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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of IM Andrew Whiteley (09-vi-1947 07-vii-2014)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers IM Andrew Jonathan Whiteley (09-vi-1947 07-vii-2014) \nAndrew Whiteley\nAndrew was born on Monday\, June 9th\, 1947 in Birmingham\, West Midlands to Denys Edward Hugh Whiteley (1914 – 1987) and Muriel Sutton (1919 – 1967). Andrew had two siblings\, Robert N (Birmingham\, 1944) and Angela M (Oxford 1952). \nDenys Edward Hugh Whiteley (1914 – 1987\, from Ancestry.co.uk\nAndrew completed his education at Magdalen College School\, Oxford and then in law at Pembroke College\, Oxford. \nAndrew and friends at the NatWest Bank Young Masters\n“Whiteley’s school chess record is an outstanding 63/65: Andrew Whiteley is captain and top board of a very strong U18 team of: A Whiteley\, H Morphy\, MN Crombie\, MM Daube\, A Hawkins and AH Smith.” \nSome of the participants in the Paul Keres display on November 25th\, 1962\, at St Pancras Town Hall\, London WC1. Back row : AJ. Whiteley\, D\, Floyer\, PJ Collins\, PJ Adams\, RC Vaughan\, KB Harman\, D. Parr\, DNL Levy\, Front row : MV Lambshire\, AE Hopkins (selector) Paul Keres\, Miss D. Dobson\, RE Hartley\, BC Gillman\, WR Hartston and PN Lee. Photograph by AM Reilly. Source : BCM\, 1963\, page 13\nAndrew was joint (with WR Hartston) Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1967-68 season. \nHis highest Elo rating was 2395 in January 1977 at the age of 29 and played for King’s Head in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nAndrew was former President of the Middlesex County Chess Association (1985-87) and Deputy (1984-85 & 1987-88). \nAndrew Whiteley playing board two in the London – Belgrade Telex Match on April 3rd\, 1976 from the St. James Hotel\, Buckingham Gate. Sourced from BCM\, Volume XCVI (96)\, Number 5\, page 192. Photographer probably Freddy Reilly.\nHe became a FIDE Master in 1980 at the age of 33. His last major tournament was Cappelle Le Grand in 1988 (see photograph below). \nMagnus Magnusson presents Andrew Whiteley (right) with the BCF County Championship trophy as Captain of the Middlesex team in 1986.\nBelow was written by BCM editor James Pratt in Volume CXXXIV (134)\, Number 8 (August) page 417-8 : \n“Unfailingly courteous\, formally dressed\, retired London solicitor\, British Master\, Andrew Jonathan Whiteley (9 vi 1946 Birmingham – 8 vii 2014) has died. The son of an Oxford professor\, AJW was British U21 Champion of 1965. He tied\, with Hans Ree\, for first in the European Junior in 1965/6. \nHans Ree (left) and Andrew Whiteley (right) examine the European Junior Trophy for 1965/6 in which they tied for first.\nThe following game first appeared in the Games Department column of Harry Golombek in British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXVI (1966)\, Number 3 (March)\, page 148. It was game #14\,118. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Niemeyer U21-04”]\n[Site “Groningen”]\n[Date “1965.12.28”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Whiteley\, Andrew Jonathan”]\n[Black “Ostojic\, Miodrag”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A56”]\n[Annotator “Andrew Jonathan Whiteley”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “1965.12.27”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “NED”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 1966\, page 148.”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,87\,27\,27\,33\,-10\,13\,43\,37\,44\,47\,39\,50\,54\,51\,53\,62\,68\,62\,61\,74\,69\,69\,69\,\n134\,83\,86\,51\,89\,17\,68\,82\,82\,-60\,137\,131\,156\,167\,158\,148\,186\,179\,191\,202\,189\,\n179\,262\,205\,247\,243\,260\,207\,257\,227\,236\,240\,471\,500\,578\,511\,662\,288\,285\,295\,\n294\,340\,373\,390\,424\,461\,378\,381\,466\,405\,436\,375\,365\,359\,391\,387\,387\,278\,1707\,\n29982\,29997\,29990\,29991\,29992\,29995\,29996]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e5 4. Nc3\nd6 5. e4 Be7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Be2 Na6 8. O-O Nc7 {All “book” so far. Now\, however\,\nI deviated from the usual 9.Ne1\, followed by Nd3 and f4\, and chose instead to\nobtain a small advantage on the Queen’s side.and wait for Black to undertake\nsomething on the King’s side and thereupon to take over the initiiative from\nhim there.} 9. a3 (9. Ne1 a6 10. a4 Rb8) 9… Nfe8 10. b4 b6 $1 {This\nrestricts White’s advanage on the Queen’s side.} 11. Rb1 $2 ({More accurate\nwas at once} 11. Ne1 f5) 11… g6 ({After an immediate} 11… f5 {I intended}\n12. exf5 Bxf5 13. Rb2 {and my control of e4and Black’s weakness on the white\nsquares would have guaranteed me an advantage.}) 12. Ne1 f5 (12… Bg5 {\nwould have given Black excellent chances of equality. But\, having see my poor\nplay in round 1\, he was going all out for a win.}) 13. exf5 {If White allowed\nf4 Black’s King-side attack could become very dangerous.} gxf5 14. f4 $1 {\nThis checks Black’s King’s side offensive.} Bf6 $2 ({Much better was} 14… e4\n$142 {when\, in view of my badly placed Knight on K1\, I would have had\ndifficulty preparing the stock g4}) 15. fxe5 $1 {[#] Now\, suddenly White’s\npieces begin to find strong squares\, while Black in unable to find a good plan.\n} Bxe5 16. Qc2 Ng7 17. Nf3 Bf6 18. bxc5 bxc5 19. Bd3 Kh8 20. Ne2 Bd7 21. Bf4\nNce8 22. Kh1 h5 $2 {White’s pieces are now excellently placed wth a view to\nattacking Black’s weak King’s Bishop pawn. Trying to create a diversion Black\nmerely weakens his King’s Rook’s pawn too.} 23. Ng3 Be7 24. Qd2 Kg8 25. Bg5 h4\n{Otherwise White plays Qf4 followed by Qh4.} 26. Ne2 Nf6 27. Bxh4 Nxd5 28. Bxe7\nNxe7 {[#]} 29. Qh6 $1 {Black had overlooked this strong move. In view of the\nthreat of Ng5 he is forced to surrender his d6 pawn.} Qe8 30. Qxd6 {Having\nthought so long eariler for good moves\, Ostoic was now short of time. He\nmanages to keep tactical threats alive\, but White’s pieces are too well placed\nfor them to have much chance of success.} Rd8 31. Qxc5 Bc6 32. Nf4 Be4 33. Ne5\nBa8 34. Rfe1 Rf6 35. Neg6 Bxg2+ $1 {This gives White most chances of going\nwrong.} 36. Nxg2 (36. Kxg2 $2 Rxg6+ 37. Kh1 Rxd3 38. Nxd3 Qa8+ $19) 36… Qxg6\n37. Qxe7 Rxd3 38. Nf4 Qg4 39. Qxf6 (39. Nxd3 $4 {allows mate in two.} Qf3+ 40.\nKg1 Rg6+ $19) 39… Qxf4 40. Rb2 Rh3 (40… Rd1 $1 41. Qe7 $1 $18) 41. Rg2 Qc7\n42. Re7 (42. Re8+ {also won : the text is more realistic.}) 42… Rxh2+ 43.\nRxh2 Qc6+ 44. Qxc6 1-0[/pgn] \nHe scooped the Silver medal at the British in 1971 and in 1976. Andrew often worked selflessly at his office in the mornings\, commuting to key games after lunch. He rose to be No. 3 or 4 in England and\, always a loyal team man\, shone in Olympiads. Belatedly\, having turned his back on the law\, in 1988\, he became an IM. He was also a BCF Arbiter and Middlesex County organiser. In 2008\, he won the English Senior Championships aged 61. \nHis was a classical chess style. RIP.” \nAndrew Whiteley at the Nice Olympiad of 1974.\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nAndrew Whiteley commentating on Kasparov vs Karpov\nHere is a excellent obituary from his old school\, Magdalen College. \nFM Andrew Whiteley\, IM Julian Hodgson and FM Byron Jacobs at Cappelle Le Grand\, 1988. Photograph by Caroline Winkler\nHere is an obituary from Stewart Reuben on behalf of the English Chess Federation \nAndrew Whiteley receives the Rosebowl trophy from John Poole\nSince 2014 King’s Head Chess Club has held an annual blitz tournament in memory of Andrew featuring many of England’s top players. \nAndrew Whiteley faces David Howell whilst Jimmy Adams records the moves\nHere is a discussion of Andrew on the English Chess Forum \nIM Andrew Whiteley at the first 4NCL weekend of 2012 in November.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-andrew-john-whiteley/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,Hastings,Player,Remembering
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200707
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200708
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Christopher Gant (07-vii-1959)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Christopher J Gant (07-vii-1959)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-christopher-j-gant-07-vii-1959/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200707
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200708
DTSTAMP:20200706T162351Z
CREATED:20200410T211941Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200706T162351Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Rafe Martyn (07-vii-1986)
DESCRIPTION:FM Rafe Martyn in around 2004\, Photo by Cathy Rogers\nBirthday of FM Rafe Martyn (07-vii-1986) \nFM Rafe Martyn in around 2000\, Photo by Cathy Rogers
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-rafe-martyn-07-vii-1986/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200708
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200709
DTSTAMP:20201030T201753Z
CREATED:20190824T125138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T201753Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of FM David Rumens (23-ix-1939 08-vii-2017)
DESCRIPTION:FM Dave Rumens enjoys being introduced as “The late Dave Rumens” at the 2013 Terafinal by Mike Basman\, Loughborough Grammar School. Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nBCN remembers FM David Edward Rumens who passed away on July 8th\, 2017 \nDavid was born in Hendon\, London (his mother’s maiden name was Little). In his latter years he lived in Olney and then Wavendon both in Milton Keynes\, Buckinghamshire. \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1980 at the age of 41. \nAccording to chessgames.com : “FIDE Master David Edward Rumens was UK Grand Prix Champion in 1976 and 1978.” \nHis highest Elo rating was 2355 in July 1981 at the age of 42. \nHis first game in Megabase 2020 is a win with Black against Dr. Fazekas in the 1958 British Championships in Leamington Spa. His most recent database game was a win with White over Jessie Gilbert at the 2003 British Championships in Edinburgh with 159 games recorded in total. Between 1982 and 2001 no games are recorded. \nDavid Edward Rumens at the 1959 Youth World Chess Championships in Munchenstein.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Championship in Munchenstein.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\nCarlos Bielicki of Argentina (left) beats David Edward Rumens of England in the final game of the 1959 Youth World Chess Championships in Munchenstein.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\nHere is an obituary written by Stewart Reuben from the ECF web site \nThe Cedars Chess Club May 1962 – David is seated\, second left. Photograph sourced from ECF obituary.\nHere is a discussion of David on the English Chess Forum \nDavid at Stewart Reuben’s 21st\, on Stewart’s right (Stewart has the jug) – March 1960. Photograph sourced from ECF Obituary\nDave Rumens is pleased to accept a cheque for £200 from Lady Thelma Milner-Barry for winning the 1978 Nottingham Congress with 5.5/6. Photo provided by Nottinghamshire County Council.\nFrom Round Two of the above event we have David’s exciting win over his main Grand Prix rival\, Andrew Whiteley. This game was provided by Freddy Reilly in BCM\, Volume XCVIII (98)\, Number 6 (June)\, page 255 and is BCM game number 18688 : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Nottingham Congress”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1978.06.01”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Rumens\, David Edward”]\n[Black “Whiteley\, Andrew Jonathan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B23”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, Volume 98\, Number 6\,”] \n{[%evp 0\,23\,19\,38\,40\,46\,33\,27\,53\,48\,46\,45\,34\,31\,11\,7\,0\,-11\,-16\,-27\,-3\,-7\,22\,\n-19\,45\,-27]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Bc4 Bg7 6. O-O e6 7. Qe1\nNge7 8. Qh4 a6 9. d3 b5 10. Bb3 Na5 11. f5 gxf5 12. Bg5 $146 (12. Bh6 Bxh6 13.\nQxh6 Nxb3 14. axb3 Bb7 15. Ng5 {Sanders – Boruchovsky\, Riga\, 2017\, 1-0.}) 12…\nQc7 13. Rae1 Nxb3 14. axb3 b4 $2 {[#]} (14… Bb7 $142 15. Qh5) 15. Nd5 $1 Nxd5\n16. exd5 e5 17. Bf6 $1 Kf8 18. Bxg7+ Kxg7 19. Qg5+ Kf8 20. Qh6+ Ke7 21. Qg5+ (\n21. Qg7 Qd8 {[#]} 22. Nxe5 $1 dxe5 23. Rxe5+ Kd6 24. Rfe1 $18 (24. Qg3 $18 Kd7\n25. Rfxf5) 24… Ra7 25. Qg3) 21… Kf8 22. Qh6+ Ke7 23. Qg7 Qd8 24. Nxe5 $1\ndxe5 25. Rxe5+ Kd6 26. Rfe1 (26. Qg3) 26… Ra7 27. Qg3 Kc7 28. Re8+ Kb6 29.\nRxd8 Rxd8 30. c4 $1 bxc3 31. bxc3 Rxd5 32. Qb8+ Bb7 33. Re7 Rxd3 34. Qc7+ Kb5\n35. c4+ Kb4 36. Qb6+ Kc3 37. Qxa7 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nA view of the display boards with David Rumens commentating from 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.\nLWB observes analysis between David Rumens and Murray Chandler from Brighton 1980. Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nFM Dave Rumens\, unknown event and photographer\nFM Dave Rumens\, unknown event and photographer\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPTRo94K7hI[/embedyt] \nFM Dave Rumens enjoys being introduced as “The late Dave Rumens” at the 2013 Terafinal by Mike Basman\, Loughborough Grammar School. Courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-david-edward-rumens/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200711
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200712
DTSTAMP:20210708T121536Z
CREATED:20190822T165808Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210708T121536Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM David Friedgood (11-vii-1946)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM David Friedgood (11-vii-1946) \nDavid was born in Cape Town\, Republic of South Africa and now resides in England. \nHe first won the South Africa Championship in 1967 in Johannesburg\, again in 1971\, and in 1973 in Cape Town when his main rivals were Piet Kroon and Charles de Villiers. \nHe plays for Cavendish\, Hendon and 4NCL MK Phoenix. \nHe gained his FM title in 1982. \nHis peak rating of 2335 was achieved in January\, 1980. \nDavid Friedgood (far right) and a victorious Wood Green team. Trophy presented by Magnus Magnusson\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 9900 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “2000.05.01”]\n[Round “11.6”]\n[White “Friedgood\, David”]\n[Black “James\, Dale R”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A21”]\n[WhiteElo “2244”]\n[BlackElo “2239”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “31”]\n[EventDate “1999.10.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “The ADS”]\n[BlackTeam “NW Eagles”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,31\,80\,-15\,-15\,-15\,63\,27\,63\,40\,47\,41\,63\,89\,94\,93\,112\,111\,109\,96\,71\,71\,\n86\,75\,44\,-285\,-287\,-230\,843\,1293\,1293\,1523\,2056\,29988]} 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 f5 3.\nd4 e4 4. Nh3 Nf6 5. Bg5 c6 (5… Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Nf4 c6) 6. Nf4 Be7 7. e3 O-O\n8. c5 d5 9. cxd6 Qxd6 10. Bc4+ Kh8 11. h4 b5 {[#]} 12. Ng6+ $5 (12. Bb3 $142\n$16) 12… hxg6 13. h5 Ng8 $4 (13… Kh7 $1 14. Bb3 Ng4 $17) 14. hxg6+ $18 Nh6\n15. Bxh6 gxh6 16. Qh5 {and it is mate in six.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDavid Friedgood at a Lloyds Bank problem solving event with Sir Jeremy Morse\, Jonathan Mestel and ?\nFM David Friedgood at the 2014 Winton Capital Problem Solving Championship at Eton College
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-friedgood/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Composer,Player,Problemist
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200711
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200712
DTSTAMP:20260817T141124Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Ken Whyld (06-iii-1926 11-vii-2003)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers much loved Ken Whyld who passed away on July 11th 2003 in Lincolnshire. \nKen Whyld from CHESS magazine\, January 1950. courtesy of the Ken Whyld Association\nFrom Chess : The Records : \n“Ken Whyld was the editor of Chess Students Quarterly in the early 1950s and from 1955-63\, Chess Reader\, in which he reviewed more than 500 chess books. He has written seven tournament books and one match book. \nKen Whyld (06-iii-1926 11-vii-2003)\nWith J. Gilchrist he wrote a three-volume anthology of Lasker’s games\, and with David Hooper\, The Oxford Companion to Chess.  \nKen at the gravestone of “William” Steinitz\nFor the book World Chess Champions he wrote the chapters on Lasker and Smyslov. In his playing days he was champion of his county (Nottinghamshire) many times and played in the British Championship as well as international tournaments.” \nKen Whyld  (06-iii-1926 11-vii-2003)\nPossibly the best tribute to Ken was written by John Saunders and Bernard Cafferty in the August 2003 issue of British Chess Magazine\, pages 398 – 402. \nEditorial from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIII (123)\, Number 8 (August)\, page 395 by Editor\, John Saunders\nKen Whyld Remembered from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIII (123)\, Number 8 (August)\, page 398 by Editor\, John Saunders and Bernard Cafferty\nKen Whyld Remembered from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIII (123)\, Number 8 (August)\, page 399 by Editor\, John Saunders and Bernard Cafferty\nKen Whyld Remembered from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIII (123)\, Number 8 (August)\, page 400 by Editor\, John Saunders and Bernard Cafferty\nKen Whyld Remembered from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIII (123)\, Number 8 (August)\, page 401 by Editor\, John Saunders and Bernard Cafferty\nKen Whyld Remembered from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIII (123)\, Number 8 (August)\, page 402 by Editor\, John Saunders and Bernard Cafferty\nKen Whyld\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-37 Major Open”]\n[Site “Buxton/ Derbyshire”]\n[Date “1950.08.24”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Fawcett\, Edward Douglas”]\n[Black “Whyld\, Kenneth”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C82”]\n[Annotator “Whyld\,Ken”]\n[PlyCount “32”]\n[EventDate “1950.08.21”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2018”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,32\,16\,28\,38\,44\,44\,-1\,8\,-27\,-27\,-37\,13\,-64\,-39\,9\,-2\,-2\,17\,-77\,-77\,-98\,\n-24\,-108\,13\,-71\,-3\,-51\,-17\,-70\,-13\,-29995\,-29996\,-29997\,-29998]} 1. e4 {\n1) Ken Whyld in CHESS 1998/11.} e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4\n6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5 Be6 9. c3 Bc5 {“I particularly remember this game\nbecause here my opponent said ‘Ah! Pillsbury played that against me’.” (Ken\nWhyld)} 10. Bc2 O-O 11. Qe2 f5 12. exf6 Rxf6 13. Be3 Bg4 14. Bxc5 Bxf3 15. gxf3\nRg6+ 16. Kh1 Qg5 {Note: E D Fawcett was aged 84 in 1950\, having been born in\nApril 1866. Source: CHESS\, November 1998.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nSee more details from the Ken Whyld Association \nThe Collected Games of Emanuel Lasker\nThe Oxford Companion to Chess\nChess : The Records\, Guinness\, 1986\, SBN 10: 0851124550ISBN 13: 9780851124551\nLearn Chess in a Weekend\nChess Columns : A List\nChess Reader\nChess Stalker Quarterly\nThe Oxford Companion to Chess\, 1st Edition\nCurse of Kirsan by Sarah Hurst\, Ken wrote the Foreword.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-ken-whyld-06-iii-1926-11-vii-2003/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player,Remembering,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200711
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200712
DTSTAMP:20210708T122041Z
CREATED:20200716T222423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210708T122041Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM A Howard Williams (11-viii-1950)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM A Howard Williams (11-viii-1950)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-arthur-howard-williams-11-viii-1950/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200713
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200714
DTSTAMP:20260817T141114Z
CREATED:20200411T182726Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T141114Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Desmond TN Tan (13-vii-1983)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Desmond TN Tan (13-vii-1983) \nFM Desmond Tan
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-desmond-tn-tan-13-vii-1983/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200716
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200717
DTSTAMP:20210708T141006Z
CREATED:20200131T000043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210708T141006Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Lawrence Cooper (16-vii-1970)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to IM Lawrence Cooper (16-vii-1970) \nLawrence was born in Stone\, Staffordshire and attend Walton High School\, Stafford. \nLawrence Cooper\, Demis Hassabis\, Cathy Hasslinger  and Dharshan Kumaran in around 1986. Possibly at a Lloyds Bank event.\nHe became a FIDE Master in 1989 and then an International Master in 2001. \nLawrence was awarded the FIDE International Organiser title in 2011 and the FIDE Arbiter title in 2016. \nTim Dickinson and Lawrence Cooper at the 2012 London Chess Classic\, Olympia\nHis peak rating was 2430 in January 1988. \nLawrence plays for Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL)  plus Newport (Shropshire)\, Stafford\, Bushbury and Worcestershire CCA in other competitions. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Midland Open”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1991.03.22”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Cooper\, Lawrence”]\n[Black “Eames\, Bob”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C89”]\n[Annotator “Lawrence Cooper”]\n[PlyCount “129”]\n[EventDate “1991.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “Lawrence Cooper”] \n{[%evp 0\,129\,16\,28\,38\,44\,16\,8\,24\,-16\,6\,3\,16\,-37\,-11\,6\,3\,-55\,-14\,14\,14\,25\,25\,19\,\n19\,16\,19\,11\,10\,17\,17\,-345\,-4\,14\,29\,33\,34\,-28\,78\,43\,98\,79\,171\,105\,144\,115\,304\,\n237\,369\,158\,164\,264\,264\,209\,209\,185\,340\,31\,21\,0\,179\,176\,198\,240\,240\,245\,185\,\n170\,216\,198\,342\,339\,326\,88\,31\,31\,31\,32\,0\,0\,0\,0\,27\,0\,116\,134\,134\,176\,176\,176\,\n138\,100\,253\,233\,236\,175\,353\,342\,468\,468\,468\,476\,497\,497\,503\,535\,543\,547\,411\,\n539\,557\,536\,628\,612\,724\,1103\,1103\,1216\,1262\,1002\,1002\,1012\,1016\,1016\,1016\,1022\,\n1260\,1312\,1312\,1312\,1312\,1312]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O\nBe7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. Rxe5 c6 12. d4\nBd6 13. Re1 Qh4 14. g3 Qh3 15. Be3 Bg4 16. Qd3 Rae8 17. Nd2 Re6 18. a4 bxa4 19.\nRxa4 f5 20. Qf1 Qh5 21. f4 Rfe8 22. Rxa6 Rxe3 23. Rxe3 Rxe3 24. Rxc6 Qe8 25.\nBxd5+ Kf8 26. Ne4 $146 (26. Rxd6 Re1 27. Re6 Rxf1+ 28. Nxf1) 26… fxe4 27.\nRxd6 Rd3 28. Bb3 Qb8 (28… e3 29. Qxd3 (29. Rd8 $2 Qxd8 30. Qxd3 e2 31. Qe4\nQa5 32. Qb1 Qa8 33. Qe1 Qf3) 29… e2 30. Re6 Bxe6 (30… Qxe6 31. Bxe6 e1=Q+\n32. Kg2 Qxe6)) 29. Qa1 Ke7 $2 (29… Qxb3 30. Qa8+ Kf7 31. Qa7+ $11) (29…\nQxd6 30. Qa8+) 30. Qa5 Qxd6 31. Qg5+ Qf6 32. Qxg4 Rd2 33. Qc8 (33. f5) (33. Ba4\n) 33… Qb6 (33… Rxb2) 34. Qg8 (34. Qc4) 34… Rxb2 (34… Qh6 35. Qf7+ Kd8\n36. Qf8+ Kd7 37. Qf5+ Kd8 38. h3) 35. Qxg7+ Kd8 36. Ba4 (36. Qg8+ Kd7 37. Qxh7+\nKc8) 36… Rb1+ 37. Kg2 Rb2+ (37… Qe6) 38. Kh3 Qe6+ 39. g4 e3 40. Qg5+ Kc7 (\n40… Kc8) 41. d5 Qe4 42. d6+ Kb6 (42… Kxd6 43. Qd8+ Ke6 44. Qe8+ Kd5 45.\nQc6#) 43. Qd8+ Ka6 44. d7 Qf3+ (44… e2 45. Qc8+ Ka7 46. Qc7+ Ka6 47. d8=Q\nQf3+ 48. Kh4 e1=Q+ 49. Kg5) 45. Kh4 Rxh2+ 46. Kg5 h6+ 47. Kg6 Qxg4+ $2 (47…\nRd2) 48. Kh7 Qf5+ 49. Kh8 Rd2 50. Qa8+ Kb6 51. Qb8+ Ka6 52. Qa8+ Kb6 53. d8=Q+\nRxd8+ 54. Qxd8+ Kb7 55. Qe7+ Kb6 56. Qxe3+ Kc7 57. Qe5+ Qxe5+ 58. fxe5 Kd8 59.\nKg7 Ke7 60. Kxh6 Ke6 61. Kg5 Kxe5 62. Bb5 Kd5 63. c4+ Kd4 64. Kf4 Kc5 65. Ke5\n1-0\n[/pgn] \nLawrence Cooper (centre with trophy) being presented with 1992 BCF Counties Championship trophy by WIM Cathy Forbes. Others in the group include Michael Gough\, Alan A Smith\, Gerald Acey\, Mike P Townsend\, Malcolm Armstrong\, Martin Costley\, Alan Crombleholme\, Graeme N Buckley\, Paul Wallace\, Mark A . Wheeler\, Dave Carless\, Darren P Wheeler\, Keith Thompson\, Ralph MA Allen and Graham Smith\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUbR118yiFo[/embedyt] \nFull caption in image below\nFull caption for above 1986 BCF Junior Squad group photograph\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlehK0SY2I8[/embedyt] \n  \nIM Lawrence Cooper\, photography by Fiona Steil-Antoni
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Michael Barnes (16-vii-1965)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Michael H Barnes (16-vii-1965)
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Raaphi Persitz (26-vii-1934 04-ii-2009)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Raaphy(i) Persitz who passed away on Wednesday\, February 4th\, 2009. \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, Number 3 (March)\, pp. 130-134 by John Saunders we have this detailed obituary: \nRaaphy Persitz\nA tribute to a great friend of British chess\, by John Saunders\nRaphael Joseph Arie (Raaphy) Persitz (26 vii 1934\, Tel Aviv – 4 ii 2009\, Tel Aviv) \n28th December 1955: Israeli chess player Raaphy Persitz in play at the International Chess Congress at Hastings. (Photo by Folb/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)\nRaaphy Persitz\, one of the strongest players resident in Britain in the 1950s and 1960s and also one of BCM‘s most popular contributors\, has died aged 74. Raaphy was born in Tel Aviv\, the grandson of Shoshana Persitz (1893-1969)\, a publisher who became an early member of the Knesset\, the Israeli parliament. Raaphy became Israel’s first junior champion in 1951 and shortly afterwards came to study PPE (Philosophy\, Politics and Economics) at Oxford University where he was a member of their very strong chess team and a close friend of Leonard Barden and others. \nRaaphy Persitz (26-vii-1934 04-ii-2009). 26 year-old Raaphy Persitz at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad playing on board four for Israel. He scored +6\, =2\, -4.\nOne of his most publicised feats was to win his Varsity match game and also a county match against Hugh Alexander on the same day (see the May 1954 or March 2004 issues of the magazine for further details). Raaphy played three times in the Varsity match and also represented England in three Students Olympiads in the mid-1950s. He represented Israel in the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad on board four\, and also played twice in the Hastings Premier\, in 1955-56 and 1968-69\, the latter being his swansong in competitive chess as he turned his attention to a career in banking which took him first to Switzerland and eventually to his home town of Tel Aviv. As a player his best result was probably finishing third behind Reshevsky and Szabo at the first major international tournament held in Israel\, Haifa/Tel Aviv 1958. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1955/56-31 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1956.01.04”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Persitz\, Raaphi”]\n[Black “Penrose\, Jonathan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “65”]\n[EventDate “1955.12.28”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,65\,19\,38\,25\,7\,75\,61\,61\,49\,73\,66\,59\,38\,43\,42\,60\,58\,63\,50\,75\,46\,71\,47\,\n29\,36\,48\,-15\,-26\,-13\,-26\,-42\,-32\,-31\,-22\,-26\,-3\,-28\,-48\,-35\,-20\,-32\,40\,61\,80\,\n-20\,18\,-1\,9\,-73\,-46\,-131\,-142\,-109\,-36\,-74\,-62\,-93\,-30\,9\,51\,8\,67\,67\,67\,20\,120\,\n63]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bc4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. h3 c6 8.\na4 Qc7 {[#]} ({Relevant:} 8… b6 9. Qe2 a6 10. d5 c5 11. Bd3 Ne8 12. Nd1 Nc7\n13. Ne3 Re8 14. Nf5 Nf8 15. c4 Rb8 16. Bd2 a5 17. Rae1 Ng6 18. g3 Bf6 19. Qd1\nNe7 20. b3 Rb7 21. Kg2 Na6 22. Qc1 Nb4 23. Bb1 Kh8 24. Ne3 g6 25. Ng4 Ng8 26.\nNxf6 Qxf6 27. Ng1 Qg7 28. f4 f6 29. Nf3 Rbe7 30. fxe5 dxe5 31. Nh4 Rd8 32. Kh2\nh6 33. g4 Kh7 34. Re3 Na6 35. Rg3 Nc7 36. Kg2 Ne8 37. Nf3 Nd6 38. h4 {Roehrich\,\nE-Rellstab\,L Hamburg 1952 1-0 (69)}) 9. Bg5 $146 ({Predecessor:} 9. Re1 h6 10.\ndxe5 dxe5 11. Nh4 Re8 12. Qf3 Nf8 13. Nf5 Be6 14. Nxe7+ Qxe7 15. Bf1 Ng6 16.\nBe3 Kh7 17. a5 Nh4 18. Qg3 Ng6 19. f3 Nh5 20. Qf2 Ngf4 21. Kh2 g5 22. g3 Ng6\n23. Bxa7 Rg8 24. Bc5 Qf6 25. Be3 Qg7 26. Red1 Nf6 27. Rd6 Ne8 28. Rd2 Nf6 29.\nBe2 Nf8 30. b4 h5 31. Rad1 g4 32. fxg4 hxg4 33. h4 Ng6 34. Kg1 Nh5 35. Na4 Raf8\n36. Nc5 Bc8 37. Nd7 Bxd7 38. Rxd7 Nf6 {Matanovic\,A-Porreca\,G Belgrade 1952 1-0}\n) 9… Re8 10. Re1 Nf8 11. Bh4 Be6 12. Qe2 Nh5 13. Bxe6 Nxe6 14. d5 Nef4 15.\nQe3 cxd5 16. exd5 Bxh4 17. Nxh4 Qe7 18. Nf3 f5 19. Kh2 Qd7 20. Rad1 e4 21. Nd4\nRe5 22. Nde2 g5 23. Rg1 Kh8 24. f3 exf3 25. Qxf3 g4 26. Qf1 Ng6 27. Rd3 f4 28.\nNd4 Ng3 29. Qd1 Rh5 30. Ne6 gxh3 31. gxh3 Rh4 32. Ne2 Ne5 33. Nxg3 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDespite giving up competitive play\, Raaphy never lost his love of the game and remained an avid reader of magazines and follower of the game until the end of his life. And\, of course\, he remained a perceptive and humorous writer on the game though his output was much lower than in the 1950s. The news of his death came as a particular shock to me as\, only a couple of weeks previously\, he had sent me a fax saying how moved he had been by the tribute I had writ- ten to Bob Wade in the January 2009 issue of BCM. That was typical of his kindness to wards me which dated back to when I took my first tottering steps as BCM editor in 1999. We never actually met in person but spoke occasionally on the telephone and exchanged faxes (Raaphy didn’t seem to communicate by email). \nRaaphy Persitz (26-vii-1934 04-ii-2009)\nAs a long-time reader of the magazine I had enjoyed his Student’s Corner column contributions. The column had been initiated by Abe Yanofsky in the early 1950s and Raaphy had inherited it in 1958. I was particularly delighted when\, in 2004\, after I had written about his 1954 feat in winning his Varsity match game and a county match against English number one CHO’D(Hugh) Alexander on the same day\, Raaphy consented to write another column (which appeared in the May 2004 issue of BCM). I never succeeded in getting him to write another one but it was such a pleasure to have him write for the magazine during my spell as editor. \n[pgn]\n[Event “County Match\, Oxon  v Gloucester”]\n[Site “Swindon ENG”]\n[Date “1954.03.27”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Persitz\, Raaphy”]\n[Black “Alexander\, Conel Hugh”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C47”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “79”]\n[EventDate “1954.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, May 1954\, -age 151”]\n[Source “‘Cabbage Heads a”]\n[WhiteTeam “Oxfordshire”]\n[BlackTeam “Gloucestershire”] \n{[%evp 0\,79\,28\,28\,28\,13\,25\,5\,8\,-17\,37\,33\,22\,2\,75\,57\,57\,57\,47\,36\,91\,58\,60\,29\,39\,\n22\,40\,83\,83\,24\,51\,41\,74\,79\,76\,76\,74\,74\,74\,69\,69\,37\,37\,30\,38\,0\,7\,10\,52\,-46\,52\,\n33\,-10\,-21\,27\,15\,34\,19\,14\,116\,117\,80\,95\,-102\,56\,56\,60\,194\,200\,196\,204\,0\,7\,0\,\n259\,268\,287\,290\,288\,288\,504\,523]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 Bb4 5.\nd5 Ne7 6. Nxe5 O-O 7. Qd4 Bxc3+ 8. bxc3 {[#]} Re8 $146 ({Relevant:} 8… d6 9.\nNf3 Re8 10. Be2 c5 11. Qd3 Ng6 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bxf6 Qxf6 14. g3 Bh3 15. Nd2 b5\n16. Rb1 a6 17. f4 Qe7 18. Kf2 f5 19. Bf3 Qf6 20. Rhe1 Ra7 21. exf5 Rxe1 22.\nRxe1 Bxf5 23. Be4 Bxe4 24. Nxe4 Qf8 25. Ng5 hxg5 26. Qxg6 Rf7 27. Qxg5 Rf5 28.\nQg6 Rf6 29. Qe8 Qxe8 30. Rxe8+ Kf7 31. Ra8 Rf5 32. Rxa6 Rxd5 33. Ke2 Ke6 34.\nRa5 Rh5 35. h4 Kd5 36. Rxb5 Kc4 37. Rb3 Rh8 38. a4 {Cortlever\,N-Milner Barry\,P\nLondon 1952 1-0}) 9. Bg5 Nf5 10. exf5 d6 11. f4 dxe5 12. fxe5 Qxd5 13. O-O-O\nQxd4 14. cxd4 Ne4 15. Bh4 Nc3 16. Rd3 Nxa2+ 17. Kb2 Nb4 18. Rf3 a5 19. c3 Nd5\n20. Bc4 c6 21. g4 b5 22. Bd3 Bd7 23. g5 c5 24. Rhf1 a4 25. Be4 Bc6 26. g6 a3+\n27. Ka1 cxd4 28. gxf7+ Kxf7 29. e6+ Kg8 30. cxd4 Ra4 31. Rg1 Rxd4 32. f6 Rxe4\n33. f7+ Kf8 34. fxe8=Q+ Kxe8 35. Bf2 b4 36. Bc5 Rxe6 37. Rf8+ Kd7 38. Rxg7+ Ne7\n39. Bxb4 Bd5 40. Rff7 1-0 \n[/pgn] \n(Regarding the above game there is a note from Sally Simpson on chessgames.com as follows: \nRaaphi Persitz agreed to play for Oxford v Cambridge in London and also on the same day for Oxon v Gloucester in a county match in Swindon. \nThis is the second game\, he won both games. \nBe aware that Bruce Hayden in ‘Cabbage Heads and Kings’\, which is where I got this game from\, mentions this but also added that these games took place on the same day as the 1954 Grand National (won by Royal Tan). This is wrong as the Grand National that year was run on the 10 April. \nI think that maybe Bruce saw the score of the games with the two games a day story in a Sunday newspaper covering Saturdays Grand National and perhaps got the dates mixed up. \n) \nThe fax he sent me on 7 January 2009 seems particularly poignant now but it is a good example of Raaphy’s kindness and self-deprecating humour. Here is the full text: \n“Dear John\, I was moved by your wide-ranging obituary of Bob Wade in the BCM[January 2009\, p34l. I dare say you did justice to his contributions and devotion to chess\, spanning well over half a century. I have several pleasant recollections of conversations and over-the-board encounters with Bob. One such tussle\, a hard-fought draw\, was reproduced by Bob\, with comments (in the Student’s Corner) in a book containing his eventful games. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1968/69-44 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1969.01.02”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Persitz\, Raaphi”]\n[Black “Huebner\, Robert”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E82”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “1968.12.28”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,55\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,38\,37\,33\,33\,10\,9\,21\,31\,23\,50\,27\,18\,21\,51\,55\,45\,38\,\n34\,27\,7\,-2\,-2\,13\,-9\,-14\,59\,21\,11\,14\,31\,24\,17\,-8\,-7\,-16\,-48\,-48\,-42\,-48\,0\,-1\,7\,\n5\,10\,28\,41\,-20\,183\,202\,29993\,29994]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5.\nf3 O-O 6. Be3 b6 7. Bd3 a6 8. Qd2 c5 9. d5 e6 10. Nge2 ({Relevant:} 10. dxe6\nBxe6 11. Bh6 Bxh6 12. Qxh6 Nbd7 13. Nh3 Ne5 14. O-O-O b5 15. Ng5 Qe7 16. Be2 b4\n17. Nd5 Bxd5 18. Rxd5 Rfd8 19. Rhd1 Nc6 20. f4 Nd4 21. Bf3 Qf8 22. Qxf8+ Kxf8\n23. R5xd4 cxd4 24. e5 dxe5 25. fxe5 Rdc8 26. exf6 Rxc4+ 27. Kd2 Rc5 28. Ne4 Ra5\n29. Kd3 Rxa2 30. Rb1 a5 31. Rc1 Rxb2 32. Rc7 Rb3+ 33. Kd2 Rb2+ 34. Kd1 d3 35.\nNg5 Kg8 36. Rxf7 Ra6 37. Rg7+ Kf8 38. Nxh7+ {1-0 (38) Szabo\,L-Najdorf\,M Mar\ndel Plata 1962}) 10… exd5 11. exd5 Nbd7 {[#]} 12. O-O $146 ({Predecessor:}\n12. Ng3 Re8 13. O-O Ng4 14. Bg5 f6 15. Bf4 Nge5 16. Be2 f5 17. Bg5 Nf6 18. Bh6\nBh8 19. Rfd1 Ra7 20. Rab1 Nf7 21. Be3 h5 22. Bf1 h4 23. Nge2 Nh5 24. Nf4 Nxf4\n25. Bxf4 Bd4+ {0-1 (25) Tamburini\,M-Botvinnik\,M Leipzig 1960}) 12… Ne5 13. b3\nNxd3 14. Qxd3 b5 15. Rae1 Qa5 16. Ng3 Rb8 17. Bd2 Qb6 18. Nce4 Nxe4 19. fxe4 a5\n20. Bc3 bxc4 21. bxc4 Bxc3 22. Qxc3 Qb2 23. Qxa5 Qd4+ 24. Kh1 Rb2 25. e5 Qxc4\n26. e6 Qb4 27. Qc7 Ba6 28. Qxf7+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAnother\, somewhat less felicitous\, recollection harks back to a game we contested at Ilford\, where\, in extreme time trouble\, I blithely played Rxh7+\, expecting …Qxh7\, but overlooking the simple …Kxh7\, leaving me a whole rook down with no compensation\, whereupon I duly resigned. What impressed me at the time was the lightning speed with which Bob reacted to my ill-fated blunder – as if it were nothing but inevitable… \nWith warmest wishes for a healthy\,\nhappy\, fruitful 2009. Raaphy.” \nI had hoped to publish the above as a Letter to the Editor but\, sadly\, it must now appear as part of Raaphy’s obituary. The draw with Bob Wade referred to in the fax was played in Dublin in 1962 and featured in Student’s Corner in BCM in the December 1966 issue on page 356. It seems appropriate to reproduce the game here in tribute to these two recently departed and much-loved chessplayers. \nNotes by Persitz\nUnlike the majority of games that have\, over the years\, appeared in the Student’s Corner\, the following dour struggle between Bob Wade (White) and myself (Black)\, from Dublin\, 1962\, is in no way outstanding: it does not contain any brilliant combinations; it is not a positional masterpiece; it is certainly not devoid of mistakes. Nor is it amusing\, or original\, or of theoretical interest or particularly instructive. Yet (with the aid of the interspersed comments) it ought to give the student a pretty shrewd and realistic idea of the stuff competitive chess is made of: the endless number of laborious variations that have to be examined; the annoying little threats that must be attended to; the treacherous pitfalls to be sidestepped; the technical hurdles to be surmounted; the frustrating little details\, indifference to which may be fatal; in brief\, the drudgery that has become part and parcel of contemporary tournament practice\, without which success is unimaginable. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Dublin”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1962.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Wade\, Robert Graham”]\n[Black “Persitz\, Raaphy”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[Annotator “Raaphy Persitz”]\n[SetUp “1”]\n[FEN “5rk1/1p4bp/1pn1p1p1/3pPp2/r2P4/7P/PP2BPP1/R1BR2K1 w – – 0 19”]\n[PlyCount “54”]\n[EventDate “1962.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 2009\, p.131”] \n{[%evp 0\,1\,-80\,-94] [#] White’s position does not inspire much confidence:} {\nAfter 40 minutes reflection\, White hits upon a drastic solution which displays\na profound understanding of the position.} 19. b4 $1 {The idea behind this\nremarkable move is a simple as the move itself is startling: since White’s\ncentral pawns exercise a cramping influence on Black’s king’s flank\, he will\ngo out of his way to hold on to them\, even if this involves jettisoning both\nhis queenside pawns. Black’s b-pawn will be subjected to a frontal attack\nalong the b-file.} ({the straightforward} 19. Be3 {\, to protect the hanging\nd-pawn\, will not do because of} f4 20. b3 Rb4 {etc}) ({whilst if} 19. Bb5 {\nsimply} Rxd4) 19… Nxb4 $2 {Frittering away most of his advantage.} ({\nAdmittedly neither} 19… Rxb4 20. Ba3 Rxd4 21. Bxf8) ({nor} 19… Nxd4 20.\nRxd4 Bxe5 21. Bb2 Bxd4 22. Bxd4 Rxb4 23. Rd1 {yields Black any superiority.}) (\n{But the tranquil} 19… Rfa8 {does} {For example} 20. a3 Rxb4 21. Be3 (21.\naxb4 Rxa1) 21… Rb2) 20. Bb5 $1 (20. a3 $2 Nc2) 20… Rxa2 $2 {Unnecessarily\njeopardising the black kinght.\, thus handing over the initiative to White.} ({\nThe safe course is} 20… Raa8 21. a4 Nc6 (21… Rfc8 $2 22. Bd7) ({or} 21…\nKf7 22. Ba3)) ({Less good is} 20… Nc2 $2 21. Bxa4 Nxa1 22. Bb2 Ra8 23. Bd7\nNc2 24. Bxe6+ Kf8 25. Bxd5 {when White’s connected passed pawns carry the day.}\n) 21. Rxa2 ({After} 21. Rb1 Nc6 (21… Na6 $2 22. Bd7) 22. Bxc6 bxc6 23. Rxb6\nRc2 {White does not appear to have enough for his minus pawn.}) 21… Nxa2 22.\nBd2 Ra8 {[#] The text move is aimed at rescuing the knight} ({Black had\noriginally intended to follow up 20…Rxa2? with} 22… Kf7 $2 {preparing for\n23…Rc8-c2 (which is not feasible right away on account 23.Bd7).} {but he had\nnot noticed that White would trap the displaced knight by means of} 23. Ra1 Ra8\n24. Bd3 {etc.}) 23. Rb1 ({If} 23. Ra1 Bf8 24. Bd3 Ra3 25. Bb1 {and the rescue\ncompletes} {by way of} Nc1 $1) 23… Kf7 24. Bd7 $2 ({If} 24. Be2 {then either}\nRc8 ({or} 24… Ra4 {suffices} 25. Bd1 ({or} 25. Rxb6 Rxd4 26. Rxb7+ Kg8 27.\nRb8+ (27. Rb2 Ra4) (27. Be3 Rb4 28. Ra7 Nc3) 27… Kf7 28. Rb7+ Kg8 29. Rb8+ {\nwith a draw by repetition of moves.}) 25… Rxd4 26. Rb2 Nc3 $1) 25. Rxb6 Rc2 {\netc}) ({More promising is} 24. Rb2 $1 {with Rc2 and Rc7 to follow whereupon\nBlack would find it extremely difficult to avoid the loss of his weak e-pawn.})\n24… Ke7 (24… Ra6 25. Bc8) 25. Rxb6 (25. Bb5 Rc8 $1 26. Bg5+ Kf7 27. Bd7 (\n27. Rb2 Nc3 $1) 27… Rc7) 25… Kxd7 (25… Bxe5 26. Bxe6 Bxd4 27. Bg5+ Bf6\n28. Bxf6+ Kxf6 29. Bxd5+ {which peters out into a draw.}) 26. Rxb7+ Kc6 {\nThe king is destined to play a leading part in the ending.} 27. Rxg7 {The game\nnow enters a new and tricky phase. White’s king is out of play\, but so is\nBlack’s knight.} Ra4 (27… Kb5 {\, in order to answer} 28. Re7 (28. Rxh7 Kc4\n29. Be3 {and White’s h-pawn becomes dangerous.} (29. Rg7)) 28… Ra6 {\, is too\nslow.}) 28. Re7 (28. Rxh7 {tends to favour Black} {i.e.} Rxd4 29. Bg5 Rd1+ 30.\nKh2 d4) ({Worse is} 28. Be3 Nc3 29. Rxh7 (29. Re7 $142) 29… f4 $1 30. Bd2\nNe2+ 31. Kf1 Nxd4 $17) 28… Rxd4 29. Rxe6+ Kb5 {[#]} 30. Be3 {Setting Black a\ndiscreet pitfall:} Re4 (30… Rd1+ 31. Kh2 d4 32. Rd6 d3 (32… dxe3 33. Rxd1)\n(32… Kc5 33. Bxd4+ $1) 33. e6 {and White wins.}) 31. Rb6+ Kc4 32. Rc6+ Kd3 (\n32… Kb5 $2 33. Rc5+) 33. e6 Nc3 {The knight returns from the cold.} ({instead\n} 33… d4 {loses outright to} 34. Rd6) 34. Rd6 ({If} 34. Bc5 Ne2+ (34… d4\n35. Rd6 Nb5 36. Rb6 Kc4 37. Bf8 d3) (34… Re1+ 35. Kh2 Ne4 36. Be3 f4 37. e7\nfxe3)) 34… f4 {warding off 35.Bg5 and denying the white king of access to\nthe flight square g3.} 35. Bc5 ({The alternative is} 35. Bb6 {(threatening 36\nBd8\, 37 e7\, 38 Rf6 and 39 Rf8 etc.)} Re1+ 36. Kh2 Re5 37. Bd8 Ne4 38. Rd7 {\nwith a draw after} Rxe6 (38… Nxf2 39. Bh4 Ne4 40. e7 g5 41. Rxd5+ Rxd5 42.\ne8=Q gxh4 43. Qf7 {being advantageous to White.}) 39. Rxd5+) 35… Re1+ 36. Kh2\nKc4 ({abstaining from} 36… Ne4 $2 37. Rxd5+ Kc4 {which goes down to} 38. Re5\n$1) 37. Bb6 {angling for Bd8 followed by e7\, Rf6-f8 and e8=Q.} Ne4 38. Rd7 (38.\nRc6+ Kb5 39. e7 {would lead to disaster after} Nd2) ({Likewise\, if} 38. Ba5 $2\nRa1 {menacing three white pieces}) ({if} 38. Rd8 Ng5) 38… Nd2 {attacking the\ne-pawn and threatening mate in three moves.} ({To} 38… Nf6 {White retorts not\n} 39. Rd6 ({nor} 39. Rc7+ Kb5 40. Bd4 Rxe6) ({but} 39. Re7 {with a level\nposition.}) 39… Ne8 40. Rc6+ Kb5) 39. Ba5 {Making the draw inescapeable.}\nNf1+ 40. Kg1 ({Of course\, if} 40. Kh1 $4 Ng3+ {and mates next move; which goes\nto show that other things being equal\, double check causes more damage than\ndiscovered ones.} 41. Kh2 Rh1#) 40… Nd2+ 41. Kh2 Nf1+ ({On} 41… Rd1 {\nWhite’s safest course is} 42. g4 {\, when Black does not appear to have\nanything more promising than} (42. Bxd2 Rxd2 {favours Black}) ({whilst the\nconsequences of} 42. h4 h5 {are obscure.}) 42… Nf3+ 43. Kg2 Nh4+ 44. Kh2 Nf3+\n{drawing by perpetual check.}) (41… Re2 42. e7) 42. Kg1 Ra1 {A last\, albeit\nharmless\, gesture.} 43. g4 Nd2+ {and a draw was agreed in anticipation of} ({\nThe careless} 43… fxg3 $2 44. Kg2 Rxa5 {would invite White to queen his\npassed pawn after} 45. e7 Ra8 46. Rd8 Ra7 47. e8=Q) 44. Kg2 (44. Kh2 Nf3+ 45.\nKg2 Nh4+ {and so on.}) 44… f3+ 45. Kh2 ({if} 45. Kg3 {he gets the worst of\nthe ending after} Ne4+) 45… Nf1+ {and so on and so forth.} 1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nRaaphy Persitz Tributes\nLeonard Barden: Raaphy was probably my best friend at Oxford – certainly so among chessplayers. We played hundreds of blitz games in the junior common room at Balliol and later for some months in 1957 we shared a London flat\, analysing Russian championship games over breakfast. He was a wonderful man to know\, bright\, witty\, gentle\, sympathetic and knowledgeable. \nLeonard Barden (centre) with Raaphi Persitz\, JB Sykes\, OI Galvenius and DM Armstrong\, Ilford\, May\, 1953\nA tribute by Amatzia Avni: Ordinary people have a mixture of good qualities and bad ones. After 20 years of friendship with the late Raaphy Persitz I can attest that he was a distinct type: one sided\, positive-only; pure gold. \nI first met him in 1989. I had just written my first chess book (in Hebrew) and was searching for someone to write me an introduction. The word was that Persitz was back in town\, after long years abroad. Having seen glimpses of his amazing linguistic skills\, I contacted him and he agreed immediately. He didn’t know me\, hadn’t read a single sentence of the book\, yet he didn’t hesitate: “yes\, sure\, I’ll be glad to”. \nThat was typical Persitz: always ready to help\, unconditionally. The introduction\, needless to say\, was a sheer delight\, a class or two above the rest of the book. In later years he gave me a hand several times polishing my texts and making them more reader-friendly to English-speaking readers. Somehow he seemed to know what I wished to express better than I did. His suggestions enabled me to convey my meaning in a clear and precise manner. \nRaaphy was modest and reserved. Once I called him and realized he was upset. “My mother had passed away some weeks ago\,” he said. I was puzzled why he didn’t tell me the sad news at the time. “I didn’t want to bother you” was his reply. \nA couple of years ago I stumbled upon Bruce Hayden’s old book Cabbage Heads and Chess Kings. One of the book’s chapters was headed “Raaphy Persitz star or comet?”. I learned that\, in the 1950s\, Persitz gained bright victories in England\, against Penrose\, Alexander\, Milner-Barry and others. Searching a Chessbase database I found out that he also done battle with some out- standing international players. Yet\, in all our meetings and hundreds of hours of conversation\, he never said a thing about that! \nPersitz was a master of understatement. I learned that if I wrote “very fine” or “extremely strong”\, the ‘very’ and ‘extremely’ would fly out of the window. If I made a firm stand on a certain issue\, he would add “probably”\, “apparently’ or “it may be argued that”\, because it was indeed only an opinion\, not a fact. Over time\, following his line of thought made me improve the way I expressed myself and thought about chess. \nPersitz’s distinctions in chess\, in linguistics and in journalism are evident to anyone who ever read his chess books and articles. He also excelled at economics\, but I am unqualified to comment on this. \nGod bless you\, Raaphy. I feel privileged to have known you. Amatzia Avni. \nHere is his Wikipedia entry
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Nigel Povah (17-vii-1952)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes IM Nigel Edward Povah all the best on his birthday\, July 17th in 1952. \nNigel Povah\, from Knightmare\, Volume 2 (1976-77) drawn by Chris Jones.\nNigel was born in Wandsworth\, London. \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1980\, an International Master in 1983 and an International Correspondence Master in 1983. He became England’s 7th ICCF GM in 1989. His predecessors were : \n210048 Markland\, Peter Richard ENG GM 1984\n210060 Penrose\, Dr. Jonathan ENG GM 1983\n210178 Webb\, Simon ENG GM 1983\n210011 Clarke\, Peter Hugh ENG GM 1980\n210029 Hollis\, Adrian Swayne ENG GM 1976\n210062 Richardson\, Keith Bevin ENG GM 1975 \nNigel has been Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1974-75 and 1975-76 seasons. \nNigel Povah\, circa 1979\nNigel has played for Streatham & Brixton Club (see the Andrew Martin video below) and was part of this very strong London club which developed many original opening ideas. \nNigel was a strong opening theoretician and developed ideas in the Sicilian Lasker-Pelikan\, Sveshnikov and English Openings amongst others. \nKnightmare magazines are a valuable source of information about the club and it’s members. \nBelow we have the game Berg-Povah\, Wijk aan Zee\, 1979 annotated by Streatham & Brixton team mate\, IM Andrew Martin : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BInpPM5r_qE[/embedyt] \nNigel continues to play for Guildford in the Surrey League and in the Surrey Border League as well as Guildford in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nNigel started the highly successful 4NCL teams sponsored by his company Guildford A&DC (Assessment & Development Consultants) and the 4NCL team(s) are now run by Roger Emerson and Julien Shepley having taken a back seat since June 2017. \nHis peak rating was 2385 in January 1980 aged 28. \nNigel is married to Gill and has a daughter Lucy and a son\, Jonathan. \nIn recent times Nigel has been playing more nationally and internationally and and has become a specialist in the Accelerated London System (with 2.Lf4) and is a regular on the International veterans circuit. \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-66 Championship”]\n[Site “Chester/ Cheshire”]\n[Date “1979.08.09”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Povah\, Nigel Edward”]\n[Black “Horner\, Jeff”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C61”]\n[WhiteElo “2325”]\n[BlackElo “2390”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “67”]\n[EventDate “1979.08.06”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\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\,67\,16\,28\,25\,18\,24\,15\,20\,-15\,10\,34\,21\,37\,22\,6\,60\,55\,77\,50\,53\,38\,67\,64\,\n68\,73\,68\,68\,67\,43\,37\,32\,25\,43\,41\,41\,33\,36\,40\,36\,38\,30\,42\,48\,48\,68\,78\,55\,77\,-61\,\n71\,58\,188\,195\,216\,429\,429\,471\,471\,531\,528\,537\,537\,398\,397\,397\,510\,522\,556\,559]\n} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Ba4 Nxf3+ 5. Qxf3 Qf6 6. Qg3 Bc5 7. O-O Ne7\n8. d3 h6 9. Be3 (9. Nc3) 9… Bb6 10. c4 $146 Bxe3 $6 (10… c6 11. Nc3) 11.\nfxe3 Qg5 12. Qxg5 hxg5 13. Nc3 c6 14. c5 b6 15. b4 bxc5 16. bxc5 Ba6 17. Bb3 f6\n18. Rfd1 Ng6 19. d4 exd4 20. exd4 Nf4 21. Rd2 {[#]} O-O-O 22. g3 Ne6 23. Rb1\nRhe8 24. Rdb2 $16 d5 (24… Nxd4 25. Bc4 Bb5 26. a4 a6 27. axb5 axb5 28. Rd1\nbxc4 29. Rxd4) 25. exd5 $18 cxd5 26. Ba4 Rf8 27. Nb5 Kd7 28. Nd6+ Ke7 29. Rb7+\nBxb7 30. Rxb7+ Nc7 31. Rxc7+ Ke6 32. Rxg7 a5 33. g4 Rg8 34. Bd7+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHere is an article written by Richard W. O’Brien from British Chess\, Pergamon Press\, 1983 : \n“Nigel Povah was for the majority of the seventies a chess professional. He mixed playing with teaching in various schools and also coached individuals. He is a BCF qualified coach. Danny King (our second youngest international master) and the late Ian Wells were two who clearly benefited from his teachings. \nOn the playing front he won numerous congresses including Hammersmith 1970\, Paignton 1974\, LARA 1974\, Evening Standard 1974\, LARA(again) 1978 and Charlton 1979. In 1975 he won the SCCU Championship and again in 1976. He first played in international tournaments in 1973 when as one of the weaker players in the tournament he produced excellent annotations for the bulletin\, even for the games he lost. These were the first signs of becoming a chess writer. To date he has shared first place in four international tournaments Robert Silk 1976\, Malta 1976\, Malta(again) 1979 and Wijk aan Zee Master Reserves 1979. It can be seen that 1979 was a good year. He also shared 4th place in the British Championship and represented\nEngland at senior level against Denmark in the same year. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Islington Open”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1974.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Povah\, Nigel Edward”]\n[Black “Hindle\, Owen Mark”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B78”]\n[Annotator “Nigel Povah”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, page 223”] \n{[%evp 0\,19\,20\,27\,51\,51\,99\,86\,88\,36\,33\,31\,97\,58\,58\,42\,44\,31\,38\,13\,47\,-1]} 1. e4\nc5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8. Qd2 O-O\n9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Ne5 12. h4 h5 13. Nd5 $5 $146 {My own idea\nagainst the then new 12…h5!? (Nigel’s idea does not appear in MegaBase 2020\nuntil 1983 so he was way ahead of his time.)} ({The 2020 main line is} 13. Bg5\nRc5 14. Kb1 b5 15. g4 hxg4 16. h5 Nxh5 17. Nd5 Re8 18. Rxh5 gxh5 19. Qh2 Rxd5\n20. Bxd5 Qb6 21. Nf5) 13… Nxd5 14. Bxd5 Nc4 $2 (14… e6 {is better}) 15.\nBxc4 Rxc4 16. g4 hxg4 17. h5 g5 $6 ({An alternatve is} 17… e5 $5) 18. h6 Be5\n19. b3 Rc8 20. h7+ Kh8 21. Bxg5 gxf3 $2 (21… Qb6 $1 {was a better try.}) 22.\nBh6 f2 23. Qxf2 Qb6 {[#]} 24. Qg1 $1 f5 $1 {forced} ({(a passing move such as)\n} 24… a6 {as White was threatening} 25. Qg8+ $3 Rxg8 26. hxg8=Q+ Kxg8 27.\nRdg1+) 25. Rd2 $1 Bxd4 26. Rg2 $3 Bb2+ 27. Kxb2 {and Black resigned and there\nis no answer to 28. Rg8+ Rxg8 29. hxg8=Q+ Rxg8 30. Bg7#. Not surprisingly this\ngame collected a brilliancy prize.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHis road to the lM title has been long and hard. On several occasions he got close to the norm requirement just to fail. At Lloyds Bank in 1978 and 1980 and Lewisham 1981 he got the necessary three norms. Had he then ceased playing (with an Elo of 23751 he would automatically have had the lM title confirmed at Lucerne in 1982. He however continued playing and became the victim of some complicated and\, with respect\, unfair FIDE regulations\, and his title was delayed until 1983. Clearly had the General Assembly met between January 1982 and June 1982 he would have been awarded the title at least a year earlier! \nHe has written several books-Chess Training published by Faber\, English:Four Knights Batsford\, How to Play the English Batsford and was co-author of Sicilian: Lasker-Pelikan Batsford. These last three Batsford publications indicate his interest in current theory. Two of the games which follow- v Berg (see 16…Rb8) and v Speelman (see 12 NgS)certainly confirm this. The Streatham and Brixton club owe much to Nigel Povah in becoming one of the strongest clubs in the country. At one time an average second division side (London league) they have since won the league and been in contention more than once. For several years he was one of the main three organisers at the club and even today still continues to play for them and is currently their National Club match-captain although he now lives some twenty miles away in Guildford. \nIn 1979 he organised the First Regency International at Ramsgate. In conjunction with Ian Josephs (sponsor) and Bob Wade (controller) this has become a highly successful annual event. \nNow married\, his wife Gill presented him with a daughter Lucy shortly after the completion of the Regency International in 1982. \nHe now works for ICL as training consultant and limits his over the board chess to club chess for Streatham. \nHe has recently taken up postal chess and in 1983 after competing in the BPCF Jubilee he became a correspondence International Master. \nHe has a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Occupational Psychology.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Westergate”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1983.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Povah\, Nigel Edward”]\n[Black “Speelman\, Jonathan Simon”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D37”]\n[Annotator “Nigel Povah”]\n[PlyCount “49”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, page 221”]\n[SourceDate “2020.07.16”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2020.07.16”] \n{[%evp 0\,22\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,0\,0\,6\,24\,26\,18\,8\,46\,51\,56\,35\,70\,53\,53\,39\,42\,32\,36]\n} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8.\ncxd5 Nxd5 9. Nxd5 exd5 10. a3 Nc6 11. Bd3 Bb6 ({As Black plays Bc7 later maybe\n} 11… Bd6 {is a better choice now.}) (11… h6 12. Bc2 {with Qd3 to follow\nand White stands better.}) 12. Ng5 $1 ({White had threatened} 12. Bxh7+ Kxh7\n13. Qc2+ {(with the bishop on c5)}) (12. O-O Bg4 13. h3 Bh5 14. b4 Re8 15. Rc1\na6 16. g4 Bg6 17. Bxg6 hxg6 18. Qd3 d4 19. e4 {Speelman – Geller\, Philips &\nDrew\, London\, 1982\, 1/2-1/2.}) 12… h6 13. Qh5 Bc7 $6 {It looks obvious that\nBlack should seek to exchange bishops in order to rule out ideas such as Nh7\nand Bxh6 etc.} ({He should try} 13… Qf6 $1 {with the idea of …Bf5 to\nfollow.} 14. Nh7 Ba5+ (14… Qxb2 15. O-O $16) 15. Kf1 Qxb2 16. Rd1 Re8 17.\nBxh6 gxh6 18. Qxh6 Bd8 19. Nf6+ Bxf6 20. Bh7+ Kh8 21. Bg6+) 14. g3 $1 Bxf4 $2 {\nOpening the g-file} ({but if} 14… d4 15. Nxf7 Rxf7 16. Bc4 $16) ({or} 14…\nNe5 15. Bxe5 Bxe5 16. Nxf7 Qf6 17. Nxe5 Qxf2+ 18. Kd1 $16) 15. gxf4 d4 16.\nO-O-O Qd5 17. Rhg1 Bd7 ({Not} 17… f6 $4 18. Ne6 $3 Qxh5 (18… Qxe6 19. Rxg7+\nKxg7 20. Qg6+ $16 Kh8 21. Qh7#) 19. Rxg7+ Kh8 20. Rh7+ Kg8 21. Rg1+ $16) 18.\nKb1 Rac8 19. e4 Qb3 20. e5 Nb4 $2 {Short of time and with Whte preparing to\nsacrifice on g7\, Black gets desperate.} (20… Ne7 {was better} {when} 21. Nf3\n$1 {threatens Nxd4 and 22.Rxg7+ Kxg7 23.Rg1+ Ng6 24.Rxg6+}) 21. axb4 Bb5 22.\nQe2 $1 Bc6 23. Ne4 {Black lost on time but as his solitary threat of} Bd5 {\nis answered by} 24. Nf6+ Kh8 {and} 25. Nxd5 {he is quite lost.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nStreatham & Brixton becoming BCF National Club Champions in 1989. The team was Tony Kosten\, Mark Hedben\, Daniel King\, Nigel Povah (Captain)\, Joe Gallagher and Julian Hodgson : quite a strong team\nAccording to Chess Training : “Two of his pupils were members of England’s victorious 4-man team in the World Under-16 team event.” \nHere is his Wikipedia entry : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Malta International Tournament”]\n[Site “Malta”]\n[Date “1976.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Kotov\, Alexander Alexandrov”]\n[Black “Povah\, Nigel Edward”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A46”]\n[Annotator “Nigel Povah”]\n[PlyCount “54”]\n[EventDate “1976.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, page 223”] \n{[%evp 0\,54\,19\,31\,25\,27\,56\,5\,64\,34\,58\,56\,58\,59\,57\,50\,42\,23\,22\,30\,30\,38\,25\,27\,\n39\,-26\,-38\,-66\,-83\,-45\,-39\,-71\,-18\,-7\,-9\,4\,24\,26\,46\,48\,30\,59\,101\,85\,68\,-127\,\n-34\,-204\,-219\,-380\,-414\,-414\,-443\,-443\,-426\,-672\,-708]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3.\nc3 b6 $5 {It is customary to play 3…e6 before playig b6 in order to\nrecapture on c5 with the bishop.} ({i.e.} 3… e6 4. dxc5 Bxc5) 4. dxc5 bxc5 5.\ne4 Bb7 ({Naturally not} 5… Nxe4 $2 6. Qd5 $18) 6. e5 Nd5 7. Bb5 {This\nposition resembles the c3 variation of the Sicilian Defence\, where White’s\npawn on c3 would normally be on d4\, and Black’s pawn c5 would be on b6; in\nsuch circumstances the move Bb5 is not normally played since Black intends to\ncontinue with e6 and not d6.} e6 8. O-O Be7 9. Nbd2 O-O 10. Ne4 f5 11. exf6\nNxf6 12. Neg5 ({If} 12. Nd6 $6 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 Bxd6 14. Qxa8 Qb6 {followed by\nNc6 wins}) 12… Qc7 $1 13. g3 (13. a3 $2 {Black threatened} h6 14. Nh3 Ng4 {\nwinning}) ({If} 13. Qe2 h6 14. Nxe6 dxe6 15. Qxe6+ Kh8 16. Nh4 Be4 $17) 13…\nh6 14. Nh3 Nd5 {threatening 15…Nxc3 16.bxc3 Bxf3} ({If instead} 14… Ng4 15.\nNf4 g5 16. Nxg5 hxg5 ({or here} 16… Nxh2 17. Nfxe6 Nf3+ 18. Qxf3 $18) 17.\nQxg4 $16) (14… Nh5 15. Nh4 $1 $16) 15. Ne1 {[#]} c4 $5 {to prevent the\nbishop retreating and to vacate the c5 square for Black’s pieces. however\,\noverlooking White’s reply.} 16. Qg4 Nb6 $1 {The c-pawn is more important than\nthe h-pawn.} 17. Bxh6 Rf7 18. Be3 ({If} 18. Ng5 Bxg5 19. Bxg5 a6 $19) 18… Qe5\n({If} 18… a6 19. Bxb6 Qxb6 20. Bxc4) 19. a4 $2 (19. Bxb6 $142 Qxb5 20. Bd4\nQxb2 $13) 19… Qd5 20. f3 Bc5 21. Ng2 a6 22. a5 $5 (22. Ng5 axb5 (22… Rf5\n23. Ne4 $1 $16) 23. Nxf7 Kxf7 {with obscure complications}) 22… axb5 23. axb6\n{[#]} Rxf3 $1 (23… Rxa1 $143 24. Rxa1 Rxf3 25. Bxc5 Qxc5+ 26. Qd4 (26. Kh1))\n24. Rxa8 (24. Rxf3 Rxa1+ 25. Kf2 Bxe3+ {wins the exchange}) 24… Rxf1+ 25.\nKxf1 Qxg2+ 26. Ke1 Bxa8 27. Bxc5 $2 ({White’s last hope was} 27. Qh5 Bf3 28.\nQe8+ Bf8 29. Nf4 Qh1+ {and Black just wins.}) 27… Bf3 0-1\n[/pgn] \nSicilian Lasker-Pelikan\nChess Training : Nigel Povah\nEnglish : Four Knights\nHow to play the English Opening\nAssessment Centres and Global Talent Management\nIM Nigel Povah\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-nigel-edward-povah-17-vii-1952/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Organiser,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200717
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200718
DTSTAMP:20210710T142153Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Dr. Julian Farrand QC (Hon) (13-viii-1935 17-vii-2020)
DESCRIPTION:BCN mourns the passing of Dr. Julian Farrand (13-viii-1935 17-vii-2020). He was 84 years of age. \nJulian Thomas Farrand was born August 13th\, 1935 in Doncaster in the West Riding of Yorkshire. \nDr. Farrand QC(Hon)\, formerly the Insurance Ombudsman\, became the Pensions Ombudsman\, and he had been a Law Commissioner and a University Professor of Law at the University of Manchester where he was Dean of the faculty. \nMost recently he lived in Morpeth\, London\, SW1. \nDr JULIAN FARRAND Pensions Ombudsman COMPULSORY CREDIT: UPPA/Photoshot Photo UKWT 011879/A-32a 31.07.1996\nHis first recorded game in Megabase 2020 was white at the 1968 British Championships in Bristol against life-long friend CGM Keith Bevan Richardson. Together with Raymond Brunton Edwards\, Julian and Keith were long-time trustees of the BCFs Permanent Invested Fund (PIF). \nJulian played for Pimlico\, Cavendish and Insurance in the London League and he maintained a standard play grading of 172A in 2020 as well as a FIDE rating of 1943 for standard play. He also played in the London Public Services League\, the Central London League and the City Chess Association League. He made regular appearances in the Bronowski Trophy competition and the World Senior’s Team Tournament. \nHis (according to Megabase 2020) peak Elo rating was 2238 in April\, 2004 aged 69. It is likely to have been higher than that if it was measured. \nJulian joined Barbican following its merger with Perception Youth to become Barbican Youth in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nHis favourite openings with white were : The Richter-Veresov Opening in later years and the English/Barcza Opening in earlier times. \nWith Black he enjoyed the Czech System and the Lenningrad Dutch. \nHis son\, Tom\, is a strong player and a successful barrister with expertise in Intellectual Property Rights\, Trademarks and Copyright law. \nHis wife (married in 1992)\, Baroness Hale of Richmond\, served as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2020\, and serves as a member of the House of Lords as a Lord Temporal. \nJulian Farrand with Lady Hale at a Buckingham Palace reception. Photo : Press Association\nMemorial messages have been posted on the English Chess Forum and many will\, no doubt\, follow. Included are older games from John Saunders not found in the online databases. \nIn 2015 Julian (together with fellow trustees Keith Richardson and Ray Edwards) received the ECF President’s Award for services to the Permanent Invested Fund. \nHere is the citation from the 2015 award : \n“Julian is best known as the first-ever English ombudsman (in insurance). He is the husband of law lord Baroness Hale. I (SR) first met him at about the age of 12 year old when playing for my school. He is about four years older. Both Ray and Julian are members of the Book of the Year Committee and have been reviewing books for this purpose for many years. Both are quite strong chess players\, indeed playing for England in the same team in the European 60+ Team Championship in Vienna 11-20 July 2015. Keith was to have been a member of the same team\, but his wife’s ill-health forced him to withdraw.” \nHere is an obituary from The Times of London \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT2 0607 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Sunningdale”]\n[Date “2006.09.16”]\n[Round “1.2”]\n[White “Pritchett\, IM Craig William”]\n[Black “Farrand\, Julian Thomas”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2289”]\n[BlackElo “2154”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “52”]\n[EventDate “2006.09.16”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 115 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.01.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.01.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Barbican II”]\n[BlackTeam “Barbican Youth”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,52\,19\,27\,67\,63\,66\,63\,64\,37\,124\,124\,103\,80\,97\,88\,105\,104\,116\,78\,77\,66\,\n70\,56\,69\,80\,72\,74\,69\,44\,56\,56\,64\,62\,62\,62\,69\,62\,53\,45\,-56\,-56\,-83\,-313\,-345\,\n-303\,-378\,-430\,-491\,-755\,-363\,-341\,-347\,-398\,-291]} 1. Nf3 d6 2. d4 Nd7 3. e4\nc6 4. Bc4 d5 5. exd5 Nb6 6. Bd3 cxd5 7. O-O e6 $146 (7… Nf6) 8. a4 a6 9. a5\nNd7 10. c4 dxc4 11. Bxc4 Bd6 12. d5 e5 13. Nc3 Ngf6 14. Bg5 Qc7 15. Qe2 O-O 16.\nRfc1 h6 17. Bh4 Re8 18. Bd3 Qb8 19. Bc2 $2 {[#]} e4 $1 20. Bxf6 (20. Nd2) (20.\nNxe4 $2 Nxe4 21. Bxe4 f5 $19) 20… Nxf6 21. Ne1 Bxh2+ 22. Kh1 Bf4 $19 23. Rcb1\nBg4 24. Qf1 Qe5 25. g3 Bd2 26. Bd1 Bxe1 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is an obituary from Stewart Reuben \nProf. Julian T Farrand at the King’s Place Rapidplay\, 2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nLove All Risks by Julian Farrand
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-prof-julian-t-farrand-13-viii-1935-17-vii-2020/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200719
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200720
DTSTAMP:20210710T142950Z
CREATED:20200401T143331Z
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UID:3930-1595116800-1595203199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of GM  Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (19-vii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant best wishes on her birthday\, July 19th 1968 \nHere is her extensive Wikipedia entry \nGM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant\nGM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-ketevan-arakhamia-grant-19-vii-1968/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200724
DTSTAMP:20210710T143352Z
CREATED:20190823T190033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210710T143352Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Sir George Thomas\, 7th Baronet (14-vi-1881 23-vii-1972)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Sir George Alan Thomas\, 7th Baronet (14-vi-1881 23-vii-1972) \nSignature of GA Thomas from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Hastings Christmas Congress\, 1945-1946\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (BT Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek : \n“British international master\, born in Constantinople (previously Byzantium and currently Istanbul : Ed.) His mother (Lady Edith Margaret Thomas : Ed) was one of the strongest English women players\, winner of the first Ladies tournament at Hastings 1895. \n(Ed : his father was Sir George Sydney Meade Thomas) \nThomas was an all-round athlete who excelled at tennis\, hockey and badminton as well as chess. He captained the English badminton team and was All England Badminton Singles champion from 1920 to 1923.” \nSir George Alan Thomas : “During his playing career\, he won 78 national titles in the United Kingdom and a further 12 French titles; he also competed in 29 out of 30 English internationals\, winning 50 matches in the process.”\nHere is an excellent article (albeit stating GT was a Grandmaster and was president of the British Chest Federation!) from the National Badminton Museum. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMuvHk-sNc[/embedyt] \n“Thomas won the British chess championship twice\, in 1923 and 1934 and represented England in the Olympiads of 1927 where he tied with Norman Hansen for the best score – 80% on board 3\, 1930\, 1931\, 1935\, 1937 and 1939. \nPassenger list from RMS Alacantra showing Sir George Thomas arriving at Buenos Aires on September 19th\, 1939\nEntry for Sir George Thomas from above image.\nIn international tournaments his greatest successes were 1st at Spa (ahead of Tartakower) and =1st at Hastings 1934/5 (tied with Euwe and Flohr\, ahead of Capablanca and Botvinnik). \nSir George Thomas\, British Chess Champion\, Southsea Congress\, 1923 Photograph by Gilbert N Fulcher\, Southsea\nHe was known for his keen sense of sportsmanship and for his ability to encourage and inspire younger players. He served for many years on the BCF Junior selection committee and was for a time Games Editor of the British Chess Magazine. FIDE awarded him the titles of international master (1950) and International Judge (1952). (article by Ray Keene)” \nBritish chess champion Sir George Thomas playing at the Annual British Chess Federation Championship in Yarmouth\, England\, July 11th 1935. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)\nThomas with the White pieces was predominantly a Ruy Lopez devotee. \nWith the Black pieces against 1.e4 he defended the Lopez and the Queen’s Gambit Declined was his favourite versus 1.d4 \n[pgn]\n[Event “Kent County CA-32 Premier”]\n[Site “Margate”]\n[Date “1939.04.12”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Thomas\, George Alan”]\n[Black “Flohr\, Salo”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C84”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “135”]\n[EventDate “1939.04.12”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2017”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2016.10.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2016.10.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,135\,35\,10\,19\,19\,18\,16\,11\,-6\,11\,-1\,15\,18\,18\,33\,18\,8\,17\,-5\,-4\,1\,-9\,-11\,\n11\,18\,42\,19\,38\,29\,46\,28\,46\,3\,13\,-5\,6\,-4\,-1\,-3\,2\,3\,19\,22\,34\,28\,137\,98\,98\,100\,84\,\n90\,89\,89\,146\,108\,167\,71\,112\,36\,107\,90\,93\,65\,175\,76\,98\,135\,275\,56\,51\,60\,44\,18\,\n67\,67\,62\,62\,62\,56\,67\,67\,88\,84\,123\,97\,114\,84\,106\,161\,161\,111\,116\,112\,119\,120\,\n100\,95\,114\,97\,116\,165\,158\,152\,131\,135\,134\,118\,159\,211\,225\,235\,242\,242\,227\,248\,\n246\,233\,246\,244\,244\,252\,239\,231\,244\,249\,257\,269\,269\,269\,262\,274\,367\,368\,389\,\n386\,392\,394]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Nc3 b5 7.\nBb3 d6 8. Nd5 Bg4 9. Nxe7 Qxe7 10. c3 O-O 11. d3 Na5 12. Bc2 c5 13. h3 Bh5 14.\nQe2 Nd7 15. Qe3 Nc6 16. Nh2 Nb6 17. b4 Rab8 18. a3 Rfc8 19. bxc5 dxc5 20. f4\nexf4 21. Qxf4 Ne5 22. Qg3 Bg6 23. Bf4 Nbd7 24. Ng4 Re8 25. Ne3 Rbc8 26. Nd5 Qd8\n27. a4 b4 28. a5 bxc3 29. Nxc3 Nc6 30. Nd5 Nd4 31. Rf2 Ne6 32. Bb3 c4 33. Bxc4\nBxe4 34. Ne3 Bg6 35. Bxa6 Ra8 36. Bb5 Nd4 37. Bc7 Qe7 38. Bxd7 Qxd7 39. Bb6 Nb3\n40. Ra3 Nc1 41. d4 Nd3 42. Rd2 Qb5 43. Kh2 h5 44. Nd1 Nc1 45. Re3 Rxe3 46. Qxe3\nRe8 47. Rb2 Qc6 48. Qc3 Qd6+ 49. Qg3 Qd5 50. Nc3 Qc4 51. Nb5 Qf1 52. Qf2 Qd1\n53. Rd2 Qb3 54. Nc7 Re7 55. d5 Nd3 56. d6 Nxf2 57. dxe7 f6 58. Rxf2 Qb4 59.\ne8=Q+ Bxe8 60. Nxe8 h4 61. Nc7 Kf7 62. Kg1 Kg6 63. Nd5 Qa3 64. Ne3 Kf7 65. Rf1\ng6 66. Ng4 f5 67. Ne5+ Kf6 68. Bd4 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale 1972 and 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master (1950)\, International Judge (1952) and British Champion in 1923 and 1934. All England Badminton Singles Champion\, All England Badminton Doubles Champion\, Wimbledon tennis player and county hockey player. \nSir George Thomas was born in Constantinople on 14th June 1881. His mother\, Lady Thomas\, won the first ever ladies’ tournament\, which was held in conjunction with the Hastings International Chess Tournament of 1895. \nHe learned the moves at the age of 4\, and as a boy met many of the world’s leading players\, including Steinitz\, Lasker\, Tchigorin and Pillsbury\, in his mother’s drawing-room. \nApart from serving as a subaltern in the Army during the 1914-1918 war\, Sir George has devoted his life to sport. He played tennis at Wimbledon\, played hockey for Hampshire\, captained the English Badminton team and was All England Badminton Singles Champion from 1920-1923 and doubles champion nine times. \nSir George Thomas And Brian ReillySir George Thomas (left)\, leader of the British chess team\, playing Irishman Brian Reilly at the Easter Chess Congress\, Margate\, April 24th 1935. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)\nSir George played chess for England regularly from 1910 to 1939. He played for the British Chess Federation in the Chess Olympiads of 1927\,1930\, 1931\, 1933\, 1935\, 1937 and 1939\, and captained the team which withdrew from the Buenos Aires Olympiad in 1939 on the out-break of war. \nA Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Margate 1936.\nThe Grand Hotel\, Cliftonville\, Margate. Venue for the Margate tournaments.\nHis first appearance in the British Championship was in he came 2nd. He also came 2nd in 192l and in 1923 won the first time\, thus becoming British Chess Champion and\nBadminton Champion in the same year. Sir George’s best performance was at Hastings 1934-1935\, when he came =1st. In the last round he needed only a draw against R. P. Michell to come lst\, ahead of Euwe\, Capablanca\, Flohr and Lilienthal\, but he lost and had to be content with sharing lst prize with Euwe and Flohr. \nNice Masters\, 1931. Standing : Daniel Noteboom\, Abraham Baratz\, George Renaud (Organiser)\, John J O’Hanlon\, Marcel Duchamp\, Brian Reilly (winner)\, Seated : Eugene Znokso-Borovsky\,\, Arpad Vajda\, Sir George Thomas\, Jacques Mieses\, Stefano Roselli del Turco\, Jacob Adolf Seitz. British Chess Magazine\, 1931\, page 201\nDuring his career he has beaten Botvinnik\, Flohr and and drawn with Nimzowitsch\, Rubinstein and Capablanca. He been noted for his sportsmanship and for his interest in and encouragement of young players. \nPartie d’échecsSir Georges Thomas\, le célèbre joueur d’échecs britannique\, jouant contre sa plus jeune adversaire âgée de 8 ans\, à Londres\, Royaume-Uni le 24 octobre 1934. (Photo by Keystone-France\Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)\nSince his retirement until the last few years\, Sir George continued to attend tournaments as a spectator. \nHe is the author of The Art of Badminton\, published in 1923. \nThe Art of Badminton\nHe died on 23rd July 1972 in a London nursing home.” \nHere is Part II of GM Matthew Sadler’s appreciation of Sir George. \nMost interestingly we have this this splendid article from Neil Blackburn (SimaginFan) on chess.com \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nSir George Alan Thomas (14-vi-1881 23-vii-1972)\nand here is Part III of Matthew Sadler’s article \nSir George Alan Thomas\nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“English player. International Master (1950)\, International Arbiter (1952)\, British champion 1923 and 1934. His mother\, who taught him chess\, was winner of one of the first women’s tournaments\, Hastings 1895\, He played in more than 80 tournaments and achieved his best result at Hastings 1934-5 (about category 9)\, when he scored +6-1—2 to share first prize with Euwe and Flohr ahead of Botvinnik and Capablanca. Thomas played in seven Olympiads from 1927 to 1939\, and in the first the highest percentage score was made by him ( + 9=6) and the Dane Holgar Norman-Hansen (1899- ) (+11=2—2). A leading English player for more than 25 years\, Thomas fought many battles at the famous City of London club\, winning 16 of the annual championships from 1913-14 to 1938-9. In his sixty-ninth year he gave up competitive chess when\, after a hard game\, ‘the board and men began to swim before my eyes\,’ He continued his active interest in junior events and his visits\, now as a spectator\, to chess events. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juP7YdGXebE[/embedyt] \nA man of few words\, imperturbable\, of fine manners. Sir George Thomas was respected throughout the chess world for his sportsmanship and impartiality\, and his opinion was often sought when disputes arose between players. The inheritor of both a baronetcy and private means\, he\ndevoted his life to games and sports. Besides his chess he was a keen hockey player\, a competitor in international lawn tennis (reaching the last eight at Wimbledon on one occasion)\, and winner of about 90 badminton titles\, notably the All-England men’s singles championship which he won four times\, from 1920 to 1923.”
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-sir-george-alan-thomas/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Honours,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200725
DTSTAMP:20210724T113420Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Marcus Harvey (24-vii-1996)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to FM Marcus Ross Harvey born on this day (Wednesday\, July 24th) in 1996. Killing Me Softly by the Fugees was top of the hit parade. \nMarcus was born in Oxford and attended The Marlborough School\, Woodstock\, Oxfordshire and then (in 2014) at The University of Southampton he studied mathematics. \nOriginally playing for Bicester Marcus now represents Witney Chess Club in local leagues. \nMarcus first played in the British Championship in 2011 (Sheffield). \nMarcus Harvey at the 2013 King’s Place Rapidplay\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nOriginally playing for Oxford he now plays for Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) and Southampton University in the Southampton League. \nMarcus playing IM Yang-Fan Zhou at the 2013 Delancey UKCC Terafinal at Loughborough Grammar School. Courtesy of John Upham Photography.\nIn 2014 Marcus won the title of “Strat” (the overall Terafinal winner) of the 2014 Delancey UK Chess Challenge at Loughborough Grammar School. \nMarcus Harvey at the 2013 Delancey UKCC Terafinal at Loughborough Grammar School\, courtesy of John Upham Photography.\nMarcus has a FIDE rating of 2440 and an ECF grading of 240. \n2014 Delancey UKCC Terafinal winner\, Marcus Harvey at Loughborough Grammar School. Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nIn 2018 he won the Witney Open outright with 4/5 and\, in the same year\, was runner-up to David Howell in the UK Blitz Open with 12.5/15 and a of 2589. \nIn 2019 he was =1st (with Mark Hebden) in the 4NCL Easter Open in Stevenage. Later that year Marcus was losing semi-finalist (to Gawain Jones) in the London Classic Blitz Knockout. \nMarcus\, on home ground\, won the 43rd Kidlington Open in 2020 and followed this with and is the current 2020 English Online Blitz Champion beating IM Andrew Greet\, FM Jonah Willow\, IM Ameet Ghasi and IM Andrew Horton in the final. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j8zw7N-bl8[/embedyt] \nIn the Pro chess league he represents UK Lions. \nMarcus Harvey’s FIDE rating profile according to Megabase 2020\nOn 6th November 2019 we reported that Marcus had obtained his second International Master norm at the recent (October 2019) Hull 4NCL International Congress by scoring 4.5/9 with wins over IM Andrew Greet and IM Richard Palliser. \nOn July 17th 2021 Marcus was joint winner with IM Peter Roberson in the 1st Chessfest Decode Rapidplay with an impressive 6/6 and a TPR of 2911. \nMarcus overcame Rory McLean\, Theo Koury\, Steven Coles\, FM Alexis Harakis\, CM Jonathan Pein and rapidplay / blitz specialist IM Ameet Ghasi to share first place. \nMarcus enjoys playing the Smyslov-Larsen opening with white \n[fen cal=Gb2b3] rnbqkbnr/ppp1pppp/8/3p4/8/1P3N2/P1PPPPPP/RNBQKB1R b KQkq – 0 1 [/fen] \nand the classical French and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \nIt is clear that Marcus is now easily of IM strength and surely is a strong candidate for England’s next Grandmaster. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hull 4NCL International GM Event”]\n[Site “Hull”]\n[Date “2019.10.31”]\n[Round “3.3”]\n[White “Palliser\, Richard J D”]\n[Black “Harvey\, Marcus Ross”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C11”]\n[WhiteElo “2413”]\n[BlackElo “2405”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “72”]\n[EventDate “2019.10.30”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,72\,39\,30\,41\,30\,30\,17\,53\,37\,39\,0\,20\,17\,35\,33\,42\,25\,49\,27\,27\,17\,21\,11\,\n11\,12\,10\,13\,15\,6\,14\,18\,91\,81\,82\,68\,66\,113\,113\,113\,113\,72\,92\,76\,101\,74\,76\,51\,32\,\n0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,5\,2\,2\,-5\,2\,-7\,-18\,-164\,-164\,-164\,-172\,-181\,-147\,-241\,-233\,\n-289\,-314]} 1. e4 {[%emt 0:00:03]} e6 {[%emt 0:00:13]} 2. d4 {[%emt 0:00:05]}\nd5 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 3. Nc3 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Nf6 {[%emt 0:00:04]} 4. e5 {\n[%emt 0:00:13]} Nfd7 {[%emt 0:00:03]} 5. f4 {[%emt 0:00:09]} c5 6. Nf3 {\n[%emt 0:00:06]} Nc6 {[%emt 0:01:48]} 7. Be3 {[%emt 0:00:06]} a6 {[%emt 0:00:33]\n} 8. Qd2 {[%emt 0:00:21]} Qb6 {[%emt 0:00:06]} 9. O-O-O {[%emt 0:00:30]} Qa5 {\n[%emt 0:00:04]} 10. dxc5 {[%emt 0:00:45]} Bxc5 {[%emt 0:00:31]} 11. Nd4 $146 {\n[%emt 0:03:48]} (11. Bxc5 Nxc5 12. Kb1 b5 13. Bd3 $11) 11… Nxd4 {[%emt 0:02:\n48]} 12. Bxd4 {[%emt 0:00:05]} b5 {[%emt 0:00:26]} 13. Kb1 {[%emt 0:00:18]} b4\n{[%emt 0:01:55]} 14. Ne2 {[%emt 0:00:10]} Bb7 {[%emt 0:00:22]} 15. g4 {[%emt 0:\n15:41]} Nb6 {[%emt 0:06:40]} 16. f5 {[%emt 0:04:55]} O-O-O {[%emt 0:10:34]} 17.\nNf4 {[%emt 0:13:58]} Nc4 {[%emt 0:02:36]} 18. Qf2 {[%emt 0:00:20]} Bxd4 {\n[%emt 0:00:36]} 19. Qxd4 {[%emt 0:00:44]} g5 {[%emt 0:02:31]} 20. Nd3 {[%emt 0:\n04:42]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:13:20]} 21. h4 {[%emt 0:19:37]} h6 {[%emt 0:00:58]} 22.\nhxg5 {[%emt 0:06:10]} hxg5 {[%emt 0:00:18]} 23. Rxh8 {[%emt 0:00:03]} Rxh8 $14\n{[%emt 0:00:06]} 24. Nxb4 $6 {[%emt 0:00:17]} (24. fxe6 $142 fxe6 $11) 24…\nQxe5 {[%emt 0:00:38]} 25. Qc5+ {[%emt 0:02:22]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:00:20]} 26. Qa7 {\n[%emt 0:06:06]} Qb8 {[%emt 0:00:19]} 27. Qc5+ {[%emt 0:00:30]} Qc7 {[%emt 0:00:\n05]} 28. Qa7 {[%emt 0:00:05]} Qd6 {[%emt 0:21:23]} 29. a3 {[%emt 0:06:01]} Rh1\n{[%emt 0:01:09]} 30. fxe6 {[%emt 0:01:31]} fxe6 {[%emt 0:01:17]} 31. Qd4 {\n[%emt 0:03:20]} Qf4 {[%emt 0:04:42]} (31… e5 32. Qf2) 32. Qxf4 $2 {[%emt 0:\n04:08]} (32. Qc5+ $142 Kb8 33. Be2 Rxd1+ 34. Bxd1 Qf1 35. Kc1 Qf4+ 36. Kb1 $11)\n32… gxf4 $19 {[%emt 0:00:16][%cal Gc4d2\,Gh1f1]} 33. Be2 Rh2 {[%emt 0:01:17]}\n34. Bd3 {[%emt 0:01:35]} f3 {[%emt 0:02:37]} 35. Re1 {[%emt 0:03:42]} a5 {\n[%emt 0:01:28]} 36. Na2 {[%emt 0:00:29]} f2 $19 {[%emt 0:00:12]} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFM Marcus Ross Harvey
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-marcus-ross-harvey-24-vii-1996/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200725
DTSTAMP:20210719T075735Z
CREATED:20200410T131551Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Anthony Kosten (24-vii-1958)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Anthony Cornelis Kosten (24-vii-1958) \nTony was born in North Eastern Surrey\, and eventually relocated to France where he now resides. \nTony is married to Gyongyver Kosten-Forintos\, the daughter of Hungarian Grandmaster Győző Forintos. \nStreatham & Brixton becoming BCF National Club Champions in 1989. The team was Tony Kosten\, Mark Hedben\, Daniel King\, Nigel Povah (Captain)\, Joe Gallagher and Julian Hodgson : quite a strong team\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nTony played for Lower Earley and played in the Berkshire League and for Streatham & Brixton in the National Club competition. \nHe was =3rd in the 1982 British Championship in Torquay (won by Tony Miles) \nHe was =2nd in the 1984 Robert Silk Young Masters. \nHe won the Berkshire Chess Association Quickplay title in 1985. \nTony was runner-up to Yuri Balashov at Minsk 1986. \nHe won Naujac 2000 with 7.5/9 \nTony won many other events : See his Wikipedia entry for details. \nTony Kosten (fourth from left) at a NatWest Bank sponsored event\nTony is the founder of chesspublishing.com\, a subscription based web site specialising in cutting edge opening theory with many contributors. \nHe plays for Guildford in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) is registered as a member of the French federation. He also plays for Schott Mainz in the German Team Championship. \nAccording to Megabase 2020 his highest FIDE rating was 2551 in July 2002 at the age of 44. \nWith the white pieces Tony prefers the Ruy Lopez and Giuoco Piano with the English coming a close second. \nWith black Tony defends the Lopez and the Nimzo-Indian defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BL2-Ost 9899”]\n[Site “Germany”]\n[Date “1998.12.13”]\n[Round “3.1”]\n[White “Kosten\, Anthony C”]\n[Black “Pribyl\, Josef”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[WhiteElo “2515”]\n[BlackElo “2430”]\n[Annotator “Kosten\,Antony”]\n[PlyCount “101”]\n[EventDate “1998.10.18”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[SourceTitle “GER-chT2”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Schott Mainz”]\n[BlackTeam “Bamberg”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “GER”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “GER”] \n{[%evp 0\,101\,27\,41\,73\,77\,92\,75\,87\,68\,70\,67\,65\,46\,40\,45\,61\,35\,38\,10\,5\,16\,33\,3\,\n13\,22\,22\,17\,20\,7\,27\,18\,75\,19\,22\,-2\,32\,18\,24\,22\,78\,54\,60\,52\,69\,35\,64\,88\,97\,106\,\n137\,113\,135\,63\,148\,112\,115\,101\,110\,122\,153\,169\,169\,159\,166\,170\,150\,123\,116\,81\,\n96\,93\,138\,125\,119\,148\,148\,163\,192\,192\,183\,177\,177\,192\,179\,196\,195\,196\,222\,222\,\n363\,398\,579\,586\,586\,386\,29989\,29988\,29989\,29990\,29991\,29992\,29993\,29994]} 1. e4\n{Somewhat unusual for me. I haven’t played this very often in serious games\nfor many years\, as I normally prefer the English Opening. Why\, you are\nprobably wondering\, did I play it here\, then? For the simple reason that\, in\nmy preparation\, I noticed that my opponent liked to play Hanham’s Variation of\nPhilidor’s Defence. Not that there is anything wrong with that\, it is a good\ndefence\, it is just that I have played it many times myself\, as Black\, and\nhave even written a book about the Philidor. So\, I hoped that my opponent\nwould play the Philidor against me\, but I didn’t think that he would dare!} d6\n{Phew! I don’t know what I would have done if he had played something else!} 2.\nd4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e5 {I believe this to be the best way to reach this position for\nBlack\, as the endgame following 4 dxe5 dxe5 5 Qxd8+ Kxd8 is nothing much for\nWhite.} 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. Bc4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. a4 c6 {Thus\, we have reached one\nof the main Hanham positions. There were several different lines that I wanted\nto try\, but eventually I decided to play an aggressive one.} 8. Ba2 b6 9. Be3\nBb7 10. Nd2 {This is a good move\, sometimes the knight can come to c4\, to\npressurise the d6-square\, but I had another idea in mind.} a6 {Correct\, Black\nprepares his queenside counterplay with …b5\, if White does nothing he can\neasily find himself at a disadvantage.} 11. f4 {The point\, and similar to a\nplan Alekhine once employed\, White opens the f-file.} b5 12. Qf3 exd4 {I think\nthat this is the right moment for this\, otherwise\, White might play dxe5\, and\nf5\, g4-g5\, with a powerful attack.} 13. Bxd4 b4 14. Ne2 c5 15. Be3 Qc7 16. Ng3\nRae8 {Black targets the e4-pawn\, and restricts White’s mobility.} 17. Bf2 {\nThis seems like a waste of a move\, but e4 needed defending.} Bd8 18. Rfe1 {\nThe f-rook comes here\, because the a-rook has its place ready on the open\nd-file.} Qc6 {I had half-expected my opponent to try the pawn sacrifice} (18…\nd5 $5 {when} 19. exd5 Nb6 20. Nde4 Nxe4 21. Nxe4 c4 {offers Black reasonable\ncompensation\, as the black pieces seem active.}) 19. Bb3 {Played with the\nintention of continuing 20 a5\, and 21 Ba4\, which explains my opponent’s reply.}\na5 20. Bc4 $1 {Coming to b5\, there are a lot of black pieces on the a4-e8\ndiagonal!} Qc7 {With this pawn structure\, Black can ill-afford to exchange\nlight-squared bishops by} (20… Ba6 21. Rad1 {as if} Bxc4 22. Nxc4 {the\nd6-pawn becomes a real problem.}) 21. Rad1 g6 {Finally\, Black defends against\nthe threat of Nf5.} 22. Bb5 Re6 $6 {Perhaps Black should have taken the\nopportunity to get rid of his backward d-pawn by} (22… d5 23. e5 d4 {\nalthough\, it is true\, after} 24. Nge4 {Black’s light squares are weak.}) 23.\nNc4 Rfe8 24. f5 $1 Rxe4 {Of course\, Black is forced into giving-up the\nexchange as} (24… gxf5 $2 25. Nxf5 Nxe4 26. Bxd7 Qxd7 27. Qg4+ {wins\,} Rg6 $4\n28. Nh6+ {and the queen is lost.}) 25. Nxe4 Rxe4 26. Rxe4 Bxe4 27. Qe2 d5 28.\nBg3 Qa7 29. fxg6 $1 {The sting in the tail\, which reduces Black’s compensation\nfor the exchange to just one pawn.} hxg6 30. Nd6 {The second point\, White will\nexchange Black’s powerful e4-bishop.} c4+ 31. Bf2 (31. Kh1 $1 {may have been\neven better\, but I had seen a way to a simple win\, and so I didn’t hesitate.})\n31… Bb6 32. Bxd7 Nxd7 33. Nxe4 dxe4 34. Bxb6 Qxb6+ 35. Kh1 Qc6 {The position\nis quite lost for Black\, for instance\, the tactical} (35… Nf6 {loses a pawn\nto} 36. Qxc4 {as} Ng4 $4 {is impossible:} 37. Qc8+ {picking-up the knight.})\n36. Qd2 $1 {Black is given no time to set up his defence.} Nf8 {Unfortunately\nfor Black\, the natural move} (36… Nf6 {allows} 37. Qd8+ Kg7 $4 (37… Kh7 {\nis better\, but} 38. Qe7 {forces} Qe6 {which is hopeless.}) 38. Rd6) 37. Qd5\nQxa4 38. Qxc4 e3 39. b3 Qe8 40. Re1 {Winning the e-pawn. I expected my\nopponent to resign here\, but he must have felt that he still had a chance.} Qe5\n41. Qd3 Qb2 42. h3 {A precaution against back-rank mates.} Ne6 43. Rxe3 Nd4 44.\nKh2 a4 45. bxa4 Nxc2 46. Re8+ Kg7 47. Qd6 Qc1 {This allows White to force mate\nin two different ways\, but which one should I choose?} 48. Qf8+ (48. Qe5+ f6 {\namount to the same} 49. Re7+ Kh6 50. Qxf6 {but why allow a spite check?}) 48…\nKf6 49. Qh8+ Kg5 50. Qe5+ f5 51. Qe7+ (51. Qe7+ Kh5 52. Rh8+ Qh6 53. g3 $1 Qxh8\n54. Qh4#) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nTony Kosten\nWinning Endgames\, Crowood\, 1987\nWinning with the Philidor\, Batsford\, 1992\n101 Tips to Improve your Chess\, Batsford\, 1996\nThe Dynamic English\, Gambit\, 1999
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Julian Hodgson (25-vii-1963)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Julian Hodgson on his birthday\, this day July 25th in 1963. \nJulian Michael Hodgson was born in Hammersmith\, West London son of (Ronald) George Hodgson and Johanna Hodgson (née Birch). \nJulian has claimed to be a descendent of George Jeffreys\, 1st Baron Jeffreys and we are looking to establish this claim following further research. \nJulian attended St. Paul’s School (See below) and then attended The University of Leicester for one year. \nJulian married Lizette and David Norwood was his Best Man. \nJulian and Lizette Hodgson\n(Curiously both Felice and Gaige state Julian was born in Saint Asaph in Wales.) \nJulian Hodgson\nHarry Golombek wrote this about Julian in a 1980 Dataday chess diary : \n“I think that the first time I saw Julian Hodgson in play was some four years ago in a London tournament. Upon my arrival Leonard Barden told him that he must now be careful how he played as Golombek was watching. \nJulian and Nigel Short play Korchnoi in a simul. Leonard Barden observes.\n“Who”\, enquired the twelve-year old Julian\, “is Golombek?” \nNeil Carr and Julian Hodgson at the 1976 Lloyds Bank Match by Telex\, London – New York. From BCM\, volume XCVI (96) Number 11 (August)\, Page 494. The venue was the Bloomsbury Hotel\, London. Photo courtesy of Lloyds Bank.\nI felt grateful at the time that he did not say who or what is Golombek but I tell this story chiefly to show the cheerful insouciance with which Master Hodgson treated all comers whether chess masters or chess rabbits. \nJulian playing Simon L Triggs. Event and photographer unknown\nJulian astonishing maturity as a player has been impressive ever since at the age of ten\, he won the Southern Counties Under 14 Championships in 1973. Since then he has acquired a host of such championships culminating in the British Under-21 Championship in 1977. \nStreatham & Brixton becoming BCF National Club Champions in 1989. The team was Tony Kosten\, Mark Hedben\, Daniel King\, Nigel Povah (Captain)\, Joe Gallagher and Julian Hodgson : quite a strong team\nPerhaps his most remarkable performance so far has been his equal 3rd in a strong challengers section at Hastings where he scored 7.5 out of 10. 1977 was a good year for him and here\, from the Lloyds Bank Silver Jubilee Tournament of that year is his fine win over a strong opponent : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lloyds Bank op 01”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1977.09.01”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Large\, Peter G”]\n[Black “Hodgson\, Julian M”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D40”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “90”]\n[EventDate “1977.08.26”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2008”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. a3 Ne4 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Bd3\nNxc3 9. bxc3 Bd6 $146 (9… Be7) 10. O-O c4 11. Bc2 f5 $1 12. a4 Qe7 13. Re1\nO-O 14. Nd2 Bd7 15. f3 Qh4 16. Nf1 (16. f4) 16… Rf6 17. g3 Qh3 18. Qe2 Re8\n19. Qg2 Qh5 (19… Qxg2+ 20. Kxg2 Na5 $15) 20. Ba3 Bc7 21. f4 Qf7 22. Nd2 Rfe6\n23. Kf2 Ba5 24. Bb2 Ne7 25. Nf3 Rb6 26. Ne5 $2 {[#]} Rxb2 $1 27. Nxf7 Rxc2+ 28.\nRe2 Rxe2+ 29. Kxe2 Kxf7 $19 30. Kd2 Bc6 31. g4 Nc8 32. gxf5 Nd6 33. Rg1 Nxf5\n34. Qh3 Bd7 35. Qxh7 Rxe3 36. Rxg7+ Nxg7 37. Kxe3 Bxc3 38. h4 Bf5 39. Qh8 Bg6\n40. Ke2 Bxd4 41. Qd8 Be4 42. Qd7+ Kg6 43. Qg4+ Kh7 44. h5 c3 45. h6 Nf5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is his entry (written by Richard W O’Brien) in British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983\, Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson) : \n“Following a series of excellent results Julian\, at the tender age of 11\, became the second youngest ever to play in an international tournament when he took part in the London Chess Club International Invitation tournament in September 1974. Only Reshevsky had been younger. Julian’s first opponent was Michael Woodhams\, an Australian international who had just scored 15.5/18 in the recent Olympiad (Nice) \nThe following year he became the youngest player ever to win the London Amateur Championship. A year later he reached a grading of 200 (BCF)\, only Reshevsky\, Pomar\, Karpov and Kasparov had done so at an earlier age. \nBy now he was at St. Paul’s School\, which was in the process of becoming one of the strongest chess playing schools in the country. In 1977 he shared first place with WN Watson (also St. Paul’s) in the British U21 Championship. Progress was however not as fast as had at one time been anticipated \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzDlmKyurM[/embedyt] \nIt was at Ramsgate\, late in 1980 before his first IM norm. A month later he finished second in the Hastings Challenger. Other good results followed in 1981. First he was selected for the Glorney Cup and shortly afterwards did well to come fourteenth in the British Championship (Morecambe). He represented England in the World Youth Team championships scoring 4/6. His second IM norm followed when he shared fifth place at Manchester in the same year. Good results in weekend congresses meant that he finished fourth in the Leigh Grand Prix. The year had finished with Julian needing a draw in the last round at Ramsgate to get his title. He lost and was to wait another 12 months to achieve his final norm. \nThe England Team from the 1990 Novi Sad Olympiad : John Nunn\, Jon Speelman\, Julian Hodgson\, David Anderton OBE (Captain)\, Nigel Short\, Michael Adams and Murray Chandler\nWhen the final norm came it arrived out of the blue. With a score of 2.5/5 at Lewisham in November 1982 the chances seemed remote\, 3.5/4 was required against a strong field and it even seemed doubtful whether he could actually play those he needed to play. He scored 2.5/3 and now had to play Jon Tisdall\, who still had a chance of winning the tournament. \nJulian finished second equal in the tournament behind Jim Plaskett who had beaten him earlier. \nJulian Hodgson\nThe next six weeks saw Julian come equal first in the Pergamon sponsored British Lightning championship\, a highly creditable sixth in the Nightflight International at Brighton (equivalent to an IM rating) and second place yet again in the Hastings Challengers. \nJohn Delaney plays Julian Hodgson at the Bath Zonal Tournament in 1987\nEarlier in 1983 he scored 6.5/9 at Lugano\, probably Europe’s strongest ever Swiss (Swiss !) tournament\, losing narrowly to Jan Timman. \nJulian Hodgson. Event and photographer unknown.\nHe left Leicester University after just one year preferring to concentrate on chess. \nFM Andrew Whiteley\, IM Julian Hodgson and FM Byron Jacobs at Cappelle Le Grand\, 1988. Photograph by Caroline Winkler\nHe plays fairly regularly for Streatham & Brixton Chess Club which encouraged juniors for several years. Daniel King is another junior who also played frequently for Streatham. ” \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Lewisham op 2nd”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1982.11.30”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Tisdall\, Jonathan D”]\n[Black “Hodgson\, Julian M”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A40”]\n[WhiteElo “2410”]\n[Annotator “Julian Hodgson”]\n[PlyCount “100”]\n[EventDate “1982.11.22”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2008”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,100\,19\,31\,113\,114\,97\,101\,108\,123\,114\,88\,126\,84\,87\,67\,62\,65\,48\,47\,76\,\n43\,42\,36\,44\,47\,73\,45\,42\,45\,105\,117\,116\,98\,112\,88\,88\,90\,134\,64\,83\,41\,87\,41\,63\,\n77\,64\,62\,55\,71\,112\,32\,83\,73\,87\,110\,149\,-23\,-26\,-81\,-60\,-54\,-76\,-80\,-9\,-28\,-11\,\n-44\,4\,-33\,-17\,-123\,-67\,-272\,-74\,-73\,20\,-57\,-18\,-47\,-100\,-100\,-148\,-346\,-346\,\n-449\,-488\,-507\,-507\,-507\,-525\,-554\,-554\,-838\,-920\,-920\,-920\,-994\,-681\,-703\,\n-692\,-712\,-453] This game was important to me. I needed to win with the Black\npieces against a strong International Master to gain my third and final IM\nnorm. It was a game of many errors but nevertheless for me a satisfying one.}\n1. d4 b5 $5 {This may seem an unusual move to play in such important\ncircumstances. But it has served me well in the past and I wanted an\nunbalanced position.} 2. e4 Bb7 3. Bxb5 {White accepts the challenge. This is\none of the strongest continuations against the Polish Defence.} Bxe4 4. Nf3 e6\n5. O-O Nf6 6. Re1 Be7 7. Bg5 Bb7 8. c4 $1 {This is much better} ({than} 8. Nc3\n{when it is Black who will have the advantage due to to far greater control of\nthe centre.} O-O 9. Qe2 d6 10. Rad1 Nbd7 11. Bc1) 8… O-O 9. Nc3 d6 $2 {\nIt may seem strange to give this move a question mark but it was essential} ({\nto play} 9… h6 {first and commit the black squared bishop first.}) 10. Qe2\nNbd7 11. d5 $1 e5 {White has bind on the Queenside and\, as will become evident\nBlack will find it extremely difficult to organise counterplay on the kingside.\n} 12. Rad1 h6 {Now it is too late !} 13. Bc1 $1 Qc8 {The start of a faulty\nplan.} ({I dismissed} 13… Ne8 {on account of} 14. Nd4 $1 {when white has a\nclear advantage.}) {I underestimated white’s next move.} 14. Nh4 $1 ({I had\nexpected} 14. b4 a5 15. a3 axb4 16. axb4 c6 17. dxc6 Bxc6 {when I thought\nWhite had only a slight advantage. The move played was much stronger.}) 14…\nNb6 15. Qf3 $1 Qd8 $16 {[#] An admission of defeat. White’s last five moves\nhave been extremely accurate and he now stands much better. Fortunately my\nopponent spent quite a long time finding the “best moves”.} 16. Nf5 Bc8 17. c5\nBxf5 18. Qxf5 Nbd7 19. cxd6 cxd6 {It was about this time that my opponent\nseemed to become agitated. My position was more resilient than he thought.\nNevertheless he does miss several very strong continuations in the next couple\nof moves.} 20. Qh3 h5 {I could not think of anything else. As you will see\nthis pawn has a great future.} 21. Ne4 Nxe4 22. Rxe4 f5 23. Rc4 ({Stronger is}\n23. Ra4 {when Black is losing a pawn} {though after} Nc5 24. Ra3 Bg5 $1 {\nBlack is not without chances}) 23… h4 $1 24. Be3 g5 25. Qf3 Rf7 (25… g4 $2\n{is met by} 26. Rxg4+ $1 $18 fxg4 (26… Kh7 27. Bd3) 27. Qxg4+ Kh8 28. Qh5+\nKg8 29. Rd4 $1 Rf7 30. Rg4+ Rg7 31. Rxg7+ Kxg7 32. Bh6+ Kh8 33. Bg5+ Kg8 34.\nQg6+ Kh8 35. Qh6+ Kg8 36. Qe6+ Kg7 37. Bxe7 $18) 26. Bc6 Rb8 27. Bxa7 Rxb2 28.\nQc3 $2 $13 {The position is now unclear but I feel that Black is over the\nworst.} ({White should have played} 28. Qa3 $1 Re2 $8 29. Kf1 Re4 30. Rxe4 fxe4\n$16 {when the white a-pawn will take some stopping}) 28… Rxa2 29. Ba4 Nb6 $1\n$17 {My opponent had overlooked this move.} 30. Qb3 Nxc4 31. Qxa2 Nb6 32. Rb1\nNd7 33. Qc2 Bf8 34. h3 e4 $1 {White now should have considered exchanging his\nwhite squared bishop for Black’s knight.} 35. Rb7 (35. Bxd7 Rxd7 36. Be3 Bg7)\n35… Ne5 36. Rb8 Qf6 $2 (36… Qa5 $1 {is winning.} {At the time I had seen}\n37. Be3 Qe1+ 38. Kh2 g4 {when I thought} 39. Bf4 {was holding} {but now comes}\ne3 $1 (39… g3+ 40. fxg3 (40. Bxg3 Ng4+ 41. hxg4 hxg3+ 42. Kxg3 f4+ 43. Kh4\nQh1+ 44. Kg5 Qh6#) 40… hxg3+ 41. Bxg3 Ng4+ 42. hxg4 Rh7+ 43. Bh4 Rxh4#)) 37.\nBb6 Kh7 38. Be8 Rg7 39. Qc8 g4 {Black now threatens 40…Nf3+ and 41…Qa1+\nmating} 40. hxg4 Rxg4 41. Kf1 $8 h3 $1 42. Bd8 {[#] An incredible postion has\nbeen reached in which all White’s pieces are on Black’s back row. Black is\nwinning by just one tempo.} hxg2+ 43. Ke2 Be7 ({Simplest is} 43… g1=Q 44.\nBxf6 Rf4 {but I wanted two queens and almost paid for my greed.}) 44. Bxe7 Qxe7\n45. Bh5 $1 {White’s only chance. This move came as a complete shock.} ({After}\n45. Qxf5+ Kg7 {White can do nothing.}) 45… Qf6 $1 ({I had visions of such\nlines as} 45… Qg7 46. Qxf5+ Kh6 47. Bxg4 Qxg4+ 48. Qxg4 Nxg4 49. Rb1 {\nand Black will certainly not win.}) 46. Bxg4 fxg4 47. Qg8+ Kh6 48. Rf8 Qf3+ $1\n49. Rxf3 exf3+ ({Prettier would have been} 49… gxf3+ 50. Ke3 Ng6) 50. Ke3\ng1=Q {White will soon run out of checks.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvPoW-cmBk4[/embedyt] \nThis is what was written about Julian prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : “St Paul’s and Shepherds Bush. Rating 210. Standard London Amateur Champion at age 12\, 1975. \nStandard London under-18 champion\, 1976. British under-21 co-champion\, 1977. Youngest ever to beat two grandmasters in successive games\, 1978.” \nJulian Hodgson drawn by Rupert van der Linden\nJulian was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1997-98 season. \nJulian has claimed that he is a descended from the (in)famous “hanging judge” Jeffries ! \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAazprr0Kbw[/embedyt] \nJulian is the in-house chess teacher at Westminster School. \nHere is his Wikipedia entry : \nGM Julian Hodgson\nAside from more formal achievements\, he developed a sharp\, relentless\, attacking style of play and against lesser opponents this frequently resulted in devastating quick wins\, earning him the epithet “Grandmaster of Disaster”. \nHans Ree plays Julian Hodgson at the Cannes Team Tournament\, 1992\nHodgson’s greatest legacy as a chess player may however lie in his resurrection of an almost forgotten opening system. The Trompowsky Attack (1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5) had floundered in the doldrums for many years\, prior to his adoption and development of the opening. In interviews\, he reveals that this was born out of laziness and a reluctance to learn established chess opening theory. It soon became his weapon of choice with the white pieces\, leading to a surprising popularisation of the system\, the spawning of a whole generation of devotees and ironically\, a number of theoretical guides\, containing a high quota of Hodgson’s own games and analysis. Indeed\, his expert treatment of the system once prompted fellow grandmaster Joe Gallagher to write that it should be renamed the Hodgson–Trompowsky Attack\, a view shared by many other masters. A chess journalist once wrote that Hodgson put the ‘romp’ into Trompowsky. \nA related\, but more obscure version of the system (1.d4 d5 2.Bg5)\, has been dubbed by some the Hodgson Attack and by others the Pseudo-Trompowsky or Queen’s Bishop Attack. \n[fen]rnbqkb1r/pppppppp/5n2/6B1/3P4/8/PPP1PPPP/RN1QKBNR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nand \n[fen]rnbqkbnr/ppp1pppp/8/3p2B1/3P4/8/PPP1PPPP/RN1QKBNR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nJulian\, Dominic Lawson and Matthew Sadler\nChess Traveller’s Quiz Book\, Julian Hodgson\, Cadogan Press\, 1996\, ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1857440300\nAttack with Julian Hodgson\, Book No.1\nAttack with Julian Hodgson\, Book No.2\nQuick Chess Knockouts\nJulian Hodgson drawn by Rupert van der Linden
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of WFM Jessica Gilbert (30-i-1987 26-vii-2007)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of WFM Jessica Laura Corey Gilbert (30-i-1987 26-vii-2007) \nFrom Find A Grave by by Peterborough K: \n“Professional Chess Player. A native of Croydon\, England\, Gilbert became the youngest person ever to win the Women’s World Chess Federation Master Title.  \nA talented chess player since the age of 8\, she also won the Women’s World Amateur Championship when she represented England in 1999 at the age of 11.  \nIn a career that spanned over seven years she played in over 153 matches in such events as the Gibtelcom Chess Festival\, the 7th European Championship\, Ilsan 1st\, 37th Chess Olympiad\, Hastings Chess Congress\, Hastings Master Op\, Coventry Op\, and the Gausdal Byggern Masters.  \nOn July 26\, 2006\, while in Pardubice\, Czech Republic\, to play in the Czech Open\, she mysteriously fell to her death from the balcony of her room on the eighth floor of the Hotel Labe. Gilbert was only 19 years old.” \nInteresting article by Alexander Barron \nHere is Jessie’s entry from Chessgames.com \nHere is Jessie’s extensive Wikipedia article.
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200728
DTSTAMP:20210727T105805Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (27-vii-1976)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (27-vii-1976) \nFrom https://achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/ : \nDemis Hassabis\, the eldest of three\, was born in London on July 27\, 1976\, to a Greek Cypriot father and a Chinese Singaporean mother. \n(Originally his surname was spelt Hassapis and his brother George retained his.) \n“Demis Hassabis was born in London\, England. He is of both Greek and Chinese ancestry; his father came from Cyprus\, his mother from Singapore. Demis and his family moved frequently as his father pursued a variety of business and creative ventures. \nDemis was four years old when he saw his father and an uncle playing chess and asked them to teach him the game. He took to it quickly and was soon beating both of them. He showed a precocious aptitude for all games employing logic and strategy. ” \nDemis Hassabis\nWhen 13 (in 1989) Demis achieved a FIDE rating of 2300 which\, at the time\, was the second highest rating for his age.  First highest was Judit Polgar. \nDemis was SCCU Under-18 champion in 1989 and was presented with the “old Trophy” according to the SCCU report. \nLawrence Cooper\, Demis Hassabis\, Cathy Haslinger and Dharshan Kumaran in around 1986. Possibly at a Lloyds Bank event.\nDemis was a Candidate Master and brother of George Hassapis. \nDemis started off with Hampstead Junior Chess Club. \nHe then played for Barnet Knights\, Queens College College Union and Finchley chess clubs. \nDemis Hassabis courtesy of Cathy Rogers\nAccording to Tryfon Gavriel : \nDemis wrote a hit computer game called “The theme park”\, that was at the top of the charts for six months and sold than more 3.5 million copies. He also did quite well in the 1997 Mind Sports Olympiad. \nDemis Hassabis\, IMMO KLINK/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES\nHassabis returned to academia to obtain his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London (UCL) in 2009 supervised by Eleanor Maguire. He sought to find inspiration in the human brain for new AI algorithms. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEU3NXxI7s[/embedyt] \nDanny Gormally wrote (in March 2014) this : \n“Demis Hassapis is a former chess prodigy who recently sold his company to Google for £400 million. Demonstrating that if you have the brainpower to be good at chess\, you are far better off putting that intelligence to use in some other activity where you might actually get rewarded. Then in fairness\, even most strong chess players aren’t as bright as Demis.” \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcLU0DhDhi0[/embedyt] \nDemis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018 \nIn May 2021 Demis was cited by Dominic Cummings in his evidence to the  Commons Heath\, and Science and Technology committees as having played an important contribution  to managing and understanding the PHE and NHS data during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. \nHere are his listed games \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT2 9900 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “2000.01.22”]\n[Round “5.2”]\n[White “Anderton\, Matthew”]\n[Black “Hassabis\, Demis”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B22”]\n[WhiteElo “2216”]\n[BlackElo “2235”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “43”]\n[EventDate “1999.10.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\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[WhiteTeam “Guildford II”]\n[BlackTeam “Invicta Kts II”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,43\,27\,27\,46\,0\,15\,-20\,-15\,-15\,-6\,-8\,10\,10\,40\,32\,25\,44\,35\,23\,66\,22\,15\,\n-16\,20\,-33\,-1\,25\,35\,21\,51\,2\,8\,-18\,-4\,-99\,-50\,-87\,-121\,-145\,-125\,-179\,-216\,-220\,\n-197\,-244]} 1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 cxd4 7.\ncxd4 e6 8. Nc3 Qa5 9. h3 Bh5 10. d5 exd5 11. Nd4 Bg6 ({Relevant:} 11… Bxe2\n12. Qxe2+ Be7 13. Nxc6 bxc6 14. O-O Kf8 15. Re1 Bf6 16. Bd2 Qd8 17. Rac1 Ne7\n18. Na4 Rb8 19. a3 h5 20. Qf3 h4 21. Nc5 Kg8 22. b4 Rc8 23. Rc2 Ng6 24. Nd3 Qd7\n25. Rec1 Kh7 26. b5 Ne7 27. Qh5+ Kg8 28. Qg4 Qxg4 29. hxg4 Kh7 30. bxc6 Rhd8\n31. Kf1 g5 32. a4 d4 33. c7 Rd7 34. Ba5 Nd5 35. Rc6 Kg7 36. Nc5 Re7 37. Nb7 Be5\n38. Nd6 Bxd6 39. Rxd6 Nb6 40. Rdc6 f6 41. Bb4 {Ponomariov\,R (2585)-Babula\,V\n(2575) Elista 1998 1-0}) 12. Bb5 {[#]} Nge7 $146 (12… Bb4) ({Predecessor:}\n12… Rc8 13. O-O Nf6 14. Re1+ Be7 15. Bg5 Kd8 16. Nb3 Qc7 17. Nxd5 Nxd5 18.\nQxd5+ Qd7 19. Qxd7+ Kxd7 20. Rxe7+ {1-0 (20) Kosintseva\,N-Skrochocka\,J Menorca\n1996}) 13. O-O O-O-O 14. Nce2 (14. Qg4+) 14… Nxd4 15. Nxd4 {[#]} Nf5 $1 16.\nBf4 $6 Bd6 17. Nxf5 $2 Bxf4 18. Qg4 Bc7 19. Nd4+ Kb8 20. Rac1 a6 21. Be2 Rhe8\n22. Rfd1 $19 0-1\n[/pgn]
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,Honours,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200728
DTSTAMP:20210727T110050Z
CREATED:20200410T165411Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Graham Lee (27-vii-1953)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Graham David Lee (27-vii-1953) \nFM Graham Lee 2282 v WIM Eva Jiretorn 2155 alongside WIM Regina Pokorna 2352 v WIM Christin Anderson 2173.\nFM Graham Lee\, courtesy of Cathy Rogers\nGraham Lee (second from left) and a victorious Wood Green team. Trophy presented by Magnus Magnusson
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200801
DTSTAMP:20210731T120436Z
CREATED:20200408T184817Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210731T120436Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Nigel Davies (31-vii-1960)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Nigel Davies on his birthday\, this day (July 31st) in 1960. \nNigel Rodney Davies was born in Southport\, Merseyside. \nHe lived in the Wirral\, Merseyside\, moved to Sidcup and then to St. Helen’s\, Merseyside where he resides with his chess playing son\, Sam who is ECF 1928A currently. \nIn July 2020 Nigel graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing from Edge Hill University. \nNigel Davies (centre) at a Lloyds Bank event\nHe became an FIDE Master in 1980\, an International Master in 1982 and a Grandmaster in 1993. \nNigel Davies\nHe won the British Under-21 Championship in 1979 (Chester) and the British Rapidplay Championship in 1987. \nNigel receives a much welcome prize (in Manchester) from Miss Benedictine in 198?\nHe won The Regency Ramsgate Masters 1980\, Wrexham 1994\, Katrineholm 1995 and the Blackpool Hilton Premier in 2003. \nNigel Davies\nNigel publishes his Chess Improver Blog and Tiger Chess for online training. The ECF lists this as his main club. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgWpZ9WsL0[/embedyt] \nIn 2015 Nigel transferred his international allegiance from England (the English Chess Federation) to Wales (Welsh Chess Union). He maintains an ECF standard play rating  of 2448E. \nWilliam Watson\, Jonny Hector\, Alexander Khalifman\, Jonathan Tisdall and Nigel Davies at the 1991 Watson\, Farley\, Williams tournament in London.\nHis peak FIDE rating was 2530 in January 1995 at the age of 35. \nHere is one of Nigel’s favourite games \nNigel Davies\, seated\, second from right\, event unknown\nIn 2015 Nigel contributed to an article by Guardian journalist\, Stephen Moss entitled “Grandmaster crash: the inside story of how English chess pawned its future” \nGM Nigel Davies\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHere is an article : Fight against the solid Caro-Kann opening with the Caro Krusher – GM Nigel Davies \nNigel’s repertoire with White is wide including Queen’s Gambit\, King’s Indian Attack\, English/Reti and the Ruy Lopez. \nAs black Nigel’s repertoire is also varied and difficult to pin down. The Modern Defence is a favourite and is the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “WchT U26 03rd”]\n[Site “Graz”]\n[Date “1981.08.28”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Polajzer\, Danilo”]\n[Black “Davies\, Nigel Rodney”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A42”]\n[WhiteElo “2315”]\n[BlackElo “2395”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News / Nigel Davies”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[EventDate “1981.08.17”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “AUT”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Yugoslavia”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “YUG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,38\,19\,31\,73\,46\,47\,34\,32\,28\,53\,30\,60\,65\,39\,15\,52\,39\,49\,24\,20\,17\,16\,5\,\n26\,31\,32\,-23\,7\,-43\,-7\,37\,11\,0\,0\,12\,12\,13\,-447\,-457\,-288]} 1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3.\nNc3 d6 4. e4 Nc6 5. Be3 e5 6. d5 Nce7 7. g4 c5 ({More popular is} 7… f5 8.\ngxf5 gxf5 9. Qh5+ Kf8 10. Bh3 Nf6 11. Qf3 f4 12. Bd2 Ng6 13. Bxc8 Qxc8 $14) (\n7… a6 $5) (7… Nf6 $1) 8. h4 (8. Bd3 Nf6) 8… Nf6 9. g5 $146 (9. f3 $142 h5\n10. g5 Nd7 $14) 9… Nh5 $1 $17 10. Be2 Nf4 11. Bf3 O-O 12. Nge2 {[#]} f5 $1\n13. Qd2 (13. Nxf4 exf4 14. Bxf4 fxe4 $19) (13. exf5 Bxf5 14. Qd2) (13. gxf6\nBxf6 14. Qd2 g5 15. Rg1 Neg6 $17) 13… Qa5 $1 (13… fxe4 14. Bxe4 Nh5) 14.\nO-O-O (14. Nxf4 exf4 15. Bxf4 fxe4 16. Bxe4 (16. Nxe4 Qxd2+ $19) 16… Bxc3 17.\nbxc3 Rxf4 18. Qxf4 Qxc3+ 19. Ke2 Qxc4+ $19) 14… Rb8 15. Nxf4 $2 exf4 16. Bxf4\nfxe4 $19 17. Bxd6 $2 {[#]} (17. Be2 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Rxf4 19. Qxf4 Qxc3+ 20. Kb1\nb5 $19) (17. Bxe4 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Rxf4 19. Qxf4 Qxc3+ 20. Kb1 b5 21. Qxd6 Rb6 $19\n) 17… Rxf3 $1 18. Bxb8 Rxc3+ $1 19. Kb1 (19. bxc3 Bxc3) 19… e3 20. fxe3\nBf5+ 21. Ka1 Rc2 $1 {and White resigned} {because} 22. Qxa5 Bxb2+ 23. Kb1 Rd2+\n24. e4 Bxe4# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nNigel is an active user of Twitter and may be found @GMNigelDavies \nIn 2020 the Welsh Chess Union successfully endorsed Nigel’s application to FIDE to become a FIDE Senior Trainer which he became in 2021: \nNigel Davies\, FIDE Senior Trainer\nNigel has had many books and DVDs published : \nThe Chess Player’s Battle Manual. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-7043-7\nThe Power Chess Program. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8415-2.\nThe Grünfeld Defence. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-239-3.\nThe Veresov. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857443356.\nThe Dynamic Reti. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857443523.\nThe Trompowsky. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857443764.\nKing’s Indian Attack. Hamburg: ChessBase. ISBN 978-3-86681-071-6.\nStarting Out: The Modern. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445664.\nPlay the Catalan. Gloucester Publishers plc (formerly Everyman Publishers plc). ISBN 9781857445916.
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200801
DTSTAMP:20210710T144415Z
CREATED:20200731T001056Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jacob Aagaard (31-vii-1973)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Jacob Aagaard (31-vii-1973) \nJacob was born in Hørsholm in Denmark. \nHe became an International Master in 1997 and a Grandmaster in 2007. \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2542 in May 2010 aged 36. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsB9PrXXAk[/embedyt] \nJacob is the owner of publishing house\, Quality Chess and works with IM Andrew Greet. \nGM Jacob Aagaard takes on all-comers!\n[pgn]\n[Event “Hampstead IM”]\n[Site “Hampstead”]\n[Date “1998.03.28”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Aagaard\, Jacob”]\n[Black “Williams\, Simon Kim”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A84”]\n[WhiteElo “2395”]\n[BlackElo “2315”]\n[Annotator “Aagaard\,J”]\n[PlyCount “50”]\n[EventDate “1998.03.25”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “4”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,50\,25\,29\,44\,4\,39\,53\,55\,36\,77\,49\,56\,29\,83\,83\,83\,71\,79\,20\,83\,48\,121\,88\,\n93\,11\,87\,41\,62\,57\,55\,84\,60\,-37\,10\,122\,158\,141\,141\,142\,135\,154\,225\,219\,309\,296\,\n296\,314\,336\,319\,499\,427\,528]} 1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 $6 5. Qc2\nd5 6. Bf4 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3 Ne4 9. g4 $1 $14 Qa5 10. Ke2 Kh8 11. h4 $5 Nd7\n12. h5 Ndf6 $2 13. Ne5 Nxc3+ 14. bxc3 Ne4 $2 15. Bxe4 fxe4 {[%tqu “En”\,”Can\nwhite win?”\,””\,””\,”e5g6″\,””\,10]} 16. Ng6+ $3 hxg6 17. hxg6+ Kg8 18. Qc1 $1 {\n[%csl Rh7][%cal Rc1h1\,Rh1h8]} Qd8 {[%tqu “En”\,”Now how can white stop Bh4?”\,””\,\n“”\,”f4c7″\,””\,10]} 19. Bc7 $1 Rxf2+ $2 (19… Bh4 $1 20. Bxd8 Rxf2+ 21. Kd1 Bxd8\n22. Ke1 Rf3 23. Ke2 Rg3 24. Qa3 $1 $18) 20. Kxf2 Bh4+ 21. Ke2 Qg5 22. Qg1 $1 e5\n23. Qh2 Bxg4+ 24. Kd2 exd4 25. cxd4 dxc4 {[%cal Rc7a5]} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nJacob’s publications include : \n (1998). Easy Guide to the Panov-Botvinnik Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-563-3.\n (2000). Easy Guide to the Sveshnikov Sicilian. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-280-9.\n (2001). Dutch Stonewall. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-252-6.\n (2001). Excelling at Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-273-1.\n (2002). Queen’s Indian Defence. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-300-4.\n and Esben Land (2002). Meeting 1.d4. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-224-3.\n (2003). Excelling at Positional Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-325-7.\n (2004). Excelling at Chess Calculation. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-360-8.\n (2004). Excelling at Combinational Play. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-345-5.\n (2004). Excelling at Technical Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-364-6.\n (2004). Starting Out: The Grunfeld. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-350-9.\n (2004). Inside the Chess Mind. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857443578.\n (2006). Practical Chess Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-975244-4-5.\n (2008). The Attacking Manual: Basic Principles. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-0-8.\n (2008). The Attacking Manual 2: Technique and Praxis. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-1-5.\n (2012). Grandmaster Preparation – Calculation. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-31-6.\n(2012). Grandmaster Preparation – Positional Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-27-9.\n (2013). Grandmaster Preparation – Strategic Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-29-3.\n(2013). Grandmaster Preparation – Attack & Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-70-5.\n(2014). Grandmaster Preparation – Endgame Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-27-9.\n (2017). Grandmaster Preparation – Thinking Inside the Box. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-35-4.
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200802
DTSTAMP:20210801T175847Z
CREATED:20200401T105351Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Rawle Allicock (01-viii-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Rawle Anthony Allicock (01-viii-1970)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-rawle-anthony-allicock-01-viii-1970/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200803
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200804
DTSTAMP:20210801T180718Z
CREATED:20190822T165409Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Captain William Davies Evans (27-i-1790 03-viii-1872)
DESCRIPTION:BCN Remembers Captain William Davies Evans (27-i-1790 03-viii-1872) \nCaptain William Davies Evans (27-i-1790 03-viii-1872)\nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“Inventor of the Evans gambit\, for about half a century one of the most popular attacking weapons. He was born in (Musland Farm in the parish of Saint Dogwells\,) Pembroke\, Wales\, went to sea at the age of 14\, was employed by the Postal Department from about 1815\, and rose to the rank of captain four years later. In 1824\, soon after taking command of the first Royal Mail steam packet to sail from Milford Haven to Waterford\, and while aboard\, he invented his gambit. Evans was a keen player. He gathered a small chess circle in Waterford\, and when on leave in England played chess in London\, notably in 1826 when he showed his gambit to Lewis and McDonnell\, and in 1838 when he played a long series of games with Staunton at the Westminster Chess Club. In Jan. 1840 he was pensioned off on account of ill-health. He went to Greece\, became captain of a steamer that sailed the Mediterranean\, and returned to London at the end of 1842. During the next 13 years there are several accounts of his presence in London\, and then he settled abroad. He died and was buried in Ostend\, \nEvans claimed to have solved the three pawns problem (See below) \, which\, however\, had already been solved by others. His claim to the invention of tri-coloured lighting for ships has not been verified independently\, although he is known to have investigated the subject. For this invention he states that the Tsar of Russia gave him a gold chronometer\, and that he also received money. For a more detailed life of Captain Evans see British Chess Magazine\, 1928\, pp\, 6-18.” \nThe Evans Gambit is a variation of the Giuoco Piano or Italian Game : \n[fen]r1bqk1nr/pppp1ppp/2n5/2b1p3/1PB1P3/5N2/P1PP1PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nWhen Evans originally devised his gambit the move order was slightly different : \n[fen]r1bqk1nr/ppp2ppp/2np4/2b1p3/1PB1P3/5N2/P1PP1PPP/RNBQ2KR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nin which White sacrifices the b-pawn for increased central control and development viz : \n[pgn]\n[Event “London”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1829.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Evans\, William Davies”]\n[Black “McDonnell\, Alexander”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C51”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “39”]\n[EventDate “1829.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2010”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2010.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2010.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,39\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,27\,27\,-50\,-30\,-36\,35\,4\,-5\,122\,37\,44\,129\,125\,166\,166\,\n200\,219\,215\,212\,212\,212\,266\,383\,584\,706\,690\,723\,746\,874\,29995\,29996\,29997\,\n29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 $1 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6.\nO-O (6. d4 $142 exd4 7. O-O d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. d5) 6… Nf6 7. d4 exd4 (7… Bd6\n) 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. e5 d5 (9… Ng4 $142) 10. exf6 $18 dxc4 11. Re1+ Kf8 12. Ba3+\nKg8 13. d5 Na5 (13… gxf6 $142 14. dxc6 Qxd1 15. Rxd1 bxc6 $18) 14. Be7 $18 {\n[#]} Qd7 15. fxg7 Kxg7 16. Qd2 Qg4 17. Qc3+ Kg8 (17… Bd4 18. Nxd4) 18. Qxh8+\n$1 Kxh8 19. Bf6+ Qg7 20. Re8# {[#]} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“Inventor of the Evans Gambit\, an opening described by a player in the last century as ‘A yellow fever attack : if you live through the initial stages and avoid any carelessness that may bring on a relapse\, you will come out alright’. \nCaptain Evans discovered the gambit in about 1824. It was a favourite opening during the last century and was adopted by a number of leading players including La Bourdonnais and Morphy. \nFor some years Commander in H.M. Royal Mail Packet Service on the Milford and Waterford station\, Captain Evans later became Commander in the P.& O. Company’s service and agent for the Royal Mail Steampacket Company\, Port Grande. On retirement he lives for many years in Holland and Belgium. \nThe story is told of how\, in 1870\, the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia\, brother of the Tsar\, was visiting Bruges when he heard that the inventor of the Evans Gambit was living in Ostend. Being a keen chess player he invited Evans to play a game. When Evans had won\, the Grand Duke turned to his adversary and said : ‘I believe you invented the Evans Gambit ?’\, ‘Yes’ replied Evans ‘and it’s not the only thing I’ve invented for which you have not paid me.’ ‘What’s the other?’ asked the Grand Duke.\nEvans then explained that he was the inventor of the ship’s lights which were being used by the Russian Navy\, in which the Grand Duke held the rank of Admiral. Several months later Evans was invited to the Russian Consulate in Ostend\, where he was handed a letter from the Grand Duke\, a gold chronometer\, a gold chain and a draft of money\, ostensibly in payment for the Russia’s rights to use the captain’s invention in her ships. ” \nEnjoy this interesting article from “Introuble2” on chess.com \nEvans analyzed the “Little Game of Chess” (an endgame composition involving only two kings with three pawns each) \n[fen]4k3/5ppp/8/8/8/8/PPP5/3K4 w – – 0 1[/fen] \nto independently discover that it actually won for the player who moves first\, not drawn as had been believed for over a hundred years. \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek we have : \n“After his retirement Evans went to live abroad and eventually found a haven is Ostend and there\, ill\, and almost blind and in very straightened circumstances\, he dictated a letter on 22 March 1871\, which was published in the Gentlemen’s Journal supplement for June 1872\, along with an appeal for him organised by George Walker. The letter gives the authentic facts of his life and is worth quoting in full\, if only to refute various unfounded reports about a meeting with the Tsar’s brother\, or according to that rich source of misinformation\, the Rev GA MacDonnell\, that the Evans Gambit was discovered off the coast of Africa by a middle-aged lieutenant in the Royal Navy -perhaps the reverend gentleman was confusing Waterford with the Canary Islands. \nThe letter runs : \nWilliams Davies Evans is a native of Pembrokeshire\, South Wales\, and was born on 27 January 1790. He commenced a naval career at the age of fourteen. He was about twenty-eight years of age when he first learnt the moves of the game of Chess. Having the advantage of frequent practise with Lieut H. Wilson\, R.N.\, who was a player of some reputation in his time\, beside corresponding on the subject of the game with the late Mr. W. Lewis\, and also with George Walker\, the able Chess Editor of Bell’s Life \, he made a rapid progress in the game. Captain Evans received at first the odds of a Rook from Lieut. Wilson. After a continuance of play for some years\, the odds were greatly reduced\, until ultimately Captain Evans succeeded in defeating his formidable antagonist playing even. \nAbout the year 1824\, being then in command of a Government Mail Steamer\, the passages between Milford Haven and Waterford were favourable to the study of the game of Chess and at this time he invented the Gambit\, which bears his name. The idea occurred to him while studying a narration of Giuoco Piano in Sarratts’s Treatise on Chess. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Berlin ‘Evergreen'”]\n[Site “Berlin”]\n[Date “1852.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Anderssen\, Adolf”]\n[Black “Dufresne\, Jean”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C52”]\n[Annotator “Kasparov\,Garry”]\n[PlyCount “47”]\n[EventDate “1852.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 059”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.08.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1997.08.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,47\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,27\,27\,-50\,-30\,-31\,-31\,-57\,-31\,-88\,0\,-21\,-3\,40\,40\,-7\,\n0\,-84\,-31\,34\,21\,37\,40\,0\,70\,65\,115\,119\,122\,0\,0\,0\,72\,-231\,-156\,-158\,29993\,29994\,\n29995\,29996\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000] Today we will look at a game that\nbewitched its contemporaries and became known as the “evergreen”.} {Heute\nwerden wir eine Partie betrachten\, die ihre Zeitgenossen bezaubert hat und als\n“Immergrüne” in die Geschichte eingegangen ist. Dufresne war ein deutscher\nJurastudent und Journalist\, dessen “Kleines Lehrbuch des Schachspiels” ganze\nGenerationen von Schachspielern begleitet hat.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5\n4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d3 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Re1 Nge7 11.\nBa3 b5 12. Qxb5 Rb8 13. Qa4 Bb6 14. Nbd2 Bb7 15. Ne4 Qf5 16. Bxd3 Qh5 {[#]\nWhite has a huge advantage and it is time for decisive action. In accordance\nwith his own romantic style and public demand Anderssen played [#] Weiß hat\neinen gigantischen Vorteil\, die Zeit ist reif für den Sturm. Seinem eigenen\nromantischen Stil getreu\, und dem Publikumsgeschmack gehorchend\, spielte\nAnderssen} 17. Nf6+ {?!! The two exclamation marks are for one of the most\nbeautiful combinations in chess history\, which was started with this move. But\nobjectively the search for beauty created unnecessary complications. The\nprosaic ?!! Zwei Ausrufezeichen\, weil eine der glanzvollsten Kombinationen der\ngesamten Schachgeschichte mit diesem Zug eingeleitet wurde. Aber objektiv\ngesehen kann das Streben nach Schönheit unnötige Komplikationen schaffen. Das\nprosaische} (17. Ng3 Qh6 18. Bc1 Qe6 19. Bc4 Nd5 (19… Qg6 20. Nh4 Qg4 21.\nBxf7+) 20. Ng5 Qg4 21. Re4 {would finish the game without any troubles\, but\nthen chess would have lost one of the jewels from its crown! hätte die Partie\nohne weitere Schwierigkeiten beendet. Aber damit würde heute dem Schachspiel\nein Juwel in der Krone fehlen.}) 17… gxf6 18. exf6 Rg8 $1 {At first sight an\nopen g-file gives Black excellent counter-attacking chances\, but Anderssen’s\ncalculations were beyond the fears of an ordinary human being. Auf den ersten\nBlick bietet die offene g-Linie Schwarz ausgezeichnete Chancen für einen\nGegenangriff. Aber die Berechnungen von Anderssen waren jenseits der Ängste\nvon normalen Menschen.} 19. Rad1 $1 {I’ll spare you hundreds of analyses by\nfollowing generations of chess players. After endless debate they have agreed\nthat 19.Rad1 was better than the alternative 19.Be4. Now the best reply was 19.\n..Rg4!\, which would pose some difficult problems for White\, but in the\nemerging wild complications White would\, in my opinion\, retain the upper hand.\nIch werde Ihnen die unzähligen Analysen von Generationen von Schachspielern\nersparen. Nach endlosen Debatten haben sie beschlossen\, daß Anderssens Zug\nbesser als die Alternative 19.Le4 war. Danach wäre 19…Tg4! der beste Zug.\nWeiß hätte einige schwierige Probleme zu meistern\, aber nach meiner Meinung\nbehält er in den wilden Komplikationen\, die folgen\, eindeutig die Oberhand.}\nQxf3 $2 {Now White’s king is suddenly just one step from decapitation. But how\ncan we reproach Dufresne from not recognising the magic of a genius? [#]\nJetzt steht der weiße König nur einen Schritt vor seiner Hinrichtung. Aber\nkönnen wir Dufresne einen Vorwurf machen\, weil er die magischen Fähigkeiten\neines Genies nicht erkannt hat? [#]} 20. Rxe7+ $1 Nxe7 $5 {Another proof that\nchess masterpieces require the generous cooperation of the loser! Nowadays a\nprofessional player and\, of course\, a computer\, would have without hesitation\nresorted to Ein weiterer Beweis dafür\, daß die Meisterwerke des Schachs der\ngroßmutigen Kooperation des Opfers benötigen! Heutzutage würde ein Schachprofi\n— und natürlich auch ein schachspielender Computer — ohne Zögern den Zug 20..\n.Kd8 wählen\, um die nahende Vernichtung zu vermeiden.} (20… Kd8 {preventing\nthe upcoming demolition\, but losing anyway later after Aber Schwarz verliert\nauch so:} 21. Rxd7+ $1 Kc8 (21… Kxd7 22. Bf5+ Ke8 23. Bd7+ Kd8 24. Bxc6+ {\nwith mate nebst Matt.}) 22. Rd8+ $1 Kxd8 (22… Rxd8 23. gxf3 {or}) (22… Nxd8\n23. Qd7+ $3 {- the same motif mit dem gleichen Motiv}) 23. Be2+ {less clear is}\n({weniger klar ist} 23. Bf5+ Qxd1+ 24. Qxd1+ Nd4 25. g3 Rg5 $1 26. Bh3 Bf3 $1)\n23… Nd4 24. Bxf3 Bxf3 25. g3 Bxd1 26. Qxd1 {with a boring but winning\nendgame. mit einem langweiligen aber gewonnenen Endspiel.}) 21. Qxd7+ $3 Kxd7\n22. Bf5+ Ke8 23. Bd7+ Kf8 24. Bxe7# {It was not surprising that chess players\nof the time\, impressed by this kind of greatness\, did not want to listen to\ndull positional advice. But the old combinational school\, led by its first\nknight Anderssen\, was doomed in the battle against the modernized warfare\ntechniques of Paul Morphy\, whose tactics had much better positional\nfoundations. Es ist nicht verwunderlich\, daß die Schachspieler jener Zeit\nangesichts solcher großartigen Angriffspartien wenig Neigung hatten\, stumpfe\nstrategische Regeln zu lernen. Aber die alte kombinatorische Schule\, geführt\nvon ihrem strahlendsten Ritter Anderssen\, war letztendlich zum Untergang\nverdammt. Ihre Vertreter konnten den fortschrittlicheren Techniken eines Paul\nMorphy\, dessen taktische Schläge ein viel solideres positionelles Fundament\nbesaßen\, nicht lange widerstehen.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nCaptain Evans was the first who gave to the world a true solution of that very difficult end game\, the King and three Pawns unmoved against King and three Pawns also unmoved. This position was handed down to us through a period of some centuries as a drawn game\, but Captain Evans proved that the first player can always win. \nCaptain Evans acquired some celebrity as “Inventor of the System of Tri-Coloured Lights for Ships to Prevent Collisions at Night”\, which has been adopted by all nations possessing a marine. For this invention the English Government awarded him the sum of £1\,500 \, and the Czar of Russia a gold pocket chronometer\, value £160\, together with a donation of £200. \nThe subscription that amounted to over £200 was too late. He died in 1872 and was buried in Ostend where his grave bears the inscription : \nTo the sacred memory of William Davies Evans\, formerly Commander in the Post Office and Peninsular and Oriental Steam Services\, Superintendent In the Royal Mail Shipping Company\, and inventor of the system of tri-coloured light for shipping. Also well known in the Chess World as the author of the Evans Gambit \nBlue Plaque for Captain WD Evans\nHere is his Wikipedia entry. \nRead here of the Plaque in Wolfscastle \nBlue Plaque for Captain William Davies Evans (27-i-1790 03-viii-1872)\nPlay The Evans Gambit (co-author Tim Harding). Cadogan. ISBN 1-85744-119-2.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Sam Franklin (03-viii-1994)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Samuel Gideon A Franklin (03-viii-1994) \nFM Samuel GA Franklin from the Varsity Match\, 9th March 2014\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nFM Samuel GA Franklin from the London Chess Classic\, 29th December 2013.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Laurence Webb (04-viii-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Laurence E Webb (04-viii-1970)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Mike Waddington (07-viii-1966)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Michael P Waddington (07-viii-1966)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Angus Dunnington (09-viii-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Angus Dunnington (09-viii-1967) \nAngus James Dunnington was born in Wakefield\, West Yorkshire\, his mother’s maiden name was Townend. \nHe has lived in Castleford\, West Yorkshire and most recently in Lockerbie\, Dumfriesshire. \nAngus became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master in 1991. \nAngus has been a recipient of a Chess Journalists of America award and was chess correspondent for The Yorkshire Post. He has been an Olympiad trainer. \nAngus has played for 4NCL White Rose and his peak FIDE rating was 2450 in January 1996\, aged 29. \nHe won Toulouse 1993 with 6.5/9\, we was first equal (3) in the London Agency tournament on 1997 with 6/9\, we was equal first in the 1999 Hampstead IM tournament with 6.5/9. \nAs White Angus prefers a Reti style double fianchetto\, the King’s Indian Attack and also the Queen’s Gambit and is an expert on the Catalan and KIA. \nAs Black Angus essays the Modern Defence for most of the time. \nHis most recent ECF grading was 212E in 2005 and was 232A in 1996. \nIn 2018 after a lengthy absence Angus made a welcome return to the Scottish Championship Open with a strong =3rd place. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT2 0203 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “West Bromwich”]\n[Date “2003.05.03”]\n[Round “9.1”]\n[White “Dunnington\, Angus J”]\n[Black “Trevelyan\, John”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[WhiteElo “2388”]\n[BlackElo “2191”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “41”]\n[EventDate “2002.11.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2004”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “White Rose”]\n[BlackTeam “SW Dragons II”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,29\,18\,18\,83\,73\,82\,52\,52\,72\,64\,66\,50\,39\,41\,34\,44\,22\,34\,-14\,31\,35\,45\,45\,\n198\,166\,158\,138\,262\,250\,249\,265]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 e5 $5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nbd7\n5. Bc4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. a4 c6 8. Ba2 h6 (8… Qc7) 9. Nh4 Nxe4 $6 (9… exd4\n10. Qxd4 d5 $1) 10. Nxe4 Bxh4 (10… d5 $142) 11. Nxd6 $14 {[#]} exd4 $2 12.\nQh5 $1 (12. Nxf7) 12… Nf6 13. Bxf7+ Kh7 14. Qg6+ Kh8 15. Bxh6 {and Black\nresigned} gxh6 16. Qxh6+ Nh7 17. Bg6 Qe7 18. Bxh7 Qxh7 19. Qxf8+ Qg8 20. Nf7+\nKh7 21. Qh6# 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43h4Wc__iQ[/embedyt] \nIM Angus Dunnington\, photograph by Gisbert Jacoby\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nThe Ultimate King’s Indian Attack\, 1993\nPawn Power !\, 1994\nWinning with the Catalan\, 1997\nEasy Guide to the Reti Opening\n101 Winning Chess Strategies\, 1999\nWinning Unorthodox Openings\, 2000\nMastering the Middlegame\, 2001\nChess Psychology\, 2003\nNimzo-Indian Rubinstein: Complex Lines with 4e3\, 2004\nBlunders and How to Avoid Them\, 2004\nIM Angus Dunnington\, photograph by Cathy Rogers
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Michael Rahal (10-viii-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Michael A Rahal (10-viii-1970) \nMichael Anthony Rahal was born in Aldershot\, Hampshire to Spanish parents. His mother’s maiden name is Vives Escoda. Michael attended Salesian College in Farnborough. Previously the strongest player from Aldershot may have been Michael Antony Pagden. \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1994 and an International Master in 1999. \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2431 in January 2005. \nHe is a Spanish resident. \nHere is his YouTube Channel \nHis handle on the Internet Chess Club is “mikerahal” \n.With the white pieces Michael prefers the Spanish(!) Opening \nWith the black pieces Michael plays the French Winawer and the Classical Dutch. \nSmash the Sicilian with the Smith-Morra Gambit – Michael Rahal (PC-DVD)
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