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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM John Cox (22-v-1962)
DESCRIPTION:IM John Cox\nBCN sends best wishes to IM John Cox on his birthday\, this day\, in 1962. \nJohn was born in Altrincham\, Trafford\, Greater Manchester and attended Eton College playing top board in the Sunday Times National Schools Competition. \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1982\, an International Master in 2002 and obtained a peak rating of 2423 in January of 2006. \nHe is an expert bridge player and an amateur rock climber / mountaineer. \nJohn plays for Cavendish in the London League\, Hackney in other leagues and Barbican in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nFrom the excellent Shropshire Chess web site we have : \nJohn Cox\, aged 17\, photographer unknown\n“Probably the best home reared player to come out of the county\, John Cox started to play at age 6 with his father Jeff (see above) joining Shrewsbury Chess Club at age 7. At age10 he became joint Shropshire lightning champion. He was 16 when he won the 1979 county championship though much of his early success was outside the county. He gained his first FM norm at the 1980 Lloyds Bank Masters where he became the first Shropshire player to beat a GM (see below)\, also drawing with IM’s Ligterink and Pytel. In 1981 he gained his third norm and the FM title at Ramsgate together with his first IM norm. Though now based in London\, he is still a regular visitor to the local Wrekin Congress.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lloyds Bank op 04th”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1980.08.23”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Cox\, John J”]\n[Black “Shamkovich\, Leonid Alexandrovic”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A36”]\n[BlackElo “2515”]\n[Annotator “John J Cox”]\n[PlyCount “83”]\n[EventDate “1980.08.20”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\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\,83\,25\,-17\,23\,12\,20\,-1\,10\,16\,18\,-12\,-8\,-4\,18\,8\,19\,3\,21\,0\,14\,-10\,12\,1\,\n10\,29\,50\,68\,52\,44\,26\,33\,36\,36\,41\,41\,44\,44\,47\,47\,44\,44\,42\,42\,65\,42\,66\,83\,93\,87\,\n163\,150\,150\,169\,246\,277\,315\,326\,426\,439\,447\,409\,406\,375\,387\,422\,422\,433\,452\,\n377\,389\,384\,413\,317\,344\,361\,372\,363\,372\,438\,695\,735\,737\,758\,774\,794]} 1. c4 c5\n2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. e3 e5 {e6 is very drawish so Shamkovich\nplays a somewhat riskier line for a win} 6. Nge2 Nge7 7. d3 d6 8. a3 a6 {\nHe should have played a5 to prevent white’s next} (8… O-O 9. O-O Be6 10. Nd5\nQd7 11. Nec3 Bh3 12. Rb1 Bxg2 13. Kxg2 Nxd5 14. Nxd5 Ne7) 9. b4 $146 {an\nimaginative pawn sacrifice to upset the symetrical nature of the position} (9.\nRb1) 9… h5 {Very deep. Before accepting the pawn\, Black ensures that\, some\nmove later\, he will have an open h file.} 10. h3 {To answer h4 by g4.} cxb4 $5\n{Very risky. Better was b5.} 11. axb4 Nxb4 {[#]} 12. Ba3 $1 Nbc6 (12… Nec6 $6\n13. Bxb4 (13. Qa4 {with pressure}) 13… Nxb4 14. Qa4+ Nc6 15. Bxc6+ bxc6 16.\nQxc6+ Bd7 17. Qxd6 $16) ({If} 12… a5 13. Bxb4) 13. Ne4 Nf5 14. g4 hxg4 15.\nhxg4 Rxh1+ 16. Bxh1 Qh4 {Now we see why the GM ensured that the h file would\nbe opened in the line which has arisen} {but white has a simple answer :} 17.\ngxf5 Qxh1+ 18. Kd2 Qxd1+ 19. Rxd1 Bxf5 (19… gxf5 20. Nxd6+ Kd7 21. Nxf7 $16)\n20. Nxd6+ Kd7 21. Nxb7 Rb8 22. Nc5+ Ke8 23. Nc3 $16 ({If} 23. Nxa6 $2 Rb3 $17)\n23… Bf8 $2 24. Nxa6 $1 Rb3 $2 {But now it does not work. Black was\npresumably upset at missing 24. Na6: ! and and didn’t even consider 24….Bxa3\nwhen John gives the following study-like analysis :} (24… Bxa3 25. Nxb8 Nxb8\n26. Ra1 Bd6 27. c5 Bc7 (27… Bxc5 $2 28. Ra8 Bd6 29. Nb5 $18) 28. Nb5 Bd8 (\n28… Kd7 29. Ra7) (28… Kd8 29. Ra7) 29. Ra8 Nc6 30. d4 {with excellent\nchances.}) 25. Nc7+ Kd7 26. Bxf8 Kxc7 27. Nb5+ Kd7 28. Kc2 $18 {[#] Winning\nmaterial by force. The game is virtually over.} Na5 29. e4 Ke8 30. Ra1 Bxe4 31.\ndxe4 Kxf8 32. Rxa5 {and Black resigned a few moves later.} Rb4 33. Kc3 Rb1 34.\nNa3 Ra1 35. c5 Ke7 36. c6 Rc1+ 37. Nc2 Kd6 38. Rc5 Kc7 39. Kd2 Rf1 40. Ne3\nRxf2+ 41. Ke1 Ra2 42. Nd5+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nJohn Cox (first from left) at a Lloyds Bank event.\nJohn Cox (left\, rear)\nJohn Cox (left\, rear) at a Lloyds Bank Varsity match\nIM John Cox\nStarting out 1.d4 ! by John Cox\nDangerous Weapons : The Ruy Lopez\nStarting Out : Alekhine’s Defence\nDealing with d4 Deviations\nStarting Out : Sicilian Sveshnikov\nThe Berlin Wall
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