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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Matthew Wadsworth (27-vi-2000)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes IM Matthew Wadsworth Happy Birthday this day (June 27th) in 2021. \nPreviously we reported : \nFM Matthew Wadsworth\, one of England’s most promising young players\, has earned his first Grandmaster norm from his excellent performance in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). Matthew\, who is twenty\, has a current FIDE standard play rating of 2413 and is ranked 34th amongst the active players in England (by FIDE rating) earning his FM title in 2016. Matthew has IMs norm under his belt but could leapfrog to Grandmaster status with further norms and by increasing his live rating to 2500. Most likely\, however\, is that the IM title will be ratified at the next FIDE Congress now that his live rating has topped 2400. \nMatthew with father Jim at the 2012 Surrey Congress\nMatthew’s first ECF grade was 66A in 2007 (aged 7) and he played for Maidenhead in local leagues\, St. Pirans’s School and then Reading School. \nMatthew at the 2013 British Championships in Torquay\nMatthew is reading Economics at Queen’s College\, Cambridge and rows for the college team. \n[pgn]\n[Event “London RAC Centenary sim”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “2011.04.16”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Wadsworth\, Matthew J”]\n[Black “Adams\, Michael J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D13”]\n[WhiteElo “1921”]\n[BlackElo “2716”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “79”]\n[EventDate “2011.04.16”]\n[EventType “simul”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 141 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.05.03”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.05.03”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,79\,19\,-12\,-9\,-51\,12\,5\,-2\,-1\,-24\,-13\,-15\,-15\,-8\,1\,1\,1\,12\,0\,20\,-34\,24\,\n-7\,0\,-29\,-39\,-33\,-26\,-32\,-26\,-41\,-12\,-12\,363\,363\,358\,358\,364\,356\,367\,365\,367\,\n376\,374\,384\,375\,390\,381\,389\,377\,381\,389\,288\,288\,308\,408\,433\,539\,535\,541\,522\,\n587\,563\,577\,557\,604\,627\,636\,353\,588\,425\,434\,444\,573\,571\,571\,574\,587\,564\,622\,\n629]} 1. c4 Nf6 2. g3 c6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. d4 Nc6 6. Nf3 Bf5 7. Nc3 e6\n8. O-O Be7 9. Bf4 O-O 10. Rc1 Rc8 11. Ne5 Qb6 12. Nxc6 $146 (12. Na4) 12…\nRxc6 13. Qd2 Rfc8 14. Na4 Qb5 15. Rxc6 Rxc6 16. Nc3 $15 {[#]} Qa5 $2 17. Nxd5\n$1 $18 Qd8 18. Nxe7+ Qxe7 19. Bxc6 bxc6 20. f3 Bg6 21. Rc1 Qb7 22. Qc3 h6 23.\ne4 Kh7 24. b3 Qa6 25. Qc2 Nh5 26. Be3 f5 27. exf5 Bxf5 28. Qc4 Qxa2 29. g4 Bg6\n30. gxh5 Bf5 31. Bf2 Qd2 32. Qxc6 Qg5+ 33. Kh1 Qd2 34. Rf1 Bd3 35. Qc1 Qe2 36.\nKg2 Qa2 37. Rg1 Qxb3 38. Qc7 Qd5 39. Qe5 Qd7 40. Rc1 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nMatthew joined 4NCL at an early age and played for AMCA (Andrew Martin Chess Academy) soon rising the ranks to the AMCA first team and he currently represents the Guildford 2 team in Division One of the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). Matthew’s 4NCL results for the 2018-19 season were : \n1. Fodor\, Tamas Jr\, draw\n2. Ashton\, Adam G\, win\n3. Gonda\, Laszlo\, draw\n4. Kulon\, Klaudia\, win\n5. Holland\, James P\, win\n6. Stewart\, Ashley\, win\n7. Ledger\, Andrew J\, win\n8. Plat\, Vojtech\, loss\n9. no game\n10. Jackson\, James P\, win\n11. no game \ngiving a performance of 7/9 \nMatthew at the 2014 British Championships in Aberystwyth\nOne of the undoubted highlights of Matthews chess year was has draw with Oxford domiciled GM Hou Yifan\, three times Women’s World Champion from China during the annual Varsity match\, Matthew representing Cambridge. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Paracin Summer op-A 11th”]\n[Site “Paracin”]\n[Date “2018.07.09”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Wadsworth\, Matthew J”]\n[Black “Damljanovic\, Branko”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A20”]\n[WhiteElo “2377”]\n[BlackElo “2508”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “131”]\n[EventDate “2018.07.06”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “SRB”]\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\,131\,19\,-12\,-27\,-45\,-51\,-51\,-14\,19\,19\,2\,-1\,-49\,-1\,16\,22\,-7\,16\,16\,8\,22\,\n37\,42\,26\,28\,27\,19\,43\,13\,15\,29\,25\,18\,9\,-12\,-4\,0\,-24\,-15\,15\,31\,31\,34\,34\,34\,49\,40\,\n55\,43\,35\,43\,41\,40\,48\,52\,63\,60\,78\,42\,45\,42\,49\,51\,66\,24\,29\,28\,45\,44\,49\,44\,47\,53\,\n53\,61\,53\,49\,69\,15\,0\,0\,47\,0\,-10\,-6\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-7\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,12\,7\,21\,21\,\n31\,17\,54\,71\,67\,33\,67\,67\,139\,159\,168\,155\,171\,113\,113\,113\,272\,209\,244\,281\,290\,\n296\,302\,312\,319\,229\,235\,251]} 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c6 4. d4 e4 5. Nc3 d5\n6. cxd5 cxd5 7. Bg5 Bb4 8. Rc1 Nc6 9. Nh3 Bxh3 10. Bxh3 h6 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 12.\nO-O Rd8 13. e3 O-O 14. Qb3 Qd6 15. Na4 Na5 16. Qd1 Nc4 17. a3 Ba5 18. Nc5 Qe7\n19. Rc2 b6 20. Nb3 f5 21. Qh5 Qe6 22. Rfc1 Kh7 23. Nxa5 Nxa5 24. Rc7 Rd7 25.\nBf1 g6 26. Qd1 Rxc7 27. Rxc7+ Rf7 28. Qc2 Kg7 29. Rc3 Nb7 30. Rc6 Qe7 31. b4\nQd7 32. b5 Nd6 33. Qb3 Ne8 34. Be2 Qd8 35. Qc3 Qd7 36. a4 Nf6 37. a5 bxa5 38.\nQxa5 g5 39. Qa6 f4 40. gxf4 gxf4 41. Qc8 f3 42. Qxd7 Rxd7 43. Bf1 Kf7 44. Bh3\nRb7 45. Rc5 Ke7 46. Bc8 Rb8 47. h3 h5 48. h4 Rb6 49. Kh2 Kd6 50. Bf5 a6 51.\nbxa6 Rxa6 52. Rc2 Ra1 53. Rb2 {[#]} Ra7 $6 (53… Rf1) 54. Rb6+ Ke7 55. Kg3 Ra2\n56. Rb7+ Kf8 57. Be6 Ke8 58. Rb5 Ra1 59. Bxd5 Rg1+ 60. Kf4 Rg2 61. Bxe4 Rg4+\n62. Kf5 Nxe4 63. Re5+ Kd7 64. Rxe4 Rg2 65. Rf4 Rxf2 66. Ke4 1-0\n[/pgn] \nRecently Matthew has joined forces with IM Adam C Taylor\, IM Ravi Haria and others to form makinggrandmasters.com \nFM Matthew J Wadsworth
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary for Vera Menchik (16-ii-1906 27-vi-1944)
DESCRIPTION:A Great Life with a Tragic Ending\nFew people know the story of Vera Menchik yet it deserves to be told. She was the first women’s world chess champion in 1927 and retained the title undefeated until her untimely death at the age of 38 in 1944 during a rocket attack on London.  She is more properly compared with the great male players of her era against whom she scored creditably. The absence of a full biography of Vera in English reflects the peculiar circumstances of her life and death. \nVera was\, in modern terminology\, a refugee and essentially a stateless person for much of her life. She was born in Moscow in 1906 during the period of the Russian Empire to an expatriate family who was forced to flee when she was 15 following the Russian Revolution having lost their livelihood.  As they passed through Europe\, her father and mother split up in his homeland Czechoslovakia which had been created out of the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire. She arrived in England and took up residence in the seaside town of Hastings. (The fact that Hastings had hosted the world’s longest series of annual chess tournaments since 1895 was a happy coincidence.) Vera never attained British nationality until near the end of her life even though she had been domiciled in England from 1921. She won the first-ever Women’s World Championships held in London in 1927 under a Russian flag; thereafter she nominally represented Czechoslovakia until finally she represented England in 1939 following her marriage to a senior official within the British Chess Federation. \nVera’s grandfather was Arthur Illingworth\, a wealthy trader from Lancashire who had set up business in Moscow where his Anglo-Russian daughter Olga married František Menčik. He was a successful estate manager. Vera learned chess from her father and performed well at school. Her younger sister Olga was also a good chess player and the sisters remained close throughout their lives. \nVera was a woman in a man’s world – she had to struggle harder to achieve the kind of recognition which was accorded to men. She appeared like a comet in the sky and it would be many years until other women were able to reach her level. At her first major international tournament at Karlsbad in 1929\, she was the only female participant in a tournament of 22 great players. Even as women’s world champion\, some of the male players objected to her participation.  The Viennese master Albert Becker joked that anybody who lost to her should belong to the Vera Menchik Club. By an irony of history\, he became its first member losing to her in the third round. She beat many other grandmasters during her career including the Dutchman Max Euwe in 1930 and 1931 (both at Hastings) who was to become world champion in 1935. \nAlthough she is often portrayed as being Russian or Czech or latterly British\, she was a true cosmopolitan. She knew that life could be unstable in any country. She had lived through the Russian Revolution; one parent was left behind in Czechoslovakia; she had moved westwards across Europe and embraced different cultures and languages at formative stages of her life. It is no wonder that she learned also to speak Esperanto which was designated to be the world’s lingua franca before English achieved its dominance. As a leading chess player\, she travelled back to Moscow and to Czechoslovakia several times as well as to South America for her final match to retain the women’s world champion title in 1939. She needed to be self-sufficient and was obtained roles as the games editor of a chess magazine as well as being appointed the manager of the National Chess Centre in Oxford Street which was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940. \nShe survived most of the war and now a widow moved in with her mother and sister to a house in south London.  They took the precaution of going down to the cellar during bombing raids. Tragically the house received a direct hit from a flying bomb and the entire family was wiped out. Hardly any of her possessions remained save for one dented trophy. The records at the national chess centre were destroyed as were her personal effects including her chess memorabilia. At least there remains a record of the moves played in her games which serve as testimony to her remarkable career as not only the first women’s world chess champion but also a woman who broke boundaries wherever she went and demonstrated that a woman is capable of standing on her own feet professionally and leading a full and eventful life. \nThe Bomb Attack \nBCN remembers that in the early morning of Tuesday\, June 27th\, 1944 (i.e. 77 years ago) Vera Menchik\, her sister Olga\, and their mother were killed in a V-1 flying bomb attack which destroyed their home at 47 Gauden Road in the Clapham area of South London. \nWe now know that the V1 in question landed at 00:20 hrs on the 27th and led to the death of a total of 11 people including the Menchik household. Here is a summary of recorded V1 and V2 landings in the Clapham\, SW4 area. \n47\, Gauden Road\, Clapham\, SW4 6LW in more modern times.\nAll three were cremated at the Streatham Park Crematorium on 4 July 1944. Vera was 38 years old. \nSignature of Vera Menchik from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Margate 1936.\nVera’s Parents and Sister\nVera Frantsevna Menchik (or Věra Menčíková) was born in Moscow on Friday\, 16th February\, 1906. Her father was František Menčik\, was born in Bystrá nad Jizerou\, Bohemia. František and Olga were married on June  23rd 1905 in Moscow and notice of this marriage appeared in British newspapers on July 22nd 1905.  Vera’s sister was Olga Rubery (née Menchik) and she was born in Moscow in 1908. Olga Menchik married Clifford Glanville Rubery in 1938. Vera married Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson on October 19th 1937. \nHer Maternal Roots\nOur interest in unearthing her maternal English heritage / roots has led to the following: \nHer mother was Olga (née Illingworth (1885 – 27 vi 1944). Olga’s  parents were Arthur Wellington Illingworth and Marie Illingworth (née ?). Arthur was born in October 1852 in the district of Salford\, Lancashire\, his parents were George Illingworth (1827-1887) and Alice Whewell (1828-1910).  \nIn the 1861 census Arthur is recorded as being of eight years of age and living in the Illingworth household. \nIn the 1871 census Arthur is recorded as being of eighteen years of age and living in the Illingworth household of nine persons at 5\, Lancaster Road\, Pendleton\, Lancashire. Arthur’s occupation is listed as being a merchants apprentice. In fact\, he was a stock and share broker. \nArthur died in Moscow on February 21st 1898. Probate was recorded in London on July 6th\, 1900 as follows: \nIllingworth Arthur Wellington of Moscow Russia merchant died 21st February 1898 Probate London 6th July to Walter Illingworth stock and share-broker Effects £4713 7s \n£4713 7s in 1898 equates roughly to £626\,600.00 in 2020 so it would appear that Arthur was considerably successful and almost certainly left money to Olga Illingworth. \nWhat do we conclude from all of this? Quite simply that Vera’s maternal roots were from Salford in Lancashire. \nBCM Announcement\nThe August 1944 British Chess Magazine (Volume LXIV\, Number 8\, page 173 onwards) contained this editorial  from Julius du Mont: \nJulius du Mont\, Editor of British Chess Magazine from 1940 to 1949\n“British Chess has suffered a grievous and irreparable loss in the death by enemy action of Mrs. R.H.S. Stevenson known through all the world where chess is played as Vera Menchik. \nWe give elsewhere (below : Ed.) an appreciation of this remarkable woman. Quite apart from her unique gifts as a chess-player-the world may never see her equal again among women players-she had many qualities which endeared her to all who knew her\, the greatest among them being here great-hearted generosity. \nWe sympathise with our contemporary “CHESS” : Vera Menchik was for some years their games editor. Few columns have been conducted with equal skill and efficiency and none\, we feel sure\, with a greater sense of responsibility. \nThe news of this remarkable tragedy will be received by the chess world with sorrow and with abhorrence of the wanton and useless robot methods of a robot people. \nOne shudders at the heritage of hatred which will be theirs\, but their greatest punishment will come with their own enlightenment.” \nBCM Contemporary Obituary from EGR Cordingley\nFrom page 178 of the same issue we have an obituary written by EGR Cordingley : \n“The death by enemy action of Miss Vera Menchik removes not only the greatest woman chess player of all times but a charming personality. \nThe world will remember her for her chess prowess\, for her exceptional skill as a woman player who had beaten in tournament play such gifted players as Euwe\, Sultan Khan\, Sir George Thomas\, Alexander and Yates. In such company\, and she played in several of the Hastings International tournaments and other of similar grade\, she usually obtained about 33%\, though in the Maribor tournament of 1934 she finished third\, behind Pirc and Steiner but ahead of Rejfir\, Spielmann\, Asztalos and Vidmar. \nHer game was characterised by solid position-play\, with the definite aim of bringing about a favourable end-game and of avoiding wild complications. The ordinary stratagems of the game\, small combinations and the like\, were of course part of her equipment\, but she lacked that imaginative\, inventive spirit without which few become really great players. \nIn recent times\, Reshesvky and Flohr (as a professional with a reputation to maintain and a living to earn) have shown that great success can be achieved by reducing the game to pure positional play\, the technique being firstly to build up a position devoid of weaknesses\, an ‘I can’t lose position\,’ and secondly to create and take advantage of the minutest weaknesses in the opponent’s camp\, a major weakness may show that imagination is not quite dead within. \nThis defect in her play was the inevitable reflection of her character: sound common-sense\, conscientious to an unusual degree\, and persevering\, while she had the combative\, tenacious nature so desirable and so often found in good chess players; for chess is battle of wits\, the fight is what most of use love in chess. Vera was\, seldom assertive\, a fault not uncommon in chess players. She sat placidly at the chess board\, never causing even mild irritation by any of those nervous mannerisms that may always be seen in any chess room\, the peripatetic fever being the most prominent. A slight flush would rise when the position grew difficult\, or when she was short of time on her clock – and that was recurrent according to the time-limit. \nAway from the chessboard show would readily talk of other subjects\, and her great interest was in persons\, in their actions and behaviour under the strain and stress of the unruly passions; in the moulding of their lives under the inscrutable dictates of chance; in the twists and turns of a mind warped perhaps by a casual incident long ago. Of course\, she was a pagan\, a thinking one\, who had asked and asked and found only the answer that reasoning gave. She judged kindly and never inflicted upon others her own opinions or beliefs: she asked only that these should be heard as one side of any argument\, for she enjoyed a dialectic bout. \nA delightful side to her character was her simple sense of humour\, and I remember so clearly her pleasure – glee would describe it more eloquently – when I gave her the punctuation necessary to make sense of that ludicrous collection of words\, ‘Jones where Brown had had had had had had had had had had had the master’s approval’ Anyone who knew her only at the chessboard would have been astonished at the amount of bubbling merriment she discovered of of life’s events. \nI shall remember her more for the woman as I knew her over many cups of coffee spread over many\, many weeks – complacent\, smiling\, and kindly; conscientious\, loyal\, and sincere; as I understand the word\, a Christian who would help any deserving person as best she could. E. G. R. C. \n”\nand here is the original article as printed: \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXIV (1944)\, Number 8\, August\, Page 178\nBCM 1958 Appreciation by Peter Clarke\nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXVIII (128\, 1958)\, Number 7 (July)\, page 181 onwards) we have this retrospective from Peter Clarke: \n“The night of June 27th\,1944\, Vera Menchik\, World Woman Champion\, was killed when an enemy bomb demolished her home in London; with her perished her mother and sister Olga. In these tragic circumstances the chess world lost its greatest woman player\, still undefeated and at the height of her powers. \nVera Francevna Menchik was born in Moscow on February 16th\, 1906\, of an English mother and Czech father. There she spent her childhood\, showing a love for literature\, music\, and\, of course\, chess\, which at the age of nine she was taught by her father. She had a natural bent for the game and when only fourteen shared second and third places a schoolboys (!) tournament. The following year\, 1921\, the family came to England\, where Miss Menchik lived the rest of her life. \nAs if by some fortunate coincidence\, the Menchiks settled in Hastings\, though it was not until the spring of 1923 that Vera joined the famous chess club. Her natural shyness and lack of knowledge of English caused this delay. However\, they did not handicap her too much\nas she herself afterwards wrote: ‘Chess is a quiet game and therefore the best hobby for a person who cannot speak the language.” \nShe studied the game eagerly\, and very soon her talent caught the attention of the Hungarian grandmaster\, Géza Maróczy\, who was resident at Hastings at that time. Thus there began the most important period in her development as a player; a sound and mature understanding of positional play-and a thorough knowledge of a few special openings and defences: in particular the French Defence. The influence of\nthe grandmasters ideas was clearly apparent in her style throughout the whole of her career. \nMiss Menchik’s rise to fame was meteoric: by 1925 she was undoubtedly the strongest player of her sex in the country\, having twice defeated the Champion\, E. Price\, in short matches; and only two years later she won the first Women’s World Championship in London with the terrific score 10.5-0.5. She was just twenty-one\, but already in a different class from any other woman in the world. For seventeen years until her death Vera Menchik reigned supreme in women’s chess\, defending her world title successfully no less than seven times (including a match with Sonja Graf at Semmering in 1937\, which Miss Menchik won 11.5-4.5. In the seven tournaments for the World Championship she played 83 games; winning 78\, drawing 4\, and losing 1 only! However\, what was more remarkable was that she was accepted into the sphere of men’s chess as a master in her own right\, a feat which no woman had done before or has done since. Up to then\, women’s chess had been a very poor relation of the masculine game\, but here was a woman who was a worthy opponent for the strongest masters. \nFlohr wrote of her: ‘Vera Menchik was the first woman in the world who played chess strongly…who played like a man.’ It was as the ambassador extraordinary\, so to speak\, of the women’s game that Miss Menchik really made her greatest contribution to chess. Wherever she went\, at home and abroad\, she aroused great interest among her sex; others were eager to follow her\, to identify themselves with her. Nowadays women’s chess is well organized\, and much of the credit for this must go to Vera Menchik for first bringing it into the light. Among her many personal successes in international tournaments perhaps the greatest was at Ramsgate in 1929: as one of the foreign masters (she was still of Czech nationality) she shared second and third places with Rubinstein\, * point behind Capablanca and above\, among others\, her tutor Maróczy. \nEven the greatest masters recognized Miss Menchik’s ability; Alekhine himself\, writing on the Carlsbad Tournament of 1929\, said: ‘Vera Menchik is without doubt an exceptional phenomenon among women. She possesses great aptitude for the game…The chess\nworld must help her develop her talent!’ \nThe Vera Menchik Club\nAn amusing incident occurred at this tournament. There were naturally sceptics among the masters over the lady’s participation. Flohr recalls how one of these\, the Viennese master Becker\, suggested: \n‘Whoever loses to the Woman Champion will be accepted as a member of the Vera Menchik Club which I intend to organize.’ \nBecker was the first to lose to her\, and that evening the masters chided him: “Professor Becker\, you did not find it very difficult to join the club. You can be the Chairman.’ And forthwith he was chosen as Chairman for three years. Everyone wished that the new club would soon obtain more members! Indeed\, the Vera Menchik Club has many famous names on its lists-Euwe\, Reshevsky\, Colle\, Yates\, Sultan Khan\, Sir G. A. Thomas\, Alexander\, to mention a few. \nIn 1935 Miss Menchik returned to the country of her birth to take part in the great international tournament in Moscow. To be truthful\, she had very little success\, but she was everywhere treated with respect and sympathy by masters and spectators alike. The Soviet master l. Maiselis\, writing in CHESS in 1944.(Shakhmaty za 1944 god)\, related the following entertaining anecdote from the tournament: One day a group of players and organizers were discussing the chances of Alekhine and Euwe in the forthcoming match. Flohr said: ‘It is quite clear that I will be World Champion.’ We looked at him inquiringly. \n‘It’s very simple\,” continued Flohr\, ‘Euwe wins a match against Alekhine\, Vera Menchik beats Euwe (at that time her score against Euwe was +2\, =1\, -1) and I will somehow beat Miss Menchik.’ \nWe laughed at this good-natured joke\, and we laughed all the more the next day when Flohr was unable\, despite every effort\, to defeat her in a vital game. \nln 1937 Miss Menchik married R. Stevenson\, but in chess she continued to use her maiden name\, made famous by so many victories. Her husband\, a well-known organizer\, became\, Secretary of the B.C.F: in the following year and remained so until his death in 1943. \nSince the days of Vera Menchik women’s chess has taken great strides forward; now there is a special committee of F.I.D.E. to look after its needs.- Only last year the first lnternational Women’s Team Tournament took place ln Emmen\, Holland; the new World Champions\, the U.S.S.R.\, became the first holders of the Vera Menchik Cup. So chess goes onwards\, but the name of its first Queen will ever be remembered.” \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uANE6xU8bIE[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1930/31-11 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings Waverley Hotel”]\n[Date “1930.12.30”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Euwe\, Max”]\n[Black “Menchik\, Vera”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D63”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “122”]\n[EventDate “1930.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2017”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2016.10.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2016.10.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,122\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,-3\,4\,-28\,-8\,20\,43\,20\,43\,28\,54\,62\,62\,47\,66\,46\,50\,\n50\,54\,61\,67\,51\,48\,31\,32\,20\,15\,19\,49\,50\,69\,69\,77\,84\,84\,79\,113\,28\,79\,81\,73\,78\,79\,\n61\,76\,78\,88\,69\,91\,58\,51\,40\,48\,31\,38\,23\,46\,103\,100\,12\,32\,30\,21\,49\,71\,3\,33\,11\,14\,\n10\,58\,44\,45\,55\,67\,69\,91\,111\,115\,114\,110\,112\,111\,67\,72\,70\,70\,32\,16\,-16\,-15\,-10\,\n-10\,0\,-19\,-52\,-21\,-89\,-80\,-273\,-273\,-402\,-411\,-484\,-476\,-476\,-459\,-456\,-456\,\n-700\,-456\,-962\,-1032\,-1032\,-1032\,-1032\,-29942\,-29989\,-29990]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4\ne6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Rc1 a6 8. cxd5 exd5 9. Bd3 c6\n10. O-O Ne4 11. Bf4 Nxc3 12. Rxc3 Re8 13. Qb1 Nf8 14. b4 Ng6 15. Bg3 Bd6 16. a4\nBxg3 17. hxg3 Bd7 18. Rfc1 Qf6 19. b5 axb5 20. axb5 Rec8 21. Qc2 Qd8 22. bxc6\nRxc6 23. Rc5 Rxc5 24. dxc5 Ra5 25. Qb2 Qa8 26. Qb6 Nf8 27. Ne5 Ra1 28. Rb1\nRxb1+ 29. Bxb1 Be6 30. Kh2 Nd7 31. Nxd7 Bxd7 32. Qc7 Qc8 33. Qxc8+ Bxc8 34. Ba2\nBe6 35. Kg1 Kf8 36. Kf1 Ke7 37. Ke2 Kf6 38. Kd3 Ke5 39. g4 g5 40. g3 Bxg4 41.\nf4+ gxf4 42. gxf4+ Kf6 43. Bxd5 Bc8 44. Bf3 Ke7 45. Kc4 Kd8 46. Kd5 b6 47. c6\nKc7 48. Ke5 Be6 49. f5 Bb3 50. Kf6 b5 51. Kg7 b4 52. Kxh7 Bc2 53. Kg7 b3 54.\nBd5 b2 55. Ba2 Kxc6 56. f6 Kd6 57. e4 Bxe4 58. Kxf7 Bd5+ 59. Bxd5 b1=Q 60. Kg7\nQg1+ 61. Kf8 Kxd5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“Woman World Champion from 1927 to 1944. Vera Menchik was born in Moscow on 16th February 1906 of an English mother and a Czech father. Her father taught her to play chess when she was 9. \nVera Menchik 1906-1944 chess playerin\, CZ / GB portrait with chess board late twenties (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)\nIn 192l her family came to England and settled in Hastings (at 13\, St. John’s Road\, St. Leonards-on-Sea\, TN37 6HP) : \n13\, St. John’s Road\, St. Leonards-on-Sea\, TN37 6HP\nTwo years later\, when she was 17\, Vera joined Hastings Chess Club\, \nHastings Chess Club : 2 Cornwallis Terrace\, Hastings TN34 1EB\nwhere she became a pupil of Geza Maroczy. The first Women’s World Championship was held in 1927. Vera Menchik won with a score of 10.5 out of 11. She defended her title successfully in Hamburg in 1930\, in Prague in 1931\, in Folkestone in 1933\, in Warsaw in 1935\, in Stockholm in 1937 and in Buenos Aires in 1939. She played 2 matches against Sonja Graf\, her nearest rival\, in 1934 when she won +3 -1 and in 1937\, in a match for her title when she won +9 -1 =5. \nIsaac Kashdan plays Vera Menchik during the Hastings Congress on December 28th\, 1931. Kashdan won in 45 moves in a classical French.\nThe first woman ever to play in the British Championship and the first to play in a master tournament\, Vera Menchik made her debut in master chess at Scarborough 1928 when she scored 50 per cent. The following year she played in Paris and Carlsbad\, and it was at Carlsbad that the famous Menchik Club was formed. The invitation to Vera Menchik to compete among such players as Capablanca\, Euwe\, Tartakower and Nimzowitch was received with amusement by many of the masters. The Viennese master\, Becker was particularly scornful\, and in the presence of a number of the competitors he suggested that anyone who lost to Vera Menchik should be granted membership of the Menchik Club. He himself became the first member. Other famous players who later joined the club were Euwe\, Reshevsky\, Sultan Khan\, Sir George Thomas\, C. H. O’D. Alexander\, Colle and Yates. \nHer greatest success in international tournaments was at Ramsgate in 1929\, when she was =2nd with Rubinstein\, half a point behind Capablanca and ahead of Maroczy. In 1934 she was 3rd at Maribor\, ahead of Spielmann and Vidmar. In 1942 she won a match against Mieses +4 -l -5. In 1937 Vera Menchik married R. H. S. Stevenson\, who later became Hon. Secretary of the British Chess Federation. He died in 1943. She continued to use her maiden name when playing chess. On her marriage she became a British subject. \nLeft to right Baruch H Wood\, Philip Stuart Milner-Barry\, Vera Menchik (playing in the women’s world championship held concurrently with the Olympiad which she won with 17 wins and 2 draws)\, Sir George Thomas\, Conel Hugh O’Donel Alexander and Harry Golombek. England withdrew after their preliminary group due to the outbreak of war despite qualifying for the top final. Thanks to Leonard Barden\nFrom 1941 until her death she was Games Editor of CHESS. She also gave chess lessons and managed the National Chess Centre\, which opened in 1939 at John Lewis’s in Oxford Street\, London and was destroyed by a bomb in 1940. \nIn 1944 Vera Menchik was a solid positional player\, who avoided complications and aimed at achieving a favourable endgame. Her placid temperament was ideal for tournament play. Her main weakness was possibly lack of imagination. Her results have made her the most successful woman player ever.” \nVera Menchik\nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess\, (BT Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek : \nProbably the strongest woman player in the history of the game\, Vera Menchik was born in Moscow and\, though her father was a Czechoslovak and her mother English\, she played for most of her\nlife under English colours. \nIn l92l her family came to Hastings in England and there Vera became a pupil of the great Hungarian master\, Geza Maroczy. This was to have a dominating influence on her style of play which was solidly classical\, logical and technically most well equipped. Such a style enabled her to deal severely not only with her fellow women players but also with contemporary masters and budding masters. Vera did extremely well\, for example\, against C. H. O’D. Alexander\nand P. S. Milner-Barry\, but lost repeatedly to H. Golombek who was able to take advantage of her lack of imagination by the use of more modern methods. \nVera was soon predominent in women’s chess. In the first Women’s World Championship tournament\, at London in 1927\, she won the title with a score of 10.5 out of 11 and retained the championship with great ease at all the subsequent Olympiads (or International Team tournaments as they were then known more correctly) at Hamburg 1930\, Prague 1931\, Folkestone 1933\, Warsaw 1935\, Stockholm 1937 and Buenos Aires 1939. \nVera Menchik at Margate 1935\, photographer unknown\nWith Sonja Graf\, the player who came nearest to her in strength among her female contemporaries\, she played two matches and demonstrated her undoubted superiority by beating her in 1934 (+3-l) and again in a match for the title in l937 (+9-l=5). \nIn 1937 Vera officially became a British citizen by marrying the then Kent and later B.C.F. Secretary\, R. H. S. Stevenson (Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson: ed).\n(Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson was home news editor of the British Chess Magazine\, secretary of the Southern Counties Chess Union and match captain of the Kent County Chess Association). \nOddly enough\, Sonja Graf\, many years later\, also became a Mrs Stevenson by marrying an American of that name some years after the Second World War. \nVera Menchik also played and held her own in men’s tournaments. She did well in the British championship and her best performance in international chess was =2nd with Rubinstein in the Ramsgate Team Practice tournament ahead of her old teacher\, Maroczy. She also had an excellent result at Maribor in 1934 where she came 3rd\, ahead of Spielmann and Vidmar. \nHer husband died in 1943 and Vera herself\, together with her younger sister Olga and her mother\, was killed by a V1 bomb that descended on the Stevenson home in London in 1944. \nVera Menchik\, circa 1935\, Historic Collection / Alamy Stock Photo\nThis was a sad and premature loss\, not only for British but for world chess\, since there is no doubt she would have continued to dominate the female scene for many years. \nAs a person Vera was a delightful companion\, jolly and full of fun and understanding. As a player she was not only strong but also absolutely correct and without any prima donna behaviour. Generous in defeat and modest in victory\, she set a great example to all her contemporaries. \nAn example of Vera’s attacking play at its best against her nearest rival\, Sonja Graf\, is shown by the following game which was played in her 1937 match at Semmering in Austria : \n[pgn]\n[Event “World Women-ch Menchik-Graf +9-2=5”]\n[Site “Semmering”]\n[Date “1937.07.13”]\n[Round “14”]\n[White “Menchik\, Vera”]\n[Black “Graf Stevenson\, Sonja”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D46”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “41”]\n[EventDate “1937.06.26”]\n[EventType “match”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[EventCountry “AUT”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2006”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2005.11.24”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2005.11.24”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,41\,38\,-16\,-3\,-7\,-11\,-7\,4\,9\,42\,39\,43\,43\,48\,43\,38\,19\,18\,27\,65\,59\,64\,43\,\n43\,43\,67\,78\,47\,70\,72\,72\,71\,77\,43\,-17\,26\,38\,38\,50\,59\,-78\,90\,288]} 1. c4 {\nBykova:Vera Menchik. p.141} e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. e3 c6 6. Bd3\nBe7 7. O-O O-O 8. e4 dxe4 9. Nxe4 Nxe4 10. Bxe4 Nf6 11. Bc2 c5 12. dxc5 Qa5 13.\nBe3 Bxc5 14. Bd2 Qc7 15. Bc3 Be7 16. Qe2 b6 17. Ng5 (17. Rad1 Bb7 18. Ne5 $14)\n17… g6 (17… Ba6 18. b3 Bb7 19. Ne4 (19. Bxf6 Bxf6 20. Bxh7+ (20. Nxh7 Bxa1\n$17) 20… Kh8) 19… Qc6 $11) 18. Qf3 Bb7 19. Qh3 h5 20. Rad1 Ng4 $4 (20…\nQxc4 $1 21. Rd4 Qb5 22. Qg3 Bd5 $11) (20… Rad8 21. Bxg6 fxg6 22. Qxe6+ Kh8\n23. Rxd8 Bxd8 24. Be5 Qc5 25. b4 Qc6 26. Qxc6 Bxc6 27. Ne6 $16) 21. Rd7 $1 (21.\nRd7 Qxd7 22. Qxh5 gxh5 23. Bh7#) (21. Qxh5 Qxh2+ 22. Qxh2 Nxh2 23. Nxf7 $16)\n1-0\n[/pgn] \n27th November 1936: Britain’s world chess champion Vera Menchik (right) and challenger Sonja Graf after signing a contract at the Bloomsbury Hotel\, London\, to play for the championship of the world over 16 games. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)\nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess\, (Oxford University Press\, 1984) by Hooper and Whyld : \n“Woman World Champion from 1927 until her death. Daughter of a Czech father and an English mother\, Menchik was born in Moscow\, learned chess when she was nine\, settled in England around\n1921\, and took lessons from Maroczy a year or so later. In 1927 FIDE organized both the first Olympiad and the first world championship tournament for women. These events were run concurrently\, except in 1928\, until the Second World War began\, and Menchik won the women’s tournament every time; London 1927 (+10=1); Hamburg 1930 (+6=1 — 1); Prague 1931 (+8);\nFolkestone 1933 ( + 14); Warsaw 1935 (+9); Stockholm 1937 (+14); and Buenos Aires 1939 ( + 17=2). She played in her first championship tournament as a Russian\, the next five as a Czech\,\nand the last as a Briton. She also won on two matches against her chief rival\, the German-born Sonja Graf (c. 1912-65): Rotterdam\, 1934 (+3-1)\, and Semmering\, 1937 (+9=5—2)\, \nVera Menchik in a pre-event posed picture in which she faces unstoppable checkmate in one from Hastings 193? She was about to play Sir GA Thomas.\nIn international tournaments which did not exclude men Menchik made little impression; one of her best results was at Maribor 1934 (about category 4) when she took third place alter Pirc and L. Steiner ahead of Spielmann. In 1937 she married the English chess organizer Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson (1878-1943)\, A chess professional\, she gave lessons\, lectures\, and displays\, and was appointed manager of the short-lived National Chess Centre in 1939. In 1942 she defeated Mieses in match play (+4=5-1)\, She\, her younger sister Olga (also a player)\, and their mother were killed in a bombing raid. \nFrom left to right: Vera Menchik\, Alexander Alekhine\, Géza Maróczy and Sultan Khan. From London International Masters\, 1st February\, 1932\, French Defence\, drawn in 32 moves.\nHer style was positional and she had a sound understanding of the endgame. On occasion she defeated in tournament play some of the greatest masters\, notably Euwe\, Reshevsky\, and Sultan Khan. Men she defeated were said to belong to the Menchik club. When world team championships for women (women’s chess Olympiads) were commenced in 1957 the trophy for the winning team was called the Vera Menchik Cup.” \nVera Menchik commemorated on a postage stamp from the Czech Republic\nShe was inducted to the World Chess Hall of Fame in 2011. \nOther Articles\nHere is an excellent article from the Hastings and St. Leonard’s Club written by Brian Denman. \nHere is an excellent article from Neil Blackburn (aka SimaginFan) on chess.com \nHere is an excellent article by Albert Whitwood \nHere is her Wikipedia  entry. \nHere is an excellent record compiled by Bill Wall. \nBiography of Vera Menchik British chess player \nVera Menchik.\, EI Bykova\, Moscow\, 1957\, 176 pages\, 4s 7d.\nVera Menchik: A Biography of the First Women’s World Chess Champion\, with 350 Complete Games\nEdward Winter  was less than impressed with the above book. \nVera Menchik
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Robert Bellin (30-vi-1952)
DESCRIPTION:BCN sends IM Robert Bellin best wishes on his birthday\, this day (the 30th of June) in Great Yarmouth\, Norfolk \nRobert was awarded the IM title in 1977. He was outright British Champion in 1979 in Chester having tied first equal (with six others) in 1974 in Clacton. The play-off was won by George Botterill. \nHis best international success was in 1981 in Shanghai coming clear first overall. \nRobert Bellin with Leonard Barden and Stewart Reuben at the 1978 Aaronson Masters in London\nRobert is married to WGM Dr. Jana Bellin and they have two sons. \nIM Robert Bellin\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWf7i6GfNlg[/embedyt] \nRobert Bellin\, British Champion\, CHESS\, Volume 45\, Numbers 827-28\, page 27.\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-61 Championship”]\n[Site “Clacton on Sea/ Essex”]\n[Date “1974.08.05”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Bellin\, Robert”]\n[Black “Penrose\, Jonathan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D01”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “65”]\n[EventDate “1974.08.05”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,65\,26\,23\,14\,14\,22\,-3\,10\,12\,2\,-2\,3\,11\,0\,-15\,-8\,-14\,-12\,-24\,128\,-29\,-31\,\n-25\,0\,-23\,63\,48\,95\,-21\,-15\,-19\,-18\,-35\,-47\,-26\,-11\,-5\,-1\,-13\,-5\,0\,42\,23\,25\,23\,\n20\,34\,44\,54\,67\,56\,77\,58\,233\,418\,389\,383\,417\,419\,454\,496\,492\,273\,603\,755\,29985\,\n29986]} 1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bg5 h6 $6 (3… Nbd7 $142 4. Nf3 g6 5. e3 Bg7 6.\nBd3 O-O 7. O-O c5 8. Re1 b6 9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 cxd4 11. Nxd4 Bb7 12. c3 Nxe4\n13. Bxe4 Bxe4 14. Rxe4 Nf6) 4. Bxf6 exf6 5. e3 c6 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. Qf3 O-O 8. Nge2\nRe8 9. O-O-O b5 10. g4 Nd7 (10… b4 11. Na4 Nd7 12. h4 Nb6) 11. h4 b4 12. Na4\ng6 (12… Nb6 13. Nxb6 axb6) 13. Rdg1 {[#]} Be7 (13… Nf8) 14. g5 $16 fxg5 15.\nh5 $6 (15. hxg5 Bxg5 16. Qg3) 15… g4 (15… f5) 16. Rxg4 g5 17. Rgg1 Qa5 18.\nb3 Nf6 19. Ng3 Bg4 20. Qg2 Kh8 21. Bf5 Bxf5 22. Nxf5 $11 Bf8 23. f4 Ne4 24.\nfxg5 {[#]} Nxg5 $2 (24… hxg5) 25. Rh4 Re4 26. Rf4 Rae8 $2 (26… Qd8) 27.\nNxh6 $18 Bxh6 28. Rf6 Qd8 29. Rxh6+ Kg7 30. Rxc6 f6 31. Qf1 Rxe3 32. Rxg5+ fxg5\n33. Rg6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nThe Classical Dutch\nWinning with the Dutch\nTest Your Positional Play\nQueen’s Pawn : Veresov System\nMastering the King’s Indian Defence\nLondon System Repertoire
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of IM Andrew Whiteley (09-vi-1947 07-vii-2014)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers IM Andrew Jonathan Whiteley (09-vi-1947 07-vii-2014) \nAndrew Whiteley\nAndrew was born on Monday\, June 9th\, 1947 in Birmingham\, West Midlands to Denys Edward Hugh Whiteley (1914 – 1987) and Muriel Sutton (1919 – 1967). Andrew had two siblings\, Robert N (Birmingham\, 1944) and Angela M (Oxford 1952). \nDenys Edward Hugh Whiteley (1914 – 1987\, from Ancestry.co.uk\nAndrew completed his education at Magdalen College School\, Oxford and then in law at Pembroke College\, Oxford. \nAndrew and friends at the NatWest Bank Young Masters\n“Whiteley’s school chess record is an outstanding 63/65: Andrew Whiteley is captain and top board of a very strong U18 team of: A Whiteley\, H Morphy\, MN Crombie\, MM Daube\, A Hawkins and AH Smith.” \nSome of the participants in the Paul Keres display on November 25th\, 1962\, at St Pancras Town Hall\, London WC1. Back row : AJ. Whiteley\, D\, Floyer\, PJ Collins\, PJ Adams\, RC Vaughan\, KB Harman\, D. Parr\, DNL Levy\, Front row : MV Lambshire\, AE Hopkins (selector) Paul Keres\, Miss D. Dobson\, RE Hartley\, BC Gillman\, WR Hartston and PN Lee. Photograph by AM Reilly. Source : BCM\, 1963\, page 13\nAndrew was joint (with WR Hartston) Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1967-68 season. \nHis highest Elo rating was 2395 in January 1977 at the age of 29 and played for King’s Head in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nAndrew was former President of the Middlesex County Chess Association (1985-87) and Deputy (1984-85 & 1987-88). \nAndrew Whiteley playing board two in the London – Belgrade Telex Match on April 3rd\, 1976 from the St. James Hotel\, Buckingham Gate. Sourced from BCM\, Volume XCVI (96)\, Number 5\, page 192. Photographer probably Freddy Reilly.\nHe became a FIDE Master in 1980 at the age of 33. His last major tournament was Cappelle Le Grand in 1988 (see photograph below). \nMagnus Magnusson presents Andrew Whiteley (right) with the BCF County Championship trophy as Captain of the Middlesex team in 1986.\nBelow was written by BCM editor James Pratt in Volume CXXXIV (134)\, Number 8 (August) page 417-8 : \n“Unfailingly courteous\, formally dressed\, retired London solicitor\, British Master\, Andrew Jonathan Whiteley (9 vi 1946 Birmingham – 8 vii 2014) has died. The son of an Oxford professor\, AJW was British U21 Champion of 1965. He tied\, with Hans Ree\, for first in the European Junior in 1965/6. \nHans Ree (left) and Andrew Whiteley (right) examine the European Junior Trophy for 1965/6 in which they tied for first.\nThe following game first appeared in the Games Department column of Harry Golombek in British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXVI (1966)\, Number 3 (March)\, page 148. It was game #14\,118. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Niemeyer U21-04”]\n[Site “Groningen”]\n[Date “1965.12.28”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Whiteley\, Andrew Jonathan”]\n[Black “Ostojic\, Miodrag”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A56”]\n[Annotator “Andrew Jonathan Whiteley”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “1965.12.27”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “NED”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 1966\, page 148.”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,87\,27\,27\,33\,-10\,13\,43\,37\,44\,47\,39\,50\,54\,51\,53\,62\,68\,62\,61\,74\,69\,69\,69\,\n134\,83\,86\,51\,89\,17\,68\,82\,82\,-60\,137\,131\,156\,167\,158\,148\,186\,179\,191\,202\,189\,\n179\,262\,205\,247\,243\,260\,207\,257\,227\,236\,240\,471\,500\,578\,511\,662\,288\,285\,295\,\n294\,340\,373\,390\,424\,461\,378\,381\,466\,405\,436\,375\,365\,359\,391\,387\,387\,278\,1707\,\n29982\,29997\,29990\,29991\,29992\,29995\,29996]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e5 4. Nc3\nd6 5. e4 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Be2 Na6 8. O-O Nc7 {All “book” so far. Now\, however\,\nI deviated from the usual 9.Ne1\, followed by Nd3 and f4\, and chose instead to\nobtain a small advantage on the Queen’s side.and wait for Black to undertake\nsomething on the King’s side and thereupon to take over the initiiative from\nhim there.} 9. a3 (9. Ne1 a6 10. a4 Rb8) 9… Nfe8 10. b4 b6 $1 {This\nrestricts White’s advanage on the Queen’s side.} 11. Rb1 $2 ({More accurate\nwas at once} 11. Ne1 f5) 11… g6 ({After an immediate} 11… f5 {I intended}\n12. exf5 Bxf5 13. Rb2 {and my control of e4and Black’s weakness on the white\nsquares would have guaranteed me an advantage.}) 12. Ne1 f5 (12… Bg5 {\nwould have given Black excellent chances of equality. But\, having see my poor\nplay in round 1\, he was going all out for a win.}) 13. exf5 {If White allowed\nf4 Black’s King-side attack could become very dangerous.} gxf5 14. f4 $1 {\nThis checks Black’s King’s side offensive.} Bf6 $2 ({Much better was} 14… e4\n$142 {when\, in view of my badly placed Knight on K1\, I would have had\ndifficulty preparing the stock g4}) 15. fxe5 $1 {[#] Now\, suddenly White’s\npieces begin to find strong squares\, while Black in unable to find a good plan.\n} Bxe5 16. Qc2 Ng7 17. Nf3 Bf6 18. bxc5 bxc5 19. Bd3 Kh8 20. Ne2 Bd7 21. Bf4\nNce8 22. Kh1 h5 $2 {White’s pieces are now excellently placed wth a view to\nattacking Black’s weak King’s Bishop pawn. Trying to create a diversion Black\nmerely weakens his King’s Rook’s pawn too.} 23. Ng3 Be7 24. Qd2 Kg8 25. Bg5 h4\n{Otherwise White plays Qf4 followed by Qh4.} 26. Ne2 Nf6 27. Bxh4 Nxd5 28. Bxe7\nNxe7 {[#]} 29. Qh6 $1 {Black had overlooked this strong move. In view of the\nthreat of Ng5 he is forced to surrender his d6 pawn.} Qe8 30. Qxd6 {Having\nthought so long eariler for good moves\, Ostoic was now short of time. He\nmanages to keep tactical threats alive\, but White’s pieces are too well placed\nfor them to have much chance of success.} Rd8 31. Qxc5 Bc6 32. Nf4 Be4 33. Ne5\nBa8 34. Rfe1 Rf6 35. Neg6 Bxg2+ $1 {This gives White most chances of going\nwrong.} 36. Nxg2 (36. Kxg2 $2 Rxg6+ 37. Kh1 Rxd3 38. Nxd3 Qa8+ $19) 36… Qxg6\n37. Qxe7 Rxd3 38. Nf4 Qg4 39. Qxf6 (39. Nxd3 $4 {allows mate in two.} Qf3+ 40.\nKg1 Rg6+ $19) 39… Qxf4 40. Rb2 Rh3 (40… Rd1 $1 41. Qe7 $1 $18) 41. Rg2 Qc7\n42. Re7 (42. Re8+ {also won : the text is more realistic.}) 42… Rxh2+ 43.\nRxh2 Qc6+ 44. Qxc6 1-0[/pgn] \nHe scooped the Silver medal at the British in 1971 and in 1976. Andrew often worked selflessly at his office in the mornings\, commuting to key games after lunch. He rose to be No. 3 or 4 in England and\, always a loyal team man\, shone in Olympiads. Belatedly\, having turned his back on the law\, in 1988\, he became an IM. He was also a BCF Arbiter and Middlesex County organiser. In 2008\, he won the English Senior Championships aged 61. \nHis was a classical chess style. RIP.” \nAndrew Whiteley at the Nice Olympiad of 1974.\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nAndrew Whiteley commentating on Kasparov vs Karpov\nHere is a excellent obituary from his old school\, Magdalen College. \nFM Andrew Whiteley\, IM Julian Hodgson and FM Byron Jacobs at Cappelle Le Grand\, 1988. Photograph by Caroline Winkler\nHere is an obituary from Stewart Reuben on behalf of the English Chess Federation \nAndrew Whiteley receives the Rosebowl trophy from John Poole\nSince 2014 King’s Head Chess Club has held an annual blitz tournament in memory of Andrew featuring many of England’s top players. \nAndrew Whiteley faces David Howell whilst Jimmy Adams records the moves\nHere is a discussion of Andrew on the English Chess Forum \nIM Andrew Whiteley at the first 4NCL weekend of 2012 in November.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-andrew-john-whiteley/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,Hastings,Player,Remembering
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200711
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200712
DTSTAMP:20210708T121536Z
CREATED:20190822T165808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210708T121536Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM David Friedgood (11-vii-1946)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM David Friedgood (11-vii-1946) \nDavid was born in Cape Town\, Republic of South Africa and now resides in England. \nHe first won the South Africa Championship in 1967 in Johannesburg\, again in 1971\, and in 1973 in Cape Town when his main rivals were Piet Kroon and Charles de Villiers. \nHe plays for Cavendish\, Hendon and 4NCL MK Phoenix. \nHe gained his FM title in 1982. \nHis peak rating of 2335 was achieved in January\, 1980. \nDavid Friedgood (far right) and a victorious Wood Green team. Trophy presented by Magnus Magnusson\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 9900 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “2000.05.01”]\n[Round “11.6”]\n[White “Friedgood\, David”]\n[Black “James\, Dale R”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A21”]\n[WhiteElo “2244”]\n[BlackElo “2239”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “31”]\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 “The ADS”]\n[BlackTeam “NW Eagles”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,31\,80\,-15\,-15\,-15\,63\,27\,63\,40\,47\,41\,63\,89\,94\,93\,112\,111\,109\,96\,71\,71\,\n86\,75\,44\,-285\,-287\,-230\,843\,1293\,1293\,1523\,2056\,29988]} 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 f5 3.\nd4 e4 4. Nh3 Nf6 5. Bg5 c6 (5… Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Nf4 c6) 6. Nf4 Be7 7. e3 O-O\n8. c5 d5 9. cxd6 Qxd6 10. Bc4+ Kh8 11. h4 b5 {[#]} 12. Ng6+ $5 (12. Bb3 $142\n$16) 12… hxg6 13. h5 Ng8 $4 (13… Kh7 $1 14. Bb3 Ng4 $17) 14. hxg6+ $18 Nh6\n15. Bxh6 gxh6 16. Qh5 {and it is mate in six.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDavid Friedgood at a Lloyds Bank problem solving event with Sir Jeremy Morse\, Jonathan Mestel and ?\nFM David Friedgood at the 2014 Winton Capital Problem Solving Championship at Eton College
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-friedgood/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Composer,Player,Problemist
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200711
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200712
DTSTAMP:20210708T122041Z
CREATED:20200716T222423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210708T122041Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM A Howard Williams (11-viii-1950)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM A Howard Williams (11-viii-1950)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-arthur-howard-williams-11-viii-1950/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200716
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200717
DTSTAMP:20210708T141006Z
CREATED:20200131T000043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210708T141006Z
UID:3070-1594857600-1594943999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Lawrence Cooper (16-vii-1970)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to IM Lawrence Cooper (16-vii-1970) \nLawrence was born in Stone\, Staffordshire and attend Walton High School\, Stafford. \nLawrence Cooper\, Demis Hassabis\, Cathy Hasslinger  and Dharshan Kumaran in around 1986. Possibly at a Lloyds Bank event.\nHe became a FIDE Master in 1989 and then an International Master in 2001. \nLawrence was awarded the FIDE International Organiser title in 2011 and the FIDE Arbiter title in 2016. \nTim Dickinson and Lawrence Cooper at the 2012 London Chess Classic\, Olympia\nHis peak rating was 2430 in January 1988. \nLawrence plays for Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL)  plus Newport (Shropshire)\, Stafford\, Bushbury and Worcestershire CCA in other competitions. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Midland Open”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1991.03.22”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Cooper\, Lawrence”]\n[Black “Eames\, Bob”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C89”]\n[Annotator “Lawrence Cooper”]\n[PlyCount “129”]\n[EventDate “1991.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “Lawrence Cooper”] \n{[%evp 0\,129\,16\,28\,38\,44\,16\,8\,24\,-16\,6\,3\,16\,-37\,-11\,6\,3\,-55\,-14\,14\,14\,25\,25\,19\,\n19\,16\,19\,11\,10\,17\,17\,-345\,-4\,14\,29\,33\,34\,-28\,78\,43\,98\,79\,171\,105\,144\,115\,304\,\n237\,369\,158\,164\,264\,264\,209\,209\,185\,340\,31\,21\,0\,179\,176\,198\,240\,240\,245\,185\,\n170\,216\,198\,342\,339\,326\,88\,31\,31\,31\,32\,0\,0\,0\,0\,27\,0\,116\,134\,134\,176\,176\,176\,\n138\,100\,253\,233\,236\,175\,353\,342\,468\,468\,468\,476\,497\,497\,503\,535\,543\,547\,411\,\n539\,557\,536\,628\,612\,724\,1103\,1103\,1216\,1262\,1002\,1002\,1012\,1016\,1016\,1016\,1022\,\n1260\,1312\,1312\,1312\,1312\,1312]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O\nBe7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. Rxe5 c6 12. d4\nBd6 13. Re1 Qh4 14. g3 Qh3 15. Be3 Bg4 16. Qd3 Rae8 17. Nd2 Re6 18. a4 bxa4 19.\nRxa4 f5 20. Qf1 Qh5 21. f4 Rfe8 22. Rxa6 Rxe3 23. Rxe3 Rxe3 24. Rxc6 Qe8 25.\nBxd5+ Kf8 26. Ne4 $146 (26. Rxd6 Re1 27. Re6 Rxf1+ 28. Nxf1) 26… fxe4 27.\nRxd6 Rd3 28. Bb3 Qb8 (28… e3 29. Qxd3 (29. Rd8 $2 Qxd8 30. Qxd3 e2 31. Qe4\nQa5 32. Qb1 Qa8 33. Qe1 Qf3) 29… e2 30. Re6 Bxe6 (30… Qxe6 31. Bxe6 e1=Q+\n32. Kg2 Qxe6)) 29. Qa1 Ke7 $2 (29… Qxb3 30. Qa8+ Kf7 31. Qa7+ $11) (29…\nQxd6 30. Qa8+) 30. Qa5 Qxd6 31. Qg5+ Qf6 32. Qxg4 Rd2 33. Qc8 (33. f5) (33. Ba4\n) 33… Qb6 (33… Rxb2) 34. Qg8 (34. Qc4) 34… Rxb2 (34… Qh6 35. Qf7+ Kd8\n36. Qf8+ Kd7 37. Qf5+ Kd8 38. h3) 35. Qxg7+ Kd8 36. Ba4 (36. Qg8+ Kd7 37. Qxh7+\nKc8) 36… Rb1+ 37. Kg2 Rb2+ (37… Qe6) 38. Kh3 Qe6+ 39. g4 e3 40. Qg5+ Kc7 (\n40… Kc8) 41. d5 Qe4 42. d6+ Kb6 (42… Kxd6 43. Qd8+ Ke6 44. Qe8+ Kd5 45.\nQc6#) 43. Qd8+ Ka6 44. d7 Qf3+ (44… e2 45. Qc8+ Ka7 46. Qc7+ Ka6 47. d8=Q\nQf3+ 48. Kh4 e1=Q+ 49. Kg5) 45. Kh4 Rxh2+ 46. Kg5 h6+ 47. Kg6 Qxg4+ $2 (47…\nRd2) 48. Kh7 Qf5+ 49. Kh8 Rd2 50. Qa8+ Kb6 51. Qb8+ Ka6 52. Qa8+ Kb6 53. d8=Q+\nRxd8+ 54. Qxd8+ Kb7 55. Qe7+ Kb6 56. Qxe3+ Kc7 57. Qe5+ Qxe5+ 58. fxe5 Kd8 59.\nKg7 Ke7 60. Kxh6 Ke6 61. Kg5 Kxe5 62. Bb5 Kd5 63. c4+ Kd4 64. Kf4 Kc5 65. Ke5\n1-0\n[/pgn] \nLawrence Cooper (centre with trophy) being presented with 1992 BCF Counties Championship trophy by WIM Cathy Forbes. Others in the group include Michael Gough\, Alan A Smith\, Gerald Acey\, Mike P Townsend\, Malcolm Armstrong\, Martin Costley\, Alan Crombleholme\, Graeme N Buckley\, Paul Wallace\, Mark A . Wheeler\, Dave Carless\, Darren P Wheeler\, Keith Thompson\, Ralph MA Allen and Graham Smith\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUbR118yiFo[/embedyt] \nFull caption in image below\nFull caption for above 1986 BCF Junior Squad group photograph\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlehK0SY2I8[/embedyt] \n  \nIM Lawrence Cooper\, photography by Fiona Steil-Antoni
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-lawrence-h-cooper-16-vii-1970/
CATEGORIES:Arbiter,Birthday,British Championships,Organiser,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200717
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200718
DTSTAMP:20210710T142153Z
CREATED:20200720T093008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210710T142153Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Dr. Julian Farrand QC (Hon) (13-viii-1935 17-vii-2020)
DESCRIPTION:BCN mourns the passing of Dr. Julian Farrand (13-viii-1935 17-vii-2020). He was 84 years of age. \nJulian Thomas Farrand was born August 13th\, 1935 in Doncaster in the West Riding of Yorkshire. \nDr. Farrand QC(Hon)\, formerly the Insurance Ombudsman\, became the Pensions Ombudsman\, and he had been a Law Commissioner and a University Professor of Law at the University of Manchester where he was Dean of the faculty. \nMost recently he lived in Morpeth\, London\, SW1. \nDr JULIAN FARRAND Pensions Ombudsman COMPULSORY CREDIT: UPPA/Photoshot Photo UKWT 011879/A-32a 31.07.1996\nHis first recorded game in Megabase 2020 was white at the 1968 British Championships in Bristol against life-long friend CGM Keith Bevan Richardson. Together with Raymond Brunton Edwards\, Julian and Keith were long-time trustees of the BCFs Permanent Invested Fund (PIF). \nJulian played for Pimlico\, Cavendish and Insurance in the London League and he maintained a standard play grading of 172A in 2020 as well as a FIDE rating of 1943 for standard play. He also played in the London Public Services League\, the Central London League and the City Chess Association League. He made regular appearances in the Bronowski Trophy competition and the World Senior’s Team Tournament. \nHis (according to Megabase 2020) peak Elo rating was 2238 in April\, 2004 aged 69. It is likely to have been higher than that if it was measured. \nJulian joined Barbican following its merger with Perception Youth to become Barbican Youth in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nHis favourite openings with white were : The Richter-Veresov Opening in later years and the English/Barcza Opening in earlier times. \nWith Black he enjoyed the Czech System and the Lenningrad Dutch. \nHis son\, Tom\, is a strong player and a successful barrister with expertise in Intellectual Property Rights\, Trademarks and Copyright law. \nHis wife (married in 1992)\, Baroness Hale of Richmond\, served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020\, and serves as a member of the House of Lords as a Lord Temporal. \nJulian Farrand with Lady Hale at a Buckingham Palace reception. Photo : Press Association\nMemorial messages have been posted on the English Chess Forum and many will\, no doubt\, follow. Included are older games from John Saunders not found in the online databases. \nIn 2015 Julian (together with fellow trustees Keith Richardson and Ray Edwards) received the ECF President’s Award for services to the Permanent Invested Fund. \nHere is the citation from the 2015 award : \n“Julian is best known as the first-ever English ombudsman (in insurance). He is the husband of law lord Baroness Hale. I (SR) first met him at about the age of 12 year old when playing for my school. He is about four years older. Both Ray and Julian are members of the Book of the Year Committee and have been reviewing books for this purpose for many years. Both are quite strong chess players\, indeed playing for England in the same team in the European 60+ Team Championship in Vienna 11-20 July 2015. Keith was to have been a member of the same team\, but his wife’s ill-health forced him to withdraw.” \nHere is an obituary from The Times of London \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT2 0607 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Sunningdale”]\n[Date “2006.09.16”]\n[Round “1.2”]\n[White “Pritchett\, IM Craig William”]\n[Black “Farrand\, Julian Thomas”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2289”]\n[BlackElo “2154”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “52”]\n[EventDate “2006.09.16”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 115 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.01.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.01.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Barbican II”]\n[BlackTeam “Barbican Youth”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,52\,19\,27\,67\,63\,66\,63\,64\,37\,124\,124\,103\,80\,97\,88\,105\,104\,116\,78\,77\,66\,\n70\,56\,69\,80\,72\,74\,69\,44\,56\,56\,64\,62\,62\,62\,69\,62\,53\,45\,-56\,-56\,-83\,-313\,-345\,\n-303\,-378\,-430\,-491\,-755\,-363\,-341\,-347\,-398\,-291]} 1. Nf3 d6 2. d4 Nd7 3. e4\nc6 4. Bc4 d5 5. exd5 Nb6 6. Bd3 cxd5 7. O-O e6 $146 (7… Nf6) 8. a4 a6 9. a5\nNd7 10. c4 dxc4 11. Bxc4 Bd6 12. d5 e5 13. Nc3 Ngf6 14. Bg5 Qc7 15. Qe2 O-O 16.\nRfc1 h6 17. Bh4 Re8 18. Bd3 Qb8 19. Bc2 $2 {[#]} e4 $1 20. Bxf6 (20. Nd2) (20.\nNxe4 $2 Nxe4 21. Bxe4 f5 $19) 20… Nxf6 21. Ne1 Bxh2+ 22. Kh1 Bf4 $19 23. Rcb1\nBg4 24. Qf1 Qe5 25. g3 Bd2 26. Bd1 Bxe1 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is an obituary from Stewart Reuben \nProf. Julian T Farrand at the King’s Place Rapidplay\, 2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nLove All Risks by Julian Farrand
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-prof-julian-t-farrand-13-viii-1935-17-vii-2020/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200725
DTSTAMP:20210724T113420Z
CREATED:20191106T163952Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210724T113420Z
UID:1792-1595548800-1595635199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Marcus Harvey (24-vii-1996)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to FM Marcus Ross Harvey born on this day (Wednesday\, July 24th) in 1996. Killing Me Softly by the Fugees was top of the hit parade. \nMarcus was born in Oxford and attended The Marlborough School\, Woodstock\, Oxfordshire and then (in 2014) at The University of Southampton he studied mathematics. \nOriginally playing for Bicester Marcus now represents Witney Chess Club in local leagues. \nMarcus first played in the British Championship in 2011 (Sheffield). \nMarcus Harvey at the 2013 King’s Place Rapidplay\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nOriginally playing for Oxford he now plays for Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) and Southampton University in the Southampton League. \nMarcus playing IM Yang-Fan Zhou at the 2013 Delancey UKCC Terafinal at Loughborough Grammar School. Courtesy of John Upham Photography.\nIn 2014 Marcus won the title of “Strat” (the overall Terafinal winner) of the 2014 Delancey UK Chess Challenge at Loughborough Grammar School. \nMarcus Harvey at the 2013 Delancey UKCC Terafinal at Loughborough Grammar School\, courtesy of John Upham Photography.\nMarcus has a FIDE rating of 2440 and an ECF grading of 240. \n2014 Delancey UKCC Terafinal winner\, Marcus Harvey at Loughborough Grammar School. Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nIn 2018 he won the Witney Open outright with 4/5 and\, in the same year\, was runner-up to David Howell in the UK Blitz Open with 12.5/15 and a of 2589. \nIn 2019 he was =1st (with Mark Hebden) in the 4NCL Easter Open in Stevenage. Later that year Marcus was losing semi-finalist (to Gawain Jones) in the London Classic Blitz Knockout. \nMarcus\, on home ground\, won the 43rd Kidlington Open in 2020 and followed this with and is the current 2020 English Online Blitz Champion beating IM Andrew Greet\, FM Jonah Willow\, IM Ameet Ghasi and IM Andrew Horton in the final. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8zw7N-bl8[/embedyt] \nIn the Pro chess league he represents UK Lions. \nMarcus Harvey’s FIDE rating profile according to Megabase 2020\nOn 6th November 2019 we reported that Marcus had obtained his second International Master norm at the recent (October 2019) Hull 4NCL International Congress by scoring 4.5/9 with wins over IM Andrew Greet and IM Richard Palliser. \nOn July 17th 2021 Marcus was joint winner with IM Peter Roberson in the 1st Chessfest Decode Rapidplay with an impressive 6/6 and a TPR of 2911. \nMarcus overcame Rory McLean\, Theo Koury\, Steven Coles\, FM Alexis Harakis\, CM Jonathan Pein and rapidplay / blitz specialist IM Ameet Ghasi to share first place. \nMarcus enjoys playing the Smyslov-Larsen opening with white \n[fen cal=Gb2b3] rnbqkbnr/ppp1pppp/8/3p4/8/1P3N2/P1PPPPPP/RNBQKB1R b KQkq – 0 1 [/fen] \nand the classical French and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \nIt is clear that Marcus is now easily of IM strength and surely is a strong candidate for England’s next Grandmaster. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hull 4NCL International GM Event”]\n[Site “Hull”]\n[Date “2019.10.31”]\n[Round “3.3”]\n[White “Palliser\, Richard J D”]\n[Black “Harvey\, Marcus Ross”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C11”]\n[WhiteElo “2413”]\n[BlackElo “2405”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “72”]\n[EventDate “2019.10.30”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,72\,39\,30\,41\,30\,30\,17\,53\,37\,39\,0\,20\,17\,35\,33\,42\,25\,49\,27\,27\,17\,21\,11\,\n11\,12\,10\,13\,15\,6\,14\,18\,91\,81\,82\,68\,66\,113\,113\,113\,113\,72\,92\,76\,101\,74\,76\,51\,32\,\n0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,5\,2\,2\,-5\,2\,-7\,-18\,-164\,-164\,-164\,-172\,-181\,-147\,-241\,-233\,\n-289\,-314]} 1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 2. d4 {[%emt 0:00:05]}\nd5 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 3. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 4. e5 {\n[%emt 0:00:13]} Nfd7 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 5. f4 {[%emt 0:00:09]} c5 6. Nf3 {\n[%emt 0:00:06]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:01:48]} 7. Be3 {[%emt 0:00:06]} a6 {[%emt 0:00:33]\n} 8. Qd2 {[%emt 0:00:21]} Qb6 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 9. O-O-O {[%emt 0:00:30]} Qa5 {\n[%emt 0:00:04]} 10. dxc5 {[%emt 0:00:45]} Bxc5 {[%emt 0:00:31]} 11. Nd4 $146 {\n[%emt 0:03:48]} (11. Bxc5 Nxc5 12. Kb1 b5 13. Bd3 $11) 11… Nxd4 {[%emt 0:02:\n48]} 12. Bxd4 {[%emt 0:00:05]} b5 {[%emt 0:00:26]} 13. Kb1 {[%emt 0:00:18]} b4\n{[%emt 0:01:55]} 14. Ne2 {[%emt 0:00:10]} Bb7 {[%emt 0:00:22]} 15. g4 {[%emt 0:\n15:41]} Nb6 {[%emt 0:06:40]} 16. f5 {[%emt 0:04:55]} O-O-O {[%emt 0:10:34]} 17.\nNf4 {[%emt 0:13:58]} Nc4 {[%emt 0:02:36]} 18. Qf2 {[%emt 0:00:20]} Bxd4 {\n[%emt 0:00:36]} 19. Qxd4 {[%emt 0:00:44]} g5 {[%emt 0:02:31]} 20. Nd3 {[%emt 0:\n04:42]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:13:20]} 21. h4 {[%emt 0:19:37]} h6 {[%emt 0:00:58]} 22.\nhxg5 {[%emt 0:06:10]} hxg5 {[%emt 0:00:18]} 23. Rxh8 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Rxh8 $14\n{[%emt 0:00:06]} 24. Nxb4 $6 {[%emt 0:00:17]} (24. fxe6 $142 fxe6 $11) 24…\nQxe5 {[%emt 0:00:38]} 25. Qc5+ {[%emt 0:02:22]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:00:20]} 26. Qa7 {\n[%emt 0:06:06]} Qb8 {[%emt 0:00:19]} 27. Qc5+ {[%emt 0:00:30]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:00:\n05]} 28. Qa7 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Qd6 {[%emt 0:21:23]} 29. a3 {[%emt 0:06:01]} Rh1\n{[%emt 0:01:09]} 30. fxe6 {[%emt 0:01:31]} fxe6 {[%emt 0:01:17]} 31. Qd4 {\n[%emt 0:03:20]} Qf4 {[%emt 0:04:42]} (31… e5 32. Qf2) 32. Qxf4 $2 {[%emt 0:\n04:08]} (32. Qc5+ $142 Kb8 33. Be2 Rxd1+ 34. Bxd1 Qf1 35. Kc1 Qf4+ 36. Kb1 $11)\n32… gxf4 $19 {[%emt 0:00:16][%cal Gc4d2\,Gh1f1]} 33. Be2 Rh2 {[%emt 0:01:17]}\n34. Bd3 {[%emt 0:01:35]} f3 {[%emt 0:02:37]} 35. Re1 {[%emt 0:03:42]} a5 {\n[%emt 0:01:28]} 36. Na2 {[%emt 0:00:29]} f2 $19 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFM Marcus Ross Harvey
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Anthony Kosten (24-vii-1958)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Anthony Cornelis Kosten (24-vii-1958) \nTony was born in North Eastern Surrey\, and eventually relocated to France where he now resides. \nTony is married to Gyongyver Kosten-Forintos\, the daughter of Hungarian Grandmaster Győző Forintos. \nStreatham & Brixton becoming BCF National Club Champions in 1989. The team was Tony Kosten\, Mark Hedben\, Daniel King\, Nigel Povah (Captain)\, Joe Gallagher and Julian Hodgson : quite a strong team\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nTony played for Lower Earley and played in the Berkshire League and for Streatham & Brixton in the National Club competition. \nHe was =3rd in the 1982 British Championship in Torquay (won by Tony Miles) \nHe was =2nd in the 1984 Robert Silk Young Masters. \nHe won the Berkshire Chess Association Quickplay title in 1985. \nTony was runner-up to Yuri Balashov at Minsk 1986. \nHe won Naujac 2000 with 7.5/9 \nTony won many other events : See his Wikipedia entry for details. \nTony Kosten (fourth from left) at a NatWest Bank sponsored event\nTony is the founder of chesspublishing.com\, a subscription based web site specialising in cutting edge opening theory with many contributors. \nHe plays for Guildford in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) is registered as a member of the French federation. He also plays for Schott Mainz in the German Team Championship. \nAccording to Megabase 2020 his highest FIDE rating was 2551 in July 2002 at the age of 44. \nWith the white pieces Tony prefers the Ruy Lopez and Giuoco Piano with the English coming a close second. \nWith black Tony defends the Lopez and the Nimzo-Indian defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BL2-Ost 9899”]\n[Site “Germany”]\n[Date “1998.12.13”]\n[Round “3.1”]\n[White “Kosten\, Anthony C”]\n[Black “Pribyl\, Josef”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[WhiteElo “2515”]\n[BlackElo “2430”]\n[Annotator “Kosten\,Antony”]\n[PlyCount “101”]\n[EventDate “1998.10.18”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[SourceTitle “GER-chT2”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Schott Mainz”]\n[BlackTeam “Bamberg”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “GER”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “GER”] \n{[%evp 0\,101\,27\,41\,73\,77\,92\,75\,87\,68\,70\,67\,65\,46\,40\,45\,61\,35\,38\,10\,5\,16\,33\,3\,\n13\,22\,22\,17\,20\,7\,27\,18\,75\,19\,22\,-2\,32\,18\,24\,22\,78\,54\,60\,52\,69\,35\,64\,88\,97\,106\,\n137\,113\,135\,63\,148\,112\,115\,101\,110\,122\,153\,169\,169\,159\,166\,170\,150\,123\,116\,81\,\n96\,93\,138\,125\,119\,148\,148\,163\,192\,192\,183\,177\,177\,192\,179\,196\,195\,196\,222\,222\,\n363\,398\,579\,586\,586\,386\,29989\,29988\,29989\,29990\,29991\,29992\,29993\,29994]} 1. e4\n{Somewhat unusual for me. I haven’t played this very often in serious games\nfor many years\, as I normally prefer the English Opening. Why\, you are\nprobably wondering\, did I play it here\, then? For the simple reason that\, in\nmy preparation\, I noticed that my opponent liked to play Hanham’s Variation of\nPhilidor’s Defence. Not that there is anything wrong with that\, it is a good\ndefence\, it is just that I have played it many times myself\, as Black\, and\nhave even written a book about the Philidor. So\, I hoped that my opponent\nwould play the Philidor against me\, but I didn’t think that he would dare!} d6\n{Phew! I don’t know what I would have done if he had played something else!} 2.\nd4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e5 {I believe this to be the best way to reach this position for\nBlack\, as the endgame following 4 dxe5 dxe5 5 Qxd8+ Kxd8 is nothing much for\nWhite.} 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. Bc4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. a4 c6 {Thus\, we have reached one\nof the main Hanham positions. There were several different lines that I wanted\nto try\, but eventually I decided to play an aggressive one.} 8. Ba2 b6 9. Be3\nBb7 10. Nd2 {This is a good move\, sometimes the knight can come to c4\, to\npressurise the d6-square\, but I had another idea in mind.} a6 {Correct\, Black\nprepares his queenside counterplay with …b5\, if White does nothing he can\neasily find himself at a disadvantage.} 11. f4 {The point\, and similar to a\nplan Alekhine once employed\, White opens the f-file.} b5 12. Qf3 exd4 {I think\nthat this is the right moment for this\, otherwise\, White might play dxe5\, and\nf5\, g4-g5\, with a powerful attack.} 13. Bxd4 b4 14. Ne2 c5 15. Be3 Qc7 16. Ng3\nRae8 {Black targets the e4-pawn\, and restricts White’s mobility.} 17. Bf2 {\nThis seems like a waste of a move\, but e4 needed defending.} Bd8 18. Rfe1 {\nThe f-rook comes here\, because the a-rook has its place ready on the open\nd-file.} Qc6 {I had half-expected my opponent to try the pawn sacrifice} (18…\nd5 $5 {when} 19. exd5 Nb6 20. Nde4 Nxe4 21. Nxe4 c4 {offers Black reasonable\ncompensation\, as the black pieces seem active.}) 19. Bb3 {Played with the\nintention of continuing 20 a5\, and 21 Ba4\, which explains my opponent’s reply.}\na5 20. Bc4 $1 {Coming to b5\, there are a lot of black pieces on the a4-e8\ndiagonal!} Qc7 {With this pawn structure\, Black can ill-afford to exchange\nlight-squared bishops by} (20… Ba6 21. Rad1 {as if} Bxc4 22. Nxc4 {the\nd6-pawn becomes a real problem.}) 21. Rad1 g6 {Finally\, Black defends against\nthe threat of Nf5.} 22. Bb5 Re6 $6 {Perhaps Black should have taken the\nopportunity to get rid of his backward d-pawn by} (22… d5 23. e5 d4 {\nalthough\, it is true\, after} 24. Nge4 {Black’s light squares are weak.}) 23.\nNc4 Rfe8 24. f5 $1 Rxe4 {Of course\, Black is forced into giving-up the\nexchange as} (24… gxf5 $2 25. Nxf5 Nxe4 26. Bxd7 Qxd7 27. Qg4+ {wins\,} Rg6 $4\n28. Nh6+ {and the queen is lost.}) 25. Nxe4 Rxe4 26. Rxe4 Bxe4 27. Qe2 d5 28.\nBg3 Qa7 29. fxg6 $1 {The sting in the tail\, which reduces Black’s compensation\nfor the exchange to just one pawn.} hxg6 30. Nd6 {The second point\, White will\nexchange Black’s powerful e4-bishop.} c4+ 31. Bf2 (31. Kh1 $1 {may have been\neven better\, but I had seen a way to a simple win\, and so I didn’t hesitate.})\n31… Bb6 32. Bxd7 Nxd7 33. Nxe4 dxe4 34. Bxb6 Qxb6+ 35. Kh1 Qc6 {The position\nis quite lost for Black\, for instance\, the tactical} (35… Nf6 {loses a pawn\nto} 36. Qxc4 {as} Ng4 $4 {is impossible:} 37. Qc8+ {picking-up the knight.})\n36. Qd2 $1 {Black is given no time to set up his defence.} Nf8 {Unfortunately\nfor Black\, the natural move} (36… Nf6 {allows} 37. Qd8+ Kg7 $4 (37… Kh7 {\nis better\, but} 38. Qe7 {forces} Qe6 {which is hopeless.}) 38. Rd6) 37. Qd5\nQxa4 38. Qxc4 e3 39. b3 Qe8 40. Re1 {Winning the e-pawn. I expected my\nopponent to resign here\, but he must have felt that he still had a chance.} Qe5\n41. Qd3 Qb2 42. h3 {A precaution against back-rank mates.} Ne6 43. Rxe3 Nd4 44.\nKh2 a4 45. bxa4 Nxc2 46. Re8+ Kg7 47. Qd6 Qc1 {This allows White to force mate\nin two different ways\, but which one should I choose?} 48. Qf8+ (48. Qe5+ f6 {\namount to the same} 49. Re7+ Kh6 50. Qxf6 {but why allow a spite check?}) 48…\nKf6 49. Qh8+ Kg5 50. Qe5+ f5 51. Qe7+ (51. Qe7+ Kh5 52. Rh8+ Qh6 53. g3 $1 Qxh8\n54. Qh4#) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nTony Kosten\nWinning Endgames\, Crowood\, 1987\nWinning with the Philidor\, Batsford\, 1992\n101 Tips to Improve your Chess\, Batsford\, 1996\nThe Dynamic English\, Gambit\, 1999
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Julian Hodgson (25-vii-1963)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Julian Hodgson on his birthday\, this day July 25th in 1963. \nJulian Michael Hodgson was born in Hammersmith\, West London son of (Ronald) George Hodgson and Johanna Hodgson (née Birch). \nJulian has claimed to be a descendent of George Jeffreys\, 1st Baron Jeffreys and we are looking to establish this claim following further research. \nJulian attended St. Paul’s School (See below) and then attended The University of Leicester for one year. \nJulian married Lizette and David Norwood was his Best Man. \nJulian and Lizette Hodgson\n(Curiously both Felice and Gaige state Julian was born in Saint Asaph in Wales.) \nJulian Hodgson\nHarry Golombek wrote this about Julian in a 1980 Dataday chess diary : \n“I think that the first time I saw Julian Hodgson in play was some four years ago in a London tournament. Upon my arrival Leonard Barden told him that he must now be careful how he played as Golombek was watching. \nJulian and Nigel Short play Korchnoi in a simul. Leonard Barden observes.\n“Who”\, enquired the twelve-year old Julian\, “is Golombek?” \nNeil Carr and Julian Hodgson at the 1976 Lloyds Bank Match by Telex\, London – New York. From BCM\, volume XCVI (96) Number 11 (August)\, Page 494. The venue was the Bloomsbury Hotel\, London. Photo courtesy of Lloyds Bank.\nI felt grateful at the time that he did not say who or what is Golombek but I tell this story chiefly to show the cheerful insouciance with which Master Hodgson treated all comers whether chess masters or chess rabbits. \nJulian playing Simon L Triggs. Event and photographer unknown\nJulian astonishing maturity as a player has been impressive ever since at the age of ten\, he won the Southern Counties Under 14 Championships in 1973. Since then he has acquired a host of such championships culminating in the British Under-21 Championship in 1977. \nStreatham & Brixton becoming BCF National Club Champions in 1989. The team was Tony Kosten\, Mark Hedben\, Daniel King\, Nigel Povah (Captain)\, Joe Gallagher and Julian Hodgson : quite a strong team\nPerhaps his most remarkable performance so far has been his equal 3rd in a strong challengers section at Hastings where he scored 7.5 out of 10. 1977 was a good year for him and here\, from the Lloyds Bank Silver Jubilee Tournament of that year is his fine win over a strong opponent : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lloyds Bank op 01”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1977.09.01”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Large\, Peter G”]\n[Black “Hodgson\, Julian M”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D40”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “90”]\n[EventDate “1977.08.26”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2008”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. a3 Ne4 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Bd3\nNxc3 9. bxc3 Bd6 $146 (9… Be7) 10. O-O c4 11. Bc2 f5 $1 12. a4 Qe7 13. Re1\nO-O 14. Nd2 Bd7 15. f3 Qh4 16. Nf1 (16. f4) 16… Rf6 17. g3 Qh3 18. Qe2 Re8\n19. Qg2 Qh5 (19… Qxg2+ 20. Kxg2 Na5 $15) 20. Ba3 Bc7 21. f4 Qf7 22. Nd2 Rfe6\n23. Kf2 Ba5 24. Bb2 Ne7 25. Nf3 Rb6 26. Ne5 $2 {[#]} Rxb2 $1 27. Nxf7 Rxc2+ 28.\nRe2 Rxe2+ 29. Kxe2 Kxf7 $19 30. Kd2 Bc6 31. g4 Nc8 32. gxf5 Nd6 33. Rg1 Nxf5\n34. Qh3 Bd7 35. Qxh7 Rxe3 36. Rxg7+ Nxg7 37. Kxe3 Bxc3 38. h4 Bf5 39. Qh8 Bg6\n40. Ke2 Bxd4 41. Qd8 Be4 42. Qd7+ Kg6 43. Qg4+ Kh7 44. h5 c3 45. h6 Nf5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is his entry (written by Richard W O’Brien) in British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983\, Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson) : \n“Following a series of excellent results Julian\, at the tender age of 11\, became the second youngest ever to play in an international tournament when he took part in the London Chess Club International Invitation tournament in September 1974. Only Reshevsky had been younger. Julian’s first opponent was Michael Woodhams\, an Australian international who had just scored 15.5/18 in the recent Olympiad (Nice) \nThe following year he became the youngest player ever to win the London Amateur Championship. A year later he reached a grading of 200 (BCF)\, only Reshevsky\, Pomar\, Karpov and Kasparov had done so at an earlier age. \nBy now he was at St. Paul’s School\, which was in the process of becoming one of the strongest chess playing schools in the country. In 1977 he shared first place with WN Watson (also St. Paul’s) in the British U21 Championship. Progress was however not as fast as had at one time been anticipated \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzDlmKyurM[/embedyt] \nIt was at Ramsgate\, late in 1980 before his first IM norm. A month later he finished second in the Hastings Challenger. Other good results followed in 1981. First he was selected for the Glorney Cup and shortly afterwards did well to come fourteenth in the British Championship (Morecambe). He represented England in the World Youth Team championships scoring 4/6. His second IM norm followed when he shared fifth place at Manchester in the same year. Good results in weekend congresses meant that he finished fourth in the Leigh Grand Prix. The year had finished with Julian needing a draw in the last round at Ramsgate to get his title. He lost and was to wait another 12 months to achieve his final norm. \nThe England Team from the 1990 Novi Sad Olympiad : John Nunn\, Jon Speelman\, Julian Hodgson\, David Anderton OBE (Captain)\, Nigel Short\, Michael Adams and Murray Chandler\nWhen the final norm came it arrived out of the blue. With a score of 2.5/5 at Lewisham in November 1982 the chances seemed remote\, 3.5/4 was required against a strong field and it even seemed doubtful whether he could actually play those he needed to play. He scored 2.5/3 and now had to play Jon Tisdall\, who still had a chance of winning the tournament. \nJulian finished second equal in the tournament behind Jim Plaskett who had beaten him earlier. \nJulian Hodgson\nThe next six weeks saw Julian come equal first in the Pergamon sponsored British Lightning championship\, a highly creditable sixth in the Nightflight International at Brighton (equivalent to an IM rating) and second place yet again in the Hastings Challengers. \nJohn Delaney plays Julian Hodgson at the Bath Zonal Tournament in 1987\nEarlier in 1983 he scored 6.5/9 at Lugano\, probably Europe’s strongest ever Swiss (Swiss !) tournament\, losing narrowly to Jan Timman. \nJulian Hodgson. Event and photographer unknown.\nHe left Leicester University after just one year preferring to concentrate on chess. \nFM Andrew Whiteley\, IM Julian Hodgson and FM Byron Jacobs at Cappelle Le Grand\, 1988. Photograph by Caroline Winkler\nHe plays fairly regularly for Streatham & Brixton Chess Club which encouraged juniors for several years. Daniel King is another junior who also played frequently for Streatham. ” \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Lewisham op 2nd”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1982.11.30”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Tisdall\, Jonathan D”]\n[Black “Hodgson\, Julian M”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A40”]\n[WhiteElo “2410”]\n[Annotator “Julian Hodgson”]\n[PlyCount “100”]\n[EventDate “1982.11.22”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2008”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,100\,19\,31\,113\,114\,97\,101\,108\,123\,114\,88\,126\,84\,87\,67\,62\,65\,48\,47\,76\,\n43\,42\,36\,44\,47\,73\,45\,42\,45\,105\,117\,116\,98\,112\,88\,88\,90\,134\,64\,83\,41\,87\,41\,63\,\n77\,64\,62\,55\,71\,112\,32\,83\,73\,87\,110\,149\,-23\,-26\,-81\,-60\,-54\,-76\,-80\,-9\,-28\,-11\,\n-44\,4\,-33\,-17\,-123\,-67\,-272\,-74\,-73\,20\,-57\,-18\,-47\,-100\,-100\,-148\,-346\,-346\,\n-449\,-488\,-507\,-507\,-507\,-525\,-554\,-554\,-838\,-920\,-920\,-920\,-994\,-681\,-703\,\n-692\,-712\,-453] This game was important to me. I needed to win with the Black\npieces against a strong International Master to gain my third and final IM\nnorm. It was a game of many errors but nevertheless for me a satisfying one.}\n1. d4 b5 $5 {This may seem an unusual move to play in such important\ncircumstances. But it has served me well in the past and I wanted an\nunbalanced position.} 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bxb5 {White accepts the challenge. This is\none of the strongest continuations against the Polish Defence.} Bxe4 4. Nf3 e6\n5. O-O Nf6 6. Re1 Be7 7. Bg5 Bb7 8. c4 $1 {This is much better} ({than} 8. Nc3\n{when it is Black who will have the advantage due to to far greater control of\nthe centre.} O-O 9. Qe2 d6 10. Rad1 Nbd7 11. Bc1) 8… O-O 9. Nc3 d6 $2 {\nIt may seem strange to give this move a question mark but it was essential} ({\nto play} 9… h6 {first and commit the black squared bishop first.}) 10. Qe2\nNbd7 11. d5 $1 e5 {White has bind on the Queenside and\, as will become evident\nBlack will find it extremely difficult to organise counterplay on the kingside.\n} 12. Rad1 h6 {Now it is too late !} 13. Bc1 $1 Qc8 {The start of a faulty\nplan.} ({I dismissed} 13… Ne8 {on account of} 14. Nd4 $1 {when white has a\nclear advantage.}) {I underestimated white’s next move.} 14. Nh4 $1 ({I had\nexpected} 14. b4 a5 15. a3 axb4 16. axb4 c6 17. dxc6 Bxc6 {when I thought\nWhite had only a slight advantage. The move played was much stronger.}) 14…\nNb6 15. Qf3 $1 Qd8 $16 {[#] An admission of defeat. White’s last five moves\nhave been extremely accurate and he now stands much better. Fortunately my\nopponent spent quite a long time finding the “best moves”.} 16. Nf5 Bc8 17. c5\nBxf5 18. Qxf5 Nbd7 19. cxd6 cxd6 {It was about this time that my opponent\nseemed to become agitated. My position was more resilient than he thought.\nNevertheless he does miss several very strong continuations in the next couple\nof moves.} 20. Qh3 h5 {I could not think of anything else. As you will see\nthis pawn has a great future.} 21. Ne4 Nxe4 22. Rxe4 f5 23. Rc4 ({Stronger is}\n23. Ra4 {when Black is losing a pawn} {though after} Nc5 24. Ra3 Bg5 $1 {\nBlack is not without chances}) 23… h4 $1 24. Be3 g5 25. Qf3 Rf7 (25… g4 $2\n{is met by} 26. Rxg4+ $1 $18 fxg4 (26… Kh7 27. Bd3) 27. Qxg4+ Kh8 28. Qh5+\nKg8 29. Rd4 $1 Rf7 30. Rg4+ Rg7 31. Rxg7+ Kxg7 32. Bh6+ Kh8 33. Bg5+ Kg8 34.\nQg6+ Kh8 35. Qh6+ Kg8 36. Qe6+ Kg7 37. Bxe7 $18) 26. Bc6 Rb8 27. Bxa7 Rxb2 28.\nQc3 $2 $13 {The position is now unclear but I feel that Black is over the\nworst.} ({White should have played} 28. Qa3 $1 Re2 $8 29. Kf1 Re4 30. Rxe4 fxe4\n$16 {when the white a-pawn will take some stopping}) 28… Rxa2 29. Ba4 Nb6 $1\n$17 {My opponent had overlooked this move.} 30. Qb3 Nxc4 31. Qxa2 Nb6 32. Rb1\nNd7 33. Qc2 Bf8 34. h3 e4 $1 {White now should have considered exchanging his\nwhite squared bishop for Black’s knight.} 35. Rb7 (35. Bxd7 Rxd7 36. Be3 Bg7)\n35… Ne5 36. Rb8 Qf6 $2 (36… Qa5 $1 {is winning.} {At the time I had seen}\n37. Be3 Qe1+ 38. Kh2 g4 {when I thought} 39. Bf4 {was holding} {but now comes}\ne3 $1 (39… g3+ 40. fxg3 (40. Bxg3 Ng4+ 41. hxg4 hxg3+ 42. Kxg3 f4+ 43. Kh4\nQh1+ 44. Kg5 Qh6#) 40… hxg3+ 41. Bxg3 Ng4+ 42. hxg4 Rh7+ 43. Bh4 Rxh4#)) 37.\nBb6 Kh7 38. Be8 Rg7 39. Qc8 g4 {Black now threatens 40…Nf3+ and 41…Qa1+\nmating} 40. hxg4 Rxg4 41. Kf1 $8 h3 $1 42. Bd8 {[#] An incredible postion has\nbeen reached in which all White’s pieces are on Black’s back row. Black is\nwinning by just one tempo.} hxg2+ 43. Ke2 Be7 ({Simplest is} 43… g1=Q 44.\nBxf6 Rf4 {but I wanted two queens and almost paid for my greed.}) 44. Bxe7 Qxe7\n45. Bh5 $1 {White’s only chance. This move came as a complete shock.} ({After}\n45. Qxf5+ Kg7 {White can do nothing.}) 45… Qf6 $1 ({I had visions of such\nlines as} 45… Qg7 46. Qxf5+ Kh6 47. Bxg4 Qxg4+ 48. Qxg4 Nxg4 49. Rb1 {\nand Black will certainly not win.}) 46. Bxg4 fxg4 47. Qg8+ Kh6 48. Rf8 Qf3+ $1\n49. Rxf3 exf3+ ({Prettier would have been} 49… gxf3+ 50. Ke3 Ng6) 50. Ke3\ng1=Q {White will soon run out of checks.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvPoW-cmBk4[/embedyt] \nThis is what was written about Julian prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : “St Paul’s and Shepherds Bush. Rating 210. Standard London Amateur Champion at age 12\, 1975. \nStandard London under-18 champion\, 1976. British under-21 co-champion\, 1977. Youngest ever to beat two grandmasters in successive games\, 1978.” \nJulian Hodgson drawn by Rupert van der Linden\nJulian was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1997-98 season. \nJulian has claimed that he is a descended from the (in)famous “hanging judge” Jeffries ! \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAazprr0Kbw[/embedyt] \nJulian is the in-house chess teacher at Westminster School. \nHere is his Wikipedia entry : \nGM Julian Hodgson\nAside from more formal achievements\, he developed a sharp\, relentless\, attacking style of play and against lesser opponents this frequently resulted in devastating quick wins\, earning him the epithet “Grandmaster of Disaster”. \nHans Ree plays Julian Hodgson at the Cannes Team Tournament\, 1992\nHodgson’s greatest legacy as a chess player may however lie in his resurrection of an almost forgotten opening system. The Trompowsky Attack (1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5) had floundered in the doldrums for many years\, prior to his adoption and development of the opening. In interviews\, he reveals that this was born out of laziness and a reluctance to learn established chess opening theory. It soon became his weapon of choice with the white pieces\, leading to a surprising popularisation of the system\, the spawning of a whole generation of devotees and ironically\, a number of theoretical guides\, containing a high quota of Hodgson’s own games and analysis. Indeed\, his expert treatment of the system once prompted fellow grandmaster Joe Gallagher to write that it should be renamed the Hodgson–Trompowsky Attack\, a view shared by many other masters. A chess journalist once wrote that Hodgson put the ‘romp’ into Trompowsky. \nA related\, but more obscure version of the system (1.d4 d5 2.Bg5)\, has been dubbed by some the Hodgson Attack and by others the Pseudo-Trompowsky or Queen’s Bishop Attack. \n[fen]rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/5n2/6B1/3P4/8/PPP1PPPP/RN1QKBNR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nand \n[fen]rnbqkbnr/ppp1pppp/8/3p2B1/3P4/8/PPP1PPPP/RN1QKBNR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nJulian\, Dominic Lawson and Matthew Sadler\nChess Traveller’s Quiz Book\, Julian Hodgson\, Cadogan Press\, 1996\, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1857440300\nAttack with Julian Hodgson\, Book No.1\nAttack with Julian Hodgson\, Book No.2\nQuick Chess Knockouts\nJulian Hodgson drawn by Rupert van der Linden
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Nigel Davies (31-vii-1960)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Nigel Davies on his birthday\, this day (July 31st) in 1960. \nNigel Rodney Davies was born in Southport\, Merseyside. \nHe lived in the Wirral\, Merseyside\, moved to Sidcup and then to St. Helen’s\, Merseyside where he resides with his chess playing son\, Sam who is ECF 1928A currently. \nIn July 2020 Nigel graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing from Edge Hill University. \nNigel Davies (centre) at a Lloyds Bank event\nHe became an FIDE Master in 1980\, an International Master in 1982 and a Grandmaster in 1993. \nNigel Davies\nHe won the British Under-21 Championship in 1979 (Chester) and the British Rapidplay Championship in 1987. \nNigel receives a much welcome prize (in Manchester) from Miss Benedictine in 198?\nHe won The Regency Ramsgate Masters 1980\, Wrexham 1994\, Katrineholm 1995 and the Blackpool Hilton Premier in 2003. \nNigel Davies\nNigel publishes his Chess Improver Blog and Tiger Chess for online training. The ECF lists this as his main club. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgWpZ9WsL0[/embedyt] \nIn 2015 Nigel transferred his international allegiance from England (the English Chess Federation) to Wales (Welsh Chess Union). He maintains an ECF standard play rating  of 2448E. \nWilliam Watson\, Jonny Hector\, Alexander Khalifman\, Jonathan Tisdall and Nigel Davies at the 1991 Watson\, Farley\, Williams tournament in London.\nHis peak FIDE rating was 2530 in January 1995 at the age of 35. \nHere is one of Nigel’s favourite games \nNigel Davies\, seated\, second from right\, event unknown\nIn 2015 Nigel contributed to an article by Guardian journalist\, Stephen Moss entitled “Grandmaster crash: the inside story of how English chess pawned its future” \nGM Nigel Davies\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHere is an article : Fight against the solid Caro-Kann opening with the Caro Krusher – GM Nigel Davies \nNigel’s repertoire with White is wide including Queen’s Gambit\, King’s Indian Attack\, English/Reti and the Ruy Lopez. \nAs black Nigel’s repertoire is also varied and difficult to pin down. The Modern Defence is a favourite and is the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “WchT U26 03rd”]\n[Site “Graz”]\n[Date “1981.08.28”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Polajzer\, Danilo”]\n[Black “Davies\, Nigel Rodney”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A42”]\n[WhiteElo “2315”]\n[BlackElo “2395”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News / Nigel Davies”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[EventDate “1981.08.17”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “AUT”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Yugoslavia”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “YUG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,38\,19\,31\,73\,46\,47\,34\,32\,28\,53\,30\,60\,65\,39\,15\,52\,39\,49\,24\,20\,17\,16\,5\,\n26\,31\,32\,-23\,7\,-43\,-7\,37\,11\,0\,0\,12\,12\,13\,-447\,-457\,-288]} 1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3.\nNc3 d6 4. e4 Nc6 5. Be3 e5 6. d5 Nce7 7. g4 c5 ({More popular is} 7… f5 8.\ngxf5 gxf5 9. Qh5+ Kf8 10. Bh3 Nf6 11. Qf3 f4 12. Bd2 Ng6 13. Bxc8 Qxc8 $14) (\n7… a6 $5) (7… Nf6 $1) 8. h4 (8. Bd3 Nf6) 8… Nf6 9. g5 $146 (9. f3 $142 h5\n10. g5 Nd7 $14) 9… Nh5 $1 $17 10. Be2 Nf4 11. Bf3 O-O 12. Nge2 {[#]} f5 $1\n13. Qd2 (13. Nxf4 exf4 14. Bxf4 fxe4 $19) (13. exf5 Bxf5 14. Qd2) (13. gxf6\nBxf6 14. Qd2 g5 15. Rg1 Neg6 $17) 13… Qa5 $1 (13… fxe4 14. Bxe4 Nh5) 14.\nO-O-O (14. Nxf4 exf4 15. Bxf4 fxe4 16. Bxe4 (16. Nxe4 Qxd2+ $19) 16… Bxc3 17.\nbxc3 Rxf4 18. Qxf4 Qxc3+ 19. Ke2 Qxc4+ $19) 14… Rb8 15. Nxf4 $2 exf4 16. Bxf4\nfxe4 $19 17. Bxd6 $2 {[#]} (17. Be2 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Rxf4 19. Qxf4 Qxc3+ 20. Kb1\nb5 $19) (17. Bxe4 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Rxf4 19. Qxf4 Qxc3+ 20. Kb1 b5 21. Qxd6 Rb6 $19\n) 17… Rxf3 $1 18. Bxb8 Rxc3+ $1 19. Kb1 (19. bxc3 Bxc3) 19… e3 20. fxe3\nBf5+ 21. Ka1 Rc2 $1 {and White resigned} {because} 22. Qxa5 Bxb2+ 23. Kb1 Rd2+\n24. e4 Bxe4# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nNigel is an active user of Twitter and may be found @GMNigelDavies \nIn 2020 the Welsh Chess Union successfully endorsed Nigel’s application to FIDE to become a FIDE Senior Trainer which he became in 2021: \nNigel Davies\, FIDE Senior Trainer\nNigel has had many books and DVDs published : \nThe Chess Player’s Battle Manual. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-7043-7\nThe Power Chess Program. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8415-2.\nThe Grünfeld Defence. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-239-3.\nThe Veresov. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857443356.\nThe Dynamic Reti. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857443523.\nThe Trompowsky. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857443764.\nKing’s Indian Attack. Hamburg: ChessBase. ISBN 978-3-86681-071-6.\nStarting Out: The Modern. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445664.\nPlay the Catalan. Gloucester Publishers plc (formerly Everyman Publishers plc). ISBN 9781857445916.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jacob Aagaard (31-vii-1973)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Jacob Aagaard (31-vii-1973) \nJacob was born in Hørsholm in Denmark. \nHe became an International Master in 1997 and a Grandmaster in 2007. \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2542 in May 2010 aged 36. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsB9PrXXAk[/embedyt] \nJacob is the owner of publishing house\, Quality Chess and works with IM Andrew Greet. \nGM Jacob Aagaard takes on all-comers!\n[pgn]\n[Event “Hampstead IM”]\n[Site “Hampstead”]\n[Date “1998.03.28”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Aagaard\, Jacob”]\n[Black “Williams\, Simon Kim”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A84”]\n[WhiteElo “2395”]\n[BlackElo “2315”]\n[Annotator “Aagaard\,J”]\n[PlyCount “50”]\n[EventDate “1998.03.25”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “4”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,50\,25\,29\,44\,4\,39\,53\,55\,36\,77\,49\,56\,29\,83\,83\,83\,71\,79\,20\,83\,48\,121\,88\,\n93\,11\,87\,41\,62\,57\,55\,84\,60\,-37\,10\,122\,158\,141\,141\,142\,135\,154\,225\,219\,309\,296\,\n296\,314\,336\,319\,499\,427\,528]} 1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 $6 5. Qc2\nd5 6. Bf4 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3 Ne4 9. g4 $1 $14 Qa5 10. Ke2 Kh8 11. h4 $5 Nd7\n12. h5 Ndf6 $2 13. Ne5 Nxc3+ 14. bxc3 Ne4 $2 15. Bxe4 fxe4 {[%tqu “En”\,”Can\nwhite win?”\,””\,””\,”e5g6″\,””\,10]} 16. Ng6+ $3 hxg6 17. hxg6+ Kg8 18. Qc1 $1 {\n[%csl Rh7][%cal Rc1h1\,Rh1h8]} Qd8 {[%tqu “En”\,”Now how can white stop Bh4?”\,””\,\n“”\,”f4c7″\,””\,10]} 19. Bc7 $1 Rxf2+ $2 (19… Bh4 $1 20. Bxd8 Rxf2+ 21. Kd1 Bxd8\n22. Ke1 Rf3 23. Ke2 Rg3 24. Qa3 $1 $18) 20. Kxf2 Bh4+ 21. Ke2 Qg5 22. Qg1 $1 e5\n23. Qh2 Bxg4+ 24. Kd2 exd4 25. cxd4 dxc4 {[%cal Rc7a5]} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nJacob’s publications include : \n (1998). Easy Guide to the Panov-Botvinnik Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-563-3.\n (2000). Easy Guide to the Sveshnikov Sicilian. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-280-9.\n (2001). Dutch Stonewall. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-252-6.\n (2001). Excelling at Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-273-1.\n (2002). Queen’s Indian Defence. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-300-4.\n and Esben Land (2002). Meeting 1.d4. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-224-3.\n (2003). Excelling at Positional Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-325-7.\n (2004). Excelling at Chess Calculation. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-360-8.\n (2004). Excelling at Combinational Play. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-345-5.\n (2004). Excelling at Technical Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-364-6.\n (2004). Starting Out: The Grunfeld. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-350-9.\n (2004). Inside the Chess Mind. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857443578.\n (2006). Practical Chess Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-975244-4-5.\n (2008). The Attacking Manual: Basic Principles. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-0-8.\n (2008). The Attacking Manual 2: Technique and Praxis. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-1-5.\n (2012). Grandmaster Preparation – Calculation. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-31-6.\n(2012). Grandmaster Preparation – Positional Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-27-9.\n (2013). Grandmaster Preparation – Strategic Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-29-3.\n(2013). Grandmaster Preparation – Attack & Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-70-5.\n(2014). Grandmaster Preparation – Endgame Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-27-9.\n (2017). Grandmaster Preparation – Thinking Inside the Box. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-35-4.
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of CM David Anderton OBE (02-viii-1941 01-iv-2022)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers CM David Anderton OBE who passed away on Friday\, April 1st\, 2022 aged 80. \nIn the 1977 New Years Honours List\, Civil Division\, David was awarded the OBE. The citation read simply : “For services to Chess” \nDavid William Anderton was born in the district of Walsall\, Staffordshire\, West Midlands. His mother’s maiden name was Coltart and David resided in Walsall. \nDavid was married to Doreen in 2005. \nDavid Anderton (rhs) congratulates Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry for winning the “Board of Honour ” game versus Edward Lasker at the 1976 Lloyds Bank Match by Telex\, London – New York. From BCM\, volume XCVI (96) Number 11 (August)\, Page 494. The venue was the Bloomsbury Hotel\, London. Photo courtesy of Lloyds Bank\nDavid was an Honorary Life Vice-President of the English (formerly British) Chess Federation. \nJohn Nunn\, David Anderton and Jonathan Speelman\n“David won the ECF President’s Award in 2009 following his stepping down as ECF legal expert. This is the citation from the 2010 ECF Yearbook : \n“As this is Gerry Walsh’s last year as President it was considered appropriate that he be allowed to choose someone receive the award. Gerry has worked with David for all his time with BCF and ECF and has selected him due to his tireless and selfless devotion to both the BCF and ECF over many years. \nDavid Anderton OBE\, ? and Teresa Needham\nMost of you will know David and will agree that this is a well deserved award. It is fair to state that David’s assistance over the years has been invaluable and that without it many areas of the Federation would have found it difficult\, if not impossible to operate. \nJim Plaskett with David Anderton OBE at the 1983 Benedictine International (Manchester)\nSince my election David has been a constant friend and confidante. He has invariable given sound advice throughout my term of office. It was John Wickham who rang me and suggested that due to my length of tenure\, a special award might be in order. \nJim accepts the 1981 Grand Prix shield from David Anderton OBE\nAfter years of selfless and generous devotion serving as ECF President\, International Director\, Captain of the England Team and legal adviser\, this seems to be a fitting tribute. \nFrom the Praxis Bath Zonal Tournament of 1987. David Anderton OBE is second from right\nDavid’s advice both legal and general\, has been invaluable in such matters as the John Robinson legacy and the change of name from BCF to ECF Limited\, and I certainly hope that this advice will continue. \nGerry Walsh” \nBob Wade OBE\, Murray Chandler MNZM and David Anderton OBE\nDavid is a FIDE Candidate Master (CM). \nFrom the BCF 1979-80 Year Book of Chess : Robert Bellin\, the new British Champion\, explains the secret to the Mayor of Chester (?) and to David Anderton\, BCF President\nWith the White pieces David exclusively plays 1.d4 aiming for a Queen’s Gambit and main lines. \nWith Black David plays the Winawer and the Classical French plus the Lenningrad Dutch. \nMrs. Joan Agar; Chairman of Leigh Interests\, presents the Leigh trophy (for 1981) to Mark Hebden. Left\, David Anderton\, BCF President; on the right Malcolm Wood\, Leigh’s Chief Executive. BCM\, 1981\, page 104\nHere are his games. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Kilkenny Masters”]\n[Site “Kilkenny”]\n[Date “1997.11.28”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Anderton\, David William”]\n[Black “Watson\, William N”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B07”]\n[WhiteElo “2200”]\n[BlackElo “2535”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1997.11.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “6”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 061 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,17\,28\,70\,75\,74\,61\,88\,52\,41\,41\,36\,30\,37\,51\,39\,40\,44\,28\,70\,51\,60\,31\,\n36\,-4\,6\,41\,27\,29\,47\,43\,85\,65\,98\,84\,94\,98\,193\,74\,77\,77\,79\,79\,55\,48\,84\,88\,88\,103\,\n113\,79\,85\,133\,130\,120\,225\,222\,275\,195\,326\,194\,271\,92\,92\,92\,90\,91\,77\,98\,148\,118\,\n62\,-11\,19\,-249\,-240\,-256\,-277\,-267\,-267\,-306\,-306]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3\ng6 4. Nge2 Bg7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 c6 7. O-O e5 8. h3 b5 9. a3 a6 10. Be3 Nbd7 11.\ng4 Bb7 12. Ng3 h6 $146 13. Qd2 $14 exd4 14. Bxd4 Nb6 15. b3 Kh7 16. Rad1 Qc7\n17. f4 d5 {[#]} 18. Qf2 $1 Nbd7 (18… Nfd7 $142) 19. e5 (19. g5 $1 Ne8 20.\nexd5 Bxd4 21. Rxd4 c5 22. Rd2 b4 23. d6 $18) 19… Ng8 20. b4 a5 21. h4 Qd8 22.\nh5 axb4 23. axb4 Qh4 $1 24. Qf3 Qe7 25. Rb1 Ra3 26. Rfe1 Bh8 27. Bf1 $18 c5 28.\nbxc5 Nxc5 29. Rxb5 Ne6 30. Bf2 (30. f5 $1) 30… Rc8 31. Rb3 $6 (31. f5) 31…\nRxb3 32. cxb3 Nxf4 $1 33. Qxf4 Rxc3 34. b4 Qe6 35. Bd4 Rb3 36. b5 Ne7 $11 37.\nNh1 g5 38. Qf2 Qxg4+ 39. Bg2 Nf5 40. Rf1 Bc8 $19 {White (presumably) won on\ntime.} 1-0 \n[Event “Kilkenny Masters”]\n[Site “Kilkenny”]\n[Date “1997.11.28”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Anderton\, David William”]\n[Black “Watson\, William N”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B07”]\n[WhiteElo “2200”]\n[BlackElo “2535”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1997.11.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “6”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 061 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,17\,28\,70\,75\,74\,61\,88\,52\,41\,41\,36\,30\,37\,51\,39\,40\,44\,28\,70\,51\,60\,31\,\n36\,-4\,6\,41\,27\,29\,47\,43\,85\,65\,98\,84\,94\,98\,193\,74\,77\,77\,79\,79\,55\,48\,84\,88\,88\,103\,\n113\,79\,85\,133\,130\,120\,225\,222\,275\,195\,326\,194\,271\,92\,92\,92\,90\,91\,77\,98\,148\,118\,\n62\,-11\,19\,-249\,-240\,-256\,-277\,-267\,-267\,-306\,-306]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3\ng6 4. Nge2 Bg7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 c6 7. O-O e5 8. h3 b5 9. a3 a6 10. Be3 Nbd7 11.\ng4 Bb7 12. Ng3 h6 $146 13. Qd2 $14 exd4 14. Bxd4 Nb6 15. b3 Kh7 16. Rad1 Qc7\n17. f4 d5 {[#]} 18. Qf2 $1 Nbd7 (18… Nfd7 $142) 19. e5 (19. g5 $1 Ne8 20.\nexd5 Bxd4 21. Rxd4 c5 22. Rd2 b4 23. d6 $18) 19… Ng8 20. b4 a5 21. h4 Qd8 22.\nh5 axb4 23. axb4 Qh4 $1 24. Qf3 Qe7 25. Rb1 Ra3 26. Rfe1 Bh8 27. Bf1 $18 c5 28.\nbxc5 Nxc5 29. Rxb5 Ne6 30. Bf2 (30. f5 $1) 30… Rc8 31. Rb3 $6 (31. f5) 31…\nRxb3 32. cxb3 Nxf4 $1 33. Qxf4 Rxc3 34. b4 Qe6 35. Bd4 Rb3 36. b5 Ne7 $11 37.\nNh1 g5 38. Qf2 Qxg4+ 39. Bg2 Nf5 40. Rf1 Bc8 $19 {White (presumably) won on\ntime.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nDW Anderton OBE plays BH Wood MBE in 1981 in a Blitz tournament outside of the National Film Theatre. Photograph courtesy of John Saunders\nDuring 1989-93 David was an Executive Board Member of FIDE. \nThe England Team from the 1990 Novi Sad Olympiad : John Nunn\, Jon Speelman\, Julian Hodgson\, David Anderton OBE (Captain)\, Nigel Short\, Michael Adams and Murray Chandler\nIn 2002 David was awarded the title of International Master by the ICCF (correspondence chess) \nIn 2015 David stood down from all of his roles within the ECF. \nDavid Anderton OBE\, Paul Bazalgette (Senior Partner at Philips & Drew) and Tony Banks (GLC Arts & Recreation Department) at the 1982 Philips and Drew Kings Tournament Opening Ceremony. Photograph by Clive Field\nDavid has won the British Seniors Championship in 2003 (shared)\, 2005\, 2007 (shared)\, 2009 (shared) and 2011. \nHere is a potted biography from The Express and Star Newspaper \nDavid Anderton OBE at the 2019 British Championships in Torquay\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nDavid is Head of Regulatory Law at Anson’s Solicitors. He is also Secretary of the Erasmus Darwin Foundation (03270753) and Director of Unionist Buildings Ltd.\, Wallsall Conservative Investments Ltd. and Wallsall Unionist Holdings Ltd. \nCM David William Anderton OBE
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Sam Franklin (03-viii-1994)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Samuel Gideon A Franklin (03-viii-1994) \nFM Samuel GA Franklin from the Varsity Match\, 9th March 2014\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nFM Samuel GA Franklin from the London Chess Classic\, 29th December 2013.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Angus Dunnington (09-viii-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Angus Dunnington (09-viii-1967) \nAngus James Dunnington was born in Wakefield\, West Yorkshire\, his mother’s maiden name was Townend. \nHe has lived in Castleford\, West Yorkshire and most recently in Lockerbie\, Dumfriesshire. \nAngus became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master in 1991. \nAngus has been a recipient of a Chess Journalists of America award and was chess correspondent for The Yorkshire Post. He has been an Olympiad trainer. \nAngus has played for 4NCL White Rose and his peak FIDE rating was 2450 in January 1996\, aged 29. \nHe won Toulouse 1993 with 6.5/9\, we was first equal (3) in the London Agency tournament on 1997 with 6/9\, we was equal first in the 1999 Hampstead IM tournament with 6.5/9. \nAs White Angus prefers a Reti style double fianchetto\, the King’s Indian Attack and also the Queen’s Gambit and is an expert on the Catalan and KIA. \nAs Black Angus essays the Modern Defence for most of the time. \nHis most recent ECF grading was 212E in 2005 and was 232A in 1996. \nIn 2018 after a lengthy absence Angus made a welcome return to the Scottish Championship Open with a strong =3rd place. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT2 0203 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “West Bromwich”]\n[Date “2003.05.03”]\n[Round “9.1”]\n[White “Dunnington\, Angus J”]\n[Black “Trevelyan\, John”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[WhiteElo “2388”]\n[BlackElo “2191”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “41”]\n[EventDate “2002.11.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2004”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “White Rose”]\n[BlackTeam “SW Dragons II”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,29\,18\,18\,83\,73\,82\,52\,52\,72\,64\,66\,50\,39\,41\,34\,44\,22\,34\,-14\,31\,35\,45\,45\,\n198\,166\,158\,138\,262\,250\,249\,265]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 e5 $5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nbd7\n5. Bc4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. a4 c6 8. Ba2 h6 (8… Qc7) 9. Nh4 Nxe4 $6 (9… exd4\n10. Qxd4 d5 $1) 10. Nxe4 Bxh4 (10… d5 $142) 11. Nxd6 $14 {[#]} exd4 $2 12.\nQh5 $1 (12. Nxf7) 12… Nf6 13. Bxf7+ Kh7 14. Qg6+ Kh8 15. Bxh6 {and Black\nresigned} gxh6 16. Qxh6+ Nh7 17. Bg6 Qe7 18. Bxh7 Qxh7 19. Qxf8+ Qg8 20. Nf7+\nKh7 21. Qh6# 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43h4Wc__iQ[/embedyt] \nIM Angus Dunnington\, photograph by Gisbert Jacoby\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nThe Ultimate King’s Indian Attack\, 1993\nPawn Power !\, 1994\nWinning with the Catalan\, 1997\nEasy Guide to the Reti Opening\n101 Winning Chess Strategies\, 1999\nWinning Unorthodox Openings\, 2000\nMastering the Middlegame\, 2001\nChess Psychology\, 2003\nNimzo-Indian Rubinstein: Complex Lines with 4e3\, 2004\nBlunders and How to Avoid Them\, 2004\nIM Angus Dunnington\, photograph by Cathy Rogers
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Bill Hartston (12-viii-1947)
DESCRIPTION:IM William Hartston\, FIDE Candidates\, 2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nOn the “glorious twelfth” of August we celebrate the birthday of one of England’s most popular chess players and writers\, IM Bill Hartston. \nWilliam Roland Hartston was born in Willesden\, Middlesex on Tuesday\, August 12th\, 1947. His father was William Hartston\, a significant member of the Royal College of Physicians who was married to Mary Rowland. Bill has a sister. \nBill Hartston\nHe studied at the City of London School and then studied mathematics at Jesus College\, Cambridge and graduated with a BA in 1968 and an MA in 1972\, but did not complete his PhD on number theory. \nAn early Bill Hartston\, event unknown\nWhile studying for his PhD at Cambridge\, Hartston developed an intricate system for balancing an entire chess set on top of a single rook. Here is an article with an explanation letter from Bill. \nBill married Dr. Jana Malypetrova in January\, 1970 in Cambridge. In 1978 Bill married Elizabeth Bannerman\, also in Cambridge and from that marriage he had two sons\, James and Nicholas. \nBill and Dr. Jana Hartston (née Malypetrova)\nBill became an International Master in 1972 and his highest FIDE rating was 2485 in January 1979. \nWith the white pieces Bill almost exclusively played 1.e4 and the Ruy Lopez. \nWith the black pieces Bill played the Sicilian Taimanov and the Czech Benoni. \nBill plays his trusty Sicilian Taimanov against an unknown opponent\nBill is a self-proclaimed follower of Prof. AJ Ayer (See the Acknowledgements in “Soft Pawn”) Clint Eastwood and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. \nBill and Jana Hartston are shown with some of their many chess sets. CHESS\, August 1973\, page 323\nBill was the chess correspondent of The Independent and The Mail on Sunday. He was also a regular presenter and commentator for television. He worked with Jeremy James on the BBC’s Master Game. \nThe Master Game\, Series 6&7 with Jeremy James and Bill Hartston\nBill is an industrial psychologist. \nCuriously the 1984 edition of the usually reliable The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper and Whyld does not have an entry for the twice British Champion : was this simply an oversight ? Jana is also not mentioned. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1DYzR7wc8w[/embedyt] \nBill wrote about himself in British Chess (Pergamon\, 1983) : \n“To summarise more than 20 years of playing competitive chess in a few hundred words is an impossible task. My attitude to the game has changed a great deal\, especially in recent times\, but I have always enjoyed and felt at home in the tense and lively atmosphere of chess tournaments\, whether as a competitor\, spectator or journalist. \nCaption as per photograph below\nCaption for above photograph\nI consider myself lucky to have been a ‘promising junior’ just at the time when chess was beginning to be taken seriously as a sport in England. The English team consisted mainly of amateurs and there were clear opportunities for anyone willing to work at the game. As a result of the changing attitudes to the game in this country\, the development between 1965\, when I first played for the national team\, and 1975 was far greater than in any other decade. One statistic which I have always found personally amusing is that I progressed from youngest player in 1967 for the Clare Benedict tournament to become the oldest in the 1971 team. From promising junior to veteran in four years = is this a record ? \nBill Hartston commentating on games from the Phillips & Drew King’s 1982\nSince my second British Championship win in 1975\, I have been writing more and playing less. I always realised that I was not going to become a sufficiently strong player to be happy just wandering round the tournament circuit\, but giving up chess entirely is\, of course\, unthinkable. I believe now that the time is ripe for chess to be presented to far wider audiences and I like to think that some of what I do will help in that aim. If the Master Game television series and “Soft Pawn” cannot sell chess to the masses then nothing will.” \nBill was always a keen supporter of junior chess. Here at the Teachers Assurance National Schools Championships in 1980\n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-21 Final A”]\n[Site “Nice”]\n[Date “1974.06.25”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Hartston\, William R”]\n[Black “Portisch\, Lajos”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C19”]\n[Annotator “William R Hartston”]\n[PlyCount “57”]\n[EventDate “1974.06.15”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “FRA”]\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 “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Hungary”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “HUN”] \n{[%evp 0\,57\,19\,38\,30\,51\,38\,32\,32\,44\,31\,32\,25\,31\,25\,15\,30\,3\,25\,25\,26\,10\,17\,10\,\n15\,30\,13\,-5\,0\,25\,20\,-11\,-11\,-18\,32\,-11\,-4\,-17\,-9\,-51\,-57\,1\,4\,-3\,20\,49\,36\,102\,\n594\,624\,29991\,29992\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} {\nBill described this game as one of four nice Nice games in the British Chess\nMagazine Games Department of Volume XCIV (94)\, Number 9 (September)\, 1974.\nAdditional comments were from Bill’s entry in “British Chess”\, by Botterill\,\nLevy\, Rice and Richardson\, Pergamon Press\, 1983.} 1. e4 e6 2. Nc3 {This is\njust a joke really\, but usually worth between 20 seconds and five minutes on\nthe clock.} d5 ({White invites Black to change his mind and play a Sicilian\nwith} 2… c5) 3. d4 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 $1 {One of the most horrible things\nabout playing Portisch is that it is almost impossible to avoid his detailed\nopening preparation without playing something dubious.\, with which he is also\nwell equipped to deal. Hartston goes straight into the critical line. The\nexclamation mark is for bravery.} Bxc3+ ({The unusual} 5… Ba5 {is much\nbetter than its reputation. The Swiss master\, Werner Hug\, always obtains good\npositions against me with that move.}) 6. bxc3 Ne7 (6… Qc7 {is a good move\norder for those} {fear} 7. Qg4 {when} f6 $1 8. Nf3 c4 $1 {takes the sting out\nof the attack. But\, what are you playing the Winawer for if you ever\nconsidered Qg4 to be a threat !}) 7. Nf3 ({The complications arising from} 7.\nQg4 {have never been fully solved\, but nowadays (1974) most players prefer the\npositional continuation chosen} Qc7 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4 10. Ne2 Nbc6 11.\nf4 Bd7 12. Qd3 dxc3 13. Nxc3 a6 14. Rb1 Na5 15. h4 Nf5 16. Rh3 O-O-O 17. h5 Nc4\n18. h6 Rg6 19. h7 Rh8 20. Rb4 {is the way to go in 2020.}) (7. a4 {is another\ndecent option.}) 7… Bd7 {[%cal Gd7a4]} (7… Qc7 8. a4 b6 9. Bb5+ Bd7 10. Bd3\nNbc6 11. O-O {is the move usual order referred to after Whites 11.Bd3!? below.\n}) ({In 2020} 7… Nbc6 8. a4 Qa5 9. Bd2 Bd7 10. Bb5 c4 11. O-O {is the way to\ngo in 2020.}) 8. a4 {Already necessary before Black stifles the queen’s win\nwith Ba4} Nbc6 ({More usual is} 8… Qa5 {when} 9. Bd2 {is the fashionable\nresponse} ({though I still believe in} 9. Qd2)) 9. Be2 ({After} 9. Bd3 Qc7 10.\nO-O {Black may elect for the plan of castling long} {with} c4 11. Be2 O-O-O ({\nor attacking the centre with} 11… f6 {I usually prefer to discourage this by\nleaving the bishop on e2 but it may be that 9.Bd3 is the better move.})) 9…\nQc7 10. O-O b6 11. Bd3 $5 {I played this move because it transposed into a\nposition I had analysed and played a great deal about three years ago.\nUnfortunately\,as the game demonstrates\, I had forgotten almost all of this\nanalysis!. The more usual move order is referenced above after 7…Qc7} (11.\nRe1 Na5 12. Bd3 h6) 11… h6 {having played b6\, Black is less ready to castle\nlong since his King’s position would be more vulnerable; the text move\nprepares 0-0} ({if} 11… O-O $2 {immediately} {then} 12. Bxh7+ Kxh7 {and} 13.\nNg5+ {with the standard mating attack.} Kg6 14. h4 $18 (14. Qg4 $5 f6 15. exf6\nKxf6 16. Qh5 $16) (14. Qd3+ Nf5 15. g4 f6 $16) 14… Qc8 15. Qg4 $18) 12. Ba3\n$5 {This whole variation was thoroughly tested at Hastings 1971-2 when Peter\nMarkland lost a lot of games with the black pieces from this position.\nPossibly Byrne’s continuation is the strongest; white has good chances of\nsacrificing the bishop on h6 for a mating attack in the middlegame.} ({Robert\nByrne played} 12. Re1 Na5 13. Be3 (13. Qd2 {Mecking and Karpov} Rc8 (13… O-O\n14. Qf4 f5))) 12… Na5 13. Re1 $6 {An “innovation” – because I could not\nremember what I had played in the earlier game. The point of 12.Ba3 I soon\nremembered is to continue 13.Nd2! 00 14.dc bc 15.Nb3 with some advantage to\nWhite as in Hartston – Markland\, Hastings 1971-2 and Williams-Keene \, British\nChampionship\, 1973.} O-O 14. dxc5 bxc5 15. Nd2 {[%cal Gd1g4\,Gd1h5] An\nimportant move to allow White’s queen to enter the attack.} Ng6 $1 {And\nmeeting with the correct reply.} ({The obvious} 15… f6 {would have\ncompletely justified the White move order} {when} 16. exf6 Rxf6 17. c4 $16) (\n15… Bxa4 {fails to} 16. Qg4 $1 Bd7 17. Nf3 Kh8 18. Bc1 $1 {with a dangerous\nattack.}) 16. Qh5 {Apparently aggressive but really the only way to defend the\nKing’s pawn.} Be8 {The move played threatens f5 embarrasing the white queen.\nShe hastens to get out of the way.} (16… Nf4 17. Qg4 Nxd3 18. cxd3 {is a\nlittle better for White since his bishop is more effective. With the text move\nBlack threatens …f6 or …f5 with a veiled attack on the queen. According\nto “Excellent notes” from Krogius this position is fantastic for White who has\nat a stroke created the opportunity for direct attack with Re3 – g3 or h3\ndepending on circumstances.}) (16… Bxa4 {was more double-edged but\, here too\nin all lines White keeps the initiative viz :} 17. Bxg6 fxg6 18. Qxg6 Bd7 (\n18… Qc6 19. Bc1) (18… Rae8 19. Bc1 Bd7 20. Nf3) ({and probably Black’s\nbest try should be} 18… Qe7 19. Nf3 (19. Bc1 Be8 20. Qg3 Nc6 21. Nb3 {\nwith the idea of Ba3}) 19… Be8 20. Qg3 Nc4 21. Bc1 Kh7) 19. Nf3 Nc4 20. Bc1)\n17. Qe2 {The third consecutive queen move along the same diagonal It’s lucky I\nwon this game or my play would have been open to terrible criticism.} {After\nan hour’s thought Portisch played} Bxa4 $2 {which I had not even considered.\nPerhaps I was so used to losing the a pawn in this line that I did not see\nthat it was en prise.} ({More prudent was} 17… f6 {giving White no chance to\ndevelop an attack.}) ({Black should have been consistent and maintained his\nvigil with} 17… f5 18. exf6 Rxf6 {when he has good chances. Hartston now\nlaunches a dangerous attack.}) 18. Qg4 $1 Bd7 19. Nf3 $1 ({All methods of\nwinning the pawn back such as} 19. Bxg6 fxg6 20. Qxg6 {leave Black with some\nadvantage owing to the weaknesses remaining in the white camp. In this\nposition the initiative is of far more importance; after all Blacks a pawn\nwill not be serious threat for some time.}) 19… Nc4 {Perhaps Black’s\nposition is already untenable. The threat of Bc1 and an eventual sacrifice on\nh6 is difficult to prevent.} (19… Bc8 20. Bc1 Nc6 21. Bxg6 fxg6 22. Qxg6 Qf7\n23. Qg3 $16) 20. Bc1 Bc8 $2 {The decisive mistake} (20… Ncxe5 21. Nxe5 Nxe5\n22. Qg3 f6 23. Bxh6 Rf7 24. Bf4 {looks just as bad}) ({The only chance for\ndefence was pointed oout by Krogius.} 20… Ngxe5 21. Nxe5 Nxe5 22. Qg3 f6 23.\nBxh6 Be8 24. Bf4 c4 25. Bf1 a5 {and Black can create enough detours to keep\nWhite at bay. Now he is flattened.}) 21. Qh5 {Suddenly it is all over; there\nis really no defence to 22. Bxh6!} Rd8 22. Bxh6 $1 gxh6 23. Qxh6 Nb2 {Keene\nwrote that even at this stage Portisch was still moving rapidly and looking\nconfident. One can imagine his feelings when the knight appeared on h7!} 24.\nNg5 Nxd3 25. Nh7 $1 {Black resigns. I was specially pleased by this game\nbecause I had lost the previous day to Hort also in 25 moves. A fighting game\nby Bill Hartston} {26.Nf6 mate can only be prevented by} f5 {when} 26. Nf6+ Kf7\n27. Qh7+ Kf8 28. Qg8+ $1 Ke7 29. Qg7# {is even stronger than winning a queen.}\n1-0\n[/pgn] \nHarry Golombek wrote the following in a 1980 Dataday chess diary : \n“Hartston played hardly at all during the period from my last entry of him in the 1977 diary and that little\, though respectable\, was hardly the performance of an active master. His equal 3rd to 5th at the big Aaronson’s Masters Tournament (a swiss system event with 72 players) did not really affect his rating and indeed he finished up without changing his Elo rating at all. \nNevertheless\, this glimpse of his true powers was impressive as can be seen in the following game which was played in the 6th round of the Aaronson tournament.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Aaronson Open”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1978.??.??”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Wicker\, Kevin J”]\n[Black “Hartston\, William R”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E61”]\n[WhiteElo “2305”]\n[BlackElo “2475”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “72”]\n[EventDate “1978.03.23”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\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\,72\,19\,-31\,22\,6\,7\,7\,3\,5\,17\,10\,23\,15\,4\,0\,33\,0\,33\,15\,57\,37\,47\,27\,24\,1\,-5\,\n-42\,-10\,-14\,-16\,-23\,-16\,-21\,-6\,-86\,-59\,-67\,-72\,-66\,-50\,-51\,-38\,-43\,-9\,0\,-13\,-7\,\n1\,-3\,14\,-43\,-46\,-92\,-104\,-112\,-108\,-111\,-57\,-142\,-135\,-143\,-146\,-156\,-154\,-168\,\n-164\,-269\,-296\,-323\,-299\,-333\,-244\,-572\,-355]} 1. b3 b6 2. Bb2 Bb7 3. e3 Nf6 4.\nc4 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O c5 8. Nc3 d6 9. d4 a6 10. Qc2 Nbd7 11. d5 b5\n12. a4 $6 $146 (12. e4) 12… b4 13. Na2 e5 14. Nd2 Qe7 15. Bd3 Rae8 16. e4 h5\n17. f3 $6 (17. Nc1) 17… Bh6 18. Rfe1 h4 19. Nf1 Nh5 20. Nc1 Kg7 21. Ne2 Bc8\n22. Bc1 Bxc1 23. Qxc1 Ndf6 24. Ra2 Nh7 25. Bb1 Ng5 26. f4 $6 (26. Nd2) 26…\nexf4 27. Nxf4 Nxf4 28. Qxf4 h3 29. g3 f5 $17 30. e5 dxe5 31. Rae2 Qf6 32. Qf2\ne4 33. Rd1 $2 f4 $1 34. gxf4 Bg4 35. Ng3 Qxf4 36. Rf1 $4 (36. Qxf4 Rxf4 37. Rf1\nNf3+ 38. Kh1 e3 $19) 36… Qe5 $1 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess(Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master (1972) and British Champion (1973) William Hartston was born in London on the 12th August 1947. He was taught to play chess by his father when he was seven and five years later joined Enfield Chess Club. His results in junior events included 1st in the London Boys’ Under 16 Championship and 2nd in the British Boys’ Under 15 Championship in 1962 and =2nd in the British Boys Under 18 Championship in 1963. \nBill had a keen interest in computer chess and technology\nIn 1965\, Hartston made his first appearance in the British Championship and came =5th. In the same year he won the Ilford and Paignton Premier tournaments. Playing on board 3 for England in the 1966 Olympiad. Hartston scored the best result of any British player\, 66.7%. In the Olympiad of 1970\, he had the best overall score on board 3\, 12.5 out of 16 and in the Olympiad of 1972 he won the prize for the 3rd best score on board 2\, 12.5 out of 18. In 1972 he narrowly failed to qualify for the Interzonal tournament\, when he came 3rd in the Zonal tournament at Vranjacka Banja.” \nMike Basman plays Bill during the play-off for the 1973 British Championship\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek : \n“British International Master and twice British Champion. Hartston was born in London and his early chess was played there.\, where he became London Boy (Under-16 Champion in 1962. \nHe was educated at the City of London School and Jesus College\, Cambridge\, where he took a degree in mathematics. \nIt soon became clear that he was one of the leading young players in England and a rivalry developed between him and Raymond Keene in which first one and then the other obtained the upper hand. \nAfter a number of near misses he won the British Championship at Eastbourne in 1973 and again at Morecambe in 1975. \nJana & Bill Hartston celebrate a family double at the British Championships in 1973 at Eastbourne\nInternationally he has already had a distinguished career and has been especially good and consistent in his representation of England at the Olympiads. At Havana in 1966 he scored 66.7% on board 3 but did not play at Lugano in 1968. Again on board 3 at Siegen in 1970 he obtained the best score on board 3 with 78.1%. At Skopje 1972 he fulfilled the second norm of the international master title with 12.5 points out of 18 on second board. Playing on first board at Nice 1974 he attained 52.7% and had a most meritorious and well fought draw with the World Champion\, Karpov. \nBill Hartston draws with Anatoly Karpov at Nice 1974\nHe achieved a breakthrough in the field of international tournament chess when he came third in a strong Premier tournament at Hastings 1972/3 \nHastings\, England\, 4th January 1972\, Chess\, Russian Grand Master Viktor Korchnoi (right) is pictured in a match with William Hartston (UK) during the 47th Hastings International Chess Tournament (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)\nand in 1973 he scored a first at Alicante. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Alicante”]\n[Site “Alicante”]\n[Date “1973.11.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Hartston\, William R”]\n[Black “Westerinen\, Heikki”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C24”]\n[Annotator “William R Hartston”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1973.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “chessgame.com”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,30\,18\,18\,17\,17\,25\,39\,20\,4\,26\,70\,47\,39\,58\,134\,140\,152\,131\,190\,180\,\n185\,116\,121\,122\,163\,285\,285\,187\,187\,190\,263\,250\,333\,54\,58\,38\,-3\,-36\,73\,184\,184\,\n138\,138\,138\,161\,210\,224\,379\,375\,387\,29991\,29992\,29995\,29994]} 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4\nNf6 3. d3 Be7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. f4 exf4 6. Bxf4 c6 {the threat of 7…d5 is\nawkward since White’s king is liable to be trapped in the centre.} 7. e5 d5 $6\n(7… Nd5 8. Bxd5 cxd5 9. Nxd5 Qa5+ 10. Nc3 f6 11. exf6 Bxf6) 8. exf6 Bb4 {\nBlack wins his piece back and hopes that his active pieces will also give him\na strong attack\, but he has not calculated with sufficient precision.} 9. Bb3\nd4 10. Nge2 dxc3 11. O-O ({There is no time for} 11. bxc3 {when would follow}\nRe8 12. cxb4 $2 (12. O-O $1 Bc5+ (12… Bd6 13. fxg7 $18 Be6) 13. d4) {\nthreatening} 12… Bg4 $1) 11… cxb2 12. fxg7 Qb6+ (12… Kxg7 13. Be5+ {\nmust win for white with Black’s king having nowhere to hide.}) (12… Re8 13.\nBxf7+ Kxf7 14. Bg5+ {also wins quite easily}) 13. Kh1 Re8 14. Bxf7+ Kxf7 15.\nBe3+ {is probably a mistake} ({I remember looking at} 15. Ng3 $3 {during the\nthe game but feeling that is it just looked too fantastic !} bxa1=Q 16. Qh5+\nKe7 17. Bg5+ Kd6 (17… Kd7 18. Qxe8+ Kxe8 19. g8=Q+ Kd7 20. Qf7+ Kd6 21. Ne4+\nKe5 22. Bf6#) 18. Qxe8 {gives White a winning attack as pointed out by Dr. JM\nAitken whose analysis confirmed the suspicion of the players after the game.})\n({Analysis in 2020 reveals that} 15. Nd4 $3 {is crushing} bxa1=Q 16. Qh5+ Ke7\n17. Qxe8+ Kxe8 18. g8=Q+ Bf8 19. Rxa1 Qc5 20. Bg5 Kd7 21. Rf1 Kc7 22. Rxf8 Kb6\n23. Rxc8 {etc}) 15… Kg8 16. Bxb6 Bg4 ({After a long think my opponent saw\nthat} 16… bxa1=Q 17. Qxa1 axb6 18. Qf6 Be6 19. Nd4 Nd7 20. Qf4 Bxa2 21. c4\nRe7 22. Nf5 {wins for White. I had seen most of this combined with a little\nfaith was enough to allow me to play 14.Bxf7+. 16…Bg4 I had not seen at all!}\n) 17. c3 bxa1=Q 18. Qxa1 Bxe2 19. Qb2 $1 {There is neither the necessity nor\nthe time to save the rook; Black’s king must be driven out before his\nqueenside pieces can come to help.} (19. Qb1 $144) 19… Bxf1 20. Qb3+ Kxg7 21.\nBd4+ Kg6 22. Qxb4 {Black has vast reservoirs of pieces but they are all asleep.\nThere is no defence to the combined attack of queen and bishop.} c5 23. Qxc5\nNc6 24. Qd6+ Kh5 25. Bg7 Bxd3 ({If Black tries} 25… Rad8 {then} 26. Qh6+ Kg4\n27. Bf6 {wins; the text allows a more elegant finish.}) 26. h3 Bg6 27. Qf4 {\nand Black resigned as it is mate in three.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHis best tournament result came three years later when he won 1st prize at Sarajevo 1976. \nSarajevo 1976 Crosstable from English Chess Explosion (1980)\nHis style of play is sound and competent in all the spheres of the game. That he can be brilliant when necessary he demonstrated his beautiful brilliancy game against the Finnish grandmaster Westerinen at Allicante in 1973. He has a fine\, broad knowledge of the openings and has written a number of articles and books on that theme. \nBill was always a keen supporter of junior chess. event unknown.\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-61 Championship”]\n[Site “Clacton on Sea/ Essex”]\n[Date “1974.08.14”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Webb\, Simon”]\n[Black “Hartston\, William R”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A31”]\n[Annotator “Simon Webb and Bill Hartston”]\n[PlyCount “74”]\n[EventDate “1974.08.05”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,74\,19\,29\,18\,21\,56\,-11\,-17\,-25\,25\,16\,18\,-3\,56\,33\,50\,36\,37\,36\,38\,34\,59\,\n54\,58\,44\,43\,48\,44\,23\,44\,31\,47\,31\,43\,36\,24\,22\,8\,17\,17\,-16\,-27\,-79\,-109\,-66\,-59\,\n-94\,-86\,-61\,-65\,-168\,-179\,-171\,-224\,-224\,-199\,-199\,-202\,-202\,-56\,-161\,-80\,-90\,\n-162\,-338\,-326\,-489\,-539\,-548\,-311\,-401\,-465\,-389\,-337\,-616\,-671]} 1. Nf3 Nf6\n2. d4 c5 3. c4 (3. d5) 3… cxd4 4. Nxd4 b6 $1 {An unusual move allowing White\nfull control of the centre and with no particular intrinsic merit. Its get an\nexclamation mark however\, because the player of the white pieces is S. Webb!\nI always like to fianchetto my king’s bishop in such positions and this is the\none move which prevents me from doing so. Had it occurred to me that Hartston\nmight play this move I would have played 3.g3 or 2.c4 and then 3.g3.} 5. Nc3\nBb7 6. f3 d6 7. e4 e6 8. Be2 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Be3 Nbd7 {Putting Whte very\nmuch on the spot to find a plan\, despite his spatial advantage for four ranks\nto three. Again quotes from the two players : “Now the position bears a\nstrong resemblance to a Sicilian. I felt quite happy now since I seem to have\nspent half my life playing positions of this type\, while my opponent\, not\nnormally an e4 player\, had to be less familiar with the problems” : Hartston.\n“Objectively speaking\, I knew that this position was good for White but from\nthis point I had to decide on some sort of strategy. Should I go for f4 and\nthen f5? Or g4 and then g5? Or try to and get play against the backward d-pawn\nby doubling rooks on the d-file? None of these plans looked particularly\nconvincing so I settled for putting my rooks in the centre and waiting to see\nwhat happened ! Its no good having a good position if you don’t know what to\ndo with it!”} 11. Qd2 a6 12. Rfd1 Qc7 13. Rac1 $14 Rac8 14. Bf1 Qb8 15. Qf2\nRfe8 {“White has made a series of natural moves and maintains a spatial\nadvantage; nevertheless I believe that Black already has the better prospects.\nThe Black pieces\, are at first sight a little cramped\, are beautifully placed\nto leap into action after the thematic d5 breakout\, possibly with a pawn\nsacrifice” : Hartston Indeed it seems that the best White can hope for is to\ntry and prevent b5 or d5 by perhaps 16.Nc2 followed by Rd2 and Rcd1 although\neven in that case his c-pawn is weak.} 16. Kh1 $2 {Weirdly enough this is the\nmost popular move here.} (16. g4 {(is the 2020 engine’s choice)}) 16… Bf8 17.\nNc2 Ne5 18. Bxb6 {An ugly sort of move. The loss of the b-pawn is\ninconsequential compared with the disappearance of White’s valuable c-pawn\nwhich is restraining Black’s advances.} ({The alternative} 18. b3 $2 b5 $1 {\nwas even worse.}) (18. Na3 $2 d5 $1) 18… Nxc4 19. Bxc4 (19. Ba7 Qa8 20. b3\nNb2 21. Rd2 Rxc3 22. Bd4 Na4 23. bxa4 Rc6) 19… Rxc4 20. Ne3 Rc6 21. Ba5 {\nThe bonfire is lit and now the fireworks begin. Hartston immediately activates\nhis entire force giving Webb no time to reorganise his disjointed position} d5\n$1 22. exd5 exd5 23. Nf5 {[#] taking the pawn with either night loses\nimmediately so Webb tries to put up some sort of blockade on d If he could\nindeed achieve this\, then he would have defensive chances} ({e.g.} 23. Nexd5\nNxd5 24. Rxd5 Rxc3 $19) ({and e.g.} 23. Ncxd5 Nxd5 24. Rxc6 Nxe3 $19) {By the\nfollowing sacrifice Hartston rips open the position} 23… d4 $1 24. Nxd4 (24.\nRxd4 $2 Bc5) (24. Qxd4 Rc5 $1 {[%cal Gc5a5\,Gc5f5]} (24… Re5 $1 {[%cal Ge5f5\,\nGe5a5]})) 24… Rc5 {[%cal Gc5a5\,Gc5h5]} 25. Bb6 Rh5 26. h3 Ng4 $3 {\nhighlighting the fantastic coordination in the Black camp. Although this move\ndoesn’t lead to immediate mate White has no way of reorganising his defence to\nmeet the threats.} 27. fxg4 {This is one offer that cannot be refused.} ({if}\n27. Qg1 {then} Qg3 $1) 27… Rxh3+ 28. Kg1 Qh2+ 29. Kf1 Rg3 30. Rc2 Rxg4 $1 (\n30… Bxg2+ 31. Qxg2 Rxg2 32. Rxg2 Qf4+ 33. Kg1 Qd6 34. Ba5 Qc5 35. Kf1 Qxa5\n$19) (30… Rxg2 31. Qxg2 Bxg2+ 32. Rxg2 Qf4+) 31. Qg1 Qh6 32. Nf5 $2 {A wild\nattempt at playing actively which only succeeds in losing back the piece\nwithout blunting Black’s attack. But it is difficult to see how White could\ndefend.} ({If} 32. Ba5 {the reply} Bc5 {leaves White hopelessly tied up}) ({\nwhile} 32. Nb3 {allows} a5 {[%cal Gb7a6] with the powerful threat of Ba6+}) ({\nPossibly} 32. Ba7 {would have been the best chance} {planning to meet} Rh4 ({\nAfter} 32… Re5 {it is difficult to find a move which doesn’t lose something\n(Webb)}) {with} 33. Nf5) 32… Qf6 33. Rf2 Qxb6 34. Qh2 a5 35. Qh3 Rg6 36. Nd5\n$2 {there was no defence to Ba6+ but this loses a straight piece.} Qb5+ 37. Kg1\nBxd5 {and White resigned} 0-1 \n[/pgn] \nDanish chess grandmaster Bent Larsen (1935 – 2010\, left) takes on English player William Hartston (right) during the annual Hastings International Chess Congress\, UK\, 13th January 1973. Larsen won the game. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\nA lucid and entertaining writer\, he has also appeared with success in BBC Television chess programmes. \nBill Hartston at a promotional event\nAmong his chief works are : \nThe Benoni\, London\, 1969\nThe Grunfeld Defence\, London\, 1971\nThe Best Games of CHO’D Alexander (with H. Golombek)\, Oxford\, 1976.” \nIn modern times Bill has made regular appearances with World Cluedo champion\, Josef Kollar on Channel Four’s Gogglebox with a pair of painted breasts as background. \nHere is his Wikipedia article \nSee his entry from the Jewish Lives Project \nThe King’s Indian Defence\, 1969\nThe Benoni\, 1969\nHow to Cheat at Chess\, 1976\nThe Best Games of C.H.O’D. Alexander\, 1976\nThe Grünfeld Defence\, 1977\nBenoni\, 1977\nKarpov-Korchnoi\, 1978\nSoft Pawn\, 1980\nThe Phillips & Drew King’s Chess Tournament\, 1980\nThe Penguin Book of Chess Openings\, 1981\nThe Psychology of Chess\, 1984\nShort vs Kasparov\, 1993\nThe Kings of Chess\, 1995\nThe Guinness Book of Chess Grandmasters\, 1996\nWilliam Hartston
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Andrew Smith (15-viii-1959)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to FM Andrew Smith (15-viii-1959) \nAndrew became a FIDE Master in 1994 and is registered with the Irish Chess Union. \nHis highest FIDE rating was 2310 in July 1994 at the age of 35. \nFM Andrew Smith\, photographer unknown\nHe plays for Bourne End Chess Club in the Buckinghamshire League and in the Berkshire League. \nAndrew also plays for 4NCL Barnet Knights (he has played for Atticus)\, Buckinghamshire CCA in the Chiltern League and Hon Members LCCL. \nHe has won the Berks & Bucks Congress in 2018 and 2016 (joint) and he became Berkshire Individual Champion as a direct consequence winning the Cadogan Cup. \nWith the white pieces Andrew is (almost) exclusively a 1.e4 player favouring the Centre Game \nand as the second player Andrew plays the Philidor Defence and the Benoni. \nHe is known to favour “enterprising” variations such as the Mason Variation of the Philidor\, the Haldane Attack versus the French and other such exotica. \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXXII (132)\, Number 7 (July) front cover features FM Andrew Smith from the final 4NCL weekend of the 2011-2012 season\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT2b 1112 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2012.02.12”]\n[Round “6.3”]\n[White “Smith\, Andrew Philip”]\n[Black “Girdlestone\, Paul C”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C22”]\n[WhiteElo “2204”]\n[BlackElo “2191”]\n[Annotator “Andrew P Smith”]\n[PlyCount “75”]\n[EventDate “2011.11.12”]\n[EventType “team-match”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2013”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2012.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2012.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Spirit of Atticus”]\n[BlackTeam “Brown Jack”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,75\,19\,31\,34\,25\,5\,-1\,-3\,-12\,-20\,-36\,-38\,-31\,-26\,-30\,-41\,-8\,1\,-59\,13\,-2\,\n-2\,-222\,-254\,-322\,-193\,-225\,-133\,-160\,-85\,-149\,-83\,-101\,-80\,-80\,-69\,-43\,-41\,\n-84\,21\,48\,60\,-100\,-71\,-82\,65\,177\,182\,136\,220\,173\,273\,89\,89\,57\,57\,-140\,-137\,\n-128\,15\,36\,333\,767\,29985\,434\,394\,127\,141\,105\,125\,134\,245\,256\,273\,237\,29999\,\n-30000]} {My notes are based on my thoughts during the game and have not been\nchecked by a computer.  Going into this game\, I felt under pressure both from\nteam and personal perspectives. I joined Atticus at the beginning of this\n(2011) season and my first three appearences had seen me accumulate a very\nround zero !  We already suspected that our team would be in the second\ndivision ‘demotion pool’ so we desperately needed points to avert relegation.\nThis was my fourth game for the team so I was keen to address my shortcomings\nand put some sort of score on the board. No easy matter as my opponent was\nrated higher than myself and had beaten me the previous year at the Berks &\nBucks Congress.} 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 $1 {I have been playing this\n“Offbeat” line for over 25 years so I have a great deal of experience with it.\nOften scoffed at\, but as with many Offbeat lines it is not so easy for Black\nto deal with !} Nc6 4. Qe3 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Bd2 O-O 7. O-O-O Re8 8. Bc4 $5 ({\nIn previous games I have also speculated with Morozevich’s tricky innovation}\n8. Qg3 {which he played against Mark Hebden} d6 9. f3 Ne5 10. h4 c6 11. h5 d5\n12. Nge2 Nc4 13. h6 {was Morozevich-Hebden\, Lloyds Bank\, 1994\, 1-0\, 27.}) (8.\nf3) 8… d6 $5 (8… Bxc3 9. Bxc3 Nxe4 (9… Rxe4 $2 {loses} {to} 10. Bxf6 Rxe3\n11. Bxd8 $18) 10. Qf4 $1 Qe7 $4 ({Instead of 10…Qe7  he could have played}\n10… Nf6 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 (11… gxf6 $16 {just looks too horrible to\ncontemplate.}) 12. Qxc7 Qxf2 (12… Qg5+ 13. Kb1 Qxg2 14. Qf4 Ne5 15. Bd5 {\nagain with great attacking chances for the pawn.}) 13. Nf3 $14 {with\ntremendous compensation for the pawn}) (10… Nxc3 11. Bxf7+ Kh8 12. Bxe8 Qxe8\n13. bxc3 d6 $16 {and I prefer White.}) 11. Re1 $1 $18 {winning as Black will\nlose material after 12.f3}) 9. Nf3 $5 Bf5 $5 10. Qf4 Bg6 ({If} 10… Bxe4 {\nWhite has} 11. Bxf7+ Kxf7 12. Ng5+) (10… Bxc3 11. Bxc3 Bxe4 12. Ng5 Bg6 13.\nh4 {gives play.}) 11. Ng5 h6 12. h4 Ne5 ({If} 12… hxg5 13. hxg5 Nh7 14. Qh2 {\nlooks interesting\,  threatening f4 and f5} {and if} Bxc3 15. bxc3 Bxe4 (15…\nQd7 $1 $19) 16. Bd3 $18 {seemed good.}) 13. Bb3 Nh5 (13… hxg5 14. hxg5 Nh7\n15. Qh4 $40 {with f4 and f5 to follow.}) 14. Qe3 Qd7 {I wasn’t sure what Black\nwould played here.} ({I analysed} 14… hxg5 15. hxg5 {and felt I had good\nchances because Black’s knight on h5 is exposed to a White pawn surge.}) 15. f4\nNg4 16. Qf3 {The crisis point of the game is here. White threatens the\ncrushing 17.f5} hxg5 {Black saw now nothing better. The knight is finaly\ncaptured after being en prise for five moves. I remember looking at the clock\nsituations and being amazed that we had only played 16 moves !} 17. f5 $1 ({If\n} 17. hxg5 $6 {then} Bxc3 18. Bxc3 Bxe4 19. Qh3 Bg6 {and maybe Black is OK?})\n17… Ne5 18. Qe3 Bxf5 ({Or} 18… Bc5 19. Qxg5 {is strong} Bxf5) 19. exf5 Nf4\n{In a mutual time scramble this is a tricky little move.} 20. Kb1 ({Not\nfalling for} 20. hxg5 $4 Ned3+ {winning my queen.}) 20… Nc4 21. Qg3 Nxd2+ 22.\nRxd2 Qxf5 23. hxg5 Bxc3 24. bxc3 Re4 $18 {I could feel my opponents sudden\noptimism after he played this move. If Black could continue with Rae8 then he\nwould be OK.} 25. Rf2 $1 {Repositioning my only ineffectual piece. On d2 \, this\nrook was not doing anything. – now it pins the knight against the queen and\nall White’s pieces contribute a threat to Black’s king.} Qe5 ({I’m sure he\nwould have liked to have played} 25… Rae8 {but} 26. g6 {is still a difficult\nreply to meet as} Qxg6 27. Qxg6 Nxg6 28. Bxf7+ Kf8 29. Bxg6+ {wins}) 26. g6 $1\n{Fortunately for me Black’s capture on c3 has freed up a flight square on b2\nfor my king so I don’t have to worry about checks on my back rank.} d5 {\nBlocking the diagonal of my strong bishop on b3. His king is about to be\nexposed!} 27. gxf7+ Kxf7 {With both of use having a few minutes left and time\ncontrol a long way ff at move 40\, the tension is palpable as this result is\ncrucial to the outcome of the match.} 28. Rh4 {To save the knight Black is\nforced to expose his king still further.} g5 29. Rh7+ Ke6 30. Qg4+ Kf6 31. Qd7\n{Probably winning for White} Qe6 $2 {A blunder – albiet in a lost position. –\nbut in mutual time trouble I let him get away with it.} 32. Qg7+ ({Now} 32.\nRh6+ {wins the queen and it would have been quite a nice game if it had\nfinished this way. But\, I mistakenly thought he could intercept with the knight\nforgettimg it was pinned.}) 32… Kf5 33. Rh6 Qe7 {Now with both flags hanging\nand both players blitzing to reach the time control\, I decided to bail-out and\nwin a piece.} 34. Qxe7 Rxe7 35. g3 Kg4 36. gxf4 gxf4 37. Bxd5 Kg3 $4 {three\nseconds left !} 38. Rg2# {with about 15 seconds left !  It was big relief to\ncome away with the full point as the match score\, after some heroic defence by\nSheila Jackson in her game with Mike Truran was 4.5 – 3.5 to us (Atticus).} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFM Andrew Smith at the 2019 Keith Richardson Memorial\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Leonard Barden (20-viii-1929)
DESCRIPTION:Ninety-two today is Leonard Barden\, born Tuesday\, August 20th\, 1929. \nHis mother’s maiden was Bartholomew and she became Elise EM Barden when she married Leonard’s father who was William C Barden and in 1939 they lived at 89\, Tennison Road\, Croydon. \n89\, Tennison Road\, Croydon\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek OBE: \n“British Master and joint British Champion 1954. Barden was born in Croydon and learned to play at his school\, Whitgift\, which became a frequent producer of fine players. \nIn 1946 he tied for first place in the London Boys Championship and in the following year he tied with Jonathan Penrose for first place in the British Boys Championship\, but lost the play-off. \nIn 1952 he came first at Paignton ahead of the Canadian Grandmaster Yanofsky and he reached his peak in 1954 when \, after tieing for first place with the Belgian Grandmaster O’Kelly de Galway at Bognor\, he tied for for first place in the British Championship at Nottingham with A. Phillips. The play-off was drawn and so the players became joint champions. \nAlan Phillips and Leonard Barden are joint British Champions of 1954 in Nottingham\, photographer unknown\nHe played for the BCF in four Olympiads from 1952 to 1962 and then abandoned competitive chess\, applying all his energies to writing (he is chess correspondent of the Guardian\, the Financial Times\, the Evening Standard and the Field\, and has written many books on the game. \nHe has also developed two special interests\, in junior chess and in grading\, working with utmost persistence and energy in both of these fields. \nLeonard authored a series of articles on what was to become the Yugoslav Attack versus the Sicilian Dragon. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 7 (July)\, page 208\nAmongst his best works are : a A Guide to Chess Openings\, London\, 1957; The Ruy Lopez\, Oxford\, 1963; The King’s Indian Defence\, London\, 1968.” \nDisappointingly  Sunnucks Encyclopedia does not mention Barden at all and and surprisingly Hooper and Whyld’s usually excellent Oxford Companion only from a connection with Jim Slater. \nLeonard Bardens’ Evening Standard column ends after 63 Years \nSignature of LW Barden from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Southsea 1951.\nHere is an in-depth article from Edward Winter \nLeonard Barden’s Blunder Theory from Kingpin Magazine \n54-Year-Old Chess Record established in 2009 \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Leonard William Barden (born 20 August 1929\, in Croydon\, London) is an English chess master\, writer\, broadcaster\, organizer and promoter. The son of a dustman\, he was educated at Whitgift School\, South Croydon\, and Balliol College\, Oxford\, where he read Modern History. \nTravel Chess2nd January 1951: British chess champions Jonathan Penrose and Leonard Barden prepare their openings over breakfast in the Yelton Hotel before the 9.30 am round start at Hastings 1950-51. (Photo by Walter Bellamy/Express/Getty Images)\nHe learned to play chess at age 13 while in a school shelter during a World War II German air raid. Within a few years he became one of the country’s leading juniors.[1] He represented England in four Chess Olympiads. Barden played a major role in the rise of English chess from the 1970s. As a chess columnist for various newspapers\, his column in London’s Evening Standard is the world’s longest-standing chess column. \nLeonard Barden (seated\, second from right) Before Botvinnik’s 1981 Pergamon Press clock simul against England juniors\, the final competitive event of the Patriarch’s career.Standing: Stuart Conquest\, Neil Dickenson. Gary Lane\, Alan Byron\,Daniel King\, John Hawksworth\, Pergamon editor.Seated: Julian Hodgson\, Byron Jacobs\, Mikhail Botvinnik\, Leonard Barden\, Bernard Cafferty.\nIn 1946\, Barden won the British Junior Correspondence Chess Championship\, and tied for first place in the London Boys’ Championship. The following year he tied for first with Jonathan Penrose in the British Boys’ Championship\, but lost the playoff. \nBarden finished fourth at Hastings in 1951–52. In 1952\, he won the Paignton tournament ahead of the Canadian future grandmaster Daniel Yanofsky. He captained the Oxfordshire team which won the English Counties championship in 1951 and 1952. \nBarden making a move at Southend 1955.\nIn the latter year he captained the University of Oxford team which won the National Club Championship\, and he represented the university in the annual team match against the University of Cambridge during his years there. In 1953\, he won the individual British Lightning Championship (ten seconds a move). \nThe following year\, he tied for first with the Belgian grandmaster Albéric O’Kelly de Galway at Bognor Regis\, was joint British champion\, with Alan Phillips\, and won the Southern Counties Championship. \nLeonard Barden vs Victor Korchnoi\, Leipzig Olympiad\, 1960\nHe finished fourth at Hastings 1957–58\, ranked by chessmetrics as his best statistical performance. In the 1958 British Chess Championship\, Barden again tied for first\, but lost the playoff match to Penrose 1½–3½. \nLeonard Barden (centre) with Raaphi Persitz\, JB Sykes\, OI Galvenius and DM Armstrong\, Ilford\, May\, 1953\n[pgn]\n[Event “British Lightning Championship\, Ilford “]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1953.05.17”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Barden\, Leonard William”]\n[Black “Green\, Arnold Yorvath”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C84”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “39”] \n{[%evp 0\,39\,19\,31\,34\,19\,13\,4\,13\,-2\,-9\,3\,20\,2\,19\,-7\,-7\,-7\,19\,-79\,35\,27\,22\,51\,34\,\n-22\,17\,-3\,14\,-42\,91\,49\,96\,104\,104\,104\,2111\,2604\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29994]} 1. e4\ne5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d4 exd4 7. e5 Ne4 8. Nxd4 Nc5\n9. Nf5 g6 10. Nxe7 Qxe7 11. Bxc6 dxc6 12. Re1 $146 (12. Bh6) 12… Bd7 13. Nc3\nO-O-O $15 14. Qf3 Rdf8 (14… Bf5) 15. Qg3 f5 16. Bg5 Qf7 17. Qe3 Ne6 $4 18.\nQa7 $18 Be8 19. Rad1 Nd4 20. Rxd4 {and Black resigned} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nLWB observes analysis between David Rumens and Murray Chandler from Brighton 1980. Photograph courtesy of John Upham.\nHe represented England in the Chess Olympiads at Helsinki 1952 (playing fourth board\, scoring 2 wins\, 5 draws\, and 4 losses)\, Amsterdam 1954 (playing first reserve\, scoring 1 win\, 2 draws\, and 4 losses)\, Leipzig 1960 (first reserve; 4 wins\, 4 draws\, 2 losses) and Varna 1962 (first reserve; 7 wins\, 2 draws\, 3 losses). The latter was his best performance by far. \nLeonard Barden (left) and Murray Chandler display the Lloyds Bank Trophy which the 19-year old New Zealander won ahead of 3 Grandmasters and 10 International Masters for his finest international success up to 1979. in the Lloyds Bank Masters\nBarden has a Morphy number of 3\, having drawn with Jacques Mieses in the Premier Reserves at Hastings 1948–49. Mieses drew with Henry Bird in the last round of Hastings 1895\, and Bird played a number of games with Paul Morphy in 1858 and 1859. \nEngland’s under-12 junior teams finished first and second in the international Eumig Cup\, 1981.Front row: Peter Morrish (organiser)\, Jimmy Hockaday\, Darren Lee\, Neil Fox\, Neil Carr. Second row: James Howell\, Stuart Conquest\, Teresa Needham. Far right: LB.\nIn 1964\, Barden gave up most competitive chess to devote his time to chess organisation\, broadcasting\, and writing about the game. He has made invaluable contributions to English chess as a populariser\, writer\, organiser\, fundraiser\, and broadcaster. \nLeonard Barden at Bob Wade’s 80th birthday party\, 2001.\nHe was controller of the British Chess Federation Grand Prix for many years\, having found its first sponsor\, Cutty Sark. He was a regular contributor to the BBC’s Network Three weekly radio chess programme from 1958 to 1963. His best-known contribution was a consultation game\, recorded in 1960 and broadcast in 1961\, where he partnered Bobby Fischer against the English masters Jonathan Penrose and Peter Clarke. This was the only recorded consultation game of Fischer’s career. The game\, unfinished after eight hours of play\, was adjudicated a draw by former world champion Max Euwe. Barden gave BBC television commentaries on all the games in the 1972 world championship. From 1973 to 1978 he was co-presenter of BBC2’s annual Master Game televised programme. \nJulian and Nigel Short play Korchnoi in the Evening Standard 1976 simul. Leonard Barden observes.\nAs of 2021\, his weekly columns have been published in The Guardian for 65 years and in The Financial Times for 46 years. A typical Barden column not only contains a readable tournament report\, but is geared toward promoting the game. His London Evening Standard column\, begun in summer 1956\, is now the world’s longest running daily chess column by the same author\, breaking the previous record set by George Koltanowski in the San Francisco Chronicle. Koltanowski’s column ran for 51 years\, 9 months\, and 18 days\, including posthumous articles.” \nLeonard Barden (Linda Nylind of the Guardian)\nLeonard wrote this on the English Chess Forum in 2021 : \n“I retired after Ilford 1964 when I finished a poor last in the England Olympiad team qualifier\, returned at Hammersmith 1969 (equal 2nd behind Keene) and then played around 6-8 weekenders a year until 1972. My overall performance level between early 60s and early 70s dropped from around 225 to 215 BCF\, so I wasn’t encouraged to pursue the comeback further.” \nLeonard was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1953-54 season. \nLeonard Barden\, Stewart Reuben and Michael Franklin at the 1978 Aaronson Masters\nLeonard reveals this as his best game : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1950-51-26 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1950.12.30”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Barden\, Leonard William”]\n[Black “Adams\, Weaver Warren”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C57”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1950.12.28”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,27\,23\,32\,18\,-13\,54\,47\,160\,142\,71\,14\,0\,0\,0\,13\,247\,242\,\n199\,5\,11\,81\,88\,93\,88\,86\,73\,66\,107\,114\,98\,212\,184\,267\,311\,302\,560\,534\,581\,605\,\n560\,615\,828\,383\,616\,751\,573\,704\,895\,887]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5\nd5 5. exd5 Nxd5 $2 (5… Na5 $1 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6 9. Nf3 e4 $44\n) 6. d4 $1 (6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke6 8. Nc3 Ncb4 $1 $13) 6… Bb4+ 7. c3 Be7 8.\nNxf7 Kxf7 9. Qf3+ Ke6 10. Qe4 $1 (10. O-O $6 Na5 11. Qg4+ Kf7 12. Qf3+ Ke6 $10)\n10… Bf8 (10… Qd6 11. f4 Na5 12. f5+ $18) (10… b5 $5 11. Bxb5 Bb7 12. f4\n$36) 11. O-O Nce7 12. f4 c6 13. fxe5 Kd7 14. Be2 Ke8 (\n14… Kc7 15. c4 Nb6 16. Bf4 Ng6 17. Bg3 ) 15. c4 Nc7 16. Nc3\nBe6? {[#]} 17. Bg5! Qd7 18. Rad1 Rc8 (18… Bf5 19. Qf3) (18… Rd8 19. Bxe7\nBxe7 20. d5 cxd5 21. cxd5 Bxd5 22. Rxd5 Nxd5 23. Bb5 $18) 19. Bxe7 Qxe7 (19…\nBxe7 20. d5 Bc5+ 21. Kh1 cxd5 22. cxd5 Bxd5 23. Rxd5) 20. d5 Qc5+ 21. Kh1 cxd5\n22. cxd5 Bd7 (22… Bf7 23. Qf5) 23. e6 Bb5 24. Qf4 Kd8 (24… Be7 25. Qf7+ Kd8\n26. d6 Bxd6 27. e7+ Kd7 28. e8=Q#) 25. Bxb5 Nxb5 26. Nxb5 Qxb5 27. d6 (27. d6\nRc4 28. Qxf8+ Rxf8 29. Rxf8+ Qe8 30. Rxe8+ Kxe8 31. d7+ Kd8 32. e7+ Kxe7 33.\nd8=Q+) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nLeonard has authored or co-authored a number of highly regarded books\, most of which are highly instructional to this day: \nA Guide to Chess Openings (1957)\, \nA Guide to Chess Openings\nHow Good Is Your Chess? (1957)\, \nHow Good is Your Chess ?\nChess (1959)\,\nIntroduction to Chess Moves and Tactics Simply Explained (1959)\, \nAn Introduction to Chess Moves and Tactics Simply Explained\nModern Chess Miniatures (with Wolfgang Heidenfeld\, 1960)\,\nErevan 1962 (1963)\,\nThe Ruy Lopez (1963)\, \nThe Ruy Lopez\nThe Guardian Chess Book (1967)\, \nThe Guardian Chess Book\nAn Introduction to Chess (1967)\, \nAn Introduction to Chess\nThe King’s Indian Defence (1969)\, \nThe King’s Indian Defence\nChess: Master the Moves (1977)\,\nGuide to the Chess Openings (with Tim Harding\, 1977)\, \nGuide to the Chess Openings\nLeonard Barden’s Chess Puzzle Book (1977) (a collection of his Evening Standard columns)\, \nLeonard Barden’s Chess Puzzle Book\nThe Master Game (with Jeremy James\, 1979)\, \nThe Master Game\nHow to Play the Endgame in Chess (1979)\, \nHow to Play The Endgame in Chess\nPlay Better Chess (1980)\, \nPlay Better Chess\nBatsford Chess Puzzles (2002)\, \nBatsford Chess Puzzles\nOne Move and You’re Dead (with Erwin Brecher\, 2007) : Can you supply an image? \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-38 Championship”]\n[Site “Swansea”]\n[Date “1951.08.28”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Barden\, Leonard William”]\n[Black “Klein\, Ernst Ludwig”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D93”]\n[Annotator “Barden\,L”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “1951.08.20”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2018”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,73\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,38\,70\,32\,37\,37\,70\,60\,63\,33\,40\,33\,80\,67\,86\,68\,86\,54\,\n51\,59\,29\,37\,42\,45\,47\,45\,83\,87\,75\,73\,91\,101\,112\,97\,97\,92\,99\,93\,90\,83\,91\,72\,86\,\n99\,303\,299\,304\,302\,311\,305\,313\,273\,277\,280\,285\,285\,294\,296\,297\,283\,289\,288\,296\,\n303\,318\,339\,364\,316\,367\,380]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 c6 5. e3 Bg7\n6. Nf3 O-O 7. Qb3 Qa5 ({I prefer this to the alternative} 7… dxc4 8. Bxc4\nNbd7 9. Ng5 $1 Qe8 10. Bc7 $1) 8. Ne5 b6 ({Better\, and adequate for equality is\n} 8… Nh5 {e.g.} 9. cxd5 Nxf4 10. exf4 cxd5 11. Qxd5 Qb6 {regaining the pawn\n– Gligoric-Boleslavsky\, Saltsjobaden 1948}) 9. Be2 Ba6 10. O-O Rc8 11. Rac1\nNbd7 12. Rfd1 Nxe5 13. Bxe5 dxc4 14. Bxc4 Bxc4 15. Qxc4 b5 16. Qb3 a6 17. Bxf6\nBxf6 18. Ne4 Bg7 19. Rc5 Bf8 20. Rdc1 e6 21. R5c2 Be7 22. h3 Qb6 23. Nc5 a5 24.\na4 Rab8 $4 ({An oversight which loses at once\, but Black had a very difficult\ngame anyway:} 24… Bxc5 25. Rxc5) (24… b4 25.\nNxe6 $1 fxe6 26. Qxe6+ Kf8 27. d5 $1 $18) 25. Nd7 Qd8 26. Nxb8 Rxb8 27. Rxc6\nbxa4 28. Qxb8 Qxb8 29. Rc8+ Qxc8 30. Rxc8+ Kg7 31. Ra8 Bb4 32. Ra7 g5 33. e4\nKg6 34. g4 f6 35. Kf1 h5 36. Ke2 hxg4 37. hxg4 {Sources: Universities Chess\nAnnual (2nd issue)\, Nov 1951; BCM\, Oct 1951\, p267} 1-0\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WCM Dinah Norman (née Dobson) (21-viii-1946)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to Dinah Norman on August 21st\n\nDinah Margaret Dobson was born on Wednesday\, August 21st 1946 in Exeter\, Devon. Her parents were Leslie and Barbara Dobson (née Hayward).\n\nSome of the participants in the Paul Keres  display on November 25th\, 1962\, at St Pancras Town Hall\, London WC1. Back row : AJ. Whiteley\, D\, Floyer\, PJ Collins\, PJ Adams\, RC Vaughan\, KB Harman\, D. Parr\, DNL Levy\, Front row : MV Lambshire\, AE Hopkins (selector) Paul Keres\, Miss D. Dobson\, RE Hartley\, BC Gillman\, WR Hartston  and PN Lee. Photograph by AM Reilly. Source : BCM\, 1963\, page 13\n\nDinah became a WCM in 2002.\n\nAccording to chessgames.com : “Dinah Margaret Norman Dobson is a WCM. She was British champion (w) in 1967 (=Rowena Mary Bruce\, Oxford)\, 1968 (Bristol) and 1969 (=Rowena Mary Bruce\, Rhyl).”\n\nDinah Dobson 22-year-old Champion British Chess Player Deep In Thought During Chess Competition In Hastings. Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock\n\nDinah played on board three (i.e. 1st reserve) for England in the third FIDE Women’s Olympiad in Oberhausen\, Germany in 1966 and in 1969 she played board 1 in Lublin\, Poland.\n\nEnglish Chess Champion Dinah Dobson Playing Against Two German Boys During Lunch-break At Chess Competition In Hastings. Box 658 221121512 A.jpg.English Chess Champion Dinah Dobson Playing Against Two German Boys During Lunch-break At Chess Competition In Hastings. Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock\n\nShe played in the 1968 Anglo-Dutch match on the Ladies board\, which\, at that time\, did not count in the overall match result.\n\nThe Annual International Chess Championship opened today at Hasting. Dinah “Dobson\,” “23\,” of Northwood Middlesex. December 1969\n\nNow (1071) living in Northwood\, Middlesex\, she married Danny Wright in Westminster and in 1983 she married Ken Norman in Richmond.\n\nDinah Wright (third from right) playing in the 1971 British Ladies Championship in Palatine School\, Blackpool. Courtesy of Lancashire Evening Post.\n\nDinah has been a member of Crowthorne Chess Club and has played in the Berkshire League.  She has represented 4NCL Iceni and Guildford in other competitions.\n\nAccording to Megabase 2020 her highest FIDE rating was 2085 in July 1990 at the age of 44. However\, it would have been higher than this in the late 1960s and 1970s had ratings been established then.\n\nDinah Norman at the 2017 Keith Richardson Memorial organised by Camberley Chess Club. Courtesy of John Upham Photographic\n\n\nWith the white pieces she has essayed the Colle-Koltanowki Opening for many years and as the second player she has played the Caro-Kann\, Smyslov Variation and the Semi-Slav Defence.\n\n\nDinah Norman with Sandra Richardson at the 2017 Keith Richardson Memorial organised by Camberley Chess Club
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Ernst Klein (29-i-1910 22-viii-1990)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Ernst Klein (29-i-1910 22-viii-1990) \nFrom CHESS\, July 1946 (and also The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match) : \nSince Ernst Klein came to England in 1935 his play has earned our ungrudging admiration. Born in Vienna\, 1910\, he learned chess at the age of eleven. His grandmother taught him the moves\, his father having died when he was eight. Steinitz was a frequent guest in his grandparents house. At eighteen\, he shared first\, second and third prizes in the Championship of Vienna. Before coming to England\, he had lived for some years in Switzerland\, France and Italy and his French\, German and English are equally impeccable. In his last tournament at Bournemouth\, in 193\, he finished equal with Flohr after Euwe ahead of König\, Landau\, Aitken and others. He met his wife\, who is an Englishwoman\, during the blitz. They were married in 1944. He holds a London University degree and teaches mathematics in Southend. \nAbout 1940\, he offered to give any opponent in Great Britain the odds of the draw.; his challenge was never taken up\, no doubt owing to the conditions of the moment\, but we imagine there would be many “takers” if it were repeated now.” \nLater\, Klein clarified matters by writing What I said was: “I am ready to accept the challenge of any player in this country and am prepared to give the odds of a draw in a contest at least twelve games if he so wishes. That is\, I offered to concede victory on a score of 6 : 6 draws counting\, which is the necessary and sufficient condition to justify my offer. It is still open.  \nSee below photograph for caption \nCaption for above photograph \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nEdward Winter has written a detailed article here.  \nThe Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match (1947\, Pitman)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Aaron Summerscale (26-viii-1969)
DESCRIPTION:BCN offers best wishes to Aaron Summerscale on his 52nd birthday. \nAaron Piers Summerscale was born on Tuesday\, August 26th 1969 in Westminster\, Greater London. His mother’s maiden name is Mayall. Aaron lives in SW18 and teaches chess. He married Claire Lusher (Basingstoke) but they are now separated. \nAaron Summerscale \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1992\, an International Master in 1994 and a Grandmaster in 1997. \nAaron was runner-up (to Jonathan Parker) with 8/11 in the 1995 British Championship in Swansea. \nBritish Championship (Swansea) 1995 Crosstable \nHis highest FIDE rating was 2513 in October 2000 and was joint (with Ameet Ghasi) British Rapidplay Chess Champion in the same year. \nAaron Summerscale courtesy of John Henderson \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch 87th”]\n[Site “Millfield”]\n[Date “2000.08.02”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Summerscale\, Aaron”]\n[Black “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D58”]\n[WhiteElo “2459”]\n[BlackElo “2526”]\n[Annotator “John Emms”]\n[PlyCount “129”]\n[EventDate “2000.07.31”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 077 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.09.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.09.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,127\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,-14\,4\,-3\,24\,18\,35\,-18\,16\,22\,33\,32\,36\,3\,28\,0\,5\,-3\,\n26\,10\,10\,15\,29\,3\,-8\,-11\,-3\,-20\,-19\,-21\,2\,-21\,-26\,-3\,-3\,-32\,-32\,-31\,-23\,-40\,-35\,\n-42\,-42\,-42\,20\,0\,175\,199\,257\,224\,201\,201\,282\,250\,526\,105\,321\,124\,131\,305\,201\,\n244\,244\,126\,115\,155\,146\,198\,312\,286\,380\,326\,340\,0\,61\,54\,97\,97\,95\,95\,111\,108\,\n118\,119\,112\,115\,115\,102\,98\,103\,132\,139\,181\,173\,174\,174\,174\,174\,197\,197\,218\,124\,\n125\,180\,180\,182\,182\,221\,228\,229\,236\,242\,298\,173\,289\,327\,574\,630\,851\,29982\,\n29989\,29990\,29991\,29992]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 h6 6.\nBh4 O-O 7. e3 b6 8. Bd3 Bb7 9. O-O Nbd7 {[#]} 10. Bg3 {This strange looking\nretreat is in fact quite a common move here. White’s intentions are well\nexplained in Matthew Sadler’s recent excellent book on the QGD\, which has\ninspired Summerscale to play this line with both White and Black. Here White\nanticipates Black’s freeing move Nf6-e4 and takes measures against there being\ntoo many exchanges\, which would liberate Black’s position.} (10. Qe2 c5 11.\nRfd1 Ne4 12. Bg3) 10… c5 11. Qe2 a6 $5 {This move is quite uncommon. Black\nmay be preparing to gain space on the queenside with dxc4 followed by b5.} ({\nBlack normally plumps for} 11… Ne4 12. cxd5 exd5 13. Rad1 Qc8 14. Rc1 Ndf6\n15. dxc5 bxc5) 12. cxd5 {White’s choice releases some of the tension in the\ncentre. Summerscale believed that the resulting position was roughly level.}\nexd5 13. Rad1 c4 14. Bb1 b5 15. a3 Ne4 $146 (15… b4) (15… Re8) 16. Nxe4\ndxe4 17. Nd2 Nf6 {Originally Black’s position is fine\, but around this stage\nChandler was taking lots of time over his moves which gave Summerscale some\ncause for optimism.} 18. Bh4 Re8 19. f3 exf3 20. Nxf3 Ne4 ({Bogdan Lalic\nsuggested} 20… Be4 {as an improvement. The point is that White’s centre\nbecomes less of a force and more of a liability as pieces are exchanged.}) 21.\nBxe7 Qxe7 22. Ne5 f6 23. Ng6 Qf7 24. Nh4 g6 $2 {[#] The punters in the\ncommentary room did not like this move at all. and I’m sure that the official\ncommentator Andrew Martin didn’t miss his chance to put his boot in. Blacks\nwants to prevent Nh4-f5 but in doing so he weakens his kingside irrevocably.} (\n24… Rad8 $11) 25. Qg4 Kh7 26. d5 $1 h5 27. Qf3 Bxd5 28. Nxg6 $1 $18 {Now\nBlack is completey busted\, but surprisingly the action is far from over.} Bc6\n29. Nh4 Re5 {[#]} 30. Nf5 $6 ({Both} 30. Rd6 $1 $18) ({and} 30. Qxf6 $1 $16 {\nare winning on the spot.}) 30… Kh8 31. Nd6 Qe6 32. Nxe4 Bxe4 33. Bxe4 Rxe4\n34. Qxh5+ ({And now} 34. Rd4 $1 $18 {gives White a decisive advantage. By this\nstage both players were in deep time trouble.}) 34… Kg7 35. Qc5 $16 Rc8 36.\nQa7+ Kg6 37. Rf3 Rg4 38. Rd7 Rg8 39. Qc7 Qe4 40. Qb7 $11 {[#]} Qxb7 $2 {\nOn the last move before the time control \, Chandler misses his one big chance.}\n({The shocking} 40… Rxg2+ $1 {is difficult to meet} {as} 41. Kxg2 {loses} ({\nWhite has to make do with} 41. Kf1 {but the unclear endgame position reached\nafter} Qxb7 42. Rxb7 {is a much better version for Black than the actual game\ncontnuation.}) {after} 41… Kh6+ 42. Kf1 Qb1+ 43. Ke2 Rg2+ 44. Rf2 Qxb2+ 45.\nRd2 Rxf2+ 46. Kxf2 Qxd2+ $19) 41. Rxb7 Rd8 42. Rb6 Rd1+ 43. Rf1 Rxf1+ 44. Kxf1\nc3 45. bxc3 Ra4 46. Kf2 Rxa3 47. Kf3 Kf5 48. h4 Rxc3 49. Rxa6 Rc4 50. g3 Kg6\n51. Rb6 {White’s three-versus-one pawn majority on the kingside is decisive.}\nRb4 52. g4 Kg7 53. e4 Rb1 54. e5 $1 {Creating two connected passed pawns\, a\nwinning advantage in this type of ending.} fxe5 55. Ke4 Rb4+ 56. Kf5 Rf4+ 57.\nKg5 b4 58. h5 Rc4 59. Rb7+ Kg8 60. h6 e4 61. Kh5 e3 62. g5 e2 63. h7+ Kh8 64.\nKh6 {and Black resigned.} Rc8 {is answered by} 65. g6 {A well fought battle\ndespite its faults.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHis highest ECF grading was 244A in 2001 and he won the Staffordshire GM tournament in the same year : \nStaffordshire GM Tournament 2000 Crosstable \nAaron plays for Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) and has played for Pride and Prejudice. \nAaron Summerscale \nAaron wrote “Confessions of a British Nightclubber” for Kingpin Magazine. \nWith the white pieces Aaron is very much a Queen’s pawn player mainly employing the Colle-Zukertort System and the Barry Attack. \nAaron Summerscale from Foxy Video 20. d4 Dynamite! talks about the Barry Attack\, \nAs the second player Aaron prefers the Classical French and the Slav Defence. \nHere is a video of a young Aaron talking about his 150 Attack video for Foxy Video : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KpOx-mFm0Q[/embedyt] \nAaron Summerscale courtesy of Gabriele Winkler \n[pgn]\n[Event “Oz.com qual blitz”]\n[Site “ICC INT”]\n[Date “2000.03.05”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Summerscale\, Aaron”]\n[Black “Benjamin\, Joel”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A41”]\n[WhiteElo “2430”]\n[BlackElo “2591”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “99”]\n[EventDate “2000.03.05”]\n[EventType “swiss (blitz)”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “USA”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,99\,25\,20\,64\,71\,97\,87\,74\,67\,72\,70\,94\,70\,68\,71\,59\,33\,21\,24\,58\,40\,0\,-6\,\n-11\,-29\,-24\,-39\,-46\,-26\,-33\,-46\,-42\,-24\,16\,-4\,-2\,0\,0\,-18\,55\,45\,32\,32\,28\,12\,39\,\n17\,34\,23\,31\,44\,19\,60\,31\,-47\,-9\,6\,53\,3\,88\,102\,183\,183\,172\,172\,136\,0\,-1\,0\,0\,-36\,\n-106\,-106\,110\,-48\,120\,150\,211\,216\,221\,216\,229\,228\,278\,294\,347\,342\,337\,334\,355\,\n364\,377\,385\,384\,398\,397\,396\,396\,466\,539\,664]} 1. d4 d6 2. Nf3 Bg4 3. e4 Nf6 4.\nNc3 e6 5. h3 Bh5 6. Qe2 c6 7. g4 Bg6 8. Bg5 Nbd7 9. O-O-O Qa5 10. Bg2 d5 11.\nBxf6 Nxf6 12. exd5 Nxd5 13. Nxd5 cxd5 14. Ne5 Bd6 15. Nxg6 hxg6 16. Kb1 O-O-O\n17. c4 dxc4 18. Qxc4+ Kb8 19. Qb3 Qb4 20. Qf3 Rd7 21. Rd3 Qa5 22. Rb3 Qa6 23.\nRc1 Rc8 24. Rxc8+ Kxc8 25. a3 Rc7 26. h4 Kd8 27. h5 gxh5 28. gxh5 Ke7 29. Qe3\nQa5 30. d5 Qc5 31. Qg5+ Ke8 32. Qxg7 Qxf2 33. h6 Qe1+ 34. Ka2 Rc1 35. Rd3 Ra1+\n36. Kb3 Qa5 37. Qc3 Qxc3+ 38. Rxc3 Rb1 39. h7 Be5 40. h8=Q+ Bxh8 41. Rc8+ Kd7\n42. Rxh8 exd5 43. Bxd5 b6 44. Bxf7 Rf1 45. Bc4 Rf3+ 46. Kb4 Kc6 47. Rh6+ Kc7\n48. Rh7+ Kb8 49. Rb7+ Kxb7 50. Bd5+ 1-0 \n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haULRgCC5I4[/embedyt] \nBooks : \nSummerscale\, Aaron (1999). A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-1-85744-519-0. \nA Killer Chess Opening Repertoire \nA Killer Chess Opening Repertoire \nSummerscale\, Aaron; Summerscale\, Claire (2002). \nInterview With a Grandmaster. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-243-4. \nInterview with a Grandmaster \nFoxy Video : d4 Dynamite by Aaron Summerscale \nGM Aaron Summerscale courtesy of John Upham Photography
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Daniel King (28-viii-1963)
DESCRIPTION:We offer best wishes to GM Daniel King on his birthday \nDaniel John King was born on Wednesday\, August 28th 1963 (the same day as the Martin Luther King “I have a dream” speech) in Beckenham\, Kent. \nHe attended Langley Park School whose motto is “Mores et Studia” meaning “good character and learning” or “morals and study”. \nDaniel has a brother Andrew (AJ King) who is also a strong player. \nDaniel became an International Master in 1982 and a Grandmaster in 1989. \nDaniel King \nHis peak FIDE rating (Felice) was 2560 in July 1990 at the age of 27. \nDaniel plays for Guildford in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) and has played for Guildford in local leagues. \nThis was written (by Leonard Barden) about Daniel who was 15 just prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n“Langley Park School\, Shortlands and Bromley. Rating 201. British under-14 co-champion\, 1977. 2nd Lloyds Bank junior international\, 1979.” \nDanny was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1983-84 and 1985-86 seasons. \nAccording to Test Your Chess With Daniel King\, Batsford\, 2004 : \n“Grandmaster Daniel King has been a professional chess player for 20 years. During that time he has represented his country on many occasions including an historic match victory over the Soviet Union in Reykyavik\, 1990. Besides his chess career\, Daniel has built up a reputation as a commentator on TV and radio\, \nJonathan Speelman and Daniel King share headphones at the 2013 FIDE Candidates event in London\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \nand has reported on four World Championship matches and several Man vs Machine events\, including the controversial Kasparov vs Deep Blue encounter in New York\, 1997. He is an award-winning author of 15 books\, including Winning with the Najdorf\, Mastering the Spanish\, and Kasparov vs Deep Blue for Batsford. ” \nOn April 8th\, 2020 New in Chess released Sultan Khan: The Indian Servant Who Became Chess Champion of the British Empire which is Daniel’s most recent book. \nAccording to British Chess (Pergamon\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : \n1977 British Under 14 Champion\n1979 Lloyds Bank 6/9 (aged only 16)\n1980 First Ilford Open\n1981 Represented England in Glorney Cup scoring 4.5/5\n1981 Fourteenth equal British Championship\n1981 IM norm Manchester 5.5/9\n1981 Second equal Ramsgate Regency Masters 6.5/9 IM norm with a round to spare\n1982 First Equal Guernsey 6/7\n1982 First Hamar IM norm and title\n1982 Second equal Molde\n1982 Second equal Hallsberg Junior\n1982 Third equal Phillips and Drew Knights\n1982/3 Tenth equal Ohra\, Amsterdam 5/9\n1982/3 Fifth European Junior\n1983 Fourth equal Gausdal\n1983 First Portsmouth Open \nIn the same article Daniel gave the following game as his favourite up to 1983: \n[pgn] \n[Event “Lloyds Bank op 06th”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1982.08.31”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “King\, Daniel J”]\n[Black “Barua\, Dibyendu”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C42”]\n[WhiteElo “2365”]\n[BlackElo “2375”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “67”]\n[EventDate “1982.08.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2008”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,67\,19\,31\,34\,19\,13\,4\,35\,24\,29\,0\,14\,41\,47\,29\,45\,36\,39\,19\,46\,42\,46\,23\,49\,\n37\,86\,21\,49\,59\,66\,46\,28\,82\,106\,118\,171\,127\,140\,100\,150\,121\,133\,141\,166\,161\,181\,\n84\,103\,101\,113\,100\,123\,33\,116\,61\,104\,95\,125\,102\,213\,207\,285\,342\,351\,328\,502\,\n395\,401\,574]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 Be7 6. Bd3 Nf6\n7. h3 (7. O-O) 7… O-O 8. O-O Nc6 (8… Re8) 9. c3 h6 (9… Re8) 10. Re1 Re8\n11. Nbd2 Bf8 12. Nf1 d5 $146 (12… Rxe1) 13. Ne5 Bd6 14. Bf4 Bxe5 $2 15. dxe5\n$16 Nd7 16. Qh5 Nc5 17. Bc2 Re6 18. Rad1 Ne7 19. Bc1 Nd7 20. f4 Qf8 21. Ne3 c6\n22. c4 $1 Nb6 23. cxd5 (23. Ng4 $18 Nxc4 24. f5) 23… Nexd5 24. Nxd5 Nxd5 25.\nKh1 Qc5 26. Bb1 Qe7 27. Re2 Qe8 28. Rde1 Re7 29. Qf3 b5 $2 (29… Qf8) 30. f5\n$18 Bb7 31. f6 Re6 {[#]} 32. Bxh6 $1 c5 (32… gxh6 33. Qg4+ Kh8 34. Qg7#) 33.\nQg3 g6 34. Bg7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nStreatham & Brixton becoming BCF National Club Champions in 1989. The team was Tony Kosten\, Mark Hedben\, Daniel King\, Nigel Povah (Captain)\, Joe Gallagher and Julian Hodgson : quite a strong team \nDaniel King (seated\, second from left) \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \n[pgn]\n[Event “Oviedo rapid45”]\n[Site “Oviedo”]\n[Date “1992.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Adams\, Michael”]\n[Black “King\, Daniel J”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “B93”]\n[WhiteElo “2620”]\n[BlackElo “2505”]\n[Annotator “King\,D”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1992.??.??”]\n[EventType “swiss (rapid)”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ESP”]\n[SourceTitle “TD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1994.03.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1994.03.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,21\,48\,35\,50\,98\,72\,62\,41\,41\,38\,67\,8\,50\,26\,44\,24\,32\,21\,-1\,20\,-16\,-18\,\n-12\,-29\,-39\,-26\,-17\,-16\,40\,-18\,46\,49\,49\,49\,49\,29\,135\,38\,100\,91\,101\,25\,74\,2\,104\,\n104\,75\,47\,53\,24\,0\,0\,80\,102]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3\na6 6. f4 Qc7 7. Nf3 Nbd7 8. a4 g6 9. Bd3 Bg7 10. O-O b6 11. Qe1 Bb7 12. Kh1 {\nWhite has to temporize for a move; instead:} (12. Qh4 Nc5 $1 13. f5 gxf5 14. e5\nNxd3 15. cxd3 dxe5 16. Qg5 Rg8 17. Qxf5 Qc5+ 18. Kh1 e4 $17 {Ebeling-King\,\nHelsinki 1991.}) 12… O-O 13. f5 e6 14. Qh4 Rae8 {Black’s formation is rock\nsolid. The knight on f6\, defending h7\, is crucial to Black’s defence and here\nit is well supported\, not only by the other knight on d7\, but indirectly by\nthe rook on f8 (if White were to exchange on g6 or e6\, then it would come into\nplay). Looking more positively\, Black is well placed to counter-attack: he\nmight exchange on f5\, opening up the e-file for the rook and the long diagonal\nfor the bishop.} 15. Bh6 {- must be the best move.} ({Alternatively:} 15. Bg5 {\n(not actually threatening anything)} Qc5 $5 16. Rad1 Qb4 {looking at b2\, but\nalso along the 4th rank; and now White went for a tricky option\, trapping\nBlack’s queen\, a most straightforward move is} 17. Bd2 (17. Rb1 {though I\nbelieve Black has two good options available:} gxf5 {(the risky move)} (17…\nexf5 {(the safe move)} 18. exf5 Qxh4 19. Bxh4 Ng4 $36 (19… Nc5 $5)) 18. Bh6 {\nI think White has to go for it as} (18. exf5 Qxh4 19. Bxh4 e5 {is already\nbetter for Black}) 18… Bxh6 (18… fxe4 19. Qg5 Nh5 20. Qxh5 exf3 (20… exd3\n$4 21. Qg5) 21. Bxh7+ (21. gxf3 Nf6 22. Qg5 Qg4) 21… Kxh7 22. Bxg7+ Kxg7 23.\nQg5+ $11 {A very Fritzy variation.}) 19. Qxh6 fxe4 20. Ng5 exd3 21. cxd3 Qd4 {\nand I don’t see a way through for White; it is nice that g2 is ‘en prise’.})\n17… Qxb2 18. e5 Bxf3 19. Ra1 Nxe5 20. Rfb1 Qxa1 21. Rxa1 Bb7 {Black has rook\,\nminor piece\, two pawns and\, most importantly a compact position. He is already\nclearly better.} 22. Rb1 Ned7 23. fxe6 fxe6 24. Qc4 Nd5 25. Nxd5 Bxd5 26. Qh4\nNc5 27. Be3 Nxd3 28. cxd3 b5 29. Kg1 Rc8 30. Rc1 Rxc1+ 31. Bxc1 Bf6 32. Qb4 a5\n33. Qg4 b4 34. h4 Rc8 35. Bg5 Bxg5 36. Qxg5 b3 37. Qf6 Rb8 38. Qb2 e5 {0-1\nBangiev-Rashkovsky/USSR 1975\, this is the game that I had noticed.}) (15. fxg6\n$6 {releases the tension too early. Black has few difficulties defending and\ncan use the f-file to attack:} fxg6 16. Bh6 Qc5 17. Ng5 Qe5 18. Rf3 Nh5 19.\nBxg7 Kxg7 20. Raf1 Rxf3 21. Rxf3 Ndf6 22. g4 Nf4 23. Rf1 h6 24. Nf3 Nxe4 25.\nNxe4 Bxe4 26. Bxa6 Rf8 27. c3 Qd5 28. Qg3 Nd3 29. Bxd3 Qxd3 30. Kg2 Qxf1+ 31.\nKxf1 Rxf3+ {0-1 Kolas\,T-Hagesaether\,P/Jarleslaget op 1997}) 15… Qc5 {There\nyou go\, I told you I just copied Rashkovsky. The manoeuvre is still good\,\nthough not quite as effective as in the original game.} (15… Nc5 {Careful!\nThat knight on f6 needs protecting; that’s why I would be reluctant to play\nthis move;} 16. Ng5 exf5 17. exf5 Qc6 18. Rg1 (18. Rf3 $5) 18… Nxd3 19. cxd3\nNh5 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21. Raf1 f6 22. Ne6+ Rxe6 23. fxe6 Re8 24. Rc1 Rxe6 25. Nb5\nQe8 26. Nc7 {1-0 Arakhamia\,K-Magar\,T/World op 1995}) (15… d5 {is perhaps the\nmost sensible:} 16. fxe6 fxe6 17. exd5 exd5 {. Black can hope to land a knight\non e4.}) 16. Ng5 Qb4 (16… exf5 $5 {is an interesting thought\, now that the\nknight has moved from f3 Black can gain a tempo on g2:} 17. exf5 Qc6 18. Rg1\nNe5 19. Bxg7 Kxg7 20. Nce4 Neg4 21. Raf1 h6 22. Nxf6 Nxf6 23. Nf3 Qc5 24. fxg6\nfxg6 25. Qd4 {1/2-1/2 Van der Poel\,H-Bezemer\,A/NLD-chT9495 1994\, though Black\nmight have the edge\, e.g. 25…Qxd4 26 Nxd4 Ng4.}) 17. fxe6 fxe6 18. Rab1 d5\n19. Rf4 e5 20. Rf3 dxe4 21. Ncxe4 Bxe4 22. Bxe4 Qe7 23. Bxg7 Kxg7 24. Bd5 Qd6\n25. Rd3 Nc5 26. Rdd1 Rd8 $2 (26… Qe7 $11 27. b4 $6 h6 28. bxc5 hxg5 $15) 27.\nBf3 $2 {The draw was not agreed here! This was rapid-play\, so the game score\nhas disappeared\, or perhaps never existed\, but after complications most of the\npieces were hoovered off the board.} (27. b4 $1 h6 28. bxc5 hxg5 29. cxd6 gxh4)\n1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAi4hWnKLIw[/embedyt] \nAt the Lloyds Bank Masters : Front (l-r) : Joel Benjamin\, Ian Wells\, Rear : Peter Morrish\, Stewart Reuben\, Richard Beville\, Gary Senior\, Richard Webb\, John Hawksworth\, Andrew King\, Nigel Short\, Mark Ginsburg\, Daniel King\, David Cummings\, Erik Teichmann\, John Brandford and Micheal Pagden \nMastering the Spanish\, Batsford\, 1993 \nKasparov v. Deeper Blue: The Ultimate Man v. Machine Challenge. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8322-9.\, 1997 \nHow to Win at Chess: The Ten Golden Rules (Cadogan Chess Books)\, 2000 \nKasparov Against the World: The Story of the Greatest Online Challenge. KasparovChess Online. ISBN 0970481306.\, 2000 \nWinning With the Najdorf. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 0713470372.\, 2002 \nHow Good Is Your Chess?. Dover. ISBN 048644676X.\, 2003 \nTest Your Chess With Daniel King\, Batsford\, 2004 \nHow To Play Chess. Kingfisher. ISBN 0753419181.\, 2009 \nChessbase Fritz Trainer \nChessbase Tutorials \nSultan Khan: The Indian Servant Who Became Chess Champion of the British Empire
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200901
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Joseph Blackburne (10-xii-1841 01-ix-1924)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Joseph Blackburne (10-xii-1841 01-ix-1924) \nThe following (excerpts of) information were obtained via ancestry.co.uk / findmypast.co.uk: \nJoseph Henry Blackburne was born on Friday\, December 10th\, 1841 in Chorlton\, Manchester. His father was Joseph Blackburn (aged 23\, a temperance reformer) and his mother was Ann Pritchard (aged 24). He had eight sons and five daughters. \nHis brother Frederick Pritchard Blackburn died on 11 October 1847 in Lancashire\, Lancashire\, when Joseph Henry was 5 years old. \nHis sister Clara was born on 4 November 1847 in Street\, Lancashire\, when Joseph Henry was 5 years old. \nHis half-sister Clara was born in 1848 in Manchester\, Lancashire\, when Joseph Henry was 7 years old. \nHis mother Ann passed away on 26 November 1857 in Manchester\, Lancashire\, at the age of 40. \nHis half-brother William Thomas was born on 17 June 1865 when Joseph Henry was 23 years old. \nJoseph Henry Blackburne married Eleanor Driscoll on 10 December 1865 when he was 24 years old. \nJoseph Henry Blackburne married Beatrice Lapham on 3 October 1876 when he was 34 years old. \nHis wife Beatrice passed away in January 1880 in St Olave Southwark\, London\, at the age of 26. They had been married 3 years. \nJoseph Henry Blackburne married Mary Jane Fox in St Olave Southwark\, London\, on 16 December 1880 when he was 39 years old. \nJoseph Henry Blackburne lived in Everton\, Lancashire\, in 1891. \nAccording to Edward Winter in Chess Notes JHB lived at the following addresses : \n\n16 Lucey Road\, London SE\, England (The Chess Amateur\, October 1924\, page 32 (address in 1879) and the 1881 British census (C.N. 4756)*).\n116 Barkworth Road\, Camberwell\, London\, England (1891 British census (C.N. 4756)*).\n7 Whitbread Road\, Lewisham\, London\, England (1901 British census (C.N. 4756)*).\n45 Sandrock Road\, Lewisham\, London SE\, England (Ranneforths Schach-Kalender\, 1915\, page 56\, and Hastings Chess Club address list\, 1922*).\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CA Challenge Cup-02”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1868.11.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Blackburne\, Joseph Henry”]\n[Black “De Vere\, Cecil Valentine”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C60”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “23”]\n[EventDate “1868.11.23”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2002”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,23\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,29\,47\,-25\,25\,25\,35\,66\,51\,72\,71\,56\,113\,76\,75\,140\,95\,\n85\,229\,235]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nge7 {The Cozio Defence} 4. c3 ({\nRelevant:} 4. Nc3 Ng6 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Bb4 7. O-O a6 8. Bxc6 dxc6 9. Nce2 Bg4\n10. f3 Bd7 11. c3 Bc5 12. Kh1 Qe7 13. Ng3 O-O-O 14. Qc2 h5 15. Be3 Bxd4 16.\ncxd4 f5 17. Ne2 Rde8 18. Nc3 h4 19. Qd2 Qf7 20. Na4 f4 21. Bf2 b6 22. h3 Rh5\n23. Bg1 Rg5 24. Bh2 Rd8 25. Nc3 Be6 26. Rfd1 Kb7 27. Ne2 Rf8 28. b4 Bc4 29. a4\na5 30. bxa5 Rxa5 31. Nc3 Ne7 32. Rdb1 g5 33. Nd1 Rfa8 {Fraser\,G-Neumann\,G\nDundee 1867 0-1}) 4… Ng6 {[#]} 5. d4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 5. O-O Bc5 6. d4\nBb6 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. dxe5 Qe7 9. Bg5 Qe6 10. Qb3 Qg4 11. Nbd2 O-O 12. h3 Qh5 13.\nKh2 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 Qxg5 15. f4 Qh6 16. Rf3 d6 17. Nxc6 Bg4 18. Ne7+ Kh8 19. Nf5\nBxf5 20. exf5 Rae8 21. Qc4 Re3 22. Raf1 Qf6 23. Qd5 Rfe8 24. Rxe3 Bxe3 25. Ne4\nQe7 26. Ng5 Bxf4+ 27. Rxf4 Qxg5 28. Re4 Qd8 29. Ra4 Qg5 30. Qxf7 Rc8 31. Rg4\nQf6 32. Qxf6 gxf6 33. Kg3 Re8 34. Ra4 Ra8 {Owen\,J-Francis Manchester 1857 1-0})\n5… exd4 6. cxd4 Be7 $6 (6… Bb4+ $142 7. Nc3 O-O 8. O-O d6 9. Bg5 $16) 7.\nNc3 O-O 8. h4 $1 Re8 9. Bc4 (9. h5 Nh4 10. Nxh4 Bxh4 11. h6 g6 12. d5 $16) 9…\nBb4 $2 10. Kf1 (10. O-O) 10… Bxc3 11. bxc3 d6 $2 12. Ng5 $18 {Transactions\nof the British Chess Association 1868/69\, p. 17} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAccording to chessgames.com : \n“Joseph Henry Blackburne was born in Chorlton\, Manchester. He came to be known as “The Black Death”. He enjoyed a great deal of success giving blindfold and simultaneous exhibitions. Tournament highlights include first place with Wilhelm Steinitz at Vienna 1873\, first at London 1876\, and first at Berlin 1881 ahead of Johannes Zukertort. In matchplay he lost twice to Steinitz and once to Emanuel Lasker. He fared a little better with Zukertort (Blackburne – Zukertort (1881)) and Isidor Gunsberg\, by splitting a pair of matches\, and defeating Francis Joseph Lee\, ( Blackburne – Lee (1890) ). One of the last successes of his career was at the age of 72\, when he tied for first place with Fred Dewhirst Yates at the 1914 British Championship. \nJoseph Blackburne (10-xii-1841 01-ix-1924) \nIn his later years\, a subscription by British chess players provided an annuity of £100 (approximately  £4\,000 in 2015 value)\, and a gift of £250 on his 80th birthday.” \nIn 1923 he suffered a stroke\, and the next year he died of a heart attack.” \nJoseph Henry Blackburne (10-xii-1841 01-ix-1924) \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper and Whyld : \n“For more than 20 years one of the first six players in the world and for even longer the leading English born player. Draughts was the most popular indoor game in his home town\, Manchester; he learned this game as a child and became expert in his youth. \nHe was about 18 when\, inspired by Morphy’s exploits\, he learned the moves of chess. In July 1861 he lost all live games of a match against the Manchester chess club champion Edward Pindar\, but he improved so rapidly that he defeated Pindar three months later (-1-5=2—1)\, and in 1862 he became champion of the club ahead of Pindar and Horwitz. \nInstructed by Horwitz\, Blackburne became one of the leading endgame players of his time; and wishing to emulate the feats of L. Paulsen\, who visited the club in November 1861\, he developed exceptional skill at blindfold chess. He spent most of the 1860s developing his chess and toying with various occupations. \nAfter winning the British championship\, 1868-9\, ahead of de vere\, he became a full-time professional player. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEauueQOT4o[/embedyt] \nBlackburne achieved excellent results in many tournaments: Baden-Baden 1870\, third equal with Neumann after Anderssen and Steinitz; London 1872\, second (+5-2) after Steinitz ahead of Zukertort; Vienna 1873\, second to Steinitz after a play-off; Paris 1878\, third after Winawer and Zukertort: Wiesbaden 1880\, first equal with Englisch and Schwarz; Berlin 1881\, first (+13=2 — 1)\, three points ahead of Zukertort\, the second prize winner (Blackburne’s greatest achievement); London 1883\, third after Zukertort and Steinitz; Hamburg 1885\, second equal with Englisch\, Mason\, Tarrasch\, and Weiss half a point after Gunsberg; Frankfurt 1887\, second equal with Weiss after Mackenzie; Manchester 1890\, second after Tarrasch; Belfast 1892\, first equal with Mason; London 1892\, second ( + 6-2) after Lasker; London 1893\, first ( + 2=3). \nHe was in the British team in 11 of the Anglo-American cable matches\, meeting Pillsbury on first board six times (+2-3 — 1)\, and he continued to play internationally until he was 72\, long enough to meet the pioneer of the hypermodern movement Nimzowitsch\, whom he defeated at St Petersburg 1914. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TCBa-en-fw[/embedyt] \nBlackburne had remarkable combinative powers and is remembered for his swingeing king’s side attacks\, often well prepared but occasionally consisting of an ingenious swindle that would deceive even the greatest all his contemporaries. The tournament book of Vienna 1873 refers to him as ‘der schrwarze Tod [Black death] der Schachspieler’\, a nickname that became popular. \n[pgn]\n[Event “London International”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1899.06.03”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Lasker\, Emanuel”]\n[Black “Blackburne\, Joseph Henry”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C62”]\n[Annotator “Tartakower/du Mont”]\n[PlyCount “92”]\n[EventDate “1899.05.30”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “30”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2018”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 9\,92\,66\,58\,63\,69\,20\,16\,-2\,20\,16\,24\,-15\,-12\,-18\,65\,65\,65\,56\,44\,46\,36\,37\,\n72\,68\,125\,89\,112\,113\,112\,108\,113\,79\,112\,75\,104\,97\,174\,169\,155\,36\,32\,0\,0\,0\,85\,\n-117\,-95\,-265\,-138\,-143\,-129\,-253\,-302\,-572\,-569\,-576\,-551\,-549\,-552\,-571\,-515\,\n-571\,-562\,-660\,-670\,-694\,-702\,-695\,-671\,-708\,-750\,-733\,-691\,-803\,-800\,-850\,\n-839\,-913\,-908\,-905\,-905\,-1020\,-994\,-1537\,-1482] C62: Ruy Lopez: Steinitz\nDefence Sources: Tartakower & du Mont\, 500 Master Games of Chess\, pp. 66-67;\nEvans\, The World’s Greatest Chess Games\, pp43-44. All comments are\nTartakower’s unless otherwise noted. In the following game the preliminary\nsparring (moves 8-21) is characterised by desperate pawn skirmishes. The real\nbattle begins with a double pawn sacrifice (22….g5)\, which gives Black the\nmastery over the g and h files\, on which he stages an impressive regrouping of\nforces (28….Rh8). His powerful strategy culminates in the sacrifice of a\nRook (31….Rh1+)\, the sequel to which is the loss by White of his queen.} 1.\ne4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 {The Steinitz Defence\, which gives Black a cramped\nbut playable game.} 4. d4 {Creating tension in the centre.} ({The play would\nbe simplified by} 4. Bxc6+ bxc6 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Bd7 7. O-O Nf6 8. Nc3 Be7 {\netc.\, but then neither} 9. f4 ({nor} 9. Bg5 c5) 9… O-O {etc.\, hold any\nterrors for Black.}) 4… Bd7 ({If\, impulsively} 4… exd4 5. Qxd4 Bd7 6. Bxc6\nBxc6 7. Bg5 f6 8. Bh4 {etc.\, would give White a lasting positional advantage\,\nchiefly owing to his queen’s centralised position.}) 5. d5 {Blocking the\ncentre is not to be recommended.} ({He should continue his development with} 5.\nNc3 {reserving the option of castling on either side.}) 5… Nb8 {[#]} 6. Bd3\n$146 ({Relevant:} 6. Bxd7+ Nxd7 7. c4 Ngf6 8. Nc3 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. h3 Ne8 11.\nQc2 g6 12. Bh6 Ng7 13. g4 Qe8 14. Kh2 f6 15. h4 Rf7 16. Rg1 Nb6 17. Rac1 Qd7\n18. Nd2 Raf8 19. Rg2 Bd8 20. Qd3 Nc8 21. Nd1 Ne7 22. Ne3 Kh8 23. Rh1 Ng8 24.\nBxg7+ Rxg7 25. Qb3 b6 26. Qd1 Nh6 27. b4 f5 28. g5 Ng8 29. b5 Rgf7 30. exf5\ngxf5 31. Kg1 f4 32. Nc2 f3 33. Rg3 Rf4 34. Ne3 Qf7 35. Rhh3 e4 {Baird\,D-Hodges\,\nA New York 1893 1-0 (67)}) 6… Be7 7. Nc3 ({As the advanced infantryman will\nsoon need strong support\, the continuation} 7. c4 {followed by Nc3 would be\nmore logical.}) 7… Nf6 8. Ne2 c6 {A routine player would have castled here\nand submitted to White’s positional superiority. Being an imaginative player\,\nBlack prefers to put the whole battlefield on fire.} 9. c4 Na6 10. Ng3 ({\nHere again} 10. Nc3 {would be better adapted to keep watch on the important\npoints e4\, d5 and b5.}) 10… Nc5 11. Bc2 b5 {Evans: Positionally poor\, but he\nstakes everything on the attack.} 12. b4 ({White is not satisfied with the\ndefensive} 12. b3 {but himself “starts something” on the queen side.}) 12…\nNb7 13. dxc6 Bxc6 14. cxb5 Bxb5 15. a4 Bd7 {[#] Evans: Certainly not a\nposition in which anyone planing Black would expect to beat a Lasker.} 16. O-O\ng6 17. h3 ({If} 17. Bh6 Ng4 {but now Black resolutely prevents any inroad into\nhis own territory.}) ({As\, however\, the text move weakens the king’s field\, it\nwould have been better\, for instance\, to continue with} 17. h4 {(threatening\n18.h6)} a6 18. Bg5 {with various threats.}) 17… h5 {The beginning of an\nattack\, conducted by Black with extraordinary virtuosity.} 18. Be3 a5 {Keeping\nboth wings in mind. By the text move he contests the square c5.} 19. b5 Rc8 20.\nRc1 Nc5 {With renewed pressure against the adverse e pawn.} 21. Nd2 h4 22. Ne2\n{[#]} g5 {A line clearance sacrifice. Evans: The attack begins!} 23. Bxg5 ({\nAccepting the sacrifice in preference to the timorous continuations} 23. Kh1 g4\n{etc.}) ({or} 23. f3 Nh5 {followed by ….Nf4 and Black still succeeds in\nopening the g-file.}) 23… Rg8 24. Bxh4 Bxh3 $1 $14 25. Bg3 {Closing up one\nof the open files (g)\, and not suspecting the possibility of danger on the\nother. 25….} Be6 {Evans: Black has strong Knights — and open files} 26. Re1\n({If} 26. f3 Nh5) 26… Ng4 27. Nf1 Bg5 28. Rb1 Rh8 {Black’s intentions are\ntaking shape.} 29. Nc3 {Evans: So that if ….Qf6 30. f3.} Bf4 30. Nd5 Qg5 {\nThreatening 31….Qh6.} 31. f3 {Too late\, for now Black is in a position to\nwin the adverse queen by a brilliant sacrifice. 31….} Rh1+ 32. Kxh1 Bxg3 33.\nNxg3 ({If} 33. fxg4 Qh4+ 34. Kg1 Bf2#) 33… Nf2+ 34. Kg1 Nxd1 35. Nf5 Bxf5 36.\nexf5 Qd2 {The final link in Black’s combination\, without which White might\nhave obtained almost an equivalent (rook\, bishop\, pawn) for his queen.} 37.\nRexd1 Qxc2 38. Rbc1 Qxf5 39. Nb6 Rd8 40. Nc4 Nb7 41. Ne3 Qf4 42. Kf2 Qxa4 43.\nRc7 Nc5 44. Rh1 Rd7 45. Rc8+ Ke7 46. Rhh8 Qd4 {White resigns.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHis unflappable temperament also earned him the soubriquet “the man with the iron nerves’. Even so\, neither his temperament nor his style was suited to set matches\, in which he was rarely successful against world-class players. He had other chess talents: a problem composer\, he was also a fast solver\, allegedly capable of outpacing the great Sam Loyd. Blackburne earned his livelihood by means of simultaneous displays\, for this purpose touring Britain twice-yearly\, with a few breaks\, for more than 50 years. \nChess\, circa 1896\, JH Blackburne\, well known chess player\, who had toured both on the Continent and America\, able to make between 40 to 60 moves when blindfolded by sheer memory (Photo by Bob Thomas/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images) \nBefore this time such displays were solemn affairs; Lowenthal\, who would appear in formal dress and play for several hours in silence\, was shocked when Blackburne turned up in ordinary clothes\, chatting and making jokes as he played\, and refreshing him self with whisky\, (Blackburne confessed\, however\, that when fully absorbed in a game he never noticed whether he was drinking water instead\,) Once\, walking round the boards\, he drained his opponent’s glass\, saying when rebuked He left it en prise and I took it en passant‘ \nThe illustrator Julius Hess depicted Blackburne in a New Yorker Staats Zeitung evening edition as sitting at a chesstable and beckoning: “Waitah! A whiskey and limejuice!” \nHe played his blindfold displays quickly\, and with little sign of the stress that besets most blindfold players. Probably the leading blindfold expert of his time\, he challenged Zukertort\, a close rival in this field\, to a match of ten games\, played simultaneously\, both players blindfold; but Zukertort declined. Many who knew and liked Blackburne subscribed to a fund which sustained him in his last years. \nImage Supplied by a reader of the book ‘Eminent Victorian Chess Players’ to Tim Harding \nP. A. Graham\, Mr Blackburne’s Games at Chess (1899) contains 407 games annotated by Blackburne and 28 three-movers composed by him. \nMr Blackburne’s Games at Chess by PA Graham \nA reprint\, styled Blackburne*s Chess Games (1979)\, has a new introduction and two more games. \nOne of Blackburne’s contributions was the suggestion of using chess clocks rather than the archaic hourglasses. \nHere follows a reproduction of an article from British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXX1 (1961)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 340-342 written by RN Coles entitled “Early Days of a Great Master” : \n“The only record of how J. H. Blackburne first\, entered the chess world is the one provided by P. Anderson Graham in the introduction to his collection of Blackburne’s games. This has all the ingredients of a romanticized version of the truth-the first casual games in a temperance hotel\, then entry to the important Manchester Club and a series of victories over ever stronger opponents until at last Pindar\, Champion of the Provinces\, comes along\, plays the unknown youth and is defeated. \nReference to C. H. Stanley’s column in the Weekly Guardian and Express helps to supply a more accurate version. Young Blackburne’s earliest interest was in problems and he submitted one to the Guardian and Express which appeared in January\, 1861\, only to be found by several solvers to be cooked\, Then silence till May 11th\, when the column carries a note: \nJ. H. B. Problems received with much pleasure…Shall be glad to see you at the Club.” \nHere are a couple of published problems. For a complete listing see below. \nManchester Express\, 1861 \n[fen] 8/1p6/1B3R2/1P2p3/2Pp4/4k3/2K3B1/8 w – – 0 1 [/fen] \n#4. 6+4 \nThe Field\, 1893 \n[fen] 8/3b2q1/Q2Rpb2/2k3N1/2N1P3/2p5/7B/7K w – – 0 1 [/fen] \n#3\, 7+6 \n  \nNot yet a member\, clearly. Nevertheless\, he contrived somehow to meet Pindar outside the club and played some games-with him (two scores appear in the Guardian and Express\, July 20th)\, and a set-match of five up was then arranged\, still played in private (Guardian and Express\, August 3lst)\, which “was terminated by Mr. Pindar winning a clear victory\, the score being Pindar 5\, Blackburne 0” (one game was quoted in the July “B.C.M.” and another score can be found in the Guardian and Express\, July 27th. \n“A second match was agreed upon\, level games to entitle either player to the victor’s palm. The result … is calculated positively\, to startle the chess world. The first game was scored by Mr. Pindar; of the next seven\, Blackburne won five and the two remaining were drawn. ‘At this point Mr. Pindar resigned the match.” (Guardian and Express\, September 7th\, with the score of a Blackburne win from this match quoted February 1st\, 1962.) \nOnly now does Blackburne appear to have joined the Manchester Club\, meeting such players as Stanley himself for the first time (Guardian and Express gives the score of a casual game\, November 9th)\, though Stanley later claimed personally to have discovered the young prodigy. \nIn November\, 1861\, Paulsen visited the club and the score survives of a casual game in which he beat Blackburne\, who played a Winawer Variation of the French Defence long before Winawer ever came on the-scene (Guardian and Express\, December\,1861); Paulsen concluded his visit with one of his celebrated ten-board blindfold displays and not unnaturally the young Blackburne eagerly took a board; his defeat is No.25O in his games collection. This so stimulated him that he himself tried blindfold play and by January 20th\, 1862\, was able to give his first display against four boards\, winning them all (Guardian and Express\, January 25th\, with one of the scores). This he followed with seven games on February 8th\,\nwinning five and losing two. (Guardian and Express\, February 8th) and finally ten games on February 8th\, winning five\, losing two\, and drawing three (Guardian and Express\,February 15th\, which quotes the score of one game in addition to No. 254 in his games). \nInter-club matches were something of a rarity in those days and were regarded as of considerable importance when they occurred; one such was the annual Manchester-Liverpool match and in 1862 Blackburne took part for the first time\, being matched against Wellington\, another young player of promise who seems to have got no further; as many games were played between opponents as time allowed and these two young men played three\, all won by Blackburne. (Guardian and Express\, February 22nd\, which quotes the score of one game in addition to No. 138 in the collection). \nDuring this spring the rivalry with Pindar was renewed in a third match for the first five wins and after eleven games the score stood at 4 each\, with three drawn (Guardian and Express\, March 15th\, quoting the score of the eleventh game)\, but I cannot find who won the last game. Since Blackburne was hailed as club champion this season\, one must suppose he was the victor. \nSuch was his first club season. ln June\, 1862\, he played in the London lnternational Tournament and from then on his chess career was public property. \nTo conclude\, here is the score of the eleventh game of his third match with Pindar\, a critical struggle in which his budding mastery appears at the-end. From an inferior opening he struggles into an equal ending but by a rash exchange of Rooks on the 36th move gives Pindar a clear advantage\, which could have been held by 41. P-R4. Blackburne seizes on this omission like a real master to switch into a most accurately calculated queen ending. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Blackburne – Pindar m(3)”]\n[Site “Manchester ENG”]\n[Date “1862.03.08”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Pindar\, Edward”]\n[Black “Blackburne\, Joseph Henry”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C77”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “100”]\n[EventDate “1862.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “Chessgames.com”] \n{[%evp 0\,100\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,29\,18\,-1\,-1\,-78\,-24\,-21\,-2\,-2\,17\,0\,68\,4\,71\,92\,98\,98\,\n98\,122\,139\,125\,201\,229\,301\,105\,170\,8\,-10\,-7\,-7\,-14\,29\,29\,68\,7\,9\,2\,5\,-30\,11\,5\,0\,\n14\,15\,20\,35\,11\,-11\,-7\,-7\,-47\,-50\,-42\,-7\,-2\,-6\,-4\,-1\,0\,2\,12\,21\,14\,26\,39\,50\,24\,\n54\,112\,119\,119\,170\,279\,196\,311\,319\,-26\,-8\,-15\,-12\,-5\,0\,-1014\,-1077\,-1194\,-1177\,\n-1924\,-28430\,-28431\,-29972\,-29977\,-29978\,-29989\,-29990\,-29991\,-29992]} {\nGame #12946 sourced from British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXX1 (1961)\, Number\n12 (December)\, page 340-342 by RN Coles. Edward Pindar was a lesser known but\nstrong player\, active in the mid 19th century. He resided in Britain but was\nborn in Russia\, grew up in what is now Estonia and returned there in later\nlife. From 1856\, Pindar was a rising force in the Manchester Chess Club. In\n1859\, Morphy deigned to give him knight odds and was promptly crushed. He won\nthe club’s championship in 1861\, defeating Bernhard Horwitz 3½-1½ in the\nfinal. His star\, however\, was soon eclipsed by the emerging Joseph Henry\nBlackburne. Pindar was also a language teacher and in this connection he\nachieved notoriety when\, in 1877\, he attacked and seriously wounded a female\nstudent who rebuffed his offer of marriage. He was sentenced to five years\,\nand upon release drifted into obscurity.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4\nNf6 5. d4 exd4 6. O-O {[#]} Bc5 $146 ({Relevant:} 6… Be7 7. e5 Ne4 8. c3 dxc3\n9. Nxc3 Nxc3 10. bxc3 O-O 11. Qd3 d5 12. Bc2 g6 13. Qe3 Re8 14. Nd4 Bc5 15.\nNxc6 Bxe3 16. Nxd8 Bxc1 17. Raxc1 Rxd8 18. f4 b5 19. h3 c5 20. g4 a5 21. a3 c4\n22. Rfd1 b4 23. cxb4 axb4 24. axb4 Ra3 25. Be4 Rxh3 26. Kg2 Bxg4 27. Rxd5 Ra8\n28. Rxc4 Raa3 29. Rd2 h5 30. Rf2 h4 31. b5 Ra1 32. Rf1 Rg3+ 33. Kf2 Ra2+ 34.\nRc2 Ra4 35. Re1 Rb4 36. Rc5 {Lelie-Anderssen\,A Amsterdam 1861 0-1}) 7. e5 Nd5\n8. Bb3 Nce7 9. Bg5 Nb6 10. Nbd2 d5 11. exd6 Bxd6 12. Ne4 c5 13. Re1 Be6 14.\nBxe6 fxe6 15. Qe2 O-O 16. Nxd6 Qxd6 17. Qxe6+ Qxe6 18. Rxe6 Ned5 19. Rae1 Na4\n20. b3 Nac3 21. a3 a5 22. Bd2 Nb5 23. R1e5 Rfd8 24. Bg5 Nbc7 25. Bxd8 Nxe6 26.\nBe7 Nxe7 27. Rxe6 Nc6 28. Ne5 Nxe5 29. Rxe5 Rc8 30. Kf1 Kf7 31. Ke2 Rc6 32. Kd3\nb6 33. Kc4 Rd6 34. f4 Rh6 35. h3 Rg6 36. Re2 Re6 $2 37. Rxe6 Kxe6 $18 {[#]} 38.\ng4 (38. a4 $1 $18 {and white it totally winning.}) 38… h5 39. Kb5 (39. a4 $18\n) 39… hxg4 40. hxg4 Kd6 41. Kxb6 $2 {White converts a totalling winning\nposition into a lost one.} (41. a4 $18) 41… a4 $1 42. bxa4 c4 43. a5 d3 44.\ncxd3 cxd3 45. a6 d2 46. a7 d1=Q 47. a8=Q Qb3+ 48. Ka6 Qa4+ 49. Kb7 Qb5+ 50. Ka7\nKc7 0-1\n[/pgn] \nand here is the original article: \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXX1 (1961)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 340 \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXX1 (1961)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 341 \nMany juniors and beginners will know the Blackburne Shilling Gambit (or Kostić Gambit) in some circles known (named by Julian Hodgson) as the ‘Oh My God’: \n[pgn]\n[Event “Kostic sim”]\n[Site “Cologne”]\n[Date “1912.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Muehlock”]\n[Black “Kostic\, Boris”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C50”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “14”]\n[EventDate “1912.??.??”]\n[EventType “simul”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2015”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2014.11.20”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2014.11.20”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,14\,18\,14\,39\,25\,25\,15\,80\,-103\,-47\,-502\,-510\,-835\,-852\,-29999\,-30000]}\n1. e4 {1)DSB 1912/13\, S.144} e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nd4 4. Nxe5 Qg5 5. Nxf7 Qxg2\n6. Rf1 Qxe4+ 7. Be2 Nf3# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nThere are variations named after Blackburne as follows : \nThe Blackburne Attack in the Four Knights is \n[fen]r1bq1rk1/pppp1ppp/2n2n2/1BbNp3/3PP3/5N2/PPP2PPP/R1BQ1RK1 b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nand the Blackburne Variation of the Dutch defence is \n[fen]rnbqkb1r/pppp2pp/4pn2/5p2/3P4/6PN/PPP1PPBP/RNBQK2R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nand a popular line in the Queen’s Gambit \n[fen]rnbqk2r/ppp1bppp/4pn2/3p4/2PP1B2/2N2N2/PP2PPPP/R2QKB1R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nare attributed to Blackburne in the literature. \n[pgn]\n[Event “USA-06 Congress Grand Tournament”]\n[Site “New York”]\n[Date “1889.??.??”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Blackburne\, Joseph Henry”]\n[Black “Lipschuetz\, Salomon”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D55”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “1889.03.25”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “38”]\n[EventCountry “USA”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,71\,5\,56\,21\,-11\,-17\,-23\,-4\,-11\,59\,53\,44\,45\,43\,28\,43\,66\,44\,41\,29\,31\,25\,\n25\,25\,18\,29\,5\,27\,18\,26\,27\,42\,14\,1\,-25\,-32\,-38\,-29\,-17\,-38\,-34\,-41\,-76\,-106\,\n-121\,-125\,-78\,-84\,-89\,-46\,-63\,-58\,-57\,-59\,-66\,-62\,-99\,-105\,-145\,-28\,-25\,0\,-47\,\n457\,751\,448\,29984\,29987\,29988\,29989\,29990\,29993\,29994]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3.\nNc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 b6 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 Bb7 7. Rc1 Nbd7 8. cxd5 exd5 9. Bd3 O-O 10.\nO-O Ne4 11. Bf4 c5 12. Qe2 f5 13. Rfd1 c4 14. Bxe4 fxe4 15. Ne5 Nf6 16. g4 Qe8\n17. Qf1 Bd6 18. h3 Rd8 19. Qg2 b5 20. Ne2 b4 21. Ng3 Nd7 22. Nxd7 Rxd7 23. Ne2\nBxf4 24. Nxf4 Rdf7 25. g5 Rf5 26. Kh1 a5 27. Rg1 Bc8 28. Qg3 Qa4 29. b3 cxb3\n30. axb3 Qxb3 31. Rc7 a4 32. g6 h6 33. Rxg7+ Kxg7 34. Nh5+ Rxh5 35. Qc7+ Kf6\n36. Qd6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAccording to The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek : \n“British grandmaster and highly successful tournament player who was one of the most prominent masters of the nineteenth century. He did not learn to play chess until the age of nineteen\, but his natural gifts soon brought him into the front rank of British players\, and in 1868 he abandoned his business interests and adopted chess as a profession. \nBlackburne’s international tournament career spans an impressive fifty-two years from London 1862 to St. Petersburg 1914 – a total of 53 events in which he played 814 games\, scoring over 62%. Although he rarely won international events\, he generally finished in the top half of the table and his fierce competitive spirit coupled with his great combinative ability earned the pleasant nickname of ‘the Black Death’. \nJoseph Blackburne (10-xii-1841 01-ix-1924). Photograph from The Encyclopedia of Chess by Harry Golombek \nHis most notable successes were =1st with Steinitz at Vienna 1873 (Blackburne lost the play-off match)\, 1st at Berlin 1881 ahead of Paulsen\, Schallopp\, Chigorin\, Winawer and Zukertort\, and 2nd to Tarrasch at Manchester 1890. \nBlackburne won the BCA Championship in 1868 and for many years was ranked as Britain’s foremost player. In 1914 – at the age of 72 – he shared first place at the BCF congress in Chester. \nIn match play his success was mixed. He defeated Bird in 1888 (+4-1) and Gunsberg in 1881 (+7-4=3) but lost a second match to Gunsberg in 1886 (+2-5=6). He lost to Lasker (+0-6=4) in 1892 and was defeated heavily twice by Steinitz : in 1862/3 (+1-7=2) and in 1876 (+0-7=0)\, the latter of these matches being for the World Championship. \nBlackburne excelled at blindfold play and in simultaneous exhibitions\, which provided a major portion of his income. He died in Lewisham\, a much respected veteran of eighty-three.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “DSB Kongress-02 Meisterturnier”]\n[Site “Berlin”]\n[Date “1881.09.16”]\n[Round “16”]\n[White “Blackburne\, Joseph Henry”]\n[Black “Schwarz\, Jacques”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C01”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1881.08.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “17”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2002”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,18\,14\,37\,38\,28\,36\,62\,16\,15\,6\,37\,18\,82\,45\,37\,-6\,-14\,11\,7\,-51\,-43\,\n-43\,-38\,-69\,-64\,-69\,-12\,-26\,0\,0\,0\,-87\,-79\,-89\,-64\,-114\,-114\,-120\,-70\,-113\,-113\,\n-132\,-132\,-136\,-135\,-123\,15\,-33\,-68\,-92\,-64\,1393\,29991\,29992]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4\nd5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. exd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Bd6 6. Bd3 c6 7. O-O O-O 8. Ne2 Bg4 9. Ng3\nQc7 10. Be3 Nbd7 11. Qd2 Rfe8 12. Rae1 Ne4 13. Qc1 Bxf3 14. gxf3 Nxg3 15. hxg3\nBxg3 16. Kg2 Bd6 17. Rh1 Nf8 18. Rh3 g6 19. Reh1 Rad8 20. Bg5 Rd7 21. c4 dxc4\n22. Bxc4 h5 23. Rh4 b5 24. Bb3 Ne6 25. Bf6 Nf4+ 26. Qxf4 Bxf4 27. Rxh5 {\nSchallopp: Der erste und zweite Kongress des Deutschen Schachbundes\, p. 196}\n1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DABYM3mdXW0[/embedyt] \nJoseph Henry Blackburne (10-xii-1841 01-ix-1924) \nEdward Winter discusses the Zukertort-Blackburne game of 1883. \nHere is an article on chess.com by Bill Wall \nProblems of the Black Death by Batgirl \nMeson Database of JHBs problems \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nEminent Victorian Chess Players\, Tim Harding\, McFarland & Co; 1st edition (20 April 2012)\, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0786465682 \nJoseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography\, Tim Harding\, McFarland & Co; Annotated edition (30 July 2015)\, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0786474738 \nBlackburne : The Black Death in Spades by Bob Long
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Michael Stean (04-ix-1953)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Michael Stean on his birthday\,  \nMichael Francis Stean was born Michael Francis Stein on Friday\, September 4th\, 1953 in Pancras\, London. His mother’s maiden name was Feldman. Michael has a brother\, Howard.  \nMichael Stean \nHe attended Latymer Upper School and Cambridge University. \nHis early chess days were spent at Richmond Junior Chess Club. \nHe became an International Master in 1975 and England’s third (OTB) Grandmaster in 1977 winning £2\,500 from the Jim Slater Foundation. \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2540 in January 1979.  \nHis mother (Jean) presented a trophy to the Marlow Congress (now the Berks and Bucks Congress) which became the Mrs. Jean Stean Cup. \nTony Miles and Michael Stean at the FIDE Zonal in Amsterdam\, 1978. (Source: http://gahetna.nl) \nAccording to British Chess (Pergamon\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : \n“Stean was educated at Cambridge University\, He was equal first in the British Championship\, Clacton\, 1974\, although only 4th in the playoff. He has been an important member of Korchnoi’s team for the last 5 years\, and this perhaps has been responsible more than anything for the rounding out and maturing of his style from the sharp tactical play of the early 1970s to the solid positional GM (especially with the White pieces) of today. \nKorchnoi\, Stean and Keene try out matching vests and T-shirts from The University of Sussex sports centre\, Falmer\, East Sussex. It is likely that the yellow one was only worn for this press photo shoot. \nStean is a fine author; Simple Chess and the Sicilian Najdorf are both excellent books. \nMichael Stean at the 1977 Lord John Cup \nTemperamentally he is generally pleasant\, good humoured and self confident\, although he suffers from intermittent poor health which might help to explain his at times erratic results.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Birmingham”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “1976.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Stean\, Michael F”]\n[Black “Nunn\, John DM”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A71”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “70”]\n[EventDate “1976.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2010”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2010.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2010.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,65\,29\,25\,24\,4\,29\,42\,45\,64\,84\,82\,72\,74\,131\,106\,97\,91\,78\,67\,70\,82\,79\,61\,\n73\,42\,25\,27\,25\,30\,62\,39\,46\,47\,46\,36\,36\,36\,42\,24\,16\,58\,64\,9\,14\,-43\,30\,20\,73\,108\,\n216\,207\,445\,501\,613\,402\,574\,485\,679\,650\,915\,785\,800\,997\,1007\,1007\,1027\,1029]}\n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nf3 g6 7. e4 Bg7 (7… a6\n{is the most accurate move order in recent times.} 8. a4 Bg4 9. Be2 Bxf3 10.\nBxf3 (10. gxf3) 10… Nbd7 11. O-O Bg7 12. Bf4 Qe7 13. Re1 O-O) 8. Bg5 {\nThis has gone out of fashion.} ({The Modern Main Line is} 8. h3 O-O 9. Bd3 a6 (\n9… b5)) 8… h6 (8… Qa5 9. Nd2 Qxa2) 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nh5 11. Bb5+ Kf8 (\n11… Bd7 $2 12. Bxd7+ (12. Bxd6 Bxc3+ 13. bxc3 Bxb5) 12… Qxd7 13. Ne5 $1 {\n[%cal Gd1h5\,Ge5d7]} Bxe5 14. Qxh5 $16 (14. Bxe5 dxe5 15. Qxh5)) 12. e5 $1 {\nThis was big novelty at the time.} (12. Ne5 Nxg3) 12… Nxg3 13. fxg3 $1 dxe5\n14. O-O a6 15. Be2 Ra7 {[%cal Ga7f7]} (15… f5) 16. a4 b6 17. Qb3 f5 18. Nd2\n$2 (18. Rad1 $16) 18… e4 $14 19. g4 (19. Bg4 $142) (19. Ndxe4 Bd4+ 20. Kh1\nKg7 21. Nd2 Re7) 19… Bd4+ 20. Kh1 e3 21. Nc4 f4 22. Nxb6 Rb7 23. a5 h5 $1 24.\ngxh5 Nd7 25. Bxa6 Nf6 (25… Rxh5 $1 {Nunn} 26. Bxb7 Kg7 (26… Bxb7) 27. h3 (\n27. Bxc8 Rxh2+ 28. Kxh2 Qh8+ 29. Kg1 e2+ 30. Rf2 Qh4 31. Ne4 Nf6 32. Qh3 Nxe4\n33. Qxh4 gxh4 34. a6 Nxf2) 27… Qh8 (27… Bxb7 28. a6) 28. Qc2 Rxh3+ 29. gxh3\nQxh3+ 30. Qh2) 26. Bxb7 $18 Nxh5 27. Ne2 $1 (27. Ra2 $4 Ng3+ 28. Kg1 e2+ 29.\nRf2 e1=R#) 27… Bg4 28. Nxd4 Ng3+ 29. Kg1 Rxh2 (29… cxd4) 30. Kxh2 Qe8 31.\nNe6+ Bxe6 32. Qxe3 $1 Qh5+ 33. Kg1 {and Black resigned.} Qh1+ 34. Kf2 fxe3+ 35.\nKxg3+ Qxf1 1-0[/pgn] \nAccording to Chessgames.com : \n“Michael Francis Stean was born on the 4th of September 1953 in London\, England. He finished 3rd at the 1973 World Junior Chess Championships behind Alexander Beliavsky and Tony Miles. Awarded the IM title in 1975 and the GM title in 1977 (The third Englishman to attain the title after Miles and Keene).  \nHe finished 1st= in the 1974 British Championship but lost the play-off. He played on 5 English Olympiad teams from 1974 – 1983 and has won 1st prizes at Vrsac 1979\, Smederevska Palanka 1980 and Beer Sheba 1982.  \nA specialist in Opening Theory he served as one of Viktor Korchnoi’s seconds in the 1977 – 1981 period. He is the author of Simple Chess\, an introduction to chess strategy.” \nMchael Stean\, Hastings 1972-1973. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume 93\, Number 2\, page 53 \nThe Robert Silk Fellowship Tournament\, Canterbury\, 1973. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume 93\, Number 5\, page 192 \nPost-banquet photograph – left to right : Harry Golombek\, Andras Adorjan\, Danny Wright\, Brian Eley\, Michael Stean\, D. Silk\, Robert Silk\, AK Henderson. The Robert Silk Fellowship Tournament\, Canterbury\, 1973. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume 93\, Number 5\, page 192 \n[pgn][Event “Olympiad-22”]\n[Site “Haifa”]\n[Date “1976.11.06”]\n[Round “11.4”]\n[White “Stean\, Michael F”]\n[Black “Schneider\, Lars Ake”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B89”]\n[BlackElo “2365”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “1976.10.25”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “13”]\n[EventCountry “ISR”]\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 “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Sweden”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “SWE”] \n{[%evp 0\,47\,39\,31\,58\,32\,48\,14\,38\,32\,37\,43\,42\,31\,62\,40\,43\,19\,45\,11\,26\,18\,12\,-1\,\n-13\,-2\,-13\,1\,-6\,-22\,-15\,-87\,-81\,-200\,-81\,-103\,-85\,-85\,-85\,-112\,-10\,-42\,-30\,-93\,\n-93\,11\,113\,1559\,1385\,1956]} 1. e4 {[%mdl 512]} c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4\nNf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 {The Sozin (or indeed Fischer-Sozin) Variation : White\ndevelops his f1 bishop actively\, to put pressure on Black’s king side and to\ninhibit the latter’s thematic freeing move …d5. Another point is the\nkingside castling is made possible\, although this is sometimes deferred or\ncompletely rejected in favour of other operations. depending upon Black’s\nresponse  Veniamin Sozin (1896 – 1956)} (6. Bg5 {is most popular}) 6… e6 {\nBlack\, in his turn\, can hope to exploit the position of the bishop\,\ntemporarily unguarded and on an exposed square\, to accelerate his Queenside\ncounterplay or by seeking the advantage of the two bishops. The positions that\ncan result are some of the keenest in chess\, yet it is only in the last ten\nyears or so that the interest of players and theoreticians alike has come to\nfocus on 6.Bc4.} (6… g6 $2 7. Nxc6 $1 bxc6 8. e5 {The Magnus Smith Variation}\ndxe5 $4 (8… Ng4 9. Bf4 d5 10. Nxd5 $1) 9. Bxf7+) 7. Be3 Be7 (7… Qc7 8. Qe2\na6 9. Bb3 Na5 $11) 8. Qe2 {[%cal Ge1c1\,Ga1d1] The Velimirovic Attack} a6 (8…\nO-O 9. O-O-O Nxd4 (9… a6 {is most common}) 10. Bxd4 Qa5 11. e5 dxe5 12. Bxe5\n$14) 9. O-O-O Qc7 10. Bb3 O-O {[#]  and we reach the Tabiya position for the\nVelimirovic Attack.} 11. Rhg1 $1 ({The marginaly more popular} 11. g4 {was the\nfavourite of Velimirovic and Fischer} Nxd4 12. Rxd4 $14 e5 13. Rdd1) (11. Nxc6)\n{Perhaps still more precise is} 11… Na5 (11… b5 $142 $1 12. g4 b4 $15) 12.\ng4 b5 {transposing} 13. g5 Nxb3+ 14. axb3 Nd7 {[%csl Gc2\,Gc7\,Ge4\,Ge7][%cal\nGa1a5] Paoli and Ribli’s provacative set-up\, designed to highlight White’s\npotential weaknesses : e4\, c2 and in some cases\, the a-file. Great\ncomplications arise as White can sacrifice everything he has in the attempt to\nmate\, but it is quite possible that Black already stands better.} 15. Rg3 {\nNunn’s new idea in this book line\, for which see the Batsford book\, The\nSicilian Sozin.} ({An immediate} 15. Qh5 {allows the defence} g6 (15… Bb7 16.\nRg3 Rfc8 (16… Rfe8) 17. Rh3 Nf8 {is a road to nowhere for White.}) 16. Qh6\nRe8 {followed by Bf8 and then Bg7.}) 15… b4 {[#]} (15… Bb7 $142 ) ({Safer is} 15… Re8 16. Nf5 $2 exf5 17. Nd5 Qc6 $19) 16. Nf5 $1 {\nThe old Tal technique : Black can only take one piece at a time. In fact\, this\nis the only way to continue for White otherwise Black is better.} {Best is}\nexf5 (16… Re8 $142 17. Nxe7+ Rxe7 18. Na4 $16 a5 {[%cal Gc8a6]}) (16… Qd8\n17. Nxe7+ Qxe7 18. Na4 a5 19. Qd3 $16) ({If} 16… Nc5 17. Qh5 $1 g6 18. Qh6 $1\n(18. Bd4 $1 e5 19. Qh6 Bxf5 20. Nd5 Nxe4 21. Nxc7 $18) (18. Qxg6+) (18. Qxh7+\nKxh7 19. Rh3+ Kg8 20. Nh6+) 18… gxf5 19. Rh3 {mating}) 17. Nd5 Qd8 18. exf5 {\n[%cal Gf5f6]} Re8 {[%csl Gf8]} 19. Qf3 (19. f6 Bf8 20. fxg7 Bxg7 21. Nf6+ Nxf6\n22. gxf6 Qxf6 {[%cal Gf6b2]} 23. Rdg1 Qxb2+ 24. Kd2 Qc3+ 25. Kd1 Qa1+ 26. Kd2\n$11) (19. Qh5 g6 20. Qh4 {is a dead end.}) (19. Nxe7+) 19… Bf8 $15 (19… Ne5\n20. Nxe7+ {(seguido de 21. Qxa8)}) (19… Rb8 $142) 20. Nf6+ $1 Nxf6 (20…\ngxf6 21. gxf6+ (21. Rdg1) 21… Kh8 22. Qg2 $18 (22. Rdg1 h6 23. Bd4) 22…\nNxf6 23. Rg1 Bh6 24. Bxh6 Nh5 25. Qf3 Nxg3 26. Qxg3 Rg8 27. Bg7+ Rxg7 28. Qxg7#\n) 21. gxf6 Bd7 $2 ({Imperative is} 21… Rb8 {with defensive chances based\naround the Rb5 rook lift.} 22. fxg7 Be7 23. Rh3 Rb5 $1 $19 {[%cal Gb5f5]} 24.\nRxh7 Bxf5 $1 {Only move to survive} 25. Rh8+ Kxg7 $19 26. Bd4+ f6 27. Rh5 Bg6\n28. Rg1 {which the post-mortem showed to be drawish.}) 22. Bd4 $1 (22. Rxd6\n$142) 22… Qa5 $2 {totally losing} (22… g6 23. Qd5 {and White is clearly\nbetter}) 23. Rxg7+ $1 Kh8 (23… Bxg7 24. Qg2) 24. Qg4 {and Black resigned.\nComentarios: Franco Luis Di Luca (h)} (24. Qg4 h6 25. Rg8+ Kh7 26. Qg6+ fxg6\n27. fxg6+ Kxg8 28. f7#) {Resignation spoilt THE checkmate of the Olympiad :}\n24… h6 25. Rg8+ Kh7 26. Qg6+ fxg6 27. fxg6+ Kxg8 28. f7# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHarry Golombek wrote this about Michael in a 1980 Dataday chess diary : \n“The fact that he has sprung up into second place among English players as regards Elo ratings demonstrates the considerable advance Michael Stean has made in the course of a year.  \nKorchnoi vs Stean at the Philips & Drew Masters of 1980. The game was drawn in 19 moves. \nIn the 1978 diary I wrote that it would not be long before he gained the grandmaster title since he already possessed one norm of the title. The forecast proved to be correct as he duly acquired the title a few months after I wrote the prophecy.  \nHe had though to take two more bites at the cherry before he managed to gain the required norms since the tournaments in which he played were not long events. They were Montilla in August 1977 where he came third below Gligoric and Kavalek and the Lord John Cup Tournament in London in September 1977 where he was equal 2nd with Quinteros and Mestel\, first place being occupied by the Czechoslovak grandmaster\, Hort. \nJan Timman plays Michael Stean at the 1978 Amsterdam FIDE Zonal. The Dutch GM won in 39 moves. \nBefore that he had assisted Keene in seconding Korchnoi in his candidates match versus Polugayevsky and had done this to such effect that Korchnoi asked him and Keene to act as his seconds at his final match in the Candidates at Belgrade and later on still at the World Championship match against Karpov in the Philippines. \nNigel Short\, Lubomir Kavalek and Michael Stean \nHe also played successfully in Yugoslavia in 1977 (equal 2nd at Virovitica and equal 2nd at Bar). In 1978 he was 3rd at Beersheba below Korchnoi but head of Keene. Five points out of nine at the very strong Swiss System tournament at Lone Pine was followed by an excellent equal 4th with Miles at the tournament at Las Palmas. He has shown that he not only possesses the title of grandmaster but also plays like one. \nMichael Stean (far right) at an unknown event \nA good example in the following game (Stean-Sax) against one of the joint first prize winners at the Las Palmas event. It was awarded the prize for the best game :” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Las Palmas-07”]\n[Site “Las Palmas”]\n[Date “1978.??.??”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Stean\, Michael F”]\n[Black “Sax\, Gyula”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B33”]\n[BlackElo “2550”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “1978.04.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ESP”]\n[EventCategory “10”]\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\,55\,19\,38\,40\,41\,51\,40\,25\,22\,32\,46\,60\,45\,53\,-3\,-5\,-21\,3\,-12\,21\,21\,50\,16\,\n14\,14\,5\,-4\,31\,39\,33\,14\,49\,50\,0\,0\,51\,24\,72\,72\,28\,10\,102\,102\,89\,89\,111\,108\,119\,\n102\,123\,150\,126\,119\,116\,145\,197\,241]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4\nNf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8. Na3 b5 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. Nd5 f5 11. Bd3\nBe6 12. Qh5 Bg7 13. O-O f4 14. c4 bxc4 15. Bxc4 O-O 16. Rac1 Rb8 17. b3 Bxd5\n18. Bxd5 Nb4 19. Rfd1 Nxa2 20. Rc6 Rb6 21. Rxb6 Qxb6 22. Nc4 Qc7 23. Nxd6 Nc3\n24. Nf5 Kh8 25. Rd3 Nxd5 26. Rxd5 f6 27. h3 Rg8 28. Qd1 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“English player\, International Grandmaster (1977). At Nice 1974\, in the first of his several Olympiads\, he won the brilliancy prize for his game against\nBrowne.  \nSince then he has had several good results: Montilia 1976\, equal second with Kavalek and Ricardo Calvo (1943— ) after Karpov; Montilia 1977\, third (-1-3 = 6)after Gligoric and Kavalek ahead of R. Byrne\, Taimanov\, and Andersson; London 1977. second (+4=4—1) equal with Mestel and Quinteros after Hort ; Vrsac 1979\, first (+ 8=5—1); Smederevska Palanka 1980\, first (+7-6); Beersheba 1982\, first\, Stean was one of Korchnoi’s seconds in the world championship cycles of 1977-8 and 1980-1\, and the two became close friends.  \nIn particular Stean provided help with the openings\, a subject on which he specialises. He published a book on the Najdorf variation of the Sicilian defence in 1976\, and Simple Chess\, a guide to the understanding of positional ideas\, in 1978.” \nGM Michael Stean \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Michael Francis Stean (born 4 September 1953) is an English chess grandmaster\, an author of chess books and a tax accountant. \nMichael Stean chats with David Levy at the London Chess Classic \nThe game below (Stean-Browne) was the first winner of the World Brilliancy Prize established in 1974 by Isador Samuel Turover. The value of the prize was $1\,000.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-21 Preliminaries B”]\n[Site “Nice”]\n[Date “1974.06.15”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Stean\, Michael Francis”]\n[Black “Browne\, Walter Shawn”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B94”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “1974.06.07”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “FRA”]\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 “England”]\n[BlackTeam “US of America”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “USA”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,19\,38\,40\,41\,66\,77\,66\,55\,55\,20\,79\,39\,64\,47\,62\,62\,46\,12\,5\,-27\,40\,6\,\n-3\,-7\,12\,-20\,-29\,-29\,7\,180\,177\,177\,204\,204\,194\,194\,363\,246\,253\,253\,258\,324\,324\,\n324\,328\,328\,331\,331\,911\,1032\,1094\,1208\,1238\,1272\,1279\,1317\,2579\,3022\,29981\,\n29984\,29987\,1511\,1562\,1568]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3\na6 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. Bc4 e6 8. O-O h6 9. Bxf6 $146 Nxf6 10. Bb3 b6 11. f4 Bb7 12.\nQd3 Be7 13. Nxe6 fxe6 14. Bxe6 b5 15. e5 Qb6+ 16. Kh1 dxe5 17. Qg6+ Kd8 18. Qf7\nQc5 19. fxe5 Bxg2+ 20. Kxg2 Rf8 21. Rad1+ Kc7 22. Qxg7 Rg8 23. exf6 Rxg7+ 24.\nfxg7 Bd6 25. Rf7+ Kc6 26. Bd5+ Kb6 27. Bxa8 Qg5+ 28. Kh1 Be5 29. b4 a5 30. Rb7+\nKc6 31. g8=Q Qxg8 32. Rb8+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSee Michael Stean’s Wikipedia entry  for more \nVideo Chess Event (See caption below) \nVideo Chess Caption \nIn 1983 at the height of his powers Michael left the chess work and became a tax accountant.  He is now a senior partner at RSM UK. \nMchael Stean\, tax accountant \nMichael Francis Stean \nSimple Chess by Michael Stean \nSicilian Najdorf by Michael Stean \nSimple Chess by Michael Stean
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-michael-john-stean/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,History,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200905
DTSTAMP:20200904T154337Z
CREATED:20190823T081958Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200904T154337Z
UID:1038-1599177600-1599263999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Stephen Gordon (04-ix-1986)
DESCRIPTION:We wish Stephen Gordon all the best on his birthday\, this day (September 4th) in 1986. \nStephen John Gordon was born on Thursday\, September 4th 1986 in Oldham\, Lancashire where he has lived since. \nHe attended The Blue Coat School in Oldham \nHe became a FIDE Master in 2004\, an International Master in 2006 and a Grandmaster in 2009. \nIn 2012 he shared first place with Gawain Jones in the British Championships in North Shields. \n2012 British Championships part crosstable \nAccording to Felice his peak FIDE rating was 2556 in September 2012 at the age of 26. \nCrosstable from the 2013 Budapest First Saturday GM Tournament \nStephen plays for 3Cs in the Manchester Chess League and for Wood Green in the London League and for 4NCL 3Cs in the Four Nations Chess League. \nStephen Gordon at the final 4NCL weekend in 2014. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nWith the White pieces Stephen almost always plays 1.d4 aiming for a Queen’s Gambit and other main lines. \nAs the second player\, Stephen plays the Sicilian Najdorf and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 94th”]\n[Site “Great Yarmouth”]\n[Date “2007.08.07”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Gordon\, Stephen J”]\n[Black “Rowson\, Jonathan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A57”]\n[WhiteElo “2487”]\n[BlackElo “2599”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “83”]\n[EventDate “2007.07.30”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 119 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.09.04”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.09.04”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,83\,18\,18\,18\,-14\,15\,36\,58\,50\,61\,35\,35\,29\,29\,32\,34\,30\,39\,25\,27\,43\,24\,26\,\n13\,12\,42\,35\,52\,39\,43\,25\,54\,26\,81\,27\,34\,40\,43\,43\,43\,36\,37\,21\,36\,73\,102\,104\,86\,\n63\,58\,75\,62\,52\,97\,51\,52\,52\,49\,59\,71\,41\,56\,32\,50\,17\,3\,0\,103\,83\,101\,101\,273\,299\,\n522\,362\,411\,454\,454\,480\,480\,526\,29969\,29972\,29993\,29994]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3.\nd5 b5 4. cxb5 a6 5. b6 d6 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. e4 Nxb6 8. a4 g6 9. a5 Nbd7 10. f4 Bg7\n11. Nf3 O-O 12. Bc4 Ne8 13. O-O Nc7 14. Qd3 Rb8 15. Re1 Rb4 16. b3 Nb5 17. Bd2\nNxc3 18. Bxc3 Bxc3 19. Qxc3 Nf6 20. Ra2 Bb7 21. Re3 Nh5 22. Ne1 Nxf4 23. Nc2\nRxc4 24. bxc4 e5 25. Ne1 Bc8 26. Rf2 Nh5 27. g3 f5 28. exf5 gxf5 29. Ng2 Qg5\n30. Kh1 Nf6 31. Rf1 Kh8 32. Ref3 Rg8 33. Nh4 f4 34. gxf4 Qxh4 35. fxe5 Ne4 36.\nQb2 Bf5 37. e6+ Rg7 38. Qb8+ Rg8 39. Qb2+ Rg7 40. e7 Ng3+ 41. Rxg3 Be4+ 42. Kg1\n1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Stephen J. Gordon (born 4 September 1986) is an English chess grandmaster. \nIn September 2004 he took a break from his A-level studies at The Blue Coat School\, Oldham to compete in the thirteenth Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International. \nIn 2005\, while still a FIDE Master\, he finished 6th in the British Championships ahead of a Grandmaster and several International Masters. \nAt the EU Individual Open Chess Championship held at Liverpool in 2006\, he led the tournament after eight rounds and finished a very creditable (joint) second\, a half point behind winner Nigel Short and level with Luke McShane among others. \nProbably his best result to date however\, was second place in the 2007 British Championship\, narrowly losing his share of the lead in the final round. In previous rounds\, he defeated both tournament victor Jacob Aagaard and previous champion Jonathan Rowson. \nBy 2008\, his rating had reached grandmaster level\, although the title itself had not yet been secured. At the British Championship in Liverpool\, he almost repeated his performance of the previous year\, by taking a share of third place. He was the British under-21 Champion each consecutive year between 2005 and 2008. He became a grandmaster on 1 August 2009. \nHe has been one of the co-presenters of the chess podcast The Full English Breakfast since its inaugural show in October 2010.” \nStephen Gordon at The Plough Public House in 2014 for the annual Drunken Knights vs Wood Green London League match. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nFor more see Wiki Entry for Stephen Gordon \nGM Stephen Gordon\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-stephen-john-gordon/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200905
DTSTAMP:20200904T082751Z
CREATED:20200410T213141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200904T082751Z
UID:4381-1599177600-1599263999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Joseph McPhillips (04-ix-1997)
DESCRIPTION:BCN says Happy Birthday to IM Joseph McPhillips (04-ix-1997) \nJoe became a FIDE Master in 2015 and an International Master in 2018. \nHis peak FIDE rating is 2434 as at August 2019 and we predict it will increase. \nFIDE rating profile of IM Joseph McPhillips \nIn Joseph won outright the Kecskemet IM Tournament : \nKecskemet 2015 IM Tournament \nIn 2016 Joseph won the Delancey UK Chess Challenge Terafinal to become a “Strat”* for the first time. \n*Only Mike Basman knows what this means! \nIM Joseph McPhillips\, UKCC Terafinal 2016 Winner\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \nJoseph plays for Bolton and for Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League. \nJoseph won outright the Budapest First Sunday IM tournament in 2018 : \nCrosstable for Budapest First Sunday IM 2018 \nWith the white pieces Joseph prefers a main line Ruy Lopez and the Open Sicilian and he has recently started dabbling with 1.d4 \nAs the second player Joseph employs the Classical French and the Queen’s Indian Defences. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Shropshire op”]\n[Site “Telford”]\n[Date “2020.01.05”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “McPhillips\, Joseph”]\n[Black “Ghasi\, Ameet K”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A48”]\n[WhiteElo “2434”]\n[BlackElo “2497”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “89”]\n[EventDate “2020.01.03”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Mega2020 Update 12”]\n[Source “Chessbase”]\n[SourceDate “2020.01.09”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2020.01.09”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,89\,19\,27\,5\,9\,-2\,-2\,1\,-1\,1\,-8\,6\,-3\,68\,56\,53\,34\,64\,-5\,24\,34\,22\,11\,0\,4\,2\,\n0\,6\,-4\,-6\,-6\,48\,1\,8\,-25\,55\,45\,101\,85\,93\,87\,95\,112\,141\,131\,157\,155\,143\,149\,145\,\n128\,136\,108\,122\,124\,95\,99\,127\,127\,123\,124\,143\,165\,147\,156\,191\,212\,211\,210\,275\,\n210\,225\,241\,263\,270\,372\,257\,257\,226\,281\,331\,349\,247\,366\,364\,595\,590\,774\,817\,\n911\,1031]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 g6 3. Bb2 Bg7 4. e3 O-O 5. Be2 d6 6. d4 Nfd7 7. O-O\nNc6 8. c4 e5 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. Nc3 $11 e4 (10… Re8) 11. Nd4 Nxd4 12. exd4 Re8\n13. d5 $6 (13. Re1) 13… Qh4 14. Qc2 a6 15. Rfe1 Nf6 16. g3 Qg5 17. Qc1 Qf5\n18. Nd1 $1 $14 {[#]} Ng4 $2 (18… Nd7 $142) 19. Bxg4 Qxg4 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21.\nQc3+ Kg8 22. f3 $1 $18 Qf5 23. Nf2 (23. Rxe4 Rxe4 24. fxe4 Qxe4 $2 25. Nf2 Qe8\n26. Re1 $18) 23… Qe5 24. Qxe5 Rxe5 25. Nd3 Re7 26. fxe4 Bg4 27. Kf2 Rae8 28.\ne5 b6 29. b4 Bf5 30. d6 cxd6 31. exd6 Rxe1 32. Nxe1 Kg7 33. c5 bxc5 34. bxc5\nKf6 35. Nf3 Rc8 36. Rc1 Bd7 37. Ke3 Rb8 38. Kd4 Rb4+ 39. Rc4 Rb1 40. c6 Be6 41.\nc7 (41. Rc3) 41… Bc8 (41… Rb6) 42. Kc5 Rb5+ 43. Kc6 Bb7+ 44. Kd7 Bd5 45.\nRf4+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM Joseph McPhillips\, UKCC Terafinal 2014\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-joseph-mcphillips-04-xi-1997/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200910
DTSTAMP:20260816T134323Z
CREATED:20200427T172617Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260816T134323Z
UID:5027-1599609600-1599695999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Dr. Paul List (09-ix-1887 09-ix-1954)
DESCRIPTION:Remembering Paul List (09-ix-1887 09-ix-1954) \nFrom The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match by Klein and Winter : \n“Paul M List was born in Memel\, Lithuania in 1887. After living in Berlin for many years\, where he was manager of the bridge and chess rooms in a well-known café-restaurant\, he came to this country in 1936. \nPaul M List \nHe has competed in many tournaments\, local and international. He\, too\, failed to get into the prize list in the recent London International Tournament\, but he is a resourceful player\, particularly in defensive positions. \nHis best performance was Berlin\, 1925 where he came first\, ahead of Richter. Since he came to this country he has become an art dealer\, but chess is still one of his foremost activities.” \nScene at London. From left to right – Seated : Fairhurst\, List and Winter in play. Standing König and Sir George Thomas \nHere is an article by Matthew Sadler on the 1954 British Lightning Championship won by List \nDr. Paul List (09-ix-1887 09-ix-1954). Source : The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match. \nHere is his (surprisingly brief) obituary from British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXIV (1954)\, Number 10 (October)\, page 324 : \n“Dr. Paul List\, the British Lightning Championship winner a year ago (though he could not hold the title because he was not a naturalised Briton)\, died in London at the age of 66. A player of master strength\, Dr. List left his native Russia for Germany in the 1920’s\, and began on his second exile in 1938 when sought refuge in this country from Germany.” \nItem from Kington Times – Saturday 02 June 1951 regarding the visit of Dr. List \nFrom The Illustrated London News in 1953 (by BH Wood) : \n“Sixty-five-year-old Dr. (not of medicine) Paul List\, the oldest competitor\, who settled in Britain about 1937 and has been thinking of becoming naturalised ever since\, finished with a marvellous fifteen-and-a-half points out of a possible eighteen” \nDr. Paul M. List. Source : https://www.kingpinchess.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/They-provided-their-own-heat1.jpg \nHere is his Wikipedia entry
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/remembering-paul-m-list-1887-09-ix-1954/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Player,Remembering
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200913
DTSTAMP:20200911T104643Z
CREATED:20190911T095612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200911T104643Z
UID:1321-1599868800-1599955199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of WGM Anya Sun Corke (12-ix-1990)
DESCRIPTION:We wish happy birthday to WGM Anya Sun Corke on her birthday. \nAnya Sun Corke was born in California\, USA on Wednesday\, September 12th 1990. \nIn 2013\, Anya graduated from Wellesley College summa cum laude with a B.A. in Russian and Philosophy \nShe became a woman’s Grandmaster in 2004.  \nHe peak FIDE rating (according to Felice) was 2301 in October 2008. \nFIDE rating profile of WGM Anya Sun Corke \nWith the white pieces Anya played the Queen’s Gambit and Trompowski Attack \nAs the second player Anya played the Sicilian Kan\, French Rozentalis (3…Nc6) and the Grünfeld Defence. \nAnya won outright the 2007 Budapest First Saturday FM tournament : \nBudapest First Saturday FM Tournament\, 2007 \nShe gave up competitive chess in 2014. \nAn almost miniature from the 2006 British Championship : \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 93rd”]\n[Site “Swansea”]\n[Date “2006.08.10”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Corke\, Anya Sun”]\n[Black “Shaw\, Peter”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[WhiteElo “2179”]\n[BlackElo “2122”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “37”]\n[EventDate “2006.08.07”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “WLS”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 113 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2006.09.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2006.09.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,37\,30\,27\,44\,50\,58\,62\,48\,67\,63\,48\,53\,71\,71\,87\,81\,14\,162\,182\,263\,62\,87\,\n120\,203\,131\,158\,141\,332\,313\,447\,409\,457\,459\,453\,485\,490\,488\,687\,733]} 1. d4 e6\n2. e4 b6 3. Bd3 Bb7 4. Nf3 c5 5. d5 $1 exd5 6. exd5 Bxd5 7. Nc3 Bb7 $6 (7…\nBe6) 8. Bc4 $1 $16 {[#]} Nc6 9. O-O Nge7 $2 {[%csl Gd6] The weakness of the d6\nsquare decides.} (9… d5 10. Nxd5 Be7 $16) 10. Qd6 ({Crushing is} 10. Re1 $18\n{and Black can resign with dignity}) 10… Na5 11. Nb5 Rc8 12. Qf4 (12. Qxc5 $3\nRxc5 (12… bxc5 13. Nd6#) 13. Nd6#) 12… Nxc4 13. Ne5 Nf5 14. Nxc4 Bd5 15.\nRe1+ Be7 16. Qxf5 Bxc4 17. Nd6+ Kf8 18. Nxc4 Rc6 19. Ne5 {and Black threw in\nthe towel.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Anya Sun Corke (born 12 September 1990 in California\, USA) is an English chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She played for Hong Kong\, where she was the top ranked chess player\, until 2009.[1] \nCorke earned the WGM title with her performance in the 36th Chess Olympiad\, playing for the Hong Kong men’s team.[2][3] \nShe was the 2004\, 2005\, 2006 and 2008 Hong Kong National Champion (for men and women)\, one of the youngest national champions ever at the age of 13 years and 9 months. \nShe was the British Junior Under-11 Champion in 2002[4] and the Under-12 Champion in 2003\,[5] the first girl to win either of these age groups. In 2004\, she became joint British U-14 Champion.[6] \nIn December 2004\, she won the Asian Youth Girls U-14 Championship in Singapore.[7] \nIn August 2005\, she jointly won with Alisa Melekhina and Abby Marshall the second annual Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls under-19.[8] \nCorke represented the England Women’s team at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul\, Turkey\,[9][10] and the 2013 European Team Championship in Warsaw\, Poland.[11] \nIn 2013\, she graduated from Wellesley College summa cum laude with a B.A. in Russian and Philosophy.[12][13] \nIn 2014\, she started a Ph.D. program in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University.” \nWGM Anya Sun Corke
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-anya-sun-corke/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200919
DTSTAMP:20260917T143140Z
CREATED:20200918T001027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T143140Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Richard Palliser (18-ix-1981)
DESCRIPTION:We wish IM Richard Palliser all the very best on his birthday\n\nRichard Julian David Palliser was born September 18th in 1981 in Birmingham\, West Midlands. His mother’s maiden name was Hyde.\n\nHe became a FIDE Master in 2000 and an International Master in 2001.\n\nRichard Palliser\n\nHis peak FIDE rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2482 in July 2012 at the age of 31.\n\nIn 1995 Richard was joint British U13 Champion together with David Hodge and Richard S. Jones.\n\nPalliser was joint British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 2006. He writes regularly for ChessMoves and “Everyman Chess” who also employ him as an editor and advisor.\n\nRichard represents in matches 4NCL White Rose\, York RI\, Yorkshire CA\, and ‘Eagle and Child’\n\nAccording to “Play 1.d4!” :\n\n“is an international master and recipient of a special British Chess Federation young player’s award for achievement. In addition to being a very active tournament and match player he also writes regularly for CHESS magazine and other periodicals and is noted for his theoretical knowledge and analytical ability.”\n\nIM Richard Palliser at the King’s Place  Rapidplay\, 2013.\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch”]\n[Site “Scarborough”]\n[Date “2004.08.09”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Palliser\, Richard J D”]\n[Black “Rudd\, Jack”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A45”]\n[WhiteElo “2411”]\n[BlackElo “2281”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “2004.08.02”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 101 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.09.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,51\,26\,37\,30\,2\,-3\,5\,29\,36\,34\,26\,30\,40\,34\,37\,32\,36\,43\,30\,35\,36\,33\,16\,26\,\n14\,41\,24\,85\,84\,35\,65\,178\,156\,153\,143\,256\,140\,135\,143\,143\,92\,942\,1002\,1095\,1150\,\n29991\,29992\,29993\,29994\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4\nc5 4. f3 Qa5+ 5. c3 Nf6 6. d5 Qb6 7. b3 e6 8. e4 exd5 9. exd5 Bd6 10. Bg5 O-O\n$6 ({better is} 10… Be7 11. Bc4 O-O 12. Ne2 $14) 11. Bxf6 Re8+ 12. Ne2 gxf6\n13. Nd2 Qc7 ({better is} 13… Be7 14. Ne4 f5) 14. Ne4 Be5 15. Qd2 {[%cal\nGd2h6]} Kh8 (15… d6) 16. Qh6 $18 Qb6 {[%cal Gf6f5]} 17. d6 $1 c4 (17… Bxd6\n$2 18. Nxf6) 18. Rc1 (18. O-O-O Rg8 19. N2g3 Qd8 20. Bxc4 Nc6 21. Nf5 Rg6 22.\nQd2) 18… cxb3 19. axb3 {[#]} Qxb3 $2 {Too ambitious : Black’s Queen is well\noff-side and Black’s Queen side pieces are on their starting blocks.} (19…\nNa6 {The queenside pieces need to come out to play.}) 20. f4 {[#]} (20. Nd4)\n20… f5 $4 ({Better was} 20… Qc4 21. Nd4 Qd5 22. Bd3 Bxd4) (20… Qd5 21.\nN4g3 Qe6) 21. fxe5 fxe4 22. Nd4 {[%cal Gd4b3\,Gd4f5]} Qd5 (22… Qe6 {was the\nbest the engine could find !}) 23. Qf6+ Kg8 24. Nf5 Qxe5 25. Nh6+ Kf8 26. Qxf7#\n1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nAccording to “tango!” :\n\n“His debut book Play 1.d4! was very well received by critics and the chess public alike”\n\nHis handle on the Internet Chess Club is “worcester”.\n\nIM Richard Palliser\n\n\nWith the White pieces Richard plays 1.d4(!) and the Queen’ Gambit\, Exchange Variation is the main weapon of choice.\n\nAs the second player Richard plays the Sicilian Najdorf and the King’s Indian Defence.\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “Guernsey op 21st”]\n[Site “Guernsey”]\n[Date “1995.10.16”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Palliser\, Richard”]\n[Black “Coathup\, Roger”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E81”]\n[Annotator “Palliser\,Richard”]\n[PlyCount “93”]\n[EventDate “1995.10.15”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “GCI”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2005”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,93\,14\,19\,39\,4\,38\,33\,42\,41\,40\,16\,3\,-16\,-11\,-7\,23\,-37\,22\,-56\,8\,9\,16\,16\,\n16\,16\,55\,-2\,-2\,9\,9\,13\,41\,21\,39\,7\,90\,0\,141\,-90\,-83\,-52\,78\,85\,85\,103\,224\,202\,202\,\n128\,122\,78\,74\,54\,60\,58\,65\,57\,196\,150\,153\,153\,272\,318\,340\,342\,325\,325\,327\,329\,\n456\,481\,481\,270\,399\,425\,433\,428\,1028\,489\,505\,517\,517\,414\,960\,1064\,1165\,1272\,\n1378\,1471\,1471\,1514\,1533\,1525\,29961\,29958]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4\nd6 5. f3 {The sharp Samisch system.} O-O 6. Bg5 {This is more positional than\nthe main move} (6. Be3) 6… c5 7. d5 a6 8. a4 Qa5 9. Ra3 {White wants to play\nQd2 and if b5\, axb5. However the a4 pawn would be pinned and so White moves\nthe rook.} e6 10. Qd2 exd5 11. cxd5 Re8 12. Be2 Qc7 13. Bh6 Nbd7 14. Bxg7 Kxg7\n15. g4 {White now decides to go for a kingside attack.} h6 ({Possibly} 15… h5\n{would have been a better defence.}) 16. h4 Ne5 17. Nh3 Rb8 18. h5 {White gets\non with attack\, because b5 can no longer be prevented.} ({If} 18. a5 b5 19.\naxb6 Rxb6 {Black will have counterplay down the c-file.}) 18… b5 19. Ra1 b4\n20. Nd1 Nexg4 {Black decides to complicate the issue\, unfortunately for him\,\nWhite can turn down the offer and still emerge with the better game.} 21. hxg6\nfxg6 22. Nhf2 Nxf2 23. Qxh6+ Kf7 24. Nxf2 Qe7 25. Qf4 {This threatens 26.Rh7+\,\nBlack decides to exchange before White brings more pieces into the attack.} Qe5\n26. Qxe5 Rxe5 27. Kd2 a5 28. Bb5 g5 (28… Rg5 {was better\, however White\nstill retains an edge}) 29. Rh8 g4 30. fxg4 Nxe4+ 31. Nxe4 Rxe4 32. Rf1+ Kg7\n33. Rff8 {White is now winning.} Rd4+ 34. Ke3 Rxd5 35. Rhg8+ {This is a slight\ninnacuracy\, because it drives the King towards the pawn. Black does however\nreturn the error with 36…Re5.} Kh6 36. Rxc8 Re5+ 37. Kf4 Rxc8 38. Rxc8 Re1\n39. g5+ Kg7 40. Rc7+ Kf8 41. g6 Rg1 42. Kf5 Rg2 43. Kf6 {White has lots of\nways to win\, however because of time trouble\, he does probably not choose the\nquickest.} Rf2+ 44. Ke6 d5 45. g7+ Kg8 46. Kxd5 Rxb2 47. Kxc5 {Black never\nreally had enough counterplay and probably did not defend well enough on the\nKingside.} 1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nIM Richard Palliser and IM Jovanka Houska\, British Championships\, 2019\n\nRichard is Editor of “CHESS”  and has authored a number of publications :\n\nPlay 1.d4 !\, Batsford\, 2003\n\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2005). Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1 d4. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-388-8.\n\nTango! A Dynamic Answer to 1 d4\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2006). Beating Unusual Chess Openings. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-429-9.\n\nBeating Unusual Chess Openings\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2006). Starting Out: Closed Sicilian. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-414-8.\n\nStarting Out: Closed Sicilian\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2007). Starting Out: Scilian Najdorf. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-601-2.\n\nStarting Out: Scilian Najdorf\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2007). Starting out: the Colle. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-527-5.\n\nStarting out: the Colle\n\n\nThe Complete Chess Workout\, Everyman\, 2007\n\nPalliser\, Richard; Kosten\, Tony; Vigus\, James (2008). Dangerous Weapons: Flank Openings. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-583-1.\n\nDangerous Weapons: Flank Openings\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2008). Starting out: d-pawn attacks. The Colle-Zukertort\, Barry and 150 Attacks. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-578-7.\n\nStarting out: d-pawn attacks\n\nPalliser\, Richard (2009). Starting Out: the Trompowsky Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-562-6.\n\nStarting Out: the Trompowsky Attack\n\nPalliser\, Richard; Williams\, Simon; Vigus\, James (2010). Dangerous Weapons: The Dutch. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-624-1.\n\nDangerous Weapons: The Dutch\n\nDangerous Weapons  : The Caro-Kann\, Everyman\, 2010\n\nThe Complete Chess Workout II\, Everyman\, 2012\n\n\nIM Richard Palliser
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