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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Ian Thomas (14-xii-1967)
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of William Winter (11-ix-1898 18-xii-1955)
DESCRIPTION:William Winter\, British Open Chess Champion\, 1934. The verso frontispiece of Chess for Match Players\, William Winter\, London\, Lawrence & Wishart\, 1st edition. 1936\nAuthor’s inscription from Chess for Match Players\, William Winter\, London\, Lawrence & Wishart\, 1st edition. 1936\nBCN remembers William (Willy) Winter who passed away on Sunday\, December 18th\, 1955 from tuberculosis (at the time known as “the white plague”). He refused to enter a sanatorium.  \nThere is some variation from sources who quote his Date of Birth. All have 11th of September as the date but vary by the year giving either 1898 or 1899. However careful research by John Townsend (Wokingham) gives 1897 and this work is cited by Edward Winter. \nLate in 2021 historian Gerard Killoran (Ilkley) discovered this clipping from the Hampshire Advertiser – Wednesday 22 September 1897 p.2: \nHampshire Advertiser – Wednesday 22 September 1897 p.2\nwhich confirms JTs evidence from the 1939 register. \nHis father was William Henderson Winter and his mother Margaret Winter. He was born in Medstead\, Hampshire. In the 1911 census their address was recorded as “The Boynes”\,  Four Marks\, Alton\, Hampshire and the family had two servants : a cook and a housemaid. In 1936 Winter lived at The Old Cottage\, North Road\, Three Bridges\, Sussex. \nIn the second quarter of 1933 William married Amelia Jennett (née Potter) in the district of Pancras. William knew Amelia as Molly and wrote about her extensively in his memoirs. Amelia was married to Dennis Jennett but Dennis had an affair with another woman and a convenient to all parties “arrangement” was entered into. However\, Willy’s father was less than impressed. \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale 1970&1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master\, chess. professional and British Champion in 1935 and 1936\, William Winter is one of the most colourful  figures that British chess has produced. A born bohemian\, Winter could on many occasions have been mistaken for a tramp\, yet he was equally capable of turning up at a dinner or some other official occasion\, well-groomed and looking the split image of his famous uncle\, Sir James Barrie\, and making a speech of such wit and culture that every other speech would seem flat. \nBorn in Medstead in Hampshire on 11th September 1898\, of Scottish parentage. Winter’s mother was the youngest sister of Sir James Barrie\, and his father a brilliant scholar who had entered St. Andrew’s University at the age of 16\, taken honours in classics and then won a scholarship to Cambridge to read mathematics. \nWinter was taught to play chess by his father\, who was a strong player\, when he was 12. From the time he was introduced to the game his main aim in life was to become a first-class player\, and his previous interest\, cricket\, had to take a back seat. \nWhen he was 15\, he joined the city of London Chess club\, one of the leading clubs in the country\, and his game-rapidly improved. He went up to Cambridge to read law for a year during-the l9l4-l9l8 war\, before he became of age for military service and joined the Honourable Artillery Company. While he was stationed at Leeds he learned that the British champion\, F. D. Yates\, and the Mexican master\, A. G. Conde\, were in the habit of playing chess on a Saturday afternoon in a café in Bradford. \nWinter started going to this café and made the acquaintance of the two masters\, who would occasionally give him a game. \nOn returning to Cambridge when the war was over\, Winter became President of the University Chess Club and also started to take an active interest in politics. He joined the University Socialist Society and the local branch of the Independent Labour Party\, and when the Communist Party was formed he became a Communist. \nIn 1919 Winter became Cambridge University Champion and won a match against R. H. V. Scott\, a leading British player\, by a score of 4-2\, thereby securing for himself an invitation to play in the Victory Congress at Hastings. His lack of experience of master play proved too great a handicap\, and he came 11th out of 12. \nEdo rating profile for William Winter from http://www.edochess.ca/players/p7187.html\nOn leaving Cambridge after taking his degree in 1919\, Winter persuaded his parents to allow him a year in which to play chess before settling down to a career. He hoped that during that year he might be able to prove that he had sufficient talent to become a professional player. This did not prove the case\, and Winter had to resign himself to becoming a solicitor. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Varsity Oxford-Cambridge”]\n[Site “Oxford”]\n[Date “1919.03.14”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Winter\, William”]\n[Black “Tylor\, Theodore Henry”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D61”]\n[Annotator “Britbase & BH Wood”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1919.03.14”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Britbase”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.08.06”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Cambridge University”]\n[BlackTeam “Oxford University”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,59\,80\,5\,5\,-48\,-17\,-8\,4\,-10\,5\,11\,20\,35\,49\,21\,48\,14\,28\,2\,80\,78\,68\,51\,53\,\n41\,93\,149\,126\,72\,40\,47\,54\,72\,105\,38\,151\,98\,142\,138\,85\,78\,78\,77\,129\,98\,258\,289\,\n289\,181\,183\,188\,183\,184\,184\,184\,186\,186\,186\,193\,198\,87]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3.\nNc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Qc2 c5 8. Rd1 cxd4 9. Nxd4 a6 $2 ({\nBetter} 9… dxc4 10. Bxc4 Qa5 {PW Sergeant-FD Yates\, corr. 1909.} 11. Bh4 Ne5\n12. Be2 Ng6 13. Bg3 e5 14. Nb3 Qb6 15. O-O Be6) 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. Bxe7 Nxe7 12.\nBd3 Ng6 $146 (12… Nf6 {is better – BHW? – CHESS\, Dec 1962\, p62}) 13. h4 Re8\n14. Bxg6 (14. h5 Ngf8 15. h6 g6 16. O-O $5 Qh4 17. Nf3 $1 Qxh6 18. Ne4 $44)\n14… hxg6 15. h5 gxh5 16. Rxh5 g6 17. Rh3 Kg7 18. Ke2 Rh8 19. Rg3 Qe8 ({If}\n19… Rh6 {White intended} 20. Rh1 $1 Qh8 (20… Rxh1 21. Nxe6+ $1) (20… Nf6\n$5 {Fritz6} 21. Rxh6 Kxh6 22. Nf3 $14) 21. Nxe6+ fxe6 22. Rxg6+ {etc.}) (19…\nNf6 $5 {[%emt 0:00:04] Rybka} 20. Nxe6+ Bxe6 21. Rxd8 Raxd8 {/\ Rh1/Rh4}) 20.\nNe4 Nf6 21. Qc3 $1 e5 (21… Nxe4 22. Nxe6+ Kg8 23. Qg7#) 22. Nd6 {[#]} Qd7 $2\n(22… Qa4 {prolongs but does not save the game – BHW} 23. N4f5+ Bxf5 24. Nxf5+\nKg8 25. Qxe5 Qc4+ 26. Kf3 Rh5 27. Qxf6 Qc6+ 28. Qxc6 Rxf5+ 29. Ke2 bxc6 30. b3\n$16 {[%emt 0:00:04] Rybka}) 23. N4f5+ Kg8 24. Nxc8 Qb5+ 25. Qd3 Qxd3+ 26. Rxd3\nRxc8 27. Ne7+ Kg7 28. Nxc8 Rxc8 29. Rh3 Ne4 30. Rh4 {Sources: Cheltenham\nChronicle\, 26 April 1919; CHESS\, 15 December 1962\, p62; Cambridge Chess by RG\nEales\, p12} (30. Rh4 Rc2+ 31. Kd1 Rc4 32. Ke1 Nxf2 33. Rxc4 Nxd3+ 34. Ke2 b5\n35. Rc6 $16) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn 1921 he became articled to a London firm\, but after a dispute with his father\, which resulted in his allowance being stopped\, Winter had to give up his articles and decided to concentrate his energies on politics. He went to live in Bristol and addressed open-air meetings all over the city on behalf of the Communist party\, until he was arrested for sedition and sentenced to six months imprisonment. After his release Winter continued his political activities until he was forced to abandon them on medical advice. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Victory Congress Chief Tournament”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1919.08.13”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Winter\, William”]\n[Black “Yates\, Fred Dewhirst”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D34”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “1919.08.11”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,73\,15\,15\,19\,15\,55\,56\,27\,21\,22\,30\,61\,11\,22\,-8\,1\,22\,47\,30\,33\,34\,34\,22\,\n22\,4\,-12\,-3\,33\,-2\,-2\,-13\,-9\,-4\,-9\,6\,0\,-20\,25\,28\,77\,-10\,49\,61\,61\,69\,76\,66\,75\,83\,\n109\,80\,90\,83\,135\,99\,113\,132\,138\,149\,193\,180\,372\,365\,567\,578\,570\,580\,669\,677\,\n772\,716\,693\,651\,802\,523]} 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 c5 3. c4 e6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nc3 Be6\n6. g3 Nc6 7. Bg2 Nf6 8. O-O Be7 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. Bg5 Be7 11. Nd4 O-O 12. Nxe6 (\n{Relevant:} 12. Rc1 Qd7 13. e3 h6 14. Bf4 g5 15. Nxc6 bxc6 16. Be5 Ng4 17. f4\nNxe3 18. Qh5 Kh7 19. fxg5 Bxg5 20. h3 Nxg2 21. Kxg2 Bxc1 22. Rxc1 Rg8 23. Ne2\nRg5 {0-1 (23) Marchand\,M-Olland\,A Utrecht/Amsterdam 1917}) 12… fxe6 13. Bh3\nQd7 {[#]} 14. Qb3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14. e4 d4 15. Qb3 Kf7 16. Rad1 h6 17.\nBxf6 Bxf6 18. f4 Na5 19. Qb5 Nc6 20. e5 Be7 21. Qc4 Na5 22. Rxd4 Nxc4 23. Rxd7\nb6 24. Nb5 Rfd8 25. Nc7 Rxd7 26. Bxe6+ Kg6 27. Bxd7 Bc5+ 28. Kh1 Rd8 29. Rd1\nBe7 30. Be8+ Kf5 31. Rxd8 Bxd8 32. Bd7+ Kg6 33. Nd5 Kf7 34. b3 Nb2 35. e6+ Kf8\n36. Bb5 Nd1 37. Kg2 Bf6 38. Kf1 Nc3 39. e7+ {1-0 (39) Malmgren\,B-Nissen\,H\nCopenhagen 1916}) 14… Bc5 15. e3 h6 16. Bxf6 Rxf6 17. Rac1 b6 18. Bg2 Raf8\n19. Na4 Qf7 20. Rc2 Ne5 21. Nxc5 bxc5 22. f4 c4 23. Qc3 Nd7 24. e4 h5 25. Qd4\nNb6 26. Rd1 h4 27. exd5 hxg3 28. hxg3 Qg6 29. Rc3 Nxd5 30. Bxd5 Rxf4 $2 (30…\nexd5 31. Qxd5+ R8f7 $18) 31. Bxe6+ Qxe6 32. gxf4 Qg4+ 33. Kh2 Qe2+ 34. Kg3 Rf7\n35. Re3 Qh5 36. Qd8+ Kh7 37. Qh4 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHaving given up politics\, Winter decided to try his luck as a chess professional. This proved to be a success\, and within two years he was making a reasonable living teaching the game\, playing games for fees at St. George’s Cafe in St. Martin’s Lane in London and writing for The Manchester Guardian and The Daily Worker. \nWinter remained a chess professional for the rest of his life\, apart from the war years. He wrote two chess best sellers: Chess for Match Players\, published in 1936 \nChess for Match Players\, William Winter\, Carroll & Nicholson\, 1936\nand reprinted in 1951\, and Kings of Chess; \nKings of Chess\, William Winter\, Carroll and Nicholson Ltd\, 1954\nand was co-author with F. D. Yates of Modern Master Play\, \nModern Master Play\, FD Yates and W. Winter\, 1930\nand with FD Yates of World Championship Candidates Tournament\, 1953. \nWinter never reached the very highest ranks as a player\, although he won the British Championship twice and represented his country in four Chess Olympiads: Hamburg in 1930\, Prague in 1931\, Folkestone in 1933 and Warsaw in 1935. In the Great Britain v. U.S.S.R. radio match in 1946 he defeated Bronstein in the first round and then characteristically went out and celebrated his victory in such a way that his defeat in the return round was inevitable. \nWilliam Winter (11-IX-1897\, 18-XII-1955)\nAlthough he achieved no great successes in international tournaments\, in individual games he beat many of the world’s leading players\, including Nimzowitsch and Vidmar\, and had draws against Capablanca and Botvinnik among others. \nWilliam Winter (11-IX-1897\, 18-XII-1955)\nWilliam Winter (11-IX-1897\, 18-XII-1955)\nHe died of tuberculosis in London in December 1955\, after refusing to go into a sanatorium.” \nIn Kings\, Commoners and Knaves\, (Russell Enterprises\, 1999)\, page 393 Winter quotes Winter (!) from Chess Masterpieces (Marshall) as follows: \nI consider [Winter v Vidmar\, London\, 1927] to be my best game partly on account of the eminence of my opponent and partly because of the importance of the occasion on which it was played\, and also because on three occasions in which the situation was extremely complicated. I was fortunate enough to discover the only continuation which not only was necessary to secure victory\, but to actually save the game \nHere is that game: \n[pgn]\n[Event “London British Empire Club”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1927.10.24”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Winter\, William”]\n[Black “Vidmar\, Milan Sr”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E32”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News and CHESS”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “1927.10.10”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL\, Chess\, 1963\, page 13”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,87\,27\,27\,30\,5\,-4\,-11\,18\,-5\,20\,-10\,-2\,-6\,51\,66\,50\,47\,56\,48\,51\,42\,35\,35\,\n39\,28\,74\,62\,65\,40\,66\,45\,45\,33\,173\,136\,163\,127\,133\,45\,47\,26\,26\,26\,26\,26\,36\,10\,\n28\,41\,268\,255\,268\,272\,268\,210\,201\,137\,110\,110\,305\,341\,393\,416\,417\,415\,438\,490\,\n485\,313\,559\,484\,493\,458\,538\,637\,879\,878\,874\,912\,912\,677\,807\,807\,1928\,2308\,2500\,\n2769\,2769\,2571]} {Annotated in CHESS\, Volume 28 (1963)\, #426 (February 1963)\,\npage 133 presumably by BH Wood.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5.\nBg5 d6 6. e3 Qe7 {An extremely rare variation best forgotten.} (6… Nbd7 7.\nBd3 h6) 7. Bd3 $146 h6 {This manoeuvre should have been played earlier.} 8.\nBxf6 Qxf6 9. Nge2 Bxc3+ 10. Nxc3 Nc6 11. a3 e5 12. d5 Nb8 {A further loss of\ntime which is practically fatal.} ({Black should have played instead} 12… Ne7\n13. Nb5 Bd7) 13. O-O Qe7 14. f4 f5 15. fxe5 Qxe5 16. Rf3 f4 $2 {[#] Black’s\nKBP is in any event vulnerable\, and there is probably nothing better than this\nsacrifice which frees his game\, and which leaves White a backward pawn on the\nKing’s file.} 17. Qf2 $1 $18 Bg4 18. Rxf4 Nd7 19. h3 g5 20. Rxf8+ Rxf8 21. Qe1\nBh5 22. Qd2 Re8 23. Re1 g4 24. hxg4 Nf6 $2 {[#] Probably losing. Winter\nbrilliantly refutes this enterprising sacrifice\,} ({whereas after} 24… Bxg4\n$16 {Black is by no means lost.}) 25. gxh5 Ng4 26. Ne4 $1 Qh2+ 27. Kf1 Qxh5 28.\nNg3 Rf8+ 29. Nf5 Ne5 ({White’s king also eacapes after} 29… Qh1+ 30. Ke2 Qh5\n31. Ne7+ Kg7 32. Qc3+ Ne5+ 33. Kd2) 30. e4 Qh2 ({If} 30… Qh1+ 31. Kf2 Ng4+\n32. Kg3 $1) 31. Re3 Qh1+ 32. Ke2 Rf6 33. Rg3+ Kf8 34. Kf2 Qa1 35. Be2 Qb1 36.\nQe3 Qxb2 37. Qxa7 Ke8 38. Qa8+ Kd7 39. Rg7+ Nf7 40. Qa4+ c6 ({If} 40… Kc8 41.\nRg8+ Nd8 42. Qa8+ Kd7 43. Qxd8#) 41. dxc6+ Ke6 42. c7 Rxf5+ 43. exf5+ Kf6 44.\nRxf7+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match by Klein and Winter : \nThe Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match\, E. Klein and W. Winter (1947\, Pitman)\n“W. Winter was born in 1899 in Hampshire. A Cambridge graduate in Law\, he devoted himself eventually entirely to chess and is the only Englishman who\, despite all vicissitudes\, has faithfully remained a professional. After winning the Cambridge University Championship in 1921 he competed in a number of international tournaments. His outstanding performance was in the tournament in Scarborough 1928\, which he won. He won the British Championship in 1935 and 1936\, and has represented his country on four occasions in international team tournaments. In Hamburg\, 1930\, he was undefeated. \nScene at London. From left to right – Seated : Fairhurst\, List and Winter in play. Standing König and Sir George Thomas\nHis literary activities include Chess for Match Players and The Alekhine-Capablanca World Title Match\, 1927. He edits the chess column in the Soviet Weekly. \nGames Played In the World’s Championship Match between Jose Paul Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine\, FD Yates and W\, Winter\, 1928\, Printing Craft Limited\nHis chess record is erratic and does not reflect his true ability. He is capable of some of the finest chess\, but often plays too impulsively. His greatest strength lies in King’s side attacks. which he handles with skill and accomplishment.” \nWilliam Winter (11-IX-1897\, 18-XII-1955)\nFrom the Preface of The World Chess Championship : 1951 by Lionel Sharples Penrose we have : \n“Mr. Winter’s chess career has been a long one and he occupies an extremely high position among British players. He has been British Champion twice\, in 1935 and 1936. Among other notable successes was his first place in the Scarborough International Tournament in 1928. He defeated Nimzovich in the London Tournament in 1927. Against the present world championship contenders he has a very fine score\, a draw against Botvinnik at Nottingham in 1936 and a win and a loss against Bronstein in the Radio Match\, Great Britain v U.S.S.R. in 1946. Mr. Winter is a specialist in writing about the art of chess\, and players throughout the country owe a great deal to his deep and logical expositions.” \nGames Played in the World’s Championship Match between Alexander Alekhin (Holder of the Title) and E D Bogoljubow (Challenger)\, Printing Craft Limited\, 1930\, FD Yates and W. Winter\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (BT Batsford\, 1977) Edited by Harry Golombek : \nInternational Master and twice British Champion (1935 and 1936)\, Winter was an excellent illustration of Réti’s thesis that players tend to be opposite over the board to their character in real life. Over the board he was classical\, scientific and sober; away from the board he was revolutionary\, moved by his emotions (he contrived to be both a fervent Communist and a staunch patriot)\, and more often than not\, drunk. \nHis university career\, where he read law\, coincided with the First World War and\, after a brief interruption for military service he returned to Cambridge where in 1919 he became university champion and defeated R. H. V. Scott (a strong player who won the British Championship in 1920) in a match by 4-2. On the strength of this he was invited to play in the Hastings Victory tournament of 1919 where\, however\, he did badly\, coming 11th out of 12. \nWilliam Winter (11-ix-1897\, 18-xii-1955)\nAfter an interval during which he fervently pursued a political career to such an extent as to incur a six-months prison sentence for sedition (Winter always denied the sedition and said that the charge was trumped-up one)\, he took up the career of chess professional. The life suited him since it enabled him to lead the kind of Bohemian existence that pleased his artistic temperament. It should be mentioned that he was a nephew of Sir James Barrie and would have fitted in well on one of his uncle’s plays. \nAs a player he was eminently sound and\, being an apostle of Tarrasch\, a fine clear strategist. But he was lacking in tactical ability and his poor health and his way of life interfered with his consistency and impaired his stamina. But he had a number of fine victories over great players (Bronstein\, Nimzowitsch and Vidmar for example). \nIM William Winter (11-ix-1897\, 18-xii-1955)\n[pgn]\n[Event “Match/Nation ENG-URS radio”]\n[Site “Radio”]\n[Date “1946.06.19”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Bronstein\, David Ionovich”]\n[Black “Winter\, William”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B76”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “54”]\n[EventDate “1946.06.19”]\n[EventType “team-match”]\n[EventRounds “2”]\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\,54\,19\,31\,72\,53\,86\,70\,70\,47\,28\,24\,90\,80\,67\,49\,45\,30\,17\,1\,-1\,-33\,-4\,-14\,\n-14\,-17\,-17\,-25\,-31\,-32\,-29\,-28\,-32\,-46\,-21\,-51\,-47\,-34\,-29\,-8\,-26\,-134\,-134\,\n-149\,-160\,-183\,-189\,-216\,-211\,-251\,-257\,-271\,-286\,-286\,-286\,-297\,-289]} 1. e4\nc5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8. Qd2 O-O\n9. Nb3 (9. O-O-O d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Bd4 e5 13. Bc5 Be6 14. Ne4\nRe8 15. h4 h6 16. g4) 9… Be6 10. Nd5 Bxd5 11. exd5 Ne5 12. Be2 Qc7 13. O-O\nNc4 $15 14. Bxc4 Qxc4 15. Rad1 Rfc8 16. Rf2 Nd7 (16… a5) 17. Bg5 $6 (17. c3\n$142) 17… Bxb2 18. Bxe7 Nb6 (18… Bc3 19. Qd3 Qb4) 19. Bxd6 Rd8 20. Na5 $2 (\n20. Qb4 $15) 20… Qa6 $19 21. Qb4 Rxd6 22. c4 Bg7 23. Rfd2 Bh6 24. Rd3 Rad8\n25. a4 Bf8 26. Qb5 Qxb5 27. axb5 R6d7 $19 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHe played in four Olympiads: Hamburg 1930 (scoring 76.7% on 4th board)\, Prague 1931 (58.8% on 4th board)\, Folkestone 1933 (59.1% on 3rd board) and Warsaw 1935 (41.7% on 1st board). He was selected to play at Stockholm in 1937 but\, having “lost” his passport three times. he was refused a fresh one by the authorities. \nHis best international individual results were =6th at London 1927\, and =5th at Lodz 1935. \nHis career as a chess journalist (he wrote for the Manchester Guardian following FD Yates and the Daily Worker) was somewhat impeded and spoilt by his Bohemian ways\, be he wrote some excellent works on chess : Chess for Match Players\, London\, 1936″ \nWinter was a popular subject for his Swiss namesake\, Edward Winter and there are several mentions in his excellent books. \nIn Chess Facts and Fables (McFarland\, 2006) we have Chess Note 2819\, page 71 which shows a photograph (from CHESS\, November 1935) taken in Poland of Winter and Max Krauser\, Heavyweight wrestling Champion of Europe. Quite what the occasion we are not told. \nHere is an excellent article (as you’d expect) from Edward Winter \nApart from all of the contributions above possibly the most comprehensive comes from FM Steve Giddins writing in three parts in British Chess Magazine\, during 2006 and 2007 : \nPostscript: Since our article was published we were contacted by Steve Giddins who informed us that he owned the copyright to the articles (rather than the publisher BCM) and that he did not wish us to make them available via this article. \n[pgn]\n[Event “London British Empire Club”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1927.10.12”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Thomas\, George Alan”]\n[Black “Winter\, William”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E38”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News and CHESS”]\n[PlyCount “34”]\n[EventDate “1927.10.10”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL\, CHESS\, 1963\, page 13”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,34\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,-3\,33\,-19\,0\,-1\,57\,49\,13\,24\,24\,47\,53\,-43\,-43\,-26\,\n-118\,7\,7\,-103\,-103\,-103\,-62\,-176\,-129\,-201\,-216\,-198\,-186\,-502\,-571]} 1. d4 Nf6\n2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 c5 5. dxc5 Na6 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. Qxc3 Nxc5 8. b4 Nce4\n9. Qd3 (9. Qd4 $142 d5 10. c5 b6 11. f3 bxc5 12. bxc5 Qa5+ 13. Qb4 Qxb4+ 14.\naxb4 Nc3 15. Bb2 (15. e3) 15… Nb5 16. e4 Bd7 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. exd5 exd5 19.\nBxb5 Bxb5 20. Ne2 Kd7 21. Nd4 $16) ({Euwe prefers} 9. Qc2 d5 10. f3) 9… d5 {\n[#]} 10. cxd5 $2 $146 {[#]} (10. Bb2 $142 dxc4 11. Qxd8+ Kxd8 12. Rc1 (12. f3\nc3 13. Rd1+ Bd7 14. Ba1 $15)) (10. f3 $1 Nd6 11. c5 Nc4 $14) 10… Nxf2 $1 11.\nKxf2 Ng4+ 12. Kg3 (12. Ke1 Qf6 13. Rb1 Qf2+ 14. Kd2 Qxf1 15. Bb2 Qf4+ 16. e3\nQh6 $19) 12… Qf6 13. Nf3 (13. Kxg4 h5+ {leads to mate.} 14. Kh3 (14. Kg3 h4+\n15. Kh3 e5+ 16. Qf5 Qxf5+ 17. g4 Qxf1#) 14… e5+ 15. g4 Qxf1+ 16. Kh4 Qf2+ 17.\nQg3 hxg4+ 18. Bh6 Rxh6+ 19. Kg5 f6#) 13… Qxa1 14. Bd2 Nf6 (14… exd5) 15. e4\nexd5 16. exd5 O-O 17. Bc3 $2 (17. Rg1 {loses more slowly.}) 17… Qxc3 {\nand White resigns} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIn the “Mid-October” issue of CHESS for 1962\, (Volume 27\, Number 418)  we had the following announcement: \nWILLIAM WINTER’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY\nEdited by David Hooper\, will be serialised in CHESS commencing with our next number. Nephew of Sir James Barrie\, twice British Chess Champion\, a lifelong Communist and freethinker\, imprisoned for his political views\, “Willie Winter”\, with his Bohemian way of life\, was undoubtedly the most colourful figure in British Chess for many decades irrespective of whether you agree with his views (most readers may not!)\, you will find him a delightful writer whose gifted pen draws you engrossed from page to Page. \nAnd so\, for your delectation\, here are William Winter’s Memoirs.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-william-winter/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Remembering,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201223
DTSTAMP:20211222T110618Z
CREATED:20191212T144348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211222T110618Z
UID:2341-1608595200-1608681599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM David Eggleston (22-xii-1987)
DESCRIPTION:Best Wishes to IM David Eggleston on his birthday. \nDavid James Eggleston was born on Tuesday\, December 22nd 1987 in Sunderland\, County Durham to Ian and Janet Eggleston (née Robson). David has a brother\, Thomas A\, also born in 1987 who plays chess to a high standard (2178 in 2020). Thomas also plays for Durham City and for 4NCL North East England. \nThere is one game in Megabase between the brothers from round 5 of the Durham Open in 2003 which resulted in a 13 move draw. They shared the 1st prize with 4/5. \nDavid currently resides in Durham and plays for Durham City in the North East League and for Cheddleton in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nDavid became a FIDE Master in 2007 and an International Master in 2013. \nAccording to ChessBase David’s peak FIDE rating was 2434 aged 26 in December 2013. However\, this could easily be surpassed. \nHe has a plus score against Keith Arkell\, James Jackson\, Peter Sowray and Chris Ward to name but a few. \nIM David James Eggleston\nWith the white pieces David is a staunch e4 player playing open Sicilians\, the Italian Game and 3.Nc3 versus the French and the Caro-Kann. \nAs the second player David plays the Najdorf and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 105th”]\n[Site “Hull”]\n[Date “2018.07.29”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Eggleston\, David”]\n[Black “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C54”]\n[WhiteElo “2397”]\n[BlackElo “2669”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “2018.07.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 185 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.06.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.06.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,87\,30\,30\,23\,14\,14\,11\,17\,55\,11\,-5\,35\,29\,35\,-10\,-9\,-13\,12\,4\,15\,20\,23\,\n-34\,-26\,-26\,-31\,-21\,-23\,-50\,-31\,-31\,-7\,-7\,-13\,-23\,-30\,-31\,-37\,-50\,-17\,-69\,-44\,\n-49\,-67\,-70\,-76\,-85\,-45\,-102\,-72\,-103\,-99\,-99\,-95\,-101\,-116\,-120\,-110\,-101\,\n-104\,-114\,-118\,-118\,-77\,-114\,-148\,-210\,-197\,-279\,-101\,-103\,-103\,-103\,85\,154\,\n229\,229\,500\,514\,1303\,1303\,1303\,2218\,29977\,29978\,29979\,29980\,29981\,29982]} 1. e4\ne5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O O-O 7. a4 a5 8. Nbd2 Ne7 9.\nRe1 Ng6 10. Nf1 Be6 11. Ng3 Bxc4 12. dxc4 Qd7 13. h3 Rfe8 14. Nh2 Nf4 15. Qf3\nNe6 16. Nf5 Qd8 17. h4 Kh8 18. g3 Rf8 19. Kg2 Ng8 20. h5 g6 21. Nh4 Ng7 22. h6\nNe6 23. Re2 Qe8 24. Qg4 f6 25. N2f3 Qf7 26. Qh3 Rae8 27. Bd2 f5 28. exf5 gxf5\n29. Rae1 f4 30. b4 Ba7 31. c5 Nxh6 32. Re4 Rg8 33. Rh1 Ng4 34. Kf1 Bb8 35. gxf4\nexf4 36. c4 h5 37. Ng2 Kh7 38. cxd6 Nf6 39. Ne5 Qg7 40. Qf5+ Kh8 41. Rxh5+ Nxh5\n42. Qxh5+ Qh7 43. Nf7+ Kg7 44. Bc3+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDavid has one book\, published in July 2014 : Hacking up the King published by Mongoose Press : \nHacking Up The King\nIM David James Eggleston
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-james-eggleston-22-xii-1987/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201226
DTSTAMP:20201224T161521Z
CREATED:20191212T161528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201224T161521Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Graeme Buckley (25-xii-1971)
DESCRIPTION:BCN sends best wishes to Graeme Buckley on his birthday. \nGraeme Noel Buckley born on Saturday\, December 25th\, 1971 in Wolverhampton\, West Midlands. \nHis first chess club was Bushbury which is also known as Bilston Sports & Social Club Ltd. His father David is the long time club President. \nGraeme’s first recorded games in Megabase 2020 were at the 1987 British Championship in Swansea were he scored a modest 4/11. \nGraeme married IM Susan Lalic in Sutton\, Surrey in 2001 and they reside in Sutton. They have two daughters\, Lucy and Emma who attend Nonsuch High School for Girls following in the footsteps of their mother. \nGraeme became a FIDE Master in 1994 and an International Master in 1995. \n[pgn]\n[Event “4NCL : Bolton”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1995.05.??”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Buckley\, Graeme N”]\n[Black “Quillan\, Gary M”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A45”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “33”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 1995\, page 354”]\n[WhiteTeam “Midland Monarchs”]\n[BlackTeam “North West Eagles”] \n{[%evp 0\,12\,19\,31\,14\,-9\,-11\,2\,24\,5\,6\,3\,5\,-49\,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bh4 (\n3. Bf4 c5 4. f3 Qa5+ 5. c3 Nf6 6. d5) 3… c5 4. f3 g5 5. fxe4 gxh4 6. e3 Qb6\n7. Nc3 Qxb2 (7… e6) 8. Nd5 Kd8 9. Rb1 Qa3 10. Qh5 Nc6 $6 (10… Qxa2 11. Rd1)\n11. Nf3 $16 f6 $146 (11… cxd4 12. exd4 e6) (11… e6 12. Qg5+ Be7 13. Nxe7\nNxe7 14. Kf2 Qxa2 15. Bd3 Rg8 16. Qxc5 b6 17. Qd6 Qa4 18. Rb5 Ba6 19. Rhb1 Bxb5\n20. Rxb5 Rc8 21. Ne5 $13) 12. Be2 Qxa2 $2 (12… cxd4 13. O-O) 13. O-O $18 Nb4\n$2 {[#]} 14. Rxb4 $1 cxb4 15. Ne5 $1 fxe5 16. Qxe5 e6 17. Qf6+ {and Black\nresigned.} (17. Qxh8 exd5 18. Qxf8+ Kc7 19. Qc5+ Kd8 20. Rf8#) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe has played for Midland Monarchs and Wood Green in 4NCL\, Surrey CCA\, Wimbledon 4NCL Guildford and Bushbury (in Wolverhampton) \nAccording to ChessBase Graeme reached his highest FIDE rating in July 2003\, aged 32 of 2420. \nGraeme teaches chess in many Surrey Schools and in conjunction with Susan. \nGraeme has been a director of Surrey County Chess Association for four years resigning in 2011. \nGraeme was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2009-10 season \nAccording to Easy Guide to the Queen’s Gambit Accepted\, Cadogan\, 1998 : \n“Graeme Buckley caused a stir in his first year as a professional player securing his International Master title in a matter of months\, quickly followed by his first grandmaster norm. More recently he has been involved in some major coaching projects. In 1996 he was manager of the English youth team\, who achieved the impressive double of winning both the Glorney and Faber Cups.” \nWith the white pieces Graeme playa the Queen’s Gambit nowadays with Nf3 appearing before c4 having flirted with the Trompowski in the early days. \nAs the second player he plays the Sicilian Scheveningen\, the King’s Indian and not the Queen’s Gambit Accepted despite authoring a book about it! \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0708 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Sunningdale”]\n[Date “2007.11.16”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “King\, Daniel J”]\n[Black “Buckley\, Graeme N”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C02”]\n[WhiteElo “2528”]\n[BlackElo “2390”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “44”]\n[EventDate “2007.09.15”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\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\,44\,19\,38\,40\,41\,41\,1\,15\,-10\,-7\,-11\,5\,-11\,3\,-4\,-9\,-5\,13\,-37\,-37\,-26\,-21\,\n-14\,7\,-20\,0\,0\,-18\,-35\,-35\,-72\,-73\,-86\,-40\,-162\,-144\,-211\,-274\,-475\,-475\,-474\,\n-510\,-542\,-509\,-509\,-509]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 d5 4. e5 Nc6 5. d4 Bd7 6.\nBe2 Nge7 7. O-O Rc8 8. a3 Nf5 9. dxc5 $146 (9. b4 cxd4 10. cxd4 Be7 11. Bb2 Qb6\n12. Qd2 O-O 13. Rd1 f6 14. Nc3 fxe5 15. dxe5 Be8 16. Rac1 Bh5 17. Na4 Qd8 18.\nNc5 Bxc5 19. Rxc5 $11) 9… Bxc5 10. Bd3 Nh4 11. Nbd2 Bb6 12. Qe2 O-O 13. Nxh4\nQxh4 14. g3 Qh3 $11 15. Nb3 $6 (15. Nf3 Qh5) 15… f6 $1 16. exf6 $6 (16. Be3\n$19) 16… e5 $1 {[%cal Ge5e4]} 17. Be3 e4 18. Bb5 (18. Bxb6 exd3 19. Qxd3 axb6\n20. fxg7 Kxg7 $19) 18… Bg4 19. f3 exf3 20. Rxf3 Ne5 21. Nd2 Nxf3+ 22. Nxf3\nRxf6 0-1\n[/pgn] \nMultiple Choice by Graeme Buckley\nEasy Guide to the Queen’s Gambit Accepted by Graeme Buckley\nTrends in the Trompovsky\, Vol. 4\nIM Graeme Buckley\, Surrey Open\, 2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-graeme-noel-buckley-25-xii-1971/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201229
DTSTAMP:20260817T135536Z
CREATED:20210201T132752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T135536Z
UID:13692-1609113600-1609199999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Frank Parr (17-xii-1918  28-xii-2003)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Frank Parr (17-xii-1918  28-xii-2003)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-frank-parr-17-xii-1918-28-xii-2003/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Player,Remembering
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201230
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201231
DTSTAMP:20201229T175730Z
CREATED:20200412T131219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201229T175730Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Jonah Willow (30-xii-2002)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday to FM Jonah Willow \nJonah B Willow was born in Nottingham on Monday\, December 30th 2002. Jacob was the most popular boy’s name in 2002. “Lose Yourself” by Enimem was number one. \nJonah’s first recorded graded standard play tournament was the 2010 Delancey UK Chess Challenge Terafinal and his first recorded rapidplay event was the Nottingham Rapidplay in 2011. \nJonah Willow at the 2012 UKK Terafinal. Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nJonah’s first published standard play grade was 96D in January of 2012 : \nJonah’s ECF grading progress\nJonah has represented West Nottingham\, 4NCL Wood Green\, Nottinghamshire CA and Syston (Leicester). \nFIDE rating profile for FM Jonah B Willow from Megabase 2020\nIt is a little curious as to the reason for the rating profile to halt at the end of 2018 since Jonah has played plenty of FIDE rated games since. Compare the above with : \nFIDE rating for FM Jonah Willow from fide.com\nJonah has plus scores against : Mike Surtees\, Richard Pert\, Peter Shaw\, Ranesh Ratnesan\, Shreyas Royal\, Keith Arkell and Ameet Ghasi to name but a few. \nWith the white pieces Jonah is a committed 1.e4 player but he has scored 83% with 1.Nc3! \nJonah plays the unusual Chekhover Variation  (4.Qxd4) in the 2…d6 Sicilian : this is an interesting alternative and is discussed by GM Ben Finegold : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liecBr62eqA[/embedyt] \nand  \nGM Varuzhan Akobian : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNoGIo4yjkM[/embedyt] \nJonah plays the Four Knights game with white. \nAs the second player he plays the Accelerated Dragon and the Modern Benoni. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Titled Tuesday intern op 17th Nov”]\n[Site “Chess.com INT”]\n[Date “2020.11.17”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Willow\, Jonah B”]\n[Black “Svidler\, Peter”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B53”]\n[WhiteElo “2386”]\n[BlackElo “2723”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “2020.11.17”]\n[EventType “swiss (blitz)”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “USA”]\n[SourceTitle “Mega2020 Update 58”]\n[Source “Chessbase”]\n[SourceDate “2020.11.27”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2020.11.27”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,15\,29\,25\,61\,47\,79\,62\,86\,57\,70\,22\,12\,11\,15\,6\,5\,0]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6\n3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 {The Chekhover Variation (Vitaly Checkhover 1908 – 1965)} a6\n{Black wishes to develop the knight without having it pinned. Probably also\nmakes it awkward for White to castle long.} ({The “main line” is} 4… Nc6 5.\nBb5 Bd7 6. Bxc6 (6. Qd3 Nf6 7. c4 g6 8. Nc3 Bg7 9. O-O O-O 10. h3 a6 11. Bxc6\nBxc6 12. Nd4 Nd7 13. Be3 Rc8 14. Rac1 Nc5 15. Qc2 Ne6 16. Nxe6 fxe6 $14) 6…\nBxc6 7. Nc3 Nf6 8. Bg5 e6 9. O-O-O Be7 10. Rhe1 O-O 11. Kb1 Qa5 12. Qd2 Qa6 13.\nNd4 Rfc8 14. f3 $11) 5. c4 Nc6 6. Qe3 g6 7. Be2 Bg7 8. h3 Nf6 9. O-O O-O 10.\nNc3 Nd7 11. Rd1 Nc5 12. Rb1 {[#]} f5 $2 {Probably not correct but active\nnontheless. 13 games with this in MegaBase 2020 and the move is labelled as\n“hot”.} (12… a5) 13. b4 f4 (13… Nxe4 14. Nxe4 fxe4 15. Ng5 $1 Kh8 16. Bb2 {\nRemoving the defender…} Bxb2 17. Rxb2 Bf5 18. g4 $18) 14. Qd2 $18 Bxc3 15.\nQxc3 Nxe4 16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Bxf4 $18 Bf5 18. Bd3 Bxd3 19. Qxd3 $146 (19. Rxd3)\n19… Qc8 20. Bh6 Re8 21. Re1 (21. Qb3) 21… Qf5 22. Qd2 Rad8 23. Nd4 Nxd4 24.\nQxd4 e5 25. Qb6 Rd7 26. Rbd1 (26. b5) 26… Re6 27. Qe3 Kf7 28. Rd2 d5 $2 29.\ng4 Qe4 30. cxd5 {and Svidler resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe has his own Twitch TV channel. \nOn chess.com he is JonahWillow and his highest chess.com rating has been 2863 on April 5th 2020.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-jonah-b-willow-30-xii-2002/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,UKCC
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210108
DTSTAMP:20210120T120552Z
CREATED:20191230T113557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210120T120552Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday for GM Luke James McShane (07-i-1984)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Luke James McShane on his birthday\, this day (January 7th) in 1984. \nHere is Luke’s Wikipedia entry \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings 9798”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1997.12.31”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Black “Plaskett\, H James”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B44”]\n[WhiteElo “2455”]\n[BlackElo “2450”]\n[Annotator “McShane\,L”]\n[PlyCount “45”]\n[EventDate “1997.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “13”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 063”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.03.26”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.03.26”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,45\,26\,28\,41\,41\,43\,23\,44\,24\,40\,7\,25\,32\,20\,5\,5\,-1\,-35\,-20\,20\,20\,0\,-13\,6\,\n30\,1\,-17\,129\,129\,133\,134\,133\,136\,136\,137\,150\,153\,153\,161\,172\,172\,179\,183\,188\,\n177\,189\,185]} 1. e4 {Rodriguez\,Am} c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5\nd6 6. Bf4 e5 7. Be3 Be6 {Rodriguez: A flexible move order in a position where\nonly other three continuations are quite playable.} (7… Be7 {Rodriguez\,Am}) (\n7… a6 {Rodriguez\,Am} 8. N5c3 Nf6 {is probably the most reliable now since:}\n9. Bc4 Be6 10. Nd5 Nxe4 $3 {seems to work well for equality.}) (7… Nf6 {\nRodriguez\,Am} 8. Bg5 Be6 {has been the main line for years but:} 9. Bxf6 gxf6\n10. Nd2 $1 {looks promising for White these days.}) 8. Nd2 Nf6 (8… a6 {\nRodriguez\,Am} 9. Nc3 Nf6 10. Nc4 {is an important line too} b5 (10… Rb8 $5\n11. Bb6 Qd7 12. Qd2 Nb4 $1 $11 {Amador Rodríguez-Zapata\, Mexico 1993}) 11. Nb6\nRb8 12. Nbd5 Be7 {used to work well for Black until my strong novelty 13.a4!.\nSee CBM 59 or inf 69/(163) for my game against Gilberto Hernández}) 9. Bg5 d5\n$6 (9… a6 {Rodriguez\,Am} 10. Bxf6 $1 gxf6 11. Nc3 {is much more playable\nwith many options\, just one of them:} d5 12. exd5 Bxd5 {works better than in\nthe current game\, for instance:} 13. Bc4 (13. Nxd5 Qxd5 14. Nc4 Nd4 $6 (14…\nQxd1+ $14) 15. c3 Rd8 16. Ne3 Qa5 17. Bc4 b5 18. O-O bxc4 19. cxd4 Rxd4 20. Qf3\n$44 {Trepp\,M-Wyttenbach/Bern op 1989}) 13… Bxc4 14. Nxc4 Qxd1+ 15. Rxd1 Bb4\n16. O-O Bxc3 17. bxc3 Ke7 18. Nd6 Rab8 19. Nf5+ Ke6 20. Ng7+ {1/2-1/2\nKengis-Andersson/Haninge 1992}) (9… Be7 10. Bxf6 {Rodriguez\,Am} Bxf6 11. Nc4\nO-O {is also obscure and playable.}) 10. exd5 Bxd5 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Bc4 $1 {\nRodriguez: A strong move I had already discovered many years ago when I\nstarted to investigate this variation.} (12. Nc4 $6 {Rodriguez\,Am} Be6 13. Qf3\n(13. Ncd6+ Bxd6 14. Qxd6 Qxd6 15. Nxd6+ Ke7 16. O-O-O Rhd8 17. Nb5 Nb4 $17 {\nRodin\,M-Milov\,L/Komercni Banka op 1996/EXP 55}) 13… Nb4 14. Ne3 Bc5 15. Na3\nNc6 $15 {Trepp-Kaenel/Switzerland ch 1990}) 12… Rc8 (12… Bxg2 13. Rg1 $36)\n(12… Bxc4 13. Nxc4 Qxd1+ 14. Rxd1 $16) (12… a6 13. Rg1 $36 (13. Bxd5 {\nRodriguez\,Am} axb5 14. Bb3 Nd4 15. O-O Nxb3 16. axb3 Rxa1 17. Qxa1 Be7 18. Qd1\n$14 {Leko\,P-Portisch\,L/ch-HUN1997})) 13. Qg4 $1 {Xc8} (13. Bxd5 {Rodriguez\,Am}\nQxd5 14. Qg4 Qe6 $11) 13… Bxc4 {Rodriguez: A losing move} (13… Nb4 14.\nO-O-O (14. Bxd5 {Rodriguez\,Am} Rxc2 $5 {and even though the position looks\npleasant for White he must now find and active continuation not without risk.\nAs we will see soon\, the game continuation was too easy.} (14… Nxc2+ 15. Ke2\nNxa1 16. Rxa1 Rc5 17. Bc4 $16) 15. Nc3 $6 (15. Ne4 $5 Nxd5 16. Rd1) (15. O-O $5\nQxd5 16. Rac1) 15… Nd3+ $1) (14. O-O h5 15. Qe2 Rg8 16. g3 a6 $13) 14… a6)\n(13… h5 14. Qh3 (14. Qf5 $143 $6 Ne7) 14… Nb4 15. Bxd5 Nxc2+ (15… Rxc2\n16. Qb3)) 14. Nxc4 {Rodriguez: With simply too many threats.} Nd4 $2 15. Ncd6+\nBxd6 16. Nxd6+ Ke7 (16… Qxd6 17. Qxc8+ Ke7 18. Qxb7+ $18 (18. Qxh8 $6 Nxc2+\n19. Ke2 Nd4+ 20. Ke1 $11 (20. Kf1 Qa6+ $19))) 17. Nxc8+ Qxc8 18. Qxc8 Rxc8 19.\nRc1 Rxc2 20. Rxc2 Nxc2+ 21. Kd2 Nd4 22. Rc1 Nc6 23. Rc3 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nLuke James McShane\n[pgn]\n[Event “London Classic 2nd”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “2010.12.08”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Black “Carlsen\, Magnus”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A37”]\n[WhiteElo “2645”]\n[BlackElo “2802”]\n[Annotator “McShane\,L”]\n[PlyCount “77”]\n[EventDate “2010.12.06”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “19”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 140”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.01.18”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.01.18”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,77\,19\,-12\,11\,2\,18\,16\,9\,4\,4\,15\,4\,5\,44\,30\,18\,18\,23\,24\,45\,32\,45\,0\,36\,41\,\n37\,-25\,15\,22\,30\,39\,26\,-3\,22\,33\,28\,67\,9\,33\,35\,11\,71\,73\,65\,65\,80\,77\,65\,65\,94\,100\,\n84\,76\,90\,90\,90\,96\,98\,98\,98\,116\,118\,81\,117\,187\,198\,219\,222\,222\,184\,195\,197\,191\,\n198\,218\,228\,228\,231\,236]} 1. c4 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6.\nO-O Nh6 7. d4 $5 {With this interesting idea\, White voluntarily gives up the\nbishop pair in order to increase his lead in development.} (7. b3 {was played\nin Flores-Carlsen at the Khanty Mansiysk-Olympiad in 2010}) 7… cxd4 8. Bxh6\nBxh6 9. Nxd4 Ne5 {[%csl Gc8\,Gg2\,Gh6][%cal Yg2a8] An ambitious decision\,\nrefusing to simplify the position.} 10. Qb3 O-O 11. Rfd1 {[%csl Rd8\,Rh6][%cal\nYc4c5\,Yd4f5\,Yd1d8] The position is calm on the surface\, but the situation is\ntense. Black’s queenside is under pressure\, but if Black can catch up in\ndevelopment then his pair of bishops will give him an advantage\, so it’s\nimportant for White to keep up the momentum and create threats. This move\ncreates the idea of c4-c5\, and if d6xc5 then Nd4-f5 with a discovered attack.}\nNd7 12. Qa3 a5 13. b4 $5 {[%csl Ga3][%cal Ya3a8\,Yc4c5] A brave decision which\ntook some time. I wanted to seize the initiative before my opponent had a\nchance to unravel his queenside. The immediate threat is to advance c4-c5\nwhich would break through the queenside defences.} Ra6 {[%csl Ga6][%cal Ya5b4\,\nYb7a6]} (13… Nb6 {was the critical response\, hitting c4 and protecting the\nrook on a8 so that axb4 becomes possible. Now after} 14. c5 Nc4 15. Qb3 Nd2 $5\n{is a surprising shot. During the game I thought White had good chances in the\ntactical melee which arises after 16.Qd5!?\, but perhaps} 16. Qa4 {is the\ncorrect follow up after all.}) 14. b5 Ra8 {It’s not obvious who has gained\nfrom the pawn’s advance to b5. If White can break through\, the advanced pawn\nwill be an asset\, but if Black can get a grip on c5 then the c4-pawn will be a\nlong term weakness.} 15. e3 a4 16. Rab1 Bg7 17. Ne4 {[%cal Yc4c5] White is\nthreatening c4-c5 again\, which would open the floodgates for the rest of my\npieces. It’s correct to prevent that\, but I had foreseen the nice maneouvre\nwith the other knight.} Qb6 18. Nc6 $1 {[%csl Gc6\,Gd5\,Re7][%cal Yc6e7\,Yc6b4\,\nYb4d5]} Re8 ({Capturing the knight wasn’t a great option:} 18… bxc6 19. bxc6\nQc7 (19… Qxc6 20. Nf6+ {wins the queen.}) 20. cxd7 Bxd7 21. c5 {and White\nwill probably pick up a pawn.}) 19. Nb4 {[%csl Rb6\,Gd5\,Ge4][%cal Yb4d5\,Yc4c5]\nHeading for a nice square on d5.} f5 {Certainly ugly\, but both of us thought\nthis was a necessary evil. Perhaps though\, moving the queen away was the best\nbet.} 20. Nc3 $6 (20. Nd5 $1 Qd8 21. Ng5 $1 {was the strongest continuation\,\nthreatening to hop into the hole on e6. After} Nc5 22. b6 {threatens a fork on\nc7. If both the rooks flee then} Rf8 23. Nc7 Rb8 24. Rb5 $1 {is incisive\, and\nBlack has no good answer to Rxc5.}) 20… Qc5 $2 (20… e6 $1 {was the best\ndefence. I was looking at some ideas with} 21. Na6 $5 {but the position\nremains messy. Retreating the knight to d3 should preserve an edge though.})\n21. Nxa4 Qa7 22. Na6 $3 {[%csl Ga6\,Ra7\,Gg2][%cal Yg2a8\,Yb5b6\,Ya6c7] Certainly\nMagnus missed the force of this knight sacrifice. The threat is Na6-c7 and\ntaking the knight comes with its own problems.} bxa6 (22… Rf8 23. c5 $1 Nxc5\n24. N4xc5 dxc5 25. Qxc5 {and the knight still can’t be taken:} bxa6 26. b6 Qb8\n27. Qd5+ $18) 23. b6 Nxb6 24. Rxb6 $1 (24. Nxb6 Rb8 {is less convincing.})\n24… Rb8 25. c5 $1 Be6 {Black faced an unappealing choice.} ({The alternative\nwas} 25… dxc5 26. Qxc5 Rxb6 27. Nxb6 Be6 28. Qc6 Bf7 29. Bd5 {and Black is\nin huge trouble.} e6 $2 {allows a pretty finish:} 30. Nc8 Qb8 31. Bxe6 $1 Rxe6\n32. Rd8+ Bf8 33. Ne7+ $1 Kg7 34. Rxb8 Rxc6 35. Nxc6 {with an easy win.}) 26.\nRdb1 dxc5 27. Rb7 Rxb7 28. Rxb7 Qa8 29. Nxc5 Qc8 (29… Bf7 30. Rxe7 $1 {\nis winning comfortably\, as a6 will also drop off after the exchange of rooks.}\nQb8 31. Rxe8+ Qxe8 32. Qxa6 {etc.}) 30. Qxa6 Bf7 (30… Qxc5 31. Qxe6+ Kh8 32.\nBc6 {[%csl Re7] wins the e7-pawn as well.}) 31. Bc6 Rd8 32. Nd7 $1 {[%csl Gd7]\n[%cal Yb7c7\,Ya6b6\,Yb7b8] The neatest way to finish. The threat is simply to\nplay Qb6 followed by Rc7 or Rb8 to trap the queen\, and there is no good\nresponse.} Rxd7 (32… Be6 33. Qb6 Rxd7 34. Rb8 $1 {wins with a pin.}) 33. Bxd7\nQc1+ 34. Qf1 Qxf1+ 35. Kxf1 Bc4+ 36. Kg1 Bxa2 37. Ba4 $1 {[%cal Ya4b3] Forcing\noff a pair of bishops makes the technical task much simpler.} e5 38. f3 $1 {\nA final accurate move. After exchanging bishops\, White will play e3-e4 to fix\na weakness on e5 before advancing the king.} Bh6 39. Bb3+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nLuke James McShane
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM George Botterill (08-i-1949)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to IM George Steven Botterill born on this day (January 8th) in 1949. \nHere is his Wikipedia page \nBrian Reilly\, Ray Keene\, George Botterill\, Anatoly Karpov\, Harry Golombek and Viktor Korchnoi\nand here is his academic page \nCapa vs Corzo Rerun ? Nigel Short had 1977 British Champion George Botterill on the ropes at The National Bank of Dubai Open. In the photo Nigel is considering 42 Rh5 The champ just escaped with a draw.\n[pgn]\n[Event “Bath zt”]\n[Site “Bath”]\n[Date “1987.02.15”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Botterill\, George Steven”]\n[Black “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E49”]\n[WhiteElo “2370”]\n[BlackElo “2595”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1987.02.14”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “7”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 004”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1988.06.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1988.06.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,4\,33\,-47\,-26\,-31\,-25\,-25\,-25\,-25\,-18\,-14\,-21\,-11\,\n-13\,-26\,-12\,-26\,-22\,-27\,-29\,-29\,-7\,-40\,-38\,-66\,-42\,-31\,-1\,-32\,16\,9\,42\,37\,76\,93\,\n73\,50\,48\,32\,50\,15\,16\,19\,36\,17\,35\,27\,39\,21\,36\,28\,-8\,18\,63\,35\,35\,17\,62\,77\,43\,\n-103\,91\,54\,295\,356\,352\,376\,361\,358\,353\,324\,352\,365\,870\,969\,1250]} 1. d4 Nf6 2.\nc4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 O-O 7. cxd5 exd5 8. e3 b6 9. Bd3\nc5 10. Ne2 Re8 11. O-O Ba6 12. Bxa6 Nxa6 13. Qd3 Nb8 14. Ng3 Nc6 15. Ra2 Rc8\n16. Re2 h6 17. Bb2 Ne7 18. e4 Ng6 19. Qd2 dxe4 20. fxe4 Nh7 21. Nf5 Nh4 22. Qf4\nNxf5 23. Qxf5 Rc7 24. d5 c4 25. Bc1 Qd7 26. Qf3 Rc5 27. Qh5 f6 28. h4 Re5 29.\nQf3 Nf8 30. Be3 Ra5 31. Bd4 Re8 32. Qg3 Kh7 33. Bxf6 Rxd5 34. Bd4 Ng6 35. exd5\nRxe2 36. h5 Nh8 37. Rf8 Re7 38. Qb8 Nf7 39. Rg8 Re1+ 40. Kh2 Re5 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM George Steven Botterill (08-I-1949)\nThe Modern Defence\, BT Batsford\, 1972\, GS Botterill and RD Keene\nThe Pirc Defence\, BT Batsford\, 1973\, GS Botterill and RD Keene\nBritish Chess\, Pergamon Press\, 1983. Editors : GS Botterill\, DNL Levy\, JM Rice and MJ Richardson
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Keith Arkell (08-i-1961)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to GM Keith Arkell\, born this day (January 8th) in 1961. \nKeith Arkell\nHere is Keith’s Wikipedia entry \nGM Keith Arkell (ENG)\nThis was written about Keith aged 18 prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n“Rednal\, Birmingham. Rating 188. 2nd Lloyds Bank junior international\, 1979.” \nKeith was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2014-15 season sharing with Jonathan Hawkins \nHere is an interview with ChessBase from 2016. \nGM Keith Arkell\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PIzZG4FlZ8[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 1415 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2015.02.14”]\n[Round “5.164”]\n[White “Rogers\, Jonathan”]\n[Black “Arkell\, Keith C”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2277”]\n[BlackElo “2497”]\n[Annotator “Saunders\,J/Arkell”]\n[PlyCount “82”]\n[EventDate “2014.11.15”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2016”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Barbican II”]\n[BlackTeam “Cheddleton”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,82\,19\,38\,72\,69\,71\,77\,64\,2\,30\,17\,14\,9\,29\,24\,35\,-30\,-50\,-74\,-74\,-75\,-88\,\n-128\,-3\,-16\,-56\,-32\,-43\,-43\,10\,5\,20\,16\,16\,-4\,5\,-3\,-68\,-61\,-45\,-40\,-37\,-1273\,68\,\n-201\,-202\,-210\,-197\,-207\,-208\,-228\,-194\,-183\,-149\,-150\,-148\,-143\,-143\,-141\,138\,\n141\,141\,150\,138\,140\,138\,173\,201\,198\,198\,210\,213\,236\,232\,190\,225\,138\,142\,100\,\n114\,95\,114\,95\,92]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c4 e6 5. Nf3 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bb4+\n$5 ({Databases are peppered with games where Keith has played} 6… Nc6 {\nbut perhaps he wanted to keep his opponent guessing.}) 7. Nc3 Ne7 8. h4 Nbc6 9.\na3 $5 {Jonathan\, perhaps with the far-sighted plan of not being strangled\nslowly in a rook and pawn endgame\, wants to provoke something sharp.} Bxc3+ 10.\nbxc3 Nxe5 11. Bf4 N5g6 (11… Nxc4 12. Bxc4 dxc4 {is tempting but maybe} 13.\nNb5 O-O 14. Qxd8 Rxd8 15. Nc7 Nd5 16. O-O-O $5 {gives White a bit of\ncompensation. Instead\, Black gives back material to get some pressure on the\ne-file.}) 12. Bg3 e5 13. h5 exd4 14. hxg6 Nxg6 15. Qxd4 O-O 16. cxd5 Re8+ 17.\nBe2 Ne7 18. Rd1 Nf5 19. Qd3 {[diag]} Qg5 (19… Qg5 {We haven’t quite got\nthere yet\, but we’re coming up to a spectacular mutual oversight which needs\nexplaining. Seeking enlightenment (and also wanting to be sure that the moves\nwere correctly recorded – mix-ups do happen)\, I got in touch with Keith on\nFaceBook to ask what happened. Keith responded at some length\, centring on his\nthoughts as he planned the move 19…Qg5. What followed are his own words\,\nlightly edited by me: “It’s impossible to fully explain how such a thing can\nhappen\, but let me try anyway. So\, I’m sitting there analysing the move I want\nto play in principle – which at the time was 19…Qd8-g5. I know that my\nadvantage increases if I can make the move\, but obviously I am concerned about\nhis possible reply} 20. Qb5 {So I analyse} Re4 {(other moves didn’t look very\ngood to me)} 21. d6 {- the only move that could give me any problem\, as it\nthreatens to win a piece. Visualising the position\, I then hoped that} Be6 {\nwould be strong\, as it threatened the winning 22…Bc4. Of course\, the main\npotential drawback to this is that he can then fork my rooks with} 22. Qxb7 {\nI would then need} Rxe2+ {to work or I would be lost! So – and don’t forget\,\nall this is before playing 19…Qg5 – I set about analysing 22…Rxe2+ as I\n(wrongly!) believed that 19…Qg5 hinged on this. So\, 22…Rxe2+} 23. Kxe2 Bc4+\n24. Kf3 {(obviously forced) and then\, I thought\, ”please let 24…Re8 be a\nwinning move”! It certainly looked winning. It was obvious he had to either\nput a rook on e1 or his bishop on e5 to stop …Be2 mate. I didn’t look beyond}\nRe8 {[diag]} 25. Rde1 ({I saw a pretty mate against} 25. Rhe1 {which was} Qh5+\n26. Kf4 g5+ {(my favourite move!)} 27. Kxf5 Qg6+ 28. Kg4 f5+ 29. Kh3 Qh5+ 30.\nBh4 Qxh4#) ({so that just left the irritating} 25. Be5 {to deal with. Find a\ngood move there and I could play 19…Qg5. I decided that 25…h5 must be\nwinning and anyway certainly left him in trouble.}) 25… Bd5+ 26. Qxd5 Nh4+ {\nSo I analysed no more and plunged in with 19…Qg5. He quickly replied 20 Qb5\nand\, after briefly running through all those nice lines again\, I confidently\nplayed 20…Re4. He continued following my analysis\, with 21 d6?? and I had 21.\n..Be6?? ready for him. So there you have it. The explanation is that we were\nplaying out a variation I had analysed way ahead\, and I didn’t stop properly\nto check if there might be something else going on!”}) 20. Qb5 Re4 21. d6 $4 (\n21. O-O Nxg3 22. fxg3 Re5 $5 {seems to be broadly equal.}) 21… Be6 $4 ({\nWhat Keith had missed in his move 19 analysis\, and what Jonathan also missed\nwhen playing 21.d6\, was the bone-crushing} 21… Nxg3 $3 {\, which is game over\nas} 22. Qxg5 {allows} Rxe2# {mate\, while a capture on g3 loses the queen to 22.\n..Qxb5 as the e2 bishop is pinned.}) 22. Qd3 $4 (22. O-O $1 Rd8 23. Bd3 {\nand White is well in the game.}) 22… Nxg3 {This time Black doesn’t fluff his\nlines.} 23. fxg3 Qe5 $1 24. Rh4 (24. d7 Rd8 {makes no material difference\,\nwhile a king move such as}) (24. Kf1 {loses to} Bc4 {.}) 24… Bg4 25. Qxe4 $1\n({A much better bet than} 25. Rxg4 Rxg4 {\, which looks pretty hopeless for\nWhite.}) 25… Qxe4 26. Rxg4 Qe5 $6 ({There seems to be no reason not to\nsnatch a pawn with} 26… Qxg2 27. d7 Rd8 {\, with very reasonable winning\nchances.}) 27. d7 Qxc3+ $2 ({After this\, Black’s winning chances evaporate.}\n27… Rd8 {keeps the Black flag flying\, though it’s by no means obvious how he\ncan go about winning.}) 28. Kf1 Rd8 29. Re4 $1 {White’s firm control of the\ne-file is his salvation.} Qc6 ({Possibly another oversight\, but it turns out\nto be non-critical as the following tactical sequence doesn’t leave Black too\nmuch to do to save the game. After} 29… Kf8 30. Bb5 Qf6+ 31. Ke1 g6 32. Re8+\nKg7 33. Rxd8 Qxd8 34. Rc1 {\, the game peters out to a draw.}) 30. Re8+ Rxe8 31.\nd8=Q g6 32. Qd5 Qc3 33. Bc4 Qf6+ 34. Kg1 Re7 35. Rf1 Qb6+ 36. Kh1 Qc7 {The\nzenith of White’s game – Houdini scores it at +2.13 – but it is hard to see\nhow White can bring any more pressure to bear on Black’s position or make\nmeaningful progress. Maybe Magnus Carlsen would have found a way.} 37. Qd4 a6\n38. Rd1 b5 39. Bf1 Re8 40. Kh2 Qc2 41. Qd3 Qc5 1/2-1/2 \n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJgiN5MgOns[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Crawley e2e4 Gatwick op 10”]\n[Site “Crawley”]\n[Date “2016.10.26”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Arkell\, Keith C”]\n[Black “Wadsworth\, Matthew J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D23”]\n[WhiteElo “2450”]\n[BlackElo “2290”]\n[Annotator “Keith Arkell”]\n[PlyCount “159”]\n[EventDate “2016.10.26”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Arkell’s Endings : Game 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,159\,19\,29\,23\,-4\,25\,20\,30\,-2\,20\,22\,9\,-6\,15\,-19\,-25\,-6\,-8\,-13\,6\,-4\,-3\,\n-3\,6\,-21\,-8\,-11\,22\,0\,7\,1\,14\,1\,3\,11\,8\,0\,5\,5\,29\,50\,52\,22\,21\,24\,45\,27\,63\,69\,55\,70\,\n72\,80\,74\,14\,33\,25\,26\,42\,34\,44\,48\,48\,68\,63\,89\,99\,98\,92\,126\,116\,115\,116\,116\,122\,\n128\,113\,128\,129\,132\,133\,135\,151\,158\,147\,151\,136\,137\,132\,142\,134\,152\,152\,156\,\n152\,162\,164\,163\,152\,152\,152\,163\,153\,153\,161\,157\,136\,153\,153\,153\,161\,157\,157\,\n162\,157\,157\,157\,157\,157\,158\,134\,158\,134\,208\,189\,189\,189\,189\,141\,189\,165\,182\,\n160\,177\,156\,202\,184\,193\,202\,210\,195\,208\,221\,276\,293\,377\,373\,545\,373\,639\,373\,\n373\,367\,365\,381\,371\,480\,537\,732\,1259\,28004]} {Taken from Arkell’s Endings\,\nGame 14\, pp 68-71} 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Qc2 dxc4 5. Qxc4 Bg4 6. Nbd2\nNbd7 7. g3 e6 8. Bg2 Be7 9. O-O Bh5 10. a4 $1 $146 (10. b3) 10… a5 11. Qb3\nQb6 12. Qxb6 Nxb6 13. b3 Nfd5 14. Bb2 O-O 15. Nc4 Nxc4 {This capture gave me\nsome encouragement as my pawn will gain in stature\, and I will have long-term\nprospects on the b-file.} 16. bxc4 Nb4 17. Rfd1 Rfd8 18. c5 Bf6 19. e3 b6 {\nAgainst a waiting move I planned Rab1 and Ba3} 20. cxb6 Rab8 21. Rac1 Rxb6 22.\nRd2 Bg6 23. Bc3 Be4 {[#]} {I think this was an oversight and he had missed my\n25th move.} 24. Ne5 Bxg2 25. Nc4 Ra6 26. Kxg2 {Now I have the kind of position\nI like: no weaknesses and a guarantee of permanent pressure against his\nqueenside pawns.} Rda8 27. Nxa5 {It was hard to resist playing in this\nstraightforward manner. It will now be a very tough task for Wadsworth to hang\non to his backward c-pawn.} (27. Rb1 {runs into} c5) ({and} 27. Rb2 {allows}\nNd3) 27… Nd5 28. Nb7 Rxa4 29. Rdc2 Ra2 30. Be1 g6 31. Kf3 {[%csl Gc6] With\ne3 defended I’m now threatening to capture his pawn.} Rxc2 32. Rxc2 Ne7 33.\nBb4 Ra6 34. Nc5 Ra7 {The c-pawn is lost whatever he does} ({For example} 34…\nRb6 35. Ba5 Rb5 36. Bd8 {with Nd3 or Ne4 to follow}) 35. Ne4 Kg7 {[#]} 36. Bxe7\n{I could have exchanged both minor pieces\, but felt that the subsequent ending\nwould be more favourable if I kept the knight\, which tends to be more\neffective than a bishop at close quarters.} Bxe7 37. Rxc6 h5 38. h3 {[#]} {\nHow do you set about winning such a position? Clearly not with the pieces\nalone\, but using pawns will unavoidably involve exchanges\, and you don’t\nwant too many swaps as rook\, knight and pawn versus rook and bishop is usually\na simple draw. The answer is somewhere in-between. Ideally you would like to\nfix the kingside with g4-g5\, and then organise e3-e4 and d4-d5.} Rb7 39. g4\nhxg4+ 40. hxg4 Ra7 {[#]} {I was pleased to see this and thought he should\nprefer 40…g5\, but I guess he was reluctant to put a pawn on the same colour\nas his bishop. 40…f5 was also interesting\, but I didn’t expect him to\nweaken his pawns in such a cavalier manner.} 41. g5 {Now I have a free hand to\nslowly improve my position because …f6 will always leave Black with too many\nweaknesses. So many times this is what we strive for in chess – leaving the\nopponent without any real counterplay is often half the battle.} Ra5 42. Kf4\nRa7 43. Rb6 Bd8 44. Rb5 Rd7 45. Kg4 Be7 46. Ra5 Bd8 47. Ra8 {[#]} {If you\nstudy the great endgame players such as Magnus Carlsen and Anatoly Karpov\, you\ncannot fail to observe their endless patience. Maintaining the tension rather\nthan committing oneself to immediate action tends to have a wearisome effect\non the opponent\, as well as forcing them to defend accurately to avoid further\ndamage.} Be7 48. Rc8 Rb7 49. Re8 Rc7 50. Rb8 Rd7 51. f4 Rc7 52. Kf3 Ra7 53. Nc5\nRc7 54. Nd3 Ra7 55. Rc8 Bd6 56. Ke4 Rb7 57. Nf2 {From g4 the knight will have\na choice of entry points into the heart of Black’s position.} Be7 58. Ng4 Ra7\n59. Rb8 Bd6 60. Rb5 Be7 61. Ke5 Ra3 {Spooked by my intention to make progress\nwith e3-e4 and d4-d5\, combined with Nf6 and Rb8\, Matthew gives some ground.}\n62. Rb7 Ra5+ 63. Ke4 Kf8 64. Nf6 Ra8 65. Ke5 Rd8 66. Nh7+ Ke8 67. e4 Ra8 68.\nNf6+ Kf8 69. d5 exd5 70. exd5 Rd8 71. Rb6 {[#]} {Threatening to win on the\nspot with 72 d6.} Bc5 72. Rc6 Ba3 73. d6 {Inch by inch I’ve brought about a\nwinning position. The rest is relatively straightforward.} Kg7 74. Kd5 Bb2 75.\nNg4 Ba3 76. Ne5 f6 77. Rc7+ Kg8 78. Nf7 Bxd6 79. Nxd6 fxg5 80. fxg5 1-0\n[/pgn] \nArkell’s Odyssey\nArkell’s Endings\, Keith Arkell\, GingerGM\, 2020\, ISBN-10 : 1527265595\nBCN has reviewed Arkell’s Endings in depth
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Shreyas Royal (09-i-2009)
DESCRIPTION:BCN sends birthday wishes to FM Shreyas (known as “Shrey” by his friends) Royal born on Friday\, January 9th\, 2009. “Hallelujah” by Alexandra Burke was number one in the UK hit parade. \nShreyas attended The Pointer School in Blackheath\, London\, SE3 whose motto is “The Lord is my Shepherd”. \nIn October 2021 BCN secured an interview with Shreyas via his father Jitendra and below is mostly from that interview: \nBCN: What caused his initial interest in chess and at what age? \nHis initial interest in chess was capturing or as he used to call it ‘eating’ pieces but as he grew more mature\, he loved that there were so many possibilities in chess\, so much still left to explore! At the Age of 6 he learnt and got an interest in chess. \nBCN: Has Shreyas had any chess teachers or coaches? \n\n\nJyothi Lal N. with a peak of 2250 FIDE but is very knowledgeable and helped from just above beginner to 1800. He was Shreyas’s first coach.\nMeszaros Gyula (Julian) who was an IM with a peak of 2465 FIDE and was an endgame master which helped him from 1800-2100.\nHis Current Coach is GM John Emms with a peak of around 2600 FIDE\, he is an expert in many fields such as Positional Play\, Openings\, Strategic chess etc and has also made a big impact on how to prepare against opponents. He had helped him from 2100-2300 so far in just under a year!\n\n\nBCN: Which chess clubs and/ or Teams does Shreyas represent? \nHe represents SV Erkenschwick from Germany and Wasa SK from Sweden for online events as he has joined them during the pandemic. He started his 4NCL career with KJCA Kings in January 2019 but now mainly represents Wood Green which he has played for in online events in and will also represent them in the upcoming 4NCL weekends. \nHis first appearance in Megabase 2022 comes from the 2015 British Under-8 Championship in Coventry\, the eventual winner being Dhruv Radhakrishnan. \nProgress from those early days has only been interrupted by school examination breaks and the Covid pandemic: \nFIDE Rating progress chart for FM Shreyas Royal\nIn August 2016 in Bournemouth Shreyas scored an impressive 6/6 to win the British Under-8 Championship. \nShreyas Royal at the 2016 UKCC Delancey Terafinal in Loughborough courtesy of John Upham Photography\nBCN: What was his first memorable tournament success? \nThis was the 2016 European Schools Under-7 championship where he was runner-up without any preparation or work on chess! \nShreyas Royal at the 2016 UKCC Delancey Southern Gigafinal in Reading courtesy of John Upham Photography\nIn 2021 Shreyas was awarded the FM title by FIDE: \nFIDE FM Certificate for Shreyas Royal\nBCN: Which chess players past & present are inspirational for him? \n\n\nMagnus Carlsen\, world champion and broke many FIDE records also is an inspiration for most of this generation. He likes his slow grinding and almost winning from any opening or ending. This is his favourite player of all time.\nGarry Kasparov played brilliant attacking chess and calculated like a machine.\nBobby Fischer played a similar style to Kasparov but was more talented than both Magnus and Kasparov in his opinion as he worked all by himself at a time in the USA when chess was not so popular while for the Russians\, they had brilliant coaches and had one good player after the other. He rates him a bit lower because Fischer quit competitive chess a bit too early and could not reach the heights he was worthy of.\nAlireza Firouzja\nFabiano Caruana\n\n\nBCN: What are his favourite openings with the White pieces? \nHe plays 1.d4 pretty much all the time. \nMegaBase 2020 has 294 games with 1.d4 and one solitary 1.g3 from March 2021. The 1.d4 games feature main line Queen’s Gambit / Catalan type positions championing 5.Nge2 against the King’s Indian Defence and the exchange variation against the Grunfeld. \nBCN: and what are his preferred defences as the second player? \nReally depends on what they play\, against every opening he has got one or two lines which he enjoys equally. \nMegabase 2022 informs us that Shreyas defends the main line Closed Variation of the Ruy Lopez and main line Giuoco Piano. Previously he essayed the Sicilian Najdorf. \nBCN: Does he have any favourite chess books? \nNot really as he is not such a big fan of chess books\, but he likes My 60 Memorable Games by Bobby Fischer. Fundamental Chess Endings and Encyclopedia of Chess Combinations. \nBCN: Which tournaments are planned for 2022? \nWe have pencilled in a couple of norm and Open (France\, Spain\, Germany etc.) tournaments in European countries. \nBCN: What are his favourite subjects outside of chess? \nHis favourite subjects outside chess are Science\, History\, Maths with Science as his favourite\, History as his second favourite and Maths as his third favourite. \nBCN: Does Shreyas play any physical sports? \nHe does Football\, Cricket and a bit of Lawn Tennis. \nBCN: What are his plans and aspirations for the future? \nTo become a world chess champion one day\, but it’s very expensive to even get to the level of IM! Currently we are looking for sponsors who can help support Shreyas to get there. \nHere is his personal website. \nIn late December 2021 Camberley Chess Club had Shreyas as their weekly Zoom meeting guest speaker. \nand finally three of SRs favourite games: \n[pgn]\n[Event “British Chess Championship Major Open”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “2018.08.05”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Royal\, Shreyas”]\n[Black “Jayawarna\, Nugith”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E70”]\n[WhiteElo “1927”]\n[BlackElo “2013”]\n[Annotator “Shreyas Royal”]\n[PlyCount “57”]\n[SourceTitle “Jitendra”] \n{[%evp 0\,57\,19\,17\,14\,-9\,41\,45\,31\,44\,44\,2\,7\,2\,6\,12\,41\,26\,65\,-13\,27\,39\,44\,41\,87\,\n75\,50\,46\,63\,46\,82\,51\,168\,230\,230\,231\,258\,262\,258\,149\,433\,213\,161\,441\,522\,195\,\n500\,527\,501\,169\,1531\,1211\,1221\,1268\,1296\,1314\,1336\,1370\,1375\,1397]} 1. d4 Nf6\n2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nge2 {This is the Kings Indian Defence Kramer\nvariation} O-O 6. Ng3 e5 7. d5 c6 {I think c6 is a sideline whereas the main\nline goes} (7… Nbd7 8. Be2 a5 9. h4 h5 10. Bg5 Qe8 $1 $14 (10… Nc5 $2 {\nremember not to fall into this trap} 11. Bxh5 $3 {An astonishing move} gxh5 12.\nNxh5 {With pressure and an iniative} Kh8 13. Qf3 Bg4 14. Qxf6 Bxh5 15. Qxd8\nRaxd8 16. Bxd8 Rxd8 17. f3 f5 18. exf5 e4 19. g4 Bf7 20. g5 Bxc3+ 21. bxc3 Bh5\n22. fxe4 Re8 23. Kd2 Nxe4+ 24. Kc2 Ng3 25. Rhe1 Be2 26. f6 Kh7 27. Rg1 Re3 28.\nRae1 Kg6 29. Kb2 Nh5 30. Rgf1 Bxf1 31. Rxe3 Bxc4 32. Re7 Bxd5 33. Rxc7 Bc6 34.\nf7 Kg7 35. g6 Nf4 36. h5 Ne6 37. Rc8 Nf8 38. Rxf8 Kxf8 39. h6 {1-0 (39) Ward\,C\n(2423)-Storey\,C (2245) Coventry 2015})) 8. Be2 a6 {[#]} ({Relevant:} 8… cxd5\n9. cxd5 Nbd7 10. Be3 a5 11. O-O Nc5 12. f3 Bd7 13. Nh1 Qb8 14. a4 Rc8 15. Nf2\nh5 16. Bb5 Kh7 17. Nd3 b6 18. Nxc5 bxc5 19. Qd2 Rc7 20. b3 Rb7 21. Bc4 Ng8 22.\nRab1 Qd8 23. f4 exf4 24. Bxf4 Qe7 25. e5 dxe5 26. d6 Qe8 27. Be3 f5 28. Bxc5\nNf6 29. Nd5 Nxd5 30. Bxd5 Bc6 31. Rfc1 Bxd5 32. Qxd5 Rab8 33. Rd1 Rd7 34. Ba3\ne4 35. Rbc1 Qe5 36. Qxe5 Bxe5 37. Rc7 Rbd8 38. Rxd7+ {Bologan\,V (2640)-Kozul\,Z\n(2613) Doha 2016 1-0}) 9. dxc6 $146 (9. O-O b5 10. Bg5 Bb7 11. Qd2 {might of\nbeen better despite allowing b5}) ({Predecessor:} 9. O-O cxd5 10. cxd5 Nbd7 11.\nRe1 b5 12. b4 Nb6 13. a4 bxa4 14. Nxa4 h5 15. Bg5 Rb8 16. Bxh5 Nbd7 17. Qd2\ngxh5 18. Nxh5 Kh7 19. Ra3 Rh8 20. Rf3 a5 21. Nxg7 Kxg7 22. Bxf6+ Nxf6 23. Qg5+\nKf8 24. Rxf6 Rxb4 25. Nc3 Qc7 26. h4 Bh3 27. Re3 {1-0 (27) Bocharov\,D (2610)\n-Kokarev\,D (2628) Vladivostok 2016}) 9… bxc6 $6 {maybe he might of been\nintending d5} (9… Nxc6 {[%cal Gc6d4] I think is better}) 10. Bg5 h6 11. Be3\nQc7 12. Qd2 {[%cal Ge3h6]} h5 13. O-O Be6 14. Rad1 Rd8 15. f4 Ng4 $4 {the\nlosing blunder} (15… exf4 {is an improvement in my opinion} 16. Bxf4 Nbd7)\n16. f5 $1 Nxe3 17. Qxe3 $18 Bc8 $4 (17… Qa7 18. c5) 18. fxg6 fxg6 19. Qg5 Kh7\n$6 {[#]} 20. Bxh5 $3 (20. Nxh5 $1 {also wins} Bh6 (20… gxh5 21. Bxh5 Qa7+ 22.\nc5 Qxc5+ 23. Kh1 Rd7 24. Qg6+ Kg8 25. Qe8+ Kh7 26. Bg6+ Kh6 27. Bf5) 21. Nf6+\nKg7 22. Qg3) 20… gxh5 21. Nxh5 Ra7 {[#]} 22. Rf6 $1 Qb6+ (22… Bxf6 23.\nNxf6+ Kh8 24. Qg8+) 23. Kh1 Re7 24. Rdf1 (24. Rg6 {is mate in six!} {as follows\n} Kh8 25. Nf6 Qc7 26. Qh5+ Bh6 27. Rxh6+ Kg7 28. Qg6+ Kf8 29. Rh8#) 24… Qc7\n25. Rh6+ Bxh6 26. Nf6+ Kh8 27. Qxh6+ Rh7 28. Nxh7 Qxh7 29. Qf6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand from more recent times: \n[pgn]\n[Event “First Saturday IM July 2021”]\n[Site “Budapest\, Fortuna u. 4. St. G”]\n[Date “2021.07.27”]\n[Round “2.4”]\n[White “Royal\, Shreyas”]\n[Black “Ilincic\, Zlatko”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E11”]\n[WhiteElo “2168”]\n[BlackElo “2395”]\n[Annotator “Shreyas Royal”]\n[PlyCount “95”]\n[EventDate “2021.??.??”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.06.03”] \n{[%evp 0\,95\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,0\,31\,34\,64\,65\,61\,30\,46\,45\,45\,42\,73\,34\,54\,28\,18\,26\,\n45\,50\,48\,40\,39\,41\,36\,26\,37\,39\,58\,43\,39\,16\,19\,17\,22\,9\,17\,9\,22\,-9\,29\,24\,41\,23\,\n119\,119\,130\,126\,212\,208\,256\,229\,200\,221\,222\,222\,222\,222\,224\,139\,167\,157\,206\,\n205\,206\,207\,206\,240\,237\,204\,253\,282\,295\,284\,299\,286\,317\,313\,323\,334\,380\,403\,\n438\,451\,483\,493\,488\,524\,545\,511\,520\,556]} 1. d4 {this is my first win against\na grandmaster in OTB chess and is a brilliant positional game} Nf6 2. c4 e6 3.\nNf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 c5 5. Bxb4 cxb4 6. a3 {this was part of my preparation\, I had\nplayed him 2 times before with g3 and a delayed a3 but with no success\, he\nwould always prepare a different line agianst it so this time I needed to get\nhim out of his comfort zone} bxa3 7. Rxa3 O-O 8. Nc3 d6 9. e3 ({Relevant:} 9.\ne4 Nc6 10. Be2 b6 11. O-O Bb7 12. d5 Nb4 13. Nd4 e5 14. Nf5 g6 15. Nh6+ Kg7 16.\nQd2 Qe7 17. Qg5 Bc8 18. h4 Nc2 19. Ra2 Nd4 20. Bd3 Qd8 21. f4 Nd7 22. Nf5+ Nxf5\n23. exf5 Nc5 24. Bb1 Qxg5 25. hxg5 gxf5 26. fxe5 dxe5 27. Bxf5 a5 28. Bc2 Bd7\n29. Raa1 Rac8 30. Rae1 Rfe8 31. Re3 e4 32. Bxe4 Re5 33. Ref3 Nxe4 34. Rxf7+ Kg6\n35. Nxe4 Rxe4 36. Rxd7 Rcxc4 37. Rd6+ Kxg5 38. Rxb6 Re2 {Banikas\,H (2599)\n-Cordova\,E (2592) Chess.com INT 2020 1/2-1/2 (61)}) 9… b6 (9… Nc6 10. Be2\ne5 11. O-O Bg4 {is the the most popular and probably one of the best ways to\nplay against it}) 10. Be2 Bb7 11. O-O a6 {this structure was not the greatest\nway to deal with this} 12. b4 $1 {I had seen soem structures similiar like\nthis\, when preparing and realized we needed to make use of our queenside\nmajority} Nbd7 13. Qb1 {[#] I was just asking myself\, where do I want my\npieces? It can really help improve your chess if you care about pieces and\nalways want to improve them\, the arrows showed what I wanted my setup to be\nlike} Qc7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 13… Qb8 14. Rd1 Rc8 15. e4 a5 16. Rb3 axb4 17.\nRxb4 Ra3 18. Rc1 Ra5 19. d5 e5 20. Nd2 Ra8 21. Na4 Qc7 22. Nxb6 Nxb6 23. Rxb6\nRcb8 24. Rc2 Nd7 25. Rb4 Bc8 26. Rcb2 Rxb4 27. Rxb4 g6 28. Nb3 Kg7 29. Bg4 Nc5\n30. Bxc8 Nxb3 31. Rxb3 Qxc8 32. Rc3 Ra4 33. Qf1 Qc5 34. Rc1 Ra2 35. g3 h5 36.\nQe1 Rb2 37. h4 Ra2 38. Kf1 Kf6 39. Rc3 Kg7 40. Qe3 Qxe3 41. fxe3 Kf6 42. c5\ndxc5 43. Rxc5 {Parligras\,M (2601)-Anton\,T (2412) Calimanesti Caciulata 2017 1/\n2-1/2}) 14. Rc1 Rfc8 15. Nd2 Qb8 {[#]} 16. f3 $1 {Not only is it important to\nimprove your pieces but it is also important to make your opponent’s pieces\nunhappy. I just blunt is potentially dangerous bishop especially when he gets\nhis queen to a8 it also stops some nasty Be4 or ne4 when my knight gets to b3}\nRc7 (16… d5) 17. b5 a5 18. Na4 Qf8 19. Rac3 Rac8 20. Nb3 e5 {if he just sits\nthere and waits I just play R3c2 (to stop Nd5 when c5 happens) and c5} 21. Qb2\n$1 {this is a fantastic move because it brings my queen back to the king with\nQd2 and stops some potential Qe3+\, it also protects my e2 bishop. When the\nqueen is far away from the king it can be dangerous} Qe7 22. Qd2 g6 23. R3c2 h5\n24. c5 $1 {and finally\, after a lot of manoeuvring I get my c5 break in} exd4\n$2 (24… dxc5) 25. c6 $18 dxe3 26. Qd1 Nc5 27. Nxb6 Rd8 28. cxb7 Rxb7 29. Nd5\n$1 Nxd5 30. Qxd5 Nxb3 31. Qxb3 d5 32. Rc8 d4 33. Qd3 Qd7 34. R8c6 Rdb8 $2 (\n34… Kg7) 35. Qc2 (35. R1c5) 35… Kg7 36. Qc5 Rd8 37. Qe5+ Kg8 38. Bc4 Qf5\n39. Qxf5 gxf5 40. Bd3 $18 {[#]} f4 41. Kf1 Kg7 42. R1c5 a4 43. Ra6 Re8 44. Ke2\nh4 45. Rxa4 h3 46. gxh3 Rh8 47. Rxd4 Rxh3 48. Rxf4 {Probably my best game of\nall time} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand finally: \n[pgn]\n[Event “Vezerkepzo IM Aug 2021”]\n[Site “Budapest\, Fortuna u. 4. St. G”]\n[Date “2021.08.23”]\n[Round “3.3”]\n[White “Royal\, Shreyas”]\n[Black “Rohit\, S.”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E01”]\n[WhiteElo “2296”]\n[BlackElo “2268”]\n[Annotator “Shreyas Royal”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “2021.08.21”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “HUN”]\n[SourceTitle “Jitendra”]\n[SourceDate “2018.06.03”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.06.03”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,19\,9\,42\,-10\,-16\,0\,-3\,-37\,13\,6\,29\,25\,20\,13\,57\,36\,38\,38\,52\,58\,58\,72\,\n72\,14\,61\,23\,54\,62\,58\,58\,66\,52\,45\,54\,78\,25\,117\,123\,110\,110\,146\,37\,30\,44\,51\,49\,\n55\,13\,217\,159\,236\,245\,1807\,839]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 Bb4+ 5. Bd2\n({Relevant:} 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. Bg2 b6 7. O-O Bb7 8. Ne5 a5 9. Qc2 a4 10. Rd1 Bd6\n11. cxd5 exd5 12. Ndc4 h6 13. Bf4 Re8 14. Rac1 Na6 15. a3 Bf8 16. Ne3 c5 17.\nNf5 cxd4 18. Nc6 Qd7 19. Bh3 Kh8 20. Ne5 Rxe5 21. Bxe5 Ne4 22. Bxd4 Rc8 23. Qd3\nNac5 24. Qe3 Kh7 25. Bxc5 Nxc5 26. Qf3 d4 27. Rxd4 Qe8 28. Qe3 Qc6 29. f3 Re8\n30. Qf2 g6 31. Ne3 Qf6 32. Ng4 Qg7 33. Rcd1 h5 34. Ne3 Nb3 {Dubov\,D (2702)\n-Carlsen\,M (2862) chess24.com INT 2020 1-0}) 5… Bd6 6. Nc3 $5 {This was all\npart of my preparation as last time I got some equal Stonewall against him\,\nthis line avoids the stonewall and is tricky to play against as black. Black\nneeds to very accurate to still get a slightly worse position} O-O (6… c6 $6\n7. Qc2 $16 {[%cal Ge2e4\,Ge1c1] and now we open the centre and try to\nlong-castle}) 7. Bg5 c6 8. Bg2 Nbd7 (8… h6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. O-O Qd8 11. c5\nBc7 12. e4 {[%cal Gb2b4] is the main line if he knew I was going to play this\,\nNc3 is not so common but effective. Even here we are better because of our\nspace\, centre and better pieces. Our idea now is to do some minority attack})\n9. e4 $1 dxe4 10. Nxe4 {[#]} Bc7 $146 {this was not the right square to move\nthe bishop to\, the best move was Bb4+ but even if he did not see that I would\nexpect Be7 as the pin became very nasty} (10… Bb4+ 11. Nc3 {and once we\nfully develop our better pieces and space will give us an adavantage}) ({\nPredecessor:} 10… Bb4+ 11. Nc3 h6 12. Bf4 Ne4 13. Qc2 Nxc3 14. bxc3 Be7 15.\nO-O b6 16. Rfe1 Bb7 17. Rad1 Re8 18. h4 Qc8 19. Bh3 Nf8 20. Ne5 Bd6 21. Qd2 Qc7\n22. Bg2 {1/2-1/2 (22) Cordova\,E (2571)-Nyzhnyk\,I (2665) Saint Louis 2019}) 11.\nO-O h6 12. Bh4 $1 Qe7 ({No need to be scared of} 12… g5 $2 13. Nfxg5 $1 hxg5\n14. Bxg5 {[%cal Gd1f3\,Ga1d1\,Gd4d5\,Gf1e1] and the pin will be nasty\, along with\nan exposed king}) 13. Re1 {[%cal Ge1e7] put the rook in line in with the queen\nis a normally a good idea} Qb4 $2 {he collapses\, but on the other there was\nnot much better to do because of the pin and I may get some d5 in later} 14.\nNxf6+ Nxf6 15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. Qc1 $1 Kg7 17. c5 $1 {this was a really nice move\nbecause normally when the queen is away from the king the king is in MASSIVE\ndanger and just before I get along with my attack\, I cut of her communications\nwith the king} Bd8 18. Qf4 Qa5 19. Qg4+ Kh7 20. Qh5 Qc7 21. g4 Kg7 {[#]} 22.\nRe3 $1 {I have a lot time and can just slowly improve my pieces\, another good\nprinciple is when attacking try to bring in as much pieces as possible} Qd7 23.\nRd1 $1 Bc7 24. Rdd3 $1 b6 $2 {[#] this was not so stupid because he can’t just\nsit and wait but on the other hand he could of just turned his prophylactic\nbrain on… I am now preparing a killer blow} (24… Rh8 {was better}) 25. g5\n$3 {I had prepared this move from when I played Rd1} hxg5 (25… fxg5 26. Nxg5\nBf4 27. Rg3 $1) 26. Nxg5 Re8 (26… Rh8 {he thought this would work but…} 27.\nNxe6+ $1 Qxe6 (27… fxe6 28. Rg3+ Bxg3 29. Rxg3+ Kf8 30. Qxh8+ Ke7 31. Rg7#)\n28. Rg3+ Bxg3 29. Rxg3+ Kf8 (29… Qg4 30. Rxg4+ Bxg4 31. Qxg4+ Kf8 32. Bxc6)\n30. Qxh8+ Ke7 31. Re3) 27. Bxc6 $1 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFM Shreyas Royal at the London Chess Classic\, 2021 courtesy of John Upham Photography
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Martyn Corden (12-i-1951)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of Martyn John Corden (12-i-1951) \nFrom Chessgames.com \n“Martyn John Corden was Under 18 British champion in 1969 and played for England in the Siegen Olympiad in 1970.”
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Roland Scott (25-iii-1888 10-i-1953)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Roland Scott who passed away in Monte Carlo on Saturday\, January 10th\, 1953. \nRoland Henry Vaughan Scott was born in either Barnes or Holloway depending which Census record is correct. His parents were Walter Frederick Scott\, a GP who was born in April 1960 and died in 1891 when Roland was three years of age. \nHis mother was Lucie Vaughan was born in 1855 and died in October 1933. \nRoland had two sisters\, Nina Vaughan Scott and Lucie / Lucia Audrey Scott (who died before her first birthday) and a brother Guy Francis D Scott who lived until 1977. \nIn 1891 Roland lived in Tottenham\, in 1901 in Hampstead and in 1911 in St. Pancras where he was listed as a law clerk. \nIn 1917 The London Gazette lists him as a lieutenant in the Norfolk Regiment. \nThe 1920 electoral rolls for the Gospel Oak polling district lists Scott as voter #2006 living at 2\, Estelle Road\, North St. Pancras which is now in Belsize Park\, NW3 2JX. At the same address was his sister Lucie and in 1921 they were joined by brother Guy. \nIn July 1922 in the district of Brighton Roland married Irma Clareboudt. No children from the marriage are recorded. \nThe 1939 register lists Scott as “War Disabled ? Officer Retired In War 1914” (invalided from army) and Irma as a saleswoman (born 25th July 1895) living at 42\, Sherwell Lane\, Paignton\, Torquay\, TQ2 6BD. \n42\, Sherwell Lane\, Paignton\, Devon\, TQ2 6BD.\nThe April 1953 British Chess Magazine (Volume LXXIII\, Number 4\, page 101 onwards) contained this obituary from DJ Morgan: \nIt is with much regret that we record the death\, on January 10th\, at Monte Carlo\, of R. H. V. Scott. He had long been out of active chess\, but older readers will need no reminding of the 1920 British Champion\, with his quiet manner but attacking chess; one who was composure itself at the table but aggressiveness personified on the board. \nThe son of a doctor\, Scott was born in 1889. He was nineteen before taking to the game\, but a ready aptitude combined with great enthusiasm led to rapid progress. He joined the Hampstead Club in 1908\, and in his first tournament\, the Third Class\, came out first. ln the years that follow he pursued the game with much energy. \nAt the B.C.F. Congress\, Glasgow\, l9ll\, he won the only section of the First Class. In 1913 and in 1914 he was Hampstead Club Champion. In 1913 he was tenth in the British Championship\, at Cheltenham\, and equal fifth to sixth at Chester in the following year\, defeating Yates and drawing with Blackburne. \nIn 1915 he came second in the City of London Club Championship\, but won that of the Metropolitan Club. During the same year he lost a short match with Sir G. A. Thomas 1-3. The war years\, with a commission in the Norfolk Regiment\, intervened\, but chess filled his available moments. \nIn 1916 he defeated L. I. Estrin\, a young Russian who was Hampstead Champion\, 5-2 in a match. ln 1919 he lost a match with Winter at Hastings (2-4)\, and shared seventh to eighth positions with Dr. Olland (Holland) at the B.C.F. Hastings Victory Congress\, with victories over Olland\, \n[pgn]\n[Event “Victory Congress Chief Tournament”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1919.08.12”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Olland\, Dr. Adolf Georg”]\n[Black “Scott\, Roland Henry Vaughan”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B15”]\n[Annotator “Fred Reinfeld & BCN”]\n[PlyCount “70”]\n[EventDate “1919.08.11”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess Masters\, Page 39”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,70\,19\,38\,60\,60\,55\,40\,50\,35\,41\,13\,43\,54\,65\,5\,45\,45\,73\,47\,32\,7\,-1\,8\,14\,\n14\,17\,-15\,-15\,-75\,-31\,-38\,-32\,-29\,-43\,-21\,-52\,-64\,-64\,-88\,-90\,-155\,-167\,-146\,\n-155\,-199\,-218\,-227\,-247\,-259\,-241\,-260\,-292\,-271\,-268\,-258\,-273\,-273\,-252\,\n-253\,-255\,-268\,-304\,-326\,-295\,-339\,-352\,-380\,-347\,-580\,-581\,-584\,-600]} 1. e4 {\n1) The Book of the Second Annual Chess Congress Hyères 1926. p.13. [Scott].} c6\n{Scott’s trade-mark} 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 {More promising and also\nmore risky} ({than the usual} 4… Bf5) 5. Ng3 Bg4 ({Relevant:} 5… e6 6. Nf3\nNbd7 7. Bd3 Be7 8. Qe2 b6 9. Bf4 Nd5 10. Bd2 Qc7 11. Ne5 Bb7 12. O-O Rd8 13.\nRae1 N5f6 14. Nxf7 O-O 15. Nxd8 Bxd8 16. Qxe6+ Kh8 17. Nf5 Nb8 18. Qd6 Qf7 19.\nQe6 Qh5 20. Ng3 Qh4 21. Re5 Bc7 22. Nf5 Qh5 23. Nxg7 Qf7 24. Qxf7 Rxf7 25. Ne6\nBxe5 26. dxe5 Nd5 27. c4 Ne7 28. Nd8 {1-0 (28) Alekhine\,A-Vasiutinsky Odessa\n1918}) 6. f3 {[#]} ({Development with} 6. Be2 {would be more to the point} Bxe2\n7. N1xe2 e6 8. O-O Bd6 9. Bf4 O-O 10. c3 Qc7 11. Bxd6 Qxd6) 6… Bd7 $5 $146 {\nHe does not care to lose time and part with the Bishop-pair by retreating with\n6…Bh5} ({Predecessor:} 6… Bh5 7. Be3 e6 8. Bd3 Bd6 9. N1e2 Qc7 10. Qd2 Nbd7\n11. O-O-O O-O-O 12. Kb1 Bg6 13. Bxg6 hxg6 14. Qc3 Nd5 15. Qb3 N7b6 16. Bf2 a5\n17. c4 a4 18. Qc2 Nb4 19. Qc3 c5 20. Ne4 cxd4 21. Nxd6+ Qxd6 22. Rxd4 Qe7 23.\nRxd8+ Rxd8 24. Bxb6 Rd3 25. Qe5 Rd2 26. Bc5 Qd7 27. Nc1 Nd3 28. Qd4 Nxb2 29.\nQxd7+ Kxd7 30. Re1 Rxg2 31. Re2 Rxe2 32. Nxe2 Nxc4 33. Kc2 g5 34. Kd3 Ne5+ 35.\nKe4 Nc6 36. Nc3 {Kvicala\,J-Cohn\,W Berlin 1913 1-0}) 7. Bd3 Qb6 $1 {Good! Black\nmust free his game with ….c5} 8. N1e2 Na6 9. c3 c5 10. Qb3 {Realising that\nin the middle game the weakness of the diagonal g1 – a7 is likely to be\ntroublesome\, Olland heads for the end game. But the consequences are anything\nbut pleasant.} ({BCN: better was} 10. a4) (10. Be3 Qxb2 11. O-O) 10… cxd4 11.\nQxb6 axb6 12. Nxd4 Nc5 {Scott seizes the initiative here and retains it\nthroughout.} 13. Bc2 (13. Bc4) 13… e5 14. Nde2 $17 ({Or} 14. Ndf5 g6 {etc.})\n14… Be6 15. a3 $6 {He must part with one of his Bishops\, since} (15. b3 $2 {\nloses a Pawn.} Nxb3 $19) (15. Be3) 15… Nb3 $1 16. Rb1 Nxc1 17. Nxc1 Nd5 $1\n$17 {Directing his attention to the weakened black squares.} 18. Be4 O-O-O 19.\nNd3 {[#]} Ne3 $17 20. Kf2 (20. Ke2) 20… Nc4 $1 $19 21. Rhd1 g6 {Threatening\nto win a piece. White is given no time to consolidate his position\, and some\nloss of material is inevitable.} 22. Ne1 Rxd1 23. Rxd1 Bc5+ (23… Nxb2 {\nis also strong} 24. Rb1 Bxa3 25. Nc2 Bc5+ 26. Ke1 Nc4) 24. Ke2 Nxb2 25. Rb1 Na4\n26. Kd2 Rd8+ 27. Bd3 f5 {Every move tells. White’s position is crumbling.} 28.\nKc2 Be3 29. Nf1 Bf2 30. Nd2 Nc5 31. Be2 e4 {Decisive. White is helpless.} 32.\nNc4 Kc7 33. Nd2 e3 34. Nc4 ({The alternative was} 34. Nf1 f4 35. Nd3 Nxd3 36.\nBxd3 Rxd3 {etc.}) 34… Bxc4 35. Bxc4 Rd2+ {White resigns. Black’s conduct of\nthis game was impeccable.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nR. P. Michell\, Marchand\, and Conde. Then came the B.C.F. Edinburgh Congress of 1920\, Scott became British Champion\, losing only\nto Sir G. A. Thomas. \nIn this year he also drew a match\, 3-3\, with Marchand\, of Holland\, also at Hastings. There followed three more appearances in the championship\, Malvern\, 1921 (equal fifth to sixth); Southsea\,1923 (equal third to fourth); and Southport\, 1924 (fourth). And with this Scott passed out of British chess. Ill health and failing eyesight\, direct results of sufferings and injuries endured on active service during the war\, began to take their toll. On medical advice he sought a warmer climate\, and the Riviera henceforth became his home. \nWe find him sharing seventh to eighth positions at the Hyères Congress\, in 1926\, and coming equal fifth to sixth\, with B. Reilly (our Editor’s first international tourney we believe)\, at Hyères\, 1927. \nThe days of active play were over\, but his great interest in the game remained. Scott was a natural attacking player\, more likely\, perhaps\, to win the Brilliancy Prize than the First Prize. \nEdo rating profile for RHV Scott\nWe have given the bare outline of a career that was all too short\, one cut down\, in a sense before reaching full maturity. Contemporary records sometimes expressed the need for more stability in Scott’s chess\, but they chronicle games of his that speak forcibly of the imaginative\, refreshing\, and invigorating qualities of his play. We offer an early game\, the Brilliancy Prize winner\, City of London C.C. Championship\, 1913-14. White’s 20th move sets the game alight. \n[pgn]\n[Event “City of London Championship”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1913.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Scott\, Roland Henry Vaughan”]\n[Black “Jacobs\, H.”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D06”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 1953\, page 102”] \n{[%evp 0\,65\,19\,31\,19\,-16\,41\,-14\,30\,11\,28\,-22\,30\,-18\,30\,41\,40\,42\,55\,54\,54\,34\,59\,\n68\,57\,57\,48\,44\,85\,80\,55\,67\,75\,70\,70\,69\,57\,57\,57\,13\,5\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-73\,-27\,-79\,-43\,\n-38\,-35\,-35\,-35\,-61\,-61\,-12\,-12\,0\,-25\,-25\,9\,-15\,101\,32\,31\,-152\,29991\,29992]} 1.\nd4 d5 2. c4 Bf5 {The so-called Baltic Defence hoping that b7 will not prove to\nbe an Achilles Heel for Black.} 3. Nf3 e6 4. e3 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. Be2 ({\nRelevant:} 6. Qb3 b6 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O c6 9. Rd1 Nbd7 10. Bd2 Ne4 11. Be1 Bd6\n12. Rac1 Qf6 13. Qa4 Rfc8 14. Qa6 Rc7 15. b4 dxc4 16. Qxc4 a5 17. bxa5 b5 18.\nQb3 g5 19. Bd3 Nxc3 20. Bxc3 Bg4 21. Be2 Qh6 22. h3 Bf5 23. Bb4 Qf8 24. a3 g4\n25. hxg4 Bxg4 26. Bxb5 Bxf3 27. gxf3 cxb5 28. Rxc7 Qg7+ 29. Kf1 Bxc7 30. Qc3\nBh2 31. Qc6 Rd8 32. a6 Qg5 33. Ba5 Ne5 34. Qb7 Rd7 35. a7 Rxb7 {Swiderski\,\nR-Janowski\,D Nuremberg 1906 1-0}) 6… O-O 7. Nh4 Be4 {[#]} 8. f3 $146 ({\nPredecessor:} 8. Nxe4 Nxe4 9. Nf3 Bb4+ (9… Nd7 10. O-O Ndf6 11. Ne5 c5 12. f3\n) 10. Kf1 c6 11. Qb3 Qe7 12. c5 Ba5 13. h4 Bd8 14. Qc2 Nd7 15. b4 Bc7 16. Bb2\nf5 17. Bd3 Ndf6 18. Ne5 Bxe5 19. dxe5 Ng4 20. g3 Nexf2 21. Ke2 Nxh1 22. Rxh1\nQc7 23. h5 Nxe5 24. h6 Nxd3 25. Kxd3 e5 26. hxg7 Qxg7 27. Qh2 Rae8 28. Kc2 Rf7\n29. a4 Qg4 30. Qh6 Qg6 {0-1 (30) Von Scheve\,T-Riemann\,F Leipzig 1888}) 8… Bg6\n9. Nxg6 hxg6 $16 10. O-O (10. cxd5 exd5 11. g4 {is a modern way to proceed.})\n10… c6 11. e4 dxc4 12. Bxc4 Nbd7 13. Be3 Nb6 14. Bb3 Rc8 15. Qe2 c5 16. Rad1\nQc7 17. Nb5 Qb8 18. Rc1 Nfd7 19. f4 a6 {[#]} 20. f5 $5 (20. Nc3 {leaves White\nwith a small edge}) 20… c4 {Jacobs responds correctly} 21. Bc2 axb5 22. fxe6\nfxe6 23. Qg4 {The “point” of f5} Rc6 $17 24. e5 Nxe5 $1 25. dxe5 Qxe5 26. Bxb6\nRxb6 27. Qxg6 Qe3+ 28. Kh1 Qh6 $17 {[#]} 29. Qe4 Bf6 $2 {Looks like a very\nnatural move but} (29… Rf6 {Leaves Black on top.}) 30. Rcd1 $11 Rf7 $2 (30…\nRc6 {is very sensible. Black needs to look after his back rank.}) 31. Rf3 (31.\nQe5 $1 {was available.}) 31… Qh5 $2 {The losing move from Jacobs} 32. Rxf6 {\nand White obliges with a losing blunder} (32. Rh3 Qf5 33. Qe2) 32… g5 $4 {\nOoops!} (32… Rxf6 $19 {and Black is winning}) 33. Rd8+ {and Black resigned.}\n{in view of} Kg7 34. Rg6+ Kh7 35. Rxe6+ Rf5 36. Qxf5+ Qg6 37. Qxg6# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume XLI (1920)\, Number 10 (October)\, page 305 we have the following report of his exploits winning the 1920 British Championship in Edinburgh: \n“We are glad to be able to present to our readers a photograph of the new champion\, Mr. R.H.V Scott. He informs us that it is his most recent one\, taken in 1917 when subaltern in the Norfolk Regiment. He saw service with the latter in France\, and\, as is probably know to most of our subscribers\, was badly gassed\, from the effects of which is now happily quite recovered. \nHis victory in the recent Congress in Edinburgh is welcome from at least two points of view; one\, that he is one of our youngest first class players (ed: he was 32 at the time\, a veteran by the standards of 2022!)\, having been born in 1889 (ed: this should have been 1888)\, and therefore may justifiably be expected to improve still further with experience and some curbing of his impatience in defence; and\, two\, that he claim to represent the more brilliant school of chess\, that of Pillsbury\, Marshall\, Charousek\, and Morphy\, rather than the more solid school\, of say\, Steinitz and Rubinstein\, who theory was the pilling up of small advantages. \nScott has an excellent “nose” for attack\, and has some exceedingly “chessy” ideas. During the congress he put a much greater restraint on himself than is his wont\, and we believe this to be the reason he so improved on his previous records. \nHe had what might be described as the worst of the draw\, since he had Black against Sir George  Thomas\, EG Sergeant and RP Michell. Some writers have described him as lucky to win\, but a study of his games and a comparison with those of others in the tourney go to prove that he played more far-sightedly than any of the others. \nWe are quite aware that the form of any player is variable\, and we have seen Sir George Thomas play much better chess and much less strainedly than he did at Edinburgh. EG Sergeant was generally playing quite at his best\, but once or twice his play deteriorated\, perhaps as the result of a sleepless night\, he then seemed bereft of ideas\, and allowed the clock to beat him. This also was the case with Michell\, who had many a rush to save his flag falling before the necessary moves were made. Now Scott almost invariably had time to spare. \nPerhaps the worst reversal of form was that of JH Blake; but he had been working very hard and late for some time right up to the day the Congress commenced\, and was not really in a fit state of health to take part. \nScott has twice before competed for the Championship; in 1913 where he finished eighth\, and in 1914 when he was fifth\, beating FD Yates\, the then Champion and drawing with JH Blackburne. \nHe has won several brilliancy prizes in congress and club tourneys\, and was the champion of the Hampstead Chess Club (where he may have been said to have learnt the game) in 1913 and 1914. He was first acquainted with the moves in 1908. \nHe is keen on all sports\, and puts his whole energy into each line he may be taking. With yet more self-restraint we think his chess will still further improve\, and we venture to prophesy this will not be the last British Chess Championship he will win.” \nIn his memoirs William Winter wrote this: \n“I also had the opportunity of playing a number of semi-serious games with RHV Scott and D. Miller\, two of the leading London amateurs. Scott was probably the most brilliant combinative played England has ever seen and had already won almost every honour except the British Championship\, which fell to him in 1920. \nSince those days I have played over hundreds of games\, including the beautiful brilliancies of the modern Russian school\, and Scott’s best combinations stand up quite well beside them. There were however weaknesses in his play which I shall discuss later. Miller was just the opposite type\, a dour solid player exceptionally hard to beat. He is\, I am glad to say\, still with us\, but Scott died a few years ago – he had been out of chess for a long time.” \nand this: \n“It is entirely legitimate\, and can prove very useful until one comes up against an opponent like Capablanca who had no weaknesses of any kind. ln Scott’s case\, one of his foibles was an aversion to exchanging queens\, and I took full advantage of this in the first two games of the match both of which I won with comparative ease; but Scott was not finished yet.’ In the third game he tied me up in a variation of the Sicilian which I had not previously seen\, and in the fourth I made the fatal mistake in going for an early win of material and allowing him a king’s side attack. Things now looked bad for me. I had the black pieces in the fifth game and I dared not play my favourite Sicilian defence because I could not discover a satisfactory answer to his new line.” \nStrangely\, none of the Encyclopaedia’s by Golombek\, Sunnucks or Hooper & Whyld felt that RHVS merited an entry. However Gaige does not forget. \nHere is an interesting article from “introuble2” entitled 100 years ago… chess in London during World War I in which Scott is mentioned. \nHere is an excellent article from John Saunders \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1921-02 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings Town Hall”]\n[Date “1922.12.31”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Yates\, Fred Dewhirst”]\n[Black “Scott\, Roland Henry Vaughan”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C49”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “116”]\n[EventDate “1921.12.26”]\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\,116\,26\,25\,25\,22\,37\,11\,11\,13\,20\,9\,26\,7\,9\,5\,0\,0\,0\,-8\,12\,0\,8\,10\,29\,29\,26\,\n26\,27\,33\,54\,40\,66\,13\,8\,24\,17\,-7\,36\,1\,1\,28\,46\,33\,38\,63\,41\,41\,56\,46\,44\,27\,58\,-32\,\n-34\,-29\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-8\,0\,0\,-95\,-96\,-104\,-111\,-98\,-87\,-138\,-136\,-150\,-150\,-128\,\n-144\,-170\,-150\,-144\,-189\,-233\,-250\,-248\,-243\,-252\,-250\,-307\,-307\,-324\,-333\,\n-332\,-329\,-343\,-321\,-327\,-327\,-335\,-330\,-443\,-448\,-684\,-684\,-684\,-727\,-718\,\n-756\,-778\,-756\,-1560\,-1593\,-1593\,-2018\,-2304\,-2392\,-2172\,-29986\,-29993\,-29994]\n} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bb4 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d6 7. Bg5 Bxc3 8.\nbxc3 h6 (8… Qe7) 9. Bh4 Qe7 10. Re1 ({Relevant:} 10. Qd2 Nd8 11. d4 Ne6 12.\ndxe5 dxe5 13. Nxe5 Nc5 14. Qf4 g5 15. Bxg5 hxg5 16. Qxg5+ Kh7 17. Qh4+ Kg7 18.\nQg5+ Kh7 19. Qh4+ Kg7 20. Qg5+ Kh7 21. Qh4+ Kg7 22. Qg3+ Kh7 23. Qh4+ Kg7 24.\nQg3+ Kh7 25. Qh4+ Kg7 26. Qg5+ Kh7 27. Bc4 Be6 28. Ng4 Bxg4 29. e5 Ng8 30. Qxg4\nNh6 31. Qh5 Rg8 32. f4 Qd7 33. Rf2 Raf8 34. h3 Qf5 35. Qxf5+ Nxf5 36. g4 Ne3\n37. Bd3+ Kg7 38. Rf3 Nd5 39. Bf5 Ne7 {Tarrasch\,S-Spielmann\,R Berlin 1920 1-0})\n10… Bg4 11. h3 {[#]} Bxf3 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11… Bh5 12. g4 Bg6 13. Rb1\nNd8 14. d4 c6 15. Bf1 Re8 16. c4 Bh7 17. c5 g5 18. cxd6 Qxd6 19. Bg3 Nxe4 20.\nBxe5 Qd7 21. Bd3 f5 22. Bxe4 fxe4 23. Nd2 Nf7 24. Nxe4 Bxe4 25. Rxe4 Rad8 26.\nQf3 Re6 27. Rbe1 Nxe5 28. Rxe5 Rf8 29. Qb3 Rf7 30. Qxe6 {1-0 (30) Schlechter\,\nC-Marshall\,F Ostend 1907}) 12. Qxf3 g5 13. Bg3 Kg7 $146 14. d4 $14 Nd7 15. Rad1\nRad8 16. Re3 a6 17. Bc4 Qf6 18. Qe2 Nb6 19. Bb3 exd4 20. Rf3 d3 21. Rdxd3 Qe7\n22. Rf5 Nd7 23. f4 f6 24. Rf3 Rde8 25. Bd5 Nd8 26. Qf2 c6 27. fxg5 cxd5 28.\ngxf6+ Rxf6 29. Bh4 Rxf5 30. Bxe7 Rxf3 31. Qxf3 Rxe7 $11 {[#]} 32. Qg4+ $2 (32.\nQg3+ Kf7 33. Qxd6 dxe4 34. Qxh6 Re6 35. Qh7+ Ke8 36. Qh8+ Nf8 37. Qh5+ Nf7 38.\nQd5 $11) 32… Kf8 $19 33. Qf5+ Nf7 34. exd5 Nb6 35. c4 Rc7 36. Qf2 Nxc4 37.\nQa7 Ke7 38. Qd4 Nce5 39. c3 Rc5 40. h4 Kd7 41. Qd2 Rc4 42. Qe1 Kc7 43. Kh2 Ra4\n44. Kh3 Rxa2 45. Qd1 Ra3 46. Qc2 b5 47. g3 Ra4 48. Kg2 Rc4 49. Kf1 b4 50. g4\nbxc3 51. g5 hxg5 52. h5 g4 53. Kg2 Nf3 54. Qe2 N7e5 55. Qe3 c2 56. Qa7+ Kd8 57.\nh6 c1=Q 58. h7 Nh4+ 0-1\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Craig William Pritchett (15-i-1949)
DESCRIPTION:IM Craig William Pritchett\nWe send birthday wishes to IM Craig Pritchett who was born this day\, January 15th in 1949. \nIM Craig William Pritchett\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nIM Craig Pritchett (right) with Leonard Barden and Stewart Reuben\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nScottish international master and teacher. Prtichett\, probably the strongest native-born Scottish player since the days of Captain Mackenzie in the nineteenth century\, has represented Scotland with success in five Olympiads : 1966\, 1970\, 1972\, 1974 and 1976. He has also played for Scotland in the Students Olympiads of 1968\, 1969 and 1970. \nPritchett playing Karpov at Nice 1974.\nHis first individual success was in the European Junior Championship in Groningen 1969/70 where he came -3rd with Belyavsky. At Decin (Czechoslovakia) 1974 he came 1st in the Masters B section. \nHe obtained the first part of an international master norm at the Nice Olympiad in 1974 where he scored 60% on top board. In 1975 he again achieved a master norm at the strong Pula Zonal tournament where he came -7th/14. \nIM Craig Pritchett (right) at the Aaronson Masters\nHe was chess correspondent of the Glasgow Herald and author of The Sicilian Scheveningen\, Batsford\, London\, 1977. (article by Harry Golombek) \nThe Sicilian Scheveningen\nNimzo Indian 4 e3 Nimzowitsch Hubner & Taimanov Variations\nChess for Rookies\nSteinitz Move by Move\nPlay the English\nHeroes of Classical Chess\nGreat Chess Romantics\nStarting Out : Sicilian Scheveningen
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Andrew Horton (15-i-1998)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Andrew P Horton (15-i-1998) \nAndrew became a FIDE Master in 2015 and an International Master in 2018.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Paul Littlewood (18-i-1956)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to Paul Littlewood \nPaul Edwin Littlewood was born on Wednesday\, January 18th\, 1956 in Skegness\, East Lindsey\, Lincolnshire. His parents were John and Jean Littlewood (née) Hadwick. Paul’s chess playing uncle was Norman Littlewood. \nJohn and Paul on Skegness beach circa 1958. Kindly supplied by Paul Littlewood. George and Ringo are out of shot !\nJohn\, Jenny and Paul Littlewood\, circa 1962. Kindly supplied by Paul Littlewood.\nPaul attended Glenburn Comprehensive School in Skelmersdale from 1967 and then read Natural Sciences at Christ’s College\, Cambridge from 1974. \nPaul played badminton for Lancashire and Cambridge and\, in 1971\, won the English Schools Mixed Championship when he was 15 years old. \nPaul and family receive a chess lesson from John following John’s win in the 1972 Southport Open\nOn leaving University Paul taught science at Southbrook Comprehensive\, Daventry. Four years later Paul became a dealer at Phillips & Drew and followed this as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs. Stays at Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan were followed by a change of direction and since then Paul has been director of various food supply companies retiring in 2014. \nPaul is married (3rd November 2006) to (his second wife) Fiona and lives in St. Albans\, Hertfordshire. \nPEL won the ECF President’s Award in 2007 and from the 2008 ECF Yearbook we have the following citation : \n“International Master and accomplished bridge player. From British Chess champion (1981) Paul has presided over the 4NCL as chairman during its most successful period. When he became chairman over ten years ago the league consisted of two divisions and 32 teams. The league has now expanded to four divisions and a total of 72 teams. Most of England’s juniors play 4NCL. During this time 4NCL became one of the strongest leagues in Europe\, at one time boasting a Division 1 rivalling the Bundesliga in strength in the top matches. \nPaul has demonstrated the sound judgement of Solomon when dealing with league disputes and has drawn on his business acumen\, honed during a successful career in the City with Goldman Sachs to make 4NCL the financially stable and expanding league it is today.” \nRoll of Honour \n\nBritish U18 Champion 1972\nBritish U21 Champion 1975\nBritish Champion 1981\nAs a junior represented England in Glorney Cup\nInternational Master 1980\n\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy. Rice and Richardson we have this article from Richard W. O’Brien : \n“Paul Littlewood was destined to become a strong player from birth. His father John was for some time one of the strongest players in the country and represented England on many occasions. His uncle Norman was for a few years not far behind. Paul\, however\, has surpassed them both and has become the first in the family to reach IM status. (Ed: JEL was very much worthy of the IM title but insufficient events of the right type held him back). \nA. Howard Williams\, Martyn J. Corden\, Paul E. Littlewood and A. Jonathan Mestel\nAll three are essentially attacking players. There have been times in recent years when play at the Hastings Premier has become dull. However\, Paul one of the English representatives at the last three tournaments\, was certainly not to blame. (His game against Brito of Brazil which follows is a striking example of this).” \nCoached by his father\, Paul became British U18 champion in 1972 and three years later became British U21 champion. \nClearly more interested in an academic career he went up to Cambridge and then followed his father into the teaching profession. Opportunities to play in strong tournaments were thus very limited. These opportunities\, however\, were grasped in both hands. Three times in thirteen months between August 1978 and August 1979 he obtained an IM norm and thus the title. \nPartial crosstable for the Lloyds Bank Open\, 1978\nThe first caused a sensation as it was totally unexpected. He shared first place at Lloyds Bank ahead of several grandmasters including Shamkovich\, who was the first grandmaster he ever defeated. \nLeonid Shamkovich plays Paul Littlewood during the 1978 Lloyds Bank Masters. Paul won the game.\nEight months later Aaronson Masters was won and then came the final norm\, also at Lloyds Bank. \nTournaments abroad were limited although he represented England students. He did play at Kringsja (2nd equal) in 1978 and Borovo where he scored 6.5.13 finishing ahead of 3 GMs. \nIn 1981 came his finest achievement – winning the British Championship with a massive 9/11. \nPartial crosstable from the 1981 British Championship in Morecambe\nHis father who was also competing in the championship was as proud as could be and deservedly so (he also coached Sheila Jackson who retained her British Ladies Championship that year). His excellent all round play took him to the title and only once during the tournament did he stand worse. His endgame play was so good that CHESS even published an article solely on these endings. \nPaul Littlewood and friends during the 1978 Lloyds Bank Masters\nDuties at school in Daventry meant he was\, in February 1982\, unable to take part in the zonal at Marbella. This followed an excellent Hastings when as British Champion he made a plus score – a rare event indeed. \nIM Paul Littlewood during filming for the “Trick of the Mind” series from Derren Brown\nIn the summer he gave up teaching and joined Phillips & Drew (stockbrokers). He now (ed : this was in 1983) lives with his (first) wife Sue and family in the wilds of Essex (Billericay). \nIM Paul Littlewood\, event and photographer unknown\n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1980/81-56 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1980.12.29”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Brito\, Luismar Jorge”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, Paul E”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C89”]\n[BlackElo “2440”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “82”]\n[EventDate “1980.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “10”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,74\,38\,46\,10\,19\,22\,18\,17\,-4\,3\,-20\,5\,-11\,-3\,-3\,3\,-22\,16\,28\,6\,41\,12\,18\,\n37\,37\,37\,-8\,19\,23\,29\,24\,24\,2\,29\,38\,18\,6\,23\,17\,-122\,-311\,-312\,-312\,0\,-228\,-322\,\n-287\,-271\,-271\,-271\,-271\,-303\,-827\,-205\,-205\,-230\,-195\,-152\,-193\,-193\,-180\,\n-193\,-172\,-240\,-866\,-1079\,-1149\,-1149\,-1281\,-1152\,-1149\,-1277\,-1272\,-1275\,\n-1275\,-1332]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7.\nBb3 O-O 8. c3 d5 $1 {The Marshall Gambit and why not!} 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5\nNxe5 11. Rxe5 c6 12. d4 Bd6 13. Re1 Qh4 14. g3 Qh3 15. Be3 Bg4 16. Qd3 Rae8 17.\nNd2 Re6 {[#]} 18. c4 $6 {An idea of Byrne but not played since 2002.} ({\n2021 thinking is} 18. a4 $1 f5 19. Qf1 Qh5 20. f4 bxa4 21. Rxa4 g5 22. Rxa6\ngxf4 23. Bxf4 {is a modern main line.}) (18. Qf1 Qh5) 18… Bf4 $1 $17 19. cxd5\n$2 (19. Qf1 {was required} Nxe3 20. Qxh3 Bxh3 21. cxb5 Nc2 {[#] A pretty wild\nposition! Do you know what is going on here?}) 19… Rh6 $19 20. Qe4 Qxh2+ 21.\nKf1 f5 (21… Bxe3 {is possibly more accurate.} 22. Rxe3 Rf6 23. f3 Bh3+ 24.\nKe1 cxd5 25. Qh4 Rh6 26. Qf4) 22. dxc6+ $146 (22. d6+ Kh8 23. Qxc6 Rxd6 24. Qb7\nBxe3 25. Rxe3 f4 26. Re7 fxg3 27. Rf7 Rf6 28. Rxf6 gxf6 29. fxg3 Re8 30. Ne4\nQe2+ 31. Kg1 Bf3 {Gesos – Fabry\, 1977\, 0-1.}) 22… Kh8 23. Qd5 Bxe3 24. Rxe3\nf4 25. gxf4 Qxf4 26. Re2 (26. Nf3 Rh1+ 27. Ke2 Rxa1 28. Bc2 Rxa2 $1 $19) 26…\nRh2 (26… Qh2) 27. f3 Bh3+ 28. Ke1 Rh1+ 29. Kf2 Rh2+ 30. Ke1 Rh1+ {Oh what\nfun!} 31. Kf2 Rxa1 32. Qe4 (32. Qe5) 32… Qg5 33. Nb1 Rxb1 34. Qxb1 Qg2+ 35.\nKe3 Rxf3+ 36. Kd2 Qg5+ 37. Kd1 Rf1+ {and white resigned.} {If} 38. Re1 Bg4+ 39.\nKc2 Rf2+ 40. Kd3 Bf5+ 41. Re4 Qd2# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nPaul gives a simultaneous display in Letchworth. \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Aaronson Masters”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1979.04.16”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Basman\, Michael John”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, Paul E”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A00”]\n[WhiteElo “2405”]\n[BlackElo “2405”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News and George Botterill”]\n[PlyCount “56”]\n[EventDate “1979.04.12”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,54\,19\,-63\,-56\,-53\,-52\,-89\,-55\,-70\,-50\,-46\,-26\,-42\,-48\,-27\,-38\,-13\,-18\,\n-50\,-12\,-67\,-32\,-98\,-56\,-99\,-83\,-83\,-83\,-73\,-38\,-100\,-89\,-89\,-125\,-108\,-163\,\n-159\,-164\,-154\,-163\,-144\,-144\,-446\,-303\,-361\,-364\,-371\,-364\,-812\,-1568\,-2013\,\n-2191\,-29975\,-1329\,-1430\,-1569]} 1. b4 {Mike liked pushing his knight’s pawns.\nOn this day the b2 pawn was the victim.} e5 2. a3 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Bb2 Bd6 5. c4\nc6 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. Nf3 {White’s strategy is to induce the advance ….e4 and\nthereby establish a strong outpost on d4.} Qe7 {Black resists temptation.} 8.\nNc3 Nc6 9. h3 $146 {Hardly an inspired choice. Maybe White thought he was\nworse already?} ({Better is} 9. d3 O-O 10. Be2 Rd8 11. O-O $17) 9… O-O $17 {\nBlack’s lead in development is clear.} 10. g4 $6 {This can hardly be justified\nbut then again we refer to our note after move 1. Michael does sometimes get\ncarried away wit his outlandish ideas : GB.} Be6 11. Ne2 {Heading for f5\ncombined with Rg1 might stir up trouble for Black.} a6 (11… Ne4 12. Bg2 f5 {\nand the f2 square is under some pressure.}) 12. Ng3 e4 {Black finally succumbs\nto temptation\, though not without justification. White’s set-up is too\nartificial.} 13. Nd4 Nxd4 14. Bxd4 Nd7 15. Qb3 {[#]} Ne5 $1 16. Be2 Nc6 $1 {\nThe refutation of White’s strategy. With the loss of his blockade on d4\,\nWhite’s game disintegrates.} 17. Bb2 d4 $1 $19 {The time has come to open the\nposition.} 18. Qd1 Bxg3 19. fxg3 d3 20. Bf1 f5 21. Qc1 {Desperation\,} ({but on\n} 21. gxf5 Rxf5 22. Bg2 Qg5 {he is defenceless.}) 21… fxg4 22. Qc5 Qf7 23.\nO-O-O {White seeks some salvation on his side of the board\, but instead finds\nhimself walking into a mating net.} Ba2 $1 24. hxg4 Na5 $1 {A neat touch} ({\nthough the prosaic} 24… Rac8 {also wins of course.}) 25. bxa5 ({Or} 25. Qxa5\nRac8+ 26. Bc3 Qb3 {forces mate}) 25… Rac8 26. Rh5 Rxc5+ 27. Rxc5 Qxf1 $1 {\nand White resigned} 28. Rxf1 Rxf1# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nChess Tactics\, Paul Littlewood\, Crowood Chess Library\, 1991\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-68 Championship”]\n[Site “Morecambe/ Lancashire”]\n[Date “1981.08.08”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, Paul E”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E52”]\n[WhiteElo “2455”]\n[BlackElo “2430”]\n[Annotator “Bill Hartston\, George Botterill and British C”]\n[PlyCount “62”]\n[EventDate “1981.08.03”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,62\,19\,35\,34\,-14\,0\,-4\,33\,16\,34\,17\,17\,25\,44\,6\,8\,4\,-4\,3\,-6\,0\,-2\,-2\,17\,-5\,\n-5\,-22\,6\,-22\,-18\,-37\,-21\,-93\,17\,-26\,-13\,-44\,-101\,-101\,-107\,-91\,-152\,-150\,-33\,\n-25\,-100\,-93\,-95\,-108\,-110\,-120\,-117\,-192\,-169\,-187\,-38\,-345\,-312\,-710\,-996\,\n-996\,-1001\,-1027\,-1029]} {Annotations sourced from BCM\, 1981\, page 498\, game #\n20170\, Bill Hartston\, British Chess\, 1983\, George Botterill and British Chess\nNews\, 2021.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 {This is the third time these two\nhave crossed swords in this opening in 1981\, though on the other two occasions\nit was Chandler who had Black. Littlewood won at Hastings in January\, but then\nChandler hit back with a masterly endgame performance in the ARC tournament.}\n4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 b6 ({WRH : Both Chandler and and Littlewood have\nplayed the fashionable line with} 6… c5 7. O-O cxd4 8. exd4 dxc4 9. Bxc4 b6 {\nHere\, perhaps just for a change\, perhaps to avoid any prepared lines\nLittlewood chooses something different.}) 7. a3 {GB : It seems to me that this\nmove would fit i better with the development of the white knight at e2 rather\nthan f3. WRH : This move is usually delayed until after 7.00 Bb7 Now tha game\nquickly develops along unusual paths.} (7. O-O Bb7 8. cxd5 exd5 9. a3 Bd6 10.\nb4 a6 11. Qb3 Qe7 12. b5 axb5 13. Nxb5 Nbd7 14. a4 c5 15. Ba3 Ba6) 7… Bxc3+\n8. bxc3 Ba6 $1 {GB : White squares! WRH : When your opponent has the bishop\npair\, you should exchange one of them. So said Nimzowitsch and here Littlewood\ntakes his advice. Black’s plan is gain control of the white squares after the\nexchange of bishops.} 9. cxd5 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 exd5 11. c4 Nc6 {Black’s play is\nreminiscent of the Tchigorin Defence to the Queen’s Gambit relying on piece\nplay to contest and restrain the centre.} 12. Bb2 $2 $146 {Underestimating the\nactivity of Black’s pieces.} (12. O-O Na5 13. Ne5 c5 14. Bb2 Rc8 15. Rad1) ({\nInstead} 12. Bd2 Ne4 13. O-O {leads to an equal game.}) 12… Na5 13. Nd2 c5\n14. dxc5 {This move indciates that White is still hoping for an advantage from\nthe opening.} ({but he would have done better to settle for slight inferiority\nafter} 14. O-O dxc4 15. Nxc4 Nc6) 14… dxc4 $1 15. Qc3 ({Black’s queenside\npawns give him the better chances after} 15. Qxd8 Rfxd8 16. Bxf6 gxf6 17. O-O-O\nRd3) 15… Qd5 $17 16. cxb6 Rfd8 $1 {A fine pawn sacrifice. White cannot\ncastle kingside because his knight on d2 hangs. Meanwhile the Black major\npieces become very active.} 17. bxa7 Rxa7 ({WRH : note that} 17… Qxg2 {\nwould have been met by} 18. O-O-O Rxd2 19. Rdg1 $1) 18. e4 $6 (18. Nf3) 18…\nRe7 19. O-O-O {At last the king has escaped from the centre\, but its new home\nis also far from safe.} Qa8 $19 20. Kb1 Rd3 21. Qc2 Red7 {Black’s simplest\nthreat now is 22..Qd8 followed\, if necessary\, by Nb3 or Nxe4. The pin on the\nd-file must be broken before it is too late.} 22. e5 Ne8 23. Nf3 Qd5 {Mighty\ncentralisation of the black forces.} 24. Nd4 Rb7 {WRH : The final shift of the\nattack to the b-file proves the last straw for White’s strained defences.} 25.\nRxd3 cxd3 26. Qa4 {Otherwise …Nc4 wins the pinned bishop} (26. Qxd3 {WRH :\nloses to the prosaic} Nc4) 26… Rb8 {WRH : calmly defending the attacked\nknight and renewing the threat of Nc4. To add to his problems\, White was now\nseverly short of time.} 27. Ka1 Nc7 28. Rb1 d2 $1 {GB : White is quite lost\nhere. He has no defence against …Ne6 followed by a fatal check on b3. WRH :\nWith so many white pieces trying simply to plug gaps in his leaky position it\nis almost impossible to find a move which does not lose everything.} 29. Bc3\nRxb1+ 30. Kxb1 Qc4 $1 31. Qc2 ({WRH : the final shock} 31. Qxc4 d1=Q+ {leaves\nBlack a queen ahead.}) 31… Qf1+ {and White resigned. WRH : a total triumph\nfor Black’s white-square strategy.} 0-1\n[/pgn]
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CATEGORIES:2023,4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210123
DTSTAMP:20220122T105352Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Richard Pert (22-i-1981)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday IM Richard Pert (22-i-1981) \nIM Richard Pert\n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 106th”]\n[Site “Torquay”]\n[Date “2019.08.02”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Pert\, Richard G”]\n[Black “Pert\, Nicholas G”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D15”]\n[WhiteElo “2430”]\n[BlackElo “2563”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “2019.07.27”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 191 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.09.30”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.09.30”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,31\,43\,-23\,33\,17\,37\,22\,8\,2\,14\,-9\,-16\,-16\,-15\,-24\,-15\,-210\,-201\,\n-116\,-18\,-12\,3\,-38\,23\,18\,29\,-26\,12\,2\,18\,18\,4\,15\,85\,29\,29\,80\,311\,306\,341\,230\,\n223\,246\,215\,215\,336\,309\,321\,322\,285\,264\,325\,275\,317\,341\,339\,333\,333\,152\,172\,\n177\,173\,189\,198\,182\,205\,216\,217\,242\,257\,291\,422\,452\,525\,642\,656\,316\,475\,680\,\n687\,922]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. e4 b5 6. Be2 e6 7. O-O\nBb7 8. b3 Bb4 9. e5 Bxc3 10. exf6 gxf6 11. Rb1 c5 12. bxc4 Bxd4 $6 (12… cxd4\n$142) 13. Rxb5 Bc6 14. Rb3 $16 Rg8 15. g3 Na6 16. Nxd4 cxd4 17. Bf3 Rc8 18.\nBxc6+ Rxc6 19. Qh5 $18 f5 20. Qxh7 Rf8 21. Bh6 Qf6 22. Bxf8 Kxf8 23. Rb7 Rxc4\n24. Rxa7 Nc7 25. Rb1 f4 26. Rab7 Ke7 27. Rb8 e5 28. Qg8 Rc6 29. Qd8+ Ke6 30.\nQxf6+ Kxf6 31. R8b6 Rxb6 32. Rxb6+ Kf5 33. gxf4 Nd5 34. Rb2 Kxf4 35. a4 e4 36.\na5 d3 37. a6 f5 38. a7 Nc7 39. Kg2 Ke5 40. Kf1 f4 41. Rb7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nNick and Richard Pert\nNick and Richard Pert
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210123
DTSTAMP:20230120T152026Z
CREATED:20200122T110505Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Nick Pert (22-i-1981)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to GM Nick Pert born this day (January 22nd) in 1981. \nJeremy Morse\, Adam Hunt\, Nick Pert and Nigel Short at the Lloyds Bank Masters\nNick won the Southern Counties (SCCU) championship for the 2016-17 season sharing with Richard Bates. \nNick and Richard Pert\nHere is Nick’s Wikipedia entry \nNick and Richard Pert\n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2007.12.30”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Pert\, Nicholas”]\n[Black “Dinger\, Florian”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E12”]\n[WhiteElo “2539”]\n[BlackElo “2378”]\n[Annotator “Pert\,N”]\n[PlyCount “97”]\n[EventDate “2007.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 122”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2008.01.30”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2008.01.30”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,97\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,4\,27\,41\,33\,17\,24\,8\,18\,-2\,24\,3\,15\,-15\,12\,-2\,3\,-2\,7\,\n-20\,-16\,-17\,-10\,15\,16\,-19\,62\,1\,8\,40\,51\,51\,48\,33\,53\,53\,82\,79\,72\,72\,64\,66\,61\,64\,\n72\,64\,75\,65\,69\,65\,79\,71\,59\,54\,61\,51\,52\,43\,58\,39\,56\,54\,46\,48\,70\,65\,81\,44\,81\,80\,\n65\,62\,65\,48\,47\,-15\,-21\,-17\,-8\,-116\,-109\,-114\,-94\,-88\,233\,311\,397\,396\,414\,407\,\n346\,377\,604\,624]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. a3 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5\n7. e3 {The old main line is going through a mini-revival recently\, so I\nthought I would try and keep up with the trends. Here g6 is a popular move for\nBlack\, but the game transposed to a more common variation which can also be\nreached as follows:} (7. Qc2 Be7 8. e4 Nxc3 9. bxc3 O-O 10. Bd3 c5 11. O-O Qc7\n12. Qe2 Nd7 13. Bb2) 7… Nd7 8. Bd3 c5 9. e4 Nxc3 10. bxc3 Qc7 11. O-O Be7 12.\nBb2 O-O 13. Qe2 {By a strange move order we have reached one of the main\npositions of the Petrosian Variation of the Queen’s Indian.} Rac8 14. Nd2 {\nOne of Black’s main plans in this position is to close down the centre\, and\nhence limit the potential of White’s bishops by playing c4 and e5. This move\nis designed to add more control to the c4 square\, whilst readying kingside\nexpansion with f4.} Bg5 $5 {An interesting way to stop f4. Another alternative\nis to put the queen on f4 before the pawn gets there! Then if White wants to\nshift the queen he has to weaken the long diagonal with g3.} 15. Rad1 $146 {\nThis is technically a novelty\, but according to my database the position has\nbeen reached once before by transposition.} e5 $6 {Black goes for it and\nchallenges the centre right away. Rfd8 comes into consideration as a useful\nalternative.} 16. Nf3 (16. d5 Bxd2 17. Qxd2 c4 {I expect this was his\nintention\, closing up the position\, but probably White has slightly the better\nof it with the bishop pair if he can find a way to activate them.}) 16… Bf6\n17. Bb5 $1 {I don’t want Black to close me in with c4.} cxd4 18. cxd4 exd4 19.\nNxd4 Nc5 20. Nf5 $1 Bxb2 {This hands White a comfortable edge. The risky Bxe4\nwas the other option when white has the choice between 2 reasonable ways to\nfight for the advantage.} (20… Bxe4 21. Nh6+ (21. Bxf6 Bxf5 22. Be7 Rfe8 23.\nBxe8 Rxe8 24. Bd6 {with a pull for White.}) 21… Kh8 22. Bxf6 gxf6 {is also\npossible when Black has an extra pawn\, but a weak king provides at least\nsufficient compensation.}) 21. Qxb2 f6 22. Nd6 Rb8 {Forced.} (22… Rcd8 23.\nQa2+ Kh8 24. Nf7+ Rxf7 25. Qxf7 {Wins.}) 23. f3 $6 (23. e5 {I think e5 is\nmarginally preferable. This ensures that White’s king is safer than Black’s.\nHowever the game continuation keeps a strong hold in the centre and blunts\nBlack’s bishop.}) 23… Kh8 $1 24. Rf2 Ba6 {Black is advised to swop his\nbishop for White’s more active counterpart.} 25. Bxa6 Nxa6 26. Rfd2 Nc5 27. Qc3\n(27. Rd5 {I wanted to continue with Rd5 and Qf2 -> kingside but Na4 would have\nbeen irritating threatening a fork on c3.} Na4 28. Qb3 Nc3 29. Nb5 Nxb5 30.\nQxb5 Rbd8 $14) 27… h6 $1 {Black has found some strong moves\, and the task of\nconverting the edge is not easy.} 28. h3 {I tried to look for a way to\nconsolidate my own king position\, but it is not so simple with my pawn on f3.\nMoving the f pawn around a castled king\, can often leave it much more\nvulnerable.} Kh7 {Black hopes to play Rbd8 without any Nf7+ problems.} 29. Kh1\nRbd8 30. Qc2 Kg8 31. Qc4+ Kh7 32. Qd5 Rd7 $6 {Probably Qd7 was better covering\nthe f5 square.} 33. Qf5+ Kg8 34. Qg6 $1 Ne6 $1 (34… Rfd8 {Black would love\nto play this move but it fails tactically.} 35. Ne8 Rxd2 36. Rxd2 Rxd2 37.\nNxf6+ {And mate follows.}) 35. Qg4 Nc5 36. Qg6 Ne6 37. Qg4 {I repeated as my\ntime was getting low and I needed to make it to move 40.} Nc5 38. Rd5 $6 (38.\nf4 $1 {Would have been stronger\, ready to support the d6 knight with e5\nagainst Rfd8 ideas. I rejected this based on a miscalculation.} Qc6 39. Nf5\nNxe4 40. Rxd7 Nf2+ 41. Kg1 Nxg4 42. Ne7+ {Wins for White\, but Black could\nfight on with 39…Rc7. In fact White would probably be best off playing 39.\nKh2 looking after the king – the most important feature of major piece\nendgames.}) 38… Kh7 $1 39. h4 $2 {I start going wrong in time trouble.} (39.\nQf5+ Kg8 40. Qg6 Kh8 41. h4 {is a more accurate version of the same idea.})\n39… Rfd8 $1 40. Nf5 $2 (40. Qf5+ Kg8 41. e5 {Still retains a slight edge.})\n40… Rxd5 41. exd5 g6 $1 {The only move but a very important one. I’d seen\nthis and hoped that h5 might have maintained the initiative for White but…}\n42. Ng3 (42. Qg3 {Moving to an equal ending was probably the best option\, but\nI was still after more.}) (42. h5 gxf5 43. Qg6+ Kh8 44. Qxf6+ Kg8 45. d6 Qd7 {\nLooks at least ok for Black.}) 42… h5 $1 {Before White plays h5 – so now i’m\nobliged to sacrifice a piece.} 43. Nxh5 gxh5 44. Qxh5+ Kg7 $4 {After a fine\nseries of moves\, my young opponent finally cracks.} (44… Kg8 45. d6 (45. Qg6+\nQg7 46. Qf5 Rd7 {And Black is slightly better.}) (45. Rd4 Qh7 {is the point\,\nwhen the black king can hide on h8.}) 45… Rxd6 46. Qg6+ Kf8 47. Qh6+ Ke8 48.\nQg6+ Kd7 49. Rxd6+ Qxd6 50. h5 {It is still not over but Black has the better\nchances.}) 45. Rd4 $1 {Now I think Black is lost\, but he comes up with an\ninteresting last roll of the dice.} Ne6 46. Rg4+ $1 (46. Qg4+ $2 Ng5 47. hxg5\n$4 Qc1+ 48. Kh2 Rh8+ 49. Kg3 Qe1+ 50. Kf4 Qe5#) 46… Kf8 47. Qh6+ $1 Ke7 (\n47… Ng7 48. Qh8+ {Wins}) 48. Re4 $1 Rxd5 49. Qg7+ {And Black resigned since:}\n(49. Qg7+ Kd6 (49… Kd8 50. Qg8+ Kd7 51. Qxe6+ Kd8 52. Qe8#) 50. Rxe6+ {\nwins the queen.}) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nGM Nick Pert\nGM Nick Pert
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DTSTAMP:20230121T131743Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Adam Taylor (23-i-1998)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM Adam Taylor on his birthday. \nAdam Christopher Taylor was born on Friday\, January 23rd\, 1998 in Colchester\, Essex. Adam has a sister\, Nathalie Leanne Taylor who also plays and studied History & Economics at The University of York. His mother Deborah was always supportive during his chess career. \nHe attended The Gilberd School\, Colchester until 2014 and then Colchester Sixth Form College and currently resides in Colchester\, Essex. \nECF grading profile for IM Adam C Taylor\nAdam’s first recorded rapidplay event was the Basildon Junior Congress resulting in a published grade of 34D and his first graded standard play event was the 2009 London Junior Under-12 Championships and his first published standard-play grading was 73E. \nIn that same year at Torquay Adam won the British Under-12 title sharing with Radha Jain. \nAdam C Taylor at the 2013 UK Chess Challenge Terafinal. Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nAdam made his first 4NCL appearance in May 2012 for SC Stars followed by Anglian Avengers. In 2018 the lure of the big lights of Division One beckoned and Wood Green became Adam’s team now playing for Wood Green Monarchs in the Online 4NCL championship. \nIn 2017 Adam scored an impressive 6/9 (and =2nd) when he travelled to Greece to play in the Heraklion 1st Capablanca Memorial. \nThe Hastings Open in 2018 saw an excellent =7th with 6.5/10. \nAdam’s IM title was ratified in June of 2019 in Baku and currently (January 2021) holds a FIDE standard play rating of 2347 and an ECF standard play rating of 2260A. His highest ECF standard play grading was 230A in July 2019. We expect this to be exceeded once OTB play resumes. \nBattersea Chess Club celebrated Adams’s title in style with this article written by Leon Watson \nFIDE rating profile for IM Adam C Taylor from MegaBase 2020.\nAdam has played for Bury St. Edmunds and Manningtree and now Battersea in the London League and Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) and has made many appearances in the UKCC Terafinal. \nAdam is known as Tayip99 on chess.com and as AdamTaylor2301 on LiChess.com and regularly streams on Twitch and other platforms. \nAdam C Taylor\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nOn the 13th of September 2019 Adam became the sole director of MakingGrandmasters Limited which lists on its web site a number of leading young English players engaging in coaching such as Matthew Wadsworth\, Ravi Haria and Daniel Fernandez to name but a few. \nOne of Adam’s more notable students is Guildford Chess Club member Jessica Mellor who\, in 2018\, won Gold in the Under-11 category of the European Schools Championship. \nMore recently Adam has taken a back seat from chess and has become a golf professional. \nWith the white pieces Adam favours a Reti/English set-up where c4 quickly follows a king side fianchetto. Here is a typical game of Adam’s with the white against a strong opponent : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op 93rd”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2017.12.28”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Taylor\, Adam C”]\n[Black “Sengupta\, Deep”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A11”]\n[WhiteElo “2242”]\n[BlackElo “2586”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “113”]\n[EventDate “2017.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 182 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.02.23”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.02.23”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,113\,19\,27\,26\,-27\,-27\,-10\,18\,10\,9\,17\,14\,30\,26\,1\,-2\,11\,29\,0\,27\,22\,57\,60\,\n161\,161\,161\,74\,81\,89\,88\,143\,136\,155\,133\,155\,131\,132\,152\,158\,156\,85\,92\,99\,115\,\n117\,135\,116\,250\,78\,228\,92\,97\,99\,99\,100\,104\,119\,129\,136\,160\,165\,172\,176\,176\,191\,\n206\,180\,221\,163\,183\,203\,210\,203\,207\,207\,220\,220\,237\,247\,237\,263\,252\,267\,286\,\n232\,274\,213\,233\,206\,223\,234\,246\,234\,232\,228\,234\,255\,335\,364\,384\,338\,350\,371\,\n376\,404\,436\,428\,472\,481\,508\,512\,517\,531\,528\,539]} 1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2\nBg4 4. Ne5 Bf5 5. c4 c6 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. O-O (7. Nc3 {is more common.}) 7… e6\n8. d3 Bd6 9. Qa4+ Nbd7 10. Bf4 Qe7 $2 $146 {presumably missing whites 11th\nmove. [#]} ({required is} 10… Bxe5 11. Bxe5 O-O 12. Bd6 Nb6 13. Qa3 Re8 14.\nNd2 Rc8 15. Rac1 Qd7 16. Be5 a6 17. Qb4 Qb5 18. Qxb5 axb5 19. b3 Nfd7 20. Bc7\nNa8 21. Ba5 Rc6 $2 22. Rxc6 bxc6 23. b4 $18 Nab6 24. Rc1 Rc8 25. Nf3 Bg4 26.\nNd4 Na4 27. f3 Bh5 28. Kf1 h6 29. Rxc6 Rxc6 30. Nxc6 Nc3 31. Ke1 e5 32. Bh3 Nf6\n33. Nxe5 Nxa2 34. Kd2 d4 35. Nc6 Nc3 36. Nxd4 Nfd5 37. Bd7 {Meier-Atefall\,\nVastefas\, 2017\, 1-0.}) 11. e4 $1 dxe4 (11… Bg6 $2 12. Nxg6 hxg6 13. e5 $18 {\nis the simple point.}) (11… Bxe5 12. Bxe5 Bg6 13. Bc3 $18) 12. dxe4 Bg4 13.\nNxd7 Qxd7 14. Qxd7+ Kxd7 15. Bxd6 Kxd6 16. h3 {A very unpleasant position for\nthe Indian GM.} Bh5 {Adam continues in fine style.} 17. f4 Ke7 18. g4 Nxg4 {\nHobson’s choice.} 19. hxg4 Bxg4 20. Bf3 Bxf3 21. Rxf3 Rhd8 22. Nc3 Rd2 23. Rf2\nRad8 24. Raf1 a6 25. Rxd2 Rxd2 26. Rf2 Rd3 27. Kf1 h5 28. Ke2 Rg3 29. e5 f5 30.\nexf6+ gxf6 31. Rh2 Rg8 32. Ne4 Rh8 33. Kf3 h4 34. Rc2 f5 35. Ng5 Kd7 $6 (35…\nRd8) 36. Rd2+ Ke7 37. Re2 Rh6 38. Kg2 Kd7 39. Kh3 Ke7 40. Re3 Kd7 41. a4 b6 42.\nNf3 Kd6 43. Nxh4 Kc5 44. Kg3 Kb4 45. b3 a5 46. Nf3 Rg6+ 47. Ng5 Rg8 48. Kf3 Rd8\n49. Nxe6 Rd7 50. Ke2 Ka3 51. Kf3 Kb2 52. Kg3 Kc2 53. Kh4 Rd6 54. Kg5 Kd2 55.\nRe5 Kc3 56. Kxf5 Kxb3 57. Re4 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nWith the black pieces Adam essays the Berlin Defence and the Sicilian Najdorf as well as the Benko Gambit and Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op 91st”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2016.01.03”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Helbig\, Paul”]\n[Black “Taylor\, Adam C”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C36”]\n[WhiteElo “2122”]\n[BlackElo “2282”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “68”]\n[EventDate “2015.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 170 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2016.02.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2016.02.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,68\,37\,25\,8\,-13\,11\,14\,-16\,14\,7\,-20\,-8\,-69\,-68\,-58\,-54\,-72\,-87\,-110\,\n-107\,-165\,-133\,-115\,-151\,-149\,-157\,-134\,-92\,-111\,-111\,-150\,-168\,-179\,-192\,-176\,\n-176\,-190\,-195\,-204\,-191\,-176\,-171\,-250\,-259\,-270\,-248\,-254\,-248\,-262\,-254\,\n-323\,-337\,-352\,-326\,-358\,-395\,-862\,-886\,-886\,-900\,-900\,-917\,-917\,-925\,-933\,\n-938\,-947\,-417\,-470\,-449]} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 exf4 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bc4\nNxd5 6. Bxd5 ({More common is} 6. O-O Be7 7. d4 O-O 8. Bxd5 Qxd5 9. Bxf4 c5 10.\nNc3 Qc4 11. Qe1 Bf6 12. Bd6 Bxd4+ 13. Kh1 Rd8 14. Ne4) 6… Qxd5 7. O-O (7. Nc3\nQd8 8. d4 Be7 9. Bxf4 O-O 10. O-O c6 11. Qd3 Be6 12. Rad1) 7… Nc6 (7… Be7\n8. d4 O-O 9. Bxf4 c5 10. Nc3) 8. Nc3 Qf5 $17 {[#]} 9. Qe2+ $146 {An unhappy\nchoice but white is simply worse anyway.} (9. d4) 9… Be6 10. Qb5 {Another\nstrange decision} Qxb5 11. Nxb5 O-O-O 12. d3 a6 13. Nc3 Bc5+ 14. Kh1 Nb4 $1 15.\nNe4 Be3 16. Bxe3 fxe3 17. Ne1 Rhe8 18. a3 {[#] White has obtained precisely\nnothing from the opening apart from being behind in development.} Nc6 19. Ng5\nf6 (19… Bd5) 20. Nxe6 Rxe6 21. Rf4 g5 22. Rc4 f5 23. Rc5 Rf8 24. g4 Re5 (\n24… fxg4 $1 25. Rc4 h5 26. Ng2 e2 27. Kg1 Ne5 $19) 25. Rc4 fxg4 26. Rxg4 Rf1+\n27. Kg2 Ref5 28. h4 R5f2+ (28… h5 $1) 29. Kg3 Rg1+ 30. Kh3 Rh1+ 31. Kg3 gxh4+\n32. Rxh4 Rg1+ 33. Kh3 Re2 (33… Ne7) 34. Rg4 Rh1+ {and white gave up the\nunequal struggle.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Adam C Taylor\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
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CATEGORIES:2023,4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Coach,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210128
DTSTAMP:20230126T231702Z
CREATED:20191117T173215Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Richard Bates (27-i-1979)
DESCRIPTION:Best Birthday wishes to IM Richard Adam Bates born on this day (January 27th) in 1979. \nRichard has won the Southern Counties (SCCU) championship in the 2015-16\, 2016-17 (with Nick Pert) and 2017-18 seasons. \nIM Richard Adam Bates\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 9900 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “2000.03.25”]\n[Round “7.3”]\n[White “Bates\, Richard”]\n[Black “Emms\, John M”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A70”]\n[WhiteElo “2368”]\n[BlackElo “2546”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “67”]\n[EventDate “1999.10.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Richmond”]\n[BlackTeam “Wood Green”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,67\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,4\,17\,20\,76\,42\,77\,64\,122\,98\,78\,105\,92\,90\,77\,62\,86\,67\,\n68\,67\,71\,71\,71\,53\,46\,27\,84\,19\,31\,2\,44\,48\,63\,41\,184\,55\,238\,271\,298\,301\,258\,252\,\n211\,222\,222\,248\,248\,200\,259\,294\,411\,179\,294\,364\,361\,379\,379\,385\,641\,559\,625\,\n1032\,1094\,1125]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 c5 4. d5 d6 5. Nc3 exd5 6. cxd5 g6\n7. h3 a6 8. e4 b5 9. Bd3 Bg7 10. O-O c4 11. Bc2 O-O 12. Bf4 Re8 13. Re1 Bb7 14.\nQd2 Qb6 15. Bh6 $1 $146 (15. b4) 15… Bh8 16. Ne2 Nbd7 17. Ng3 Rac8 18. Be3\nNc5 19. Bd4 a5 $2 (19… b4 20. Nf5 b3 21. axb3 (21. Qh6 bxc2 22. Bxf6 Bxf6 23.\nNg5 Rc7 24. Qxh7+ Kf8 25. e5 Rxe5 26. Rxe5 Bxe5) 21… cxb3 22. Nh6+ (22. Bb1)\n22… Kf8 23. Bb1) (19… Bg7 20. Rad1 (20. a4 b4 21. a5 Qb5 22. Qf4 b3 23. Bb1\n(23. Bxf6 bxc2 24. Bxg7 (24. Nf5 Bxf6 25. Nh6+ Kg7 26. Ng4) 24… Kxg7 25. Nf5+\ngxf5 26. Qg5+ Kh8 27. Qf6+ Kg8 28. exf5 Rxe1+ 29. Rxe1 Ne4 30. Rxe4 c1=Q+ 31.\nKh2 h5) 23… Nxd5 24. exd5 Rxe1+ 25. Nxe1 Re8 26. Nf3) 20… Qd8 21. Qf4 h6) (\n19… Nfd7 20. Qh6 Bxd4 21. Nxd4 Kh8 22. Re3) 20. Nf5 $1 $18 Qd8 (20… gxf5\n21. Qg5+ Kf8 22. Bxf6 Bxf6 23. Qxf6 Qd8 24. Qh6+ Ke7 25. e5) 21. Nh6+ Kf8 22.\nNg5 Rc7 23. Bxf6 (23. Qxa5) 23… Bxf6 24. Nxh7+ Kg7 25. Nxf6 Qxf6 26. Ng4 Qd8\n(26… Qh4) 27. Qh6+ Kg8 28. Qf4 (28. f4) 28… Kg7 29. e5 dxe5 30. Rxe5 Rxe5\n31. Qxe5+ Kg8 (31… f6 32. Nxf6 Re7 33. Nh5+ Kh7 34. Qf4) 32. d6 Rc6 33. Nh6+\nKh7 34. Nxf7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nRichard Bates\nIM Richard Bates\nSheen Mount Under Eleven Chess Champion Richard Bates and Robin Laisby enjoying a game during time out from the Teachers Assurance National Primary Schools Chess Championships. Malaysian Elephant Leyang Leyang and her keeper Duncan McGinnie help them not to forget their chess moves.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Raymond Keene OBE (29-i-1948)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to GM Raymond Keene OBE. \nRaymond Dennis Keene was born on Thursday\, January 29th 1948 in Wandsworth\, London to Dennis Arthur and Doris Anita Keene (née Leat). Dennis and Doris were married in 1943 in Camberwell. Doris was born on May 27th\, 1921 in Lambeth and was a shorthand and invoice typist. \nDennis and Doris also had a daughter Jackie Keene who later married chess historian\, RG Eales. Jackie is Emeritus Professor at The University of Kent in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Jackie played in the Glorney Cup. \nRaymond Keene\nRay was educated at Dulwich College between 1959 and 1966 thereby becoming an Old Alleynian. In 1967 Ray went up to Trinity College\, Cambridge to study Modern Languages specialising in German and graduating with an MA. Amongst their Alumni are five spies including Blunt\, Burgess and Philby. During the gap between Dulwich College and Cambridge Ray (aged 18) wrote his first (and one of his best) book : Flank Openings : \nFlank Openings\, Raymond Keene\, British Chess Magazine\, 1967.\nBeing published at the age of 19 this must be close to the earliest age an English player has had a chess book published that was not ghost written. (Leave a comment if you know differently!) \nFollowing this legendary tome Ray collaborated with Leonard Barden and Bill Hartston on The King’s Indian Defence from BT Batsford Ltd: \nThe King’s Indian Defence\, Barden\, Keene and Hartston\, BT Batsford\, 1969.\nand in 1972 we have \nThe Modern Defence\, BT Batsford\, 1972\, GS Botterill and RD Keene\nfollowed in 1973 by \nThe Pirc Defence\, BT Batsford\, 1973\, GS Botterill and RD Keene\nAll of which were favourably received helping Batsford to establish a strong reputation. \nIn July 1974 Ray married ex-ballerina (and now Dance Teacher) Annette Sara Goodman in Brighton\, East Sussex. Annette became a director of World Memory Championships International Limited on January 17th 2008 and resigned on April 9th 2008. They have one son\, Alexander Phillip Simon Keene\, born in 1991. Godfather to Alexander is Scottish International\, IM David Levy. \nAnnette is the sister of IM David Simon Charles Goodman who now resides in New York. \nAlso in 1974 George Bell & Sons published Ray’s most acclaimed work (and arguably his best) : Aron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal \nAron Nimzowitsch: A Reappraisal\, RD Keene\, George Bell & Sons\, 1974\nAlexander is currently the Company Secretary of the aforementioned company\, Julian (a retired teacher from Brighton) is another active director. \nIn 1985 Ray became the sixth British chess player to be awarded the OBE when it was awarded in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. The citation read “For Services to Chess”. \nAccording to Companies House Ray has held a total of 30 directorships in various companies such as : \n\nBrain Plan 2020\nWorld Mind Mapping Championships\nWorld Speed Reading Championships\nBuzan International Technology\nBuzan World\nThe World is My Oyster\nWorld Memory Championships\nIntelligent Resources and Services\nOutside in Pathways\nUK Primary Schools Memory Championships\nUK Schools Memory Championships\nThe School Memory Championships\nThe Schools Memory Championship\nMental Literacy for All\nFestival of the Mind\nFestival of the Mind International\nThe Brain Trust\nImpala (London)\nTony Buzan International\nWorld Memory Championships International\nWorld Peace and Prosperity Foundation\nZeticula\nMind Masters Management\nIntellectual Leisure\nBrain Sports Olympiad\nMind Sports Promotions\n\n(Our particular favourite has to be the unpretentiously entitled “World Peace and Prosperity Foundation” although “The World is My Oyster” runs it a close second.) \nRay\, Annette and Julian Simpole currently live in Clapham Common North Side\, London\, England. \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by David Hooper and Ken Whyld : \nRay Keene\nEnglish player and author\, British champion 1971\, From 1966 he played in several Olympiads and his performance in two of them\, Nice 1974 ( + 7=6-2) and Haifa 1976 (+4=6)\, gained him the title of International Grandmaster (1976). His best tournament win was at Dortmund 1980 (category 8)\, He studied the games and teaching of Staunton and Nimzowitsch and revealed with unusual insight the strategy of the former and the stratagems of the latter in two books: Staunton : the English World Champion (1975) and Nimzowitsch: a Reappraisal (1974). He also wrote Flank Openings (3rd edn\, 1979); these openings are the ones which he prefers to play\, which he knows best\, and which suit his solid positional style. \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Anne Sunnucks : \nInternational Master (1972)\, British Champion in 1971 and a regular member of the British team since 1966 playing on top board on a number of occasions. \nRay Keene\nRaymond Keene was born on 29th January 1948 in London and learned to play chess at the age of six. He began to play seriously when he was thirteen. While at Dulwich College from 1959 -1966 he played top bard for the school team which won the Sunday Times National Schools’ Chess Tournament in 1965 and 1966. \nEnglish chess player Raymond Keene\, winner of the 1971 British Chess Championship\, posed in London on 6th June 1972. Raymond Keene has been awarded the chess title International Master. (Photo by Harry Dempster/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\nIn 1964\, he won the London and British Boys’ Under 18 Championship (ed : In fact\, the title was shared with Brian Denman) and the following year\, at the age of seventeen\, he became the youngest player to win the Surrey Championship. While at Cambridge he graduated in German Literature (B.A. Honours)\, he played top board for the university. \nBrian Reilly\, Ray Keene\, George Botterill\, Anatoly Karpov\, Harry Golombek and Viktor Korchnoi\nDuring his chess career\, he has beaten both Botvinnik and Gligoric\, In 1967\, he came 2nd in the World Junior Championship and in 1968 he won the prize for the best score on board 4 in the Lugano Olympiad. \nRaymond Keene\nA difficult player to beat\, Keene played in four British Championships without losing a game and also went through the Lugano and Siegen Olympiads unbeaten in 33 games. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-21 Preliminaries B”]\n[Site “Nice”]\n[Date “1974.06.07”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Keene\, Raymond D”]\n[Black “Fuller\, Maxwell L”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A42”]\n[Annotator “Keene\,R”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\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 “Australia”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “AUS”] \n{[%evp 0\,71\,19\,27\,85\,57\,47\,9\,7\,7\,65\,34\,42\,34\,13\,11\,25\,-40\,-29\,41\,25\,62\,39\,33\,\n50\,49\,49\,49\,71\,57\,44\,69\,125\,133\,118\,170\,177\,228\,217\,216\,209\,209\,209\,213\,235\,\n240\,261\,246\,262\,269\,269\,-78\,281\,289\,294\,230\,233\,238\,250\,257\,288\,293\,328\,329\,\n329\,303\,1185\,1235\,1262\,1016\,1277\,1356\,1410\,1002]} 1. Nf3 g6 2. c4 c5 3. e4 (3.\nd4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d5 6. e3 $1 $14) 3… Bg7 4. d4 d6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Be3\nBg4 (6… Qb6 7. Na4 Qa5+ 8. Bd2 Qc7 9. d5 Nd4 10. Nxd4 cxd4 $14) 7. dxc5 dxc5\n8. Qxd8+ Rxd8 9. Bxc5 Bxc3+ 10. bxc3 Nf6 11. Nd4 $1 (11. Nd2 $2 Rxd2 $1) (11.\ne5 $2 Nd7 $17) 11… Nxe4 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. Bxa7 $1 (13. Bd4 $2 e5 $1 14. Bxe5\nO-O 15. f3 Rfe8 $17) 13… Nxc3 (13… Bf5 14. f3 Nd6 15. a4 Ra8 16. Bb6 O-O\n17. c5 Nc8 18. g4 Be6 19. a5 $16 {Smyslov\,V-Botvinnik\,M/Moscow Wch m-12 1957})\n14. Bb6 Rd6 (14… Rd7 15. f3 Be6 16. a4 $1) 15. f3 Bc8 $2 (15… Bf5 16. a4\n$16) 16. a4 Bf5 17. g4 Bc2 (17… Bd3 18. Ba5 Bxf1 19. Bxc3 Bg2 20. Rg1 $18) (\n17… Bb1 18. Ba5 Rd1+ 19. Kf2 Rd2+ (19… Na2 20. Bg2 $1 $18) 20. Ke3) 18. Bc7\nRd1+ (18… Rd2 19. Be5 $1 $18) 19. Rxd1 Nxd1 (19… Bxd1 20. Be5) 20. Be2 Kd7\n(20… Ne3 21. Kd2) (20… Nb2 21. Be5 $1) 21. Bg3 Ra8 22. Kd2 Rxa4 23. Kxc2\nRa2+ 24. Kb3 Rb2+ 25. Ka4 Rxe2 26. Rxd1+ $18 Ke6 27. Re1 Rxe1 28. Bxe1 Ke5 29.\nBc3+ Kf4 30. Kb4 Kxf3 31. Kc5 f5 32. gxf5 g5 33. Kxc6 h5 34. Kd5 h4 35. Be5 g4\n36. Ke6 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXuST5VQvk[/embedyt] \nAt Oxford in 1973\, Keene set up what he believes is an English speed record for simultaneous chess\, scoring 100 wins\, 5 draws and 1 loss in 4.5 hours. \nRaymond Keene\nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \n“British Grandmaster\, British Champion 1971\, Keene was born in London and was both London Boy Champion and British Junior Champion in 1964 (ed : In fact\, the title was shared with Brian Denman). \nEducated at Dulwich College and Trinity College\, Cambridge\, he soon became recognised\, along with Hartston\, as one of the two leading younger players in England. His style of play was different from that of his rival\, being more complicated and less direct; but\, like Hartston\, he became a most formidable opening theorist with a vast knowledge of opening theory. \nHis first Olympiad was at Havana 1966 where he was the youngest member of the side and scored 65% on board six. In 1968 at Lugano he obtained 76.5% on board four and in 1970 at Siegen\, playing on board two in the preliminaries and board one in the finals he score 68.8%. \nRaymond Keene\nThe year 1971 saw a double achievement\, for in that year he won the British Championship at Blackpool and also secured the title of International Master. \nPlaying on top board in the 1972 Olympiad at Skopje\, he scored 11.5 out of 20. \nRay & friend\nIn 1974 he came 6th in a very strong Hastings tournament and then won first prize in the Capablanca Memorial Masters in Cuba. At the Nice Olympiad he scored 66.66% on 2nd board\, attaining the first leg of the grandmaster norm. At Mannheim 1975 he was 3rd in the German Open championship and in that year he also came 2nd at Alicante. In 1976 he was 2nd at the Aarhus tournament in Denmark. He finished a most successful year in international chess by fulfilling the second grandmaster norm on 2nd board in the Haifa Olympiad\, thereby becoming England’s second international grandmaster (after Tony Miles). (Harry Golombek)” \nRay was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1966-67 season. \nHere is his extensive Wikipedia article \nNoted historian Olimpu G Urcan writes on Alekhine versus Keene \nand Edward Winter writes extensively about Ray’s journalistic activities \nand finally\, Keenipedia. A web site created by his many admirers… \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings 1975/76”]\n[Site “Hastings ENG”]\n[Date “1976.01.12”]\n[EventDate “?”]\n[Round “13”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[White “Raymond Denis Keene”]\n[Black “Anthony John Miles”]\n[ECO “D42”]\n[WhiteElo “”]\n[BlackElo “”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[Annotator “Ray Keene”] \n1. Nf3 { Notes by Raymond Keene. } Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6\n4. e3 e6 5. d4 d5 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Bd3 cxd4 {Perhaps 7…Be7 is\nmore accurate\, maintaining the central tension.} 8. exd4 Be7\n9. O-O O-O {One of the classical isolated queen’s pawn\npositions\, in which White’s extra space and attacking chances\ncompensate for the structural weakness.} 10. Re1 Nf6 {A solid\nalternative is 10…Bf6 11 Be4 etc.} 11. Bg5 {!? Fashionable\nwas 11 a3\, but the text is not bad. All White’s pieces are\ncoming out at great speed while Black still has problems\ncompleting his queenside development.} 11…Nb4 {The immediate\n11…b6 deserves attention. Black’s plan to dominate the\nblockade square d5 instantly is possibly too straightforward.}\n12. Bb1 b6 {12…Bd7 is a more cautious treatment\, planning a\nlater development with …Bc6.} 13. Ne5 Bb7 {It might look as\nif Black is over the worst but now a vicious attack appears\nalmost out of nowhere.} 14. Re3 {!! A difficult and bold\nmove. When I played it I already had to be sure that my\nkingside attacking chances would be sufficient compensation\nfor my lack of queenside development and the clumsy position\nof my rook on the third rank. Strangely\, a similar rook\nmanoeuvre occurred in a game Filip – Pogats\, played 14 years\npreviously\, but neither Miles nor I had any notion of this\nuntil I discovered the theoretical background after our\ngame. Incidentally\, the Filip game ended in a draw.} 14…g6\n{To prevent 15 Bxf6 Bxf6 16 Bxh7+ Kxh7 17 Qh5+ and 18 Rh3.}\n15. Rg3 {! It looks odd to aim the rook against a granite wall\n(g6) but the granite has faulty foundations. In contrast\, the\nmore natural 15 Rh3 achieves nothing.} 15…Rc8 {?! At the\ntime the course I feared most was 15…Nc6! 16 Bh6 Qxd4! when\nBlack breaks White’s attack by sacrificing the exchange. In\nview of the lack of weaknesses in Black’s position it would\nthen be a distinctly uphill struggle for White to win. After\nthe move played the solution became susceptible to precise\ntactical analysis.} 16. Bh6 Re8 17. a3 Nc6 {17…Nbd5 does not\nalter things significantly.} 18. Nxg6 {!} hxg6 19. Bxg6 {Apart\nfrom capturing the bishop Black has two other defences: a)\n19…Bf8 20 Bc2+ Kh8 21 Bxf8 Rxf8 22 Qd2 Ng8 23 Rh3+ Kg7 24\nRh7+ (Fritz gives 24 Qf4) 24…Kf6 25 d5+-; b) 19…Bd6 20\nBxf7+ Kxf7 21 Rg7+ Kf8 22 Qf3+-. In this position Black is\nquite helpless\, in spite of his extra material.} 19…fxg6\n20. Qb1 {! An original square for the queen in a mating\ncombination\, but neither 20 Qd3 Ne5 nor 20 Qc2 Ne5! 21 dxe5\nNe4 (exploiting the pin on the c-file) would be good enough\nfor White.} 20…Ne5 21. dxe5 Ne4 {Without the c-file pin this\nis sheer desperation.} 22. Nxe4 Kh7 23. Nf6+ Bxf6 24. Qxg6+\nKh8 25. Bg7+ Bxg7 26. Qxg7# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nMurray Chandler\, Ray Keene and Miguel Najdorf
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Henry Atkins (20-viii-1872 31-i-1955)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Henry Atkins who passed away\, Monday\, January 31st\, 1955. \nHenry Ernest Atkins was born in Leicester on Tuesday\, August 20th\, 1872 to Edward (a schoolteacher) and Jane Atkins (née Threapland). \nHe was baptised on August 6th\, 1872 in the Anglican Cathedral Church of St. Martin\, Leicester. At the time of the baptism the Atkins family was living at 57\, King Richard’s Road\, Leicester. The address in 2021 appears to be occupied by an industrial premise for Sunco Knitwear Specialists. The signatory on the baptism record is that of DJ Vaughan. \nBaptismal record for Henry Ernest Atkins\nHenry was admitted to Wyggeston Boys Grammar School\, Leicester on March 30th 1880 when eight years old. He was expected to leave at the end of the Winter Term in 1890. \nSchool admission record for Henry Ernest Atkins\nCuriously his school admission record includes the following addition (although we don’t know exactly when) : \nAmendment to school admission record for HEA.\nHenry\, aged 18\, went up to Peterhouse College\, Cambridge in 1890 to study mathematics. From his year of entry he was ranked as 9th “Wrangler” studying for the Mathematical Tripos. As part of his Part II examinations he did well enough to be “mentioned” for the Smith’s Prize for examination performance. \nNottingham Evening Post\, 3rd June 1895\n(Here is more on Kummer’s Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem.) \nFollowing University Henry became a teacher of mathematics at Northampton County Modern School and then returned to Wyggeston Boys Grammar School from 1902 – 1908. He then became the principal of Huddersfield College in 1909 and continued until 1915. Huddersfield College (founded in 1839) was merged with Hillhouse Technical School to form a new boys’ grammar school at a new campus at Salendine Nook with 950 boys. \nAccording to Ranneforths Schach-Kalender (cited by C.N.)\, 1915\, page 55\, during the period at Huddersfield College Henry lived firstly at 49 New North Road\, Huddersfield\, Yorkshire : \n49 New North Road\, Huddersfield\, Yorkshire\, HD1 5NR\nand then \n36 Gledholt Road\, Huddersfield\, Yorkshire\, HD1 4HP : \n36 Gledholt Road\, Huddersfield\, Yorkshire\, HD1 4HP\nOn June 1st\, 1915 (aged 43) Henry was registered as a teacher whilst at Huddersfield College for the fee of one guinea : \nTeacher registration form for Henry Ernest Atkins\nHenry retired from teaching in 1936. \nIn the 1939 register Henry (now a retired schoolmaster) was recorded as living with his wife\, Elspeth Skene Atkins (née Wilson) at 29 East Avenue\, Leicester\, Leicestershire : \n29 East Avenue\, Leicester\, Leicestershire\, LE2 1TE\nElspeth was born on August 5th 1880 and was therefore roughly eight years his junior. She carried out “unpaid domestic duties” but as a member of the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) she was a surgical dresser. The WVS transformed into the RVS. It would seem that Henry and Elspeth did not have children. She outlived Henry passing away in 1973 in Southampton. \nOn Monday\, January 31st 1955 passed away in The Fielding Johnson Private Hospital : \nProbate notice from March 26th 1955\nThe Fielding Johnson Private Hospital\nHenry was buried at Gilroes Cemetery and Crematorium\, Groby Road\, Leicester\, Leicestershire\, LE3 9QG. \nIn the October 1976 issue of Newsflash Badmaster (aka GH Diggle) wrote : \n“… we well remember his giving a “simultaneous” at the Lincoln Chess Club in 1924\, winning 17 and drawing two. One of his more elderly opponents (a notorious non-resigner) who for 30 moves had been wobbling along with a piece down until “time” had to be called\, then proceeded to “demonstrate a draw” by concocting a continuation so optimistic that even clubmates with lifelong experience of his powers stood aghast. Atkins\, with his greatcoat on ready to go home\, made no attempt to refute this analytical masterpiece but merely remarked with great deference: “I don’t think we can play it quite like that!” and then beat a craven retreat “escorted by Club Officials” \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXV (75\, 1955)\, Number 3 (March)\, pp.102-3 we have this obituary written by RN Coles : \n“With the passing\, on January 31st\, at the age of eighty-two of Henry Ernest Atkins the chess world has lost a recognized international master\, and British chess one of its strongest players of all time. Yet Atkins was the despair of chess enthusiasts because he played so little international chess and confined himself largely – and at that intermittently – to local affairs\, where the strength of most of his opponents could hardly extend him. One leading player recently regretted that Atkins spent so much time “in the wilds\,” but Atkins would have taken an opposite view and have considered that he was “in the wilds” if he had spent more of his time playing chess; teaching was his whole life\, and the game of chess he insisted on treating as a game. \nConsequently as a chess-player Atkins was almost always out of practice and playing below his true strength\, yet in his five international events-Amsterdam\, 1899; Hanover\, 1902; London\, 1922; London Team Tourney\, 1927; and Warsaw Team Tourney\, 1935-he scored 63.2 per cent\, or if Amsterdam which was virtually a Hauptturnier is excluded\, 53.5 per cent. \nFull crosstable from Amsterdam 1899\nSir George Thomas considered that only lack of opportunity prevented him from establishing himself in the world championship class. As it is\, he will be remembered chiefly by chess-players as the man who played eleven times in the British Championship and won it nine times\, failing only at the first attempt in 1904 after a tie for first place\, and at the last in 1937\, at the age of sixty-five\, when he shared third place\, a record which has never been remotely approached by any other player and is not likely to be. Atkins played in a clear-cut strategical style which makes his games ideal studies for the beginner\, and he finished them with the elegance to enchant the artist; like the Etudes of Chopin\, they provide technical exercises and works of art in one. \nBut I believe that if Atkins had his wish – and this wish I am sure he will have – he would wish to be remembered by his many pupils\, whether they be pupils of the chess master or of the schoolmaster\, not for any practical achievements but for being a true guide\, philosopher\, and friend to all who came under his tutelage.-R. N. C.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-15 London International”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1922.08.11”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Tartakower\, Saviely”]\n[Black “Atkins\, Henry Ernest”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C55”]\n[Annotator “Tartakower/du Mont/Maroczy”]\n[PlyCount “84”]\n[EventDate “1922.07.31”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 20\,83\,12\,-8\,0\,0\,25\,2\,8\,-33\,-33\,-31\,-18\,-30\,-33\,-31\,-29\,-45\,-46\,-39\,-50\,\n-57\,-57\,-58\,-67\,-60\,-57\,-81\,-91\,-93\,-36\,-92\,-118\,-200\,-58\,-123\,-147\,-138\,-92\,\n-238\,-233\,-1269\,-1312\,-2155\,-2148\,-1709\,-1307\,-1700\,-1457\,-29992\,-29993\,-29994\,\n-29995\,-29995\,-29996\,-29996\,-29997\,-29997\,-29995\,-29996\,-29995\,-29997\,-29997\,\n-29998\,-29999\,-29999] C55: Two Knights: 4 d3\, 4 d4 exd4 5 e5 and Max Lange\nAttack Sources: Tartakower & du Mont\, 500 Master Games of Chess\, pp. 49-50;\nMaroczy: London\, 1922\, pp. 66-67 The elemental power of Rooks commanding open\nlines is well illustrated In this beautiful game.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4\nNf6 4. Nc3 ({Maroczy: An alternative and perhaps preferable continuation for\nWhite is} 4. d3 {\, bringing about the regular Giuco Piano.}) 4… Nxe4 5. Nxe4\nd5 6. Bd3 dxe4 7. Bxe4 Bd6 8. d4 ({Maroczy:} 8. Bxc6+ {\, doubling the c-pawn\nwould not gave been good for White\, as his opponent’s two bishops would have\nbeen too powerful.}) 8… Nxd4 9. Nxd4 exd4 10. Qxd4 O-O {Marcozy: Black has\nnow the advantage in development\, as White cannot castle at once because of\nBxh2+\, winning the queen.} 11. Be3 ({Not} 11. O-O {on account of} Bxh2+ {\n. But now White puts his trust in his cluster of forces in the centre.}) 11…\nQe7 {Preventing 12.0-0\, as 12….Be5 would be awkward for White.} 12. O-O-O {\nMaroczy: There is generally an element of danager in castling queenside\, as\nthe king is there more exposed to attack than after castling on the kingside.\n12….} Re8 13. Bd5 {As this helps Black’s counter-play (14….c6)} ({the best\ncourse was} 13. Bf3 $144 {with level chances.}) ({A magnificent trap would be}\n13. Rhe1 Qxe4 14. Bh6 Bf4+ 15. Kb1 {\, and wins. But Black coolly replies 13….\nBe6\, obtaining the better game.}) 13… Be5 14. Qa4 $146 c6 {Gradually Black\nobtains the initiative.} 15. Bf3 {Maroczy: Both Black’s bishops are now\nbearing on the white king’s entrenchment\, whereas White’s bishops are\nthreatening nothing. 15….} Be6 16. Kb1 a5 {A strong move\, threatening 17.Qb4.\nMaroczy: The storming of the enemy’s position commences with the move.} 17. Bd4\nBd6 18. Bb6 Bb4 19. c3 Ra6 20. Be3 Bf5+ 21. Ka1 b5 22. Qb3 Bd6 23. a4 {Instead\nof further compromising his position\, he should have resorted to the patient\nmanoeuvre 23.Rd2. 23….} Rb8 {Now Black definitely has the better game.\nMaroczy: All Black’s pieces are now well posted for the attack.} 24. Rd2 Be6\n25. Qd1 Be5 26. Bd4 {[#]} Bf4 27. Be3 Bxe3 28. fxe3 b4 {The decisive advance\,\nforcibly opening up the position.} 29. cxb4 {[#]} Rab6 {Black conducts the\nattack with superb élan. Maroczy: Better than recapturing the pawn at once.} (\n{Both the following lines would have been premature: 29….Rxb4 or} 29… Qxb4\n{(because of} 30. Rd8+ {)}) ({and} 29… axb4 {\, on account of} 30. b3 {\n\, again closing up the critical a-file.}) 30. Rd6 {[#]} ({The following\nvariation loses beautifully:} 30. bxa5 Ra6 31. b4 Rxa5 32. bxa5 Qa3+ {\,\nfollowed by mate.}) 30… Rxb4 {Threatening not only 31….Rxa4+\, but also 31..\n..Bb3\, followed by Rxa4+.} 31. Bxc6 Rxb2 32. Bb5 Ra2+ 33. Kb1 Rxa4 34. Kc2 ({\nThe white King attempts to escape. If} 34. Qxa4 Qxd6 {\, the bishop is lost.})\n34… Ra2+ 35. Kc3 Rc8+ 36. Bc6 {[#]} Rxc6+ {This curious break-through\nsacrifice is a crowning touch to a powerfully conducted game.} 37. Rxc6 Qb4+\n38. Kd3 Qb5+ 39. Kd4 Qxc6 40. Ke5 Qc5+ 41. Kf4 Qf5+ 42. Kg3 Qf2# {Maroczy: A\nvery fine game played by Atkins in his best style.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld \nEnglish player\, born in Leicester\, International Master (1950)\, schoolmaster. Between 1895 and 1901 he played in seven minor tournaments\, winning four\, taking second place in three\, and losing only three out of 70 games. In one of these events\, Amsterdam 1899\, he made a clean score against 15 opponents. In his first international tournament\, Hanover 1902\, he came third (+8=7-2) after Janowski and Pillsbury ahead of Mieses\, Chigorin\, and Marshall. Emanuel Lasker believed that Atkins would have joined the leading grandmasters had he continued his international career\, but Atkins played in only one more big tournament (London 1922). He had a genuine concern for his profession\, and preferred not to give more of his life to chess. He played in 12 of the Anglo-American cable matches\, won the British Championship nine times (1905-11\, 1924\, 1925)\, and represented the British Chess Federation in the Olympiads of 1927 and 1935. \nHenry Ernest Atkins\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess by Anne Sunnucks : \nInternational Master (1950) and nine times British Champion. Born in Leicester on 20th August 1872\, Atkins learned the game at school in Leicester at the age of 12. When he was 15\, he joined Leicester Chess Club and within two years was playing on top board. In 1890 he went up to Peterhouse\, Cambridge\, and played top board for the University. On leaving Cambridge he became a schoolmaster. \nHis first appearance in the British Championship was in 1904\, when he came 2nd. The following year he won the championship and repeated his success every year up to and including 1911. He did not compete between 1912 and 1923\, and on reappearing in the event in 1924\, he regained his title and held it the following year. His final appearance in the British Championship was in 1937\, when at the age of 65 he came =3rd.\nIn the five international events in which he played – Amsterdam 1899\, Hanover 1902\, London 1922 and the Chess Olympiads of 1927 and 1935 – he scored over 60 per cent. \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-15 London International”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1922.08.11”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Tartakower\, Saviely”]\n[Black “Atkins\, Henry Ernest”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C55”]\n[Annotator “Tartakower/du Mont/Maroczy”]\n[PlyCount “84”]\n[EventDate “1922.07.31”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 20\,83\,12\,-8\,0\,0\,25\,2\,8\,-33\,-33\,-31\,-18\,-30\,-33\,-31\,-29\,-45\,-46\,-39\,-50\,\n-57\,-57\,-58\,-67\,-60\,-57\,-81\,-91\,-93\,-36\,-92\,-118\,-200\,-58\,-123\,-147\,-138\,-92\,\n-238\,-233\,-1269\,-1312\,-2155\,-2148\,-1709\,-1307\,-1700\,-1457\,-29992\,-29993\,-29994\,\n-29995\,-29995\,-29996\,-29996\,-29997\,-29997\,-29995\,-29996\,-29995\,-29997\,-29997\,\n-29998\,-29999\,-29999] C55: Two Knights: 4 d3\, 4 d4 exd4 5 e5 and Max Lange\nAttack Sources: Tartakower & du Mont\, 500 Master Games of Chess\, pp. 49-50;\nMaroczy: London\, 1922\, pp. 66-67 The elemental power of Rooks commanding open\nlines is well illustrated In this beautiful game.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4\nNf6 4. Nc3 ({Maroczy: An alternative and perhaps preferable continuation for\nWhite is} 4. d3 {\, bringing about the regular Giuco Piano.}) 4… Nxe4 5. Nxe4\nd5 6. Bd3 dxe4 7. Bxe4 Bd6 8. d4 ({Maroczy:} 8. Bxc6+ {\, doubling the c-pawn\nwould not gave been good for White\, as his opponent’s two bishops would have\nbeen too powerful.}) 8… Nxd4 9. Nxd4 exd4 10. Qxd4 O-O {Marcozy: Black has\nnow the advantage in development\, as White cannot castle at once because of\nBxh2+\, winning the queen.} 11. Be3 ({Not} 11. O-O {on account of} Bxh2+ {\n. But now White puts his trust in his cluster of forces in the centre.}) 11…\nQe7 {Preventing 12.0-0\, as 12….Be5 would be awkward for White.} 12. O-O-O {\nMaroczy: There is generally an element of danager in castling queenside\, as\nthe king is there more exposed to attack than after castling on the kingside.\n12….} Re8 13. Bd5 {As this helps Black’s counter-play (14….c6)} ({the best\ncourse was} 13. Bf3 $144 {with level chances.}) ({A magnificent trap would be}\n13. Rhe1 Qxe4 14. Bh6 Bf4+ 15. Kb1 {\, and wins. But Black coolly replies 13….\nBe6\, obtaining the better game.}) 13… Be5 14. Qa4 $146 c6 {Gradually Black\nobtains the initiative.} 15. Bf3 {Maroczy: Both Black’s bishops are now\nbearing on the white king’s entrenchment\, whereas White’s bishops are\nthreatening nothing. 15….} Be6 16. Kb1 a5 {A strong move\, threatening 17.Qb4.\nMaroczy: The storming of the enemy’s position commences with the move.} 17. Bd4\nBd6 18. Bb6 Bb4 19. c3 Ra6 20. Be3 Bf5+ 21. Ka1 b5 22. Qb3 Bd6 23. a4 {Instead\nof further compromising his position\, he should have resorted to the patient\nmanoeuvre 23.Rd2. 23….} Rb8 {Now Black definitely has the better game.\nMaroczy: All Black’s pieces are now well posted for the attack.} 24. Rd2 Be6\n25. Qd1 Be5 26. Bd4 {[#]} Bf4 27. Be3 Bxe3 28. fxe3 b4 {The decisive advance\,\nforcibly opening up the position.} 29. cxb4 {[#]} Rab6 {Black conducts the\nattack with superb élan. Maroczy: Better than recapturing the pawn at once.} (\n{Both the following lines would have been premature: 29….Rxb4 or} 29… Qxb4\n{(because of} 30. Rd8+ {)}) ({and} 29… axb4 {\, on account of} 30. b3 {\n\, again closing up the critical a-file.}) 30. Rd6 {[#]} ({The following\nvariation loses beautifully:} 30. bxa5 Ra6 31. b4 Rxa5 32. bxa5 Qa3+ {\,\nfollowed by mate.}) 30… Rxb4 {Threatening not only 31….Rxa4+\, but also 31..\n..Bb3\, followed by Rxa4+.} 31. Bxc6 Rxb2 32. Bb5 Ra2+ 33. Kb1 Rxa4 34. Kc2 ({\nThe white King attempts to escape. If} 34. Qxa4 Qxd6 {\, the bishop is lost.})\n34… Ra2+ 35. Kc3 Rc8+ 36. Bc6 {[#]} Rxc6+ {This curious break-through\nsacrifice is a crowning touch to a powerfully conducted game.} 37. Rxc6 Qb4+\n38. Kd3 Qb5+ 39. Kd4 Qxc6 40. Ke5 Qc5+ 41. Kf4 Qf5+ 42. Kg3 Qf2# {Maroczy: A\nvery fine game played by Atkins in his best style.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHis devotion to teaching and his insistence on treating chess as merely a game was all that prevented him from becoming one of the leading players in the world. \nHe died on 31st January\, 1955. \nH. E. Atkins Doyen of British Chess Champions by R. N. Coles\nIn the above book RN Coles points out that Atkins regularly played f4 or …f5 early in the game and claims this was HEAs pet or signature move. \nHenry Ernest Atkins\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-06 Championship”]\n[Site “Scarborough/ North Yorkshire”]\n[Date “1909.08.10”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Atkins\, Henry Ernest”]\n[Black “Blackburne\, Joseph Henry”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C10”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “45”]\n[EventDate “1909.08.09”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\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\,45\,19\,31\,41\,46\,51\,35\,47\,38\,49\,37\,58\,39\,42\,51\,42\,22\,80\,71\,74\,44\,80\,50\,\n47\,33\,32\,27\,55\,47\,98\,115\,145\,161\,192\,178\,173\,164\,264\,290\,275\,360\,1073\,1073\,\n29991\,1236\,29991\,29992]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6\n6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Bd3 Bd6 8. O-O c6 9. Qe2 Qc7 10. c4 h6 11. Bd2 b6 12. a4 a5\n13. Bc3 Kf8 14. Ne5 Bxe5 15. dxe5 Ng8 16. Rad1 Bb7 17. Be4 Ne7 18. Rd6 Nc8 19.\nRd2 g6 20. Rfd1 Kg7 21. Rd7 Qb8 22. Qf3 Rf8 23. Qf6+ {Source: The Chess Weekly\,\n1909 (28 Aug) and BCM\, Sept 1909\, p385} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nBritish international master and regarded by many as Britain’s more talented player in the history of the game. Born in Leicester and never very fond of leaving England. Atkins was a schoolmaster and devoted relatively little time to chess\, and yet he became one of the strongest amateurs every known to chess. He was known on the Continent as “the little Steinitz“. \nHis record in British Championship is unique; out of eleven appearances he won the event nine times : 1905\, 1906\, 1907\, 1908\, 1909\, 1910\, 1911\, 1924 and 1925. I t should be added that in 1904 (his first attempt) he finished 1st= and only lost to Napier after a play-off and in 1937 (his last championship) he finished =3rd at the age of 65! \nThe British Chess Championship Trophy\nHis international career comprises only six events. In 1895 Atkins was placed =2nd behind Maróczy in the Hastings Minor Tournament and in 1899 he won the Amsterdam tournament\, leading the field by 4 points. At Hanover 1902 he scored his most notable result : 3rd prize behind Janowski and Pillsbury but ahead of Chigorin and Marshall among others. At London 1922 he finished only 10th of 16 but still claimed Rubinstein and Tartakower among his victims. He represented the B.C.F. in the Olympiads of 1927 and 1935. \nAtkins was retrospectively awarded the title of international master in 1950 on his pre-war record. (Ray Keene). \nAccording to chessgames.com : “He graduated from Cambridge and taught mathematics at Northampton and Wyggeston. In 1909\, he was appointed Principal of Huddersfield College.” \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master (1950) and nine times British Champion. \nBorn in Leicester on 20th August 1872\, Atkins learned the game at school in Leicester at the age of 12. When he was 15\, he joined Leicester Chess Club and within two years was playing on top board. In 1890 he went up to Peterhouse\, Cambridge\, and played on top board for the University. On leaving Cambridge he became a schoolmaster. \nHis first appearance in the British Championship was in 1904\, when he came 2nd. The following year he won the championship and repeated his success every year up to and including 1911. He did not compete between 1912 and 1923\, and on reappearing in the event in 1924\, he regained his title and held it the following year. His final appearance in the British Championship was in 1937\, when at the age of 65 he came =3rd. \nIn the five international events in which he played – Amsterdam 1899\, Hanover 1902\, London 1922\, and the chess Olympiads of 1927 and 1935 – he scored over 60 per cent. \nHis devotion to teaching and his insistence on treating chess as merely a game was all that prevented him from becoming one of the leading players in the world. \nHe died on 31st January\, 1955. ” \nHere is an article from the Yorkshire Chess History site \nand here is an obituary from the MCCU site \nHere is his Wikipedia article \nand here is an excellent article on chess.com \nRecently renowned journalist and write John Saunders has turned his attention to HEA.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Mike Franklin (02-ii-1931)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to Michael Franklin on his 90th birthday. \nGrowing Up\nMichael John Franklin was born on Monday\, February 2nd\, 1931 in Battersea\, London to Albert George (27 ix 1906\, Dover – ? iii 1983\, Wandsworth) and Helen Ann Franklin (née Colson\, 1908-2003) who married in the third quarter of 1928 in Wandsworth.  Albert was a clerk as was his father. \nAt the commencement of the Second World War\, when eight years old\, Michael was evacuated to Frome in Somerset. As a consequence Michael would delight in playing in the Frome Congress whenever possible. He played in the first event in 1990 organised by Leon York  (whose name is the memorial trophy for the Major section).  The story of Michael’s return to Frome made its’ way in to the local newspaper and was reported by Gary Lane as follows : \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CX (110\, 1990)\, Number 7 (July)\, page 296 : \n“A special presentation by the sponsor\, Mrs. Jean Mackereth\, Managing Director of Keyford Frames\, was made to Londoner Michael Franklin\, who was returning for the first time in 51 years to the town to which he was evacuated during the war. His final appearance at Frome was in the 2010 event. \nThe Early Years\nMichaels interest in chess started in 1944 aged 13 when he witnessed games being played on Clapham Common. He was fascinated by the pieces and taught himself to play\, never receiving  any formal coaching. He joined the Clapham Common Chess Club in 1944. (CCCC became incorporated into Battersea Chess Club some time later). \nCHECK MATES: Elderly members of the Clapham Common Open Air Chess and Draughts Club\, circa 1920. The club met regularly during the afternoons to play on Clapham Common in south London. Copyright : Keystone\nApart from summer events such as the above the club had a Winter Section that played matches in the London League. The club won the first division (now known as the Brian Smith Trophy) of the London League in the 1946-47 and 1947-48 seasons. Michael played his final game in the London Chess League for Richmond & Twickenham on April 14th 2010 drawing with John Hodgson\, brother of Julian giving a sixty year span. \nIn his formative years he played at the Gambit Chess Café\, Budge Row\,  Cannon Street\, London\, EC4N. Many strong players regularly visited the Gambit to play skittles\, blitz and the frequently held lightning tournaments hosted by the proprietor Mr GH White. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yowdTF5_EwY[/embedyt] \nEvents such as these enabled Michael to develop his quick sight of the board and his flair for tactical play. \nLeonard Barden added : \n“Michael made his name as a young player first by his successes in the Saturday evening Gambit Guinea speed events at the Gambit Chess Café in Cannon Street which he often won ahead of master level rivals. He remained a strong speed player all his life.” \nIn the early 1950s Michael was persuaded by his friends Aird Thomson (who was Scottish Boys’ Champion in 1932\, and 1933 ( equal-first). In 1951 he was Scottish Champion. In 1954 he moved to London. He married Susan Mary Hamilton in 1961 who went on to become Scottish Ladies’ Champion in 1965.) and oriental carpet expert Robert Pinner to join the Richmond and Twickenham Chess Club  playing for the club in the London League\, Surrey Trophy  and National Club Championship until he retired from competitive play 2010. \nMaking Progress\nMichael’s first appearance in British Chess Magazine was in Volume LXVI (66\, 1946)\, Number 2 (February). Page 52 contained this report of the 1945 London Boy’s Championship in which Michael reached the final A section : \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXVI (66\, 1946)\, Number 2 (February)\, page 52\nMichael’s club (for this event) is recorded as Hammersmith Arts and Crafts School. \nOn leaving school  Michael joined a firm of Patent Agents remaining in their employ as the accounts department for around forty years before retiring in the late 1980s. His retirement was prompted by the firm’s adoption of electronic computers. When he retired he was Chief Cashier. \nOn June 18th 1960 Michael’s happiest day was when he married Jean Fey. They celebrated  their diamond anniversary in 2020. \nTo the present day Michael has maintained an aversion toward modern technology. He did\, however\, concede to the ownership of a mobile telephone. This was for the specific purpose of updating Jean on his days progress in any chess tournaments where he was away from home. \nIn 1946 (aged 15) Michael won the Felce Cup awarded by the Surrey County Chess Association. A result indicating rapid improvement since Michael had only started playing competitively in 1944. \nThe Felce Cup held by the hands of Stephen Moss in 2014\nIn 1951 Michael finished third in the Surrey Championships behind the winner Frank Parr and runner-up David Hooper. In 1961\, 1966\, 1968\, 1969 and 1970 Michael won the Surrey Championship outright and made many appearences in county matches for Surrey from 1950 onwards until 2010. \nUnfortunately Michael’s rapid progress was threatened by two bouts of ill health. In 1948 aged 17 Michael was diagnosed with Tuberculosis which lasted for eighteen months including a twelve month stay in the Royal National Hospital for Diseases of the Chest in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. Aged twenty the TB returned leading to yet another twelve months illness. \nMichael has suffered from ill health all of his life interrupting his chess career at various times. Fortunately the TB has not returned. \nMichael won the National Chess Centre Championship in 1953 and 1955 being runner-up in 1954. The venue was Hill’s Restaurant\, 158 Bishopsgate\, London\, EC2 opposite Liverpool Street Station since the original John Lewis department store venue was bombed in 1940. \nResults from the 1955 event: \n1-2 Franklin\, Fazekas 3.5/5\n3 Fuller 3/5\n4 Barden 2.5/5\n5 Parr 1/5\n6 Green 0.5/5 \nMichael won the play-off 2-0. \nThe British Chess Federation first published a National Grading list in 1953 (using the Richard Clarke system). In the 1954 list MF appeared with a grade of 2A (225-232) and from then on with a grade of either 2A or 2B. In 1964 a numeric system had him at 225 ranking Michael 4th in England behind Penrose 244\, Kottnauer 238 and Clarke 231. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Southend Premier”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1962.04.23”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Franklin\, Michael J”]\n[Black “Pritchard\, David B”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A07”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “41”]\n[SourceTitle “Ken Norman”] \n{[%evp 0\,9\,19\,29\,23\,4\,14\,16\,12\,16\,16\,1]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. O-O\nO-O 5. d3 d5 6. Nbd2 Nc6 (6… c5) 7. e4 e5 8. c3 h6 (8… a5) 9. Qc2 dxe4 (\n9… Be6) 10. dxe4 Be6 11. Rd1 Qe7 {[#]} 12. b4 $1 Nd7 $146 13. a4 $14 f5 $6 (\n13… Rfd8) 14. b5 Nd8 $2 15. Ba3 Nc5 16. Nh4 $18 Kh7 17. exf5 gxf5 {[#]} 18.\nNe4 $3 Bb3 (18… fxe4 19. Bxe4+ Rf5 20. Bxf5+ Bxf5 21. Qxf5+ Kg8 22. Bxc5 Qxc5\n23. Ng6 $18) 19. Qxb3 Nxb3 20. Bxe7 Re8 21. Rab1 {and Black resigned} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nMichael played many times in the annual Battle of Britain Tournament organised by Squadron Leader David Pritchard and his committee. He won it four times : 1959\, 1960\, 1961 and 1962. \nThe Ilford Whitsun Congress\n[pgn]\n[Event “Ilford Premier”]\n[Site “Ilford”]\n[Date “1956.??.??”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Franklin\, Michael J”]\n[Black “Fazekas\, Stefan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D05”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “1956.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,71\,19\,29\,23\,13\,18\,9\,19\,19\,73\,74\,51\,27\,109\,65\,65\,54\,52\,42\,71\,53\,33\,47\,\n51\,42\,43\,28\,63\,60\,48\,48\,38\,59\,57\,23\,23\,18\,20\,11\,35\,59\,114\,88\,107\,98\,113\,114\,\n140\,138\,138\,162\,172\,137\,143\,127\,124\,143\,187\,125\,239\,24\,331\,334\,334\,428\,440\,466\,\n29987\,29988\,29989\,957\,977\,977]} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. e3 d5 4. Bd3 Ne4 5. Nbd2\nf5 6. Ne5 Qf6 7. O-O Bd6 $146 8. f4 O-O 9. c4 c6 (9… c5) 10. Qh5 g6 11. Qh3\nc5 12. Ndf3 Nc6 13. b3 a5 14. Bb2 cxd4 15. Nxc6 (15. Bxe4 dxe4 16. Nxc6 bxc6\n17. Bxd4 Qe7 18. Ng5) 15… bxc6 16. Bxd4 Qe7 17. Bxe4 fxe4 18. Ne5 c5 19. Bc3\na4 20. Qh6 (20. Qg3 $1) 20… d4 21. exd4 Bxe5 $2 22. fxe5 Bb7 23. Qe3 $1 axb3\n24. axb3 Rfd8 25. Rxa8 Bxa8 26. Ra1 Bc6 27. Rd1 Qa7 28. Qg5 (28. h3) 28… Rf8\n29. d5 (29. Qe3) 29… exd5 30. cxd5 Bxd5 $2 31. e6 $1 $18 Qa2 32. h3 Qf2+ 33.\nKh1 Qf5 34. Qe7 Rf7 35. Qxf7+ Qxf7 36. exf7+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nThe Ilford Whitsun Congress was a regular part of Michael’s season throughout the sixties. He won the Premier Reserves in 1961 ahead of Hilton\, Hindle\, Howson\, Sales and Blaine and was runner-up to Kottnauer in 1962.  In 1963 he went one step better by winning the Premier : \nA report of Mike Franklin’s success at the 1963 Ilford Whitsun Congress by Peter Clarke. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 7 (July)\, page 193\nand here is the fifth round game : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Ilford Whitsun Congress”]\n[Site “Ilford”]\n[Date “1963.06.03”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Franklin\, Michael John”]\n[Black “Wheatcroft\, Timothy Martin”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B28”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1963.05.31”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,59\,19\,38\,40\,41\,87\,26\,15\,1\,54\,32\,47\,27\,19\,26\,31\,-3\,-12\,-10\,3\,-10\,-14\,\n-27\,22\,29\,58\,-22\,-2\,-15\,-2\,-11\,1\,19\,9\,-3\,54\,26\,-15\,40\,140\,135\,161\,149\,173\,170\,\n170\,181\,193\,190\,190\,204\,212\,100\,140\,145\,421\,502\,535\,563\,563\,563]} 1. e4 c5 2.\nNf3 a6 3. g3 Nc6 4. d3 e6 5. Bg2 d5 6. Nbd2 Nf6 7. O-O Be7 8. e5 Nd7 9. Re1 Qc7\n10. Qe2 b5 11. Nf1 Nd4 $6 $146 (11… Bb7) 12. Nxd4 cxd4 13. Bf4 (13. Qg4)\n13… Bb7 14. h4 Rc8 15. Rec1 Qb8 16. Nh2 O-O 17. h5 Rc7 18. Qg4 Rfc8 19. Nf3\n$14 Nf8 $6 20. Nxd4 (20. Bh6 g6 21. Nxd4) 20… Bc5 21. c3 (21. Bh6 g6 22. c3)\n21… Qa7 22. Be3 (22. Bh6) 22… b4 23. Rf1 bxc3 24. bxc3 Qa8 25. Rab1 $1 Ba7\n26. f4 (26. Bg5 Rxc3 27. Bf6) 26… Rxc3 27. f5 {[#]} Rxd3 $2 (27… Bxd4 28.\nBxd4 exf5 29. Qxf5 R3c7) 28. f6 $1 $18 g6 29. Qg5 Bxd4 30. Bxd4 {and it is\nmate in 6.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn his tournament report PH Clarke wrote : \nThis buoyant\, optimistic attitude of his is a great strength and always makes him a dangerous opponent. \nAway from Home : International Progress\n1964 saw selection by the BCF to play in the Tel Aviv Olympiad : \nThe 1964 England Olympiad (Tel Aviv) Team : Owen Hindle\, Čeněk Kottnauer\, Peter Clarke\, Michael Franklin\, Norman Littlewood & Michael Haygarth\nand scored a creditable 4/6.  This was followed in 1965 with 3/5 in Clare Benedict tournament held in Berlin. \nHe played in the annual Anglo-Dutch match on no less than six occasions in 1962\, 1963\, 1964\, 1965\, 1968 and finally in 1969. His aggregate score was an impressive 8/12. \n?\, Čeněk Kottnauer\, Michael Franklin and Owen Hindle\nOn the national scene Michael repeated his 1963 victory at the 1969 Ilford Premier with a clear first place : Franklin 4; RG Wade and D Wright 3; JB Howson 2.5; BH Wood 2; PH Clarke 0.5. \nIn 1970 Michael won the London Championship which was also known as the Budget Cup which had last been held in 1956 .  He followed this in 1972 by rightly earning the (now defunct) title of British Master. \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Championship”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1970.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Franklin\, Michael J”]\n[Black “Harris\, Ronald A”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B06”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “39”]\n[SourceTitle “Ken Norman”] \n{[%evp 0\,18\,29\,23\,73\,69\,78\,53\,84\,74\,72\,72\,65\,60\,82\,47\,66\,45\,96\,138\,165]} 1. d4\ng6 2. e4 Bg7 3. Nf3 d6 4. Nc3 Bg4 5. Be2 Nc6 6. Be3 e5 $6 7. dxe5 $16 dxe5 8.\nQxd8+ {[#]} Nxd8 $2 (8… Rxd8) 9. Nb5 $18 Ne6 $146 (9… Bxf3 10. Bxf3 Ne6)\n10. Ng5 $1 Bxe2 11. Nxe6 Bxb5 12. Nxc7+ Kd7 13. Nxb5 a6 14. O-O-O+ Kc6 {[#]}\n15. Rd6+ $1 {It is mate in eight.} Kxb5 16. a4+ (16. c4+ Kb4 17. Kc2 Rd8 18.\na3+ Kxc4 19. b3+ Kb5 20. a4+ Kb4 21. Rb6+ Ka5 22. b4+ Kxa4 23. Ra1#) 16… Ka5\n17. Bd2+ Kxa4 18. Rb6 Rd8 19. Bb4 Rd3 20. b3+ {and Black resigned} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nMichael’s final appearance for England was in 1971 in the Cheltenham based Anglo-German match with a somewhat disappointing 0.5/2 against Juergen Dueball. \nOwen Hindle\, Michael Franklin\, Harry Golombek and Michael Haygarth\nMichael played board two for London in a Telex match versus Belgrade playing Marjanovic.  The game was drawn. \nMichael Franklin 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.\nThe Ultimate Prize : The Aaronson Masters\nThe Aaronson Masters at Harrow 1978 brought his best individual success at the age of 47\, sharing first place with IM Aldo Haik of France and to boot\, earning  an IM norm. \nJoint winners of the 1978 Aaronson Masters : Michael Franklin and IM Aldo Haik\nMichael scored an undefeated 7.5/10 and finished ahead of Short\, Speelman\, Nunn\, Hartston\, Mestel\, Webb\, Basman\, Botterill and numerous other illustrious players.  Michael remarked of his lifetime best result that it was \njust one of those occasions when everything went right! \nBut he scored 3.5/5 against the IMs\, was alert to every opportunity\, and the games show he owed little to luck. \nLeonard Barden\, Stewart Reuben and Michael Franklin at the 1978 Aaronson Masters\nLike many others Michael made appearences in Lloyds Bank events of 1977\, 1978\, 1984\, 1989\, 1991\, 1993 and 1994. \nMichael Franklin (left) at the 1978 Lloyds Bank Masters playing IGM Leonid Shamkovich\nMichael and friends during the 1978 Lloyds Bank Masters\nThe Hastings Years\nMichael first played at Hastings in 1964 when he was invited to play in the Premier Tournament. The tournament was won by Mikhail Tal and Michael finished in last place. \nUndaunted he returned to Hastings in 1968 to play in the Challengers tournament. One of the attractions of playing in the Challengers was that the winner received a place the following years Premier. Frustratingly Michael finished second three years in a row! In 1968 the Challengers was won by Danny Wright\, in 1969 by Martyn Corden and in 1970 by Peter Markland. Finally\, in 1971 his patience was rewarded and he won the Challengers and qualified to the following years Premier. \nThe 47th Hastings Premier of 1971-72 had been changed from the traditional 10 player all-play-all to a 16 player tournament. Also\, having obtained sponsorship from various organisations the committee were able to invite some of the top names of the day. The sponsors were: \n\nJim Slater\nThe Friends of Chess\nThe British Chess Federation\nBovis Holdings Ltd\nHastings County Borough Council\n\nSo\, the entry included Karpov\, Korchnoi\, Andersson\, Najdorf\, Mecking\, Gligoric\, Unzicker and Robert Byrne to name but a few. This was undoubtedly the strongest Hastings Premier since World War Two and possibly the strongest Hastings Tournament since 1895. \nMichael started well with a draw against the Rumanian GM Ciocaltea followed by a draw in with the Brazilian prodigy Mecking. In round three he surprised everyone by beating Ray Keene. With 2/3 things were looking promising. However\, after this bright start Michael only managed a draw against Unzicker and a draw with Hartston finishing in a disappointing last place with a score of 3/15. \nIn the tournament report Peter Clarke opined \nFranklin suffered the usual fate of the gifted amateur in a professional field of simply not being accustomed to this kind of chess. \nDespite this Michael continued to play in the Hastings Challengers. He played in nineteen out of the next twenty-five years! He came close to winning the tournament in 1982: he was leading the tournament with a score of 7/8 when he was informed that Jean’s Father had passed away. Having drawn his ninth round game and needing only a draw in the last round to ensure at least a tie for first place he withdrew from the tournament and immediately left for home. \nThe Weekend Scene\nLike all players with a full time job Michael had to play most of his chess at the weekend so the explosion of weekends tournaments in the early 1970’s gave him ample opportunities. His habit of playing quickly was ideally suited to the fast time limits of the weekend tournament. During the 1970 and 1980’s he was very successful. He won numerous events and was more often than not in the prize list. \nFM Michael Franklin\, Photo by Cathy Rogers\nIn later years he restricted himself to London based tournaments and those in the West Country. His regular tournaments being Exeter\, Torquay and old favourite\, Frome. Michael at the age of 78 shared first place at Frome 2009. Frome 2010 was his farewell appearance. \nFM Michael Franklin\nMichael played for a number of clubs viz : Richmond & Twickenham\, Coulsdon CF\, Surrey CCA\, 4NCL Richmond\, 4NCL Bristol and Richards Butler to name but a few. \nFinally\, in 1980\,  Michael was awarded the FIDE Master title and achieved his highest rating (in the Elo era) of 2345 in January 1979. It is most likely that his highest ever rating would have been more like 2450. \nFM Michael Franklin vs Paul Helbig\nAppropriately enough Michael was the inaugural winner of the BCF/ECF Senior Prix in 2000 and won it again in 2002 and 2003. The event last ran in 2006. \nWhen Surrey won the counties championship a few years back the team took the trophy around to Michael’s home in Norbury\, such was their regard for his contributions. \nThe London System\nAny currently active club player cannot have missed the explosive rise to prominence of the system for White he developed : \n[fen]rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/3P1B2/2PBPN2/PP1N1PPP/R2Q1RK1 b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nThe London System and Accelerated London System has acquired a huge cohort of followers in recent times probably not realising the debt they (and many authors\, book and DVD publishers!) owe to Michael. If only he could have earnt a royalty every time it was played! \nAlso Michael had notable success as Black with the O’Kelly Sicilian 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 a6. \n[fen]rnbqkbnr/1p1ppppp/p7/2p5/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nLife Outside of Chess\nMichael had many interests apart from Chess. He was for many years a member of the Surrey County Cricket Club. After he retired he would arrange to meet fellow Surrey Member Frank Parr at the Oval and after lunch in the Pavilion they would spend the day enjoying the Cricket. Tennis was another sport that Michael followed. Michael was also interested in horseracing. Several players were surprised when visiting one of the racetracks around London to find Michael also attending the race meeting. \nMichael was the typical “natural” player. He never studied the game and his only sources of opening information were the British Chess Magazine and the chess columns in The Times and the Guardian. He never kept the scores of his games. Once the game was finished it was time to move on. One of Michael’s greatest strengths was his optimistic attitude at the chessboard. No matter how bad the position he was confident of ultimate success. \nMichael Franklin receives £220 from Councillor Robert Dickson at the 1980 Nottinghamshire Congress\nCaption for above photograph
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Ravi Haria (07-ii-1999)
DESCRIPTION:BCN sends birthday wishes to GM Ravi Haria. \nRavi Haria was born Sunday\, February 7th\, 1999  in Elstree\, Hertfordshire. “Maria” by Blondie was top of the hit parade. Ravi currently resides in London. \nRavi attended Lonsdale School in Barnet and then The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School  and now reads History at University College\, London. \nECF grading profiles for Ravi Haria\nRavi learnt at the age of 6 and joined Barnet Knights Chess Club in 2005. \nRavi’s first recorded tournament was the 35th Barnet Knights Under-8  rapidplay on September 25th 2005. Also playing of note were Jonathan Pein and Isaac Sanders. \nHis first recorded standard play game  was in the London Junior Under-10 Championships on December 9th 2006. \nBy the time he was eight he had attracted the attention of the England selectors and played in the 2008 Commonwealth Championships in New Delhi coming home with a bronze medal. \nRavi aged 8 photographed by The Borehamwood and Elstree Times in January 2008\nRavi aged 9 photographed by The Borehamwood and Elstree Times in August 2008\nIn 2008 Ravi won the British Under-9 title in Liverpool. He said afterwards: \nIt was quite nice to be leading everyone and I felt proud of myself. I’m not sure how I control my nerves but it feels really good to win. \nHis mother Sona said: \nIt’s a bit overwhelming but we just support him. It means you have to give up a lot of time for him but it’s really nice to see that he’s getting somewhere. \nThis was followed in 2014 by winning the British Under-18 championship in Aberystwyth aged 15 and then the same title in 2017 in Llandudno. \nRavi Haria\, UKCC Southern Gigafinal\, 2013\nIn 2016 Ravi was equal 2nd to Deep Sengupta at the Hastings Masters Open with an impressive 6/9 and a TPR of 2563.  This performance secured his second IM norm. \nThe IM title was conferred at the 88th FIDE Congress 2017\, 7-15 October\, Goynuk\, Antalya\, Turkey. \nHe scored six points after 11 rounds at the 2017 World Junior championship in Italy and 5.5 points at the 2017 WYCC U-18 group in Uruguay. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGT7kcTRlBA[/embedyt] \nRavi completed his British junior titles run by becoming the current (no OTB event in 2020) British Under-21 champion in 2019 in Torquay scoring an emphatic 6.5/9 securing a share of third place. \nPartial crosstable for the 2019 British Championships in Torquay\nRavi became a FIDE Master in 2015 at the age of 16 and and International Master two years later making him England’s second youngest IM after Matthew Wadsworth. \nOTB Elo rating profile for IM Ravi Haria according to MegaBase 2020\nHis peak FIDE rating was 2497 in October 2021 and currently (February  2022) is 2490. \nIn 2019 Ravi teamed up with IM Adam C. Taylor to join Adam’s Making Grandmasters training venture. \nFM Ravi Haria\, ECF Secondary Schools Rapidplay\, 2016\nOn January 28th 2021 Thinker’s Publishing released The Modernised Anti-Sicilians\, Volume 1\, Rossolimo Variation which is a massive 520 page tome on the following position : \n[fen]r1bqkbnr/pp1ppppp/2n5/1Bp5/4P3/5N2/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nwhich was reviewed by FM Richard Webb. \nwhich we hope will be followed by at least Volume 2! \nThe Modernized Anti-Sicilians – Volume 1: Rossolimo Variation\, Ravi Haria\, Thinker’s Publishing\, 2021\nRavi has plus scores against : Matthew Turner\, Simon Williams\, William Claridge Hansen\, Bob Eames\, David Eggleston and Arul Gupta to name but a few. \nGM John Emms plays IM Ravi Haria in the final round of the 2019 British Championships in Torquay\nWith the white pieces Ravi unsurprisingly plays the Moscow and Rossolimo variations against the Sicilian\,  the Ruy Lopez and\, in recent years\, he has adopted the Reti/English complex. \nAs the second player he plays the French Winawer and (refreshingly) the Abrahams-Noteboom Variation of the Semi-Slav. \nFor your entertainment we have these two  brevities : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op 88th”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2012.12.29”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Haria\, Ravi”]\n[Black “Pooley\, Mark”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[WhiteElo “2032”]\n[BlackElo “1693”]\n[Annotator “British chess News”]\n[PlyCount “27”]\n[EventDate “2012.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 152 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.02.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.02.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,27\,19\,31\,80\,69\,63\,60\,69\,29\,74\,57\,56\,50\,101\,40\,96\,40\,69\,57\,52\,59\,196\,\n71\,56\,-23\,86\,56\,886\,933]} 1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 d6 4. Qe2 g6 $146 5. Bf4\nBg7 6. Nf3 e6 $6 7. O-O Nc6 8. c3 Nce7 9. Nbd2 Nf6 10. e5 Nd7 $2 (10… Nfd5)\n11. Ne4 d5 12. Neg5 c5 $2 {[#]} 13. Nxf7 $1 Qc8 14. Nd6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand \n[pgn]\n[Event “Brighton e2e4 Masters”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “2013.02.17”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Haria\, Ravi”]\n[Black “Whitehead\, David J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B51”]\n[WhiteElo “2053”]\n[BlackElo “2055”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “31”]\n[EventDate “2013.02.16”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 153 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2013.04.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2013.04.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,31\,19\,38\,72\,69\,49\,32\,64\,9\,10\,5\,11\,-27\,-11\,4\,19\,19\,41\,36\,127\,98\,122\,\n107\,184\,182\,172\,176\,183\,210\,213\,238\,503\,509]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4.\nBxc6+ bxc6 5. O-O e5 6. c3 f5 7. exf5 Bxf5 ({Relevant:} 7… Nf6 8. d4 cxd4 9.\ncxd4 e4 10. Ng5 d5 11. f3 h6 12. Ne6 Bxe6 13. fxe6 Bd6 14. fxe4 dxe4 15. Nc3\nO-O 16. Qe2 Bc7 17. Qc4 Kh8 18. Bf4 Ng4 19. Ne2 Bxf4 20. Nxf4 Qg5 21. Qxc6 Ne3\n22. Qxe4 Nxf1 23. Ng6+ Kg8 24. Nxf8 Qe3+ 25. Qxe3 Nxe3 26. Nd7 Re8 27. Re1 Nc2\n28. Re4 Nb4 29. Nc5 Kf8 30. a3 Nd5 31. Nd3 Ke7 32. Nf4 Nf6 33. Re5 Kd6 34. Ra5\ng5 35. Ra6+ Kc7 36. Nd3 Ne4 37. d5 {Rublevsky\,S (2678)-Moranda\,W (2578) Warsaw\n2010 1-0}) 8. d4 e4 $6 9. dxc5 {[#]} d5 $2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9… exf3 10.\nQxf3 Be6 11. Re1 Kd7 12. cxd6 Qf6 13. Bf4 Qf5 14. Nd2 Nf6 15. Qe2 Re8 16. Qe3\nQa5 17. Nf3 Bxd6 18. Bxd6 Kxd6 19. Nd4 Qd5 20. Qg3+ Kc5 21. Re5 Kb6 22. Rxd5\nBxd5 23. f3 a5 24. Qxg7 Rhf8 25. b4 axb4 26. cxb4 Nh5 27. Qh6 Nf4 28. Rc1 Kb7\n29. b5 cxb5 30. Qd6 Rf7 31. Nxb5 Ree7 32. Nd4 Ka7 33. Rb1 Rb7 34. Nb5+ Ka8 35.\nQd8+ {1-0 (35) Rublevsky\,S (2684)-Sveshnikov\,E (2563) Herceg Novi 1999}) 10.\nNd4 Qd7 11. Be3 Ne7 $6 12. f3 $1 g6 13. Nd2 Bg7 14. fxe4 dxe4 15. Nc4 O-O $2 (\n15… Bxd4 16. Nd6+ Kd8 17. Qxd4 {is crushing}) 16. Nxf5 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nRavi has played for University College London. Hendon and Cavendish in the London and other leagues and in 4NCL he started with Kings Head\, transferring to Cambridge in 2014 and finally moving in 2016 to Wood Green. \nIn this game Ravi punishes IM Malcolm Pein who has a bad day at the office : \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 1314 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2013.11.16”]\n[Round “1.125”]\n[White “Haria\, Ravi”]\n[Black “Pein\, Malcolm”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B09”]\n[WhiteElo “2151”]\n[BlackElo “2371”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “2013.11.16”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2015”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2014.11.20”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2014.11.20”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Kings Head”]\n[BlackTeam “Wood Green Hilsmark II”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,46\,30\,16\,62\,68\,81\,59\,76\,25\,46\,36\,64\,64\,59\,42\,32\,-12\,7\,-7\,63\,101\,101\,\n101\,101\,81\,85\,112\,77\,57\,47\,-1\,-1\,-9\,11\,27\,27\,27\,2\,7\,5\,19\,99\,96\,173\,173\,173\,173\,\n485]} 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 5. Nf3 Nc6 {a favourite line of\nMPs\, Vallejo Pons and Keith Richardson} (5… O-O) 6. d5 (6. Bd3) 6… Nb8 7.\nBc4 (7. Bd3) 7… O-O 8. O-O c6 $11 {[#] You might not expect it but this is\na fairly rare position.} 9. a4 $146 (9. dxc6 Nxc6 10. Kh1) 9… b5 $6 {\nactivating the g7 bishop by a curious route but how weak is the e7 pawn as a\nconsequence?} 10. axb5 cxb5 11. Nxb5 Nxe4 12. Qe2 Nf6 13. Bd2 Nbd7 14. Nxa7 $5\n{probably activating the a8 rook too much!} Bb7 15. Ba5 Qb8 16. Nc6 Bxc6 17.\ndxc6 Rxa5 18. Rxa5 Qb6+ 19. Kh1 Qxa5 20. cxd7 e6 $2 {[#] A strange oversight\nfrom Malcolm} (20… Qc7 {is good enough and Black is fine.}) 21. Bxe6 $1 fxe6\n22. Qxe6+ Kh8 23. Qxd6 $18 Qf5 {and Black resigned.} {Perhaps} 24. d8=Q Ne4 25.\nQ6d7 Rxd8 26. Qxd8+ $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nRavi Haria\, British Championships\, 2014\, Aberystwyth\nRavi is Mesutgm on chess.com and lichess \n[pgn]\n[Event “Reykjavik op”]\n[Site “Reykjavik”]\n[Date “2018.03.06”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Haria\, Ravi”]\n[Black “Karlsson\, Mikael Johann”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B31”]\n[WhiteElo “2424”]\n[BlackElo “2150”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “2018.03.06”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ISL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 183 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.04.19”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,55\,19\,31\,72\,53\,66\,21\,74\,31\,43\,31\,49\,36\,33\,18\,25\,19\,23\,19\,14\,-5\,17\,12\,\n11\,0\,14\,21\,64\,63\,57\,57\,57\,88\,69\,69\,58\,176\,186\,208\,218\,237\,308\,320\,409\,339\,322\,\n280\,318\,283\,297\,287\,294\,329\,469\,562\,848\,696]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4.\nBxc6 dxc6 5. d3 Bg7 6. h3 e5 7. Be3 b6 8. a4 a5 9. Nbd2 f6 10. Nc4 Be6 11. Qc1\n$146 (11. Nfd2) 11… Qc7 12. O-O Rd8 13. Nfd2 Nh6 $6 14. b4 $1 axb4 15. a5 b5\n16. Nb6 $18 Nf7 17. Bxc5 Bf8 18. Nb3 Bxc5 $6 (18… Ng5) 19. Nxc5 Ke7 20. Qe3\nRd4 21. f4 Bc8 $2 22. Nb3 (22. Qf2 $1) 22… Rdd8 23. Qc5+ (23. fxe5 Nxe5 24.\nd4 $18) 23… Qd6 24. fxe5 Nxe5 25. a6 Nd7 26. Nxd7 Rxd7 27. Qf2 Bb7 28. Nc5\n1-0\n[/pgn] \nOver the 19th – 23rd August  2021 Ravi played in the Wood Green Invitational round-robin event at Oddfellows Hall\, Stafford. \nRavi scored 7.5/10 and secured his second Grandmaster Norm and  a TPR of 2680. \nWood Green Invitational Round-Robin event at Oddfellows Hall\, Stafford. August Bank Holiday Weekend\, 2021\nOver the August Bank Holiday weekend of 2021 Ravi played in the Northumbrian Masters  GM Tournament at the splendid Marriott MetroCentre\, Gateshead winning jointly with Conor Murphy scoring 6.5/9 with a TPR of 2600. This gave Ravi his third and final GM norm. \nThe norm was ratified at a recent FIDE Congress. As of February 2022 Ravi stood at 2490 for standard-play.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Simon Ansell (11-ii-1975)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Simon Ansell (11-ii-1975) \nSimon Ansell\nIM Simon Ansell
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Glenn Flear (12-ii-1959)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Glenn Flear (12-ii-1959) \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Glenn Curtis Flear was born in Leicester\, England. He was awarded the IM title in 1983 and GM title in 1987. While still an IM\, he shocked the chess world by winning the GLC Chess Challenge (1986) ahead of a field that included Short\, Chandler\, Nunn\, Portisch\, Polugaevsky\, Spassky and Larsen. He married Christine Flear during that tournament. He represented England at the Dubai Olympiad in 1986.” \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nGM Glenn Curtis Flear\n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings op 9495”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1994.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Bronstein\, David Ionovich”]\n[Black “Flear\, Glenn C”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C57”]\n[WhiteElo “2440”]\n[BlackElo “2505”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “126”]\n[EventDate “1994.12.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1998”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.11.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1997.11.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,126\,28\,37\,5\,22\,19\,23\,18\,-17\,-29\,-8\,26\,-7\,55\,51\,51\,46\,58\,-22\,-6\,-28\,-1\,\n-1\,-19\,5\,5\,-29\,-29\,-29\,-19\,-23\,-25\,-15\,-15\,-22\,-18\,-12\,-12\,7\,-15\,-14\,-8\,-9\,18\,\n20\,23\,6\,6\,2\,6\,0\,73\,20\,33\,49\,22\,26\,30\,35\,26\,26\,34\,-14\,-16\,-24\,-24\,-12\,26\,-78\,\n-51\,-44\,53\,93\,93\,69\,108\,126\,141\,111\,143\,94\,94\,94\,66\,110\,26\,68\,68\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-118\,\n-47\,-47\,-30\,-279\,-40\,-57\,-17\,-246\,-246\,-246\,-239\,-271\,-256\,-263\,-288\,-310\,-329\,\n-336\,-357\,-367\,-373\,-492\,-373\,-423\,-449\,-448\,-489\,-526\,-545\,-557\,-503\,-588\,\n-621\,-656\,-940]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 b5 6. Bf1 h6\n7. Nf3 Qxd5 8. Nc3 Qe6 9. Nxb5 Qe7 10. d4 e4 11. Ne5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Qxe5 13. Be3\nBc5 14. Bd4 Bxd4 15. Qxd4 Qxd4 16. Nxd4 O-O 17. Bc4 Bd7 18. O-O-O Rfe8 19. h3\nRe5 20. Rhe1 Rae8 21. Re3 Kf8 22. Rb3 Rg5 23. Bf1 c5 24. Nb5 Bxb5 25. Rxb5 Rf5\n26. Rb7 Rxf2 27. Bb5 Ra8 28. Bc4 Kg8 29. Rxf7 Kh8 30. g4 Rh2 31. Rc7 Rxh3 32.\nRxc5 Nxg4 33. Be6 Rg3 34. b4 Nf6 35. Bc8 Kg8 36. Rd8+ Kf7 37. Re5 Rxc8 38. Rxc8\nh5 39. Ra5 h4 40. Rxa7+ Ke6 41. Rh8 h3 42. b5 e3 43. Kd1 Nd5 44. c4 Nf4 45. Kc2\ne2 46. Raa8 Rc3+ 47. Kd2 Rd3+ 48. Kc2 Kf5 49. Rae8 Rd8 50. Rhf8+ Kg6 51. Rxd8\ne1=Q 52. Rxf4 h2 53. Rd1 Qxd1+ 54. Kxd1 h1=Q+ 55. Kd2 Qh2+ 56. Ke3 Qxa2 57. Kd4\nQa7+ 58. Kd3 Qa3+ 59. Kd4 Qd6+ 60. Ke3 Qe5+ 61. Re4 Qc3+ 62. Kf4 Kf6 63. Kg4 g5\n0-1 \n[/pgn] \nGM Glenn Curtis Flear
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Robert Combe (16-viii-1912 12-ii-1952)
DESCRIPTION:Robert Forbes Combe (16 August 1912 – 12 February 1952) \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Forbes_Combe
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/remembering-robert-combe-16-viii-1912-12-ii-1952/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Player,Remembering
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