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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200927
DTSTAMP:20210925T140242Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of WIM Eileen Tranmer (05-v-1910 26-ix-1983)
DESCRIPTION:We remember WIM Eileen Betsy Tranmer who passed away on September 26th\, 1983. \nEileen Tranmer \nShe was the first English woman to be awarded by FIDE the Woman’s International Master title in 1950. \n“From The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match by Klein and Winter : \nMiss E. Tranmer was born in Scarborough\, North Yorkshire in 1910\, and learned chess at the age of six. She did not take it up seriously\, however\, until 1936. Under the tuition of W. Winter she has made notable progress\, and her performances include a second prize in the British Correspondence Championship 1944\, as well as first prize in one of the subsidiary tournaments at Hastings\, 1945. \nBy profession Miss Tranmer is a musician and has played principal clarinet in the Scottish and Sadler’s Wells Orchestras.” \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CIII (103\, 1983)\, Number 11 (November)\, page 482-83 (presumably written by Bernard Cafferty) : \n“Eileen Tranmer died in hospital at Ticehurst on September 26th after a long illness. Born in Scarborough\, May 5th 1910\, she was a professional clarinet player and played in a number of prominent British orchestras till forced to retire by deafness. \nMandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock (3880870a)Miss Eileen Tranmer The British Women’s Chess Champion Pictured Here Playing A Clarinet In The Orchestra While Appearing At The Theatre Royal Glasgow. \nOne of the leading British players in the two decades after the war\, Eileen won the British Ladies Championship in 1947\, 1949 (with a 100% score)\, 1953 and 1961\, and played in the British Championship at Buxton\, 1950. Her international record was sparse\, as was the case with nearly all English players of that period. Nevertheless\, she made her mark in the 1949-50 first post-war Women’s World Championship where she finished 5-7th in a field of 16\, beating Bykova\, again\, and finished 7th in the field of 16. \n37th Hastings International Chess Congress\, 1962. USA Ladies champion Lisa Lane (L) playing against British Champion Eileen Tranmer \nWe are grateful to WCM Dinah Norman for sending us these memories : \n“Eileen Tranmer was one of the best English chess lady players of her generation. \nI only played her once at Oxford in an International Ladies Tournament held between 24 July and 1 August 1971. Eileen totally outplayed me and I lost the game. \nEileen was a member of Acton Chess Club where there were three active lady players at that time. They were Jean Rogers\, Olive Chataway and Eileen. Eileen lived in Acton then. \nMandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock (3880957a)Miss Eileen Tranmer The British Women’s Chess Champion.Miss Eileen Tranmer The British Women’s Chess Champion. \nEileen was a professional musician and had to stop playing when she became deaf which was dreadful for her. \nIn 1969 Eileen\, Rowena Bruce and I were selected to play in the Ladies Chess Olympiad Team in Lublin\, Poland. Sadly Eileen was taken ill just before the event so Rowena and I had to play all 13 rounds without a break. I was on Board 1 and at the end Rowena and I were exhausted and I had to withdraw from a tournament in the Czech Republic without playing a game. The food in Poland was awful so we said never again! \n  \nMandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock (3880958a)Miss Eileen Tranmer The British Women’s Champion Chess Player Pictured Playing Some Of The Glasgow Ladies Chess Club At The Green’s Playhouse Cafe Glasgow.Miss Eileen Tranmer The British Women’s Champion Chess Player Pictured Playing Some Of The Glasgow Ladies Chess Club At The Green’s Playhouse Cafe Glasgow. \nEileen was very friendly with Harry Golombek. The expectation among the lady chess players was that they would get married but she never did. Harry did not drive and Eileen was very kind driving Harry and his elderly mother around. \nVery sadly Eileen’s brother was killed in a car crash and after that Eileen suffered mental problems. Eileen lived near John and Jean Rogers and John said Eileen would turn up at their home in the middle of the night wanting to play chess. \nAt Hastings 1959-1960 : Yugoslavia’s red-haired Milanka Lazarevic and Britain’s Eileen Tranmer ran away with the Premier Reserves (afternoon event). \nThe last time I saw Eileen was at Paignton. Her friend Olive Chataway brought her to Paignton and Eileen played in the bottom tournament and did badly. Eileen did not recognise myself or Rowena which was very sad. \n  \nMandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock (4745287a)Miss Eileen Tranmer 43-year-old British Women’s Chess Champion. Box 556.Miss Eileen Tranmer 43-year-old British Women’s Chess Champion. Box 556. \nEileen later left Acton and moved to Tring. Eileen was a pleasant and modest person and was well liked. She had a good sense of humour.” \nFrom the obituary in The Times of London we learn that her last few years were over-shadowed by an illness that preyed on her mind. \nWe take the following game from the August 1944 issue of BCM. The game was played in the BCCA Championship\, and curiously enough there was an enquiry about that event to the BCF only a short while ago – a Georgian journalist wishes to quote that wartime performance as an early example of success by a woman in male chess company! ” \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCCA Correspondence”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1944.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Tranmer\, Eileen”]\n[Black “Wood\, Gabriel”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “79”]\n[EventDate “1944.??.??”]\n[EventType “corr”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM Game # 21093”] \n{[%evp 0\,8\,19\,38\,40\,31\,7\,-4\,8\,-10\,-2]} 1. e4 c5 2. f4 $1 {A very early Grand\nPrix Attack.} e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. e5 Nc6 5. c3 d4 6. d3 Nge7 7. Nbd2 Nf5 8. Ne4 Be7\n9. g3 (9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O b6 11. Qe1) 9… b6 10. Bg2 Bb7 11. Qe2 Qd7 12. Bd2\ndxc3 13. Bxc3 Rd8 14. Rd1 Ba6 15. Bf1 $6 O-O $17 16. Rd2 Qd5 17. Kf2 Qxa2 {\ngiven a ? in 1944 but in 2020 this is engine’s top move.} (17… f6) 18. Qd1\nNfd4 19. Nfg5 f6 (19… Bxg5 20. Bxd4 Bxf4 21. gxf4 Nxd4 $19) 20. exf6 Bxf6 21.\nh4 Rd7 $6 (21… h6 22. Nxf6+ Rxf6 23. Ne4) 22. Bh3 $11 Qd5 23. Bg2 Bxg5 24.\nhxg5 Qf5 {[#]} 25. Nf6+ gxf6 26. Be4 $1 fxg5 $1 27. Bxf5 Rxf5 28. Rh5 Rg7 29.\nKe1 gxf4 30. Rxf5 exf5 31. Qh5 $16 Re7+ 32. Kf2 f3 {[#]} 33. b4 $1 cxb4 34.\nBxd4 Nxd4 35. Qh4 Rd7 36. g4 f4 37. Qg5+ Kf7 38. Qxf4+ Ke7 39. g5 Kd8 40. Ra2\n$18 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nGerald Abrahams in Not only Chess\, wrote about Eileen (Chapter 18 : What Achilles Saw Among Women) as follows : \n“To revert to the British Ladies\, they were joined in the late 1930s by a very able pupil of Miss Menchik\, the Yorkshire Clarinettist Eileen Tranmer; a woman whose chess I have seen to express some admirable qualities of mind and character. I had the privilege of watching her is Moscow in 1949-50\, when\, handicapped by influenza of a particularly virulent kind – what the Russians call “grippe” – she won some five or six consecutive games\, to finish in the prize list of the new official Women’s World Championship. There had been two championships before\, which Vera has won easily. Since Vera had unhappily perished in the Blitz\, they looked at Moscow for her successor.” \nHere is her Wikipedia entry \n[pgn]\n[Event “World Women-ch”]\n[Site “Moscow”]\n[Date “1949.12.26”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Heemskerk\, Fenny”]\n[Black “Tranmer\, Eileen”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C02”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “74”]\n[EventDate “1949.12.20”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “URS”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,74\,19\,38\,30\,51\,51\,40\,6\,8\,7\,-11\,-13\,-29\,10\,-18\,4\,6\,-2\,-8\,-14\,5\,-17\,-41\,\n-34\,-34\,9\,-31\,-36\,-52\,-33\,-70\,-52\,-68\,-20\,-20\,-17\,-24\,-23\,-105\,-72\,-170\,-135\,\n-206\,-236\,-238\,-248\,-256\,-256\,-263\,-244\,-244\,-242\,-231\,-232\,-242\,-243\,-323\,\n-354\,-340\,-323\,-360\,-248\,-292\,-304\,-307\,-307\,-335\,-301\,-298\,-346\,-375\,-361\,\n-593\,-592\,-592\,-600]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Qb3\nQxb3 7. axb3 cxd4 8. cxd4 Bd7 9. Be2 Nge7 10. O-O Nf5 11. Be3 Bb4 12. Bd3 g6\n13. g4 Nxe3 14. fxe3 Be7 15. Na3 a6 16. Nb5 Rc8 17. Nd6+ Bxd6 18. exd6 Nb4 19.\nBb1 f6 20. Nh4 Rf8 21. Nxg6 hxg6 22. Bxg6+ Kd8 23. h4 Bb5 24. Rfc1 Kd7 25. Rc7+\nRxc7 26. dxc7 Kxc7 27. Rc1+ Kd6 28. h5 Be2 29. Kg2 Bxg4 30. Kg3 Bf5 31. Bxf5\nexf5 32. Rh1 Rh8 33. h6 Ke6 34. h7 Nc6 35. Rh6 Kf7 36. Kh4 Kg7 37. Kh5 Ne7 0-1 \n[/pgn] \nWIM Eileen Betsy Tranmer & WIM Rowena Mary Bruce at the 1946 Anglo-Soviet Radio Match
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200930
DTSTAMP:20200924T143717Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Tom Rendle (29-ix-1986)
DESCRIPTION:Best wishes to IM Tom Rendle on his birthday. \nThomas Edward Rendle was born on Monday\, September 29th 1986. “Stuck with You” by Huey Lewis and the News was the UK’s number one single. \nTom was born in Hastings\, East Sussex and his mother’s maiden name is Jefferies. Tom resides in Hastings. \nTom attended Bede’s School\, Sussex and then St. Leonard’s College. \nTom Rendle aged 11 by David Crump \nTom studied physics at The University of Warwick and has two brothers\, Tim and James and a sister Theresa. \nTom became a FIDE Master in 2004. In 2006 Tom became an International Master and achieved a peak rating (according to Felice) in July 2007 of 2416 at the age of 21. Tom has one Grandmaster norm. \nTom has played for 4NCL Grantham Sharks\, Hammersmith (in the London League)\, Drunken Knights (in the London League)\, West London and Sandhurst (in the Surrey Border and Berkshire Leagues). \nHis first ECF grade to appear on the grading web site was 82A in July 1994 at the age of 7 : \nECF Grading Progress of Tom Rendle \nTom played in the World U12 Championship won by Teimour Radjabov and his first major success was scoring 7.5/10 in the 2001 Smith and Williamson Young Masters. He became Hampshire Champion in 2001 with 5/6 and won the 2004 Rosny Sous Bois tournament with 7/9 and a TPR of 2568. He was runner-up in the Paignton Open of 2005 followed by runner-up in the Coulsdon Christmas tournament of 2005. \n[pgn]\n[Event “EU-ch U14”]\n[Site “Chalkidiki”]\n[Date “2000.10.08”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Rendle\, Thomas E”]\n[Black “Zinchenko\, Yaroslav”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B50”]\n[WhiteElo “2131”]\n[BlackElo “2271”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “2000.10.02”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “GRE”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 078 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,27\,13\,58\,56\,90\,37\,27\,10\,0\,-1\,-13\,-9\,-10\,-18\,-27\,-8\,33\,41\,20\,27\,14\,\n20\,33\,22\,97\,-17\,67\,19\,-4\,-13\,8\,8\,157\,157\,416\,257\,257\,255\,327\,292\,292\,406\,406\,\n773\,727\,1103\,29983\,29984\,29985\,29986\,29987\,29988\,29989\,29990\,29991\,29992\,29993\,\n29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. c3 Nf6 4.\nBe2 Nc6 (4… Nxe4 $4 5. Qa4+) 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 Nxe4 7. d5 Qa5+ 8. Nc3 Nb8 9.\nO-O Nxc3 10. bxc3 g6 (10… Nd7) 11. Qd4 {[%cal Gd4h8]} Rg8 (11… f6 12. Rb1\nBg7 13. Bb5+ Kf7) 12. Rb1 Bg7 $146 {A novelty not since repeated.} (12… a6\n13. c4) 13. Qc4 (13. Qh4) 13… Qc5 14. Qa4+ Nd7 15. Ba3 Qxd5 $6 {This pawn\ngrab enables White to seize the initiative.} ({Safer was} 15… Qc7) 16. Bc4\nQf5 (16… Qc6 {was required} 17. Qb3) 17. Rb5 Qf4 18. Ng5 ({Better was} 18.\nBc1 $18) 18… d5 19. Rxd5 e6 20. g3 (20. Re1) 20… Qc7 21. Rc5 $1 Qd8 {\n[#] Black’s position is painful !} 22. Nxf7 $1 (22. Nxe6 fxe6 23. Bxe6 Rf8 24.\nRd1) 22… Kxf7 23. Bxe6+ $1 Kxe6 (23… Ke8) 24. Qc4+ Kf6 25. Qf4+ Ke6 26.\nRe1+ Ne5 27. Rexe5+ Bxe5 28. Rxe5+ Kd7 29. Qd4+ Kc7 30. Rc5+ Kb6 31. Qb4+ Ka6\n32. Qb5# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nTom’s GM norm was earnt at Gibraltar 2007. \nTom Rendle in 2011 \nTom has his own popular YouTube Channel \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VojrVAgioU[/embedyt] \nWith the white pieces Tom is almost exclusively an e4 player but he has flirted with Bird’s Opening many times. Having shared accommodation with Gawain Jones there are signs of influence in the choice of the Grand Prix Attack. \nAs the second player Tom plays both the Winawer and the Classical French and is a noted expert on the Classical Dutch and Dutch in general. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Chekhov”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “2000.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Kremenietsky\, Anatoly M”]\n[Black “Rendle\, Thomas E”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A89”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “56”]\n[EventDate “2000.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “chessgames.com”] \n{[%evp 0\,56\,32\,32\,77\,49\,38\,38\,58\,43\,67\,60\,82\,58\,66\,47\,29\,0\,64\,64\,53\,48\,43\,25\,\n66\,57\,201\,180\,278\,279\,286\,211\,-270\,-530\,-680\,-840\,-1016\,-1016\,-1016\,-1016\,\n-1085\,-1073\,-926\,-927\,-959\,-1129\,-952\,-950\,-1022\,-1185\,-1123\,-1438\,-1574\,-1574\,\n-1620\,-1686\,-1935\,-29993\,-2397]} 1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 d6 4. Nf3 g6 5. g3\nBg7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne5 9. Nxe5 dxe5 10. e4 f4 {[#]} 11. b4 (11.\ngxf4 exf4 12. e5 Ng4 13. e6 Ne5 14. Re1 Nxc4 15. Re4 Nd6 16. Rxf4 c6) 11… g5\n(11… e6) 12. Bb2 Qe8 $5 13. Nb5 $16 Ng4 $2 14. h3 $18 Qh5 {[#]} 15. hxg4 $2 (\n15. gxf4 $18) 15… Bxg4 $19 16. f3 $2 fxg3 $1 17. Rf2 Qh2+ 18. Kf1 gxf2 19.\nfxg4 Qg1+ 20. Ke2 Qxg2 21. Qf1 Qxg4+ 22. Ke3 Qf4+ 23. Kd3 Qf3+ 24. Kd2 g4 25.\nNc3 Bh6+ 26. Kc2 g3 27. Nd1 Qxe4+ 28. Kc3 Qe1+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Tom Rendle at the King’s Place Rapidplay\, 2013\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Thomas Edward Rendle (born 29 September 1986) is a British FIDE International Master chess player and coach. Rendle became an International Master in June 2006 and is part way towards becoming a Grandmaster\, with one GM Norm. \nHe gained an interest in chess at an early age\, and soon entered chess tournaments\, gaining success in his age categories (such as becoming Mini Squad Under 7s Champion\, England Under 11 Champion).[citation needed] He was put on top board for the England under 11 team and won the Sussex Under 18 Championships\, whilst still under 12.” \nIn 1998 Rendle played Garry Kasparov in the BT Wireplay Challenge 1998. In 2005 he was a coach for England’s team at the 1st FIDE World Schools Championship in Halkidiki\, Greece and in 2006 he coached with the England Team at the European Youth Chess Championships in Montenegro. \nRendle currently works as a chess coach\, both online and face-to-face. He is a regular coach of England Juniors.” \nIM Tom Rendle\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jonathan Speelman (02-xi-1956)
DESCRIPTION:We wish GM Jonathan Speelman all the best on his birthday. \nJonathan Simon Speelman was born on Tuesday\, October 2nd\, 1956 in Marylebone\, London. His mother’s maiden name was Freeman. In March 2002 Jon and Lindsey Thomas were married in Camden\, Greater London. They have a non-chess playing son\, Lawrence who studied Ancient Languages at The University of Chicago. \nJonathan attended St. Paul’s School\, London and then Worcester College\, Oxford and read mathematics. \nHe became an International Master in 1978 (England’s tenth) and a Grandmaster in 1980 (England’s fifth) and achieved a peak FIDE rating of 2645 at the age of 32 in July 1988. \nJon is a Life Member of King’s Head Chess Club and has helped them organise a number of tournaments including the NatWest Young Masters where he has adjudicated the winner of the Best Game Prize. \nCurrently\, Jon plays for Wood Green in Four Nations Chess League and in the London League and maintains an ECF grade of 245. \nJon is the chess correspondent for The Observer and The Independent. \nWith the white pieces Jon prefers 1.Nf3 and against 1…Nf6 to follow with c4 and d4. Interestingly\, if black plays 1…d5 then Jon plays an early king-side fianchetto. \nAs the second player Jon prefers the Smyslov Caro-Kann\, the Nimzo-Indian and Queen’s Indian defences. \nHis record against contemporary players is impressive : \nNigel Short : +5\nMurray Chandler : +4\nJonathan Mestel : +4\nJohn Nunn : +3\nJames Plaskett : +4\nMark Hebden : +7\nTony Miles : +1\nTony Kosten : +3\nDaniel King : +2 \nJon Speelman and Nigel Short at the start of their 1989 Candidates match. Jon won 3.5 – 1.5 \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : \n“Having been asked to contribute an article on myself to this book I have decided to concentrate almost exclusively on my ‘relationship with chess’\, but first quickly summarize my life. \nJS \nBorn on 2nd October 1956 I went to a ‘Nursery School’ whose name I forget. Then to Arnold House School followed by St. Paul’s School. I had a ‘Year off’ from January to October\, 1976\, when I went up to Worcester College\, Oxford\, where I studied mathematics. In 1977 I left Oxford with a 2nd degree. Since then I have been a professional chess player. \nI was taught chess at the age of 6 by my cousin on Boxing Day\, 1962. Then as now\, I was an inquisitive person and the idea of a ‘complicated and difficult game’ interested me. Sadly my first game of chess ended in checkmate in four moves; but I persevered and soon became more competent. \nJS at the London based Philips & Drew Kings tournament \nI have always seen life to some in terms of barriers. There are things which one can do easily and which one finds difficult or almost impossible. For any given task the transition from one state to the other is not as smooth. One builds up energy and finally is able to succeed for the first time. After that the task becomes successively easier: Partly because one is aware that one can succeed. \nJonathan Speelman without glasses \nln order to illustrate my chess career to date\, I shall therefore pick out examples of barriers which I managed to break through. \nJonathan was an early follower of fashion \nUntil a few Years ago there were few titled players in Great Britain. But recently\, thanks largely to a change of emphasis in organisation\, several players have broken through to obtain international titles. This is not only because British players have become stronger – which they undoubtedly have – but also because they have received opportunities which were previously denied them. \nJS at the London Robert Silk Fellowship invitational tournament \nI first started seriously to contemplate becoming an international master in 1977. Previously\, I had of course aspired to this but without really investigating the mechanics of obtaining norms. In August\, 1977 England sent a team to the World Student Team Championships in Mexico City. We came third: a year later we were to win the event (though on that occasion it was a World Under 26 Team Championship). On our return there was an invitation tournament in London: the ‘Lloyds Bank Silver Jubilee’. Although I was rather tired after Mexico I decided to play and to my surprise\, I obtained an IM norm with a round to spare. It all seemed rather easy. I drew with six strong players including GM Torre and four IM’s and beat three weaker ones. \nGrandmaster Uses PressTel Chessbox to Play Long Distance Chess. Jonathan Speelman the UK Grandmaster is pictured here deciding his next move in a computer chess game against five simultaneous opponents. Players exchanged moves online via the ChessBox club on PressTel\, BTs videotex service. \nIn December\, 1977 I played for the first time in the Annual Grandmaster Tournament at Hastings. I was very pleased to ‘shut up shop’\, abandoning any pretensions to an exciting style to score one win\, one loss and – wait for it – twelve draws; but 7/14 was sufficient for another international master norm. \nThese two events left me with twenty three games of norm\, one less than the required minimum. Early in 1978 I played in a tournament in London but failed to get my final leg. It was in April that year that I had my next chance at the famous Lone Pine Tournament in California. I have already stressed the importance of barriers. It was in round one of the Lone Pine tournament that I broke through another important one – that of beating a grandmaster. \nJS was a frequent giver of simultaneous displays \nNowadays (and here I hear myself sounding like an old man!) the strongest young players (under twenty-six) beat international masters quite regularly and indeed grandmasters from time to time. ‘In my day’ this was not so much the case. Titled foreign players could still come over to pillage weekend tournaments; and succeed much of the time! When one of them lost to homegrown talent it was news. \nIM Jonathan Speelman vs IM Simon Webb at the 1978 British Championships in Ayr\, Courtesy of John Upham \nI first started to play regularly against grandmasters in my first Hastings tournament\, which I mentioned previously. Of course\, I had played grandmasters before\, but at Hastings seven of the fourteen games were against them. I scored there six draws and a loss to the tournament winner\, Dzindzihashvili. \nJulian Hodgson and Jonathan Speelman prepare to play each other at their own home via CEEEFAX. This was organised by Peter Andrews of BBC Chess Club and was the first match of its kind. \nIn round one of Lone pine I was White against Bent Larsen of Denmark. Given that one is going to beat a strong grandmaster (l hadn’t even beaten a weak one) then White against Larsen is quite a good chance. Although he is an extremely strong player\, Larsen loses quite a lot of games to much weaker opponents and wins an enormous number against them as well\, with not many draws. I was fortunate in obtaining a nice position from the opening and won a good game. That is one of the games I have chosen. \nJS receives one of many awards \nAfter beating Larsen the rest of the tournament was rather an anti-climax for me. I drew some games\, then lost in successive rounds to Browne and Biyiasas. Needing a win to reach fifty per cent the chance of my final norm\, I clawed my way to victory in a dreadful game against a young American P. Whitehead. Two short draws in the final two rounds brought me the title. \nAt the Praxis British Zonal in February 1987 here at the roman baths. Murray Chandler\, Jonathan Speelman\, and Jonathan Mestel \nSome years ago the British Championship really was the Championship of Britain. But in the early seventies there was a decline as several of the strongest players did not enter. In the last two years the decline has been halted and then reversed by the sponsorship of stockbrokers Grievson Grant. In 1979 two of our four Grandmasters\, Miles and Nunn\, competed in the British Championship at Chester and there were no fewer than six International Masters; indeed Nigel Short succeeded in obtaining his first IM norm there. \nJS plays Alexander Khalifman during the SWIFT World Cup in Reykjavik\, 1991. The game was drawn \nI first competed in the British Championship at Brighton in 1972. After a good start\, beating Michael Basman in the first round and drawing with Craig Pritchett in the second\, I lost to Haygarth in round three. Thereafter\, I found it incredibly difficult to win games. My old British Chess Magazine reminds me that I succeeded in winning in round nine\, but that was the only one after round one. I finished with 4.5/11. \nJS\, Jana Bellin and Nigel Short in a publicity shoot outside Simpsons in the Strand \nA year later at Eastbourne I was still finding it hard to win games. Again I finished with 4.5/11. By Clacton\, 1974 I had improved. A loss in the last round to the eventual winner Botterill left me a point behind the seven (!) who had to play off for the title. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWgtaqLhA34[/embedyt] \nI competed at Morecambe\, 1975 and Portsmouth\, 1976\, missing only Brighton\, 1977 when the students team was in Mexico. By Ayr\, 1978 I was probably one of the favourites along with Jonathan Mestel\, who ran away with the tournament in Portsmouth\,\n1976\, George Botterill\, the defending champion\, and some others. \nJonathan shows off his all seeing four eyes \nIn fact I won at Ayr. I played quite well throughout. ln the last round half a point ahead of Mestel I played a quick draw with Webb but was lucky when Mestel could only draw with Clarke. Of course winning the British was a big breakthrough for me. But I feel that the most important psychological change came in 1974 when I started to discover that it is possible to win games in the British Championship. \nJonathan Simon Speelman (02-x-1956) as imagined by Roger Morgan\, 1982 \nSince late 1978 I have made no dramatic breakthrough but have\, I believe\, almost imperceptibly made the change from a ‘medium’ to a ‘strong’ international master. \nJonathan Speelman telephones good news \nI’ve selected three games to go with this article. The one with Larsen I’ve already mentioned. Mihaljcisin-Speelman I like as a game in which I played very actively as Black. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Frunze”]\n[Site “Frunze”]\n[Date “1979.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Mikhalchishin\, Adrian”]\n[Black “Speelman\, Jonathan Simon”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B16”]\n[WhiteElo “2480”]\n[BlackElo “2470”]\n[Annotator “Jonathan Speelman and Murray Chandler”]\n[PlyCount “84”]\n[EventDate “1979.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “URS”]\n[EventCategory “9”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess & TECE”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,84\,15\,10\,81\,81\,81\,41\,41\,33\,28\,44\,44\,19\,67\,21\,52\,8\,17\,0\,11\,-5\,-5\,4\,-2\,\n-65\,-68\,-120\,-122\,-141\,-134\,-147\,-149\,-183\,-180\,-185\,-179\,-185\,-136\,-206\,-199\,\n-189\,-178\,-154\,-179\,-169\,-169\,-162\,-118\,-118\,-99\,-108\,-101\,-107\,-104\,-134\,-124\,\n-120\,-130\,-179\,-184\,-184\,-112\,-131\,-112\,-98\,-46\,-84\,-119\,-207\,-218\,-210\,-218\,\n-225\,-225\,-244\,-250\,-250\,-250\,-278\,-279\,-365\,-374\,-374\,-374\,-1014\,-1014]} 1. e4\n{JS : Mr. Mihaljcisin of Yugoslavia had a very bad tournament at Frunze :\nafter an early win against the Mongolian Miagmasuren he failed to win another\ngame and lost many! When I played him \, having not yet discovered that the GM\nnorm was 13/17 (I thought it was about 12) I was very anxious to win. At the\nbeginning of the tournament I played Sicilian against 1.e4 but without\nreaching very good positions though I drew them all. As Black against\nMiagmasuren I played a French Defence; he played 2.Nf3 and I very quickly\nreached a won position ! In this game I decided to avoid 2.c3 against the\nSicilian which is what we would have had otherwise and to try for the first\ntime in my tournament career a Caro-Kann Defence – I am often lucky in my\nfirst adoption of an opening variation !} c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6\n5. Nxf6+ gxf6 6. Ne2 {My opponent played this move almost instantly. This\nrather disconcerted me since I had expected that he would have a reasonably\nlong think.} (6. c3 Bf5 7. Nf3 e6) {So….} 6… h5 $5 ({JS : If now} 6… Bf5\n7. Ng3 Bg6 8. h4 h5 9. Be2 {and White can prepare for Bxh5 with c3 : this is\nperfectly playable for Black but why follow your opponent’s theory especially\nwhen you don’t know it properly?}) 7. h4 $6 {JS : This seems very dubious to\nme.} ({JS : Surely} 7. Qd3 {is better.}) 7… Bg4 8. Qd3 ({JS :\nYanofsky-Larsen\, Dallas\, 1957 went} 8. c3 Nd7 9. Qb3 Nb6 10. Bf4 Qd7 11. O-O-O\nBe6 12. Qc2 a5 13. Ng3 Qd5 14. a3 Qa2 15. Qb1 Qxb1+ 16. Kxb1 Nd5 {given as =+\nby Larsen in ECO.}) 8… e5 9. Be3 ({Perhaps White should play} 9. c3 {I\nintended} Nd7 ({but perhaps Black should play} 9… Na6) 10. Ng3 exd4 {at the\ntime}) 9… Na6 10. a3 ({White would like to play} 10. O-O-O {but this seems\nto fail tactically \, viz} Nb4 11. Qb3 Be6 $1 12. c4 (12. d5 $2 cxd5 {gives\nWhite nothing}) 12… Bf5 13. Rd2 a5 $1 {\, when White should play} 14. Nc3 ({\nIf instead} 14. dxe5 {but} a4 $1 {which wins. I’m afraid that I hadn’t noticed\nthat 14…Nd3+ is bad and 14…a4! superb\, but my position was\, I think\,\nalready good enough for one to expect that there would be in a reasonable line\na tactical mêlée.} ({not} 14… Nd3+ {when} 15. Kd1 {is very strong})) 14…\na4 $1 15. Nxa4 Qa5 $17 {which is excellent for Black}) ({White should have\nplayed} 10. c3 {when} Nc5 {is conceivable} ({After} 10… Qa5 {Black is\nalready better.})) 10… Qa5+ $1 11. Bd2 Qb6 {Black has got a clear advantage.}\n{So\, White feels obliged to try} 12. dxe5 ({If now} 12. O-O-O O-O-O {the white\nd-pawn is dreadfully weak}) 12… Nc5 13. Qe3 O-O-O 14. b4 {This is a\ndesperate move to force the queens off.} ({If} 14. O-O-O Bh6 15. f4 fxe5 {\nand White’s position collapses.}) {but…} 14… Bh6 $1 15. f4 {[#]} Rxd2 $1\n16. Qxd2 ({if} 16. bxc5 Qb2) ({If} 16. Kxd2 Rd8+ 17. Ke1 Nd3+ $1) 16… Ne4 17.\nQd4 Qxd4 18. Nxd4 Bxf4 19. Nf3 ({If} 19. Be2 Bd2+ 20. Kd1 Bc3 {and White loses\na vast amount of material.}) (19. Bd3 {is best} {but after} Bd2+ 20. Kf1 Ng3+\n21. Kf2 Nxh1+ 22. Rxh1 Bc3 {Black is\, of course\, winning.}) 19… Ng3 {the\nsimplest} 20. Rh3 $1 ({If} 20. Rg1 Be3 {and White cannot prevent …Bxf3 and ..\n.Bxg1 winning a whole rook to come out a piece up.}) 20… Bxh3 {Maybe I could\nhave found something better here but this is perfectly effective so I didn’t\nlook further.} 21. gxh3 Nxf1 22. Kxf1 fxe5 {Black is effectively two pawns up.}\n23. Ng5 {[#]} Rg8 $4 {Here I had a complete hallucination.} (23… Kd7 $1 {\nwould have won easily} {for if} 24. Nxf7 Rf8 25. Rd1+ Kc7 $1 26. Nd6 Rd8 {\nand Black wins a piece.}) 24. Nxf7 e4 25. Ng5 {This is move I had missed.} Bxg5\n26. hxg5 Rxg5 $17 {It is now touch and go whether the position is won (for\nBlack) any more.} 27. Re1 ({White could also try} 27. Kf2 {with the idea} Rf5+\n({Black could also try} 27… h4 28. Re1 Rf5+ 29. Kg2 Rf3 30. Rxe4 Rg3+ 31. Kh2\nRxa3 {which must be winning I imagine\,} {though after} 32. c4 $19 {must be\nworse it would be pretty close.} (32. Rxh4 Rc3)) 28. Ke3 Rf3+ 29. Kxe4 Rxh3 (\n29… Rc3 $1) 30. Kd4 {and 31.c3 which is not too bad for White.}) 27… Rg3\n28. Rxe4 Rxh3 29. Ke2 Rxa3 30. Rh4 {[#]} Ra4 $4 {This is stupid. My opponent\nwas now in time-trouble.} ({I had intended} 30… a5 {but now panicked about}\n31. Rxh5 ({White might try} 31. b5 cxb5 32. Rxh5 b4 {is easily winning for\nBlack.}) 31… axb4 32. Rh4 {Of course} Rc3 33. Kd2 c5 {would win easily for\nBlack.}) 31. Kd3 b6 ({if} 31… a5 $2 32. Rxh5 axb4 ({BCN : but} 32… Ra3+ 33.\nKd2 axb4 {is winning}) 33. Kc4 {and White can draw}) 32. c3 a5 33. Kc4 {\nIn time trouble Mihaljcisin fails to find the defence – I also did not see it\nuntil nearly a month later !} ({After} 33. Rxh5 $1 axb4 34. Rh4 {Black cannot\nplay} c5 ({So} 34… Kb7 35. cxb4 ({not} 35. Rxb4 Rxb4 36. cxb4 Kc7 $19 {\nwinning}) 35… Ka6 36. Rd4 $1 ({also} 36. Rh6 Kb5 37. Kc3 $1 $11) 36… Kb5\n37. Kc3 $11 {seems to be a draw.}) {since} 35. cxb4 cxb4 (35… Rxb4 36. Rxb4\ncxb4 37. Kc4 {is a drawn pawn ending.})) 33… axb4 34. Kb3 ({Or} 34. cxb4 c5\n$19) 34… Ra5 $1 ({not} 34… b5 {(BCN : actually\, this is winning for Black!)\n} 35. cxb4 c5 36. Rxh5 Rxb4+ 37. Ka3 Rc4 38. Rh7 $19) 35. Kxb4 (35. cxb4 {\nalso loses of course}) 35… Rg5 36. c4 Kb7 37. Rf4 Rg4 38. Rf7+ Ka6 39. Kb3 ({\nor} 39. Rf6 c5+ 40. Kb3 Ka5 $1 {etc} ({but not} 40… Rg3+ 41. Ka4 Rc3 $4 (\n41… Rg4 42. Kb3 h4) (41… Rg1 $1) 42. Rxb6+ $1 $11)) 39… Rg3+ 40. Kb4 $2 (\n40. Ka4 c5 41. Rf6 Rg4 42. Kb3 Ka5 {etc}) 40… c5+ 41. Ka4 Rc3 42. Rf4 Rxc4+\n$1 {and white resigns.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nThe game against Biyiasis is a good ‘rough and tumble’ not free from errors of course – but wouldn’t that be boring? \n[pgn] \n[Event “Christmas Congress 1978/79-54 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1979.01.04”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Speelman\, Jonathan Simon”]\n[Black “Biyiasas\, Peter”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “E97”]\n[WhiteElo “2470”]\n[BlackElo “2485”]\n[Annotator “Jon Speelman”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1978.12.28”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “9”]\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\,81\,19\,-12\,51\,17\,33\,22\,32\,56\,38\,50\,39\,35\,41\,29\,62\,58\,58\,40\,36\,36\,33\,43\,\n23\,20\,75\,64\,57\,57\,53\,39\,48\,49\,19\,5\,6\,95\,76\,76\,76\,110\,104\,0\,119\,66\,138\,74\,73\,84\,\n90\,90\,128\,68\,116\,140\,157\,146\,140\,169\,156\,103\,103\,101\,79\,93\,88\,89\,75\,100\,113\,97\,\n218\,271\,256\,160\,180\,32\,34\,35\,35\,0\,0\,0]} 1. c4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. d4 d6 4. Nc3 Nf6\n5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9. b4 $5 {This move has been revived\nover the last couple of years with the idea} Nh5 10. c5 (10. g3 {was the old\nmove.}) 10… Nf4 11. Bxf4 exf4 12. Rc1 {White has given-up the bishop pair\nand opened upa beautiful diagonal for Black’s bishop in order to gain lead in\ndevelopment.} Bg4 $5 {[#] This may be a theoretical novelty: Black returns\nsome of his positional advantage in order to decongest his position.} ({\nRelevant:} 12… a5 13. cxd6 cxd6 14. Qd2 axb4 15. Nb5 Bg4 16. Rc7 Nc8 17. Nfd4\nBxe2 18. Nxe2 {1/2-1/2 (18) Grigorian\,K-Geller\,E Leningrad 1971}) ({The usual\nmove is} 12… h6 {preparing g5.}) 13. Nd2 $146 {This is the natural move; but\nWhite must carefully consider the consequences of Black’s kingside expansion.:\nit cost me a rather excessive 23 minutes.} ({Predecessor:} 13. Nd4 Bd7 14. Bb5\na5 15. cxd6 cxd6 16. Bxd7 Qxd7 17. b5 Rac8 18. Nce2 f3 19. Nxf3 Rxc1 20. Qxc1\nQxb5 21. Nfd4 Qb6 22. Qe3 Rc8 23. Nf5 Qxe3 24. Nxe7+ Kf8 25. fxe3 Kxe7 26. Rb1\nBe5 27. Rxb7+ Kf6 28. Kf2 Rc2 29. Kf3 Rxa2 30. Nd4 g5 31. h3 h5 32. Nf5 a4 33.\nRb6 a3 34. Ra6 Ra1 35. Nxd6 Bxd6 36. Rxd6+ Ke5 37. Ra6 a2 38. Kf2 Kxe4 39. d6\nRd1 40. Ra4+ Ke5 41. Rxa2 Rxd6 42. Ra4 Rd2+ {Grigoriou\,M-Trikaliotis\,G (2245)\nKallithea 1978 1/2-1/2}) 13… Bxe2 14. Qxe2 g5 {This move weakens f5\, of\ncourse. But the paramount cosideration for Black is to get complete control of\ne5.} 15. Qh5 Ng6 16. Nf3 h6 17. Nb5 a5 18. Nbd4 axb4 19. cxd6 cxd6 20. Nf5 Qf6\n21. Rc7 Rfc8 22. Rd7 b3 23. Rxd6 Qxd6 24. Nxd6 bxa2 25. Nxc8 a1=Q 26. Nd6 Qb2\n27. h4 Ra1 28. Rxa1 Qxa1+ 29. Kh2 Qf6 30. Ne8 Qe7 31. Nxg7 Kxg7 32. hxg5 hxg5\n33. Nxg5 b5 34. Nf3 Qxe4 35. d6 Qb7 36. Qf5 Kf8 37. Qf6 Ke8 38. Ne5 Nxe5 39.\nQxe5+ Kd7 40. Qe7+ Kc6 41. Qe4+ 1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nTo find out more about JSs chess career we suggest you read his autobiography : \nSpeelman\, Jon (1997). Jon Speelman’s Best Games. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 240 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-6477-1. \nwhich contains many heavily annotated games. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lone Pine op Louis D. Statham Masters”]\n[Site “Lone Pine”]\n[Date “1978.04.02”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Speelman\, Jonathan Simon”]\n[Black “Larsen\, Bent”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A53”]\n[WhiteElo “2410”]\n[BlackElo “2620”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “1978.04.02”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “USA”]\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\,71\,39\,37\,77\,29\,41\,43\,51\,47\,59\,35\,48\,50\,43\,36\,36\,34\,41\,20\,29\,36\,31\,9\,\n26\,24\,38\,27\,62\,51\,64\,51\,56\,51\,53\,67\,54\,50\,67\,74\,79\,71\,109\,97\,159\,167\,162\,179\,\n192\,196\,226\,291\,299\,232\,239\,239\,307\,292\,304\,195\,254\,254\,412\,285\,303\,313\,329\,\n377\,395\,365\,541\,541\,462\,619]} 1. e4 c6 2. c4 e5 3. Nf3 d6 (3… Nf6 4. Nc3 Bb4\n$13 (4… Qa5 $6)) 4. d4 Bg4 5. Be2 (5. dxe5 $6 Bxf3 6. Qxf3 dxe5 {><d4}) 5… Nd7 6. Nc3 Be7 7. O-O Ngf6 {[#] Oldindian} 8. Rb1 $146 {/\b4} (8. Be3) ({ Relevant:} 8. Be3 O-O 9. d5 Qc7 10. h3 Bxf3 11. Bxf3 cxd5 12. cxd5 Rfc8 13. Rc1 Qb8 14. Qe2 Bd8 15. Nb5 Rxc1 16. Rxc1 a6 17. Ba7 Rxa7 18. Nxa7 Qxa7 19. Rc8 Qb6 20. Qe3 Nf8 21. Qxb6 Bxb6 22. Rb8 Bd4 23. Rxb7 g5 24. b4 h5 25. g4 Ng6 26. gxh5 Nh4 27. Bh1 Nxh5 28. a4 Nf4 29. Kh2 Bxf2 30. b5 axb5 31. axb5 Ne2 32. Bg2 Nf4 33. Bh1 Ne2 34. Bg2 Nf4 {1/2-1/2 (34) Balashov\,Y (2545)-Malich\,B (2530) Halle/ Saale 1976}) 8… O-O 9. Re1 Re8 10. Be3 {/\Nd2} Bh5 {Black intends to avoid the exchange of bishops after 11.Nd2. /\11…Ng4} 11. Nd2 Bg6 (11… Bxe2 12. Qxe2 $14) 12. d5 $1 (12. f4 exf4 13. Bxf4 Bf8 14. Bf3 c5 $13) 12… a6 13. b4 h5 $5 14. a4 {><g4} h4 $2 15. h3 Qc7 16. Rb3 {To defend Nc3.} a5 $6 (16… Rab8\n) 17. b5 cxd5 $6 (17… c5 18. Bg5 Nh7 $2 19. Bxe7 Rxe7 20. Nf3 $18) (17…\ncxb5) (17… Nc5 $5) 18. Nxd5 $1 Nxd5 19. cxd5 Rec8 $2 20. Bg4 $1 {Larsen had\nmissed this move.} Rf8 (20… Nc5 $2 21. Bxc5 Qxc5 22. Bxc8 $18) 21. Qc1 Nc5 (\n21… Rac8 $2 22. Qxc7 $1 Rxc7 23. b6 $18) 22. Bxc5 dxc5 23. b6 (23. Nc4 b6)\n23… Qd8 24. Nc4 Bxe4 $6 25. Rxe4 f5 26. Bxf5 $1 (26. d6 $1 Bg5 27. Qd1 fxe4\n28. Qd5+ Kh8 29. Nxe5 $1 $18 {Seirawan}) 26… Rxf5 27. d6 Bf6 28. Qd1 $1 {\nGreat play on the white squares.} Qd7 29. Qg4 Rd8 (29… Qxa4 30. Ra3 Qd7 31.\nNe3 $18) 30. Rb5 Qc8 31. Rxa5 Rf4 32. Qxc8 Rxc8 33. Rxf4 exf4 34. Ra7 Re8 (\n34… Rb8 35. a5 {/\36.Rb7 Rb7 37.a6}) 35. Rxb7 Kh7 {/\Re1+\,Bd4-f2-g3.} 36. Re7\n$1 (36. Re7 Bxe7 37. dxe7 Rxe7 38. a5 $18 {White queens.}) 1-0 \n[/pgn] \n  \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“British Champion in 1978\, Speelman played at Mexico City later that year in the English team that won (ahead of the USSR) the world’s first youth teams (under-26) championship. \n(from l-r) Jonathan Kinlay\, Shaun Taulbut\, Jonathan Speelman\, David Goodman and Jonathan Mestel accepting 1st prize at the 1978 World U26 Student Olympiad in Mexico City \nTwo good performances in 1980\, as score of +5=5-3 to share fourth place in the category 13 London tournament and a second place (+6=7) at Maribor\, brought him the title of International Grandmaster (1980). His subsequent achievements include : Dortmund 1981\, first (+5=6) equal with Ftacnik and Kuzmin; Hastings 1981-2\, second equal with Smyslov after Kupreichik; and London 1982\, category 14\, +2=10-1 to share fourth place. An excellent analyst\, Speelman has written several books\, among them Best Chess Games 1970-1980 (1982).” \nGM Jonathan Speelman \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-72 Championship”]\n[Site “Edinburgh”]\n[Date “1985.08.02”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Black “Speelman\, Jonathan S”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2525”]\n[BlackElo “2530”]\n[Annotator “Keene/Speelman”]\n[PlyCount “60”]\n[EventDate “1985.07.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “SCO”]\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\,60\,22\,14\,73\,68\,74\,74\,57\,50\,50\,-12\,38\,38\,31\,35\,31\,9\,25\,26\,26\,-10\,22\,\n-70\,-47\,-62\,-61\,-78\,-73\,-73\,-82\,-83\,-88\,-89\,-82\,-99\,-118\,-138\,-45\,-81\,-45\,-45\,\n-45\,-90\,-118\,-114\,-90\,-139\,-117\,-234\,-606\,-606\,-675\,-802\,-785\,-944\,-927\,-921\,\n-964\,-910\,-955\,-955\,-977]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h5 5. c4 dxc4 6.\nBxc4 e6 7. Nc3 Nd7 8. Nge2 $5 Be7 9. Ng3 Bg6 10. Nce4 (10. Be2 $5) 10… Nh6 $1\n11. Ng5 $6 (11. Bg5 Bxe4 12. Nxe4 Nf5) (11. Be3 $5) 11… Qa5+ $15 12. Bd2 (12.\nKf1 O-O-O {d4\,e5}) 12… Bb4 13. N3e4 Bxe4 14. Nxe4 Nf5 15. Bc3 $5 Bxc3+ $1 (\n15… Nb6 16. Bb3 Nd5 17. Bxd5 cxd5 18. Qd2 $1 Bxc3 19. Nxc3 $15) 16. bxc3 Rd8\n$1 $17 {( Nxe5)} 17. Bd3 Nxd4 18. Nd6+ Ke7 19. O-O Nf3+ $3 20. gxf3 (20. Qxf3\nNxe5 21. Nf5+ $1 exf5 22. Rfe1 Rhe8 $17) 20… Nxe5 21. Nxb7 Qc7 $5 (21… Qxc3\n$17) 22. Nxd8 (22. Nc5 Rd5 23. f4 Nxd3 24. Nxd3 Rhd8) 22… Rxd8 23. f4 Rxd3\n24. Qxh5 Nf3+ 25. Kg2 Qxf4 26. Rfd1 (26. Rh1 Qe4 27. Kf1 (27. Qc5+ Kf6) 27…\nRd5 28. Qh8 Rd2 $1) 26… Rxc3 $1 27. Rab1 Qh2+ 28. Kf1 Qh3+ 29. Ke2 Rc2+ 30.\nKe3 Nxh4+ 0-1[/pgn] \nFrom Wikipedia :\nA winner of the British Chess Championship in 1978\, 1985 and 1986\, Speelman has been a regular member of the English team for the Chess Olympiad\, an international biennial chess tournament organised by FIDE\, the World Chess Federation. \nIn 1989\, he beat Kasparov in a televised speed tournament\, and then went on to win the event. \nIn the April 2007 FIDE list\, Speelman had an Elo rating of 2518\, making him England’s twelfth-highest-rated active player. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxIHnnC0UJQ[/embedyt] \nHe qualified for two Candidates Tournaments: \nIn the 1989–1990 cycle\, Speelman qualified by placing third in the 1987 interzonal tournament held in Subotica\, Yugoslavia. After beating Yasser Seirawan in his first round 4–1\, and Nigel Short in the second round 3½–1½\, he lost to Jan Timman at the semi-final stage 4½–3½.\nIn the following 1990–93 championship cycle\, he lost 5½–4½ in the first round to Short\, the eventual challenger for Garry Kasparov’s crown.\nSpeelman’s highest ranking in the FIDE Elo rating list was fourth in the world\, in January 1989. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Clare Benedict Cup-23”]\n[Site “Cleveland”]\n[Date “1979.07.18”]\n[Round “5.2”]\n[White “Speelman\, Jonathan Simon”]\n[Black “Van Dop\, Arend J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B96”]\n[WhiteElo “2470”]\n[BlackElo “2300”]\n[Annotator “Murray Chandler”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1979.07.14”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\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 “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Netherlands”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “NED”] \n{[%evp 0\,75\,37\,17\,47\,46\,80\,54\,58\,28\,28\,28\,55\,55\,68\,26\,46\,51\,10\,9\,24\,10\,8\,6\,6\,\n-10\,9\,8\,-84\,-60\,-51\,-72\,-72\,-220\,-7\,-7\,141\,144\,250\,329\,329\,261\,261\,233\,334\,334\,\n288\,237\,241\,218\,211\,242\,234\,203\,215\,175\,191\,175\,185\,198\,317\,272\,279\,284\,295\,\n295\,299\,273\,266\,276\,280\,280\,276\,328\,308\,355\,405\,412]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4\ncxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 {Sicilian Najdorf} 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 b5 $5 {MC: An\nidea of Polugaevsky The variations It leads to insanely sharp positions and\nlooks rather unsound\, but no one has refuted it definatively.} (7… Be7 8. Qf3\n({Whereas} 8. e5 $6 {here} dxe5 9. fxe5 Nfd7 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 $15 {does not\nachieve very much for White.}) 8… Qc7 9. O-O-O Nbd7 10. g4 b5 11. Bxf6 Nxf6\n12. g5 Nd7 13. f5 Bxg5+ 14. Kb1 Ne5 15. Qh5 Qd8 16. Nxe6 Bxe6 17. fxe6 g6 18.\nexf7+ Kxf7 {is the main line in 2020.}) 8. e5 {is critical} dxe5 9. fxe5 Qc7 {\n[%cal Gc7e5]} 10. Qe2 (10. exf6 Qe5+ {regains the piece.}) 10… Nfd7 11. O-O-O\nBb7 12. Qg4 ({An alternative here is} 12. Nxe6 fxe6 13. Qh5+ g6 14. Qg4 Nc5 15.\nBxb5+ Nc6 (15… axb5 16. Nxb5 {is too dangerous for Black to contemplate.} Qc8\n17. b4 Nc6 $13) 16. Ne4 $5 axb5 (16… Nxe4 17. Qxe6+ Be7 18. Bxe7 Qxe7 19.\nBxc6+ $18) 17. Nf6+ Kf7 18. Rhf1 Kg7 19. Rd7+ Nxd7 20. Nh5+ gxh5 21. Bf6+ {\nwith a strong attack. Fritz 17 asseses it as = !}) 12… Qxe5 {[#]} 13. Bxb5 {\nA regulation sacrifice to clear lines for an attack against Black’s uncastled\nking.} axb5 14. Rhe1 h5 15. Qh4 Qc5 16. Qg3 {[#]} Be7 {A critical moment.} ({\nAfter the game} 16… h4 {was suggested as an improvement\, but there are\npitfalls here too.} {One possible line is} 17. Bxh4 g5 18. Bxg5 Qxg5+ 19. Qxg5\nBh6 20. Nxe6 fxe6 (20… Bxg5+ 21. Nxg5+ {favours white.}) 21. Rxe6+ Kf7 22.\nRe7+ Kf8 23. Rf1+ {and white wins.}) 17. Bxe7 Qxe7 18. Nf5 {Now Black has to\ngive up his queen. Although he retains more than a nominal material equivalent\,\nthe mobility of White’s queen soon reduces his position to a shambles.} exf5\n19. Rxe7+ Kxe7 20. Qd6+ Kd8 21. Nxb5 $18 Bxg2 22. Qg3 Bc6 23. Qxg7 Re8 24. Qg5+\nf6 25. Qxf6+ Re7 26. Nc7 Kxc7 27. Qxe7 Rxa2 28. Rd4 Ra1+ 29. Kd2 Rf1 30. Qd6+\nKb7 31. Rb4+ Kc8 32. Rc4 Kd8 33. Rxc6 Nxc6 34. Qxc6 Rf2+ 35. Kc3 Rxh2 36. Qf3\nh4 37. Qxf5 h3 38. Qg5+ Kc8 39. Qg8+ Kb7 40. Qg3 Rg2 41. Qxh3 {and Black\nresigned.} 1-0[/pgn] \nJonathan Speelman in happy mood \nWriting\nHe has written a number of books on chess\, including several on the endgame\, among them Analysing the Endgame (1981)\, Endgame Preparation (1981) and Batsford Chess Endings (co-author\, 1993). \nAmong his other books are Best Games 1970–1980 (1982)\, an analysis of nearly fifty of the best games by top players from that decade\, and Jon Speelman’s Best Games (1997). Today he is primarily a chess journalist and commentator\, being the chess correspondent for The Observer and The Independent and sometimes providing commentary for games on the Internet Chess Club. \nJonathan Speelman and Daniel King share headphones at the 2013 FIDE Candidates event in London \nTilburg 1978\, Tony Miles & Jonathan Speelman\, Master Chess Publications\, 1978 \nRiga Interzonal 1979\, AJ Miles & J Speelman\, Batsford\, 1979\, ISBN 0 7134 3429 5 \nSpeelman\, Jonathan (1981). Analysing the Endgame. Batsford (London\, England). 142 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-1909-2. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan (1981). Analysing the Endgame. Batsford (London\, England). 142 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-1909-2. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan (1981). Endgame Preparation. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 177 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-4000-3. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan (1981). Endgame Preparation. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 177 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-4000-3. \nSpeelman\, Jon (1982). Best Chess Games\, 1970-80. Allen & Unwin (London\, England; Boston\, Massachusetts). 328 pages. ISBN 978-0-04-794015-6. \nSpeelman\, Jon (1982). Best Chess Games\, 1970-80. Allen & Unwin (London\, England; Boston\, Massachusetts). 328 pages. ISBN 978-0-04-794015-6. \nSpeelman\, Jon; Livshits\, August (1988). Test Your Endgame Ability. BT Batsford (London\, England). 201 pages. ISBN 0-7134-5567-5 \nSpeelman\, Jon; Livshits\, August (1988). Test Your Endgame Ability. BT Batsford (London\, England). 201 pages. ISBN 0-7134-5567-5 \nSpeelman\, Jon (1992). New Ideas in the Caro-Kann Defence. BT Batsford (London\, England). 155 pages. ISBN 0-7134-6915-3. \nSpeelman\, Jon (1992). New Ideas in the Caro-Kann Defence. BT Batsford (London\, England). 155 pages. ISBN 0-7134-6915-3. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan; Tisdall\, Jon; Wade\, Bob. (1993). Batsford Chess Endings. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 448 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-4420-9. \nSpeelman\, Jonathan; Tisdall\, Jon; Wade\, Bob. (1993). Batsford Chess Endings. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 448 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-4420-9. \nSpeelman\, Jon (1997). Jon Speelman’s Best Games. B.T. Batsford (London\, England). 240 pages. ISBN 978-0-7134-6477-1. \nModern Defence. Everyman\, 2000 \nSpeelman\, Jon (2008). Jon Speelman’s Chess Puzzle Book. Gambit Publications Ltd. 143 pages. ISBN 978-1-904600-96-1. \nSpeelman\, Jon (2008). Jon Speelman’s Chess Puzzle Book. Gambit Publications Ltd. 143 pages. ISBN 978-1-904600-96-1. \nJonathan Speelman
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SUMMARY:Happy Birthday Susan Caldwell (02-x-1958)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday Susan Linda Caldwell (02-x-1958)\n\nSusan is / was a director of the Hallas Foundation Ltd. and Larkham Printers and Publishers Ltd. and is married to former Scottish international Les SF Blackstock.\n\nSusan Caldwell 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.\n\nA few (11) of her games may be found on chessgames.com\n\nSusan Caldwell\, from the CentYMCA Story by Jimmy Adams\n\nBeginners Guide to Playing Chess\n\nBeginners Guide to Playing Chess
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM David Norwood (03-x-1968)
DESCRIPTION:We wish David Norwood all the best on his birthday\, \nDavid Robert Norwood was born in Farnworth\, Bolton\, Greater Manchester on October 3rd 1968 to an electrician. His mother’s maiden name was Mellor. \nMary Hopkin was still UK number one with “Those were the days” and would remain at number one for six weeks in total. \nDavid Norwood \nDavid read history at Keeble College\, Oxford before pursuing a successful business career (see below). \nDavid became an International Master in 1985 and a Grandmaster in 1989 and his peak FIDE rating (Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2545 in July 1994 at the age of 26. \nGM David Norwood \nDavid has a score of +2 against Viswanathan Anand\, +1 against Neil McDonald\, +2 against Keith Arkell and +2 against Mark Hebden. \nPreparing for David would have been fairly straightforward as he played almost the same opening with white and black playing 1.g3 (and less frequently\, 1.d4) and the Modern Defence although his did flick the Modern Benoni into the mix every now and then. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM8wGSBHi2c[/embedyt] \nAs well as moving to Oxford for University he was =1 at the 1988 (fifth) NatWest Young Masters with 6/9 (along with Adams and Kudrin) securing a GM norm : \nCrosstable for 1988 NatWest Young Masters \nIM David Norwood at the 1988 NatWest Young Masters. Photo by Tom Elek \nIn 1990 David became the first Grandmaster to play in the annual Varsity match. This was the 108th such encounter and David played on board one against Jeremy P Sharp of Downing College\, Cambridge. David first played in the 107th match in 1989 on board two below James Howell. David played one more time in 1991 scoring 2/3 from his three appearences. \nIM David Norwood at 1991 Varsity Match. Henry Gerald Mutkin (organiser and sponsor) is seated. \nAccording to FIDE David is registered with Andorra which appropriately (for DN) has Catalan as its national language. David has yet to win the Andorran Championship. He first played in the Andorran Open in 2011 and came close to winning in 2013 with 7/9. Since 2017 David has not played in a FIDE rated event. \nA powerful Unisys personal computer being present to Bolton-born GM David Norwood by Alva Rodger (centre)\, general manager of Unisys banking district ad Dr Brian Bailey\, managing director of Infolink\, a credit referencing agency. \n[pgn]\n[Event “London NWYM”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1988.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Norwood\, David”]\n[Black “Kudrin\, Sergey”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A46”]\n[WhiteElo “2470”]\n[BlackElo “2545”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “1988.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “10”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 009”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1989.04.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1989.04.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,71\,21\,37\,21\,38\,34\,18\,55\,44\,39\,35\,22\,28\,98\,37\,49\,47\,20\,7\,0\,0\,32\,39\,55\,\n60\,65\,46\,41\,49\,33\,43\,31\,54\,57\,53\,59\,51\,59\,71\,79\,83\,108\,90\,97\,74\,78\,70\,105\,127\,\n127\,124\,133\,135\,127\,133\,164\,127\,127\,127\,156\,227\,245\,173\,192\,177\,177\,82\,346\,346\,\n29991\,29992\,29993\,29994]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 b5 {This is more common\nthan you might imagine. There are 3500+ games with 3…b5 in MegaBase 2020.} 4.\nBg2 Bb7 5. O-O Be7 (5… c5) 6. Bg5 (6. a4) 6… c5 7. c3 Na6 8. Na3 Qb6 9. c4\nb4 10. Nb5 cxd4 11. Qxd4 $146 {[#]} (11. a4 {Pantaleev – Malakhatko\, 2009.})\n11… Qxd4 12. Nfxd4 Bxg2 13. Kxg2 O-O 14. Rfd1 Rfc8 15. Rac1 Nc5 16. Bf4 {\nPreparing Nd6 should black play a6.} a6 17. Nd6 Bxd6 18. Bxd6 Nfe4 19. Nb3 $1 {\n[#] with the pawn on g3 the dark squared bishop is perhaps less valuable.} Nxd6\n(19… Na4 $6 20. Bxb4 Nxb2 21. Rd4 $16) 20. Rxd6 $16 Na4 (20… Ra7) 21. Rxd7\nNxb2 22. c5 Na4 23. c6 Nc3 24. Na5 Nxa2 25. Rc4 $18 g6 26. c7 Kg7 27. Nb3 g5\n28. Nc5 (28. Nd4) 28… Kg6 29. Nd3 b3 30. Ne5+ Kf6 31. f4 (31. Rc5) 31… gxf4\n32. gxf4 (32. Nxf7 $1 {is crushing} Kg7 33. Nd8+ Kf6 34. Rxf4+ Kg6 35. Nxe6 {\nand its mate in 5.}) 32… Kg7 33. Rxf7+ Kg8 (33… Kh8) 34. f5 $1 b2 35. Rg4+\nKh8 36. Rgg7 {and Black resigned} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDavid is an active director of Genomics Plc\,  and 4D Pharma Plc. \nDavid Norwood \nAs a writer David wrote a chess column for The Daily Telegraph and has written : \nThe Usbourne Book of Chess Puzzles\, David Norwood\, 1992 \nWinning with the Modern\, David Norwood\, B.T. Batsford Ltd.\, London\, 1994 \nGrandmaster Meets Chess Amateur\, Steve David and David Norwood\, 1995 \nThe Usbourne Guide to Advanced Chess\, David Norwood\, 1995 \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“David Robert Norwood (born 3 October 1968) is an English businessman who runs an investment fund that finances spin-off companies from Oxford University science departments. He is also a chess grandmaster\, chess writer\, former captain of the English chess team and now represents Andorra at chess.” \n“The son of an electrician\, Norwood graduated with a history degree from Keble College\, Oxford University in 1988 before joining city investment bank Banker’s Trust in 1991.” \nPeter Wells\, Gary Lane\, John Emms and David Norwood \n“Norwood cofounded Oxford Sciences Innovation\, a £600m investment company dedicated to funding deep science from Oxford University\, and was its CEO from 2015 to 2019. Formerly he was founder of IP Group plc\, a fund that invested in spinoffs from Oxford University’s Chemistry department\, in exchange for 50% of the revenues from the licensing of the department’s intellectual property. \nIn 2017\, Norwood donated £1.9M to Keble College’s future hub for innovation at Oxford University.” \nFrom The Times of London\, November 20th\, 2008 by Ian King\, Business Editor : \n“Entrepreneur David Norwood swaps City for sun\, sea and writing \nDavid Norwood resigned all his directorships yesterday and is heading to a tiny island in the Bahamas\, where he will write the novel \nOne of the City’s best-known entrepreneurs resigned all his directorships yesterday – to move to a desert island\, where he plans to become a writer. \nIM David Norwood and IM Aldo Haik (France) taking a drink at the bar during Cappelle-Le-Grande\, 1988. Photograph by Caroline Winkler \nDavid Norwood\, a former chief executive of the stockbrokers Evolution and Beeson Gregory\, resigned from the boards of a number of companies\, including Oxford Advanced Surfaces\, ORA Capital\, Oxeco and Plus-listed Green Chemicals. He has also given up his role as special projects director at IP Group\, the intellectual property commercialisation company\, which he started eight years ago and floated on AIM in 2003. Shares of all five companies fell after the news was released.” \nGM David Norwood
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-robert-norwood/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201005
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201006
DTSTAMP:20201005T092720Z
CREATED:20191005T100349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201005T092720Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Andrew Greet (05-x-1979)
DESCRIPTION:IM Andrew Greet \nBCN wishes IM Andrew Greet best wishes on his birthday. \nAndrew Nicholas Greet was born on Friday\, October 5th\, 1979 in the cathedral city of Truro\, Cornwall and has resided in St. Austell\, Cornwall. “Message in a Bottle” by The Police held the number one spot in the UK singles chart (three weeks in total). \nAndrew attended Truro School leaving in 1998. \nAndrew became a FIDE Master in 2004 and an International Master in 2005. His peak rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2456 in April 2016 at the age of 37. \nAndrew was British Under-18 Champion in 1996 at the age of 16 sharing the title with Oliver Rosten & Rohan Churm. In 1998 Andrew won the title outright. \nFrom 1998 – 2001 had a break from chess to study Psychology at The University of Kent in Canterbury. \nIn 2005 he scored a record breaking 11/11 in the Four Nations League playing for Hillsmark Kingfisher. By now\, Andrew had moved to Glasgow and had changed his FIDE federation from England to Scotland. \nAndrew was joint winner (with Simon Knott) of the Southend Open in 2006. \nIn April 2009 Andrew joined Quality Chess in Sales and Marketing which led to the position of editor. \nIn 2010 Andrew became Scottish Champion outright. \nIn 2017 won outright the Dundee grandmaster tournament : here is the story of the tournament. \nIn 2018 he played board one for Scotland in the 43rd Olympiad in Batumi. \nAndrew is a successful martial artist specialising in a a discipline known as Brazilian Jiujitsu\, which is a form of grappling. \nHere is an article (by Dave Regis) concerning a simultaneous display at Exeter Chess Club in 2010 \nFrom britishchess.co.uk : \n“He has a very friendly personality which works well when coaching\, and he has coached England juniors on foreign trips.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Wellington College op 6th”]\n[Site “Crowthorne”]\n[Date “2005.01.29”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Cox\, John J”]\n[Black “Greet\, Andrew N”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E25”]\n[WhiteElo “2311”]\n[BlackElo “2389”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[EventDate “2005.01.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\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\,48\,16\,18\,18\,-23\,-3\,4\,22\,-49\,-29\,-30\,-13\,-22\,-32\,-14\,33\,-11\,50\,61\,53\,\n43\,49\,64\,64\,32\,85\,61\,91\,34\,46\,50\,50\,-93\,-104\,-202\,-191\,-191\,-191\,-204\,-241\,\n-411\,-559\,-557\,-570\,-552\,-635\,-671\,-680\,-687\,-724]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3\nBb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. dxc5 Qa5 9. e4 Ne7 10. Be3\nO-O 11. Qb3 Qc7 12. Nh3 e5 13. Nf2 Nec6 14. Nd3 (14. Rb1) 14… Na5 15. Qc2\n$146 (15. Qd5) 15… Be6 $14 {[#]} 16. c4 $2 (16. Nb4) 16… Nxc4 17. Bf2 Qa5+\n18. Ke2 Nc6 $19 19. g3 Rfd8 20. Bh3 Rxd3 $1 21. Qxd3 Rd8 22. Bxe6 Rxd3 23. Kxd3\nQd2+ 24. Kxc4 Qc2+ {and White resigned} 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0506 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “2005.10.23”]\n[Round “2.1”]\n[White “Greet\, Andrew N”]\n[Black “Rowson\, Jonathan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E11”]\n[WhiteElo “2428”]\n[BlackElo “2599”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “2005.10.22”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2007”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2006.11.23”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2006.11.23”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Hilsmark Kingfisher”]\n[BlackTeam “Guildford”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,4\,34\,34\,56\,30\,30\,18\,27\,41\,33\,44\,30\,19\,46\,34\,30\,28\,\n49\,28\,42\,44\,55\,28\,24\,11\,11\,20\,21\,17\,41\,34\,26\,44\,50\,34\,39\,35\,95\,86\,79\,63\,63\,27\,\n50\,58\,85\,90\,80\,81\,112\,84\,102\,105\,140\,93\,213\,100\,124\,68\,126\,167\,179\,184\,184\,188\,\n189\,209\,304\,301\,275\,248\,248\,246\,785\,802\,29991\,29992]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4\nBb4+ 4. Bd2 Qe7 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Bxd2+ 7. Nbxd2 d6 8. O-O a5 9. e4 e5 10. d5\nNb8 11. Ne1 h5 12. h4 Bg4 13. f3 Bd7 14. Qb3 b6 15. Qe3 Na6 16. b3 Nc5 17. Rc1\nc6 18. a3 cxd5 19. cxd5 Bb5 20. Rf2 O-O 21. Bf1 Qd7 22. b4 axb4 23. axb4 Na4\n24. Kh2 Bxf1 25. Nxf1 Nh7 26. Qd3 f5 27. exf5 Rxf5 28. Rfc2 Rf7 29. Ne3 b5 30.\nQg6 Nb6 31. Rc6 Ra2+ 32. N1g2 Rf6 33. Qxh5 e4 34. f4 Nc4 35. Nxc4 bxc4 36.\nR1xc4 Qa7 37. Qe8+ Rf8 38. Qxe4 Nf6 39. Qe6+ Kh8 40. Rc8 Qf2 41. Rxf8+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAndrew has written a number of publications as follows : \nPlay the Ruy Lopez\, Andrew Greet\, Everyman\, 2007 \nDangerous Weapons 1.e4 e5\, Andrew Greet\, John Emms & Glenn Flear\, Everyman\, 2008 \nStarting Out : The Accelerated Dragon\, Andrew Greet\, Everyman\, 2008 \nBeating Unusual Chess Defences to 1.e4\, Andrew Greet\, Everyman\, 2011 \nPlay the Queen’s Indian\, Everyman\, Andrew Greet \nIM Andrew Greet
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-andrew-n-greet/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201009
DTSTAMP:20201008T174549Z
CREATED:20191008T000152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T174549Z
UID:1487-1602115200-1602201599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Michael Hennigan (08-x-1970)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM Michael Hennigan. \nMichael Thomas Hennigan was born on October 8th\, 1970 in Hammersmith\, London. His mother’s name was Donnelly. \nMichael attended the City of London School. \nMichael became World Under-18 Youth Champion in 1988 in Aguadilla (Puerto Rico).  \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master title in 1991 and in the same year was British Under-21 Champion at Eastbourne and was British Champion in 1993 in Dundee beating Dharshan Kumaran in the play-off.  \nIn 1995 he was 1st= in the Arnold Cup in Gausdal with Igor Rausis \nHis peak FIDE rating (according to Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2465 in July 1994 at the age of 24.  \nHe played for North West Eagles in the Four Nations Chess League. \nMichael married WIM Rita Zimmersmann and settled in London. Rita subsequently became Rita Atkins. \nMichael stopped playing in 2010 but has recently in 2020 started playing online chess on the chess.com platform. \nMichael is a Senior Director with FTI Consulting \nWith the white pieces Michael used to be an e4 player but in 2020 has switched to 1.g3 to get back into the swing of things. \nAs the second player he plays the Sicilian Four Knights and the King’s Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch”]\n[Site “Dundee”]\n[Date “1993.??.??”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Hennigan\, Michael”]\n[Black “Ward\, Christopher”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A04”]\n[WhiteElo “2415”]\n[BlackElo “2460”]\n[Annotator “Bulletin”]\n[PlyCount “67”]\n[EventDate “1993.08.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “SCO”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 038”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1994.02.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1994.02.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,67\,19\,29\,53\,4\,49\,19\,15\,24\,18\,24\,25\,34\,34\,53\,32\,24\,10\,-25\,-32\,-32\,-20\,\n-18\,-26\,-22\,-15\,-18\,-7\,-19\,5\,11\,21\,3\,17\,-4\,1\,-16\,13\,-22\,28\,26\,17\,134\,134\,134\,\n140\,142\,185\,196\,181\,170\,149\,152\,219\,203\,203\,203\,187\,195\,247\,236\,244\,265\,234\,\n240\,249\,111\,840\,919]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. O-O Nc6 5. e4 e6 6. c3\nNge7 (6… d5 7. exd5 exd5 8. Re1+ Nge7 9. d4 cxd4 10. Bg5 $5 dxc3 11. Nxc3 O-O\n) 7. d4 cxd4 8. cxd4 d5 9. e5 f6 10. Re1 fxe5 11. dxe5 O-O 12. Bf4 (12. Nc3 $5\nd4 13. Ne4 Nxe5 14. Nxd4 Qxd4 15. Qxd4 Nf3+ 16. Bxf3 Bxd4 17. Kg2 e5 $13) 12…\nh6 (12… Rxf4 13. gxf4 Qf8 14. Qd2 Bh6 15. Ng5 Nf5 16. Nc3 $14) 13. h4 Bd7 (\n13… Rxf4 14. gxf4 Nf5 15. h5 $1 gxh5 (15… g5 16. Bh3 $16) 16. Bh3 $16) 14.\nQd2 Nf5 15. Nc3 Qe7 16. Rad1 Kh7 17. Kh2 $1 Rac8 18. Bf1 Qb4 19.\nBd3 h5 (19… Na5 20. Nxd5 $1 Qxd2 21. Bxd2 $18) 20. Bb1 Nce7 $2 (20… a5) 21.\nNxd5 $3 Qxd2 22. Nf6+ $1 Bxf6 23. Rxd2 Bc6 24. exf6 Bxf3 25. fxe7 Rfe8 26. Bg5\nKg7 (26… Bd5 27. f3 $1 Bxf3 (27… Nxe7 28. Bxe7 Rxe7 29. Rxd5) 28. Be4 (28.\nRxe6 $4 Rc1) 28… Bxe4 29. Rxe4 Kg7 30. Rxe6 Kf7 31. Rf6+ Kg7 32. Rd8 Nxe7 33.\nRd7 $18) 27. Be4 Bxe4 28. Rxe4 Kf7 29. Kg2 Rc5 (29… Rc7 30. Rd8) 30. Rd7 Rb5\n31. b3 e5 32. Rc4 Nd4 33. Rcc7 Ra5 34. Rd8 1-0 \n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpDgVbMdyHI[/embedyt] \nStuart Conquest vs Michael Hennigan at 4NCL\,\, photo by Meri Grigoryan
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-michael-thomas-hennigan/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201019
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201020
DTSTAMP:20260817T135719Z
CREATED:20191013T173648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T135719Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Simon Knott (19-X-1958)
DESCRIPTION:We offer best wishes to IM Simon John Bradley Knott on his birthday \nSimon was born on Sunday\, October 19th 1958 in Lambeth\, London to Simon Harold John Arthur Knott and Josephine Whowell. \nSimon attended Trinity College\, Cambridge. \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master in 2001. According to Felice and Megabase 2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2401 in October 2002 at the age of 43. \nSimon was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1995-96 and 2001-02 seasons. \nSimon plays for Hertford and Barbican in the Four Nations Chess League. \nAs white Simon plays the Queen’s Gambit via a 1.Nf3 or 1.c4 move order. There are zero 1.e4 games! \nAs the second player he plays the French Winawer and the Grünfeld Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch”]\n[Site “Scarborough”]\n[Date “2004.08.02”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Knott\, Simon JB”]\n[Black “Adams\, David M”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D19”]\n[WhiteElo “2359”]\n[BlackElo “2180”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “45”]\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{[%evp 0\,45\,19\,29\,23\,27\,34\,-23\,30\,10\,4\,-9\,-23\,4\,3\,6\,19\,26\,32\,3\,22\,25\,9\,8\,27\,21\,\n17\,25\,24\,7\,64\,72\,72\,67\,47\,31\,99\,95\,81\,101\,93\,174\,218\,210\,235\,299\,295\,297]} 1.\nNf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. e3 e6 7. Bxc4 Bb4 8. O-O O-O\n9. Qe2 Bg6 10. Ne5 Nbd7 11. Nxg6 hxg6 12. Rd1 Qc7 (12… Qa5 $142) 13. e4 e5\n14. d5 cxd5 (14… Rac8) 15. Nxd5 Nxd5 16. Bxd5 Nf6 17. Bg5 Qb6 $2 18. Be3 Bc5\n19. a5 $1 Qb4 20. Bd2 Qxb2 21. Rdb1 Qc2 22. Rc1 Qb2 23. Ra2 $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSimon Knott (front\, keeling) \nIM Simon Knott
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-simon-john-bradley-knott/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201021
DTSTAMP:20261003T120207Z
CREATED:20190823T184412Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27-i-1872 20-x-1952)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Philip Walsingham Sergeant who passed away on Monday\, October 20th 1952.\n\nPWS was born in Kensington on Saturday\, January 27th\, 1872 to Lewis Sergeant and Emma Louisa Sergeant (née Robertson) and was baptised at All Saints Church\, Notting Hill. According to PWS’s baptism record Lewis was an author.\n\nAccording to PWS in A Century of British Chess :\n\n“When I was seven years of age – about the period\, by the way\, in which my father began to teach me Greek – he began also to initiate me into chess. Not that he designed it  as a consolatory set-off to my application to Greek; for he loved the Classics well\, though\, going up to Cambridge with  small classical exhibition\, he had turned to Mathematics\, and therein took his degree. ”\n\nAccording to the 1881 census PWS (aged 9) lived with his parents and numerous siblings : Dorothy (aged 7)\, Winifred (6)\, Hilda (5)\, Bernard (2)\, John (his grandfather aged 76) and Mary (his grandmother aged 75). They had staff\, Elizabeth Fraser and Sarah Martin. They lived at 10\, Addison Road\, North\, Kensington.\n\nAccording to “Joseph Foster. Oxford Men and Their Colleges\, 1880-1892. 2 vols. Oxford\, England: James Parker and Co\, 1893″ :\n\nPWS attended St. Paul’s School and then Trinity College\, Oxford to read Classics where he attained Honour Moderations.\n\nand here is the record from the above publication :\n\nEntry for Philip Walsingham Sergeant in Joseph Foster. Oxford Men and Their Colleges\, 1880-1892. 2 vols. Oxford\, England: James Parker and Co\, 1893\n\nWe do not know if PWS played in the Varsity matches of 1892 – 1895 : Britbase does not (yet) include player details for these matches.\n\nPWS married Minnie Boundford (born 27th February 1889) in 1909 in Hampstead and they lived at 5\, Dukes Avenue\, Chiswick where PWS was listed as an author and Minnie as someone who carried out “unpaid domestic duties”. Minnie was 17 years younger than PWS. Minnie’s father was a joiner and a carpenter.\n\nThey had two daughters Margaret (born 1910) and Kathleen (born 1911).\n\nIn October 1946 Minnie and PWS remarried. Presumably this was rather unusual in that day and age.\n\nAccording to The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 2nd edition\, 1996) by Hooper and Whyld :\n\nPWS was an English author of biographical games collections for Charousek\, Morphy and Pillsbury as well as other works of importance such as A Century of British Chess (1943) and Championship Chess (1938).\n\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (BT Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek :\n\n“A professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects. Without any pretentions to mastership\, he represented Oxford University in the years 1892 – 5 and assisted RC Griffith in preparing three editions of Modern Chess Openings.\n\nIn chess he dealt with a number of important subjects : Morphy’s Games of Chess\, London\, 1916; Charousek’s Games of Chess\, London\, 1919; Pillsbury’s Chess Career (in collaboration with WH Watts)\, London\, 1923; Championship Chess\, London\, 1938.\n\nAll these are lucidly and carefully written but suffer from the defect that\, being neither a master player nor a professional annotator\, he was not competent to deal with the annotational part of the work. Probably his best book on chess was A Century of British Chess\, London\, 1934.\n\nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXX11 (72)\, Number 11 (November)\, page 324 we have this rather brief obituary (presumably written by Brian Reilly):\n\n“We regret to have to report the death\, at the age of eighty-one of Philip W. Sergeant\, the author of A Century of British Chess\, which we imagine is in most chess libraries. He was the author of several well-known historical books – but we are only concerned here with his chess activities\, which included representing Oxford University 1892-5; helping RC Griffith with two editions of Modern Chess Openings; playing for Middlesex\, winning the chess championship of the authors’ club for several year\, and latterly as an honoured member; and occasionally obtaining the championship of the Guildford Chess Club. Our sympathy with his widow and two daughters is sincere.” \n”\n\nHe was a cousin of EG Sergeant.\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “Capablanca sim”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1913.10.13”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Capablanca\, Jose Raul”]\n[Black “Sergeant\, Philip Walsingham”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C90”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “126”]\n[EventDate “1913.10.13”]\n[EventType “simul”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Capablanca”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2002.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2002.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,126\,30\,30\,30\,29\,34\,-7\,28\,-3\,10\,9\,16\,6\,3\,1\,14\,-26\,10\,10\,19\,30\,39\,15\,79\,\n43\,75\,75\,75\,-24\,-11\,-25\,3\,-112\,-118\,-149\,-141\,-175\,-178\,-152\,-145\,-136\,-136\,\n-136\,-120\,-136\,-110\,-91\,-76\,-115\,-90\,-128\,-124\,-131\,-87\,-91\,-92\,-106\,-88\,-109\,\n-110\,-110\,-84\,-84\,-82\,-78\,-90\,-94\,-67\,-65\,-68\,-138\,-64\,-149\,-68\,-61\,-61\,-70\,\n-56\,-51\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,121\,124\,124\,124\,116\,91\,91\,91\,91\,-102\,-93\,-97\,-90\,-125\,-125\,\n-90\,139\,139\,146\,146\,146\,146\,150\,150\,171\,-526\,-311\,-380\,-380\,-408\,-408\,-408\,\n-408\,-496\,-496\,-526\,-580\,-580\,-593\,-633\,-653\,-653\,-657]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.\nBb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 Na5 9. Bc2 c5 10. d4 Qc7\n11. a4 Rb8 12. axb5 axb5 13. dxe5 dxe5 14. Nxe5 Qxe5 15. Rxa5 Ng4 16. f4 (16.\ng3 {[%cal Gc1f4]}) 16… Qc7 {[%cal Gc7a5]} 17. Ra1 (17. h3 Qxa5 18. hxg4 c4)\n17… c4 18. Rf1 Qb6+ 19. Kh1 Nf2+ $19 20. Rxf2 Qxf2 21. Nd2 Bg4 22. Qg1 Bc5\n23. Qxf2 Bxf2 24. h3 Be2 25. g4 O-O 26. Kg2 Be3 27. Nf3 Bxf3+ 28. Kxf3 Bxc1 29.\nRxc1 Rfd8 30. Ke3 b4 31. e5 bxc3 32. bxc3 Rb2 33. h4 g6 34. h5 Kg7 35. g5 Ra2\n36. Be4 Rh2 37. h6+ Kf8 $11 38. f5 Rh3+ 39. Kf4 Ke7 40. Kg4 Re3 41. Kf4 Rh3 42.\nRa1 Rxc3 $2 43. Ra7+ $18 Rd7 44. f6+ Kd8 45. Ra8+ Kc7 46. e6 fxe6 47. Ra7+ $2 (\n47. Ke5 Kb6 48. Rb8+ Ka6 49. Ra8+ Kb5 50. Kxe6 $18) 47… Kd6 $11 48. Ra6+ Kc5\n49. Ke5 Re3 50. Rxe6 Rd5+ 51. Kf4 Rxe4+ 52. Kxe4 Rd4+ 53. Ke3 $18 Rd8 54. Re7\nc3 55. Rxh7 $2 (55. Rc7+ $18) 55… Kc6 56. Ra7 c2 57. Ra6+ Kb5 58. Ra1 Rd1 59.\nRc1 Rxc1 60. Kd2 Ra1 61. Kxc2 Ra8 62. Kd3 Kc5 63. Ke4 Kd6 0-1\n\n[/pgn]\n\nFrom Wikipedia :\n\n“Philip Walsingham Sergeant (27 January 1872\, Notting Hill\, London[1] – 20 October 1952)[2] was a British professional writer on chess and popular historical subjects.[3][4] He collaborated on the fifth (1933)\, sixth (1939)\, and seventh (1946) editions of Modern Chess Openings\, an important reference work on the chess openings. He also wrote biographical game collections of Paul Morphy (Morphy’s Games of Chess (1916) and Morphy Gleanings)\, Rudolf Charousek (Charousek’s Games of Chess (1919))\, and Harry Nelson Pillsbury (Pillsbury’s Chess Career\, with W. H. Watts\, 1922)\, and other important books such as A Century of British Chess (1934) and Championship Chess (1938).”\n\nHarry Golombek writes that\, “Without any pretensions to mastership\, he represented Oxford University in the years 1892-5”.[3] Golombek considers A Century of British Chess probably Sergeant’s best chess book\, but opines that although Sergeant’s chess books are lucidly written\, they suffer from the defect that\, as a non-master\, he was not competent to deal with the annotational aspect of his work.\n\nHe was a second cousin of Edward Guthlac Sergeant.\n\nPhilip Walsingham Sergeant\n\nCharousek’s Games of Chess\n\nThe Rice Memorial Chess Tournament\, 1916\n\nPillsbury’s Chess Career\, London\, 1923\n\nA Century of British Chess\, London\, 1934\n\nAn Introduction to the Endgame at Chess
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-philip-walsingham-sergeant/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Player,Remembering,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201022
DTSTAMP:20260817T135644Z
CREATED:20191020T120956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T135644Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Adam Hunt (21-x-1980)
DESCRIPTION:We offer IM Adam Hunt best wishes on his birthday. \nAdam Ceiriog Hunt was born on Tuesday\, October 21st\, 1980 in Oxford and his mother’s maiden name was Williams. The UK Number one single was “Woman in Love” by Barbara Streisand. Adam shares his birthday with Kim Kardashian. \n(Ceiriog was the bardic name of John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–87) \nAdam attended The Cherwell School and The University of Sussex to study general biology. \nJeremy Morse\, Adam Hunt (12)\, Nick Pert (11) and Nigel Short at the Lloyds Bank Masters \nAdam became an International Master in 2001 and then a FIDE Trainer in 2016. According to Felice and Megabase 2020 his attained his peak FIDE rating of 2466 in January 2008 at the age of 28. \nAdam Hunt in 1998  Cathy Rogers \nIn 2004 Adam was living in Headington\, Oxfordshire and in 2007 he moved to Ipswich in Suffolk and was married in 2019. Recently\, Adam and his partner became parents to Henry. \nMost recently Adam has played for 4NCL Blackthorne Russia\, prior to that Bettson.com\, Midlands Monarchs and Perceptron Youth with Witney being his original team. \nHe is Director of Chess at Woodbridge School in Suffolk and is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt \nWith the white pieces is (almost exclusively) an e4 player playing the main line of Ruy Lopez (8.c3) and favouring the Fischer-Sozin against the Najdorf. \nAs the second player Adam plays the Sicilian Najdorf and a 50:50 mixture of the King’s Indian and Grünfeld Defences. \nAdam is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTZvVe5_c-w[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Livigno op-A 2nd”]\n[Site “Livigno”]\n[Date “2011.09.15”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Hunt\, Adam C”]\n[Black “Fedorchuk\, Sergey A”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B84”]\n[WhiteElo “2437”]\n[BlackElo “2635”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “2011.09.12”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ITA”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 144 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.10.28”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.10.28”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,31\,72\,69\,43\,27\,31\,44\,44\,25\,87\,93\,61\,49\,57\,39\,71\,45\,40\,21\,28\,28\,\n35\,41\,34\,30\,41\,1\,59\,12\,27\,60\,49\,49\,97\,53\,102\,101\,100\,127\,91\,95\,20\,-104\,-70\,0\,\n53\,38\,111\,22\,217\,43\,234\,169\,234\,177\,322\,471\,471\,555\,555\,306\,310\,311\,311\,330\,\n335\,275\,272\,313\,323\,341\,372\,372\,372\,373\,407\,411\,472\,475\,853\,855]} 1. e4 c5 2.\nNf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Be3 Be7 7. Be2 a6 8. Qd2 Qc7 9. a3\nb5 10. O-O-O O-O 11. f3 Bb7 12. g4 Nc6 13. g5 Nd7 14. h4 b4 15. axb4 $146 (15.\nNxc6) 15… Nxb4 16. h5 $14 Rfc8 $6 (16… Nc5) 17. Kb1 Rab8 18. Nb3 Bc6 19. g6\nhxg6 $6 20. hxg6 $16 fxg6 21. Bd4 Nf6 22. Qg5 Be8 (22… Nxc2 $1 23. Kxc2 Qb7)\n23. e5 Nfd5 24. Qg4 $1 Qd7 25. Qh3 $18 Kf7 26. exd6 (26. Qh7 $142) 26… Bf6\n27. Bxf6 Nxf6 28. Ne4 Nxc2 29. Ng5+ Kf8 30. Nxe6+ Kf7 31. Nbc5 (31. Bd3 $142)\n31… Rxc5 32. Nxc5 Qxh3 33. Rxh3 Ne3 34. Rd4 Bb5 35. Nxa6 Bxa6 36. Bxa6 g5 37.\nd7 Rd8 38. Bb5 Nf5 39. Rd3 Ke7 40. Rh2 Rb8 41. Re2+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nChess Strategy: Move by Move\, Adam Hunt\, Everyman\, 2013 \nIM Adam Hunt
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-adam-ceiriog-hunt-21-x-1980/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201029
DTSTAMP:20201027T193508Z
CREATED:20191028T103717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201027T193508Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Susan Lalic (28-x-1965)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes IM Susan Lalic Happy Birthday \nSusan Kathryn Walker was born on Thursday\, October 28th\, 1965 in Chatham\, Kent. Her mother’s maiden is / was Bacon. She has a brother\, Stephen. \nShe attended Nonsuch High School for Girls from 1977 to 1984. \nSusan married Keith Arkell in 1986 and then Bogdan Lalic in Lewes\, East Sussex in 1994 and finally Graeme Buckley in Sutton in 2001. \nWith Bogdan she had a son\, Peter D\, who is a strong player in his own right.  \nThere are ten players in MegaBase 2020 whose surname is Lalic. \nShe became a Woman’s FIDE Master in 1986\, Woman’s International Master in 1987\, Woman’s Grandmaster in 1988 and an International Master in 1996. \nSusan Walker \nAccording to Felice and Megabase 2020 Susan achieved a peak rating of 2405 in January 1997 at the age of 29. \nFrom the Praxis Bath Zonal Tournament of 1987. Susan Walker is at the rear on the left. \nSusan has played in the Four Nations Chess League for Slough\, Wood Green and Guildford and her most recent games in MegaBase 2020 are from 2012. \nKeith Arkell\, Susan Walker and Jeremy Morse at the Lloyds Bank Masters \nShe is five-time British Women’s Chess Champion: 1986\, 1990–1992\, and 1998 and has represented England in nine Olympiads. \nLK Semenova vs Susan Walker at the 1984 Women’s Olympiad \nSusan is very active is Surrey junior chess and teaches in many schools. \nIM Susan Lalic at a Surrey Megafinal \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GivfGnl_l1w[/embedyt] \nWith the White pieces Susan is almost exclusively an e4 player (preferring the Scotch Game) but curiously (and why not you might ask) she has employed The Polish Opening more than once with success. \nAs the second player she defends the Caro-Kann\, Larsen-Spassky\, Smyslov and the Classical Variations and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \nWFM Helen Milligan vs Susan Arkell \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 98th”]\n[Site “Sheffield”]\n[Date “2011.07.26”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Lalic\, Susan”]\n[Black “Hebden\, Mark”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C47”]\n[WhiteElo “2277”]\n[BlackElo “2533”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “91”]\n[EventDate “2011.07.24”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 143 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,91\,29\,33\,34\,20\,6\,24\,21\,14\,-15\,-4\,-10\,-10\,-10\,16\,5\,5\,4\,10\,7\,0\,16\,0\,3\,\n-15\,-9\,-31\,-32\,-36\,-20\,-18\,-15\,-15\,-7\,0\,11\,26\,32\,38\,64\,53\,50\,33\,29\,40\,65\,60\,24\,\n0\,30\,-27\,31\,48\,49\,0\,3\,-53\,-52\,-52\,-95\,-88\,-105\,-132\,-40\,-23\,0\,0\,122\,132\,132\,\n140\,173\,155\,165\,128\,131\,103\,110\,157\,215\,130\,231\,188\,127\,195\,212\,181\,1163\,1463\,\n29985\,29986\,29987\,29988]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4\n6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O d5 9. exd5 cxd5 10. Bg5 c6 11. Qf3 Rb8 12. Rab1\nRe8 13. a3 Bd6 14. Bxf6 Qxf6 15. Qxf6 gxf6 16. b4 Be6 17. Na4 d4 18. Nc5 Bxc5\n19. bxc5 Rbd8 20. Rb7 Rd5 21. Rxa7 Rxc5 22. Re1 Rd8 23. h3 Rc3 24. Bxh7+ Kf8\n25. g4 c5 26. Kh2 Bd5 27. a4 Kg7 28. Be4 Re8 29. Bxd5 Rxe1 30. Rxf7+ Kg6 31. h4\nRe2 32. Kg2 Rcxc2 33. Kg3 Rxf2 34. h5+ Kh6 35. Be4 f5 36. Bxc2 Rxc2 37. Rxf5 d3\n38. Rd5 c4 39. Kf4 Re2 40. Rd6+ Kg7 41. g5 Re7 42. h6+ Kh7 43. Kg4 Rc7 44. Kh5\nRc5 45. Rd7+ Kh8 46. h7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSusan Lalic and friends \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Susan Kathryn Lalic (née Walker; born 28 October 1965) is an English chess player\, holding both International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) titles. She is five-time British Women’s Chess Champion: 1986\, 1990–1992\, and 1998.[2] \nLalic has played for England nine times in Chess Olympiads\, from 1984 to 2000\, inclusive. From 1986 to 1998\, she played on the top board.[3] \nLalic was educated at Nonsuch High School for Girls from 1977 to 1984\, and has been married in the past to Keith Arkell and then to Bogdan Lalić. Currently she is married to International Master Graeme Buckley.[4][5] \nHighest rating from 1987-2012 is 2356(within 133 games)[6]” \nSusan Lalic and friends\, rear\, second from left \nYour Chess Questions Answered by Susan Lalic\,\, 1999
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-susan-kathryn-lalic-28-xi-1965/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201105
DTSTAMP:20201030T104555Z
CREATED:20191104T233855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T104555Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Gary Lane (04-xi-1964)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes “down under” to IM Gary Lane on his birthday. \nTeresa Needham and Gary Lane \nGary William Lane was born this day (November 4th) in 1964 in Paignton\, Devon. \nIM Gary Lane \nGary lived in Brixham\, Devon and attended Churston Ferrers Grammar School (also in Brixham) leaving in 1983. \nGary became a FIDE Master in 1984 and an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988. According to Felice and Megabase2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2464 in July 2001 aged 37. \nIM Gary Lane \nThis was written about Gary aged 14 prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n“Churston Grammar and Paignton. Rating 173. BCF Junior squad U-14 co-champion\, 1978.” \nGary Lane and Michael Adams \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFWWwDnCKI[/embedyt] \nIn 2004 won the Australian Championship and was voted Player of the Year. According to Sharpen Your Chess Tactics Gary is a well-known trainer\, and has been involved in coaching some of England and Australia’s top junior players. \nIM Gary Lane at British Chess Championships 2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \n[pgn]\n[Event “Doeberl Cup 39th”]\n[Site “Canberra”]\n[Date “2001.04.16”]\n[Round “7.2”]\n[White “Lane\, Gary William”]\n[Black “Djuric\, Stefan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B22”]\n[WhiteElo “2434”]\n[BlackElo “2508”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “2001.04.13”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “AUS”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 082 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2001.07.03”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2001.07.03”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,38\,25\,41\,46\,53\,13\,21\,26\,27\,0\,62\,44\,63\,58\,64\,56\,54\,39\,47\,26\,40\,18\,\n21\,0\,0\,-31\,-20\,-17\,-39\,0\,0\,8\,0\,-23\,40\,41\,33\,36\,30\,14\,28\,22\,49\,57\,67\,27\,85\,85\,\n92\,25\,68\,100\,121\,186\,173\,92\,75\,48\,37\,37\,168\,458\,1748\,1773]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6\n3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 Nf6 7. Nc3 Qd8 8. Bd3 Be7 9. O-O O-O\n10. Qe2 Nc6 11. Rd1 Nb4 12. Bb1 b6 13. a3 Ba6 14. Qe5 Nbd5 15. Qg3 Nh5 16. Qh3\ng6 17. Ne5 Rc8 18. Nxd5 Qxd5 19. Bh6 Ng7 20. Ba2 Qe4 21. f3 Qe2 22. Bc4 Rxc4\n23. Rd2 Qxd2 24. Bxd2 Rxd4 25. Bc3 Bc5 26. Kh1 Rd6 27. Ng4 Rfd8 28. Re1 h5 29.\nNh6+ Kf8 30. Qh4 e5 31. Bxe5 Rd1 32. Bd6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nGary and friends at the NatWest Bank Young Masters \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Gary William Lane (born 4 November 1964) is a professional chess player and author. He became an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988. He has written over thirty books on chess\, including Find the Winning Move\, Improve Your Chess in 7 Days and Prepare to Attack. There have been translations in French\, Italian\, Portuguese and Spanish. In the 1980s the ITV documentary “To Kill a King” was screened nationwide in Great Britain.It featured a young Michael Adams and Lane. This feature is shown regularly at chess film festivals.” \nIM Gary Lane \n“After his marriage to Woman International Master Nancy Jones\, he moved to Australia\, winning the Australian Chess Championship in 2004. He won the 2005 Oceania Chess Championship and represented Oceania at the Chess World Cup 2005. \nHe has also represented Australia in the 2002\, 2004\, and 2006 Chess Olympiads.[2] In the 2004 Olympiad he helped Australia score a 2–2 draw with his former country England\, scoring a decisive win over Nigel Short.[3] He has been a chess coach for England or Australia at the World Junior and also European Junior championship for over a decade[when?].” \nGary Lane & family at the London Chess Classic\, courtesy of John Upham Photography \n“In 2012 he won the George Trundle Masters in Auckland\, New Zealand with a score of 7/9\,[4] and the NZ South Island Championships in Dunedin\, with a score of 8/9.[5] He was unbeaten in both events. \nIn 2015 at the Australian tournament the Doeberl Cup he beat Loek van Wely the reigning Dutch Champion and one of the world’s leading players. [6] He played the Closed Sicilian which he has also written about in two books. In 2016 he came =1st at George Trundle Masters in Auckland\, New Zealand with a score of 7/9\,[7] and followed this up with =1st place scoring 8/9 at the NZ South Island Championships in Canterbury.[8] He did not lose any games in the two events. At the 2nd Fiji International Open Chess Tournament Lane dominated the event winning with the perfect score of 7/7.[9] A score of 9/9 and clear first place was the result at the 1st Fiji International Rapid Open.[10] \nLane is a supporter of Torquay United F.C. [11]” \nPeter Wells\, Gary Lane\, John Emms and David Norwood \nJon Manley as editor of Kingpin Magazine wrote a spoof version of Gary’s Agony Aunt column \nGary has written almost 30 chess books : \n(1990) The C3 Sicilian: Analysis and Complete Games. The Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1-852233-18-1. \n(1990) The C3 Sicilian: Analysis and Complete Games. The Crowood Press. ISBN 978-1-852233-18-1.\, Gary Lane \nLane\, Gary (1991). The Ruy Lopez for the Tournament Player. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713468-12-0. \nLane\, Gary (1991). The Ruy Lopez for the Tournament Player. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713468-12-0. \nLane\, Gary (1992). Winning with the Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713469-72-1. \nLane\, Gary (1992). Winning with the Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713469-72-1. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Bishop’s Opening. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713471-13-7. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Bishop’s Opening. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713471-13-7. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Scotch. Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1993). Winning with the Scotch. Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Beating the French. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713473-90-2. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Beating the French. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713473-90-2. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Winning with the Fischer-Sozin Attack. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713475-80-7. \nLane\, Gary (1994). Winning with the Fischer-Sozin Attack. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713475-80-7. \nLane\, Gary (1995). Blackmar–Diemer Gambit. Batsford Chess Library / An Owl Book / Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-4230-X. \nLane\, Gary (1995). Blackmar–Diemer Gambit. Batsford Chess Library / An Owl Book / Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-4230-X. \nLane\, Gary (1996). A Guide to Attacking Chess. B.T.Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-8010-6. \nLane\, Gary (1996). A Guide to Attacking Chess. B.T.Batsford Ltd. ISBN 0-7134-8010-6. \nLane\, Gary (1997). The Grand Prix Attack: attacking lines with f4 against the Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1997). The Grand Prix Attack: attacking lines with f4 against the Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (1999). Victory in the Opening. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713484274. \nLane\, Gary (1999). Victory in the Opening. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713484274. \nLane\, Gary (2000). The Vienna Game. Everyman Chess. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2000). The Vienna Game. Everyman Chess. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Colle. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713486865. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Colle. Sterling Pub Co Inc. ISBN 9780713486865. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713486-87-2. \nLane\, Gary (2001). The Ultimate Closed Sicilian. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713486-87-2. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Ideas Behind the Modern Chess Openings: Attacking With White. Batsford. ISBN 9780713487121. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Ideas Behind the Modern Chess Openings: Attacking With White. Batsford. ISBN 9780713487121. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Find the Checkmate. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2003). Find the Checkmate. Batsford. ISBN 0-8050-2940-0. \nLane\, Gary (2004). The Bishop’s Opening Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8917-0. \nLane\, Gary (2004). The Bishop’s Opening Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8917-0. \nLane\, Gary (2004). ‘Find the Checkmate. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-713488-61-6.\nLane\, Gary (2004). Playing Chess: Step by Step. Mud Puddle Books. ISBN 978-1-594120-55-8. \nLane\, Gary (2004). Playing Chess: Step by Step. Mud Puddle Books. ISBN 978-1-594120-55-8. \nLane\, Gary (2005). Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black. Batsford. ISBN 9780713489507.\nLane\, Gary (2005). The Scotch Game Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8940-5. \nLane\, Gary (2005). The Scotch Game Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8940-5. \nLane\, Gary (2006). The Ruy Lopez Explained. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8978-2. \nLane\, Gary (2007). Improve Your chess In 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-9050-3. \nLane\, Gary (2007). Improve Your chess In 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-9050-3. \nLane\, Gary (2008). The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445770. \nLane\, Gary (2008). The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445770. \nLane\, Gary (2009). Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 9781906388287. \nLane\, Gary (2009). Sharpen Your Chess Tactics in 7 Days. Batsford. ISBN 9781906388287. \nLane\, Gary (2011). Prepare to Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857446500. \nLane\, Gary (2011). Prepare to Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857446500. \nLane\, Gary (2013). Gary Lane’s Chess Puzzle Book. e+books. ISBN 978-1-927179-14-7. \nLane\, Gary (2013). Gary Lane’s Chess Puzzle Book. e+books. ISBN 978-1-927179-14-7. \nIM Gary Lane\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-gary-lane-04-xi-1964/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201206
DTSTAMP:20201204T143723Z
CREATED:20191014T230918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201204T143723Z
UID:1524-1607126400-1607212799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Gavin Wall (05-xii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:Best Wishes to IM Gavin Wall on this birthday\, this day (December 5th) in 1968. Gavin is an Irish International Master whose peak rating (according to Chessbase) was 2413 at the age of 35. \nIM Gavin Wall \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0304 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “West Bromwich”]\n[Date “2004.03.21”]\n[Round “6.1”]\n[White “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Black “Wall\, Gavin”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[WhiteElo “2651”]\n[BlackElo “2413”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “78”]\n[EventDate “2003.10.18”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2005”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Wood Green”]\n[BlackTeam “Richmond”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,78\,30\,23\,23\,10\,65\,71\,75\,56\,61\,57\,44\,16\,13\,10\,36\,13\,13\,18\,57\,69\,80\,88\,\n89\,88\,88\,65\,95\,86\,110\,47\,60\,14\,14\,20\,-32\,-28\,-71\,-89\,-92\,-31\,-13\,-20\,0\,-13\,129\,\n0\,-22\,-21\,-51\,-122\,-127\,-113\,-105\,-224\,-237\,-494\,-494\,-497\,-495\,-533\,-494\,-591\,\n-625\,-630\,-662\,-666\,-709\,-711\,-709\,-728\,-722\,-715\,-726\,-712\,-709\,-710\,-710\,\n-710\,-716]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. Qf3 O-O 7.\nNf5 Bxf5 8. Qxf5 Nc6 9. Be3 Ne5 10. Be2 b5 11. Nxb5 g6 $6 $146 (11… Rb8) 12.\nQf4 $16 Rb8 13. Bc1 Nh5 14. Qe3 f5 15. exf5 Rxf5 $18 16. Nd4 $2 Bg5 17. Qc3 $15\nBxc1 18. Rxc1 Qg5 19. Rd1 Qxg2 20. Nxf5 Qxh1+ 21. Kd2 Qd5+ 22. Kc1 $15 Qxa2 $6\n(22… Nf4 $142) 23. Nh6+ (23. Bxh5 $18 gxf5 24. f4 $18) 23… Kf8 24. Bxh5\ngxh5 25. f4 Rb5 26. b4 Qc4 27. Qd2 $2 Ng6 (27… Nc6 $142 $19) 28. f5 Nf4 $19\n29. c3 Rd5 30. Qc2 Rxd1+ 31. Qxd1 Qxc3+ 32. Kb1 Qxb4+ 33. Ka2 Qc4+ 34. Ka1 Kg7\n35. Ng4 hxg4 36. Qxg4+ Kf7 37. Qh4 Qc1+ 38. Ka2 Qc2+ 39. Ka3 Qxf5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Gavin Wall
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-gavin-wall/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201106
DTSTAMP:20201105T110737Z
CREATED:20201105T001005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201105T110737Z
UID:1709-1604534400-1604620799@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Philip Morris (05-xi-1957)
DESCRIPTION:We wish IM Philip J Morris all the best on his birthday\, this day (November 5th) in 1967. \nPhil plays regularly for Beckenham & Charlton Chess Club in the London Chess League and has played for Invicta Knights Maidstone in the Four Nations League. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Telecom op”]\n[Site “Dublin”]\n[Date “1991.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Suba\, Mihai”]\n[Black “Morris\, Philip”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A34”]\n[WhiteElo “2540”]\n[BlackElo “2405”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “50”]\n[EventDate “1991.03.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\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\,50\,19\,-12\,11\,19\,14\,21\,86\,76\,67\,21\,23\,35\,73\,30\,59\,-20\,11\,23\,4\,8\,27\,20\,\n25\,12\,17\,9\,-2\,21\,25\,32\,39\,37\,30\,-8\,-8\,-27\,-27\,-27\,-48\,-52\,-78\,-78\,-80\,-258\,\n-275\,-335\,-342\,-532\,-609\,-614\,-635]} 1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5\n5. d4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 g6 7. Bg5 Bg7 8. Qa4+ Nc6 9. e3 Bd7 10. Qa3 Qa5 11. Qxa5\nNxa5 12. Rb1 Rc8 13. Bd3 cxd4 14. cxd4 Rc3 15. Ke2 f6 16. Bf4 Kf7 17. h3 Rhc8\n18. e4 Ra3 19. Rb2 Nc4 20. Rxb7 Rxa2+ 21. Nd2 Nxd2 22. Bxd2 Bh6 23. f4 Bxf4 24.\nRxd7 Rxd2+ 25. Kf3 Bg5 0-1\n[/pgn]
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-philip-j-morris-05-xi-1957/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTSTAMP:20201104T112226Z
CREATED:20191028T135928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T112226Z
UID:1714-1604707200-1604793599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Gary Quillan (07-xi-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Best wishes to IM Gary M Quillan on his birthday\, this day (November 7th) in 1970. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Gibraltar Masters 16th”]\n[Site “Caleta”]\n[Date “2018.01.23”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Quillan\, Gary”]\n[Black “Dubov\, Daniil”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B06”]\n[WhiteElo “2340”]\n[BlackElo “2694”]\n[Annotator “Ftacnik\,L”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “2018.01.23”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “GGB”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 183”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.03.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.03.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,31\,80\,74\,88\,-29\,71\,24\,67\,68\,50\,47\,17\,18\,20\,1\,0\,-50\,-4\,-25\,-27\,\n-36\,-18\,-9\,2\,-14\,-16\,4\,14\,-15\,15\,0\,15\,16\,75\,75\,87\,49\,55\,44\,44\,44\,130\,87\,87\,38\,\n142\,142\,116\,172\,189\,69\,335\,424\,669\,733\,1385\,1579\,1579\,1649\,1676\,1841]} 1. e4 g6\n2. d4 Bg7 3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 Bg4 {This is not a variation that strong players\nwould try often. Dubov is very unconventional player and believes\, that he can\noutsmart his lesser opponent on the unknown territory.} 5. c3 Nd7 6. Bc4 e6 7.\nO-O (7. h3 Bxf3 8. Qxf3 Nb6 (8… c6 9. f5 exf5 10. O-O d5 11. exd5 cxd5 12.\nQxd5 Qe7 13. Qxb7 Rb8 14. Qxa7 Ngf6 15. Bf4 O-O 16. Nd2 Ra8 17. Qb7 Nh5 18.\nRae1 $18 {1-0 (30) Pym\,T (2099)-Dignam\,M (2194) Douglas 2005}) 9. Bd3 d5 10. e5\nBf8 11. Be3 h5 12. g3 Qd7 13. Nd2 c5 14. dxc5 Na4 15. b4 Nxc3 16. O-O Qa4 17.\na3 a5 18. Rfc1 axb4 19. Qf1 Ra5 20. axb4 $18 {1-0 (22) Matic\,Z (2176)-Jurkovic\,\nA (2339) Zagreb 2006}) (7. Be3 Ngf6 8. Nbd2 d5 9. Bd3 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nd5 11. Bd2\nQe7 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 O-O 14. h4 c5 15. Nxc5 Nxc5 16. dxc5 Qxc5 17. h5 Rfd8\n18. hxg6 hxg6 19. g4 Rac8 20. Kf1 Rd6 21. Re1 Rcd8 22. Bb1 Qb5+ 23. Kg1 Qxb2 {\n0-1 (23) Schlechter\,C-Pillsbury\,H Monte Carlo 1903}) (7. f5 exf5 8. Qb3 Qe7 9.\nNg5 fxe4 10. Nxf7 Kf8 11. Nxh8 Bxh8 12. Bxg8 Nf6 13. O-O $18 {1-0 (45)\nRaedisch\,P-Rossbach\,M Kiel 2000}) 7… Ne7 (7… Nb6 8. Bd3 d5 9. e5 Ne7 10. a4\na5 11. Na3 Qd7 12. b3 O-O 13. Nc2 Rac8 14. Ne3 Bxf3 15. Rxf3 c5 16. Bb5 Qd8 17.\nBd2 cxd4 18. cxd4 Na8 19. Qe1 b6 20. Ba6 Rc7 21. b4 Nc6 22. bxa5 Nxd4 $11 {\n1-0 (90) Vucko\,J (2187)-Babits\,A (2270) Hungary 2005}) (7… c6 8. Nbd2 (8. f5\ngxf5 9. h3 fxe4 10. hxg4 exf3 11. Qxf3 Qe7 12. b4 d5 13. Bb3 f6 14. b5 h5 15.\nbxc6 bxc6 16. g5 f5 17. Qf4 Nf8 18. Ba3 Qd7 19. Re1 Ne7 20. Nd2 $16 {1/2-1/2\n(39) Novak\,I-Trapl\,J Harrachov 1966}) 8… Qc7 9. b4 Ngf6 10. Bd3 Nh5 11. Nb3\nNxf4 12. Bxf4 O-O 13. Qe1 e5 14. dxe5 Bxf3 15. Rxf3 Nxe5 16. Rh3 Nxd3 17. Qh4\nh5 18. Rxd3 $18 {1-0 (44) Rodriguez Dorado\,V-Gomez Velasco\,J Valladolid 1997})\n8. Qe1 (8. h3 Bxf3 9. Qxf3 O-O 10. e5 (10. f5 exf5 11. Bg5 Kh8 12. Bxe7 Qxe7\n13. exf5 c6 14. Nd2 Rae8 15. Rf2 d5 16. Bd3 Qe3 17. Nf1 Qxf3 18. Rxf3 Bh6 19.\nNg3 Re7 $15 {1/2-1/2 (55) Levi\,E (2215)-Ker\,A (2300) Melbourne 1989}) 10… d5\n11. Bd3 c5 12. Be3 Qb6 13. Qf2 c4 14. Be2 Qxb2 15. Nd2 Qxc3 16. Nf3 Qa5 17. g4\nf6 18. Qh4 g5 19. Qh5 gxf4 20. Bxf4 Ng6 $19 {0-1 (24) Metz\,H-Zysk\,R (2400)\nBaden-Baden 1987}) (8. Be3 O-O 9. Nbd2 c5 10. h3 cxd4 11. cxd4 Bxf3 12. Qxf3\nNb6 13. Bb3 d5 14. e5 Qd7 15. Rfc1 Rfc8 16. Rc5 Rxc5 17. dxc5 Na4 18. Bxa4 Qxa4\n$15 {0-1 (52) Bonnaire\,R-Zunker\,R (2165) Bad Wildungen 1998}) (8. Bb3 O-O 9.\nBe3 d5 10. e5 Nf5 11. Bf2 f6 12. Nbd2 Bh6 13. g3 fxe5 14. dxe5 g5 15. c4 c6 16.\ncxd5 cxd5 17. fxg5 Bxg5 18. Nxg5 Qxg5 19. Nf3 Qh5 20. Bxd5 exd5 21. Qxd5+ Kh8\n$19 {0-1 (55) Ponizil\,C (2478)-Petenyi\,T (2454) Czech Republic 2017}) 8… O-O\n9. Bb3 {The first part of the opening phase is over and Black must be\nespecially careful about his potentially stranded bishop on g4.} (9. Nbd2 c5\n10. Bb3 cxd4 11. Nxd4 Nc5 12. Bc2 e5 $11) 9… Bxf3 10. Rxf3 c5 11. Be3 cxd4\n12. cxd4 {Trading the bishops on d4 might have some merit\, but White would be\npractically forced to sacrifice the pawn.} (12. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 13. cxd4 Qb6 14. Kh1\nQxd4 15. Nc3 $44) 12… Nf6 13. Nc3 Ng4 14. Rd1 Qb6 (14… d5 15. e5 Nxe3 16.\nQxe3 Rc8 $11) 15. Na4 {The fight is obviously concentrated around the d4-pawn.\nQuillan does not like the black queen interfering on the a7-g1 diagonal.} (15.\nBf2 Nc6 16. e5 Nxf2 17. Qxf2 $11) 15… Qa6 (15… Qc7 16. Bc1 b5 17. Nc3 b4\n18. Na4 Nf6 $11) 16. Bc1 b5 (16… Nc6 17. e5 Rad8 18. h3 Nh6 $11) 17. Nc3 Qb6\n$2 {Dubov has failed to notice the very clever answer of his opponent\, the\nposition was still equal.} (17… b4 18. Ne2 Qb7 19. e5 Nh6 $11) 18. Qh4 $1 Nf6\n{The shock must have been very unpleasant. The attack against the d4-pawn\nloses its merit and the black pieces are scrambling to get coordinated again.}\n(18… h5 $5 19. Qxe7 Bf6 20. Qd7 a6 21. Bxe6 Bxd4+ (21… Rad8 22. Bxg4 $16)\n22. Kh1 Nf6 23. Bxf7+ Rxf7 24. Qh3 Bxc3 25. Be3 Qc6 26. bxc3 $16) (18… Bxd4+\n19. Kh1 Nf2+ 20. Rxf2 Bxf2 21. Qxe7 b4 22. Na4 Qd8 23. Qg5 $1 $16) 19. g4 $1\nQb7 20. Rh3 h5 $2 {Defence in chess is an art that very few top players have\nmastered properly. The radical move with the h-pawn is objectively bad\, but it\nmust be admitted that Dubov was under intense pressure.} (20… h6 $1 21. e5\ndxe5 22. dxe5 Nh7 23. f5 gxf5 24. Bxh6 Ng6 25. Qh5 fxg4 26. Qxg4 $16) 21. gxh5\nNxh5 22. f5 $1 {[%mdl 128]} exf5 (22… d5 23. Bg5 Nc6 24. f6 Bh8 25. exd5 $18)\n23. exf5 (23. Bg5 Rae8 24. Bxe7 Qxe7 25. Qxe7 Rxe7 26. exf5 Kh7 27. Nxb5 $16)\n23… Nxf5 24. Qg5 {A fine move that hints at the numerous problems Black is\nexperiencing with his pieces. The knights on f5 and h5 are vulnerable\, but it\nis the soft g6-pawn that causes the catastrophe of the black position.} Ne7 (\n24… d5 25. Rxh5 Rac8 26. Nxd5 $18) 25. Rxh5 $1 gxh5 26. Rd2 d5 {Completely\ndesperate attempt to close the diagonal a2-g8 as it prevents Black from even\ndreaming about a sufficient defence.} (26… Qb6 27. Qxe7 Qd8 28. Qxd8 Raxd8\n29. Nxb5 $18) (26… Qf3 27. Rg2 Nf5 28. Bd5 Qd3 29. Be4 Qxd4+ 30. Kh1 Ne7 31.\nBxa8 $18) 27. Nxd5 Rfe8 (27… Rfc8 28. Nxe7+ Kf8 29. Ng6+ Kg8 30. Rg2 $18) 28.\nRg2 {White was very efficient in opening up the kingside\, the defender can\nonly choose the form of honourable undoing.} Ng6 (28… Nf5 29. Qxf5 Re1+ 30.\nKf2 Rxc1 31. Qf6 $18) 29. Nf6+ Kf8 (29… Bxf6 30. Qxg6+ $18) 30. Nh7+ Kg8 31.\nQxg6 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nGarry Quillan
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-gary-m-quillan-07-xi-1970/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTSTAMP:20201108T122806Z
CREATED:20191107T111045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T122806Z
UID:1795-1604793600-1604879999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Alan Merry (08-xi-1996)
DESCRIPTION:BCN send Birthday greetings to IM Alan Merry \nAlan Baxter Merry was born on Friday\, November 8th\, 1996 in Bury St. Edmunds\, Suffolk. His mother’s maiden name is Guymer. Alan has a younger brother James Clayton Merry (born 1999). James is also registered with Suffolk CCA but have never had a published grading or rating. \nFIDE rating profile for IM Alan Merry \nCrosstable for Purley Big Slick International\, 2013 \nHe became a FIDE Master in 2013 and an International Master in 2016. His peak rating according to Felice was 2396 in July 2016. However this has been surpassed and according to MegaBase 2020 it is 2460 in June 2018 at the age of 22. \nAlan won the 2014 Golders Green Open with a convincing 5.5/6 : \nPart crosstable for 2014 Golders Green Open \nand has won further events since including the Kingsley Healthcare Great Yarmouth Congress in 2018. \nIM Alan Merry at the 2019 Basingstoke 4NCL Congress \nAlan plays for Suffolk County Chess Association and in 4NCL started with Anglian Avengers\, then the ADs and finally moving to Barbican in the 2015/16 season. His current ECF grading is 237A for standard-play and 236A for rapid-play. His FIDE standard play rating is 2427. \nAlan has a plus score against : James Jackson\, Ravi Haria\, John Nunn\, Peter Sowray\, James Adair\, Matthew Wadsworth\, Jack Rudd and Simon Williams to name but a few. \nWith the white pieces Alan has a varied repertoire favouring (unusually) the Four Knights game. \nAs the second player he champions the French Winawer and the Modern Benoni.  \n[pgn]\n[Event “4NCL-ch rapid”]\n[Site “Daventry”]\n[Date “2013.10.06”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Jones\, Gawain C B”]\n[Black “Merry\, Alan B”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A22”]\n[WhiteElo “2638”]\n[BlackElo “2297”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “134”]\n[EventDate “2013.10.06”]\n[EventType “swiss (rapid)”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 156 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.10.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.10.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,134\,19\,-12\,-27\,-45\,-60\,-44\,-41\,-20\,-50\,-35\,12\,-9\,-16\,-15\,20\,1\,-12\,32\,\n6\,-9\,90\,55\,52\,18\,34\,36\,27\,9\,-8\,-64\,-22\,-14\,-29\,-18\,-32\,-16\,-65\,-65\,-63\,-63\,-87\,\n-157\,-52\,-82\,-77\,-85\,-88\,-85\,-87\,-141\,-171\,-234\,-235\,-245\,-257\,-211\,-235\,-249\,\n-266\,-460\,-453\,-453\,-456\,-444\,-449\,-472\,-470\,-488\,-469\,-477\,-443\,-463\,-483\,\n-487\,-504\,-504\,-508\,-523\,-510\,-509\,-509\,-516\,-439\,-447\,-413\,-531\,-532\,-547\,\n-538\,-547\,-543\,-574\,-576\,-592\,-527\,-596\,-534\,-584\,-594\,-608\,-551\,-629\,-672\,\n-659\,-621\,-659\,-717\,-734\,-666\,-705\,-755\,-994\,-606\,-606\,-559\,-564\,-575\,-589\,\n-580\,-585\,-597\,-628\,-638\,-679\,-624\,-644\,-621\,-628\,-686\,-737\,-718\,-918\,-1002\,\n-1022\,-1015]} 1. c4 e5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nc3 Nb6 6. e3 Nc6 7.\nNge2 Be6 8. O-O Qd7 9. f4 f6 10. Qc2 Nb4 11. Qe4 Nc6 12. f5 Bf7 13. d4 Bd6 14.\nQg4 O-O 15. d5 Ne7 16. e4 Kh8 17. Be3 Nc4 18. Bf2 Nxb2 19. Rab1 Nd3 20. Be3 Bc5\n21. Qf3 b6 22. g4 c6 23. Rfd1 Bxe3+ 24. Qxe3 Nc5 25. d6 Nc8 26. Rb2 Nxd6 27. g5\nNc4 28. Qh3 Qe7 29. g6 Bg8 30. gxh7 Nxb2 31. hxg8=Q+ Kxg8 32. Rf1 Ncd3 33. Qg3\nQc5+ 34. Kh1 Rad8 35. Bf3 Nf4 36. Rg1 Rf7 37. Qh4 Nbd3 38. Rf1 Qe3 39. Nd1 Qd2\n40. Nxf4 Nxf4 41. Nf2 Qe3 42. Qg3 Rd2 43. Ng4 Qd3 44. Rg1 Kf8 45. Nf2 Qc3 46.\nNd1 Qd4 47. Qh4 Ke7 48. Qe1 Kd7 49. Ne3 Kc7 50. Ng4 Re2 51. Qb1 Rb2 52. Qf1 Rd7\n53. Qa6 Kb8 54. Qa3 Qd3 55. Qxd3 Rxd3 56. Bd1 Rb1 57. Bb3 Rxg1+ 58. Kxg1 Rd4\n59. Kf2 Rxe4 60. Kf3 Rd4 61. Nf2 c5 62. Ne4 c4 63. Bc2 b5 64. h4 b4 65. Nc5 Kc7\n66. Na6+ Kb6 67. Nxb4 a5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Alan Merry
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-alan-baxter-merry-08-xi-1996/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20211109T093940Z
CREATED:20191028T140720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T093940Z
UID:1717-1604880000-1604966399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM James Adair (09-xi-1992)
DESCRIPTION:IM James Adair playing GM Hikaru Nakamura at the London Chess Classic 2014 \nBCN wishes Happy birthday to IM James Adair. \nJames Robert Adair was born on Monday\, November 9th in 1992 in Reading\, Berkshire. \nJames attended Little Heath School\, Tilehurst\, Reading and joined Reading Chess Club and was an active player in the Berkshire League and in the Surrey Border League. His father Andrew took up chess to support James as a junior. \nHe then read Mathematics at The University of York and now is employed by Aviva plc (formerly Norwich Union Assurance) in the field of insurance. \nJames became a FIDE Master in 2012 and gained his International Master title in August 2014.  \nAccording to Felice his best FIDE rating was 2489 in December 2016. According to MegaBase 2020 it was 2492 in August 2018 at the age of 26. \nJames started his 4NCL career in the 2006/7 season with Conquistadors and then transferred to Guildford not long after. By 2010/11 James was playing for the bar loving Sambuca Sharks team. In 2011 James transferred to 4NCL White Rose as he had just started University in Yorkshire. He was also playing for York RI. \nIn 2009 he shared equal 1st (4.5/5) with Alexei Slavin in the Uxbridge Open\, a sadly missed e2-e4 event. Since then James has had various tournament successes. \nFIDE rating profile for IM James Adair \n[pgn]\n[Event “UK-ch blitz op”]\n[Site “Solihull”]\n[Date “2018.12.01”]\n[Round “13”]\n[White “Adair\, James R”]\n[Black “Pert\, Nicholas”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B32”]\n[WhiteElo “2500”]\n[BlackElo “2563”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “2018.12.01”]\n[EventType “tourn (blitz)”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,73\,28\,28\,58\,51\,39\,32\,1\,43\,26\,25\,28\,10\,10\,6\,12\,9\,9\,18\,26\,-13\,29\,19\,31\,\n20\,54\,15\,17\,10\,61\,66\,96\,99\,99\,90\,130\,131\,127\,135\,127\,120\,117\,113\,120\,102\,88\,88\,\n231\,231\,235\,235\,321\,319\,354\,396\,391\,391\,656\,754\,637\,779\,803\,809\,809\,617\,630\,\n668\,673\,764\,812\,940\,1057\,1080\,2209\,29980]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4.\nNxd4 e5 5. Nb5 d6 6. N1c3 a6 7. Na3 Be7 8. Nc4 b5 9. Ne3 Nf6 10. g3 {Bologan}\nBe6 (10… O-O 11. Bg2 b4 12. Ncd5) 11. Bg2 Rc8 (11… O-O 12. O-O) 12. O-O Nd4\n13. Bd2 $146 (13. Ncd5) 13… O-O {[#]} 14. a4 b4 15. Ncd5 a5 $6 (15… Bxd5\n16. exd5 Rb8) 16. c3 Nc6 17. cxb4 Bxd5 18. exd5 Nxb4 19. Bxb4 axb4 20. a5 $16\nNd7 21. Bh3 $1 Rb8 22. Bxd7 Qxd7 23. Qa4 Qh3 $6 ({Better was} 23… Qc7) 24. a6\n$18 f5 {[#]} 25. Qd7 $1 Bg5 26. Nc4 (26. Qe6+ Kh8 27. a7 Ra8 28. Qxd6 f4 29.\nQxf8+ Rxf8 30. a8=Q Kg8 31. Qa6 fxe3 32. fxe3 Bxe3+ 33. Kh1 Rd8 $18) 26… Rbd8\n27. Qe6+ Kh8 28. Nxd6 h5 29. Nf7+ Rxf7 30. Qxf7 h4 31. Qh5+ Bh6 32. Qxh4 (32.\na7) 32… Qxh4 33. gxh4 Ra8 34. a7 e4 35. d6 Bf4 36. d7 Bc7 37. Rfc1 {and\nBlack resigned.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nJames has plus scores against : Peter Roberson\, Jack Rudd\, Richard Bates and Matthew Turner amongst others. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 98th”]\n[Site “Sheffield”]\n[Date “2011.07.24”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Adair\, James”]\n[Black “Palliser\, Richard”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B42”]\n[WhiteElo “2212”]\n[BlackElo “2454”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “77”]\n[EventDate “2011.07.24”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 143 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.08.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,77\,19\,38\,72\,47\,56\,34\,40\,22\,64\,48\,61\,61\,61\,52\,57\,47\,60\,53\,44\,-16\,8\,2\,\n58\,34\,50\,42\,42\,9\,36\,33\,27\,30\,52\,54\,88\,78\,81\,42\,35\,50\,70\,20\,36\,31\,66\,-21\,30\,65\,\n36\,36\,36\,36\,36\,61\,85\,148\,221\,195\,281\,287\,288\,288\,288\,194\,288\,175\,176\,192\,193\,\n197\,255\,240\,271\,227\,250\,248\,248\,243]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6\n5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. Qg4 Nf6 8. Qg3 d6 9. Nc3 Nc6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bd2 e5 12.\nO-O-O Nh5 13. Qf3 Nf6 14. Qg3 Nh5 15. Qf3 Nf6 16. h3 $146 (16. Nd5) 16… Be6\n17. Nd5 Nd7 $6 18. Qg3 $16 g6 19. f4 exf4 20. Nxf4 Nde5 21. Bc3 $6 $11 (21. Kb1\n$16) 21… b5 $2 (21… Qg5 $142) 22. Na5 Nd4 23. Ne2 Nxe2+ 24. Bxe2 Qc7 25.\nNb7 Qxb7 26. Rxd6 Qxe4 27. Bxe5 Bf2 28. Qf3 Qxe5 29. Rxe6+ (29. Qxa8+ Ke7 30.\nRxe6+ fxe6 31. Qb7+ Kf6 32. Qf3+) 29… Qxe6 (29… fxe6) 30. Qxa8+ Ke7 31.\nQxh8 Qxe2 32. Qc3 Kf8 33. Qf3 Be3+ 34. Kb1 Qxf3 35. gxf3 Kg7 36. Re1 Bc5 37. c3\nKf6 38. Kc2 Kf5 39. Re4 $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM James Adair
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-james-r-adair-09-xi-1992/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201110
DTSTAMP:20201204T145135Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of David Welch (30-x-1945 09-xi-2019)
DESCRIPTION:Just over a year ago today we learnt the sad news that popular longtime Arbiter and Organizer David Welch had passed away at the age of 74 after a long illness : he was being cared for in The Royal Liverpool Hospital. The funeral took place at Landican Crematorium\, Arrowe Park CH49 5LW at 12 noon on Friday 6th December. Following the funeral\, the wake took place at the Grove House Hotel\, Grove Road\, Wallasey CH44 4BT. \nDavid was born on Tuesday\, October 30th 1945 in Brampton\, Chesterfield\, Derbyshire and attended Chesterfield Grammar School (see below). \nHe played for Wallasey Chess Club for many years having initially been a member of Liverpool Chess Club. \nDavid attended Queens’ College\, Cambridge reading Natural Sciences (Chemistry) and (according to John Swain) David served Cambridge University Chess Club as Junior Treasurer\, Librarian and Bulletin Editor. \nIn 1968 David and Peter Purland started teaching at the same Liverpool school (Liverpool College) on the same day and continued their friendship from there. David also ran the college scout troop. \nIn the same year David joined Liverpool Chess Club and became a leading light fairly early on. \nDavid Welch (30-x-1945 09-xi-2019)\, photograph by John Upham at 2012 4NCL \nDavid became a BCF arbiter in the early 1970s eventually becoming the BCFs Chief Arbiter and then the ECFs Chief Arbiter and was heavily involved in many British Championships around the country. \nDavid was curator of ECF equipment for some time and personally funded much of the BCFs and ECFs early equipment stock. \nHe became a FIDE International Arbiter as early as 1977 and was awarded the FIDE International Organizer title in 2010. \nIn 2007 David received the ECF Presidents Award from Gerry Walsh. Here is the citation in full (from the 2008 ECF Yearbook) : \n“David Welch started chess organisation early being captain of the Chesterfield Grammar School team that played both in the school’s league and in the local adult league. He joined the Liverpool Chess Club after leaving University in 1968 and has held various posts with them \, he is now their President. He set-up the Liverpool Chess Congress in about 1978. \nAdditionally\, he was the director of the Liverpool Chess Congress. Although now defunct this was in its day the largest junior event in the UK (perhaps even the world) having 2000 entrants at the time of Spassky-Fisher (sic). He has also been involved in the Liverpool city of culture initiative. \nHe had also had a considerable involvement with the ECF. He is the the Merseyside representative to the ECF. He has been helping run the British Championships since 1981; starting at one of the arbiting team he has been Director/Manager of the congress since 2005. He has been Chief Arbiter of the Federation since about 1992. He also does the arbiting at a number of congresses and is\, in particular\, the Chief Arbiter of the 4NCL.” \nDavid Welch receives FIDE Arbiter Award \nDavid shared the exact same date of birth as long time friend and fellow arbiter\, Peter Purland. \nHere is an excellent tribute from John Saunders \nHere is a tribute from Liverpool College \n[pgn]\n[Event “Gibraltar Challengers-B 11th”]\n[Site “Caleta”]\n[Date “2013.01.29”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Welch\, David”]\n[Black “Gravett\, Alan David”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A38”]\n[WhiteElo “1617”]\n[BlackElo “1925”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “2013.01.26”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “GGB”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2014”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.11.20”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.11.20”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,25\,30\,30\,4\,14\,18\,12\,10\,29\,30\,18\,6\,16\,7\,0\,13\,0\,0\,7\,7\,-2\,-2\,6\,7\,8\,5\,\n18\,5\,13\,17\,11\,-4\,41\,43\,35\,56\,69\,63\,73\,42\,28\,66\,49\,39\,78\,25\,56\,10\,17\,6\,205\,283\,\n272\,273\,547\,745\,765\,838\,872\,913\,1595\,29984]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6 4.\ng3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O O-O 7. d3 d6 8. Bd2 a6 9. Rb1 Rb8 10. a3 b5 11. cxb5\naxb5 12. b4 cxb4 13. axb4 Ng4 $6 (13… Bd7 14. Qc1 Qc8 15. Bh6 Bh3 16. Bxg7\nKxg7 17. Qb2 Bxg2 18. Kxg2 $11) 14. Qc1 $1 Nge5 15. Nxe5 Nxe5 16. Bh6 f6 17.\nBxg7 Kxg7 18. d4 Ng4 19. h3 Nh6 20. e4 Be6 21. d5 Bd7 22. Qe3 Qc8 23. Kh2 Ra8\n24. Ra1 Qc4 25. Ra7 $11 Bxh3 26. Rxe7+ $1 Rf7 27. Rxf7+ Kxf7 28. Qxh6 $18 Bxg2\n29. Qxh7+ Kf8 30. Kxg2 Ra3 31. Rh1 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nin 2016 David received recognition from FIDE for his long service as an International Arbiter. David was the third English arbiter to receive the honour\, following Stewart Reuben and Gerry Walsh in 2014. \nWe send our condolences to all of his many family and friends. \nDavid Welch\, photograph by John Upham
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-david-welch-30-x-1945-09-xi-2019/
CATEGORIES:Arbiter,British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Official
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201115
DTSTAMP:20201112T205953Z
CREATED:20200410T091929Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM David Howell (14-xi-1990)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM David Wei Lang Howell (14-xi-1990) \nDavid was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2010-11 season sharing with Danny Gormally.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-david-wei-lang-howell-14-xi-1990/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201116
DTSTAMP:20201030T125410Z
CREATED:20191110T180217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T125410Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Charles Cobb (15-xi-1978)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Charles A Cobb (15-xi-1978)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-charles-a-cobb-15-xi-1978/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201117
DTSTAMP:20201116T143818Z
CREATED:20190823T184126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201116T143818Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Edward Sergeant OBE (3-xii-1881 16-xi-1961)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Edward Sergeant OBE (3-xii-1881 16-xi-1961) \nEdward Guthlac Sergeant was born on Saturday\, December 3rd 1881 : in the same year British Chess Magazine was founded by John Watkinson. \nHe was born in Crowland\, South Holland\, Lincolnshire. The registration district was Peterborough and the inferred county was Northamptonshire. His father was William R Sergeant (aged 27) and his mother was Frances E Sergeant (aged 25). He had a sister\, Hilda who was one year older. William was a registered general medical practitioner. \nHe was named Guthlac after a monk who “came to what was then an island in the Fens to live the life of a hermit.” \nSignature of EG Sergeant from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Margate 1936. \nAccording to the 1891 census EGS was aged 9 and living with his father\, mother\, sister and their domestic servant Margaret A George who was their general domestic servant who hailed from Scotland. They lived at 2\, Gladstone Terrace\, Gateshead\, NE8 4DY. This was in the Ecclesiastical parish of Christchurch. \n2\, Gladstone Terrace\, Gateshead\, NE8 4DY \nIn the 1911 census aged 29 as nephew to the head of the household (5 St Peters Terrace\, Cambridge) EGS is listed as a solicitor who is single. The size of the household in 1911 was relatively modest at 12. He was living with George Edward Wherry (59\, surgeon university professor) and his wife Albinia Lucy Wherry (53). Albinia Lucy Wherry was a nurse and also writer. During WWI she was stationed in Paris at the Gare du Nord where she supported British forces from 1915-18. the sub-registration district was St Andrew the Great. \nAccording to Edward Winter in Where did they live? in April 1916 EGS was living at 39 Chichele Road\, Cricklewood\, London NW2 3AN\, England. EGWs source for this is : Chess Amateur\, April 1916\, page 202. \n39 Chichele Road\, Cricklewood\, London NW2 3AN \n1918 was an important year for Edward when he married Dorothy Frances Carter (born 1887) in Gravesend. In the same year Dorothy and Edward had a son Richard who passed away in 2014 \nTwo years later Dorothy and Edward had a son Lewis Carter Sergeant born on January 30th 1920. The birth was registered in Paddington. Lewis lived at 3 Woodhill Court\, 175 Woodhill\, London\, SE18 5HSL and passed away in 2004 the death being registered in Greenwich. \nOn the 1920 Electoral Roll\, EGS was now living with Dorothy Frances Sergeant at St. Stephen’s Mansions\, 5\, Monmouth Road\, Edmonton. \nIn 1923 they upped sticks and moved to 27. King Edward’s Grove\, Teddington.  \nSadly Dorothy passed away in 1926 at the modest age of 39. \nCoventry Evening Telegraph 10 October 1933 \nAccording to the 1939 census EGS was listed as a widowed\, civil servant living at 24\, Gloucester Road\, Kingston Upon Thames\, KT2 7DX. This would be the address that Edward saw out the rest of his life. \n24\, Gloucester Road\, Kingston Upon Thames\, KT2 7DX \nHe shared this address with Edith Carter (born 4th May 1878) who is described as being of “Private Means” and Ada M Wenman (6th August 1881) who is described as being a “domestic”. \nIn 1949 he was awarded the OBE in the Birthday Honours in recognition of his 39 years’ service in the office of the Solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue. \nAccording to John Saunders : EGS died in the New Victoria Hospital\, New Malden\, Surrey\, on 16 November 1961. His residence at death had been 24 Gloucester Road\, Kingston Hill. Probate (26 Jan 1962) granted to Lewis Carter Sergeant\, a Lieutenant-Colonel in HM Army. Effects £6\,586. \nE.G. Sergeant in characteristic pose v. Miss Vera Menchik at Margate\, 1939 \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \nA British master who had a long and solidly distinguished career in British chess but never quite succeeded in breaking through the barrier to international success. A civil servant by profession\, he was awarded the OBE for his services in the Inland Revenue and Sergeant on Stamp Duties was regarded as an authoritative work. \nSergeant’s earliest performance in the British Championship\, at the Crystal Palace in London 190\, was one of his best. He came =2nd with JH Blackburne. RP Mitchell and GE Wainwright with 6.5 points\, a point below the winner of the title\, HE Atkins. \nHe was 3rd at Edinburgh in 1920 and his best result in the competition came in Brighton 193\, where he came equal second with H. Golombek\, a 1/2 point below the winner\, CHO’D Alexander. \nA stalwart supporter of the City of London Chess Club\, he won its championship in two successive years\, 1916 and 1917. He played for Britain against the USA in the 1908 and 1909 cable matches and also played on a high board for London against various American cities in the Insull Trophy matches in the years 1926-31. \nAs a player he was strongly influenced by the scientific principles of Siegbert Tarrasch and did well during the period when the Tarrasch school enjoyed its heyday. But he was at a loss when confronted with more modern methods.” \nBoth Sunnucks and Hooper & Whyld are silent on EGS : surprising! \nEGS was a cousin of PW Sergeant. \nWe asked  Leonard Barden of his memories of EGS and he was kind enough to reply :  \n“People have different ways of expressing satisfaction with their position. Botvinnik adjusted his tie\, Kasparov put his watch back on\,  Sergeant rubbed his hands together….He liked to counter the Queen’s Gambit Declined in the classical way with a kind of Lasker Defence.” \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXII\, March\, 1962\, Number 3\, pages 76 -80 we reproduce an obituary from Bruce Hayden entitled “E.G. Sergeant – An Appreciation” as follows : \n(note the incorrect birth location presumably based on the 1891 census information) \nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part one \nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part two \nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part three \nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part four \nEdward Guthlac Sergeant\, part five \nSergeant on Stamp Duties \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1924/25-05 Premier B”]\n[Site “Hastings Town Hall”]\n[Date “1924.12.30”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Sergeant\, Edward Guthlac”]\n[Black “Tartakower\, Saviely”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B43”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1924.12.28”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\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\,59\,19\,38\,72\,47\,56\,29\,25\,39\,82\,57\,75\,78\,66\,74\,72\,71\,100\,100\,126\,126\,\n143\,90\,89\,116\,117\,76\,74\,165\,299\,441\,522\,429\,415\,440\,449\,433\,556\,549\,554\,391\,\n382\,382\,473\,492\,565\,501\,630\,680\,751\,789\,29991\,1363\,29987\,1703\,29997\,933\,933\,\n959\,959\,980]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Bd3 Bb4 7.\nBd2 Nc6 8. Qg4 Nge7 9. Nxc6 dxc6 10. Qxg7 Rg8 11. Qd4 c5 12. Qf6 Rxg2 13. Bf4\nBxc3+ 14. bxc3 Qc6 15. Bg3 c4 16. Qh8+ Kd7 17. O-O-O Rxg3 18. hxg3 cxd3 19.\nRxd3+ Kc7 20. Qd8+ Kb8 21. Qxe7 Ka7 22. Rxh7 Rb8 23. e5 Qc4 24. Rxf7 Ra8 25.\nQc7 Qxa2 26. Rd8 Qa3+ 27. Kd2 Qa2 28. Rxc8 Qd5+ 29. Kc1 Qh1+ 30. Kb2 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-edward-guthlac-sergeant/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Player
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