. Richardson recently became the third British player to receive a grandmaster title (the other two both in 1972\, are Comins Mansfield for chess composition’ and R.W. Bonham’ correspondence grandmaster of the blind). The title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster is awarded by the International Correspondence  Chess Federation  (ICCF) and Keith Richardson fulfilled the norm by sharing third place in the final of the 7th World Correspondence Championship. Leading scores in the tournament (February 1972 – Summer 1975): 1. Y. Estrin (USSR) 12/16; J.Boey (B) 11.5; 3-4 K.B. Richardson (ENG)\, V. Zagorovsky (USSR) 11; etc. \nKeith\, born 2nd April1942\, was educated at Nottingham High School and Durham University-. He won the Nottinghamshire U-14 Championship\, held the Notts U-18 championship for four years\, the senior Notts  Championship for two years and was British Junior Champion in 1962. In 1963\, he was  Durham County Champion and joint winner of the British Universities Championship  which he won outright the following year. He was twice captain of the British team in Students Olympiads. \nKeith Richardson from BCM\, 1984\, page 545 \nIn 1964 Keith left university to make a career with Barclays Bank.  In the same year he was runner-up in the British Correspondence Championship and won an ICCF master tournament which qualified him for a place in the World Championship final. He came second in the 1965-7 semi-final\, tried again\, and won the 1968-71 event thus gaining entry to the 7th final. \nKeith Richardson lives in Surrey at Camberley. He is married and has two baby sons – both born since the final of the 7th World Correspondence Championship began. At present he is writing a book on the 7th Championship and\, for a change playing some OTB (over-the-board) chess in the London League for the Athenaeum club\, to which he makes a great contribution – it is a marvellous feeling to know  that the player next to you (on your side!) is a grandmaster. \nKeith Richardson playing for BCM Dragons in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL\, courtesy of John Upham Photography. \nThe following three games are – Keith’s best from  the -championship. In them he defeats three of the five Russians in the\ntournament (his overall score against the Russians was 3.5/5 – a wonderful achievement.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch07 corr7278”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1972.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith B”]\n[Black “Dubinin\, Piotr Vasilyevich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B78”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “1972.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,19\,38\,40\,41\,66\,77\,66\,55\,55\,20\,70\,53\,40\,34\,30\,13\,22\,26\,44\,-4\,8\,4\,23\,\n-5\,1\,-4\,25\,-17\,-8\,15\,87\,96\,103\,80\,142\,32\,40\,40\,82\,91\,281\,262\,318\,344\,443\,459\,\n452\,524\,524\,524\,524\,524\,1106\,1141\,29991\,29992\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,\n29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3\nBg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Qa5 11. Kb1 Rfc8 12. Bb3 Ne5 13.\nBg5 $5 Rc5 14. Rhe1 Rac8 15. f4 Neg4 $2 {[#]} 16. Nf3 $1 Rxc3 17. bxc3 Bc6 18.\ne5 $1 Ne4 19. Rxe4 Bxe4 20. Bxe7 dxe5 21. Ng5 Bf5 22. Nxf7 Ra8 23. h3 Nf6 {[#]}\n24. Bxf6 $1 Bxf6 25. fxe5 Bg7 26. g4 Bc8 27. Ng5+ Kh8 28. Qd8+ Qxd8 29. Rxd8+\nBf8 30. Rxf8+ Kg7 31. Rg8+ Kh6 32. Nf7# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand here is the printed version of the above report: \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LIXIV (95\, 1975)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 526 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LIXIV (95\, 1975)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 527 \n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch07 corr7278”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1972.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith B”]\n[Black “Zagorovsky\, Mikhail Pavlovich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D42”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “1972.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,38\,72\,69\,71\,70\,45\,17\,13\,28\,33\,27\,32\,25\,25\,15\,18\,32\,28\,28\,40\,33\,\n59\,47\,56\,55\,17\,-1\,77\,28\,55\,70\,133\,96\,89\,132\,303\,259\,263\,268\,268\,278\,293\,293\,\n293\,308\,368\,291\,372\,389\,493\,504\,511\,520\,532\,535\,572\,592\,765\,797\,802\,877]} 1. e4\nc6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Be7 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Bd3 O-O\n9. O-O Nc6 10. Re1 Bf6 11. Be4 Nce7 12. Ne5 g6 $2 {[#]} 13. Qf3 $5 Bg7 14. h4\nNf5 15. Bxf5 gxf5 16. h5 Nb4 17. Qg3 Kh8 18. Bg5 f6 $2 {[#]} 19. Ng6+ $3 Kg8\n20. Nxf8 Kxf8 21. Bf4 Nc2 22. h6 Bh8 23. Nb5 Nxa1 24. Rxa1 Bd7 25. Bc7 Qe8 26.\nBd6+ Kf7 27. Nc7 Qg8 28. Nxa8 Qxa8 29. Rc1 Bc6 30. d5 $1 f4 31. Qxf4 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \n“English player. International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1975)\, bank manager. Around 1961 Richardson decided that over-the- board play\, which had brought him some successes as a. junior\, would interfere with his professional career and he took to postal chess instead. His best performance in this field was his sharing of third place with Zagorovsky after Estrin and Boey in the 7th World Correspondence Championship\, 1968-71. ” \nIn October 1984 Keith took part in the A. E. Axelson Memorial tournament organised by the Swedish CC Committee and with fifteen grandmasters was one of the strongest CC tournaments in history.  Keith finished in 11th place ahead of Boey. \nIn 1991 Jonathan Berry wrote a potted biography in  Diamond Dust\, International Chess Enterprises\, ISBN 1-879479-00-1 as follows : \n“Camberley\, Surrey\, England. Born 2 April 1942. Married with two sons. Bank Manager. \nHe was British Under-21 Champion in 1962. At Groningen 1962/63\, he was placed 2nd in the European Junior Championship. At Bristol 1967 he was equal 5th in the British Championship. \nIn CC\, he gained the IMC in 1968\, GMC in 1975. In CC WCh VII\, he won the semi-final with 9.5/12\, and placed =3rd in the final\, 11/16. In CC WCh X\, he again tied for third in the final with 10/15. Playing board 3 for Britain in OL-VIII\, finals\, 1972-76\, he scored 7.5/9\, the highest score on any board. He won the Prefors Memorial\, 1976-1980\, 9.5.12” \n1976-1980 Prefors Memorial \nKeith was a founding member of Camberley Chess Club in 1972. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opp68Jw4dlA[/embedyt] \nA one-day tournament (The Keith Richardson Memorial) in memory of Keith was started in 2017 and has been held four times in total being played on-line for the first time in 2021. \nKen Coates presents Clive Frostick with the trophy for the 2019 Keith Richardson Memorial Tournament. \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Keith Bevan Richardson was born in Nottingham\, England. Awarded the IMC title in 1968 and the GMC title in 1975\, he finished 3rd= in the World Correspondence Championships of 1975 and 1984.” \nHere are his games from chessgames.com \nAn obituary from Ray Edwards / ECF. \nHere is an excellent biography by Peter Rust from the web site of the Hamilton Russell Cup \nBarclay’s Bank pay tribute to Keith on the corporate site. \nHere is an entry from the Belgian chess history web site.
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Correspondence,Death Anniversary,History,Player,Remembering
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM John Nunn (25-iv-1955)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes GM John Nunn Happy Birthday (25-iv-1955) \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nBritish 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. \n  \nGraham Ladds and John Nunn. See full caption below. \nSupplied caption for above picture. \nHe 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. \nJohn DM Nunn \nHe 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% \nGM John Nunn \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \nEnglish 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\ndoctorate in 1978. \nGM John Nunn \n  \nA 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. \nMaia Chiburdanidze and John Nunn from Lloyds Bank\, 1985 \nPossessing 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. \nLubomir Kavalek and John Nunn \nHere is an excellent article from ChessBase \nPolugayevsky-Nunn European team championship : \n[pgn]\n[Round “1.3”]\n[White “Polugaevsky\, Lev”]\n[Black “Nunn\, John DM”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A77”]\n[WhiteElo “2635”]\n[BlackElo “2515”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “64”]\n[EventDate “1980.01.20”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “SWE”]\n[SourceTitle “EU-chT”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Soviet Union”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “URS”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,64\,19\,9\,21\,44\,45\,37\,46\,15\,12\,56\,70\,84\,108\,114\,123\,92\,82\,65\,73\,58\,59\,\n13\,30\,26\,27\,27\,27\,27\,29\,6\,17\,-128\,-135\,-75\,-75\,-69\,-89\,-122\,-70\,-43\,-75\,-145\,\n-164\,-153\,-153\,-194\,-194\,-235\,-235\,-235\,-260\,-278\,-279\,-284\,-290\,-290\,-290\,\n-465\,-460\,-617\,-537\,-536\,-555\,-1071\,-878]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 e6 4. c4\nexd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. e4 Bg7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Nd2 Nbd7 11. Qc2\nNe5 12. b3 Nh5 13. Bxh5 gxh5 14. Bb2 Bd7 15. Rae1 Qh4 16. f4 Ng4 17. Nf3 Bd4+\n18. Kh1 Nf2+ 19. Rxf2 Qxf2 20. Qc1 Bh3 21. Rg1 Kf8 22. Nxd4 cxd4 23. f5 dxc3\n24. Qxc3 Rxe4 25. gxh3 Ke8 26. Qd3 Re1 27. Rxe1+ Qxe1+ 28. Kg2 Rc8 29. f6 Kd7\n30. Qxh7 Qd2+ 31. Kg3 Qxd5 32. Kh4 Re8 0-1\n[/pgn] \nGM John Nunn \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NvSfumCNxo[/embedyt] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \n46th USSR Chess Championships 1978\, RD Keene\, JDM Nunn\, RG Wade\, Master Chess Publications\, 1978\, ISBN 0 906634 00 8 \n  \nThe Benoni for the Tournament Player \nSolving in Style \nThe Complete Pirc \nSecrets of Rook Endings \nSecrets of Pawnless Endings \nNew Ideas in the Pirc Defence \nBeating the Sicilian 3 \nThe King Hunt \nSecrets of Grandmaster Chess \nSecrets of Practical Chess \nNunn’s Chess Openings \nJohn Nunn’s Chess Puzzle Book \n101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures \nLearn Chess \nSecrets of Minor-Piece Endings \nUnderstanding Chess Move by Move \nJohn Nunn’s Best Games \nEndgame Challenge \nTactical Chess Endings \nLearn Chess Tactics \nMammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games \nGrandmaster Chess Move by Move \nUnderstanding Chess Endgames \nNunn’s Chess Endings \nUnderstanding Chess Middlegames \nChess Tactics Workbook for Kids \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lugano op”]\n[Site “Lugano”]\n[Date “1986.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Nunn\, John DM”]\n[Black “Tukmakov\, Vladimir B”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B57”]\n[WhiteElo “2585”]\n[BlackElo “2570”]\n[Annotator “Nunn\,J”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “1986.02.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “SUI”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.01.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.01.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,51\,38\,23\,44\,51\,80\,55\,53\,51\,51\,30\,53\,39\,69\,55\,69\,52\,71\,22\,61\,56\,51\,50\,\n40\,38\,35\,40\,42\,33\,42\,48\,68\,30\,37\,45\,45\,46\,48\,50\,51\,29\,39\,0\,25\,-81\,84\,84\,119\,72\,\n72\,106\,183\,177]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bc4\nQb6 7. Nb3 e6 8. O-O Be7 9. Bg5 Ne5 $6 {Although 9…Ne5 forces the bishop to\nretreat\, Black will waste time later after White plays f4.} ({Black’s best\nline is probably} 9… a6 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Qh5 Nd4 {as played in\nNunn-Martinovic\, Amsterdam 1975.}) 10. Be2 Bd7 11. Kh1 Ng6 {A necessary\nprecaution since} (11… O-O 12. f4 Ng6 13. e5 dxe5 14. Bxf6 Bxf6 15. Qxd7 {\ndoes not give Black enough for the piece. Now\, on the other hand\, 12 f4 is met\nby 12…h6.}) 12. Be3 Qc7 13. f4 O-O 14. Qe1 {We have reached a type of\nScheveningen position in which Black’s knight is on g6 rather than c6. This\nfavours White since the knight is subject to attack by f5 and has less\ninfluence on the centre.} Rfe8 15. Rd1 Bc6 {Here the bishop is exposed to\nattack by Nd4\, so it would have been safer to play 15…Bf8.} 16. Bf3 d5 17. e5\nNe4 18. Nd4 Nxc3 (18… Bb4 19.\nNxd5) 19. Qxc3 Rac8 20. Qe1 {The queen returns to the kingside to help an\nattack based on the move f5.} Bd7 21. Qg3 Qb6 $6 {Black provokes a crisis by\nattacking the b2 pawn\, which White cannot easily defend (e.g. 22 b3 Rc3).\nHowever by placing his queen opposite White’s bishop he allows a tactical\nbreakthrough. 21…Qa5 was a better defence.} 22. f5 $1 exf5 {22…Bh4 23 Qh3\nexf5 is no better after 24 Bxd5 Rxe5 25 Bxf7+ Kh8 (or 25…Kxf7 26 Nxf5 with a\nwinning attack) 26 Bxg6 Qxg6 27 Bf4 and White wins material.} 23. Bxd5 Bh4 24.\nNxf5 $6 {Flashy\, but not the best. Simply 24 Qh3 transposes to the last note\nand wins safely.} Bxg3 25. Bxb6 axb6 $2 {The obvious move\, but it loses\nimmediately. 25…Bxe5 was the best\, when White has nothing better than to\nplay 26 Bxa7 with an extra pawn – winning perhaps\, but much more complex than\n24 Qh3.} 26. Nd6 $1 {Surprisingly Black has no way to play on\, e.g. 26…Bxe5\n27 Bxf7+ Kh8 28 Bxe8 Rxe8 29 Nxe8 Bxe8 30 Rd8 or 26…Bh4 27 Bxf7+ Kh8 28 Bxe8\nRxe8 29 Nf7+ and 30 Rxd7.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nChess Endgame Workbook for Kids \nGM John Nunn
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Max Devereaux (05-v-1976)
DESCRIPTION:IM Maxim Leo Devereaux is now known as IM Maxim Barth Stanford and is registered with the Norwegian Federation
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