We offer IM Adam Hunt best wishes on his birthday. Adam Ceiriog Hunt was born on Tuesday, October 21st, 1980 in Oxford and his mother's maiden name was Williams. The UK Number one single was "Woman in Love" by Barbara Streisand. Adam shares his birthday with Kim Kardashian. (Ceiriog was the bardic name of John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–87) Adam attended The Cherwell School and The University of Sussex to study general biology. Jeremy Morse, Adam Hunt (12), Nick Pert (11)…

BCN wishes IM Susan Lalic Happy Birthday Susan Kathryn Walker was born on Thursday, October 28th, 1965 in Chatham, Kent. Her mother's maiden is / was Bacon. She has a brother, Stephen. She attended Nonsuch High School for Girls from 1977 to 1984. Susan married Keith Arkell in 1986 and then Bogdan Lalic in Lewes, East Sussex in 1994 and finally Graeme Buckley in Sutton in 2001. With Bogdan she had a son, Peter D, who is a strong player…

We send birthday wishes "down under" to IM Gary Lane on his birthday. Teresa Needham and Gary Lane Gary William Lane was born this day (November 4th) in 1964 in Paignton, Devon. IM Gary Lane Gary lived in Brixham, Devon and attended Churston Ferrers Grammar School (also in Brixham) leaving in 1983. Gary became a FIDE Master in 1984 and an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988. According to Felice and Megabase2020 his peak…

Best Wishes to IM Gavin Wall on this birthday, this day (December 5th) in 1968. Gavin is an Irish International Master whose peak rating (according to Chessbase) was 2413 at the age of 35. IM Gavin Wall {[%evp 0,78,30,23,23,10,65,71,75,56,61,57,44,16,13,10,36,13,13,18,57,69,80,88, 89,88,88,65,95,86,110,47,60,14,14,20,-32,-28,-71,-89,-92,-31,-13,-20,0,-13,129, 0,-22,-21,-51,-122,-127,-113,-105,-224,-237,-494,-494,-497,-495,-533,-494,-591, -625,-630,-662,-666,-709,-711,-709,-728,-722,-715,-726,-712,-709,-710,-710, -710,-716]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. Qf3 O-O 7. Nf5 Bxf5 8. Qxf5 Nc6 9. Be3 Ne5 10. Be2 b5 11. Nxb5 g6 $6 $146 (11... Rb8)…

We wish IM Philip J Morris all the best on his birthday, this day (November 5th) in 1967. Phil plays regularly for Beckenham & Charlton Chess Club in the London Chess League and has played for Invicta Knights Maidstone in the Four Nations League. {[%evp 0,50,19,-12,11,19,14,21,86,76,67,21,23,35,73,30,59,-20,11,23,4,8,27,20, 25,12,17,9,-2,21,25,32,39,37,30,-8,-8,-27,-27,-27,-48,-52,-78,-78,-80,-258, -275,-335,-342,-532,-609,-614,-635]} 1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. d4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 g6 7. Bg5 Bg7 8. Qa4+ Nc6 9. e3 Bd7 10. Qa3 Qa5 11. Qxa5…

We wish happy birthday to IM John Hawksworth born on Friday, December 6th, 1963. John Crofton Hawksworth was "born in Brighton, England, in December 1963 to Robert Marshall Hawksworth and Norah Connor Hawksworth née Crofton. He was baptised at St Saviour's Church of England church in Pimlico, London, in 1964." This was written about John who was 15 just prior to the Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display in 1979 : "Bradford Grammar and Bradford. Rating 194. Yorkshire…

Best wishes to IM Gary M Quillan on his birthday, this day (November 7th) in 1970. {[%evp 0,61,19,31,80,74,88,-29,71,24,67,68,50,47,17,18,20,1,0,-50,-4,-25,-27, -36,-18,-9,2,-14,-16,4,14,-15,15,0,15,16,75,75,87,49,55,44,44,44,130,87,87,38, 142,142,116,172,189,69,335,424,669,733,1385,1579,1579,1649,1676,1841]} 1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 Bg4 {This is not a variation that strong players would try often. Dubov is very unconventional player and believes, that he can outsmart his lesser opponent on the unknown territory.} 5. c3 Nd7 6. Bc4 e6 7. O-O (7. h3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3 Nb6 (8... c6 9. f5 exf5…