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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of CM David Anderton OBE (02-viii-1941 01-iv-2022)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers CM David Anderton OBE who passed away on Friday\, April 1st\, 2022 aged 80. \nIn the 1977 New Years Honours List\, Civil Division\, David was awarded the OBE. The citation read simply : “For services to Chess” \nDavid William Anderton was born in the district of Walsall\, Staffordshire\, West Midlands. His mother’s maiden name was Coltart and David resided in Walsall. \nDavid was married to Doreen in 2005. \nDavid Anderton (rhs) congratulates Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry for winning the “Board of Honour ” game versus Edward Lasker at the 1976 Lloyds Bank Match by Telex\, London – New York. From BCM\, volume XCVI (96) Number 11 (August)\, Page 494. The venue was the Bloomsbury Hotel\, London. Photo courtesy of Lloyds Bank\nDavid was an Honorary Life Vice-President of the English (formerly British) Chess Federation. \nJohn Nunn\, David Anderton and Jonathan Speelman\n“David won the ECF President’s Award in 2009 following his stepping down as ECF legal expert. This is the citation from the 2010 ECF Yearbook : \n“As this is Gerry Walsh’s last year as President it was considered appropriate that he be allowed to choose someone receive the award. Gerry has worked with David for all his time with BCF and ECF and has selected him due to his tireless and selfless devotion to both the BCF and ECF over many years. \nDavid Anderton OBE\, ? and Teresa Needham\nMost of you will know David and will agree that this is a well deserved award. It is fair to state that David’s assistance over the years has been invaluable and that without it many areas of the Federation would have found it difficult\, if not impossible to operate. \nJim Plaskett with David Anderton OBE at the 1983 Benedictine International (Manchester)\nSince my election David has been a constant friend and confidante. He has invariable given sound advice throughout my term of office. It was John Wickham who rang me and suggested that due to my length of tenure\, a special award might be in order. \nJim accepts the 1981 Grand Prix shield from David Anderton OBE\nAfter years of selfless and generous devotion serving as ECF President\, International Director\, Captain of the England Team and legal adviser\, this seems to be a fitting tribute. \nFrom the Praxis Bath Zonal Tournament of 1987. David Anderton OBE is second from right\nDavid’s advice both legal and general\, has been invaluable in such matters as the John Robinson legacy and the change of name from BCF to ECF Limited\, and I certainly hope that this advice will continue. \nGerry Walsh” \nBob Wade OBE\, Murray Chandler MNZM and David Anderton OBE\nDavid is a FIDE Candidate Master (CM). \nFrom the BCF 1979-80 Year Book of Chess : Robert Bellin\, the new British Champion\, explains the secret to the Mayor of Chester (?) and to David Anderton\, BCF President\nWith the White pieces David exclusively plays 1.d4 aiming for a Queen’s Gambit and main lines. \nWith Black David plays the Winawer and the Classical French plus the Lenningrad Dutch. \nMrs. Joan Agar; Chairman of Leigh Interests\, presents the Leigh trophy (for 1981) to Mark Hebden. Left\, David Anderton\, BCF President; on the right Malcolm Wood\, Leigh’s Chief Executive. BCM\, 1981\, page 104\nHere are his games. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Kilkenny Masters”]\n[Site “Kilkenny”]\n[Date “1997.11.28”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Anderton\, David William”]\n[Black “Watson\, William N”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B07”]\n[WhiteElo “2200”]\n[BlackElo “2535”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1997.11.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “6”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 061 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,17\,28\,70\,75\,74\,61\,88\,52\,41\,41\,36\,30\,37\,51\,39\,40\,44\,28\,70\,51\,60\,31\,\n36\,-4\,6\,41\,27\,29\,47\,43\,85\,65\,98\,84\,94\,98\,193\,74\,77\,77\,79\,79\,55\,48\,84\,88\,88\,103\,\n113\,79\,85\,133\,130\,120\,225\,222\,275\,195\,326\,194\,271\,92\,92\,92\,90\,91\,77\,98\,148\,118\,\n62\,-11\,19\,-249\,-240\,-256\,-277\,-267\,-267\,-306\,-306]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3\ng6 4. Nge2 Bg7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 c6 7. O-O e5 8. h3 b5 9. a3 a6 10. Be3 Nbd7 11.\ng4 Bb7 12. Ng3 h6 $146 13. Qd2 $14 exd4 14. Bxd4 Nb6 15. b3 Kh7 16. Rad1 Qc7\n17. f4 d5 {[#]} 18. Qf2 $1 Nbd7 (18… Nfd7 $142) 19. e5 (19. g5 $1 Ne8 20.\nexd5 Bxd4 21. Rxd4 c5 22. Rd2 b4 23. d6 $18) 19… Ng8 20. b4 a5 21. h4 Qd8 22.\nh5 axb4 23. axb4 Qh4 $1 24. Qf3 Qe7 25. Rb1 Ra3 26. Rfe1 Bh8 27. Bf1 $18 c5 28.\nbxc5 Nxc5 29. Rxb5 Ne6 30. Bf2 (30. f5 $1) 30… Rc8 31. Rb3 $6 (31. f5) 31…\nRxb3 32. cxb3 Nxf4 $1 33. Qxf4 Rxc3 34. b4 Qe6 35. Bd4 Rb3 36. b5 Ne7 $11 37.\nNh1 g5 38. Qf2 Qxg4+ 39. Bg2 Nf5 40. Rf1 Bc8 $19 {White (presumably) won on\ntime.} 1-0 \n[Event “Kilkenny Masters”]\n[Site “Kilkenny”]\n[Date “1997.11.28”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Anderton\, David William”]\n[Black “Watson\, William N”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B07”]\n[WhiteElo “2200”]\n[BlackElo “2535”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1997.11.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “6”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 061 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,17\,28\,70\,75\,74\,61\,88\,52\,41\,41\,36\,30\,37\,51\,39\,40\,44\,28\,70\,51\,60\,31\,\n36\,-4\,6\,41\,27\,29\,47\,43\,85\,65\,98\,84\,94\,98\,193\,74\,77\,77\,79\,79\,55\,48\,84\,88\,88\,103\,\n113\,79\,85\,133\,130\,120\,225\,222\,275\,195\,326\,194\,271\,92\,92\,92\,90\,91\,77\,98\,148\,118\,\n62\,-11\,19\,-249\,-240\,-256\,-277\,-267\,-267\,-306\,-306]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3\ng6 4. Nge2 Bg7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 c6 7. O-O e5 8. h3 b5 9. a3 a6 10. Be3 Nbd7 11.\ng4 Bb7 12. Ng3 h6 $146 13. Qd2 $14 exd4 14. Bxd4 Nb6 15. b3 Kh7 16. Rad1 Qc7\n17. f4 d5 {[#]} 18. Qf2 $1 Nbd7 (18… Nfd7 $142) 19. e5 (19. g5 $1 Ne8 20.\nexd5 Bxd4 21. Rxd4 c5 22. Rd2 b4 23. d6 $18) 19… Ng8 20. b4 a5 21. h4 Qd8 22.\nh5 axb4 23. axb4 Qh4 $1 24. Qf3 Qe7 25. Rb1 Ra3 26. Rfe1 Bh8 27. Bf1 $18 c5 28.\nbxc5 Nxc5 29. Rxb5 Ne6 30. Bf2 (30. f5 $1) 30… Rc8 31. Rb3 $6 (31. f5) 31…\nRxb3 32. cxb3 Nxf4 $1 33. Qxf4 Rxc3 34. b4 Qe6 35. Bd4 Rb3 36. b5 Ne7 $11 37.\nNh1 g5 38. Qf2 Qxg4+ 39. Bg2 Nf5 40. Rf1 Bc8 $19 {White (presumably) won on\ntime.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nDW Anderton OBE plays BH Wood MBE in 1981 in a Blitz tournament outside of the National Film Theatre. Photograph courtesy of John Saunders\nDuring 1989-93 David was an Executive Board Member of FIDE. \nThe England Team from the 1990 Novi Sad Olympiad : John Nunn\, Jon Speelman\, Julian Hodgson\, David Anderton OBE (Captain)\, Nigel Short\, Michael Adams and Murray Chandler\nIn 2002 David was awarded the title of International Master by the ICCF (correspondence chess) \nIn 2015 David stood down from all of his roles within the ECF. \nDavid Anderton OBE\, Paul Bazalgette (Senior Partner at Philips & Drew) and Tony Banks (GLC Arts & Recreation Department) at the 1982 Philips and Drew Kings Tournament Opening Ceremony. Photograph by Clive Field\nDavid has won the British Seniors Championship in 2003 (shared)\, 2005\, 2007 (shared)\, 2009 (shared) and 2011. \nHere is a potted biography from The Express and Star Newspaper \nDavid Anderton OBE at the 2019 British Championships in Torquay\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nDavid is Head of Regulatory Law at Anson’s Solicitors. He is also Secretary of the Erasmus Darwin Foundation (03270753) and Director of Unionist Buildings Ltd.\, Wallsall Conservative Investments Ltd. and Wallsall Unionist Holdings Ltd. \nCM David William Anderton OBE
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Miroslav Houska (02-iv-1978)
DESCRIPTION:Miroslav Houska\nBirthday of IM Miroslav Houska (02-iv-1978) \nMiroslav gained his International Master title in 1998 and his peak rating according to Felice was 2385 in January of 1998\, aged 20. \nHere are his games on chessgames.com \nIM Miroslav Houska\, photograph by Jovan Petronic\nIM Miroslav Houska\, photograph by Cathy Rogers\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch 84th”]\n[Site “Hove”]\n[Date “1997.08.09”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Houska\, Miroslav”]\n[Black “Plaskett\, H James”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A46”]\n[WhiteElo “2360”]\n[BlackElo “2450”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “1997.08.04”]\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\,73\,19\,31\,14\,30\,55\,19\,45\,45\,45\,-1\,22\,16\,27\,4\,37\,20\,18\,12\,28\,7\,4\,0\,5\,\n-13\,17\,-46\,6\,8\,13\,9\,5\,19\,35\,3\,45\,42\,37\,5\,5\,3\,10\,14\,103\,102\,71\,83\,109\,109\,109\,\n114\,75\,60\,54\,40\,32\,53\,80\,68\,56\,67\,72\,3\,114\,126\,95\,83\,29989\,29990\,29991\,29992\,\n29995\,437\,437\,432]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. c3 b6 4. Bg5 Bb7 5. Bxf6 gxf6 6. e3\ne6 7. Be2 Qc7 8. Nbd2 Rg8 9. O-O Nc6 10. a3 Ne7 11. Re1 Bh6 12. Bf1 f5 13. g3\nNd5 14. Bg2 Bg7 15. Qe2 Rc8 16. Rad1 Ne7 17. e4 Kf8 18. dxc5 bxc5 19. Ng5 Bh6\n20. Ngf3 d6 21. Nh4 f4 22. Qh5 Bg7 23. Nc4 Rd8 24. e5 d5 25. Nd6 Ng6 26. Nxb7\nQxb7 27. Nxg6+ hxg6 28. Qg5 Qc7 29. Qxf4 c4 30. b3 cxb3 31. c4 dxc4 32. Rxd8+\nQxd8 33. Qxc4 Qa5 34. Qc8+ Ke7 35. Qb7+ Kf8 36. Rd1 Bxe5 37. Rd7 1-0\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of BH Wood MSc FCS OBE (13-vii-1909 04-iv-1989)
DESCRIPTION:We remember “BH” Wood MSc FCS OBE who passed away on Tuesday April 4th\, 1989 in the district of Birmingham. \nHe was buried alongside his wife Marjorie in the Sutton Coldfield Cemetery Extension which was opened in 1934 as an extension to the Holy Trinity Church. \nYorkshire Childhood\nBaruch Harold Wood (generally known as BH Wood\, or simply “BH”\, by the chess world) was born on Tuesday\, July 13th 1909 in Ecclesall\, Sheffield\, Yorkshire. The registration district was Ecclesall Bierlow. \nGravestone of BH & ME Wood\, photo by Glen Livet\nThe birth record suggests that he was baptised as Harold Baruch Wood. His parent’s were Baruch Talbot (1881-1951) and Florence Muriel Wood (née Herington). He appears as Harold Baruch on the 1911 census. \n1911 Census record for the Wood household\n1911 Census record for the Wood household\nInterestingly\, the Census form was signed by Talbot Wood so maybe BHs father also did not like his own first name! At the time of the Census the family lived at 30\, Violet Bank Road\, Nether Edge\, Sheffield\, S7 1RZ. \nWelsh School Days\nBaruch attended Friars School\, Bangor (established in 1557) along with William Ritson Morry. BHW was one year and three months older than WRM so it is entirely possible that they had met. \nMarriage to Marjory\nIn October 1936 BHW married Marjory Elizabeth Farrington in Ross\, Herefordshire. When Marjory died on 7th September 1977 they were living at 146\, Rectory Road\, Sutton Coldfield\, West Midlands. Baruch and Marjory had four children\, FM Christopher Wood\, Philip\, Frank and Peggy. \n146\, Rectory Road\, The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield\, West Midlands\, B75 7RS\nHonours\nIn the 1984 New Years Honours List\, Civil Division\, BHW was awarded the OBE. The citation read simply : “For services to Chess” \nHe won the BCF President’s Award in 1983 alongside TJ Beach and Brian Reilly. \nBH Wood playing board 9 in the Anglo team in the Anglo-Soviet Radio Team Match of 1946\nThe 1946 Anglo-Soviet Radio Match\nFrom The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match by Klein and Winter : \n“BH Wood was born in Sheffield in 1909. A great lover of the game\, he founded the magazine Chess in 1935\, and has written a book for beginners. He scored a notable success by winning the British Correspondence Championship on one occasion. Wood has competed in the British Championship on several occasions\, and in a number of Premier Reserves tournaments. He also played for Great Britain in the international team tournament (ed. Olympiad) at Buenos Aires in 1939. \nLeft to right Baruch H Wood\, Stuart Milner-Barry\, Vera Menchik (playing in the women’s world championship (held concurrently with the 1939 Buenos Aires Olympiad) which she won with 17 wins and 2 draws)\, Sir George Thomas\, Conel Hugh O’Donel Alexander and Harry Golombek. England withdrew after their preliminary group due to the outbreak of war despite qualifying for the top final. Thanks to Leonard Barden\nHe is a graduate of the University of Wales and Birmingham University. He has been very active in recent years in giving simultaneous exhibitions and in organising correspondence chess.” \nSignature of BH Wood from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Margate 1936.\nBetween 1938 and 1957\, BH won the championship of Warwickshire eight times. He held the record (until 2006) for the most Birmingham & District Chess League Individual titles – nine\, all won in Division 1: 1937\, 1939\, 1954\, 1956\, 1958\, 1960\, 1966\, 1967\, and 1983. He was the Records Secretary for the League from 1951-61. \nBirth of a Magazine\nCHESS Cover for volume 1\, September 1935 – August 1936. Source : Michael Clapham\nFrom CHESS\, Volume 52 (1987)\, Number 1014-15 (Christmas)\, we have the very last issue of the magazine for which BH was the Editor before becoming Founding Editor (and Paul Lamford became Editor). BH Wrote: \n“Countless people have asked me ‘Why did you start CHESS?’ I was in love with university life and has just taken an M.Sc.\, a waste of time after a good first-class honours\, and decided to have a go at replacing the old Chess Amateur\, which had closed down.  I had edited the students’ magazine in both Bangor and Birmingham. The first had been produced by The Daily Post Printers in Liverpool\, who agreed to print  1\,000 copies for £90. That £90 would be nearly £2\,400 now. \nCHESS masthead for Volume 1\, Number 1\, 1935. Source : Michael Clapham\nA year’s subscription I announced as 10 shillings (50p). \nTwo bits of luck! J.H. Van Meurs\, a Dutchman who did a lot for British Chess\, had listed in his still young B.C.F. Year Book some hundreds of chess clubs. \nW.H. Watts\, another great figure of those days\, had floated a rather short-lived magazine The Chess Budget\, donated a ‘Budget Cup‘\, for knock-out team competition and published excellent books on big tournaments\, etc. He handed me a list of keen chess players all around the world. I spent a week addressing envelopes by hand to all the clubs and people. \nTo individuals I sent single copies of CHESS; to each club three copies\, inviting payment or subscriptions. Hardly anybody failed to pay. Obviously there was a demand for a chess magazine with a lighter touch than the B.C.M. \nYears later\, I learnt why Mr. Watts had been so generous. He had fallen out with the establishment and welcomed the arrival of a new publication. \nWithin three months I was selling 3\,000 copies an issue. \nSome early ideas were chessy short stories \, cartoons and a competition for humorous anecdotes. \nI soon went to Amsterdam for the first Euwe-Alekhine match. I traced Alekhine to his hotel room with difficulty. He was officially incommunicado. He came to the door in pyjamas\, and within five minutes we had agreed to a £5 article per month. I was\, of course\, already on conversational terms with him (and remained so!). \nNow I fell into trap. 3\,000 readers in four months meant 6\,000 in eight months\, 9\,000 in  a year…? \nNot so! This is extrapolation\, a matter of calculation full of risks. \nMy preparations had been too good. In the remaining eight months of the year I picked up only a thousand more readers. Alekhine lost the title. With three months to go\, my money ran out\, I struggled to the end of the year.  The twelfth issue was pathetically thin compared with the first few but renewals staring rolling in and CHESS blossomed again. \nThe fifty-two years since have been gruelling\, unremitting toil but fascinating interest. How we bought our own presses and the effect this had on the world’s chess press – A law suit that went to appeal – How CHESS linked people in Malta\, Australia\, Hungary – Adventures in ‘simuls’\, postal chess etc. How we helped police to identify a drowned man\, etc. So many tales to tell! \nBHW \nBCF Obituary\nHere is an obituary from the BCF Yearbook 1989 – 1990\, page 14 : \nB.H. Wood\, O.B.E\nBaruch H. Wood\, O.B.E.\, founder of CHESS\, and the magazines editor for 52 years\, died at the age of 79 on 4th April. \nBorn in Sheffield on 13 July 1909\, “B.H.”\, as he was widely known in chess circles\, took up the game early playing competitively at school and at University. After graduating from the University College of Wales\, Bangor with a 1st class honours degree in chemistry\, he took an MSc at Birmingham University. Soon\, however\, his love of chess took him away from a career in chemistry\, with his launch of CHESS in 1935.  He was to continue as editor\, publisher\, for many years printer\, and often major contributor\, for over half a century. \nCHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\nThe magazine quickly won an international reputation for its frankness and outspokenness. It speaks much for the character and determination of its editor that he was able to continue publishing CHESS throughout the difficult years of the Second World War\, whilst holding a full-time job as director of a chemical research laboratory in Lichfield. \nWood will be best remembered for the magazine\, and for his other journalistic activities. He was for many years chess correspondent of The Daily Telegraph and of The Illustrated London News\, and his best known book Easy Guide to Chess went through three editions and many impressions. \nEasy Guide to Chess\, BH Wood\, CHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\, 1945\nThe above book (albeit the later Cadogan version) is available online. \nEasy Guide to Chess\nNigel Davies wrote “One of the best beginners books on the market.” \nWood’s feat in writing\, publishing\, printing and selling his own book may be unique. However\, Wood was no mean player as his draw against the then world champion Max Euwe\, who became a life-long friend\, testifies. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1949/50-25 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1949.12.29”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Wood\, Baruch Harold”]\n[Black “Euwe\, Max”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “E39”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “74”]\n[EventDate “1949.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,74\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,-3\,33\,-19\,0\,-1\,-2\,-3\,4\,-49\,-23\,-30\,-17\,-12\,0\,-12\,\n-7\,-14\,-37\,-40\,-22\,-24\,-29\,-18\,-21\,-20\,-20\,-13\,0\,5\,2\,-2\,12\,5\,14\,15\,24\,21\,22\,26\,\n26\,26\,26\,15\,17\,5\,1\,10\,18\,-7\,-14\,-14\,-14\,-17\,-19\,-19\,-19\,-27\,-30\,-30\,-32\,-29\,\n-12\,-30\,-51\,-44\,-44\,-42\,1\,0\,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 c5 5. dxc5\nO-O 6. Nf3 Na6 7. Bg5 Nxc5 8. a3 Bxc3+ 9. Qxc3 Nfe4 10. Bxd8 Nxc3 11. Be7 Nb3\n12. Bxf8 Kxf8 13. Rd1 Nxd1 14. Kxd1 b6 (14… a5 15. e3 a4 16. Nd2 Nc5) 15. Nd2\nNxd2 $146 {The only game to have reached this position.} 16. Kxd2 Ba6 (16…\nBb7) 17. e4 $11 {[#]} (17. Kc3 $2 Rc8 18. e4 b5 19. b4 bxc4 20. Be2 $17) 17…\nRc8 18. b3 Ke7 19. Bd3 e5 20. f3 Rc6 21. Rc1 Rh6 22. h3 Rg6 23. Bf1 Rc6 24. b4\nRc8 25. a4 Bb7 26. c5 bxc5 {[#]} 27. Rxc5 $2 ({Better was} 27. bxc5 $1 Bc6 28.\nBb5 $11) 27… Rxc5 28. bxc5 d6 $1 {activating Black’s king.} 29. cxd6+ Kxd6\n$17 {Black has an edge.} 30. Kc3 Kc5 31. Bc4 Bc6 $6 ({better is} 31… f6 {\nretaining the weakness on a4.} 32. Bb5 h6) 32. Bb3 Bd7 33. h4 $6 {This looks\nnatural but} (33. Bxf7 {is better exchanging weaknesses} Bxa4) 33… g6 $2 {\nEuwe misses his chance.} (33… f6 {is still correct.}) 34. g3 (34. Bxf7) 34…\nf5 (34… Be6 35. Bd1 f6 36. Be2) 35. exf5 $11 gxf5 36. Bd1 h6 37. g4 a5 {\ndraw agreed.} 1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nHe represented England in the International Team Championship at Buenos Aires in 1939\, scoring 50%. He also took first prize in international tournaments at Baarn 1947\, Paignton 1954\, Whitby 1963\, Thorshavn 1967 and Jersey 1975 and was second in the 1948 British Championship. He was British Correspondence Chess Champion in 1945. \nThe Cedars Chess Club May 1962 – Baruch is seated\, second from the right. Photograph sourced from ECF obituary.\nA life member of F.I.D.E. Wood was also an International Arbiter\, and organised 21 annual chess festivals at seaside venues from the 50’s onwards. In addition he was an active behind-the-scenes inspirer of many chess events\, and in particular was known as a driving spirit of university chess\, being until the time of his death President of the British University Chess Association. \nThe Author’s British Record Simultaneous Display. Some of the 127 schoolboys the author played simultaneously at Ilford County High School\, Winning over a a hundred of the games in 4 hours and 50 minutes.\nHe founded the Postal Chess Club and League and was for many years President of the British Postal Chess Federation. \nLetter from BH Wood to JE Upham dated 7th July 1983\n“B.H.” at Bournemouth in May 1971\nHe was awarded the O.B.E. for services to chess in 1984. \nHis wife Marjory\, predeceased him; he leaves three sons Christopher\, Frank and Philip\, and a daughter Peggy. \nBH Wood & his daughter Peggy\nand here is the article as it appeared in the Yearbook. \nBCF Yearbook\, 1989-90\, page 14\nBCF Yearbook\, 1989-90\, page 15\nGolombek on Wood\nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)  by Harry Golombek : \n“A well known British player\, editor of Chess (starting 1935) and chess correspondent of The Daily Telegraph and Illustrated London News. A FIDE judge\, he has founded and conducted 21 annual chess festivals\, notably at Whitby\, Eastbourne and Southport. \nBH Wood playing AY “Johnnie” Green in the 1956 British Championships in Blackpool\, photographer unknown\nWinner of a number of small and semi-international tournaments : Baarn 1947\, Paignton 1954\, Whitby 1963\, Thorshavn 1967\, and Jersey 1975. \nPlayed for the BCF in the International Team Tournament at Buenos Aires 1939. His best tournament result was probably his equal second in the British Championship at London 1948. \nIn 1954 BHW was sued BH Wood for libel by William Ritson Morry over a letter BHW sent to Henry Golding of the Monmouthshire County Chess Association warning him of WRMs financial history. Here is a summary of the action : \nThe Birmingham Post\, July 15th\, 1954\nand two years in 1956 we have this telling photograph of Ritson and BH playing at the British Championships in Blackpool. It must have been an entertaining pairing for the organisers if no-one else! \nWilliam Ritson Morry playing BH Wood at the British Championships in Blackpool from 1956\nPossibly WRM was thinking this as they played: \nEverybody Loves Wood\nAmong his books are : Easy Guide to Chess\, Sutton Coldfield 1942 et seq; World Championship Candidates Tournament 1953\, Sutton Coldfield 1954. “ \nWorld Championship Candidates Tournament 1953\, BH Wood\, CHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\, 1954\nCafferty on Wood (1989)\nHere is the obituary from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CIX (1989\, 109)\, Number 5 (May)\, pages 210 – 211: \nB. H. WOOD\nBaruch Harold Wood (13 viii 1909-4 iv 1989) popularly known as “B. H.” was a significant figure of the last fifty-odd years in British chess. His life touched practically all aspects of the game as player\, both OTB and CC\, magazine publisher and editor\, organiser of club\, congress and university chess\, journalist . . . the list seems endless. In 1984 he was awarded the OBE for services to chess. \nBorn at Sheffield\, which he sometimes used as an excuse when he was accused of stubbornness\, (“It’s my Yorkshire blood\, you know”) he was educated in North Wales (Friar’s School\, and then University College\, Bangor) and at Birmingham University. \nHe started his chess magazine at Sutton Coldfield in 1935 as an impecunious graduate who could not find suitable work in the Depression\, and his lively style ensured that it was a beacon in British chess for fifty years to come! For many British chess fans he was “Mr Chess” yet it seems a miracle that he kept the magazine going in the difficult times when interest in the game was at a low ebb. He may well have subsidised it from his journalistic work (Birmingham Post\, Illustrated London News and Daily Telegraph) and from his wartime work as manager of a chemical laboratory (“The first time I ever earned a decent salary”). \nHis duodenal ulcer prevented him doing military service\, and later in life he suffered from failing eyesight and the inability to walk which resulted from his diabetes\, not diagnosed till he had suffered from it for decades. \nHe worked a seven-day week on the magazine\, and his wife who predeceased him was often unsure when he would be home such was his devotion to the work. At times he would take off for trips abroad or long simul tours through Britain while trying to keep the magazine on schedule. \nOne of his last long tours was in 1967 when he drove Botvinnik around the UK. The world champion was duly impressed by the work load and wrote a very favourable account of the trip\, revealing incidentally that Barry was still paying off the mortgage on his large house in Rectory Road\, Sutton Coldfield where the car was parked on the forecourt as the garage was the reserve storage for a large library of chess books! His ability to quote chemical formula from memory also impressed Botvinnik. \nHe brought up a family of four\, all of whom were skilled players\, apart\, perhaps from the youngest boy. Daughter Peggy\nwas prominent in women’s chess and married Peter Clarke at the time of the Botvinnik visit. Elder sons Chris and Frank were of over-200 strength\, but had seen too much of their father’s life at close hand to want to take over the business from him. He ultimately sold out to Pergamon in 1987 though negotiations had been started much earlier. It was probably too much of a wrench to let go until failing health left him with little alternative\, but he described\nthe terms as very generous. \nBarry was a gifted linguist who was welcome abroad for his un-English approach of having a go at the native tongue. As a player he was at his best in the late 1930s (a member of the 1939 Olympiad team in Buenos Aires) till the 1950s. He should really have won the 1948 British Championship when he had the enterprising idea of having Paul Schmidt as personal coach! Yet his tournament wins run on as late as Guernsey 1975 and he was playing in the First Division of the Birmingham League within a few weeks of his death. The flesh may have been weak but a great spirit kept him going to the end. \nShall we ever see his like again? \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1948/49-24 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1949.01.01”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Wood\, Baruch Harold”]\n[Black “Koenig\, Imre”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E32”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase / British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “69”]\n[EventDate “1948.12.30”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,69\,39\,31\,43\,-7\,0\,-4\,10\,-29\,13\,-14\,21\,2\,-3\,-13\,1\,-18\,-18\,-8\,24\,29\,21\,\n30\,37\,31\,34\,41\,28\,33\,77\,41\,93\,95\,102\,71\,116\,93\,93\,-42\,25\,32\,80\,82\,67\,170\,119\,\n46\,235\,140\,138\,105\,132\,140\,225\,245\,427\,385\,435\,385\,385\,382\,553\,512\,518\,506\,577\,\n601\,612\,618\,618\,650]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. Nf3 (5. a3) (\n5. Bg5) 5… d6 6. a3 (6. Bd2 Nbd7 7. a3 Bxc3 8. Bxc3 Qe7 9. e3 b6 10. Be2 Bb7\n11. O-O) 6… Bxc3+ 7. Qxc3 Nbd7 8. b4 {White has the two bishops and more\nspace on the queenside. Blacks has to look for attacking chances on the\nkingside.} a5 9. e3 (9. g3 $5 {safer}) 9… axb4 $146 (9… b6 10. Bb2 Bb7 11.\nBe2) 10. axb4 Ne4 {Blacks is aiming for a Dutch-like position.} 11. Qb2 Rxa1\n12. Qxa1 f5 {The Dutch move.} 13. Bd3 Ndf6 14. O-O Qe8 {Blacks pieces have to\ngo to the kingside.} 15. Nd2 (15. Ne1 $5) 15… Qg6 16. f3 Ng5 $1 {Black\ncorrectly doesn’t change\, he preserves the knight for attacking purposes.} (\n16… Nxd2 17. Bxd2 $14) 17. Kh1 h5 $1 18. Rg1 h4 {[#] /\Nf5-h5-g3+ with\nmating attack.} 19. g4 $2 $8 (19. f4 Ng4) (19. Qa5 $14 {is is very reasonable})\n19… hxg3 $2 {A missed opportunity} ({whereas} 19… Nh3 $1 20. Rf1 (20. Rg2\nQh6 21. Nf1 fxg4 22. fxg4 Nxg4 $19) 20… Qh6 21. Nb3 fxg4 $19) (19… Qh6 $1 {\nis very strong} 20. e4 Nh3 21. g5 Qg6 22. exf5 exf5 23. Rf1 Nf4 $19) 20. Rxg3 {\n/\f3-f4} Qh5 $2 (20… Qh6 $1 21. Bb2 Nh5 $1 22. Rg2 Nh3 {/\Qh6xe3; ..f5-f4\,\nNh5-g3+}) 21. Bb2 f4 $5 (21… Kf7 $2 {/\Rf8-h8} 22. Qg1 $1) 22. exf4 Nh3 {\n[#] /\Nh3-f2+-d3} 23. d5 $1 $16 (23. Qf1 $2 Nxf4 $15) 23… e5 (23… Nf2+ 24.\nKg2 Nxd3 25. Bxf6 $36 Nxf4+ 26. Kh1 g6 27. Be7 $11) 24. fxe5 $18 Nf2+ 25. Kg2 (\n25. Kg1 $1 Nh3+ 26. Kf1) 25… Nxd3 $6 (25… N6g4 $5 26. fxg4 Nxg4 27. Nf3 $1\n(27. Qg1 $2 Rf2+ 28. Qxf2 Qxh2+ $19) 27… Rxf3 (27… Ne3+ 28. Kh1 Rxf3 29.\nBe2 $18) 28. Kxf3 $1 Nxe5+ 29. Kg2 Nxd3 30. Rxg7+ Kf8 31. Qf1+ Bf5 32. h4 $1\nNxb2 33. Rg5 $18) 26. exf6 Bh3+ $2 (26… Re8 27. Ne4 Rxe4 28. fxe4 Qe2+ 29.\nKg1 Qf2+ 30. Kh1 Qe2 31. Kg1 Qf2+ 32. Kh1 Qe2 $11) 27. Kg1 (27. Rxh3 $2 Nf4+)\n27… Re8 28. Ne4 Nxb2 29. Qxb2 Rxe4 30. fxe4 Qd1+ 31. Kf2 Qf1+ 32. Ke3 Qe1+\n33. Kf4 Qf1+ 34. Kg5 Bd7 35. fxg7 {and Black resigned. An exciting contest\, typical of White’s\ngritty style.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nJulius Silverman former MP for Aston (Birmingham) writes: I am very sorry to learn of the death of Barry Wood. I knew him for about 55 years and I always found him a pleasant and interesting companion and a good friend. On the last few occasions that I have met him he seemed increasingly frail. I know that the death of his dear wife was a great blow to him. \nBarry’s contribution to Chess in this country has been enormous and his passing is the end of an era in chess journalism.\nBarry’s journalism and his imaginative editorship made Chess a fascinating journal which it was always a pleasure to read.\nIts survival for well over 50 years was a unique achievement which required persistence and dedication. He has had many\nhills to surmount. \nOne was “… the chess lawsuit of the Century …” (This ran for about two and a half years\, ending in 1940 in a victory for the magazine on appeal\, Ed). Jacques versus Chess which might have brought Chess to an end. I appeared for him as counsel. We won. I received a life subscription to Chess as part of my fee. My copy still comes to me regularly. I have never enjoyed a fee so much. \nHere is the article in its original form: \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CX (109)\, Number 5 (May)\, page 210\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CX (109)\, Number 5 (May)\, page 211\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-44 Championship”]\n[Site “Plymouth/ Devon”]\n[Date “1957.08.21”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Wood\, Baruch Harold”]\n[Black “Beaty\, John H”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E87”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “1957.08.19”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\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\,87\,58\,35\,26\,-11\,56\,37\,33\,32\,37\,19\,53\,25\,21\,23\,33\,14\,11\,5\,44\,27\,44\,21\,\n54\,28\,41\,41\,90\,56\,59\,46\,48\,60\,60\,-4\,8\,25\,53\,-34\,-15\,-97\,-85\,-123\,-74\,-75\,51\,5\,\n69\,-119\,-123\,-138\,-173\,-189\,-201\,-185\,-198\,-195\,-117\,-305\,-304\,-284\,-338\,-357\,\n-330\,-394\,-242\,-395\,-144\,-252\,-223\,-202\,-160\,-439\,-364\,-262\,-167\,-377\,-202\,\n-186\,-93\,-48\,91\,107\,108\,115\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3.\nNc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 e5 (5… O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 c6 8. Qd2 cxd5 9. cxd5) 6.\nd5 O-O 7. Be3 Nh5 8. Qd2 f5 9. O-O-O a6 10. Kb1 Qe8 11. Bd3 Bd7 12. Rc1 Nf6\n$146 13. Nge2 b5 14. c5 b4 15. Nd1 Bb5 16. b3 fxe4 17. Bxe4 a5 18. Ng3 a4 19.\nQxb4 Na6 $19 20. Qd2 axb3 21. axb3 Qb8 22. Nb2 Nd7 23. c6 Ndc5 24. Rc3 Qb6 25.\nRhc1 Qa5 26. Kc2 Nb4+ 27. Kd1 Nxe4 28. Nxe4 Na2 29. Ng5 Nxc3+ 30. Rxc3 Qb4 31.\nNe6 Ra1+ 32. Kc2 Rf7 33. Bg5 Bf8 34. Re3 Qa3 35. Re4 Qa2 36. Qb4 Rb1 37. Bc1\nRa1 38. Qd2 Bg7 39. Rb4 Ba6 $11 40. Rb8+ {[#]} Bf8 $4 (40… Rf8 41. Nxf8 Bxf8\n42. Qg5 Qb1+ 43. Kd1 Qxb2 44. Rxf8+ Kxf8 45. Qd8+ Kf7 46. Qxc7+ Kf6 47. Qxd6+\nKg7 48. Qe7+ Kg8 49. Qe6+ $11) 41. Qh6 $18 Qb1+ 42. Kd1 Qf5 (42… Qxc1+ 43.\nQxc1 Rxc1+ 44. Kxc1 Bf1 45. g3 $18) 43. Rxf8+ Rxf8 44. Qg7# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nBernard on Barry (2004)\nREMEMBERING BARRY WOOD (1909-1939) \nby Bernard Cafferty \nOne of the most influential figures in British chess of the 20th century was B. H. Wood\, whom I knew personally from 1951\, and whom I played regularly\, over a period of three decades\, till l moved from Birmingham to Hastings in 1981. Here are some\nmemories of the man who was thought of by many in Britain as “Mr Chess”. \nBorn in Sheffield\, Baruch Harold Wood had his secondary education in North Wales at the same grammar school as W Ritson\nMorry who was later to become his Midlands colleague and bitter rival. BH always attributed his well-known stubbornness (he never resigned early) to “his Yorkshire blood”. Wood and Morry were to be students together at Birmingham University after BH gained his BSc in Wales. Then the pair faced the hard task of finding work in depression-struck mid-1930s England. BH founded his monthly magazine CHESS in 1935\, an act of amazing optimism which only his great appetite for work could justify. The magazine was based in Sutton Coldfield\, just north of Birmingham\, at gloomy premises known as Masonic Buildings. \nThe early decades of this publication were marked by the outpouring of glorious journalism of a popular sort. The man’s love\nof the game shone through his work and he recruited such contributors as the chatty Koltanowski and the prince of annotators\nAlexander Alekhine. Later he became the long-serving columnist of the Birmingham Post\, from 1949 of the weekly Illustrated London News\, and even later of the Daily Telegraph. A feature of the magazine was its lively letters from readers which made for more interesting reading than the equivalent occasional letter to be found in the staid\nBCM. The readers also made pertinent contributions to opening theory\, especially in going through the 1946 MCO with a fine toothcomb and reporting their discoveries to Sutton Coldfield. \nBH wrote a best-selling Easy Guide to Chess which went through several editions and was far more user-friendly than other primers on the market at the time. He also designed a luxury set\, the Coldfield\, and produced various chess clocks with new features. BH was a member of the BCF Olympiad side that played in the first part of the Buenos Aires Olympiad in the autumn of 1939. After the team’s withdrawal due to the outbreak of war\, he stayed on in Argentina for a short while\, taking part in a short tournament where he met the legendary Alekhine. \nOne Hundred Victorian Chess Problems\, BH Wood\, Wayland Publishers\, London\, 1972\nBH was married to Marjorie\, a Birmingham primary school teacher\, and had three sons and a daughter. The elder two boys\,\nChris and Frank\, were strong players but not Philip. His daughter Peggy was our leading girl player of the 1950s\, and married Peter Clarke in 1962. One should note that BH was not Jewish\, as many assumed from the name Baruch – he was generally addressed as Barry by his wife and close friends. Others called him just by the initials BH. Everyone in British chess knew exactly who you meant when you said BH. Many thought of him as a sharp business-man. In any event\, the fearsome workload he shouldered meant that none of his children\, seeing this at first hand\, aspired to carry on the magazine as a family business. To many in the British chess community who had never seen top players in action\, BH was their first contact with the wider chess world due to the exhausting simul tours he made to many clubs the length and breadth of the UK. \nLater\, he organized CHESS Festivals starting from 1953. These were our earliest open tournaments\, held at attractive venues such as Cheltenham\, Whitby\, Eastbourne and Southport. These events created the opportunity for British amateurs to meet continental grandmaster opposition like Donner and O’Kelly. BH had great confidence in his ability – his MSc at Birmingham University was in chemistry\, but in 1946-7 he started studying nuclear physics privately\, telling Brian Reilly\, who was employed by him at that time\, that it was the science of the future. I have to simply marvel at this – where did he find the time? In his self-portrait in connection with the GB-USSR match of 1946 he revealed that he had been studying Russian privately with a view to taking an external degree in it at Birmingham University. \nThe post-war decade saw him at his most active. He was BCF delegate at early FIDE meetings post-1946\, the period that saw the mighty Soviet Union admitted to membership in 1947. BH was instrumental in maintaining Spain’s membership of FIDE at the same time\, despite Soviet opposition to Franco’s fascism. He claimed to me he was always a most welcome guest in Spain thereafter. \nBattles with the BCF\nBH had been exempt from military service due to a duodenal ulcer. He spent the war keeping the magazine alive in his spare time as he was put in charge of a research laboratory at the Birmingham Chemical Company. During the war the government had the power under emergency legislation to direct citizens into any sort of work that would contribute to the war effort. His comment to me on that intensive period was: “It was the first time I ever drew a decent salary”. After a short spell as BCF FIDE delegate\, he fell out with the ruling body in the early 1950s. His view was that the national body was ultra-conservative and not open to fresh ideas such as the knockout championship open to all which he organised in 1949-50. Lo and behold\, a few months later the BCF started organising regional competitions to arrange for qualification for the British Championship! BH often criticised the BCF in his magazine. In June 1950 he wrote the first of a planned series of articles on the evergreen theme “Where is British Chess Going?” and forwarded a copy to the BCF just before publication. The BCF legal eagle Professor Wheatcroft immediately threatened to take out an injunction\, so putting the frighteners on the printers. Rather than delay the July issue (not that subscribers were not used to a rather irregular schedule!)\, BH brought out the issue with white space\, on two pages\, a dramatic way of alerting the readers to the dispute. The promised articles\, which he said would appear after the dispute was settled\, never appeared. \nDW Anderton OBE plays BH Wood MBE in 1981 in a Blitz tournament outside of the National Film Theatre. Photograph courtesy of John Saunders\nThere were also tensions with BCF figures like Alexander and Golombek\, in the latter case probably due to professional rivalry and Harry G’s identification with the BCM. Another prominent figure with whom BH crossed swords was the flamboyant Liverpool barrister Gerald Abrahams who threatened to sue over a report in CHESS of gambling debts incurred “on the turf’. \nBH was no stranger to litigation. For example he had had a lawsuit with Jaques culminating in 1940 over the use of the term\n“genuine Staunton-pattern sets” in his advertising. The case was initially lost\, a potentially crippling blow\, but then won on appeal with the aid of solicitor Julius Silverman (later a prominent Birmingham MP)\, Ritson Morry\, Sir George Thomas and\nother well-wishers. When Wood-Morry hostility was at its height in the early 1950s over pro- and anti-BCF views\, BH drew attention in a letter to a Welsh chess organiser to Ritson’s short period in jail. The uncomplimentary term ‘gaolbird’ was used. A court case followed which the penurious Ritson\, having been struck off as a solicitor could hardly afford\, yet BH was cleared on the defence of justification. My fellow students and I at Birmingham University could only marvel at the daily press reports on the wrangles between two of our patrons whom we had feted at a celebratory dinner only a short while before. \nHere is the point at which to mention BH’s support for chess in the universities. He was the long-time President of the\nBUCA (British Universities’ Chess Association) and turned up at many of their events with support. He loaned equipment in the early days when not every chess club had sufficient clocks for a match – bear in mind that the austerity period in Britain lasted for years after 1945. BH also supported correspondence chess\, being the founder of the Postal Chess League\, a team event very popular in its day but now defunct. \nBH’s best playing performance was the British Championship of 1948 when he came second to Broadbent. The Midlander had actually started with 6.5 points from seven games\, but the unsatisfactory position arose that he had to meet Broadbent in the last round when each had an adjourned game still to finish off. \nBH Wood during the 1948 British Championships at Bishopsgate Institute\, London. Taken on August 30th 1948 by Keystone Press Agency\nThe tension got to BH\, he missed a clear winning chance against the Northerner and lost. Yet he should really have taken the title on the merits of the positions he had achieved. His rivals resented the fact that he had hired a second\, namely Paul Schmidt\, the Estonian player who was once thought of as almost as good as Keres in his native land. Schmidt had won the German Championship during the war in 1941. The British amateurs of 1948 were not impressed by this intrusion of professionalism and the importation of someone who carried the taint of possible Nazism. According to Brian Reilly\, Gerald Abrahams was particularly scathing. \nBH made a good impression on Botvinnik when the latter stayed at the Wood residence in Rectory Road\, Sutton Coldfield\, in 1967 (the reference for those who can read Russian is Baturinsky’s “…Tvorchestvo” trilogy on Botvinnik. The article was entitled: Albion shakhmatny i inoy. It appears on pp435 -448 of the third volume. A shortened version appears in English in Botvinnik’s autobiography Achieving the Aim). When I drew BH’s attention to the article and its peculiar title he responded with his usual erudite comment: ‘Albion? Yes\, that’s the Roman reference to the white cliffs of Dover”. For most Brummies\, “The Albion” did not mean a local pub\, but rather the West Bromwich Albion football team! \nIn theory\, the communist Botvinnik should have been distant from his host\, the Midlands entrepreneur and business man\, who drove him round to his engagements in Britain for three weeks\, but their common love of chess triumphed over ideological\ndifferences. In particular\, the speed of production of CHESS\, now on its own presses\, was compared very favourably by the Soviet Patriarch to that of Shakhmaty v SSSR. British trade unions had a different view of course\, in pre-Thatcher days\, and BH had some tricky obstacles to overcome in this field. The Muscovite Botvinnik recorded the fact that the garage of BH’s large house was full of chess books (as were various rooms – to the abiding despair of Marjorie)\, so the family car was always parked outside on the drive. BH revealed to Botvinnik that he had not been able pay off his mortgage for decades due to the variable cash flow from his business and journalism. \nBH was in love with study as a young man\, he once told me\, and he had a facility in various European languages\, which made him always welcome abroad. Over the years\, BH had a number of employees who were strong players\, such as Brian Reilly\, Owen Hindle and Robert Bellin\, but none of them lasted long. Owen Hindle\, a person of placid temperament\, stuck it out the longest\, but even he had his patience tried by the ‘boss’. One cannot hide the fact that BH was a controversial figure – perhaps the clue after all is that reference to his stubbornness and Yorkshire blood? I contributed to his magazine for many years\, but certainly never wanted to work for him full-time! \nI used to see BH in the last decade of his life only in the Hastings press room. For his age\, he still took on a fantastic workload. Peter Clarke once commented that his father-in-law gave the impression of believing he would live for ever. Finally\, Anno Domini told and BH sold his business to Robert Maxwell of Pergamon fame/notoriety in 1988. \nIn his final year\, BH suffered from diabetes\, and the resulting inability to walk meant he was confined to a wheelchair\, but he still insisted on visiting Hastings one last time\, where\, in his prime\, he had specialised in taking away Premier score sheets. Often they were taken not just to his hotel room\, but even back to Sutton Coldfield\, so hindering the work of other chess journalists unless Ritson or later\, Peter Griffiths had got in first to create the bulletin. \nWhat a character! We lack such a colourful figure nowadays. Where he still alive today\, I imagine he would still be trying to put a bomb under the BCF. \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-35 Championship”]\n[Site “London (Bishopsgate)”]\n[Date “1948.09.10”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Broadbent\, Reginald Joseph”]\n[Black “Wood\, Baruch Harold”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[Annotator “Bernard Cafferty / British Chess News”]\n[SetUp “1”]\n[FEN “3q1rk1/7p/1Np1b1p1/P3p3/1P2P2b/3pB3/3Q2P1/R5K1 w – – 0 27”]\n[PlyCount “9”]\n[EventDate “1948.08.30”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, Nov 1948\, p. 379.”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,9\,-76\,-345\,-417\,-380\,797\,623\,889\,907\,938\,952] [#]} {Sicilian Dragon\,\n33 moves. When Broadbent and Wood sat down to play this last-round game\, they\nstill had one adjourned game each to finish (Broadbent\, his 7th round game\nwith Morry\, and Wood his 10th round game with Milner-Barry). Hence they both\nhad 7/9 at the time.} 27. a6 $4 ({Broadbent should have played Br} 27. Kh2 {\nto prevent Wood’s bishop from making its home on g3. Now He’s lost}) 27… Bg3\n$1 $19 28. Rf1 {with the idea of Rf3} Qh4 $4 (28… Bh2+ $1 29. Kxh2 Rxf1 30.\nBf2 Qe7 $19 {and Baruch Wood would have been 1948 British Champion}) 29. Rxf8+\nKxf8 30. a7 $18 Qh2+ 31. Kf1 {… 33 moves (Source: BCM\, Nov 1948\, p379)\nBlack resigned on move 33. He had temporarily overlooked the fact that bishops\nhave a reverse gear and that 32.Bg1 would defend against 31…Qh1 “mate” As\nBCM said at the time\, “Typical last round”.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nWinter\, Jaques and Wood\nFrom Chess Explorations (Cadogan Chess\, 1996) by Edward Winter we have further detail on the Jaques court case: \n“Paul Timson\, a lawyer\, sends us reports on two legal  cases connected with chess. In 1939 B.H.Wood found himself in the dock for having advertised for sale in CHESS in 1937 ‘genuine Staunton chessmen’. The plaintiffs were John Jaques & Son\, Ltd. Sir George Thomas.\, Max Euwe and Lodewijk Prins appeared as witnesses for the defence. The case is referred to by Fred Wren in his article ‘Tales of a Woodpusher: Woodpusher’s Woodpile’\, which appeared in Chess Review\, 1949 and was reprinted in Reinfeld’s The Treasury of Chess Lore. The issues of CHESS of the time also contained a huge amount of material on the case. The decision was that ‘Staunton’ alone was permissible description\, but that the phrase ‘genuine Staunton’ implied a product made by Jaques & Son Ltd.\, as opposed to any Staunton pattern.  However\, B.H. Wood appealed and\, in 1940\, won.” \nOther Sources\nIf you can get access then we recommend the eleven-page “B.H. Wood and his chess playing family” article in the August-2009 issue of Chess Monthly written by his son Chris Wood (helped by brother Frank). \nLikewise The Chess Lawsuit of the Century is detailed in CHESS\, volume 52\, Number 1018\, pp.392 – 394 by BHW himself. \nHere is an obituary from the MCCU \nBackground information from Sutton Coldfield Chess Club \nAlekhine’s Articles for CHESS by Michael Clapham \nHere is his Wikipedia entry.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Murray Chandler (04-iv-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday GM Murray Chandler MNZM (04-iv-1960) \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \n“International Grandmaster (1983)\, a New Zealander who settled in England at the age of 15. subsequently playing for his adopted country in the Lucerne Olympiad\, 1982. He scored +4=6 to share first prize at New York 1980\, came second (+5=5 — 1) equal with Hort at Dortmund 1983\, and scored +5 = 6 (a GM norm) to share first prize at Amsterdam 1983\, a Swiss systemtournament. Chandler has edited the magazine Tournament Chess since its inception in 1982.” \nA White Pawn in Europe\, Murray Chandler\, 1975\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nMurray Chandler\, Ray Keene and Miguel Najdorf\nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Murray Graham Chandler was born in Wellington\, New Zealand. He was awarded the IM title in 1977 and the GM title in 1982. He was joint New Zealand Champion in 1975-76 (shared with Lev Isaakovich Aptekar and Ortvin Sarapu) and joint Commonwealth Champion in 1984. His best tournament results were 2nds at London 1984\, London 1986 and Amsterdam 1987 and he has played both for New Zealand (1976-1980) and England (1982-86) in the Olympiads. He edited Tournament Chess for a time from 1981 onwards and as well as writing he became the managing director of Gambit Publications. \nLeonard Barden (left) and Murray Chandler display the Lloyds Bank Trophy which the 19-year old New Zealander won ahead of 3 Grandmasters and 10 International Masters for his finest international success up to 1979. in the Lloyds Bank Masters\nHe was the organiser and winner of a large tournament\, the Queenstown Classic in New Zealand in January 2006 and this tournament also incorporated the 113th New Zealand Championship making Chandler the New Zealand Champion for the second time. He won his third New Zealand title at the 115th New Zealand Championship (2008) which was held in Auckland where he currently resides.” \nMurray Graham Chandler\n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings 9192”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1991.??.??”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Adams\, Michael J”]\n[Black “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B33”]\n[WhiteElo “2615”]\n[BlackElo “2605”]\n[Annotator “Chandler\,Murray”]\n[PlyCount “84”]\n[EventDate “1991.12.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “14”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “14”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 027”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1992.04.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1992.04.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,84\,18\,27\,38\,36\,40\,46\,46\,27\,27\,53\,35\,28\,24\,-10\,-16\,-13\,-5\,-20\,-37\,-23\,\n15\,-42\,-36\,-35\,0\,4\,4\,5\,0\,-20\,-20\,-43\,-7\,-7\,-7\,-7\,3\,-24\,-24\,-24\,33\,-5\,-33\,-66\,\n-90\,-121\,-70\,-63\,-77\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-105\,-145\,-147\,-172\,\n-173\,-171\,-130\,-175\,-182\,-181\,-185\,-200\,-202\,-214\,-199\,-200\,-200\,-200\,-190\,\n-190\,-170\,-169\,-157\,-157\,-147\,-159\,-166\,-166\,-155]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4\ncxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bf4 e5 8. Bg5 a6 9. Bxf6 (9. Na3 {\nDies ist die moderne Zugfolge.} b5 10. Bxf6 Qxf6) 9… gxf6 10. Na3 f5 $1 {\nEine attraktive Alternative zu 10…b5} 11. exf5 Bxf5 12. Nc4 Nd4 13. Ne3 Be6\n14. Bc4 Qg5 15. Ncd5 Rc8 16. Bb3 Nxb3 17. axb3 f5 18. g3 f4 $6 {Ein\nlohnenswertes Bauernopfer\, um Linien für die Läufer zu öffnen.} 19. h4 Qg6 20.\ngxf4 Bh6 (20… exf4 21. Nxf4 $1 Qe4 22. Nfg2) 21. Ra4 $6 (21. h5)\n21… Rf8 $1 22. h5 Qg8 $1 23. fxe5 $2 (23. f5 $5) 23… Bxd5 $1 24. Qxd5 (24.\nNxd5 $2 Qg2 25. Rf1 Rc5 26. c4 (26. Rd4 Rxd5 27. Rxd5 Qe4+ $19) 26… Rf5 $1\n27. f4 Bxf4 $17) 24… Bxe3 $2 25. Qxg8 $2 (25. Qxb7 $1 {Beide Spieler\nübersahen die Möglichkeiten\, die hinter diesem Zuge schlummern.} Bxf2+ 26. Kd1\nQe6 {Während der Partie schätzten beide Spieler diese Stellung als\nhoffnungslos für Weiss ein.} 27. exd6 $1 Rf7 28. Re4 $1 Rxb7 29. Rxe6+ $10)\n25… Bxf2+ $1 {Schwarz sackt auf diese Weise einige Bauern ein.} 26. Kf1 Rxg8\n27. Kxf2 Rxc2+ 28. Kf3 dxe5 29. Re1 Rg5 30. Rg4 Rxh5 31. Rg7 Rf5+ 32. Ke4 Rf7\n33. Rg8+ Kd7 34. Rd1+ Kc7 35. Rg3 Rxb2 36. Rc3+ Kb6 37. Kxe5 Re2+ 38. Kd6 Re8\n39. Rh1 Rg7 40. Rh4 a5 41. Rh5 Rd8+ 42. Ke6 Ka6 0-1 \n[/pgn] \nMurray Graham Chandler\n[pgn]\n[Event “Interzonal-15”]\n[Site “Manila”]\n[Date “1990.??.??”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Black “Ivanchuk\, Vassily”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C19”]\n[WhiteElo “2560”]\n[BlackElo “2680”]\n[Annotator “Chandler\,Murray”]\n[PlyCount “97”]\n[EventDate “1990.06.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “13”]\n[EventCountry “PHI”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 019”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1990.12.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1990.12.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,97\,27\,12\,32\,32\,32\,44\,31\,31\,25\,25\,8\,6\,8\,5\,26\,6\,5\,5\,8\,-17\,24\,18\,27\,13\,\n23\,28\,33\,34\,41\,48\,52\,52\,47\,39\,58\,47\,68\,42\,40\,33\,54\,66\,65\,62\,125\,108\,109\,128\,\n152\,128\,161\,161\,193\,193\,231\,165\,164\,106\,93\,89\,93\,93\,85\,85\,98\,9\,2\,-1\,56\,66\,124\,\n127\,134\,16\,18\,21\,13\,13\,30\,53\,60\,60\,60\,62\,90\,91\,138\,125\,147\,128\,252\,254\,254\,254\,\n274\,274\,258\,267]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7\n7. Nf3 Qa5 (7… Bd7 8. a4 Qa5 9. Bd2 c4 $5 10. Ng5 $5 (10. Qb1 Nbc6 11. g3)\n10… h6 (10… Bxa4 $6 11. Qh5 Ng6 12. h4 {Stohl}) 11. Nh3 Bxa4 12. Nf4 $146 {\nStohl}) 8. Bd2 Nbc6 (8… Bd7 9. Be2 $6 Ba4) 9. a4 Bd7 10. Bb5 $5 O-O-O (10…\na6 $6 11. Be2) (10… Qc7) (10… f6) (10… c4) 11. O-O c4 $6 (11… f6 12. c4\nQc7 13. cxd5 $13 {Stohl}) 12. Bc1 $1 $14 f6 (12… Qxc3 $5 13. Bd2 Qb2 14. Rb1\nQa3 15. Qe1 $1 (15. Ra1 $10) (15. Bg5 $6 Rde8 (15… h6 $2 16. Bxc6 Bxc6 17.\nRa1 Qb4 18. c3 $18) 16. Qd2 Nf5 17. Ra1 Qf8 {Stohl}) (15. Ng5 Be8 (15… Rdf8\n$1 16. Qe1 $5 h6 $1 $8 (16… a6 $2 17. Bb4 $3 Nxb4 18. Bxd7+ Kxd7 19. Rxb4 $16\n{Stohl}) 17. Bc3 Nf5 18. Bxc6 (18. Nf3 Re8 19. Bxc6 Bxc6 20. Bb4 Qxa4 21. Qc3\nQa6 22. Ra1 Ba4 {Stohl}) 18… Bxc6 19. Bb4 Qxa4 20. Bxf8 Rxf8 21. Ra1 Qxc2 22.\nRxa7 $13) 16. Qe1 a6 17. Bc3 $1 Nf5 (17… axb5 18. axb5 $5 $36) 18. Bxc6 bxc6\n19. Bb4 $16) 15… Nf5 (15… a6 16. Ng5 (16. Bc3 Nf5 17. Bxc6 Bxc6 18. Bb4\nQxa4 19. Qc3 Be8 $17) 16… axb5 (16… Rdf8 17. Bb4) 17. axb5 Nxd4 $1 18. Bb4\nNxc2 19. Bxa3 Nxe1 20. Rfxe1 (20. Bxe7 Nd3 21. Nxf7 Rde8 $13) 20… Nf5 21.\nNxf7 Nd4 $146 {Stohl}) 16. Bxc6 Bxc6 17. Bb4 Qxa4 18. Qc3 Qa6 $6 19. Ra1 $40\nBa4 20. Ba5 b6 21. Rxa4 bxa5 22. Rb1 $18) 13. Qe1 $5 (13. Re1) 13… Rhe8 (\n13… Rde8 $5) (13… Nxe5 $2 14. dxe5 Bxb5 15. Ba3) 14. Ba3 Kb8 (14… fxe5\n15. dxe5 $14) 15. Bxc6 $1 Nxc6 16. Qe3 Ka8 17. Rfb1 $14 Bc8 (17… Qxa4 $2 18.\nQd2 Qa6 19. Bc5 (19. Be7 $6 Qxa1 20. Rxa1 Rxe7 21. exf6 gxf6 22. Qh6 Rf7 $14)\n19… Na5 20. exf6 gxf6 21. Qh6 $16) 18. Bd6 Rd7 (18… b6 $5 {?! Stohl} 19.\nRb5 Qa6 $14 20. Qf4 $16 {(Stohl 90)}) 19. Rb5 Qd8 20. a5 $5 g5 $2 (20… Rxd6\n$5 21. exd6 Qxd6 $14 22. Qd2 $14) (20… f5) (20… fxe5) (20… Rg8 $5 21. Bc5\nQe8 $132) 21. Bc5 $3 $16 g4 22. Bb6 $1 Rc7 $5 (22… axb6 $2 23. axb6+ Kb8 24.\nQc1 Qe7 25. Qb2 $18) (22… Qe7 23. exf6 $1 Qxf6 24. Ne5 $16) 23. Ne1 (23. Nd2\n$142 $5 fxe5 24. dxe5 Qe7 25. Bxc7 Qxc7 26. f4 {Stohl}) 23… fxe5 (23… f5\n24. g3 Qe7 25. Ng2) 24. dxe5 Bd7 $6 (24… Qe7 $142 $5 25. Bxc7 (25. a6 $6 bxa6\n26. Bxc7 axb5) 25… Qxc7 26. f4 (26. Rc5 Bd7) 26… Ne7) 25. Qc5 $1 $40 (25.\nRbb1 $16 {y}) 25… Re7 (25… Qc8 26. Rbb1) 26. a6 $1 bxa6 (26… axb6 $2 27.\naxb7+ Kb8 28. Qxb6 $18) 27. Rxa6 Be8 (27… Qc8 28. Bxc7 Qxa6 $2 29. Qxc6+ $1\nBxc6 30. Rb8#) 28. Bxc7 Rxc7 29. Qd6 $2 (29. Rb1 $142 Nxe5 (29… Nb8 30. Rd6 (\n30. Qd6 Rd7 31. Qxe6)) 30. Qd4 $18 Nc6 31. Qxg4) 29… Qxd6 $1 30. exd6 Rb7 $1\n31. Rxb7 (31. Rc5 $2 Rb1 32. Kf1 Kb7) 31… Kxb7 32. Ra1 Kc8 33. Rb1 $6 (33. f3\n$142 h5 (33… gxf3 34. Nxf3 Kd7 35. Nd4 $1 $18) 34. Kf2 Kd7 35. fxg4 hxg4 36.\nKg3 $18) 33… a5 (33… Kd7 $5) (33… h5 $5) 34. f3 h5 35. Kf2 Kd7 36. fxg4\nhxg4 37. h3 $2 (37. Kg3 $142 $18) 37… gxh3 38. gxh3 Kxd6 39. Nf3 a4 $2 (39…\ne5 $142 $1 40. Ke3 Bg6 41. Kd2 $16 {Stohl}) 40. Nd4 $1 e5 (40… Nd8 41. Rb8\nKc7 42. Ra8) 41. Nxc6 $18 Kxc6 42. Ke3 Kc5 43. Kd2 Kd6 (43… d4 44. Re1 Kd5\n45. cxd4 (45. h4) 45… Kxd4 46. c3+ Kd5 47. Ke3 $18) 44. Rb6+ Kc5 45. Rf6 (45.\nRe6 Bd7) 45… Kb5 (45… d4 46. Re6) 46. Re6 $1 Bd7 47. Rxe5 Bxh3 48. Rxd5+\nKb6 49. Kc1 1-0\n[/pgn] \nMurray Graham Chandler\nThe English Chess Explosion\nSicilian 2.c3\nThe Complete c3 Sicilian\nTournament Chess\nHow to Beat Your Dad at Chess\nChess Tactics for Kids\nChess for Children\nChess Puzzles for Kids
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Geoff Lawton (04-iv-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday IM Geoff Lawton (04-iv-1960) \nGeoff became an International Master in 1984. His peak rating according to Felice was 2407 in July 2003 at the age of 43. \nHe won the Maidenhead Open in 1995 with 5/5 and TPR of 2685. \nHere are his games from chessgames.com \nHe has plus scores with the following notable players : Stuart Conquest\, Mark Condie\, John Nicholson\, Jon Cox\, Colin McNab\, Julian Hodgon\, Paul Littlewood\, David Cummins and Vaidyanathan Ravikumar amongst others. \nIt’s Only Me\, edited by Geoff Lawton\n[pgn]\n[Event “Maidenhead op”]\n[Site “Maidenhead”]\n[Date “1995.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Lawton\, Geoffrey W”]\n[Black “Cummings\, David H”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E92”]\n[WhiteElo “2385”]\n[BlackElo “2375”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “83”]\n[EventDate “1995.??.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\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\,83\,19\,31\,14\,30\,64\,47\,24\,32\,47\,49\,42\,31\,61\,11\,18\,5\,20\,-3\,13\,9\,16\,0\,25\,\n7\,66\,71\,68\,64\,70\,65\,61\,68\,70\,70\,67\,60\,60\,66\,63\,39\,46\,49\,58\,58\,72\,56\,72\,75\,54\,\n57\,54\,44\,51\,35\,44\,44\,54\,54\,66\,16\,74\,93\,18\,20\,37\,9\,0\,10\,10\,10\,139\,154\,158\,23\,73\,\n0\,-12\,-37\,357\,369\,350\,378\,375\,378]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5.\ne4 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 Na6 10. O-O Bd7 11. b3 Nc5 12. Nd2\nNfxe4 13. Bxd8 Nxc3 14. Qe1 Rfxd8 15. Nb1 Nxe2+ 16. Qxe2 e4 17. Nd2 Bxa1 18.\nRxa1 Re8 19. Qe3 Kh7 20. a3 f5 21. Qd4 b6 22. Re1 Nd3 23. Re3 Ne5 24. h3 g5 25.\nNb1 Rf8 26. Nc3 Rf7 27. Ne2 Re8 28. Nc3 Ra8 29. Kh2 g4 30. Ne2 gxh3 31. Rxh3 f4\n32. Rh5 Ng4+ 33. Kg1 Re8 34. f3 exf3 35. gxf3 Ne3 36. Nxf4 Nf5 37. Qd3 Re3 38.\nQc2 Rxf3 39. Ne6 Rg3+ 40. Kf2 Rc3 41. Qe4 Re3 42. Rxf5 1-0\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of CGM Christopher Jones (06-iv-1952)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of CGM Christopher JA Jones (06-iv-1952)Here is an excellent biography from Chess Scotland \nHere is an article about Helpmates from CJAJ published by Chessbase \nGrandmaster of Composition Christopher Jones\nCGM Christopher James Austin Jones\nCGM Christopher James Austin Jones with James Pratt and David Shire at Eton College
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-cgm-christopher-ja-jones-06-iv-1952/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Composer,Player,Problemist,Writer
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DTSTAMP:20201224T001334Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Julius du Mont (15-xii-1881 07-iv-1956)
DESCRIPTION:Signature of J du Mont from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Southsea 1951.\nBCN Remembers Julius du Mont (15-xii-1881 07-iv-1956) \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXVI\, Number 5\, 1956 we have this obituary written by DJ Morgan : \nIn our February issue we wrote an appreciation of one of the distinguished past editors of this magazine\, R. C. Griffith. He had been followed in the chair in 1938 by our present Games’ Editor\, and when he\, in turn\, was called in 1940 to sterner duties\, he was succeeded by Julius du Mont. During the war years\, and through the difficult post-war period\, till 1949\, he held the reins. As we wrote on another occasion\, “His had been difficult years: the “B.C.M.” had survived when so much else had succumbed during the stress and strain of total war.” lt is with regret that we now record his death on April 7th\, in a Hastings nursing home\, at the age of seventy-four\, after a protracted illness. \ndu Mont was born in Paris-a little-known fact which he himself once disclosed to us-on December 15th\, 1881. lt was there also that he received his education. His early bent and ambitions were musical. The tradition that chess and music have a close relationship may be traced as far back\, at least\, as Philidor’s great eminence in both. du Mont was truly in the line of such dual personalities. He pursued his musical studies at the Frankfort-on-Main Conservatoire and at Heidelberg\, and soon became established as a concert pianist.’ Later he achieved great success as a music teacher\, and among his pupils was the well-known concert pianist\, Edna lles. The French and German background also explains his facility as a linguist. \nHe came to England as a young man and brought with him a considerable talent for chess. Settling in London\, he rapidly improved as a player\, and successes followed. At the Kentish Congress\, Tunbridge Wells\, 1912\, he came equal second and third. He was Champion of the strong Hampstead Club for two years\, and Middlesex Champion in 1913 and 1915. He quickly mastered our language and showed this during the First World War by writing a manual on the Lewis gun. After the war\, music kept its place in his life\, but more and more chess became his main activity. He forsook playing and turned to journalism and authorship\, and his output of books is evidence of his gifts and industry. Titles come readily to mind: Chess Openings lllustrated\, Centre Counter Defence (1919) and Centre and Danish Gambit (1920); The Elements of Chess (1925) ; Ihe Basis of Combination in Chess (1938) ; 200 Miniature Games (1941); More Miniature Games (1953); (with Dr. Tartakower) 500 Master aomes of Chess\, two volumes (1952)\, to which was added a third volume in 1954\, 100 Master Games of Chess. He also translated Edward Lasker’s Chess Strategy\, and Alekhine’s two volumes of My Best Games of Chess (the first with M. E.Goldstein). \nThe wealth of material ready to hand combined with a foreigner’s gift of lucid expression in “the other tongue” made his books very popular. To the great value and importance of these books\, a whole generation of chess-players will readily testify. \nFor some years\, du Mont was chess editor of The Field and of The Manchester Guardian. During the last war he organized chess championships for the Armed Services. We pay tribute to his services to the game\, to his many kindnesses and friendships to its players\, and\, in particular\, to his devotion to this magazine.-D. J. M. \nD. C.\, who enjoyed a long friendship with our late Editor\, writes to us as follows- \nBy the death of J. du Mont\, the chess world has lost an eminent and popular personality. That this popularity was well deserved will be apparent even to those who knew him only slightly.  \nEssentially kind\, he performed many generous acts\, and having\, by his own efforts\, become the best-known British writer on chess\, he not only filled this position with modesty and dignity\, but was liberal in the help he gave to those starting on the road he had so successfully followed. \nIn the tournament room-where his presence was always welcome-he was invariably quiet and courteous\, and although gifted with a fine wit\, he never used it\nunkindly. He *as an excellent companion\, and players at many congresses will recall the happy times they spent in their visits to him at all hours of the evening. It is sad to think that these gatherings have now irrevocably reached their end: to quote A. E. Housman’s beautiful lines- \nThey come and were and ore not\nAnd come no more anew. \nBut as long as a literature of chess remains\, the name of Julius du Mont will not be forgotten. His many friends\, however\, have no need of his writings in order to keep alive their memory of him. \nIn Chess Secrets I learned from the Masters\, Edward Lasker\, Hollis and Carter\, 1952 : \nJ. DuMont became the author of a number of interesting monographs on chess openings\, and for many years he was the Editor of the British Chess Magazine. It was he who translated my own translation of Schachstrategie which I attempted in the summer of 1913. Naturally\, my English was not fit to be printed. DuMont had to rewrite everything I had written\, and except for his untiring labors Chess Strategy might never have been published. He gave the book a certain literary flavor\, which no doubt added greatly to its popularity. It went into fourteen printings before it was replaced by Modern Chess Strategy in 1945.  \nDuMont was a pianist of note and I took lessons from him; however\, the time I took from my chess activities to practise the piano was shamefully meagre. No wonder I have been told more than once that as a pianist I am a good chess player.”
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,Hastings,History,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of CGM Keith Richardson (02-iv-1942 10-iv-2017)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers CGM Keith Richardson who passed away on Monday\, April 10th\, 2017. \nKeith Bevan Richardson was born in Nottingham\, on Thursday\, April 2nd 1942. On this day : The LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans and US auto factories switch from commercial to war production. \nKeith’s parents were Arthur (30) and Hilda May (née Nicholls\, 25). He married Sandra Sowter on the 11th of September 1971 in Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire. They had two children\, Neil and Ian. They lived at 19\, The Ridings in Camberley\, Surrey. \nSadly\, Keith was diagnosed in the 1990s with Parkinson’s disease and became unwell whilst playing in a chess tournament in Cannes in April 2017 and passed away on the 10th of May 2017. Keith was 75. He continued to actively play chess into his final year. \nCGM Keith Richardson\nKeith was the Treasurer of the Friends of Chess during the period known the English Chess Explosion (late 1970s and 1980s). \nKeith received the ECF President’s Award in 2015 for services to the management of the BCF Permanent Invested Fund (PIF) together with Dr. Julian Farrand and Ray Edwards. \n[pgn]\n[Date “2007.01.26”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith Bevan”]\n[Black “Stefanova\, Antoaneta”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A12”]\n[WhiteElo “2250”]\n[BlackElo “2483”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “103”]\n[EventDate “2007.01.23”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 116 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.03.07”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.03.07”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,103\,19\,-12\,34\,32\,20\,7\,-18\,-16\,-16\,11\,-15\,-16\,5\,12\,23\,32\,74\,89\,89\,90\,\n42\,24\,13\,18\,101\,-57\,31\,54\,64\,86\,86\,27\,14\,-107\,0\,26\,11\,0\,123\,25\,53\,42\,55\,0\,5\,11\,\n10\,22\,20\,24\,45\,34\,61\,61\,60\,52\,49\,43\,49\,51\,43\,16\,25\,-14\,-1\,-24\,-55\,-19\,14\,4\,100\,\n9\,217\,250\,408\,480\,473\,430\,489\,221\,234\,250\,267\,286\,290\,287\,309\,309\,330\,275\,265\,\n259\,253\,4\,6\,6\,567\,567\,817\,809\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} 1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3.\nb3 dxc4 4. bxc4 e5 5. Nc3 Bd6 6. g3 f5 7. d3 Nf6 8. Bg2 e4 9. dxe4 fxe4 10. Ng5\nQa5 11. Qd2 Be5 12. Bb2 Bf5 13. O-O h6 14. f4 Qc5+ 15. e3 Bxc3 16. Bxc3 Nbd7\n17. Rab1 b6 18. g4 hxg5 19. gxf5 g4 20. Bb4 Qxf5 21. Qd6 c5 22. Be1 Kf7 23. Bg3\nRac8 24. a4 Rhe8 25. a5 Re6 26. Qd2 Nf8 27. Ra1 Re7 28. Rfb1 Rd7 29. Qc2 Rd3\n30. axb6 axb6 31. Rxb6 Rxe3 32. Raa6 Nh5 33. Ra7+ Kg8 34. Rbb7 Rd8 35. Re7 Rd4\n36. Re5 Qg6 37. Bf2 Red3 38. Bxd4 Rxd4 39. Bxe4 Qb6 40. Rxh5 Qxa7 41. Bh7+ Kf7\n42. Rf5+ Ke7 43. Qe2+ Ne6 44. Re5 Qd7 45. Qxg4 g6 46. Bxg6 Rxc4 47. Bf5 Qd4+\n48. Kg2 Qb2+ 49. Re2 Qb7+ 50. Kf2 Qh1 51. Rxe6+ Kf8 52. Rf6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom CHESS\, Volume 41 (1975)\, Numbers 729-730 (September)\, pp. 380 the news of Keith’s success was initially reported: \n“BRITAINS’ FIRST CHESS GRAND MASTER \nThe first grand master title to be won by a British player has been achieved in the field of correspondence chess by Keith B. Richardson\, aged 33\, of Camberley. \nThe title of Correspondence Chess grand master is awarded by the lnternational correspondence Chess Federation. Keith Richardson fulfilled the norm by sharing third place in the final of the 7th World Correspondence Chess Championship with a score of 11 points from 16 games. The tournament began in February 1972 and results of the last adjudicated games were recently announced making J. V. Estrin U.S.S.R. first with l2 points; J. Boey Belgium scored 11.5; K. B. Richardson G.B. and Dr. V. Zagorovski U.S.S.R. 11. \nThere are only 25 Correspondence Chess Grand masters throughout the world.” \nThis was followed in the next month’s issue by a correction and more depth in CHESS\, Volume 41 (1975)\, Numbers 731-732 (October)\, pp. 30-31: \n“K. B. Richardson\, though the first Britain to become a grand master by play was preceded by Comins Mansfield as grandmaster of problem composition\, a title he gained in 1972. Our report last month did not make this clear. \nKeith B. Richardson was born 2 April 1942 and was educated at Nottingham High School. At 16\, he passed Grade 8 in Royal\nSchools of Music at pianoforte. At Durham University\, he obtained a B.A. in French and German and was awarded the University Palatinate (equal to a ‘blue’) in cricket and fives. He could have become a professional cricketer or a concert pianist but\nmade his career instead with Barclays Bank which brought him to London and a home in Camberley\, Surrey\, where he has settled down with his wife\, Sandra (from Sutton Coldfield!). They now have two baby sons\, Neil aged three years and Ian who is only two months old – both born since the final of the 7th World Correspondence Chess Championship began. \nCGM Keith Bevan Richardson (from a Barclays publicity article)\nKeith’s other interests include bridge and squash. He plays squash for his bank and is Secretary of the London Squash League. As a young chess player\, Keith won the Notts. under l4 Championship\, held the Notts. under l8 Championship for four years and the Notts. Championship for two years and was British Junior Champion in 1962. In 1963\, he was Durham County Champion and joint winner of the British Universities’ Championship which he won outright the following year. He was twice captain of the British Universities Students’ Olympiad team. He held the Midlands Championship (Forrest Cup) for three years and was joint London Champion and London Banks’ Champion in 1970 but has been content to hold the latter title since then and concentrate on correspondence chess. \nKeith Richardson aged 20 at the 1963 Niemeyer Under-21 Tournament in Groningen. The forerunner of the European Junior Championship\nNiemeyer Under-21 Tournament\, Groningen 1963. The forerunner of the European Junior Championship.\nIn 1964\, Keith Richardson was runner up for the British Correspondence Chess Championship and at the same time won a Master Class tournament of the lnternational Correspondence Chess Federation (I.C.C.F.) which qualified for a place in the World C.C. Championship semi-final. He came second in the 1965-67 semi-final and tried again in the 1968-71 event which he won. At the same time\, he was representing Great Britain on Board 5 in the 1965-67 I.C.C.F. Olympiad Preliminary and on Board 4 in the 1968-71 event. His score of 5 points from 7 games helped the British team to win its section in the 1968-71 Preliminary and qualify for a place in the I.C.C.F. Olympiad Final which started in 1972. When Keith began play in the World C.C. Championship Final involving l6 tames\, he was also asked to take Board 3 in the Olympiad Final involving another 9 games. \nHe accepted – a mistake which might possibly have cost him the World C.C. Championship! His next assault on the World title will be in 1979 and in the meantime he plans to play in the next I.C.C.F. Olympiad Preliminary and write a book on the 7th World C.C. Championship. \n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch07 corr7278”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1972.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith Bevan”]\n[Black “Estrin\, Yakov Borisovich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B36”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “96”]\n[EventDate “1972.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,96\,28\,28\,51\,46\,72\,38\,35\,40\,81\,14\,39\,29\,51\,70\,57\,2\,10\,-24\,3\,15\,14\,-17\,\n-24\,-15\,-26\,-18\,-21\,-36\,-38\,-36\,-48\,-46\,5\,-25\,-4\,-39\,-42\,-35\,88\,91\,93\,95\,98\,95\,\n95\,94\,94\,50\,52\,53\,50\,48\,73\,48\,41\,30\,46\,64\,74\,84\,77\,97\,98\,109\,109\,95\,95\,91\,124\,\n127\,132\,125\,110\,127\,124\,128\,133\,136\,154\,158\,159\,153\,153\,163\,165\,174\,183\,187\,\n199\,191\,191\,202\,217\,219\,220\,220\,209]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6\n5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Nxd4 7. Qxd4 d6 8. Be3 Bg7 9. f3 O-O 10. Qd2 Qa5 11. Nb5 Qxd2+\n12. Kxd2 b6 13. a4 Nd7 14. Ra2 Bb7 15. Be2 Rfc8 16. a5 Bc6 17. axb6 axb6 18.\nNa7 Bb7 19. Rha1 Rc7 20. Nb5 Rcc8 21. Rxa8 Rxa8 22. Rxa8+ Bxa8 23. b4 Bc6 24.\nNa7 Bb7 25. Bd1 Ba6 26. Bb3 e6 27. Kc2 Bf6 28. Ba4 Ne5 29. Bxb6 Nxc4 30. Bf2\nKf8 31. b5 Bb7 32. Nc6 Bxc6 33. bxc6 Bd8 34. f4 Ba5 35. Bb3 Na3+ 36. Kd3 Nb5\n37. g4 Ke8 38. f5 gxf5 39. gxf5 exf5 40. exf5 Ke7 41. Bh4+ f6 42. Bg8 Na7 43.\nKc4 Bb6 44. Bd5 Bg1 45. h3 Bb6 46. Bg3 Bc5 47. Be1 Bb6 48. Bc3 h6 49. Bd2 h5 50.Bc3 1-0 [/pgn] \nIn this position\, with Black in Zugzwang\, the game went for adjudication (after more than three years’ play\, a very necessary evil): \n“In order to substantiate White’s claim for a win\, it was necessary to submit three pages of analysis proving that every possible move loses for Black. If the knight moves\, White’s king claims an entry. If Black moves the bishop along the a7-g1 diagonal\, White plays Ba5. If the Black bishop moves on the d8-a5 diagonal\, White plays Bd4 : KBR” \nThe game was adjudicated a win for White. This was only defeat inflicted upon the new World Champion. \nCGM Keith Richardson in 1975\nThis article was followed (with some glee no doubt) by an article in  British Chess Magazine\, Volume LIXIV (95\, 1975)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 526 as follows: \n“Keith B. Richardson recently became the third British player to receive a grandmaster title (the other two both in 1972\, are Comins Mansfield for chess composition’ and R.W. Bonham’ correspondence grandmaster of the blind). The title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster is awarded by the International Correspondence  Chess Federation  (ICCF) and Keith Richardson fulfilled the norm by sharing third place in the final of the 7th World Correspondence Championship. Leading scores in the tournament (February 1972 – Summer 1975): 1. Y. Estrin (USSR) 12/16; J.Boey (B) 11.5; 3-4 K.B. Richardson (ENG)\, V. Zagorovsky (USSR) 11; etc. \nKeith\, born 2nd April1942\, was educated at Nottingham High School and Durham University-. He won the Nottinghamshire U-14 Championship\, held the Notts U-18 championship for four years\, the senior Notts  Championship for two years and was British Junior Champion in 1962. In 1963\, he was  Durham County Champion and joint winner of the British Universities Championship  which he won outright the following year. He was twice captain of the British team in Students Olympiads. \nKeith Richardson from BCM\, 1984\, page 545\nIn 1964 Keith left university to make a career with Barclays Bank.  In the same year he was runner-up in the British Correspondence Championship and won an ICCF master tournament which qualified him for a place in the World Championship final. He came second in the 1965-7 semi-final\, tried again\, and won the 1968-71 event thus gaining entry to the 7th final. \nKeith Richardson lives in Surrey at Camberley. He is married and has two baby sons – both born since the final of the 7th World Correspondence Championship began. At present he is writing a book on the 7th Championship and\, for a change playing some OTB (over-the-board) chess in the London League for the Athenaeum club\, to which he makes a great contribution – it is a marvellous feeling to know  that the player next to you (on your side!) is a grandmaster. \nKeith Richardson playing for BCM Dragons in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL\, courtesy of John Upham Photography.\nThe following three games are – Keith’s best from  the -championship. In them he defeats three of the five Russians in the\ntournament (his overall score against the Russians was 3.5/5 – a wonderful achievement.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch07 corr7278”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1972.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith B”]\n[Black “Dubinin\, Piotr Vasilyevich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B78”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “1972.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,19\,38\,40\,41\,66\,77\,66\,55\,55\,20\,70\,53\,40\,34\,30\,13\,22\,26\,44\,-4\,8\,4\,23\,\n-5\,1\,-4\,25\,-17\,-8\,15\,87\,96\,103\,80\,142\,32\,40\,40\,82\,91\,281\,262\,318\,344\,443\,459\,\n452\,524\,524\,524\,524\,524\,1106\,1141\,29991\,29992\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,\n29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3\nBg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Qa5 11. Kb1 Rfc8 12. Bb3 Ne5 13.\nBg5 $5 Rc5 14. Rhe1 Rac8 15. f4 Neg4 $2 {[#]} 16. Nf3 $1 Rxc3 17. bxc3 Bc6 18.\ne5 $1 Ne4 19. Rxe4 Bxe4 20. Bxe7 dxe5 21. Ng5 Bf5 22. Nxf7 Ra8 23. h3 Nf6 {[#]}\n24. Bxf6 $1 Bxf6 25. fxe5 Bg7 26. g4 Bc8 27. Ng5+ Kh8 28. Qd8+ Qxd8 29. Rxd8+\nBf8 30. Rxf8+ Kg7 31. Rg8+ Kh6 32. Nf7# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand here is the printed version of the above report: \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LIXIV (95\, 1975)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 526\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LIXIV (95\, 1975)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 527\n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch07 corr7278”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1972.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith B”]\n[Black “Zagorovsky\, Mikhail Pavlovich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D42”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “1972.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,38\,72\,69\,71\,70\,45\,17\,13\,28\,33\,27\,32\,25\,25\,15\,18\,32\,28\,28\,40\,33\,\n59\,47\,56\,55\,17\,-1\,77\,28\,55\,70\,133\,96\,89\,132\,303\,259\,263\,268\,268\,278\,293\,293\,\n293\,308\,368\,291\,372\,389\,493\,504\,511\,520\,532\,535\,572\,592\,765\,797\,802\,877]} 1. e4\nc6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Be7 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Bd3 O-O\n9. O-O Nc6 10. Re1 Bf6 11. Be4 Nce7 12. Ne5 g6 $2 {[#]} 13. Qf3 $5 Bg7 14. h4\nNf5 15. Bxf5 gxf5 16. h5 Nb4 17. Qg3 Kh8 18. Bg5 f6 $2 {[#]} 19. Ng6+ $3 Kg8\n20. Nxf8 Kxf8 21. Bf4 Nc2 22. h6 Bh8 23. Nb5 Nxa1 24. Rxa1 Bd7 25. Bc7 Qe8 26.\nBd6+ Kf7 27. Nc7 Qg8 28. Nxa8 Qxa8 29. Rc1 Bc6 30. d5 $1 f4 31. Qxf4 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \n“English player. International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1975)\, bank manager. Around 1961 Richardson decided that over-the- board play\, which had brought him some successes as a. junior\, would interfere with his professional career and he took to postal chess instead. His best performance in this field was his sharing of third place with Zagorovsky after Estrin and Boey in the 7th World Correspondence Championship\, 1968-71. ” \nIn October 1984 Keith took part in the A. E. Axelson Memorial tournament organised by the Swedish CC Committee and with fifteen grandmasters was one of the strongest CC tournaments in history.  Keith finished in 11th place ahead of Boey. \nIn 1991 Jonathan Berry wrote a potted biography in  Diamond Dust\, International Chess Enterprises\, ISBN 1-879479-00-1 as follows : \n“Camberley\, Surrey\, England. Born 2 April 1942. Married with two sons. Bank Manager. \nHe was British Under-21 Champion in 1962. At Groningen 1962/63\, he was placed 2nd in the European Junior Championship. At Bristol 1967 he was equal 5th in the British Championship. \nIn CC\, he gained the IMC in 1968\, GMC in 1975. In CC WCh VII\, he won the semi-final with 9.5/12\, and placed =3rd in the final\, 11/16. In CC WCh X\, he again tied for third in the final with 10/15. Playing board 3 for Britain in OL-VIII\, finals\, 1972-76\, he scored 7.5/9\, the highest score on any board. He won the Prefors Memorial\, 1976-1980\, 9.5.12” \n1976-1980 Prefors Memorial\nKeith was a founding member of Camberley Chess Club in 1972. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opp68Jw4dlA[/embedyt] \nA one-day tournament (The Keith Richardson Memorial) in memory of Keith was started in 2017 and has been held four times in total being played on-line for the first time in 2021. \nKen Coates presents Clive Frostick with the trophy for the 2019 Keith Richardson Memorial Tournament.\nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Keith Bevan Richardson was born in Nottingham\, England. Awarded the IMC title in 1968 and the GMC title in 1975\, he finished 3rd= in the World Correspondence Championships of 1975 and 1984.” \nHere are his games from chessgames.com \nAn obituary from Ray Edwards / ECF. \nHere is an excellent biography by Peter Rust from the web site of the Hamilton Russell Cup \nBarclay’s Bank pay tribute to Keith on the corporate site. \nHere is an entry from the Belgian chess history web site.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Erik Teichmann (11-iv-1961)
DESCRIPTION:FM Erik Oskar Michael Charles Teichmann\nBirthday of FM Erik Oskar Michael Charles Teichmann (11-iv-1961) \nErik was born in Westminster\, London\, his mother (née Jorgensen) being Danish and his father was Max Teichmann. They lived in London for two years and then emigrated to Melbourne\, Australia until Erik was six when Erik and his mother moved to Cambridge\, England. Erik played much chess in England including the British U-18 and U-21 championships\, Lloyds Bank events \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-68 Championship”]\n[Site “Morecambe/ Lancashire”]\n[Date “1981.08.11”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Teichmann\, Erik Oskar Michael”]\n[Black “Davies\, Nigel Rodney”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E67”]\n[BlackElo “2360”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\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\,81\,18\,32\,83\,54\,37\,41\,33\,31\,37\,39\,61\,40\,48\,54\,43\,26\,14\,11\,91\,39\,62\,52\,\n60\,24\,56\,113\,83\,83\,83\,81\,115\,95\,103\,87\,59\,72\,72\,71\,202\,158\,229\,227\,261\,74\,78\,5\,\n7\,10\,10\,11\,69\,-36\,-82\,-260\,-77\,-77\,-62\,-55\,-55\,-157\,-14\,-43\,-16\,-22\,-15\,-251\,\n-335\,-346\,-141\,-255\,-185\,-287\,356\,450\,509\,450\,532\,535\,1141\,140\,847\,893]} 1. d4\ng6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nf3 d6 4. g3 Nd7 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg2 Ngf6 7. O-O O-O 8. e4 c5 9.\nh3 Rb8 10. Qe2 b5 11. e5 Ne8 12. Rd1 cxd4 13. Nxd4 Nxe5 14. cxb5 axb5 15. f4\nNc4 16. Nc6 Qb6+ 17. Kh2 e6 18. Nxb8 d5 19. a4 b4 20. Nxd5 exd5 21. Bxd5 Na5\n22. Qb5 Qf2+ 23. Bg2 Nb3 24. Rb1 Bf5 25. Rf1 Qc2 26. Qxb4 Nf6 27. Kg1 Be4 28.\nBxe4 Nxe4 29. Be3 Nxg3 30. Rfe1 Ne2+ 31. Rxe2 Qxb1+ 32. Re1 Qxb2 33. Qb6 Qc3\n34. Rd1 Re8 35. Bf2 Nd2 36. Nc6 Ne4 37. Rd8 Qc1+ 38. Kg2 Nf6 39. Ne7+ Kf8 40.\nRxe8+ Kxe8 41. Nc6 {time} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand the Islington and other opens swisses. Erik played for Cambridge University (Magdalen College) in the 1982 (100th) Varsity Match drawing with Gareth Anthony (Trinity Hall). \nErik Oskar Michael Charles Teichmann (rear\, far right) at a Lloyds Bank event\nErik (left) analyses with Mark A Johnstone (right) and James Pratt at the 1981 Islington Open. Your Truly was the photographer.\nIn 1985 Erik emigrated once more to Australia living in Eltham\, Melbourne and became a lifestyle guru and coach. \nErik Teichmann standing\, holding trophy)\nErik became a FIDE Master in 1990 and his peak rating was 2388 in July 2010. \nFM Erik Teichmann\nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“FIDE Master Erik Oskar Michael Charles Teichmann won the Nova Scotia Open in 1999.” \nHere is Erik’s favourite game : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Melbourne Cup”]\n[Site “Melbourne”]\n[Date “2010.11.02”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Cheng\, Bobby Sky”]\n[Black “Teichmann\, Erik Oskar Michael”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D02”]\n[WhiteElo “2227”]\n[BlackElo “2329”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “70”]\n[EventDate “2010.10.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “AUS”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2012”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.11.24”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.11.24”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,70\,19\,31\,98\,26\,30\,21\,18\,9\,1\,11\,9\,1\,13\,14\,13\,7\,9\,8\,23\,14\,6\,-9\,54\,38\,40\,\n39\,45\,45\,51\,23\,13\,0\,10\,-8\,10\,-20\,-4\,7\,18\,21\,26\,39\,21\,27\,40\,35\,90\,46\,19\,40\,1\,24\,\n0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-188\,-274\,-816\,-999\,-938\,-1249\,-1273\,-1332\,-29993\,-2157\,-2157\,-2078\,\n-29989\,-1385]} 1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 Bg4 4. Nbd2 e6 5. e3 Bd6 6. Bxd6 Qxd6\n7. c4 Nge7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Rad8 10. c5 Qd7 11. b4 Ng6 12. b5 Nce7 13. a4 f6\n14. h3 Bf5 15. Nb3 e5 16. Na5 c6 17. Ra2 Qc7 18. Qd2 e4 19. Nh2 Bc8 20. Rb2 f5\n21. g3 f4 22. exf4 Bxh3 23. Rfb1 Nf5 24. Bf1 Bxf1 25. Nxf1 Qd7 26. bxc6 bxc6\n27. Rb7 Qe6 28. Rxa7 Nfh4 29. Nh2 Qh3 30. gxh4 Nxf4 31. f3 e3 32. Qc2 e2 33.\nKf2 Qxh2+ 34. Ke1 Ng2+ 35. Kxe2 Ne1+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \nErik now lives in Lyon\, France with his girlfriend both being Buddhists. \nFM Erik Teichmann\, photo by Cathy Rogers
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Richard Webb (11-iv-1962)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Richard Mark Webb (11-iv-1962) \nThis was written about Richard just prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n“Forest of Needwood High and Burton on Trent.Rating 192. Second youngest British men’s championship finalist\, 1977.” \nRichard Webb (front\, far left) at a Lloyds Bank event\nAt the Lloyds Bank Masters : Front (l-r) : Joel Benjamin\, Ian Wells\, Rear : Peter Morrish\, Stewart Reuben\, Richard Beville\, Gary Senior\, Richard Webb\, John Hawksworth\, Andrew King\, Nigel Short\, Mark Ginsburg\, Daniel King\, David Cummings\, Erik Teichmann\, John Brandford and Micheal Pagden
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Rev. Charles Ranken (05-i-1828 12-iv-1905)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Rev. Charles Edward Ranken (05-i-1828 12-iv-1905)From The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nA leading member of the formidable band of reverends who played such a strong role in early Victorian English chess\, he is described as ‘one of the writing rather than the fighting clergy in chess’ in P. W. Sergeant’s Century of Britsh Chess. Though he learnt chess at an early age’ he made his first really earnest study of the game when he was an undergraduate at Wadham College\, Oxford 1847-50\, in particular devoting himself to a theoretical study of Staunton’s Handbook\, which he rightly regarded as a great landmark in chess literature. \nOn leaving Oxford he competed in the provincial section at London l85l where he came second to Boden.\nIn 1867 he became vicar of Sandford-on-Thames and lived at Oxford where\, in collaboration with Lord Randolph Churchill (Winston’s father)\, he founded the Oxford University Chess Club\nand became its first President. \nResigning his living at Sandford in 1871\, he went to live at Malvern where he stayed till his death. He played in many of the congresses organized by the Counties Chess Association\, his best result being 1st in the first class section at Malvern 1872 with a score of l2 points\, followed by two other reverends\, Thorold 11.5 and Wayte 10.5. It was at this congress that he brought about a reconciliation between Staunton and Löwenthal who had been estranged for a considerable time. \nHe played in the Yizayanaqaram tournament at London 1883 and started well but his health gave way after the first week and he divided fifth place with G. H. D. Gossip.\nHis chief importance during the later stages of his chess career was as a writer\, first as editor of the Chess Player’s Chronicle in 1877 and later as a member of the staff of the British Chess Magazine in which he wrote on many aspects of chess but specialized in analysis (of the openings\, middle-game and the endings)’ In 1889 he published\, in collaboration with E. Freeborough\, Chess Openings Ancient and Modern. (London)’ ( H’G’) \nChess Openings Ancient and Modern 1889\nThe Ranken Variation is a good line for White in the Four Knights Opening\, analysed in the Chess Players Chronicle\, 1879 by Ranken first president of the Oxford University Chess Club. \n[fen]r1bqkb1r/1ppp1ppp/p1B2n2/4p3/4P3/2N2N2/PPPP1PPP/R1BQK2R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Harry Grieve (12-iv-2001)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Harry James M Grieve (12-iv-2001) \nHarry at the 2014 UKCC Terafinal\nHarry is studying mathematics at St. Catherine’s College\, Cambridge having previously been a pupil and member of the very strong chess team of Royal Grammar School\, Guildford. He started his league chess with Fleet & Farnborough Chess Club (same as Simon Williams !) and then transferred his allegiance to the very strong Farnham chess club playing top board in many matches. Round 5 of the Caplin Hastings International Chess Congress featured the board 10 clash between one of England’s stronger Grandmasters\, Danny Gormally (2508) and FM Harry Grieve (2299). Here is their game : [pgn] [Event “Hastings Masters 2019-2020”] [Site “Hastings”] [Date “2020.01.01”] [Round “5”] [White “Gormally\, Danny”] [Black “Grieve\, Harry”] [Result “0-1”] [ECO “A80”] [Annotator “British Chess News”] [PlyCount “86”] [EventDate “2019.12.28”] [EventType “swiss”] [EventRounds “9”] [EventCountry “ENG”] {[%evp 0\,51\,19\,31\,75\,31\,54\,23\,36\,47\,59\,45\,53\,34\,86\,79\,53\,60\,63\,20\,43\,29\,46\,24\, 44\,33\,50\,65\,60\,50\,44\,61\,51\,51\,83\,68\,47\,-11\,63\,12\,85\,7\,-17\,-29\,16\,-24\,22\,41\,69\, 8\,-6\,1\,61\,25]} 1. d4 f5 {[%cal Gf5e4\,Gg8f6]} 2. Bg5 {[%cal Gg5d8] The Bogoljubov Variation\, aimed as an anti e6 and anti-Classical Dutch line\, favoured by Tony Miles.} h6 3. Bh4 g5 4. e3 (4. e4 $5 {is also critical : may be more so ?} Rh7 5. Qh5+ Rf7 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. Qg6 Nc6 8. Bxg5 fxe4 9. Ne5 Nxe5 10. dxe5 hxg5 11. exf6 exf6 $6 (11… e6) 12. Nc3 Bb4 $2 13. O-O-O $1 Bxc3 14. Bc4 $18 {Gormally – Williams\, EU Championship\, Liverpool\, 2006\, 1-0\, 19.}) 4… Nf6 5. Bg3 (5. Be2 $5 Bg7 6. Bg3 O-O 7. Nc3) 5… d6 6. h4 $1 {Kasparov} Rg8 ( 6… Bg7 7. hxg5 hxg5 8. Rxh8+ Bxh8 9. Nh3 $14 g4 $142 (9… Ne4 $143 $5 10. Qh5+ Kd7 11. Bh4 $1 Bf6 12. Bxg5 $18) 10. Nf4 Ne4 11. Bh4 $14) (6… g4 { McDonald} 7. Ne2 (7. Nc3 Nh5 8. Nge2)) 7. hxg5 hxg5 8. Nc3 (8. c4 $1 { Kindermann} e6 9. Nc3 Qe7 10. Qb3 $16) 8… e6 9. Qd2 Qe7 10. O-O-O Nc6 11. f3 {[%cal Ge3e4]} Bd7 12. e4 fxe4 (12… f4 $143 13. Bf2 $14) 13. fxe4 O-O-O 14. d5 {Kasparov} (14. Kb1) (14. Bb5) 14… exd5 (14… Ne5) 15. exd5 Ne5 16. Nf3 $146 {[%cal Gf3e5]} (16. Qd4 Kb8 17. Nb5 Bxb5 18. Bxb5 Bg7 19. Nh3 Nfd7 20. Kb1 $15) (16. Re1 Kb8 17. Kb1 Bg7 18. a3 Rh8 19. Rxh8 Rxh8 20. Bxe5 dxe5 21. Nf3 { Kasparov – Illescas Cordoba\, Dos Hermanas\, 1996\, 1/2\, 48.}) 16… Nxf3 (16… Nfg4 17. Re1 Bg7 18. Nd4 Kb8) 17. gxf3 Kb8 18. Nb5 {White has ideas of saccing on c7 or a7 so Black is more or less obliged to capture the knight.} Bxb5 19. Bxb5 Nd7 {[%cal Gd7c5] aiming for c5} 20. Rhe1 (20. Bxd7) 20… Qf6 21. Re6 Qf7 (21… Qxf3 22. Re3 Qf6 23. Rf1 Qg7 24. Qe2 $14) 22. Kb1 Bg7 (22… Nc5 $142 23. Qe3 Nxe6 24. dxe6 Qe7) 23. Qe3 Be5 24. Bxd7 Bxg3 25. Re7 Bf2 $5 {critical position} (25… Qf6 26. Rh1 Bf4 27. Qe1 $15) 26. Qe2 $143 (26. Qxa7+ $142 $1 Kxa7 27. Rxf7 Rdf8 28. Rxf8 Rxf8 29. Rd3 $14) 26… Qf6 27. Bg4 {Stockfish 10 believes the position to be level.} Bb6 28. Rd3 {Is the start of a faulty plan ? Is White’s back rank too weak for this idea ?} Rh8 {of course !} 29. a3 a6 30. Rb3 $6 (30. Rd1 $1 {White should be happy to halve out.}) 30… Qd4 $1 { Very strong centralisation still eyeing up b2 and g1} 31. Rd3 $2 {This must simply be an oversight.} Rh1+ 32. Ka2 Qg1 $19 {and White is busted. So\, what did Danny miss ?} 33. Rd2 {There is no defence after this.} (33. Kb3 Qa1 34. c3 Bc5 35. Re8 Rxe8 36. Qxe8+ Ka7) 33… Qa1+ 34. Kb3 Rb1 35. c3 Bc5 $1 {There is nothing White can do.} 36. Kc4 Qa2+ 37. Kd3 Qxd5+ 38. Kc2 Qa2 39. Kd3 Qd5+ 40. Kc2 Qa2 41. Kd3 Rc1 $1 {Is this the move Danny missed at move 31 ?} 42. Qe6 d5 {and mate in 14 according to Stockfish 10 !} 43. Rd7 {and Danny sportingly allows Harry to deliver checkmate : Black’s first win with either colour against a strong Grandmaster.} Qc4# 0-1 [/pgn] Following this game Harry needs 2.5/4 to obtain his first IM norm : Good luck ! \nHarry Grieve\, 2014 Terafinal
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Peter Markland (13-iv-1951)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes a happy birthday to Peter Markland born on Friday\, April 13th\, 1951 \nFrom the rear cover of “Sicilian:…e5 : \n“P.R. Markland is a British Master\, and a member of many English international teams\, including those at the 1972 and 1974 Olympiads\, and is also a British correspondence international” \nPeter first qualified to the British Championship in 1967 (Oxford) and obtained an IM and GM norm at Hastings 1971. \nIn 1984 he became a Grandmaster for correspondence chess (GMC). \nPeter became a banker and lives in Woodbridge\, Suffolk\, IP13. \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) we have this contribution from Peter himself: \n“1951 seems to have been a vintage year for chessplayers and although I cannot claim to count myself in the company of Andersson\, Karpov\, Ribli and Sax we do all share the same year of birth. \nAlthough I learned the moves at the age of 5\, I only took any real interest in the game at 13 when I began to play schools chess. Compared with such as Nigel Short I was a very late starter! \nI was educated at Bolton School and played for Bolton and Lancashire in my early years. This was fortunate in that all three of these teams enjoyed great success in the late 1960s. In all three teams I played along side Martyn Corden who was to precede my rise to international level himself by playing in the Siegen Olympiad team in 1970. In 1967\, I qualified for the British Championship at my first attempt and I was pleased to score 5/11. The following year the school team won The Sunday Times tournament playing without Martyn Corden in the finals. \nUp to this time I had concentrated chiefly on junior teams and had won the NCCU junior titles. Over Christmas and New Year of both 1966-7 and 1967-8 I travelled down to play at the Devon Junior Congress at Plymouth but in 1968 I decided to try my luck at Hastings. This proved to be one of the turning points of my career. \nI was placed in the Challengers Reserves for 1968-9 and after the first round loss (to the eventual winner) my play gained momentum and I qualified for the Challengers the following year. The intervening year passed quietly with a trip to Ireland in the Glorney Cup. I went up to Balliol College\, Oxford in October 1969. \nThe Scottish Junior International\, Glasgow\, 1969. l-r: David Watt\, Rene Borngässer\, David Levy\, Heinz Wirthensohn\, Peter Markland. Courtesy of Chess Scotland \nThe Hastings Challengers tournament 1969-70 began when I met the same opponent as in the previous year in the first round. This time I managed to come out on top. By the time the last round came\, I had played most of the leaders and had 6/8 including two pleasing wins with my favourite defence at the time – the Sicilian Pelikan variation. \nSicilian:…e5 by TD Harding & PR Markland\, Batsford\, 1976\, ISBN 0 7134 3209 8 \nIn the last round I was paired against de Veauce who had a reputation as a good strategist and whom I hoped to unsettle tactically. I had white and my plan failed. He outplayed me in the opening and middlegame and I sacrificed my isolated centre pawn to activate my pieces. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1969/70-Challenger”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1970.01.07”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “De Veauce\, Louis”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C54”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland / British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “69”]\n[EventDate “1969.12.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, page 158.”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,69\,19\,28\,23\,19\,22\,4\,4\,2\,-2\,37\,-6\,-19\,2\,2\,14\,45\,42\,29\,26\,28\,28\,32\,32\,\n23\,60\,33\,67\,43\,37\,30\,11\,6\,84\,13\,13\,-24\,1\,-3\,3\,13\,0\,0\,0\,-12\,-14\,-12\,-19\,-15\,-21\,\n0\,0\,0\,-55\,-37\,-23\,-31\,-8\,-16\,0\,0\,0\,-41\,0\,-25\,-46\,0\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} {\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983)\, pp158: In the last round I was\npaired against de Veauce who had a reputation as a good strategist and whom I\nhoped to unsettle tactically. I had white and my plan failed. He outplayed me\nin the opening and middlegame and I sacrificed my isolated centre pawn to\nactivate my pieces.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6.\ncxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Bxd2+ 8. Nbxd2 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Qb3 Nce7 11. O-O O-O 12.\nRfe1 Nb6 13. Bd3 h6 (13… Bf5 14. Rxe7 Bxd3 15. Rae1 Bg6) 14. a4 $6 a5 {[#]}\n15. h3 $146 Nc6 16. Rac1 Qd5 17. Qxd5 $6 (17. Be4) 17… Nxd5 18. Nb3 Ncb4 19.\nBe4 b6 20. Na1 Bd7 21. Nc2 Ra7 22. Nxb4 Nxb4 $15 23. b3 Be6 24. Re3 Rc8 25. Ne5\nRd8 26. Rd1 c5 27. d5 Bxd5 28. Bxd5 Rxd5 29. Rxd5 Nxd5 30. Rd3 Nb4 31. Rd6 {[#]\n} {In the diagrammed position it is clear that a draw should result although\nperhaps white has some chances of advantage after the fall of black’s b-pawn.\nInstead the game continued} Re7 32. f4 {[#]} f6 $2 33. Ng6 {Now white has a\nclear edge.} Rb7 $4 34. Rd8+ Kf7 35. f5 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSo I then had to wait had to wait to see the other results before I could confirm a somewhat lucky place in the Premier. \nIn 1970 I had the opportunity to travel with the student team to the Olympiad in Haifa. My score of 5.5/7 was reasonably pleasing but the standard of opposition was far from good. \nPeter Markland at Hastings 1970-71 \nAt the end of the year came the Hastings Premier – a tournament which I can only describe as the highlight of my career. I began nervously and lost a nondescript game to Uhlmann in the first round. My confidence grew with two comfortable draws with Portisch (the eventual winner) and Keene. In round four I met the surprise leader\, Mestrovic (who had 3/3) and perhaps partly due to the fact that this game was played on 1st January I won convincingly in 18 moves. \nPeter Markland during his game with Portisch on December 30th 1970 \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1970/71-46 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1971.01.01”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “Mestrovic\, Zvonimir”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “35”]\n[EventDate “1970.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\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\,35\,19\,29\,72\,-9\,56\,41\,67\,53\,31\,46\,46\,24\,40\,-8\,-1\,0\,49\,19\,91\,70\,307\,341\,\n444\,451\,486\,486\,580\,688\,754\,767\,1527\,598\,633\,633\,633\,622]} {Possibly this game\nwas influenced by the previous nights celebrations?} 1. e4 c5 2. c3 b6 3. d4 e6\n4. Nf3 Bb7 5. Bd3 Nf6 $6 (5… Ne7 6. O-O Ng6 7. Bg5 Be7 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Re1\nO-O $10 {Florian-Haag\, Gyula 1965}) 6. Nbd2 (6. Qe2 Be7 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3) 6…\nd5 (6… Nc6) 7. exd5 {A rare choice} (7. e5) 7… Qxd5 8. O-O Bd6 $6 $146 (\n8… Be7 $142 {0-0}) 9. Re1 Qh5 $2 {Black will regret this…} 10. dxc5 $16 {\n[#]} (10. Qa4+ Nbd7) 10… Bxc5 $4 ({Not much better is} 10… Qxc5 11. Ne4\nNxe4 12. Rxe4 $1 Nd7 (12… Bxe4 $4 13. Bxe4 $18 Nc6 14. Be3 {and Black can\nresign})) 11. Re5 $1 $18 g5 {desperation} (11… Qg4 12. h3 Qf4 13. Ne4 $18)\n12. Rxg5 Qh6 13. Ne4 (13. Rxc5 $1 bxc5 14. Ne4) 13… Nxe4 14. Bxe4 Bxe4 {[#]}\n15. Rxc5 $1 Qg7 16. Qa4+ (16. Rc8+ Ke7 17. Rc7+ Ke8 18. Qd6) 16… Nd7 17. Qxe4\nRd8 18. Rg5 {and the tournament leader resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nThe next four rounds brought an uneventful draw with Wade and three exciting encounters with Byrne\, Krogius and Gligoric all of which after several reversals of fortune ended in draws. \nPeter Markland at Hastings 1970-71 \nIn the last round I was to play Hort who needed to to win to gain a share of first prize. He played a horribly passive opening and by move 14 I was already well on top. To try to compensate he snatched a queenside pawn and gave me the chance to play the type of move one can only dream about! \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1970/71-46 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1971.01.07”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “Hort\, Vlastimil”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A24”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland / British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1970.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, Pergamon P”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,59\,35\,14\,69\,16\,79\,73\,73\,18\,32\,38\,25\,17\,43\,30\,30\,13\,13\,18\,21\,31\,26\,25\,\n66\,55\,79\,54\,99\,70\,93\,58\,82\,75\,141\,147\,149\,144\,153\,103\,106\,106\,85\,130\,100\,-7\,22\,\n-192\,317\,277\,443\,310\,729\,231\,301\,317\,332\,414\,565\,616\,29993\,29994]} 1. e4 c6 2.\nc4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. g3 e5 5. Bg2 d6 6. Nge2 Nd7 7. O-O Ngf6 8. d3 O-O 9. h3 Nc5\n10. Be3 {[#]} a5 (10… Ne6) 11. f4 exf4 $6 12. gxf4 Qe7 13. Qd2 Rb8 $146 14.\nRae1 $18 Ncd7 15. Ng3 Ne8 16. d4 $16 Nc7 17. e5 dxe5 18. fxe5 Qb4 (18… c5 19.\nBg5 Qe8 20. Nce4 $16) 19. Bh6 Qxc4 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21. Re4 $1 Ne6 22. Rh4 {\nCrude but effective!} h5 {[#] Now pause the video as the saying goes….} 23.\nBd5 $3 {PRM : I remember that as soon as I played this move Hort’s face fell.\nThere was an also an eerie silence in the spectators – no doubt some felt I\nhad taken leave of my senses. The move is basically a square clearence with\ngain of tempo. The piece cannot be accepted.} {So\, the queen is lost and\nwith it the game.} Qxf1+ (23… cxd5 24. Nxh5+ $1 gxh5 (24… Kh8 25. Nf6+ Kg7\n26. Rh7#) (24… Kg8 25. Qh6 $1 gxh5 26. Qxh5 $18) 25. Qg2+ Kh6 26. Rf5 $1 $18\n(26. Qg4 $4 Qxd4+ $1 $19) 26… Ng7 27. Qxg7+ Kxg7 28. Rg5+ Kh8 29. Rhxh5#) 24.\nKxf1 cxd5 25. Nxd5 b6 26. Nf4 Nxf4 27. Qxf4 Ba6+ 28. Kg1 Bd3 29. Qg5 Kh8 30.\nQh6+ {and Black resigned.} (30. Qh6+ Kg8 31. Rxh5 $1 $18) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nThis victory meant an equal second on 5/9 with Gligoric\, Hort\, Krogius and Uhlmann and both a GM and IM norm. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mZS5j-97hY[/embedyt] \nAs a result of this I became a regular member of the England side. During 1971 my results were erratic\, possibly caused by too much play. I was pleased with my 3.5 score in my first Clare Benedict\, although I lost my first game for England due to nervousness and I was first equal with George Botterill in the Slater Young Masters at Hastings (again). Here I declined a last round draw offer\, blundered almost next move and lost to an up-and-coming junior by the name of Michael Stean! On the debit side my performances in the British Championship\, The Oxford International Congress and the Robert Silk tournament left room for improvement. \nWhilst playing with Bolton in the National Club Championship\, we had never won the competition although we had reached the semi-finals many times. This year\, 1971\, playing for Oxford University\, we won the tournament beating our old rivals Cambridge University in the final on board count. \nThe Hastings tournament of 1971-72 saw me firmly entrenched near the bottom. It is very difficult in this type of international tournament when one becomes marked as an out-of-form player. All the other players make extra efforts to beat you and this drains your strength further. \nMy main problem at Hastings was a lack of defence to 1.e4. I lost five games against this move. In the last round I had a very interesting struggle against Karpov who needed to win this game to tie first with Korchnoi who had beaten him in the previous round\, but the strength of 1.e4 proved too much. \nThe summer of 1972 saw the advent of my University finals and thus I played very little for the first six months of the year – even I had to decline an invitation to the Teeside GM event. Later in the year I played in the student Olympiad in Graz and then in the Olympiad is Skopje. \nIn the preliminaries we had drawn Yugoslavia and Switzerland\, who were the only other teams likely to qualify for the ‘A’ final. We missed qualification narrowly and I think that every team member had one poor result in the qualifying rounds – mine being a scraped draw against a Syrian team. \nWe won the ‘B’ final by beating the Israeli team in the last round and I felt pleased by my score of 11.5/16 with no losses. Indeed\, in my last round game with Balshan I was quite rightly instructed to agree a draw in a winning position to secure the team’s first place. \nI feel that this tournament from my point of view aptly demonstrates the difference in title norms in the early 1970s and today. I played five players who had no Elo ratings and only four titled players. Hence an IM norm would not have been available under any circumstances. The main reason for the lack of Elo ratings in 1972 was that the new system had only just been introduced and for many players this was their first Elo-rated tournament. In the last Elo list\, all but one of the sixteen players are rated\, there are now four GMs and five IMs amongst my opponents and the norm figures would be 10.5/16 and 12.5/16 for IM and GM respectively. \nHere is my best game from the Olympiad. It is indicative of an early combination prevailing through into a winning ending. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-20 Preliminaries B”]\n[Site “Skopje”]\n[Date “1972.09.22”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “Bhend\, Edwin”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B10”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland”]\n[PlyCount “133”]\n[EventDate “1972.09.18”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “YUG”]\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 “Switzerland”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “SUI”] \n{[%evp 0\,133\,14\,14\,69\,26\,20\,13\,40\,7\,7\,-7\,11\,12\,13\,11\,3\,0\,24\,6\,6\,11\,11\,27\,38\,\n-34\,-41\,-44\,-40\,11\,45\,-28\,-34\,-42\,-50\,-32\,-29\,53\,53\,137\,150\,144\,122\,148\,131\,\n127\,160\,127\,172\,127\,219\,177\,206\,138\,130\,119\,115\,115\,129\,115\,103\,117\,113\,106\,\n102\,95\,109\,80\,66\,66\,65\,-3\,151\,152\,158\,147\,210\,230\,183\,212\,221\,224\,232\,246\,182\,\n182\,188\,166\,176\,178\,174\,176\,176\,176\,126\,120\,154\,248\,248\,248\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,\n0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,416\,838\,982\,1012\,1016\,1002\,1012\,1022\,1022\,1032\,1032\,1032\,1032\,1032\,\n1032\,1032\,1687\,1527\,29971\,1032\,29993\,29994]} 1. e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4.\ncxd5 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nxd5 6. Bc4 Nb6 7. Bb3 Nc6 8. Nf3 g6 9. a4 a5 10. d4 Bg7 11.\nBe3 Nb4 12. d5 $1 $146 O-O 13. O-O Bf5 14. Bd4 Bh6 $6 15. Ne5 $1 N6xd5 16. Nxd5\nNxd5 17. Qf3 Nf6 {[#]} 18. Nxf7 $1 Qxd4 19. Nxh6+ Kh8 20. Nxf5 gxf5 21. Qxf5\nQxb2 22. Rab1 Qd2 23. Rfd1 Qh6 24. Be6 Ra6 25. Qe5 Qh4 26. Bd5 Qxa4 27. Qxe7\nRe8 28. Qxb7 Rd6 29. Bb3 Rxd1+ 30. Rxd1 Qe4 31. Qxe4 Nxe4 32. Re1 Rc8 33. f3\nNc3 34. Re7 a4 35. Bc2 Nd5 36. Rxh7+ Kg8 37. Be4 Rc7 38. Rxc7 Nxc7 39. Bd3 a3\n40. Bc4+ Kg7 41. Kf2 Nb5 42. g4 Nc3 43. h4 Kf6 44. Ke3 a2 45. Bxa2 Nxa2 46. Kf4\nNc3 47. g5+ Ke6 48. h5 Nd5+ 49. Ke4 Nc3+ 50. Kf4 Nd5+ 51. Kg4 Ne3+ 52. Kg3 Kf5\n53. h6 Kg6 54. f4 Nf5+ {[#]} 55. Kf3 $1 Nd6 56. Kg4 Kh7 57. Kh5 Ne4 58. g6+ Kg8\n59. f5 Nf6+ 60. Kg5 Ne4+ 61. Kf4 Nf6 62. h7+ Kg7 63. Ke5 Nd7+ 64. Ke6 Nf8+ 65.\nKe7 Kh8 66. g7+ Kxh7 67. Kxf8 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn 1973 I was once more plagued by too many invitations and played indifferently throughput the year. The only bright spots were my score of 3/7 on boards 3 and 4 of the European Team Finals and second place in the Woolacombe International. \n1974 was once again an Olympiad year. The England team won the Clare Benedict for the first time in Menorca and I was able to contribute 5/6 winning both a board prize and the best score prize. I was drafted into the Olympiad team as a late replacement and although we qualified easily enough for the ‘A’ finals this was in no way due to my efforts as I had a 50% score in the preliminaries. \nWe had qualified for the ‘A’ final with one round to spare and our last group match against the USE (from which the score was to be carried forward) began the final matches. It had been decided\, as a tactical measure and in our view of our differing styles\, that I should take black whenever we had this colour on the fourth board\, so that Whiteley and Stean could utilize a greater proportion of whites. This worked to a limited extent and indeed\, Stean obtained an IM Norm. Also\, as it worked out I played in matches against seven of the top eight teams (being rested against Yugoslavia) and only three teams below us. In the end\, I was pleased with my +3 =1 -4 with black in the finals to give overall a 50& score. \nDuring 1973 and 1974 I was co-author of two books in the Batsford opening series\, both with Tim Harding on Sicilian Defence variations. \nThe Sicilian Richter-Rauzer\, TD Hardign and PR Markland\, Batsford\, 975\, ISBN 0 7134 2979 8 \nI also wrote a best game collection of Karpov which was by far the most interesting of the three books to write. \nThe Best of Karpov\, PR Markland\, Oxford University Press\, 1975\, ISBN 10: 0192175343 \nAt about this time\, I decided to embark upon a career in banking and to abandon that of a professional chessplayer. Since then I have concentrated on correspondence chess. \nHaving received  master certificate\, I entered a European and World tournament in both of which I finished first. The second of these two results qualified me for the world Championship Semi-finals. But first attempt in the eleventh championship ended in failure to qualify. \nAs a result of an invitation received by the BPCF I played in the Eino Heilimo Memorial Grandmaster event. I have \, however\, qualified as a postal IM by scoring the required seven points and had an outside chance of trying for first place at one stage. \nHere is my best game from this event. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Heilimo mem-B corr7782”]\n[Site “Finland”]\n[Date “1977.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Duenhaupt\, Heinz Wilhelm”]\n[Black “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B25”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1977.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “13”]\n[EventCountry “FIN”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,14\,12\,86\,19\,14\,12\,34\,21\,21\,17\,24\,18\,20\,17\,23\,15\,15\,14\,14\,12\,21\,14\,\n34\,58\,52\,48\,65\,0\,38\,9\,0\,-43\,-72\,-73\,-24\,-101\,-84\,-84\,-24\,-24\,-52\,-149\,-153\,\n-153\,-19\,-127\,-35\,-52\,-27\,-27\,-2\,8\,50\,-167\,-165\,-202\,-25\,-20\,-20\,-7\,-191\,-252\,\n-244\,-240\,-252\,-252\,-262\,-263\,-279\,-281\,-279\,-281\,-288\,-323\,-315\,-388\,-422\,\n-421\,-336\,-309\,-288]} 1. Nf3 g6 2. g3 Bg7 3. Bg2 c5 4. e4 Nc6 5. O-O e5 6. d3\nNge7 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Nd2 d6 9. Nc4 Be6 ({Doctor Dunhaupt used this set-up\nagainst Shamkovich in the BdF Jubilee 1970-74\, when Black preferred 9…Nd4?\nwith the result that after} 9… Nd4 $2 10. a4 Be6 11. Nd5 Qd7 12. c3 Ndc6 13.\na5 Rae8 14. Qa4 {White had a considerable advantage.}) 10. Nd5 f5 (10… Qd7 {\nPlaying Forintos in the Eino Heilimo White once again achieved a good game\nafter} 11. a4 Kh8 12. c3 Ng8 13. a5 Rae8 14. f4 Qc8 15. Be3) 11. c3 Qd7 12. a4\nRae8 13. a5 Kh8 14. Qa4 $2 {[#]  In this position this move leaves the queen\nexposed in the forthcoming attack. It is interesting to note that Doctor\nDunhaupt has had some success with this set-up.} f4 15. gxf4 {This capture is\nforced to prevent 15…f3} (15. f3 {loses a pawn on d5}) ({If} 15. Nxe7 {\nBlack can prepare the doubling of rooks with} Rxe7 ({of transfer his queen to\nthe kingside after} 15… Qxe7)) 15… Bh3 16. f3 ({After} 16. Qd1 Bxg2 17.\nKxg2 exf4 18. Nxf4 d5 $1 {Black still has a strong attack.}) 16… Bxg2 17.\nKxg2 exf4 18. Nxf4 {[#]} d5 $1 {To capture this pawn would allow the black\nrook on e8 access to the e2 square with fatal consequences for White.} 19. Na3\n{The problem with the knight retreat is that both d2 and e3 are excluded\nbecause of the hanging knight on f4 whilst the retreat chosen leaves the queen\ncut off.} ({For example\,} 19. exd5 Nxd5 20. Nxd5 Re2+ 21. Rf2 (21. Kh1 Qh3) (\n21. Kg1 Qh3) 21… Qxd5) 19… g5 20. Nh5 Ng6 $1 {White must accept the second\npawn because otherwise the threat of 21…Nh4+ is too strong.} 21. Bxg5 h6 22.\nBe3 $1 {The only chance. This bishop heads for g1 to defend the weak h2 square.\n} d4 23. cxd4 cxd4 24. Bg1 ({A further point is that} 24. Bf2 {is met by} Rxf3\n$1) 24… Nh4+ 25. Kh1 (25. Kg3 Be5+ 26. Kxh4 Rg8 {wins quickly.}) 25… Qh3\n26. Qc2 Rxf3 27. Rf2 ({The alternative defence of} 27. Rfd1 {could be met by\neither} Ref8 {threatening 28…Rf2} ({or} 27… Be5 {and 28…Rg8})) 27… Ref8\n28. Raf1 {[#]} Qxf1 $1 {This temporary queen sacrifice wins by force.} 29. Rxf1\nRxf1 30. Qe2 {the best chance to prevent 30…Nf3} ({After} 30. Ng3 Re1 31. Nc4\nNf3 32. Ne2 Nxg1 33. Nxg1 Rff1) 30… Ne5 {preventing 31.Qg4. Now the threat\nof 31…Rc1 and 32…Nef3 cannot be prevented even by White’s next move.} 31.\nNxg7 Rc1 $1 32. Nf5 Nhf3 {the most accurate.} 33. Qf2 ({If} 33. Kg2 Rxg1+ 34.\nKf2 Rh1 35. Kg3 Rg8+ {wins. The rest is easy.}) 33… Rg8 34. Ng3 Rxg1+ 35.\nQxg1 Nxg1 36. Kxg1 Nxd3 37. Nc4 Rc8 38. Nd6 Rc1+ 39. Kg2 Nxb2 40. e5 Nd3 {\nand White resigned.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry. \nThe English Chess Forum has discussed Peter. \nPeter’s games are here. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-21 Final A”]\n[Site “Nice”]\n[Date “1974.06.28”]\n[Round “13”]\n[White “Debarnot\, Roberto Luis”]\n[Black “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B38”]\n[Annotator “Keene\,R”]\n[PlyCount “42”]\n[EventDate “1974.06.15”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “FRA”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Argentina”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ARG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,42\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,-5\,-20\,-1\,3\,-6\,41\,32\,20\,23\,23\,19\,28\,32\,39\,39\,47\,32\,\n38\,30\,44\,51\,62\,55\,54\,32\,58\,41\,45\,-95\,-6\,-169\,-169\,-162\,-208\,-233\,-231\,-280\,\n-285]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 g6 6. e4 d6 7. Be2 Bg7\n8. Be3 O-O 9. O-O Nxd4 (9… Bd7) 10. Bxd4 Be6 11. Rc1 Qa5 12.\nf4 Rfc8 13. b3 a6 14. f5 Bd7 (14… gxf5 $2 15. exf5 Bxf5 16. b4 $1 $16) 15.\nQe1 (15. Bxf6 Bxf6 16. Nd5 Bg5 17. f6 exf6 $1) 15… Bc6 16. Qh4 (16. fxg6 hxg6\n17. Nd5 Qxe1 18. Nxe7+ Kf8 19. Nxg6+ fxg6 20. Rcxe1 Ke7 21. e5 $13) 16… b5\n17. g4 $2 b4 18. g5 {[#]} Nxe4 $3 19. f6 (19. Bxg7 Qc5+ 20. Rf2 Qxf2+ $1) 19…\nQxg5+ 20. Qxg5 Nxg5 21. h4 Ne6 0-1\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Peter Wells (17-iv-1965)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Peter Kenneth Wells (17-iv-1965) \nHere is his very brief Wikipedia entry \nPeter Wells (seated\, far LHS) \nand from chessgames.com : \n“Peter Kenneth Wells was born in Portsmouth\, England and became a FIDE Master in 1982\, an IM in 1987\, and a GM in 1994. He is also a FIDE Senior Trainer (2015).” \nPeter Wells (between Harry Golombek and Ray Keene) takes part in the obligatory “Staring at the board” posed picture during the 1985 Varsity Match \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch 86th”]\n[Site “Scarborough”]\n[Date “1999.08.11”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Wells\, Peter K”]\n[Black “Ward\, Christopher”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B36”]\n[WhiteElo “2475”]\n[BlackElo “2470”]\n[Annotator “Wells\,P”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1999.08.05”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 071 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.09.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.09.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,29\,55\,19\,46\,14\,24\,16\,13\,18\,24\,30\,17\,19\,2\,20\,27\,18\,-4\,30\,29\,17\,\n17\,38\,43\,46\,55\,26\,32\,16\,25\,21\,7\,14\,14\,42\,30\,-37\,33\,0\,82\,66\,66\,82\,107\,52\,52\,58\,\n39\,72\,87\,40\,82\,-53\,-19\,-68\,-31\,-81\,172\,216\,216\,213\,274\,279\,275\,297\,312\,327\,328\,\n336\,553\,561\,559\,559\,641\,862\,945\,960\,1000\,1334\,1344\,1572]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 g6 $5\n{Well\, he certainly got his surprise in first. I half expected 2…Nc6 3 Nc3\ne5 as we had already had in one quick-play game\, or perhaps 2…Nc6 3 Nc3\nNd4!? which seems . I had never seen Chris playing the black side of a Maroczy\nBind before\, although of course in the ‘pure’ Dragon he is a well known\nspecialist.} 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. e4 Nf6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Be2 Nxd4 8. Qxd4 Bg7\n9. Bg5 O-O 10. Qd2 Be6 11. Rc1 {It is also possible to castle here\, but I\nthink the text and white’s next two prophylactic moves form the most logical\nset-up. White prevents tactical breaks ( notably those involving a quick …b5\n) by solidly bolstering his c4 and e4 pawns. Most importantly since there is a\nhigh probability of a queen exchange on d2 following black’s …Qa5\,there is a\nstrong case for keeping the king in the centre for the ensuing ending ( or\nmore properly perhaps ‘queenless middlegame’ ).} Qa5 12. f3 Rfc8 13. b3 {\n[%csl Yc4\,Ye4][%cal Ga7a6\,Gb7b5]} Kf8 $5 {At the time I was very struck by the\nlogic of this move – black also centralises his king\, and prepares to answer\nalmost any Nd5 which white may care to throw at him by capturing with the\nknight\, without relying on a tactical defence to e7 ( compare the note on 13…\na6. ) Also white has to find a good move\, since in the absence of a weakness\non b6\, there is little mileage in attempting to head for the ending\nimmediately. There are two possible objections to black’s move: 1) White can\ntry to punish it in ‘middle-game’ terms – trying to prove that the king is\nsubstantially more vulnerable on f8 and that this justifies a switch to direct\nattack. This seems in principle a bit doubtful\, although it is the course the\ngame eventually takes. 2) White can find a strong preparatory move for the\nendgame. Since to create play black will have to play …a6 anyway\, he may\nhave committed himself to a move ( 13…Kf8!? ) which while generally useful\,\nis not critical in the particular case. This should be a more serious question!\n} (13… a6 {is the main line. White has two routes to provoke an endgame:} 14.\nNa4 $5 (14. Nd5 {is now generally acknowledged to be less dangerous in view of}\nQxd2+ 15. Kxd2 Nxd5 $5 (15… Bxd5 16. cxd5 $14 Kf8 17. g4 Nd7 18. h4 Bb2 19.\nBh6+ Kg8 20. Rxc8+ Rxc8 21. Be3 Bc3+ 22. Kd1 Nc5 23. h5 Bf6 24. g5 Bg7 25. Bf1\n$5 {[%cal Yh2c2\,Gf1h3\,Yh1h2]} Rc7 26. Rh2 Nd7 27. h6 Bh8 28. Bh3 $16 {1-0\nCifuentes Parada\,R-Monell\,C/Andorra op 1995/EXT 95op (41)}) 16. cxd5 Bd7 17.\nRxc8+ Rxc8 $11 {although the argument does rest upon black’s compensation after\n} 18. Bxe7 $140 Bh6+ (18… Bc3+) 19. Ke1 $8 {Few white players have wanted to\ntest this\, although it is not totally clear what is black’s best course.\nPerhaps} f5 $5 (19… Rc2 20. Bxd6 Bb5 $6 21. Bxb5 axb5 22. Rf1 $14) (19…\nRc1+ 20. Bd1) 20. Bxd6 (20. exf5 Bxf5 21. Bxd6 Bb1 $1 $13 {[%cal Rb1a2\,Ra2d5]})\n20… fxe4 21. Kf2 (21. fxe4 $2 Rc1+ 22. Bd1 Bg4 $17) 21… e3+ 22. Kg3 Rc2\n$132) 14… Qxd2+ (14… Qd8 15. c5 $1 $14) 15. Kxd2 Nd7 (15… Rc6 16. Nc3\nRac8 17. Nd5 Kf8 18. Be3 Nd7 19. h4 $1 {As we shall see\, this generation of\nplay on the king-side is white’s main strategy here.} Bxd5 20. exd5 R6c7 21. h5\nKg8 22. f4 $1 {[%cal Ge2g4]} Nc5 23. Bg4 Ne4+ 24. Kd3 f5 25. Bf3 b5 26. g4\nbxc4+ 27. Rxc4 Rxc4 28. bxc4 Nc5+ 29. Bxc5 $1 Rxc5 30. h6 Bf8 31. Kc3 $16 {\n[%csl Rf8] 1-0 Karpov\,A-Kavalek\,L/Nica (ol) 1974/Inf 17 (45)}) 16. h4 (16. g4\n$5) 16… Kf8 $6 (16… f6 $1 {is the modern approach. One example:} 17. Be3 f5\n18. exf5 gxf5 19. Bd3 Rab8 20. Nc3 Nc5 21. Nd5 Kf7 22. g4 Nxd3 23. Kxd3 b5 $132\n{0-1 Vaisser\,A-Antunes\,A/Tilburg 1994/CBM 44 (39)}) 17. h5 h6 18. Be3 g5 19. g3\n$1 $40 {[%cal Gf3f4]} Rcb8 20. Nc3 b5 21. Nd5 Bxd5 22. cxd5 b4 23. Rc7 Nc5 24.\nBxc5 dxc5 25. f4 Bc3+ 26. Ke3 Rc8 27. Rxc8+ Rxc8 28. e5 {1-0 Psakhis\,L-Pigusov\,\nE/USSR 1980/Inf 31 (41)}) 14. h4 $1 {The appeal of this stage of the game is\nthat it is as yet unclear whether I have opted for strategy 1) or 2). In fact\,\nI have a suspicion it was none too clear to me either. Others fail to convince:\n} (14. Rc2 a6 15. Na4 Qxd2+ 16. Kxd2 Nd7 17. g4 (17. h4 f5 $5) 17… Bd4 18.\nRhc1 Ke8 19. Be3 Bxe3+ 20. Kxe3 {1/2-1/2 Agrest\,E-Andersson\,U/Skelleftea 1999\n(20)}) (14. O-O {Another way to switch to the direct attack approach\, but\nblack’s counterplay on the queenside could come quite quickly.} a6 15. Be3 Rab8\n$6 (15… b5 $1 $132) 16. f4 b5 17. f5 b4 18. fxe6 bxc3 19. Qxc3 Qxa2 20. Bd1\nQa3 21. Bd4 fxe6 22. e5 $40 {1-0 Eising\,J-Westerveld\,W/Amsterdam 1976/MCL.})\n14… a6 {[%csl Rb6] So there we are – this move is critical to black’s\ncounterplay\, despite the potential weakness of b6.} 15. h5 $5 {This probably\nshould be ‘?!’ but it is redeemed because it did provide a high level of\nentertainment. Objectively better\, and in my view fully vindicating 14 h4! is}\n(15. Na4 $1 Qxd2+ (15… Qd8 $14) 16. Kxd2 Nd7 17. h5 {I had now expected} h6\n18. Be3 g5 {considered 19 g3! clearly the way forward\, but in ignorance of\nPsakhis – Pigusov above\, failed to comprehend quite how promising this was.})\n15… Rc5 $1 {The point – suddenly there is no going back. White’s next move\nis just about forced} 16. f4 {[%csl Re1\,Re4] Reluctantly – this weakening of\ne4 seriously adds to black’s counterplay\, and emphasises the discomfort of\nwhite’s king in the middle.} (16. Bxf6 $6 {hardly comes into consideration\, and\n}) (16. hxg6 $2 Rxg5 17. gxh7 (17. b4 Qxb4 18. Qxg5 hxg6 $17 {[%csl Rc4\,Re1]\n[%cal Gg7c3]}) 17… Rh5 $19) 16… b5 $6 {Maybe black in turn underestimates\nhis opponent’s resources.} (16… Rac8 $1 {was much safer\, since after} 17.\nhxg6 {black can capture with the h-pawn\, preparing to answer} hxg6 $1 18. f5 $6\ngxf5 19. Bh6 {with} Bxh6 20. Qxh6+ Ke8 {and with his rook protected the black\nking can run to the queenside.}) 17. hxg6 fxg6 (17… hxg6 18. f5 gxf5 19. Bh6\n$40 {[%csl Ra8] is now strong.}) 18. Bxf6 Bxf6 19. Rxh7 Bg8 {Andrew Martin\, in\nhis entertaining comments on the Championship web site\, here commented: ”\nWhite is attempting a hybrid of the Maroczy Bind\, Yugoslav Attack and the\nLevenfish Variation\, a marriage made in hell”. In fact after 15…Rc5 my\ncourse of action was strictly limited\, and the Levenfish element was\ndefinitely involuntary. Still\, the following sacrifice I was very proud of.\nRetreat would clearly pass the initiative to black\, but after…} 20. e5 $1 {\n[%mdl 640] there is no way for black to avoid ceding good compensation for the\nexchange.} dxe5 (20… Bxe5 $5 21. fxe5 (21. Rxe7 $5 Qd8 $1 $132) 21… Bxh7\n22. exd6 $44) 21. fxe5 Bg5 $1 (21… Bxh7 22. exf6 Kg8 (22… exf6 $2 {[%csl\nRc5]} 23. Qd6+) 23. Qe3 $16 {[%csl Rc5\,Rg8\,Rh7]}) 22. Qxg5 Bxh7 23. Qh4 $1 {\n[%csl Rc5\,Re7\,Rh7][%cal Yh4f2] An important resource which black had\noverlooked.} Kg8 24. Qxe7 Rc7 $8 {[%cal Gc7g7] Here\, sadly in appalling\ntime-trouble my play went to pieces. I had underestimated the extent to which\nblack’s basic defences would be held together by 24…Rc7\, and although the\nposition still favours white it is not easy to prove.} 25. Qd6 Re8 26. Kf2 $5 {\nEven now\, when a little concern for the king would be quite understandable\, my\nmain concern was to bring in the knight. White has two pawns for the exchange\,\nblack’s bishop is out of the play ( although the possibility of …g5 is not\nto be underestimated ) and the dark squares around black’s king are weak.\nStill\, the e-pawn’s status as asset or weakness is still up for grabs\, and the\nwhole thing is not as good as it looks!} (26. b4 $6 Qa3 27. Kd1 Rcc8 28. Nd5\nRcd8 {Simply gives white a new king problem.}) (26. Bf3 $5 bxc4 27. Bd5+ Kh8\n28. b4 Qa3 29. Ne2 Rg7 30. Bxc4 $14) (26. Rc2 $6 g5 $132) 26… Rf7+ 27. Bf3 $2\n$138 {[%mdl 8192] This self-pin is disastrous.} (27. Kg3 $1 {Seems the way to\nconfirm e-pawn as asset. Black’s counter play is greatly curtailed with …bxc4\nno longer a problem.} b4 (27… Qc7 28. Qxc7 Rxc7 29. Nd5 Rf7 30. cxb5 Rxe5 31.\nBc4 $16) 28. Nd5 Qxa2 (28… Rd8 29. Qc6 $1 {[%cal Ye5e8]} (29. Qe6 Qxa2 30.\nRf1 Rdf8 $13) 29… Qxa2 30. e6 $16) 29. e6 Rff8 30. e7 Qxb3+ 31. Kh2 $16)\n27… bxc4 28. e6 Rfe7 (28… Rf6 $5) 29. b4 Qc7 $4 $138 {He who blunders last\nloses.} (29… Qa3 $1 30. Rc2 g5 $1 {[%csl Rc2\,Rc3][%cal Gh7c2] would have\ncompletely swung matters in black’s favour.}) 30. Qxc7 Rxc7 31. Nd5 $18 {\nThe rest presents no technical problems even in high time-trouble.} Rce7 32.\nNxe7+ Rxe7 33. Rxc4 Kg7 34. Rc6 Ra7 35. Be2 a5 36. b5 Ra8 37. Rc7+ Kh6 38. b6\ng5 39. e7 Be4 40. Bf3 Bxf3 41. gxf3 {A great scrap\, albeit marred by the\nconsequence of some mutually shocking clock handling.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nPeter Wells (second from right) at a Lloyds Bank event. \nGM Peter Wells \nThe Complete Semi-Slav \nPiece Power \nThe Complete Richter-Rauzer \nThe Scotch Game \nWinning with the Trompowsky \nChess Explained : The Queen’s Indian \nGrandmaster Secrets : The Caro-Kann \nDangerous Weapons : Anti-Sicilians \nGM Peter Wells
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-peter-kenneth-wells-17-iv-1965/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM David Wood (18-iv-1969)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM David A Wood (18-iv-1969)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-david-a-wood-18-iv-1969/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200419
DTSTAMP:20210418T082537Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Willy Watson (18-iv-1962)
DESCRIPTION:William Watson \nBirthday of GM William Nicholas Watson (18-iv-1962) \nWilliam Watson \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry \nWilliam Watson at a BCF National Club Final \n[pgn]\n[Event “Brighton Knight Flight Int”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “1982.12.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Watson\, William N”]\n[Black “Shamkovich\, Leonid Alexandrovic”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B23”]\n[WhiteElo “2330”]\n[BlackElo “2470”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1982.12.13”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “8”]\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\,53\,19\,31\,72\,8\,28\,4\,60\,6\,15\,15\,27\,21\,17\,-8\,-8\,-16\,-6\,-7\,-3\,-39\,-20\,-16\,\n-6\,0\,0\,0\,53\,48\,46\,68\,23\,-9\,66\,60\,60\,55\,45\,29\,-9\,-36\,8\,-20\,97\,124\,137\,167\,128\,\n157\,1180\,29988\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} 1. e4 c5 2. f4 Nc6 3. Nf3 g6 4. Bb5\nBg7 5. O-O Nf6 6. d3 O-O 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. Nc3 d6 9. Bd2 c4 10. d4 Qb6 11. Rb1 e5\n12. fxe5 dxe5 13. Na4 Qc7 14. Nxe5 Nxe4 15. Bf4 Qd6 16. Nc3 Bf5 17. g4 Nxc3 18.\nbxc3 Be4 19. Nxf7 Qd5 20. Nh6+ Kh8 21. Be5 Rf3 22. Rxf3 Bxf3 23. Qe1 c5 24. g5\nRe8 25. Rb8 Rxb8 26. Bxg7+ Kxg7 27. Qe7+ 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nWilliam Watson (2nd from left) \n[pgn]\n[Event “Brighton CGL Int”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “1983.12.15”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Plaskett\, H James”]\n[Black “Watson\, William N”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B76”]\n[WhiteElo “2440”]\n[BlackElo “2395”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “56”]\n[EventDate “1983.12.12”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “8”]\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\,56\,19\,38\,40\,41\,66\,77\,66\,55\,55\,20\,70\,53\,40\,34\,30\,13\,22\,6\,25\,28\,4\,25\,36\,\n21\,15\,9\,98\,63\,74\,63\,159\,132\,327\,440\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-60\,-128\,-196\,-316\,-445\,-289\,\n-500\,-194\,-470\,-576\,-569\,-565\,-608\,-605\,-908\,-873\,-29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 c5 2.\nNf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. g4 (\n9. Bc4 {main line}) (9. O-O-O d5 $5) 9… Be6 10. O-O-O Nxd4 11. Bxd4 Qa5 12.\na3 (12. Kb1 $6 Rfc8) 12… Rfc8 13. h4 Rab8 14. h5 (14. Nd5 $5 Qxd2+\n15. Rxd2 Nxd5 $1 16. Bxg7 (16. exd5 Bxd5 $1 17. Bxg7 Bxf3 18. Rh3 Bxg4 19. Rg3\nKxg7 20. Rxg4 Rc7 $13) 16… Kxg7 17. exd5 Bd7 18. Be2 {Nunn} Rc5 19. f4 Rbc8\n20. Kb1 a6 $10) 14… b5 15. h6 (15. Nd5 $2 Qxd2+ 16. Rxd2 (16. Kxd2\nNxd5 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. exd5 Bxd5 $19) 16… Bxd5 17. exd5 Bh6 $19) (15. hxg6 $5\nb4 $5 (15… hxg6 16. Qg5 $1 a6 $6 17. Rd2 Qc7 $2 18. Rdh2 b4 19. Qh6 $1 Bxh6+\n20. Rxh6 g5 21. Bd3 Bxg4 22. Rh8+ Kg7 23. R1h7+ Kg6 24. e5+ Ne4 25. Rh6+ Kf5\n26. Bxe4+ Kf4 27. Ne2#) 16. gxh7+ Kh8 17. Nd5 Bxd5 18. exd5 Qxd5 19. g5 Qa2 20.\nQe3 e5 21. gxf6 Bxf6 22. Rg1 bxa3 23. Qxa3 $16) 15… b4 (15… Bh8 $6 16. Nd5\nQxd2+ 17. Rxd2 Nxd5 18. exd5 Bxd4 (18… Bxd5 19. Bxh8 Bxf3 20. Rh3 Bxg4 21.\nRg3 Kxh8 22. Rxg4 $16 {Short\,N-Georgiev\,Ki/Oakham/1984/}) 19. Rxd4 Bd7 $14 {\nTal\,M-Sax\,G/Mosow/1982/}) (15… Bf8 $5 {Sapi} 16. Bxf6 b4 $5 (16… exf6 17.\nNd5 Qxd2+ 18. Rxd2 Bxd5 19. Rxd5 Rc5 $10) 17. Nd5 (17. Bd4 bxa3 18. b3 Bxb3 19.\ncxb3 Rxb3 $19) 17… Bxd5 18. Qxd5 Rc5 19. Qb3 exf6 20. a4 Qc7 21. Kb1 $13) 16.\nhxg7 (16. axb4 $2 Qa1+ 17. Nb1 Ba2 $19) (16. Nb5 $5 Rxb5 17. Bxb5 Qxb5 18. hxg7\nbxa3 19. Qd3 (19. bxa3 Qa4 $13) 19… axb2+ 20. Bxb2 Bc4 21. Qe3 Be2 $15) 16…\nbxa3 17. Qh6 (17. Nd5 $2 axb2+ 18. Bxb2 Rxb2 19. Nxe7+ Kxg7 20. Qh6+ Kh8 21.\nNxc8 Qb4 $19 {Fernandez-Martin Gonzalez\,A/Barcelona/1985/0-1/}) 17… axb2+ 18.\nKd2 Bxg4 {Mestel} 19. Bxf6 {[#]} (19. fxg4 e5 $1 20. Qe3 exd4 21. Qxd4 Rxc3 22.\nQxc3 Nxe4+ $19) 19… Bh5 $1 20. Bd4 $2 (20. Ke3 $2 Rxc3+ 21. Bxc3 Qxc3+ 22.\nBd3 a5 $19) (20. Kd3 $2 b1=Q 21. Rxb1 Rxb1 22. Nxb1 Qb5+ 23.\nKe3 Qxb1 $19) (20. Bh3 $6 exf6 $1 21. Bxc8 Rxc8 22. Qe3 Qb4 23. Rh4 d5 24. exd5\nQxh4 $19) (20. Rxh5 $1 gxh5 21. Bh3 exf6 22. Bxc8 Rxc8 23. Qxf6 Qb4 24. Rb1 a5\n25. Kd3 Qc4+ 26. Kd2 Qb4 27. Kd3 $10) 20… e5 21. Rxh5 (21. Kd3 exd4 22. Nd5\nRc3+ 23. Ke2 Rxc2+ 24. Kd3 Qb5+ 25. Kxc2 b1=Q+ 26. Rxb1 Qxb1+ 27. Kd2 Rb2#)\n21… gxh5 22. Qg5 (22. Qxh5 b1=Q 23. Rxb1 Rxb1 24. Bd3 Ra1 25. Qf5 Rc7 26. Ke2\nexd4 27. Nd5 Qe1#) 22… Qb4 (22… b1=Q $1 23. Rxb1 Rxb1 24. Bd3 Ra1 25. Qf5\nexd4 26. Qxc8+ Kxg7 $19) 23. Bd3 Qxd4 24. Nd5 (24. Nb1 Qf2+ 25. Be2 Rxc2+ 26.\nKxc2 Qxe2+ 27. Kc3 Qxd1 $19) 24… Qf2+ 25. Be2 Rxc2+ 26. Kxc2 Qxe2+ 27. Kc3\nQxf3+ 28. Kc4 Qb3# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nWilliam Watson (2nd from left)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-william-nicholas-watson-18-iv-1962/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jonathan Rowson (18-iv-1977)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Jonathan Rowson (18-iv-1977)Here is his Wikipedia entry \nGM Jonathan Rowson
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-jonathan-rowson-18-iv-1977/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player,Writer
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DTSTAMP:20260817T141214Z
CREATED:20201110T145042Z
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SUMMARY:Happy Birthday Malcolm Barker (21-iv-1934)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday Malcolm Barker (21-iv-1934)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/happy-birthday-malcolm-barker-01-iv-1934/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200423
DTSTAMP:20210422T133025Z
CREATED:20200402T193358Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Gary Kenworthy (22-iv-1957)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday FM Gary Kenworthy (22-iv-1957) \nGary was born in Bradford and became an FIDE Master in 2002 and achieved a peak rating of 2315 in July 1994. \nIn 1994 Gary represented London in a match with Paris over nine boards and has played from London Central YMCA (CentYMCA) and Barbican in the London Chess League and in the BCF National Club competition. \nIn 2003 he was runner-up (to Kidami Sundararajan) in the Ron Banwell Masters in Blackpool. \nGary has played for King’s Head in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) and now plays for Mindsports. \nIn 2019 Gary joined the England Chess Coaching Team. He founded Bletchley Junior Chess Club and Chess School.\nHe has been board 1 for Milton Keynes and Open University First team. He is board 1 for the Bedfordshire County Chess Team and has retained the Bedfordshire Individual County Chess Championship Title. In 2019/2020 he was board 1 for the Leighton Buzzard Chess Club. \nGary Kenworthy\, inaugurator of the new M25 Congress series\, on his way to victory in the Spalding Quickplay. Earlier in the summer he defeated Grandmaster Michael Adams\, photograph by Francis Bowers \nGary is a former Director of Chess Coaching for the (then) British Chess Federation (BCF). \nGary lives in Fenny Stratford\, Milton Keynes and is an IT consultant and local councillor. He has been a former Director of the BCF. \nGary Kenworthy (holding board) at a BCF National Club Final (1992) \n[pgn]\n[Event “Sussex-Kent match”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1987.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Gary Kenworthy”]\n[Black “Jonathan James Ady”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A05”]\n[WhiteElo “2297”]\n[BlackElo “2412”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1987.??.??”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,21\,40\,50\,37\,24\,47\,-12\,1\,1\,14\,-22\,-22\,-21\,-16\,-20\,-15\,-11\,9\,0\,14\,\n17\,10\,22\,15\,14\,31\,31\,31\,-7\,26\,27\,60\,5\,68\,49\,35\,20\,157\,95\,60\,-90\,-79\,-79\,94\,\n-132\,-62\,-100\,-87\,-109\,-120\,-125\,-125\,-125\,-106\,-87\,-55\,-194\,0\,45\,-56\,-56\,-56\,\n-56\,370\,357\,458\,459\,888\,572\,572\,567\,1019\,592\,1566\,2037\,2086\,2619\,29981\,29982\,\n29989\,29990]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 d6 6. c3 Nf6 7. O-O\nO-O 8. Nbd2 Bd7 9. a4 a6 10. Nc4 b5 11. axb5 axb5 12. Rxa8 Qxa8 13. Nb6 Qa2 14.\nNxd7 Nxd7 15. Bh3 $146 (15. d4 b4) 15… Nb6 16. d4 b4 17. d5 bxc3 18. dxc6\ncxb2 19. Bg5 $16 Na4 $6 (19… c4 $142) 20. Bxe7 Nc3 21. Qxd6 (21. Qc2) 21…\nb1=Q (21… Nxe4) 22. Rxb1 Qxb1+ 23. Kg2 Nxe4 24. Bxf8 Nxd6 25. Bxd6 f5 26. c7\nQb7 27. g4 Bf6 28. gxf5 g5 29. Kg3 (29. Kf1) 29… c4 30. Nxg5 c3 $2 31. Bg2 $1\nQa6 32. Bd5+ Kh8 33. Bf4 $18 c2 34. Be6 c1=Q 35. Nf7+ Kg7 36. Bxc1 Qd3+ 37. Be3\nBh4+ 38. Kxh4 Qe4+ 39. Kg3 h5 40. Bh6+ Kh7 41. Ng5+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Ramsgate op”]\n[Site “Ramsgate”]\n[Date “1981.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Kenworthy\, Gary”]\n[Black “Van der Sterren\, Paul”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C47”]\n[WhiteElo “2245”]\n[BlackElo “2440”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “27”]\n[EventDate “1981.??.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\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{[%evp 0\,27\,19\,31\,34\,15\,22\,22\,18\,5\,8\,-7\,43\,-28\,5\,-19\,-17\,-71\,-70\,-79\,-44\,-157\,\n-206\,-189\,-45\,168\,178\,66\,66\,-28]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 exd4 5.\nNd5 Nxe4 6. Bc4 (6. Qe2 f5 7. Ng5 d3 8. cxd3 Nd4 9. Qh5+ g6 10. Qh4 c6 11. dxe4\ncxd5 12. exd5 $17) 6… Be7 7. Nxd4 (7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 Nf6 9. Nxe7+ Nxe7 10.\nBg5 Ng6) 7… O-O 8. Nb5 Bb4+ 9. c3 Nxf2 10. Qh5 Nxh1 $17 11. cxb4 Nxb4 $2 (\n11… Re8+) 12. Bg5 $18 Re8+ 13. Kf1 Re5 14. Re1 $1 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nGary Kenworthy at the 2012 UKCC Terafinal
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-gary-kenworthy-22-iv-1957/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200425
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DTSTAMP:20210424T091645Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM John Nunn (25-iv-1955)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes GM John Nunn Happy Birthday (25-iv-1955) \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nBritish International master and European Junior Champion\, 1975. Born in London\, Nunn learned chess at the age of four and soon revealed a great aptitude for the game. \n  \nGraham Ladds and John Nunn. See full caption below. \nSupplied caption for above picture. \nHe came 6th in the Norwich Junior international tournament in 1970 and went up to Oxford University to take a mathematics degree at a very early age. He played on top board for the University from 1972-6 and is now preparing for a doctorate there. \nJohn DM Nunn \nHe won the European Junior Championship and with it the international master title in Groningen in 1975. In that year too he was equal first in the IBM Master tournament\, and at London in 1975 he reached an international master norm coming 5th in the international tournament there. He played on bottom board at the Haifa Olympiad 1976 and scored 64.2% \nGM John Nunn \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \nEnglish player. International Grandmaster (1978)\, British champion 1980. He went to Oxford at the unusually young age of 15\, graduated in 1973. Gained his B.Sc. the following year and his\ndoctorate in 1978. \nGM John Nunn \n  \nA Junior Research Fellow\, he lectured in mathematics until 1981 when he became a professional player. By then he had already achieved several good results in international tournaments: Budapest 1978\, first; Hastings 1979-80\, first (4-5 = 10) equal with Andersson; Baden-bei-Wien 1980\, category 12\, third (+5=10) after Spassky and Belyavsky: Helsinki 1981\, first (+5 = 6) equal with Matulovich; and Wiesbaden 1981\, first (+6=3). In the category 12 Wijk aan Zee tournament 1982\, Nunn came first ( + 5=7 — 1) equal with Balashov ahead of Tal\, Hubner\, and Timman and at Helsinki 1983 he came second (+5 = 6) after Karlsson. \nMaia Chiburdanidze and John Nunn from Lloyds Bank\, 1985 \nPossessing a remarkably quick sight of the board\, Nunn is an expert solver: he made the second highest individual score in the world team solving championship\, 1978\, and won the solving championship of Great Britain in 1981. \nLubomir Kavalek and John Nunn \nHere is an excellent article from ChessBase \nPolugayevsky-Nunn European team championship : \n[pgn]\n[Round “1.3”]\n[White “Polugaevsky\, Lev”]\n[Black “Nunn\, John DM”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A77”]\n[WhiteElo “2635”]\n[BlackElo “2515”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “64”]\n[EventDate “1980.01.20”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “SWE”]\n[SourceTitle “EU-chT”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Soviet Union”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “URS”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,64\,19\,9\,21\,44\,45\,37\,46\,15\,12\,56\,70\,84\,108\,114\,123\,92\,82\,65\,73\,58\,59\,\n13\,30\,26\,27\,27\,27\,27\,29\,6\,17\,-128\,-135\,-75\,-75\,-69\,-89\,-122\,-70\,-43\,-75\,-145\,\n-164\,-153\,-153\,-194\,-194\,-235\,-235\,-235\,-260\,-278\,-279\,-284\,-290\,-290\,-290\,\n-465\,-460\,-617\,-537\,-536\,-555\,-1071\,-878]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 e6 4. c4\nexd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. e4 Bg7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Nd2 Nbd7 11. Qc2\nNe5 12. b3 Nh5 13. Bxh5 gxh5 14. Bb2 Bd7 15. Rae1 Qh4 16. f4 Ng4 17. Nf3 Bd4+\n18. Kh1 Nf2+ 19. Rxf2 Qxf2 20. Qc1 Bh3 21. Rg1 Kf8 22. Nxd4 cxd4 23. f5 dxc3\n24. Qxc3 Rxe4 25. gxh3 Ke8 26. Qd3 Re1 27. Rxe1+ Qxe1+ 28. Kg2 Rc8 29. f6 Kd7\n30. Qxh7 Qd2+ 31. Kg3 Qxd5 32. Kh4 Re8 0-1\n[/pgn] \nGM John Nunn \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NvSfumCNxo[/embedyt] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \n46th USSR Chess Championships 1978\, RD Keene\, JDM Nunn\, RG Wade\, Master Chess Publications\, 1978\, ISBN 0 906634 00 8 \n  \nThe Benoni for the Tournament Player \nSolving in Style \nThe Complete Pirc \nSecrets of Rook Endings \nSecrets of Pawnless Endings \nNew Ideas in the Pirc Defence \nBeating the Sicilian 3 \nThe King Hunt \nSecrets of Grandmaster Chess \nSecrets of Practical Chess \nNunn’s Chess Openings \nJohn Nunn’s Chess Puzzle Book \n101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures \nLearn Chess \nSecrets of Minor-Piece Endings \nUnderstanding Chess Move by Move \nJohn Nunn’s Best Games \nEndgame Challenge \nTactical Chess Endings \nLearn Chess Tactics \nMammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games \nGrandmaster Chess Move by Move \nUnderstanding Chess Endgames \nNunn’s Chess Endings \nUnderstanding Chess Middlegames \nChess Tactics Workbook for Kids \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lugano op”]\n[Site “Lugano”]\n[Date “1986.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Nunn\, John DM”]\n[Black “Tukmakov\, Vladimir B”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B57”]\n[WhiteElo “2585”]\n[BlackElo “2570”]\n[Annotator “Nunn\,J”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “1986.02.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “SUI”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.01.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.01.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,51\,38\,23\,44\,51\,80\,55\,53\,51\,51\,30\,53\,39\,69\,55\,69\,52\,71\,22\,61\,56\,51\,50\,\n40\,38\,35\,40\,42\,33\,42\,48\,68\,30\,37\,45\,45\,46\,48\,50\,51\,29\,39\,0\,25\,-81\,84\,84\,119\,72\,\n72\,106\,183\,177]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bc4\nQb6 7. Nb3 e6 8. O-O Be7 9. Bg5 Ne5 $6 {Although 9…Ne5 forces the bishop to\nretreat\, Black will waste time later after White plays f4.} ({Black’s best\nline is probably} 9… a6 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Qh5 Nd4 {as played in\nNunn-Martinovic\, Amsterdam 1975.}) 10. Be2 Bd7 11. Kh1 Ng6 {A necessary\nprecaution since} (11… O-O 12. f4 Ng6 13. e5 dxe5 14. Bxf6 Bxf6 15. Qxd7 {\ndoes not give Black enough for the piece. Now\, on the other hand\, 12 f4 is met\nby 12…h6.}) 12. Be3 Qc7 13. f4 O-O 14. Qe1 {We have reached a type of\nScheveningen position in which Black’s knight is on g6 rather than c6. This\nfavours White since the knight is subject to attack by f5 and has less\ninfluence on the centre.} Rfe8 15. Rd1 Bc6 {Here the bishop is exposed to\nattack by Nd4\, so it would have been safer to play 15…Bf8.} 16. Bf3 d5 17. e5\nNe4 18. Nd4 Nxc3 (18… Bb4 19.\nNxd5) 19. Qxc3 Rac8 20. Qe1 {The queen returns to the kingside to help an\nattack based on the move f5.} Bd7 21. Qg3 Qb6 $6 {Black provokes a crisis by\nattacking the b2 pawn\, which White cannot easily defend (e.g. 22 b3 Rc3).\nHowever by placing his queen opposite White’s bishop he allows a tactical\nbreakthrough. 21…Qa5 was a better defence.} 22. f5 $1 exf5 {22…Bh4 23 Qh3\nexf5 is no better after 24 Bxd5 Rxe5 25 Bxf7+ Kh8 (or 25…Kxf7 26 Nxf5 with a\nwinning attack) 26 Bxg6 Qxg6 27 Bf4 and White wins material.} 23. Bxd5 Bh4 24.\nNxf5 $6 {Flashy\, but not the best. Simply 24 Qh3 transposes to the last note\nand wins safely.} Bxg3 25. Bxb6 axb6 $2 {The obvious move\, but it loses\nimmediately. 25…Bxe5 was the best\, when White has nothing better than to\nplay 26 Bxa7 with an extra pawn – winning perhaps\, but much more complex than\n24 Qh3.} 26. Nd6 $1 {Surprisingly Black has no way to play on\, e.g. 26…Bxe5\n27 Bxf7+ Kh8 28 Bxe8 Rxe8 29 Nxe8 Bxe8 30 Rd8 or 26…Bh4 27 Bxf7+ Kh8 28 Bxe8\nRxe8 29 Nf7+ and 30 Rxd7.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nChess Endgame Workbook for Kids \nGM John Nunn
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Michael Haygarth (11-x-1934 27-iv-2016)
DESCRIPTION:BCN Remembers Michael John Haygarth (11-x-1934 27-iv-2016) \nHere is an article from Yorkshire Chess History \nOwen Hindle\, Michael Franklin\, Harry Golombek and Michael Haygarth \nHere is an obituary written by Steve Mann which was published on the ECF web site. \nThe 1964 England Olympiad (Tel Aviv) Team : Owen Hindle\, Čeněk Kottnauer\, Peter Clarke\, Michael Franklin\, Norman Littlewood & Michael Haygarth \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-46 Championship”]\n[Site “York/ North Yorkshire”]\n[Date “1959.08.13”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Milner Barry\, Philip Stuart”]\n[Black “Haygarth\, Michael John”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C34”]\n[Annotator “PS Milner-Barry”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “1959.08.10”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, LXXIX\, #12\, p.377”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,42\,19\,28\,31\,6\,-20\,-21\,36\,-3\,-20\,-23\,-31\,-15\,16\,-37\,8\,18\,43\,27\,13\,4\,58\,\n5\,5\,7\,6\,28\,32\,6\,17\,-3\,17\,-180\,-177\,-176\,-78\,-490\,-494\,-500\,-503\,-500\,-511\,-511\,\n-507]} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 ({I never do any good with} 4. e5\nNh5) 4… d5 5. Nxd5 (5. exd5 {would be a straight transposition into the 3…\nd5 defence. The text move allows interesting alternatives.}) 5… Nxd5 (5…\nNxe4 6. Nxf4 {is another possibility\, which I rather fancied for white.}) 6.\nexd5 Be7 7. Be2 Bh4+ {Although it achieves a dramatic success\, I don’t believe\nthis is right.} (7… Qxd5 {is certainly safer}) 8. Kf1 O-O 9. d4 Bf6 {The\nweakness of the bishop at Rook 5 is that its gets in the way of …g5} 10. Bxf4\nBf5 {[#]} 11. Bd3 $2 ({As so often happens in the cut-and-thrust game\, the\nloss of one tempo can be fatal. After} 11. Qd2 {Black need not play} Qxd5 {\nbut White then remains a pawn ahead\, with no obvious anxieties.} 12. Bxc7 Nc6\n13. Kf2 {White just has time to unite his Rook\, and remains with his passed\nQueen’s pawn.}) 11… Qxd5 12. Bxc7 Nc6 13. c3 Rfe8 14. Kf2 Re7 15. Bg3 (15.\nBf4 g5 {merely makes a bad matter worse.}) 15… Rae8 16. Re1 {It is now or\nnever.} ({The trouble about} 16. Bxf5 Qxf5 17. Qd2 {is that after} Re2+ 18. Qxe2\nRxe2+ 19. Kxe2 Qb5+ {followed by …Qxb2+ the Rooks are no real match for the\nQueen. Though no double White could make a fight.}) 16… Rxe1 17. Nxe1 {[#]}\nNxd4 $1 18. cxd4 Qxd4+ 19. Kf1 Rxe1+ 20. Kxe1 Bxd3 {White is reduced to\ncomical helplessness. He is threatened with Qe3+} {So he tries} 21. Bf4 ({If}\n21. Qd2 Qg1#) ({If} 21. Bf2 Qe4+ 22. Kd2 Bg5+ 23. Kc3 Qc4#) ({If} 21. Qf3 Qxb2\n22. Qxd3 Qxa1+ {and then …Qxa2+}) 21… Qe4+ $1 {Resigns} {Immediately\ndecisive for if now} 22. Kd2 {comes} Qxf4+ 23. Kxd3 Qd4+ 24. Ke2 Qxb2+ 25. Kf3\nQxa1 {and there is no mate with} 26. Qd8+ {A fine combination by Black. What\nwith this\, and the equally fine positional play whereby Mr. Littlewood reduced\nme to similar straits. I felt that I had met more than my fair share of young\ntartars in this championship.} 0-1 \n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Lawrence Trent (28-iv-1986)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Lawrence Adam Trent (28-iv-1986) \nIM Lawrence Trent
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Norman Littlewood (31-i-1933 29-iv-1989)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Norman Littlewood (31-i-1933 29-iv-1989) \nNorman Littlewood circa 1967 \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume 109\, June (#6)\, page 265 we have the following obituary which appears to have been lifted and used in the BCF Yearbook from 1989 – 1990\, page 14\, (editor Brian Concannon) with no acknowledgement : \n“We were sorry to (announce the) hear of the death from cancer of Norman Littlewood of Sheffield(31 i 1933 – 29 iv 1989) who played with great force in British Championships of the 1960s.\nBorn into a working class family of 11 children\, Norman played for England in the 1951 Glorney Cup\, but did not make his debut in the British Championships until 1963 when he finished second to Penrose. He was then joint runner-up in the next three title contests\, impressed at Hastings Premiers\, particularly 1963-4 when he was the best of the English players\, and represented England in the 1964 and 1966 Olympiads. By 1969\, however\, he was drifting away from play in the direction of problem and study composition\, and his other interests such as bridge. He was also a skilled pianist\, a true all-rounder. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 51st”]\n[Site “Whitby”]\n[Date “1964.08.19”]\n[Round “3.1”]\n[White “Golombek\, Harry”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, Norman”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D94”]\n[Annotator “Norman Littlewood”]\n[PlyCount “78”]\n[EventDate “1964.08.17”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, Volume LXXXIV\, November\, page 339-340”] \n{[%evp 0\,78\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,38\,70\,9\,18\,34\,40\,11\,18\,25\,28\,17\,7\,31\,34\,54\,54\,36\,\n13\,13\,13\,-3\,2\,0\,24\,-27\,18\,0\,3\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-2\,-4\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,7\,24\,46\,64\,79\,33\,10\,20\,\n27\,23\,42\,-2\,-3\,-63\,-62\,-53\,-100\,-108\,-108\,-114\,-114\,-112\,-111\,-111\,-155\,-180\,\n-183\,-185\,-193\,-202\,-214\,-215\,-155\,-224\,-252]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4.\ne3 Bg7 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bc4 Nb6 7. Bb3 O-O 8. Nf3 Nc6 9. O-O Bg4 10. h3 Bxf3 11.\nQxf3 e5 $1 12. dxe5 Bxe5 13. Rd1 Qh4 $1 14. Nd5 Nxd5 15. Bxd5 Rad8 16. Bd2 {\n[#] A reasonable pawn sacrifice\, as the alternatives are not very attractive.}\nBxb2 17. Rab1 Ne5 $1 18. Qe4 Qxe4 19. Bxe4 Nc4 {Now follows an exciting\nstruggle for the initiative.} 20. Bb4 $1 ({For the moment the pawn is held as}\n20. Bxb7 $2 Rb8 21. Be4 Na3 $1 {winning the exchange .}) 20… Rxd1+ 21. Rxd1\nRe8 {This and the following two moves\, aim at keeping the Rook actively posted\,\ndespite the risks involved.} ({The passive although offering a sufficient\ndefence to the immediate threats\, cannot\, one feels\, hold out much prmise for\nthe future.} 21… Rb8) 22. Bd5 b5 23. Bc6 $1 (23. Bxc4 $2 bxc4 {would give\nBlack a strong passed pawn.}) 23… Re5 24. Rd8+ (24. Rd7 {also leads to\ncritical play} {e.g.} a5 25. Be7 Kg7 26. Rxc7 Ba3 $1 {with a position\ndifficult to assess.}) 24… Kg7 25. Ra8 a5 {[#]} 26. Bf8+ $2 {starting a\ntempting attack\, which\, however\, turns out to be insufficient.} ({The\nalternative was} 26. Bxa5 Rc5 $1 27. Be8 Nxa5 28. Rxa5 Rc1+ 29. Kh2 b4 {\nwith Black having the better chances.}) 26… Kf6 27. Ra6 b4 $1 28. Bd5+ ({If}\n28. Bb5+ Nb6 29. Rxa5 $2 c6 {wins the bishop}) 28… Nb6 29. e4 Bd4 $1 30. Bh6\n(30. Rxa5 $2 {is again} {met by} c6 $1) ({A longer resistance\, however\, could\nbe waged with either} 30. Kf1) ({or} 30. h4) 30… a4 31. Bf4 Rxd5 $1 32. exd5\nb3 33. axb3 axb3 34. Bc1 ({If} 34. Ra5 b2 35. Rb5 Nxd5 {etc.\, winning easily.})\n34… Ke5 $1 ({Inconclusive is} 34… b2 $2 35. Bxb2 Bxb2 36. d6 $1 Be5 37.\ndxc7 Bxc7 {etc.}) 35. Ra7 Nxd5 36. Rb7 Bb6 37. Bb2+ Ke4 38. Rb8 Kd3 39. Re8 Bd4\n{Resigns} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nA great impression was made on the top players at the 1964 British Championships when Norman won his first four games with his dynamic style. His victims included both Golombek and Clarke. Had he won his next game against Haygarth\, as he deserved to do\, he would have surely taken the title which fell to his Yorkshire colleague. \nNorman was always a modest but assertive character\, and with more management might well have challenged Penrose even more closely than he did. Our thanks to elder brother John Littlewood for some of the above information.” \nThe 1964 England Olympiad (Tel Aviv) Team : Owen Hindle\, Čeněk Kottnauer\, Peter Clarke\, Michael Franklin\, Norman Littlewood & Michael Haygarth \nHere is article from Yorkshire Chess History \nSee BCF Yearbook 1989-90\, page 14.
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