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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Rev. Charles Ranken (05-i-1828 12-iv-1905)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Rev. Charles Edward Ranken (05-i-1828 12-iv-1905)From The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nA leading member of the formidable band of reverends who played such a strong role in early Victorian English chess\, he is described as ‘one of the writing rather than the fighting clergy in chess’ in P. W. Sergeant’s Century of Britsh Chess. Though he learnt chess at an early age’ he made his first really earnest study of the game when he was an undergraduate at Wadham College\, Oxford 1847-50\, in particular devoting himself to a theoretical study of Staunton’s Handbook\, which he rightly regarded as a great landmark in chess literature. \nOn leaving Oxford he competed in the provincial section at London l85l where he came second to Boden.\nIn 1867 he became vicar of Sandford-on-Thames and lived at Oxford where\, in collaboration with Lord Randolph Churchill (Winston’s father)\, he founded the Oxford University Chess Club\nand became its first President. \nResigning his living at Sandford in 1871\, he went to live at Malvern where he stayed till his death. He played in many of the congresses organized by the Counties Chess Association\, his best result being 1st in the first class section at Malvern 1872 with a score of l2 points\, followed by two other reverends\, Thorold 11.5 and Wayte 10.5. It was at this congress that he brought about a reconciliation between Staunton and Löwenthal who had been estranged for a considerable time. \nHe played in the Yizayanaqaram tournament at London 1883 and started well but his health gave way after the first week and he divided fifth place with G. H. D. Gossip.\nHis chief importance during the later stages of his chess career was as a writer\, first as editor of the Chess Player’s Chronicle in 1877 and later as a member of the staff of the British Chess Magazine in which he wrote on many aspects of chess but specialized in analysis (of the openings\, middle-game and the endings)’ In 1889 he published\, in collaboration with E. Freeborough\, Chess Openings Ancient and Modern. (London)’ ( H’G’) \nChess Openings Ancient and Modern 1889\nThe Ranken Variation is a good line for White in the Four Knights Opening\, analysed in the Chess Players Chronicle\, 1879 by Ranken first president of the Oxford University Chess Club. \n[fen]r1bqkb1r/1ppp1ppp/p1B2n2/4p3/4P3/2N2N2/PPPP1PPP/R1BQK2R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Harry Grieve (12-iv-2001)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Harry James M Grieve (12-iv-2001) \nHarry at the 2014 UKCC Terafinal\nHarry is studying mathematics at St. Catherine’s College\, Cambridge having previously been a pupil and member of the very strong chess team of Royal Grammar School\, Guildford. He started his league chess with Fleet & Farnborough Chess Club (same as Simon Williams !) and then transferred his allegiance to the very strong Farnham chess club playing top board in many matches. Round 5 of the Caplin Hastings International Chess Congress featured the board 10 clash between one of England’s stronger Grandmasters\, Danny Gormally (2508) and FM Harry Grieve (2299). Here is their game : [pgn] [Event “Hastings Masters 2019-2020”] [Site “Hastings”] [Date “2020.01.01”] [Round “5”] [White “Gormally\, Danny”] [Black “Grieve\, Harry”] [Result “0-1”] [ECO “A80”] [Annotator “British Chess News”] [PlyCount “86”] [EventDate “2019.12.28”] [EventType “swiss”] [EventRounds “9”] [EventCountry “ENG”] {[%evp 0\,51\,19\,31\,75\,31\,54\,23\,36\,47\,59\,45\,53\,34\,86\,79\,53\,60\,63\,20\,43\,29\,46\,24\, 44\,33\,50\,65\,60\,50\,44\,61\,51\,51\,83\,68\,47\,-11\,63\,12\,85\,7\,-17\,-29\,16\,-24\,22\,41\,69\, 8\,-6\,1\,61\,25]} 1. d4 f5 {[%cal Gf5e4\,Gg8f6]} 2. Bg5 {[%cal Gg5d8] The Bogoljubov Variation\, aimed as an anti e6 and anti-Classical Dutch line\, favoured by Tony Miles.} h6 3. Bh4 g5 4. e3 (4. e4 $5 {is also critical : may be more so ?} Rh7 5. Qh5+ Rf7 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. Qg6 Nc6 8. Bxg5 fxe4 9. Ne5 Nxe5 10. dxe5 hxg5 11. exf6 exf6 $6 (11… e6) 12. Nc3 Bb4 $2 13. O-O-O $1 Bxc3 14. Bc4 $18 {Gormally – Williams\, EU Championship\, Liverpool\, 2006\, 1-0\, 19.}) 4… Nf6 5. Bg3 (5. Be2 $5 Bg7 6. Bg3 O-O 7. Nc3) 5… d6 6. h4 $1 {Kasparov} Rg8 ( 6… Bg7 7. hxg5 hxg5 8. Rxh8+ Bxh8 9. Nh3 $14 g4 $142 (9… Ne4 $143 $5 10. Qh5+ Kd7 11. Bh4 $1 Bf6 12. Bxg5 $18) 10. Nf4 Ne4 11. Bh4 $14) (6… g4 { McDonald} 7. Ne2 (7. Nc3 Nh5 8. Nge2)) 7. hxg5 hxg5 8. Nc3 (8. c4 $1 { Kindermann} e6 9. Nc3 Qe7 10. Qb3 $16) 8… e6 9. Qd2 Qe7 10. O-O-O Nc6 11. f3 {[%cal Ge3e4]} Bd7 12. e4 fxe4 (12… f4 $143 13. Bf2 $14) 13. fxe4 O-O-O 14. d5 {Kasparov} (14. Kb1) (14. Bb5) 14… exd5 (14… Ne5) 15. exd5 Ne5 16. Nf3 $146 {[%cal Gf3e5]} (16. Qd4 Kb8 17. Nb5 Bxb5 18. Bxb5 Bg7 19. Nh3 Nfd7 20. Kb1 $15) (16. Re1 Kb8 17. Kb1 Bg7 18. a3 Rh8 19. Rxh8 Rxh8 20. Bxe5 dxe5 21. Nf3 { Kasparov – Illescas Cordoba\, Dos Hermanas\, 1996\, 1/2\, 48.}) 16… Nxf3 (16… Nfg4 17. Re1 Bg7 18. Nd4 Kb8) 17. gxf3 Kb8 18. Nb5 {White has ideas of saccing on c7 or a7 so Black is more or less obliged to capture the knight.} Bxb5 19. Bxb5 Nd7 {[%cal Gd7c5] aiming for c5} 20. Rhe1 (20. Bxd7) 20… Qf6 21. Re6 Qf7 (21… Qxf3 22. Re3 Qf6 23. Rf1 Qg7 24. Qe2 $14) 22. Kb1 Bg7 (22… Nc5 $142 23. Qe3 Nxe6 24. dxe6 Qe7) 23. Qe3 Be5 24. Bxd7 Bxg3 25. Re7 Bf2 $5 {critical position} (25… Qf6 26. Rh1 Bf4 27. Qe1 $15) 26. Qe2 $143 (26. Qxa7+ $142 $1 Kxa7 27. Rxf7 Rdf8 28. Rxf8 Rxf8 29. Rd3 $14) 26… Qf6 27. Bg4 {Stockfish 10 believes the position to be level.} Bb6 28. Rd3 {Is the start of a faulty plan ? Is White’s back rank too weak for this idea ?} Rh8 {of course !} 29. a3 a6 30. Rb3 $6 (30. Rd1 $1 {White should be happy to halve out.}) 30… Qd4 $1 { Very strong centralisation still eyeing up b2 and g1} 31. Rd3 $2 {This must simply be an oversight.} Rh1+ 32. Ka2 Qg1 $19 {and White is busted. So\, what did Danny miss ?} 33. Rd2 {There is no defence after this.} (33. Kb3 Qa1 34. c3 Bc5 35. Re8 Rxe8 36. Qxe8+ Ka7) 33… Qa1+ 34. Kb3 Rb1 35. c3 Bc5 $1 {There is nothing White can do.} 36. Kc4 Qa2+ 37. Kd3 Qxd5+ 38. Kc2 Qa2 39. Kd3 Qd5+ 40. Kc2 Qa2 41. Kd3 Rc1 $1 {Is this the move Danny missed at move 31 ?} 42. Qe6 d5 {and mate in 14 according to Stockfish 10 !} 43. Rd7 {and Danny sportingly allows Harry to deliver checkmate : Black’s first win with either colour against a strong Grandmaster.} Qc4# 0-1 [/pgn] Following this game Harry needs 2.5/4 to obtain his first IM norm : Good luck ! \nHarry Grieve\, 2014 Terafinal
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Peter Markland (13-iv-1951)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes a happy birthday to Peter Markland born on Friday\, April 13th\, 1951 \nFrom the rear cover of “Sicilian:…e5 : \n“P.R. Markland is a British Master\, and a member of many English international teams\, including those at the 1972 and 1974 Olympiads\, and is also a British correspondence international” \nPeter first qualified to the British Championship in 1967 (Oxford) and obtained an IM and GM norm at Hastings 1971. \nIn 1984 he became a Grandmaster for correspondence chess (GMC). \nPeter became a banker and lives in Woodbridge\, Suffolk\, IP13. \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) we have this contribution from Peter himself: \n“1951 seems to have been a vintage year for chessplayers and although I cannot claim to count myself in the company of Andersson\, Karpov\, Ribli and Sax we do all share the same year of birth. \nAlthough I learned the moves at the age of 5\, I only took any real interest in the game at 13 when I began to play schools chess. Compared with such as Nigel Short I was a very late starter! \nI was educated at Bolton School and played for Bolton and Lancashire in my early years. This was fortunate in that all three of these teams enjoyed great success in the late 1960s. In all three teams I played along side Martyn Corden who was to precede my rise to international level himself by playing in the Siegen Olympiad team in 1970. In 1967\, I qualified for the British Championship at my first attempt and I was pleased to score 5/11. The following year the school team won The Sunday Times tournament playing without Martyn Corden in the finals. \nUp to this time I had concentrated chiefly on junior teams and had won the NCCU junior titles. Over Christmas and New Year of both 1966-7 and 1967-8 I travelled down to play at the Devon Junior Congress at Plymouth but in 1968 I decided to try my luck at Hastings. This proved to be one of the turning points of my career. \nI was placed in the Challengers Reserves for 1968-9 and after the first round loss (to the eventual winner) my play gained momentum and I qualified for the Challengers the following year. The intervening year passed quietly with a trip to Ireland in the Glorney Cup. I went up to Balliol College\, Oxford in October 1969. \nThe Scottish Junior International\, Glasgow\, 1969. l-r: David Watt\, Rene Borngässer\, David Levy\, Heinz Wirthensohn\, Peter Markland. Courtesy of Chess Scotland \nThe Hastings Challengers tournament 1969-70 began when I met the same opponent as in the previous year in the first round. This time I managed to come out on top. By the time the last round came\, I had played most of the leaders and had 6/8 including two pleasing wins with my favourite defence at the time – the Sicilian Pelikan variation. \nSicilian:…e5 by TD Harding & PR Markland\, Batsford\, 1976\, ISBN 0 7134 3209 8 \nIn the last round I was paired against de Veauce who had a reputation as a good strategist and whom I hoped to unsettle tactically. I had white and my plan failed. He outplayed me in the opening and middlegame and I sacrificed my isolated centre pawn to activate my pieces. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1969/70-Challenger”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1970.01.07”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “De Veauce\, Louis”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C54”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland / British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “69”]\n[EventDate “1969.12.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, page 158.”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,69\,19\,28\,23\,19\,22\,4\,4\,2\,-2\,37\,-6\,-19\,2\,2\,14\,45\,42\,29\,26\,28\,28\,32\,32\,\n23\,60\,33\,67\,43\,37\,30\,11\,6\,84\,13\,13\,-24\,1\,-3\,3\,13\,0\,0\,0\,-12\,-14\,-12\,-19\,-15\,-21\,\n0\,0\,0\,-55\,-37\,-23\,-31\,-8\,-16\,0\,0\,0\,-41\,0\,-25\,-46\,0\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} {\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983)\, pp158: In the last round I was\npaired against de Veauce who had a reputation as a good strategist and whom I\nhoped to unsettle tactically. I had white and my plan failed. He outplayed me\nin the opening and middlegame and I sacrificed my isolated centre pawn to\nactivate my pieces.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6.\ncxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Bxd2+ 8. Nbxd2 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Qb3 Nce7 11. O-O O-O 12.\nRfe1 Nb6 13. Bd3 h6 (13… Bf5 14. Rxe7 Bxd3 15. Rae1 Bg6) 14. a4 $6 a5 {[#]}\n15. h3 $146 Nc6 16. Rac1 Qd5 17. Qxd5 $6 (17. Be4) 17… Nxd5 18. Nb3 Ncb4 19.\nBe4 b6 20. Na1 Bd7 21. Nc2 Ra7 22. Nxb4 Nxb4 $15 23. b3 Be6 24. Re3 Rc8 25. Ne5\nRd8 26. Rd1 c5 27. d5 Bxd5 28. Bxd5 Rxd5 29. Rxd5 Nxd5 30. Rd3 Nb4 31. Rd6 {[#]\n} {In the diagrammed position it is clear that a draw should result although\nperhaps white has some chances of advantage after the fall of black’s b-pawn.\nInstead the game continued} Re7 32. f4 {[#]} f6 $2 33. Ng6 {Now white has a\nclear edge.} Rb7 $4 34. Rd8+ Kf7 35. f5 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSo I then had to wait had to wait to see the other results before I could confirm a somewhat lucky place in the Premier. \nIn 1970 I had the opportunity to travel with the student team to the Olympiad in Haifa. My score of 5.5/7 was reasonably pleasing but the standard of opposition was far from good. \nPeter Markland at Hastings 1970-71 \nAt the end of the year came the Hastings Premier – a tournament which I can only describe as the highlight of my career. I began nervously and lost a nondescript game to Uhlmann in the first round. My confidence grew with two comfortable draws with Portisch (the eventual winner) and Keene. In round four I met the surprise leader\, Mestrovic (who had 3/3) and perhaps partly due to the fact that this game was played on 1st January I won convincingly in 18 moves. \nPeter Markland during his game with Portisch on December 30th 1970 \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1970/71-46 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1971.01.01”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “Mestrovic\, Zvonimir”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “35”]\n[EventDate “1970.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,35\,19\,29\,72\,-9\,56\,41\,67\,53\,31\,46\,46\,24\,40\,-8\,-1\,0\,49\,19\,91\,70\,307\,341\,\n444\,451\,486\,486\,580\,688\,754\,767\,1527\,598\,633\,633\,633\,622]} {Possibly this game\nwas influenced by the previous nights celebrations?} 1. e4 c5 2. c3 b6 3. d4 e6\n4. Nf3 Bb7 5. Bd3 Nf6 $6 (5… Ne7 6. O-O Ng6 7. Bg5 Be7 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Re1\nO-O $10 {Florian-Haag\, Gyula 1965}) 6. Nbd2 (6. Qe2 Be7 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3) 6…\nd5 (6… Nc6) 7. exd5 {A rare choice} (7. e5) 7… Qxd5 8. O-O Bd6 $6 $146 (\n8… Be7 $142 {0-0}) 9. Re1 Qh5 $2 {Black will regret this…} 10. dxc5 $16 {\n[#]} (10. Qa4+ Nbd7) 10… Bxc5 $4 ({Not much better is} 10… Qxc5 11. Ne4\nNxe4 12. Rxe4 $1 Nd7 (12… Bxe4 $4 13. Bxe4 $18 Nc6 14. Be3 {and Black can\nresign})) 11. Re5 $1 $18 g5 {desperation} (11… Qg4 12. h3 Qf4 13. Ne4 $18)\n12. Rxg5 Qh6 13. Ne4 (13. Rxc5 $1 bxc5 14. Ne4) 13… Nxe4 14. Bxe4 Bxe4 {[#]}\n15. Rxc5 $1 Qg7 16. Qa4+ (16. Rc8+ Ke7 17. Rc7+ Ke8 18. Qd6) 16… Nd7 17. Qxe4\nRd8 18. Rg5 {and the tournament leader resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nThe next four rounds brought an uneventful draw with Wade and three exciting encounters with Byrne\, Krogius and Gligoric all of which after several reversals of fortune ended in draws. \nPeter Markland at Hastings 1970-71 \nIn the last round I was to play Hort who needed to to win to gain a share of first prize. He played a horribly passive opening and by move 14 I was already well on top. To try to compensate he snatched a queenside pawn and gave me the chance to play the type of move one can only dream about! \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1970/71-46 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1971.01.07”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “Hort\, Vlastimil”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A24”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland / British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1970.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, Pergamon P”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,59\,35\,14\,69\,16\,79\,73\,73\,18\,32\,38\,25\,17\,43\,30\,30\,13\,13\,18\,21\,31\,26\,25\,\n66\,55\,79\,54\,99\,70\,93\,58\,82\,75\,141\,147\,149\,144\,153\,103\,106\,106\,85\,130\,100\,-7\,22\,\n-192\,317\,277\,443\,310\,729\,231\,301\,317\,332\,414\,565\,616\,29993\,29994]} 1. e4 c6 2.\nc4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. g3 e5 5. Bg2 d6 6. Nge2 Nd7 7. O-O Ngf6 8. d3 O-O 9. h3 Nc5\n10. Be3 {[#]} a5 (10… Ne6) 11. f4 exf4 $6 12. gxf4 Qe7 13. Qd2 Rb8 $146 14.\nRae1 $18 Ncd7 15. Ng3 Ne8 16. d4 $16 Nc7 17. e5 dxe5 18. fxe5 Qb4 (18… c5 19.\nBg5 Qe8 20. Nce4 $16) 19. Bh6 Qxc4 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21. Re4 $1 Ne6 22. Rh4 {\nCrude but effective!} h5 {[#] Now pause the video as the saying goes….} 23.\nBd5 $3 {PRM : I remember that as soon as I played this move Hort’s face fell.\nThere was an also an eerie silence in the spectators – no doubt some felt I\nhad taken leave of my senses. The move is basically a square clearence with\ngain of tempo. The piece cannot be accepted.} {So\, the queen is lost and\nwith it the game.} Qxf1+ (23… cxd5 24. Nxh5+ $1 gxh5 (24… Kh8 25. Nf6+ Kg7\n26. Rh7#) (24… Kg8 25. Qh6 $1 gxh5 26. Qxh5 $18) 25. Qg2+ Kh6 26. Rf5 $1 $18\n(26. Qg4 $4 Qxd4+ $1 $19) 26… Ng7 27. Qxg7+ Kxg7 28. Rg5+ Kh8 29. Rhxh5#) 24.\nKxf1 cxd5 25. Nxd5 b6 26. Nf4 Nxf4 27. Qxf4 Ba6+ 28. Kg1 Bd3 29. Qg5 Kh8 30.\nQh6+ {and Black resigned.} (30. Qh6+ Kg8 31. Rxh5 $1 $18) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nThis victory meant an equal second on 5/9 with Gligoric\, Hort\, Krogius and Uhlmann and both a GM and IM norm. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mZS5j-97hY[/embedyt] \nAs a result of this I became a regular member of the England side. During 1971 my results were erratic\, possibly caused by too much play. I was pleased with my 3.5 score in my first Clare Benedict\, although I lost my first game for England due to nervousness and I was first equal with George Botterill in the Slater Young Masters at Hastings (again). Here I declined a last round draw offer\, blundered almost next move and lost to an up-and-coming junior by the name of Michael Stean! On the debit side my performances in the British Championship\, The Oxford International Congress and the Robert Silk tournament left room for improvement. \nWhilst playing with Bolton in the National Club Championship\, we had never won the competition although we had reached the semi-finals many times. This year\, 1971\, playing for Oxford University\, we won the tournament beating our old rivals Cambridge University in the final on board count. \nThe Hastings tournament of 1971-72 saw me firmly entrenched near the bottom. It is very difficult in this type of international tournament when one becomes marked as an out-of-form player. All the other players make extra efforts to beat you and this drains your strength further. \nMy main problem at Hastings was a lack of defence to 1.e4. I lost five games against this move. In the last round I had a very interesting struggle against Karpov who needed to win this game to tie first with Korchnoi who had beaten him in the previous round\, but the strength of 1.e4 proved too much. \nThe summer of 1972 saw the advent of my University finals and thus I played very little for the first six months of the year – even I had to decline an invitation to the Teeside GM event. Later in the year I played in the student Olympiad in Graz and then in the Olympiad is Skopje. \nIn the preliminaries we had drawn Yugoslavia and Switzerland\, who were the only other teams likely to qualify for the ‘A’ final. We missed qualification narrowly and I think that every team member had one poor result in the qualifying rounds – mine being a scraped draw against a Syrian team. \nWe won the ‘B’ final by beating the Israeli team in the last round and I felt pleased by my score of 11.5/16 with no losses. Indeed\, in my last round game with Balshan I was quite rightly instructed to agree a draw in a winning position to secure the team’s first place. \nI feel that this tournament from my point of view aptly demonstrates the difference in title norms in the early 1970s and today. I played five players who had no Elo ratings and only four titled players. Hence an IM norm would not have been available under any circumstances. The main reason for the lack of Elo ratings in 1972 was that the new system had only just been introduced and for many players this was their first Elo-rated tournament. In the last Elo list\, all but one of the sixteen players are rated\, there are now four GMs and five IMs amongst my opponents and the norm figures would be 10.5/16 and 12.5/16 for IM and GM respectively. \nHere is my best game from the Olympiad. It is indicative of an early combination prevailing through into a winning ending. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-20 Preliminaries B”]\n[Site “Skopje”]\n[Date “1972.09.22”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “Bhend\, Edwin”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B10”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland”]\n[PlyCount “133”]\n[EventDate “1972.09.18”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “YUG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Switzerland”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “SUI”] \n{[%evp 0\,133\,14\,14\,69\,26\,20\,13\,40\,7\,7\,-7\,11\,12\,13\,11\,3\,0\,24\,6\,6\,11\,11\,27\,38\,\n-34\,-41\,-44\,-40\,11\,45\,-28\,-34\,-42\,-50\,-32\,-29\,53\,53\,137\,150\,144\,122\,148\,131\,\n127\,160\,127\,172\,127\,219\,177\,206\,138\,130\,119\,115\,115\,129\,115\,103\,117\,113\,106\,\n102\,95\,109\,80\,66\,66\,65\,-3\,151\,152\,158\,147\,210\,230\,183\,212\,221\,224\,232\,246\,182\,\n182\,188\,166\,176\,178\,174\,176\,176\,176\,126\,120\,154\,248\,248\,248\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,\n0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,416\,838\,982\,1012\,1016\,1002\,1012\,1022\,1022\,1032\,1032\,1032\,1032\,1032\,\n1032\,1032\,1687\,1527\,29971\,1032\,29993\,29994]} 1. e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4.\ncxd5 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nxd5 6. Bc4 Nb6 7. Bb3 Nc6 8. Nf3 g6 9. a4 a5 10. d4 Bg7 11.\nBe3 Nb4 12. d5 $1 $146 O-O 13. O-O Bf5 14. Bd4 Bh6 $6 15. Ne5 $1 N6xd5 16. Nxd5\nNxd5 17. Qf3 Nf6 {[#]} 18. Nxf7 $1 Qxd4 19. Nxh6+ Kh8 20. Nxf5 gxf5 21. Qxf5\nQxb2 22. Rab1 Qd2 23. Rfd1 Qh6 24. Be6 Ra6 25. Qe5 Qh4 26. Bd5 Qxa4 27. Qxe7\nRe8 28. Qxb7 Rd6 29. Bb3 Rxd1+ 30. Rxd1 Qe4 31. Qxe4 Nxe4 32. Re1 Rc8 33. f3\nNc3 34. Re7 a4 35. Bc2 Nd5 36. Rxh7+ Kg8 37. Be4 Rc7 38. Rxc7 Nxc7 39. Bd3 a3\n40. Bc4+ Kg7 41. Kf2 Nb5 42. g4 Nc3 43. h4 Kf6 44. Ke3 a2 45. Bxa2 Nxa2 46. Kf4\nNc3 47. g5+ Ke6 48. h5 Nd5+ 49. Ke4 Nc3+ 50. Kf4 Nd5+ 51. Kg4 Ne3+ 52. Kg3 Kf5\n53. h6 Kg6 54. f4 Nf5+ {[#]} 55. Kf3 $1 Nd6 56. Kg4 Kh7 57. Kh5 Ne4 58. g6+ Kg8\n59. f5 Nf6+ 60. Kg5 Ne4+ 61. Kf4 Nf6 62. h7+ Kg7 63. Ke5 Nd7+ 64. Ke6 Nf8+ 65.\nKe7 Kh8 66. g7+ Kxh7 67. Kxf8 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn 1973 I was once more plagued by too many invitations and played indifferently throughput the year. The only bright spots were my score of 3/7 on boards 3 and 4 of the European Team Finals and second place in the Woolacombe International. \n1974 was once again an Olympiad year. The England team won the Clare Benedict for the first time in Menorca and I was able to contribute 5/6 winning both a board prize and the best score prize. I was drafted into the Olympiad team as a late replacement and although we qualified easily enough for the ‘A’ finals this was in no way due to my efforts as I had a 50% score in the preliminaries. \nWe had qualified for the ‘A’ final with one round to spare and our last group match against the USE (from which the score was to be carried forward) began the final matches. It had been decided\, as a tactical measure and in our view of our differing styles\, that I should take black whenever we had this colour on the fourth board\, so that Whiteley and Stean could utilize a greater proportion of whites. This worked to a limited extent and indeed\, Stean obtained an IM Norm. Also\, as it worked out I played in matches against seven of the top eight teams (being rested against Yugoslavia) and only three teams below us. In the end\, I was pleased with my +3 =1 -4 with black in the finals to give overall a 50& score. \nDuring 1973 and 1974 I was co-author of two books in the Batsford opening series\, both with Tim Harding on Sicilian Defence variations. \nThe Sicilian Richter-Rauzer\, TD Hardign and PR Markland\, Batsford\, 975\, ISBN 0 7134 2979 8 \nI also wrote a best game collection of Karpov which was by far the most interesting of the three books to write. \nThe Best of Karpov\, PR Markland\, Oxford University Press\, 1975\, ISBN 10: 0192175343 \nAt about this time\, I decided to embark upon a career in banking and to abandon that of a professional chessplayer. Since then I have concentrated on correspondence chess. \nHaving received  master certificate\, I entered a European and World tournament in both of which I finished first. The second of these two results qualified me for the world Championship Semi-finals. But first attempt in the eleventh championship ended in failure to qualify. \nAs a result of an invitation received by the BPCF I played in the Eino Heilimo Memorial Grandmaster event. I have \, however\, qualified as a postal IM by scoring the required seven points and had an outside chance of trying for first place at one stage. \nHere is my best game from this event. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Heilimo mem-B corr7782”]\n[Site “Finland”]\n[Date “1977.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Duenhaupt\, Heinz Wilhelm”]\n[Black “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B25”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1977.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “13”]\n[EventCountry “FIN”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,14\,12\,86\,19\,14\,12\,34\,21\,21\,17\,24\,18\,20\,17\,23\,15\,15\,14\,14\,12\,21\,14\,\n34\,58\,52\,48\,65\,0\,38\,9\,0\,-43\,-72\,-73\,-24\,-101\,-84\,-84\,-24\,-24\,-52\,-149\,-153\,\n-153\,-19\,-127\,-35\,-52\,-27\,-27\,-2\,8\,50\,-167\,-165\,-202\,-25\,-20\,-20\,-7\,-191\,-252\,\n-244\,-240\,-252\,-252\,-262\,-263\,-279\,-281\,-279\,-281\,-288\,-323\,-315\,-388\,-422\,\n-421\,-336\,-309\,-288]} 1. Nf3 g6 2. g3 Bg7 3. Bg2 c5 4. e4 Nc6 5. O-O e5 6. d3\nNge7 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Nd2 d6 9. Nc4 Be6 ({Doctor Dunhaupt used this set-up\nagainst Shamkovich in the BdF Jubilee 1970-74\, when Black preferred 9…Nd4?\nwith the result that after} 9… Nd4 $2 10. a4 Be6 11. Nd5 Qd7 12. c3 Ndc6 13.\na5 Rae8 14. Qa4 {White had a considerable advantage.}) 10. Nd5 f5 (10… Qd7 {\nPlaying Forintos in the Eino Heilimo White once again achieved a good game\nafter} 11. a4 Kh8 12. c3 Ng8 13. a5 Rae8 14. f4 Qc8 15. Be3) 11. c3 Qd7 12. a4\nRae8 13. a5 Kh8 14. Qa4 $2 {[#]  In this position this move leaves the queen\nexposed in the forthcoming attack. It is interesting to note that Doctor\nDunhaupt has had some success with this set-up.} f4 15. gxf4 {This capture is\nforced to prevent 15…f3} (15. f3 {loses a pawn on d5}) ({If} 15. Nxe7 {\nBlack can prepare the doubling of rooks with} Rxe7 ({of transfer his queen to\nthe kingside after} 15… Qxe7)) 15… Bh3 16. f3 ({After} 16. Qd1 Bxg2 17.\nKxg2 exf4 18. Nxf4 d5 $1 {Black still has a strong attack.}) 16… Bxg2 17.\nKxg2 exf4 18. Nxf4 {[#]} d5 $1 {To capture this pawn would allow the black\nrook on e8 access to the e2 square with fatal consequences for White.} 19. Na3\n{The problem with the knight retreat is that both d2 and e3 are excluded\nbecause of the hanging knight on f4 whilst the retreat chosen leaves the queen\ncut off.} ({For example\,} 19. exd5 Nxd5 20. Nxd5 Re2+ 21. Rf2 (21. Kh1 Qh3) (\n21. Kg1 Qh3) 21… Qxd5) 19… g5 20. Nh5 Ng6 $1 {White must accept the second\npawn because otherwise the threat of 21…Nh4+ is too strong.} 21. Bxg5 h6 22.\nBe3 $1 {The only chance. This bishop heads for g1 to defend the weak h2 square.\n} d4 23. cxd4 cxd4 24. Bg1 ({A further point is that} 24. Bf2 {is met by} Rxf3\n$1) 24… Nh4+ 25. Kh1 (25. Kg3 Be5+ 26. Kxh4 Rg8 {wins quickly.}) 25… Qh3\n26. Qc2 Rxf3 27. Rf2 ({The alternative defence of} 27. Rfd1 {could be met by\neither} Ref8 {threatening 28…Rf2} ({or} 27… Be5 {and 28…Rg8})) 27… Ref8\n28. Raf1 {[#]} Qxf1 $1 {This temporary queen sacrifice wins by force.} 29. Rxf1\nRxf1 30. Qe2 {the best chance to prevent 30…Nf3} ({After} 30. Ng3 Re1 31. Nc4\nNf3 32. Ne2 Nxg1 33. Nxg1 Rff1) 30… Ne5 {preventing 31.Qg4. Now the threat\nof 31…Rc1 and 32…Nef3 cannot be prevented even by White’s next move.} 31.\nNxg7 Rc1 $1 32. Nf5 Nhf3 {the most accurate.} 33. Qf2 ({If} 33. Kg2 Rxg1+ 34.\nKf2 Rh1 35. Kg3 Rg8+ {wins. The rest is easy.}) 33… Rg8 34. Ng3 Rxg1+ 35.\nQxg1 Nxg1 36. Kxg1 Nxd3 37. Nc4 Rc8 38. Nd6 Rc1+ 39. Kg2 Nxb2 40. e5 Nd3 {\nand White resigned.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry. \nThe English Chess Forum has discussed Peter. \nPeter’s games are here. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-21 Final A”]\n[Site “Nice”]\n[Date “1974.06.28”]\n[Round “13”]\n[White “Debarnot\, Roberto Luis”]\n[Black “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B38”]\n[Annotator “Keene\,R”]\n[PlyCount “42”]\n[EventDate “1974.06.15”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “FRA”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Argentina”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ARG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,42\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,-5\,-20\,-1\,3\,-6\,41\,32\,20\,23\,23\,19\,28\,32\,39\,39\,47\,32\,\n38\,30\,44\,51\,62\,55\,54\,32\,58\,41\,45\,-95\,-6\,-169\,-169\,-162\,-208\,-233\,-231\,-280\,\n-285]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 g6 6. e4 d6 7. Be2 Bg7\n8. Be3 O-O 9. O-O Nxd4 (9… Bd7) 10. Bxd4 Be6 11. Rc1 Qa5 12.\nf4 Rfc8 13. b3 a6 14. f5 Bd7 (14… gxf5 $2 15. exf5 Bxf5 16. b4 $1 $16) 15.\nQe1 (15. Bxf6 Bxf6 16. Nd5 Bg5 17. f6 exf6 $1) 15… Bc6 16. Qh4 (16. fxg6 hxg6\n17. Nd5 Qxe1 18. Nxe7+ Kf8 19. Nxg6+ fxg6 20. Rcxe1 Ke7 21. e5 $13) 16… b5\n17. g4 $2 b4 18. g5 {[#]} Nxe4 $3 19. f6 (19. Bxg7 Qc5+ 20. Rf2 Qxf2+ $1) 19…\nQxg5+ 20. Qxg5 Nxg5 21. h4 Ne6 0-1\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Tom Eckersley-Waites (14-vi-1987)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Tom Eckersley-Waites (14-vi-1987)
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Herbert William Trenchard (08-ix-1857 15-iv-1934)
DESCRIPTION:Herbert William Trenchard \nDeath Anniversary of Herbert William Trenchard (15-iv-1934) \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Herbert William Trenchard (8 September 1857\, Thorncombe – 15 April 1934\, London) was an English chess master. \nHe took 11th and tied for 4-5th in London in 1886\, shared twice 3rd at Cambridge 1890 and Oxford 1891\, tied for 4-5th at Brighton 1892\, took 2nd at London 1892 (B tourn)\, tied for 3rd-4th at Woolhall Spa 1893\, and took 3rd at London 1896\,[1] \nHe also participated at Vienna 1898 (Kaiser-Jubiläumsturnier\, Siegbert Tarrasch and Harry Pillsbury won) and took 19th place there.[2][3]” \nHere are his games from chessgames.com \nHere is a fascinating article about the National Liberal Club Chess Circle \n[pgn]\n[Event “London game”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1890.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Lasker\, Emanuel”]\n[Black “Trenchard\, Herbert William”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C51”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “78”]\n[EventDate “1890.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,78\,39\,13\,20\,15\,13\,11\,11\,-29\,-21\,-32\,44\,-23\,51\,-82\,-36\,-26\,-44\,-31\,-24\,\n-34\,-43\,-29\,-32\,-34\,-34\,-32\,-32\,-41\,5\,24\,58\,69\,50\,33\,27\,-16\,-21\,-98\,-93\,-191\,\n-174\,-742\,-228\,-224\,-254\,-252\,-252\,-271\,-263\,-241\,-232\,-238\,-140\,-368\,-350\,\n-719\,-823\,-899\,-361\,-377\,-397\,-403\,-403\,-421\,-414\,-414\,-476\,-453\,-421\,-442\,\n-451\,-465\,-364\,-523\,-518\,-518\,-518\,-518\,-517]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5\n4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. O-O d6 7. a4 Nf6 8. d4 exd4 9. cxd4 Bb6 10. Bb5 a6 11.\nBxc6+ bxc6 12. a5 Ba7 13. Qc2 Bd7 14. e5 dxe5 15. Ba3 c5 16. dxe5 Nd5 17. Rd1\nNb4 18. Bxb4 cxb4 19. e6 fxe6 20. Ne5 O-O 21. Rxd7 Qf6 22. Ng4 Qxa1 23. Nh6+\nKh8 24. Nf7+ Rxf7 25. Rxf7 Qxa5 26. Rxc7 Bb6 27. Re7 b3 28. Qe4 Rf8 29. Qxe6\nRxf2 30. Re8+ Rf8+ 31. Kh1 Bc5 32. h4 Qb4 33. g3 a5 34. h5 Rxe8 35. Qxe8+ Bf8\n36. h6 Qe7 37. hxg7+ Kxg7 38. Qb5 Qe1+ 39. Kg2 Qxb1 0-1\n[/pgn] \nfrom the chess column of the Essex Times\, 22 April 1905
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Nathan Alfred (16-iv-1980)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Nathan SW Alfred (16-iv-1980)
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of IM Colin Crouch (14-x-1956 16-iv-2015)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of IM Colin Stamford Crouch (14-x-1956 16-iv-2015)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Paul Macklin (16-iv-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Paul Macklin (16-iv-1967)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Peter Wells (17-iv-1965)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Peter Kenneth Wells (17-iv-1965) \nHere is his very brief Wikipedia entry \nPeter Wells (seated\, far LHS) \nand from chessgames.com : \n“Peter Kenneth Wells was born in Portsmouth\, England and became a FIDE Master in 1982\, an IM in 1987\, and a GM in 1994. He is also a FIDE Senior Trainer (2015).” \nPeter Wells (between Harry Golombek and Ray Keene) takes part in the obligatory “Staring at the board” posed picture during the 1985 Varsity Match \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch 86th”]\n[Site “Scarborough”]\n[Date “1999.08.11”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Wells\, Peter K”]\n[Black “Ward\, Christopher”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B36”]\n[WhiteElo “2475”]\n[BlackElo “2470”]\n[Annotator “Wells\,P”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1999.08.05”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 071 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.09.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.09.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,29\,55\,19\,46\,14\,24\,16\,13\,18\,24\,30\,17\,19\,2\,20\,27\,18\,-4\,30\,29\,17\,\n17\,38\,43\,46\,55\,26\,32\,16\,25\,21\,7\,14\,14\,42\,30\,-37\,33\,0\,82\,66\,66\,82\,107\,52\,52\,58\,\n39\,72\,87\,40\,82\,-53\,-19\,-68\,-31\,-81\,172\,216\,216\,213\,274\,279\,275\,297\,312\,327\,328\,\n336\,553\,561\,559\,559\,641\,862\,945\,960\,1000\,1334\,1344\,1572]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 g6 $5\n{Well\, he certainly got his surprise in first. I half expected 2…Nc6 3 Nc3\ne5 as we had already had in one quick-play game\, or perhaps 2…Nc6 3 Nc3\nNd4!? which seems . I had never seen Chris playing the black side of a Maroczy\nBind before\, although of course in the ‘pure’ Dragon he is a well known\nspecialist.} 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. e4 Nf6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Be2 Nxd4 8. Qxd4 Bg7\n9. Bg5 O-O 10. Qd2 Be6 11. Rc1 {It is also possible to castle here\, but I\nthink the text and white’s next two prophylactic moves form the most logical\nset-up. White prevents tactical breaks ( notably those involving a quick …b5\n) by solidly bolstering his c4 and e4 pawns. Most importantly since there is a\nhigh probability of a queen exchange on d2 following black’s …Qa5\,there is a\nstrong case for keeping the king in the centre for the ensuing ending ( or\nmore properly perhaps ‘queenless middlegame’ ).} Qa5 12. f3 Rfc8 13. b3 {\n[%csl Yc4\,Ye4][%cal Ga7a6\,Gb7b5]} Kf8 $5 {At the time I was very struck by the\nlogic of this move – black also centralises his king\, and prepares to answer\nalmost any Nd5 which white may care to throw at him by capturing with the\nknight\, without relying on a tactical defence to e7 ( compare the note on 13…\na6. ) Also white has to find a good move\, since in the absence of a weakness\non b6\, there is little mileage in attempting to head for the ending\nimmediately. There are two possible objections to black’s move: 1) White can\ntry to punish it in ‘middle-game’ terms – trying to prove that the king is\nsubstantially more vulnerable on f8 and that this justifies a switch to direct\nattack. This seems in principle a bit doubtful\, although it is the course the\ngame eventually takes. 2) White can find a strong preparatory move for the\nendgame. Since to create play black will have to play …a6 anyway\, he may\nhave committed himself to a move ( 13…Kf8!? ) which while generally useful\,\nis not critical in the particular case. This should be a more serious question!\n} (13… a6 {is the main line. White has two routes to provoke an endgame:} 14.\nNa4 $5 (14. Nd5 {is now generally acknowledged to be less dangerous in view of}\nQxd2+ 15. Kxd2 Nxd5 $5 (15… Bxd5 16. cxd5 $14 Kf8 17. g4 Nd7 18. h4 Bb2 19.\nBh6+ Kg8 20. Rxc8+ Rxc8 21. Be3 Bc3+ 22. Kd1 Nc5 23. h5 Bf6 24. g5 Bg7 25. Bf1\n$5 {[%cal Yh2c2\,Gf1h3\,Yh1h2]} Rc7 26. Rh2 Nd7 27. h6 Bh8 28. Bh3 $16 {1-0\nCifuentes Parada\,R-Monell\,C/Andorra op 1995/EXT 95op (41)}) 16. cxd5 Bd7 17.\nRxc8+ Rxc8 $11 {although the argument does rest upon black’s compensation after\n} 18. Bxe7 $140 Bh6+ (18… Bc3+) 19. Ke1 $8 {Few white players have wanted to\ntest this\, although it is not totally clear what is black’s best course.\nPerhaps} f5 $5 (19… Rc2 20. Bxd6 Bb5 $6 21. Bxb5 axb5 22. Rf1 $14) (19…\nRc1+ 20. Bd1) 20. Bxd6 (20. exf5 Bxf5 21. Bxd6 Bb1 $1 $13 {[%cal Rb1a2\,Ra2d5]})\n20… fxe4 21. Kf2 (21. fxe4 $2 Rc1+ 22. Bd1 Bg4 $17) 21… e3+ 22. Kg3 Rc2\n$132) 14… Qxd2+ (14… Qd8 15. c5 $1 $14) 15. Kxd2 Nd7 (15… Rc6 16. Nc3\nRac8 17. Nd5 Kf8 18. Be3 Nd7 19. h4 $1 {As we shall see\, this generation of\nplay on the king-side is white’s main strategy here.} Bxd5 20. exd5 R6c7 21. h5\nKg8 22. f4 $1 {[%cal Ge2g4]} Nc5 23. Bg4 Ne4+ 24. Kd3 f5 25. Bf3 b5 26. g4\nbxc4+ 27. Rxc4 Rxc4 28. bxc4 Nc5+ 29. Bxc5 $1 Rxc5 30. h6 Bf8 31. Kc3 $16 {\n[%csl Rf8] 1-0 Karpov\,A-Kavalek\,L/Nica (ol) 1974/Inf 17 (45)}) 16. h4 (16. g4\n$5) 16… Kf8 $6 (16… f6 $1 {is the modern approach. One example:} 17. Be3 f5\n18. exf5 gxf5 19. Bd3 Rab8 20. Nc3 Nc5 21. Nd5 Kf7 22. g4 Nxd3 23. Kxd3 b5 $132\n{0-1 Vaisser\,A-Antunes\,A/Tilburg 1994/CBM 44 (39)}) 17. h5 h6 18. Be3 g5 19. g3\n$1 $40 {[%cal Gf3f4]} Rcb8 20. Nc3 b5 21. Nd5 Bxd5 22. cxd5 b4 23. Rc7 Nc5 24.\nBxc5 dxc5 25. f4 Bc3+ 26. Ke3 Rc8 27. Rxc8+ Rxc8 28. e5 {1-0 Psakhis\,L-Pigusov\,\nE/USSR 1980/Inf 31 (41)}) 14. h4 $1 {The appeal of this stage of the game is\nthat it is as yet unclear whether I have opted for strategy 1) or 2). In fact\,\nI have a suspicion it was none too clear to me either. Others fail to convince:\n} (14. Rc2 a6 15. Na4 Qxd2+ 16. Kxd2 Nd7 17. g4 (17. h4 f5 $5) 17… Bd4 18.\nRhc1 Ke8 19. Be3 Bxe3+ 20. Kxe3 {1/2-1/2 Agrest\,E-Andersson\,U/Skelleftea 1999\n(20)}) (14. O-O {Another way to switch to the direct attack approach\, but\nblack’s counterplay on the queenside could come quite quickly.} a6 15. Be3 Rab8\n$6 (15… b5 $1 $132) 16. f4 b5 17. f5 b4 18. fxe6 bxc3 19. Qxc3 Qxa2 20. Bd1\nQa3 21. Bd4 fxe6 22. e5 $40 {1-0 Eising\,J-Westerveld\,W/Amsterdam 1976/MCL.})\n14… a6 {[%csl Rb6] So there we are – this move is critical to black’s\ncounterplay\, despite the potential weakness of b6.} 15. h5 $5 {This probably\nshould be ‘?!’ but it is redeemed because it did provide a high level of\nentertainment. Objectively better\, and in my view fully vindicating 14 h4! is}\n(15. Na4 $1 Qxd2+ (15… Qd8 $14) 16. Kxd2 Nd7 17. h5 {I had now expected} h6\n18. Be3 g5 {considered 19 g3! clearly the way forward\, but in ignorance of\nPsakhis – Pigusov above\, failed to comprehend quite how promising this was.})\n15… Rc5 $1 {The point – suddenly there is no going back. White’s next move\nis just about forced} 16. f4 {[%csl Re1\,Re4] Reluctantly – this weakening of\ne4 seriously adds to black’s counterplay\, and emphasises the discomfort of\nwhite’s king in the middle.} (16. Bxf6 $6 {hardly comes into consideration\, and\n}) (16. hxg6 $2 Rxg5 17. gxh7 (17. b4 Qxb4 18. Qxg5 hxg6 $17 {[%csl Rc4\,Re1]\n[%cal Gg7c3]}) 17… Rh5 $19) 16… b5 $6 {Maybe black in turn underestimates\nhis opponent’s resources.} (16… Rac8 $1 {was much safer\, since after} 17.\nhxg6 {black can capture with the h-pawn\, preparing to answer} hxg6 $1 18. f5 $6\ngxf5 19. Bh6 {with} Bxh6 20. Qxh6+ Ke8 {and with his rook protected the black\nking can run to the queenside.}) 17. hxg6 fxg6 (17… hxg6 18. f5 gxf5 19. Bh6\n$40 {[%csl Ra8] is now strong.}) 18. Bxf6 Bxf6 19. Rxh7 Bg8 {Andrew Martin\, in\nhis entertaining comments on the Championship web site\, here commented: ”\nWhite is attempting a hybrid of the Maroczy Bind\, Yugoslav Attack and the\nLevenfish Variation\, a marriage made in hell”. In fact after 15…Rc5 my\ncourse of action was strictly limited\, and the Levenfish element was\ndefinitely involuntary. Still\, the following sacrifice I was very proud of.\nRetreat would clearly pass the initiative to black\, but after…} 20. e5 $1 {\n[%mdl 640] there is no way for black to avoid ceding good compensation for the\nexchange.} dxe5 (20… Bxe5 $5 21. fxe5 (21. Rxe7 $5 Qd8 $1 $132) 21… Bxh7\n22. exd6 $44) 21. fxe5 Bg5 $1 (21… Bxh7 22. exf6 Kg8 (22… exf6 $2 {[%csl\nRc5]} 23. Qd6+) 23. Qe3 $16 {[%csl Rc5\,Rg8\,Rh7]}) 22. Qxg5 Bxh7 23. Qh4 $1 {\n[%csl Rc5\,Re7\,Rh7][%cal Yh4f2] An important resource which black had\noverlooked.} Kg8 24. Qxe7 Rc7 $8 {[%cal Gc7g7] Here\, sadly in appalling\ntime-trouble my play went to pieces. I had underestimated the extent to which\nblack’s basic defences would be held together by 24…Rc7\, and although the\nposition still favours white it is not easy to prove.} 25. Qd6 Re8 26. Kf2 $5 {\nEven now\, when a little concern for the king would be quite understandable\, my\nmain concern was to bring in the knight. White has two pawns for the exchange\,\nblack’s bishop is out of the play ( although the possibility of …g5 is not\nto be underestimated ) and the dark squares around black’s king are weak.\nStill\, the e-pawn’s status as asset or weakness is still up for grabs\, and the\nwhole thing is not as good as it looks!} (26. b4 $6 Qa3 27. Kd1 Rcc8 28. Nd5\nRcd8 {Simply gives white a new king problem.}) (26. Bf3 $5 bxc4 27. Bd5+ Kh8\n28. b4 Qa3 29. Ne2 Rg7 30. Bxc4 $14) (26. Rc2 $6 g5 $132) 26… Rf7+ 27. Bf3 $2\n$138 {[%mdl 8192] This self-pin is disastrous.} (27. Kg3 $1 {Seems the way to\nconfirm e-pawn as asset. Black’s counter play is greatly curtailed with …bxc4\nno longer a problem.} b4 (27… Qc7 28. Qxc7 Rxc7 29. Nd5 Rf7 30. cxb5 Rxe5 31.\nBc4 $16) 28. Nd5 Qxa2 (28… Rd8 29. Qc6 $1 {[%cal Ye5e8]} (29. Qe6 Qxa2 30.\nRf1 Rdf8 $13) 29… Qxa2 30. e6 $16) 29. e6 Rff8 30. e7 Qxb3+ 31. Kh2 $16)\n27… bxc4 28. e6 Rfe7 (28… Rf6 $5) 29. b4 Qc7 $4 $138 {He who blunders last\nloses.} (29… Qa3 $1 30. Rc2 g5 $1 {[%csl Rc2\,Rc3][%cal Gh7c2] would have\ncompletely swung matters in black’s favour.}) 30. Qxc7 Rxc7 31. Nd5 $18 {\nThe rest presents no technical problems even in high time-trouble.} Rce7 32.\nNxe7+ Rxe7 33. Rxc4 Kg7 34. Rc6 Ra7 35. Be2 a5 36. b5 Ra8 37. Rc7+ Kh6 38. b6\ng5 39. e7 Be4 40. Bf3 Bxf3 41. gxf3 {A great scrap\, albeit marred by the\nconsequence of some mutually shocking clock handling.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nPeter Wells (second from right) at a Lloyds Bank event. \nGM Peter Wells \nThe Complete Semi-Slav \nPiece Power \nThe Complete Richter-Rauzer \nThe Scotch Game \nWinning with the Trompowsky \nChess Explained : The Queen’s Indian \nGrandmaster Secrets : The Caro-Kann \nDangerous Weapons : Anti-Sicilians \nGM Peter Wells
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-peter-kenneth-wells-17-iv-1965/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM David Wood (18-iv-1969)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM David A Wood (18-iv-1969)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-david-a-wood-18-iv-1969/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTAMP:20210418T082537Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Willy Watson (18-iv-1962)
DESCRIPTION:William Watson \nBirthday of GM William Nicholas Watson (18-iv-1962) \nWilliam Watson \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry \nWilliam Watson at a BCF National Club Final \n[pgn]\n[Event “Brighton Knight Flight Int”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “1982.12.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Watson\, William N”]\n[Black “Shamkovich\, Leonid Alexandrovic”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B23”]\n[WhiteElo “2330”]\n[BlackElo “2470”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1982.12.13”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “8”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,19\,31\,72\,8\,28\,4\,60\,6\,15\,15\,27\,21\,17\,-8\,-8\,-16\,-6\,-7\,-3\,-39\,-20\,-16\,\n-6\,0\,0\,0\,53\,48\,46\,68\,23\,-9\,66\,60\,60\,55\,45\,29\,-9\,-36\,8\,-20\,97\,124\,137\,167\,128\,\n157\,1180\,29988\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} 1. e4 c5 2. f4 Nc6 3. Nf3 g6 4. Bb5\nBg7 5. O-O Nf6 6. d3 O-O 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. Nc3 d6 9. Bd2 c4 10. d4 Qb6 11. Rb1 e5\n12. fxe5 dxe5 13. Na4 Qc7 14. Nxe5 Nxe4 15. Bf4 Qd6 16. Nc3 Bf5 17. g4 Nxc3 18.\nbxc3 Be4 19. Nxf7 Qd5 20. Nh6+ Kh8 21. Be5 Rf3 22. Rxf3 Bxf3 23. Qe1 c5 24. g5\nRe8 25. Rb8 Rxb8 26. Bxg7+ Kxg7 27. Qe7+ 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nWilliam Watson (2nd from left) \n[pgn]\n[Event “Brighton CGL Int”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “1983.12.15”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Plaskett\, H James”]\n[Black “Watson\, William N”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B76”]\n[WhiteElo “2440”]\n[BlackElo “2395”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “56”]\n[EventDate “1983.12.12”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “8”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,56\,19\,38\,40\,41\,66\,77\,66\,55\,55\,20\,70\,53\,40\,34\,30\,13\,22\,6\,25\,28\,4\,25\,36\,\n21\,15\,9\,98\,63\,74\,63\,159\,132\,327\,440\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-60\,-128\,-196\,-316\,-445\,-289\,\n-500\,-194\,-470\,-576\,-569\,-565\,-608\,-605\,-908\,-873\,-29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 c5 2.\nNf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. g4 (\n9. Bc4 {main line}) (9. O-O-O d5 $5) 9… Be6 10. O-O-O Nxd4 11. Bxd4 Qa5 12.\na3 (12. Kb1 $6 Rfc8) 12… Rfc8 13. h4 Rab8 14. h5 (14. Nd5 $5 Qxd2+\n15. Rxd2 Nxd5 $1 16. Bxg7 (16. exd5 Bxd5 $1 17. Bxg7 Bxf3 18. Rh3 Bxg4 19. Rg3\nKxg7 20. Rxg4 Rc7 $13) 16… Kxg7 17. exd5 Bd7 18. Be2 {Nunn} Rc5 19. f4 Rbc8\n20. Kb1 a6 $10) 14… b5 15. h6 (15. Nd5 $2 Qxd2+ 16. Rxd2 (16. Kxd2\nNxd5 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. exd5 Bxd5 $19) 16… Bxd5 17. exd5 Bh6 $19) (15. hxg6 $5\nb4 $5 (15… hxg6 16. Qg5 $1 a6 $6 17. Rd2 Qc7 $2 18. Rdh2 b4 19. Qh6 $1 Bxh6+\n20. Rxh6 g5 21. Bd3 Bxg4 22. Rh8+ Kg7 23. R1h7+ Kg6 24. e5+ Ne4 25. Rh6+ Kf5\n26. Bxe4+ Kf4 27. Ne2#) 16. gxh7+ Kh8 17. Nd5 Bxd5 18. exd5 Qxd5 19. g5 Qa2 20.\nQe3 e5 21. gxf6 Bxf6 22. Rg1 bxa3 23. Qxa3 $16) 15… b4 (15… Bh8 $6 16. Nd5\nQxd2+ 17. Rxd2 Nxd5 18. exd5 Bxd4 (18… Bxd5 19. Bxh8 Bxf3 20. Rh3 Bxg4 21.\nRg3 Kxh8 22. Rxg4 $16 {Short\,N-Georgiev\,Ki/Oakham/1984/}) 19. Rxd4 Bd7 $14 {\nTal\,M-Sax\,G/Mosow/1982/}) (15… Bf8 $5 {Sapi} 16. Bxf6 b4 $5 (16… exf6 17.\nNd5 Qxd2+ 18. Rxd2 Bxd5 19. Rxd5 Rc5 $10) 17. Nd5 (17. Bd4 bxa3 18. b3 Bxb3 19.\ncxb3 Rxb3 $19) 17… Bxd5 18. Qxd5 Rc5 19. Qb3 exf6 20. a4 Qc7 21. Kb1 $13) 16.\nhxg7 (16. axb4 $2 Qa1+ 17. Nb1 Ba2 $19) (16. Nb5 $5 Rxb5 17. Bxb5 Qxb5 18. hxg7\nbxa3 19. Qd3 (19. bxa3 Qa4 $13) 19… axb2+ 20. Bxb2 Bc4 21. Qe3 Be2 $15) 16…\nbxa3 17. Qh6 (17. Nd5 $2 axb2+ 18. Bxb2 Rxb2 19. Nxe7+ Kxg7 20. Qh6+ Kh8 21.\nNxc8 Qb4 $19 {Fernandez-Martin Gonzalez\,A/Barcelona/1985/0-1/}) 17… axb2+ 18.\nKd2 Bxg4 {Mestel} 19. Bxf6 {[#]} (19. fxg4 e5 $1 20. Qe3 exd4 21. Qxd4 Rxc3 22.\nQxc3 Nxe4+ $19) 19… Bh5 $1 20. Bd4 $2 (20. Ke3 $2 Rxc3+ 21. Bxc3 Qxc3+ 22.\nBd3 a5 $19) (20. Kd3 $2 b1=Q 21. Rxb1 Rxb1 22. Nxb1 Qb5+ 23.\nKe3 Qxb1 $19) (20. Bh3 $6 exf6 $1 21. Bxc8 Rxc8 22. Qe3 Qb4 23. Rh4 d5 24. exd5\nQxh4 $19) (20. Rxh5 $1 gxh5 21. Bh3 exf6 22. Bxc8 Rxc8 23. Qxf6 Qb4 24. Rb1 a5\n25. Kd3 Qc4+ 26. Kd2 Qb4 27. Kd3 $10) 20… e5 21. Rxh5 (21. Kd3 exd4 22. Nd5\nRc3+ 23. Ke2 Rxc2+ 24. Kd3 Qb5+ 25. Kxc2 b1=Q+ 26. Rxb1 Qxb1+ 27. Kd2 Rb2#)\n21… gxh5 22. Qg5 (22. Qxh5 b1=Q 23. Rxb1 Rxb1 24. Bd3 Ra1 25. Qf5 Rc7 26. Ke2\nexd4 27. Nd5 Qe1#) 22… Qb4 (22… b1=Q $1 23. Rxb1 Rxb1 24. Bd3 Ra1 25. Qf5\nexd4 26. Qxc8+ Kxg7 $19) 23. Bd3 Qxd4 24. Nd5 (24. Nb1 Qf2+ 25. Be2 Rxc2+ 26.\nKxc2 Qxe2+ 27. Kc3 Qxd1 $19) 24… Qf2+ 25. Be2 Rxc2+ 26. Kxc2 Qxe2+ 27. Kc3\nQxf3+ 28. Kc4 Qb3# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nWilliam Watson (2nd from left)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-william-nicholas-watson-18-iv-1962/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jonathan Rowson (18-iv-1977)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Jonathan Rowson (18-iv-1977)Here is his Wikipedia entry \nGM Jonathan Rowson
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-jonathan-rowson-18-iv-1977/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200421
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DTSTAMP:20260817T141214Z
CREATED:20201110T145042Z
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SUMMARY:Happy Birthday Malcolm Barker (21-iv-1934)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday Malcolm Barker (21-iv-1934)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/happy-birthday-malcolm-barker-01-iv-1934/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTAMP:20200402T175536Z
CREATED:20200402T175517Z
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UID:3992-1587513600-1587599999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of WFM Kanwal K Bhatia (22-iv-1981)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of WFM Kanwal K Bhatia (22-iv-1981)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-wfm-kanwal-k-bhatia-22-iv-1981/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200422
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DTSTAMP:20210422T133025Z
CREATED:20200402T193358Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Gary Kenworthy (22-iv-1957)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday FM Gary Kenworthy (22-iv-1957) \nGary was born in Bradford and became an FIDE Master in 2002 and achieved a peak rating of 2315 in July 1994. \nIn 1994 Gary represented London in a match with Paris over nine boards and has played from London Central YMCA (CentYMCA) and Barbican in the London Chess League and in the BCF National Club competition. \nIn 2003 he was runner-up (to Kidami Sundararajan) in the Ron Banwell Masters in Blackpool. \nGary has played for King’s Head in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) and now plays for Mindsports. \nIn 2019 Gary joined the England Chess Coaching Team. He founded Bletchley Junior Chess Club and Chess School.\nHe has been board 1 for Milton Keynes and Open University First team. He is board 1 for the Bedfordshire County Chess Team and has retained the Bedfordshire Individual County Chess Championship Title. In 2019/2020 he was board 1 for the Leighton Buzzard Chess Club. \nGary Kenworthy\, inaugurator of the new M25 Congress series\, on his way to victory in the Spalding Quickplay. Earlier in the summer he defeated Grandmaster Michael Adams\, photograph by Francis Bowers \nGary is a former Director of Chess Coaching for the (then) British Chess Federation (BCF). \nGary lives in Fenny Stratford\, Milton Keynes and is an IT consultant and local councillor. He has been a former Director of the BCF. \nGary Kenworthy (holding board) at a BCF National Club Final (1992) \n[pgn]\n[Event “Sussex-Kent match”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1987.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Gary Kenworthy”]\n[Black “Jonathan James Ady”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A05”]\n[WhiteElo “2297”]\n[BlackElo “2412”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1987.??.??”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,21\,40\,50\,37\,24\,47\,-12\,1\,1\,14\,-22\,-22\,-21\,-16\,-20\,-15\,-11\,9\,0\,14\,\n17\,10\,22\,15\,14\,31\,31\,31\,-7\,26\,27\,60\,5\,68\,49\,35\,20\,157\,95\,60\,-90\,-79\,-79\,94\,\n-132\,-62\,-100\,-87\,-109\,-120\,-125\,-125\,-125\,-106\,-87\,-55\,-194\,0\,45\,-56\,-56\,-56\,\n-56\,370\,357\,458\,459\,888\,572\,572\,567\,1019\,592\,1566\,2037\,2086\,2619\,29981\,29982\,\n29989\,29990]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 d6 6. c3 Nf6 7. O-O\nO-O 8. Nbd2 Bd7 9. a4 a6 10. Nc4 b5 11. axb5 axb5 12. Rxa8 Qxa8 13. Nb6 Qa2 14.\nNxd7 Nxd7 15. Bh3 $146 (15. d4 b4) 15… Nb6 16. d4 b4 17. d5 bxc3 18. dxc6\ncxb2 19. Bg5 $16 Na4 $6 (19… c4 $142) 20. Bxe7 Nc3 21. Qxd6 (21. Qc2) 21…\nb1=Q (21… Nxe4) 22. Rxb1 Qxb1+ 23. Kg2 Nxe4 24. Bxf8 Nxd6 25. Bxd6 f5 26. c7\nQb7 27. g4 Bf6 28. gxf5 g5 29. Kg3 (29. Kf1) 29… c4 30. Nxg5 c3 $2 31. Bg2 $1\nQa6 32. Bd5+ Kh8 33. Bf4 $18 c2 34. Be6 c1=Q 35. Nf7+ Kg7 36. Bxc1 Qd3+ 37. Be3\nBh4+ 38. Kxh4 Qe4+ 39. Kg3 h5 40. Bh6+ Kh7 41. Ng5+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Ramsgate op”]\n[Site “Ramsgate”]\n[Date “1981.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Kenworthy\, Gary”]\n[Black “Van der Sterren\, Paul”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C47”]\n[WhiteElo “2245”]\n[BlackElo “2440”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “27”]\n[EventDate “1981.??.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,27\,19\,31\,34\,15\,22\,22\,18\,5\,8\,-7\,43\,-28\,5\,-19\,-17\,-71\,-70\,-79\,-44\,-157\,\n-206\,-189\,-45\,168\,178\,66\,66\,-28]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 exd4 5.\nNd5 Nxe4 6. Bc4 (6. Qe2 f5 7. Ng5 d3 8. cxd3 Nd4 9. Qh5+ g6 10. Qh4 c6 11. dxe4\ncxd5 12. exd5 $17) 6… Be7 7. Nxd4 (7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 Nf6 9. Nxe7+ Nxe7 10.\nBg5 Ng6) 7… O-O 8. Nb5 Bb4+ 9. c3 Nxf2 10. Qh5 Nxh1 $17 11. cxb4 Nxb4 $2 (\n11… Re8+) 12. Bg5 $18 Re8+ 13. Kf1 Re5 14. Re1 $1 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nGary Kenworthy at the 2012 UKCC Terafinal
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-gary-kenworthy-22-iv-1957/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200425
DTSTAMP:20200411T142757Z
CREATED:20200411T142038Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WIM Gulnara Sachs (24-iv-1963)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of WIM Gulnara Sachs (24-iv-1963)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-wim-gulnara-sachs-24-iv-1963/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200426
DTSTAMP:20210424T091645Z
CREATED:20190823T090733Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM John Nunn (25-iv-1955)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes GM John Nunn Happy Birthday (25-iv-1955) \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nBritish International master and European Junior Champion\, 1975. Born in London\, Nunn learned chess at the age of four and soon revealed a great aptitude for the game. \n  \nGraham Ladds and John Nunn. See full caption below. \nSupplied caption for above picture. \nHe came 6th in the Norwich Junior international tournament in 1970 and went up to Oxford University to take a mathematics degree at a very early age. He played on top board for the University from 1972-6 and is now preparing for a doctorate there. \nJohn DM Nunn \nHe won the European Junior Championship and with it the international master title in Groningen in 1975. In that year too he was equal first in the IBM Master tournament\, and at London in 1975 he reached an international master norm coming 5th in the international tournament there. He played on bottom board at the Haifa Olympiad 1976 and scored 64.2% \nGM John Nunn \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \nEnglish player. International Grandmaster (1978)\, British champion 1980. He went to Oxford at the unusually young age of 15\, graduated in 1973. Gained his B.Sc. the following year and his\ndoctorate in 1978. \nGM John Nunn \n  \nA Junior Research Fellow\, he lectured in mathematics until 1981 when he became a professional player. By then he had already achieved several good results in international tournaments: Budapest 1978\, first; Hastings 1979-80\, first (4-5 = 10) equal with Andersson; Baden-bei-Wien 1980\, category 12\, third (+5=10) after Spassky and Belyavsky: Helsinki 1981\, first (+5 = 6) equal with Matulovich; and Wiesbaden 1981\, first (+6=3). In the category 12 Wijk aan Zee tournament 1982\, Nunn came first ( + 5=7 — 1) equal with Balashov ahead of Tal\, Hubner\, and Timman and at Helsinki 1983 he came second (+5 = 6) after Karlsson. \nMaia Chiburdanidze and John Nunn from Lloyds Bank\, 1985 \nPossessing a remarkably quick sight of the board\, Nunn is an expert solver: he made the second highest individual score in the world team solving championship\, 1978\, and won the solving championship of Great Britain in 1981. \nLubomir Kavalek and John Nunn \nHere is an excellent article from ChessBase \nPolugayevsky-Nunn European team championship : \n[pgn]\n[Round “1.3”]\n[White “Polugaevsky\, Lev”]\n[Black “Nunn\, John DM”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A77”]\n[WhiteElo “2635”]\n[BlackElo “2515”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “64”]\n[EventDate “1980.01.20”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “SWE”]\n[SourceTitle “EU-chT”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Soviet Union”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “URS”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,64\,19\,9\,21\,44\,45\,37\,46\,15\,12\,56\,70\,84\,108\,114\,123\,92\,82\,65\,73\,58\,59\,\n13\,30\,26\,27\,27\,27\,27\,29\,6\,17\,-128\,-135\,-75\,-75\,-69\,-89\,-122\,-70\,-43\,-75\,-145\,\n-164\,-153\,-153\,-194\,-194\,-235\,-235\,-235\,-260\,-278\,-279\,-284\,-290\,-290\,-290\,\n-465\,-460\,-617\,-537\,-536\,-555\,-1071\,-878]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. d5 e6 4. c4\nexd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. e4 Bg7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Nd2 Nbd7 11. Qc2\nNe5 12. b3 Nh5 13. Bxh5 gxh5 14. Bb2 Bd7 15. Rae1 Qh4 16. f4 Ng4 17. Nf3 Bd4+\n18. Kh1 Nf2+ 19. Rxf2 Qxf2 20. Qc1 Bh3 21. Rg1 Kf8 22. Nxd4 cxd4 23. f5 dxc3\n24. Qxc3 Rxe4 25. gxh3 Ke8 26. Qd3 Re1 27. Rxe1+ Qxe1+ 28. Kg2 Rc8 29. f6 Kd7\n30. Qxh7 Qd2+ 31. Kg3 Qxd5 32. Kh4 Re8 0-1\n[/pgn] \nGM John Nunn \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NvSfumCNxo[/embedyt] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \n46th USSR Chess Championships 1978\, RD Keene\, JDM Nunn\, RG Wade\, Master Chess Publications\, 1978\, ISBN 0 906634 00 8 \n  \nThe Benoni for the Tournament Player \nSolving in Style \nThe Complete Pirc \nSecrets of Rook Endings \nSecrets of Pawnless Endings \nNew Ideas in the Pirc Defence \nBeating the Sicilian 3 \nThe King Hunt \nSecrets of Grandmaster Chess \nSecrets of Practical Chess \nNunn’s Chess Openings \nJohn Nunn’s Chess Puzzle Book \n101 Brilliant Chess Miniatures \nLearn Chess \nSecrets of Minor-Piece Endings \nUnderstanding Chess Move by Move \nJohn Nunn’s Best Games \nEndgame Challenge \nTactical Chess Endings \nLearn Chess Tactics \nMammoth Book of the World’s Greatest Chess Games \nGrandmaster Chess Move by Move \nUnderstanding Chess Endgames \nNunn’s Chess Endings \nUnderstanding Chess Middlegames \nChess Tactics Workbook for Kids \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lugano op”]\n[Site “Lugano”]\n[Date “1986.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Nunn\, John DM”]\n[Black “Tukmakov\, Vladimir B”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B57”]\n[WhiteElo “2585”]\n[BlackElo “2570”]\n[Annotator “Nunn\,J”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “1986.02.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “SUI”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.01.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.01.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,51\,38\,23\,44\,51\,80\,55\,53\,51\,51\,30\,53\,39\,69\,55\,69\,52\,71\,22\,61\,56\,51\,50\,\n40\,38\,35\,40\,42\,33\,42\,48\,68\,30\,37\,45\,45\,46\,48\,50\,51\,29\,39\,0\,25\,-81\,84\,84\,119\,72\,\n72\,106\,183\,177]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bc4\nQb6 7. Nb3 e6 8. O-O Be7 9. Bg5 Ne5 $6 {Although 9…Ne5 forces the bishop to\nretreat\, Black will waste time later after White plays f4.} ({Black’s best\nline is probably} 9… a6 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Qh5 Nd4 {as played in\nNunn-Martinovic\, Amsterdam 1975.}) 10. Be2 Bd7 11. Kh1 Ng6 {A necessary\nprecaution since} (11… O-O 12. f4 Ng6 13. e5 dxe5 14. Bxf6 Bxf6 15. Qxd7 {\ndoes not give Black enough for the piece. Now\, on the other hand\, 12 f4 is met\nby 12…h6.}) 12. Be3 Qc7 13. f4 O-O 14. Qe1 {We have reached a type of\nScheveningen position in which Black’s knight is on g6 rather than c6. This\nfavours White since the knight is subject to attack by f5 and has less\ninfluence on the centre.} Rfe8 15. Rd1 Bc6 {Here the bishop is exposed to\nattack by Nd4\, so it would have been safer to play 15…Bf8.} 16. Bf3 d5 17. e5\nNe4 18. Nd4 Nxc3 (18… Bb4 19.\nNxd5) 19. Qxc3 Rac8 20. Qe1 {The queen returns to the kingside to help an\nattack based on the move f5.} Bd7 21. Qg3 Qb6 $6 {Black provokes a crisis by\nattacking the b2 pawn\, which White cannot easily defend (e.g. 22 b3 Rc3).\nHowever by placing his queen opposite White’s bishop he allows a tactical\nbreakthrough. 21…Qa5 was a better defence.} 22. f5 $1 exf5 {22…Bh4 23 Qh3\nexf5 is no better after 24 Bxd5 Rxe5 25 Bxf7+ Kh8 (or 25…Kxf7 26 Nxf5 with a\nwinning attack) 26 Bxg6 Qxg6 27 Bf4 and White wins material.} 23. Bxd5 Bh4 24.\nNxf5 $6 {Flashy\, but not the best. Simply 24 Qh3 transposes to the last note\nand wins safely.} Bxg3 25. Bxb6 axb6 $2 {The obvious move\, but it loses\nimmediately. 25…Bxe5 was the best\, when White has nothing better than to\nplay 26 Bxa7 with an extra pawn – winning perhaps\, but much more complex than\n24 Qh3.} 26. Nd6 $1 {Surprisingly Black has no way to play on\, e.g. 26…Bxe5\n27 Bxf7+ Kh8 28 Bxe8 Rxe8 29 Nxe8 Bxe8 30 Rd8 or 26…Bh4 27 Bxf7+ Kh8 28 Bxe8\nRxe8 29 Nf7+ and 30 Rxd7.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nChess Endgame Workbook for Kids \nGM John Nunn
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Problemist,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200426
DTSTAMP:20200425T101112Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Malik Mir Sultan Khan (1905 25-iv-1966)
DESCRIPTION:Malik Mir Sultan Khan \nDeath Anniversary of Malik Mir Sultan Khan (1905 25-iv-1966) \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \nPerhaps the greatest natural player of modern times. Born in the Punjab\, he learned Indian chess when he was nine\, was taken into the household of Sir Umar Hay at Khan\, and learned the international game in 1926\, Two years later he won the All-India Championship and in the spring of 1929 his patron and master took him to London. Within a few months he won the British Championship\, returning to India shortly afterwards. In Europe in May 1930 he began a brief career that included defeats of many leading players.  \nA striking figure\, of dark complexion\, with a lean face and broad forehead\, his black hair usually turban tied\, he sat at the board impassively\, showing no emotion in positions good or bad. He did not believe he possessed any special skill\, rather that the player applying the greater concentration should win. In events of about category 10 Sultan Khan came second to Tartakower at Liege 1930\, third (+5=2-2) after Euwe and Capablanca at Hastings 1930-1\, and third ( + 6=3—2) equal with Kashdan after Alekhine and Flohr at London 1932\, In events of about category 9 he came fourth or equal fourth at Scarborough 1930\, Hastings 1931-2\, and Berne 1932 ( + 10=2-3). Sultan Khan won the British Championship again in 1932 and 1933 and played first board for the British Chess Federation in the Olympiads of 1930\, 1931\, and 1933. In match play he defeated Tartakower (+4=5—3) in 1931 and lost to Flohr ( + 1=3—2) in 1932. At the end of 1933 he went back to India at the bidding of his master. When Sir Umar died Sultan Khan was left a small farmstead near his birthplace\, and there he lived out his days. Apparently he had few regrets\, A friend visiting him in 1958 found him sitting quietly under the shade of a tree smoking his hookah\, chatting with\nneighbouring farmers while the womenfolk did the work.  \nIn the Indian game of his time the pieces were moved as in international chess but the laws of promotion and stalemate were different\, castling was not permitted\, and a pawn could not he\nadvanced two squares on its first move. The game opened slowly with emphasis on positional play rather than tactics\, and not surprisingly Sultan Khan became a positional player. He had few peers in the middle-game and was among the world’s best two or three endgame players\, but he never mastered the openings which\, by nature empirical\, cannot be learned by the application of common sense alone*  \nWhen Sultan Khan first travelled to Europe his English was so rudimentary that he needed an interpreter. He suffered from bouts of malaria and\, in the English climate\, from continual colds and throat infections\, often turning up to play with his neck swathed in bandages. Unable to read or write\, he never studied any hooks on the game\, and he was mistakenly put in the hands of trainers who were also his rivals in play. Under these adverse circumstances\, and having known the international game for a mere seven years\, only half of which was spent in Europe\, Sultan Khan nevertheless became one of the world’s best ten players. This achievement brought admiration from Capablanca who called him a genius\, an accolade he rarely if ever bestowed on anyone else.  \nR. N. Coles\, Mir Sultan Khan (rev\, edn\, 1977) contains 64 games.  \nSultan Khan-Flohr 3rd match game 1932 Caro-Kann\nDefence\, Exchange Variation  \n[pgn]\n[Event “Match Flohr-Sultan Khan +2-1=3”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1932.02.24”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Sultan Khan\, Mir”]\n[Black “Flohr\, Salo”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B13”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “139”]\n[EventDate “1932.02.22”]\n[EventType “match”]\n[EventRounds “6”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,139\,19\,31\,76\,76\,67\,45\,61\,48\,38\,31\,31\,23\,36\,37\,35\,21\,17\,9\,3\,-21\,14\,2\,\n-8\,-25\,-11\,-8\,-13\,-15\,-15\,-15\,5\,-28\,-16\,-14\,-15\,-36\,-12\,-25\,-12\,-16\,-10\,6\,13\,\n-12\,18\,32\,27\,34\,31\,18\,22\,24\,33\,29\,40\,40\,34\,26\,41\,44\,31\,5\,8\,19\,19\,23\,14\,20\,48\,\n57\,53\,65\,62\,55\,58\,29\,58\,10\,7\,16\,8\,9\,23\,27\,80\,71\,88\,88\,118\,0\,0\,46\,25\,20\,96\,89\,\n119\,107\,126\,80\,115\,121\,109\,102\,94\,64\,72\,51\,49\,57\,125\,137\,135\,138\,154\,153\,168\,\n166\,171\,155\,157\,158\,145\,161\,234\,161\,216\,224\,241\,200\,247\,209\,489\,614\,700\,720\,\n738\,788\,808\,688]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c3 Nf6 6. Bf4\nBg4 7. f3 Bh5 8. Ne2 e6 9. Nd2 Bd6 10. Bg3 Qc7 11. Nb3 Bg6 12. Rc1 Bxd3 13.\nQxd3 O-O 14. Bxd6 Qxd6 15. O-O Rfe8 16. Ng3 g6 17. Rce1 Rac8 18. Re2 Nb8 19. a4\nNfd7 20. a5 Qa6 21. Qxa6 bxa6 22. Ra1 Rc7 23. Nc1 Rec8 24. Nd3 Rb7 25. Ra3 Nc6\n26. Nf1 Rb5 27. b4 Nd8 28. Ne3 Rbb8 29. Kf2 Nb7 30. Nc5 Ndxc5 31. bxc5 Nd8 32.\nf4 Nc6 33. Ng4 Rb1 34. Ne5 Nxe5 35. fxe5 Kf8 36. Ke3 Rcb8 37. Rf2 Ke7 38. Rc2\nKd7 39. Raa2 R8b3 40. Kd3 Rd1+ 41. Rd2 Rc1 42. Rac2 Rcb1 43. Rf2 Ke7 44. c6 Rb8\n45. c4 R1b3+ 46. Rc3 dxc4+ 47. Kxc4 R3b4+ 48. Kd3 Re8 49. Ke3 Rb5 50. Ra2 Rf8\n51. g4 Kd8 52. c7+ Kc8 53. Rf2 Rxa5 54. Rc6 Ra3+ 55. Ke4 Kd7 56. Rxf7+ Kxc6 57.\nRxf8 Kxc7 58. Rf7+ Kd8 59. Rxh7 g5 60. Rg7 Rh3 61. Rxg5 Rxh2 62. Rg8+ Kc7 63.\nRg6 a5 64. Rxe6 Kb7 65. Rf6 Rg2 66. e6 Rxg4+ 67. Kd5 Kc7 68. Rf7+ Kd8 69. Rxa7\nRh4 70. Kc5 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nMalik Mir Sultan Khan (right) \nHere is an excellent article from chess.com \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN84ePOEkKg[/embedyt] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsea5Uk82C4[/embedyt]
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200428
DTSTAMP:20210306T142453Z
CREATED:20200425T235908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210306T142453Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Michael Haygarth (11-x-1934 27-iv-2016)
DESCRIPTION:BCN Remembers Michael John Haygarth (11-x-1934 27-iv-2016) \nHere is an article from Yorkshire Chess History \nOwen Hindle\, Michael Franklin\, Harry Golombek and Michael Haygarth \nHere is an obituary written by Steve Mann which was published on the ECF web site. \nThe 1964 England Olympiad (Tel Aviv) Team : Owen Hindle\, Čeněk Kottnauer\, Peter Clarke\, Michael Franklin\, Norman Littlewood & Michael Haygarth \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-46 Championship”]\n[Site “York/ North Yorkshire”]\n[Date “1959.08.13”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Milner Barry\, Philip Stuart”]\n[Black “Haygarth\, Michael John”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C34”]\n[Annotator “PS Milner-Barry”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “1959.08.10”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, LXXIX\, #12\, p.377”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,42\,19\,28\,31\,6\,-20\,-21\,36\,-3\,-20\,-23\,-31\,-15\,16\,-37\,8\,18\,43\,27\,13\,4\,58\,\n5\,5\,7\,6\,28\,32\,6\,17\,-3\,17\,-180\,-177\,-176\,-78\,-490\,-494\,-500\,-503\,-500\,-511\,-511\,\n-507]} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 ({I never do any good with} 4. e5\nNh5) 4… d5 5. Nxd5 (5. exd5 {would be a straight transposition into the 3…\nd5 defence. The text move allows interesting alternatives.}) 5… Nxd5 (5…\nNxe4 6. Nxf4 {is another possibility\, which I rather fancied for white.}) 6.\nexd5 Be7 7. Be2 Bh4+ {Although it achieves a dramatic success\, I don’t believe\nthis is right.} (7… Qxd5 {is certainly safer}) 8. Kf1 O-O 9. d4 Bf6 {The\nweakness of the bishop at Rook 5 is that its gets in the way of …g5} 10. Bxf4\nBf5 {[#]} 11. Bd3 $2 ({As so often happens in the cut-and-thrust game\, the\nloss of one tempo can be fatal. After} 11. Qd2 {Black need not play} Qxd5 {\nbut White then remains a pawn ahead\, with no obvious anxieties.} 12. Bxc7 Nc6\n13. Kf2 {White just has time to unite his Rook\, and remains with his passed\nQueen’s pawn.}) 11… Qxd5 12. Bxc7 Nc6 13. c3 Rfe8 14. Kf2 Re7 15. Bg3 (15.\nBf4 g5 {merely makes a bad matter worse.}) 15… Rae8 16. Re1 {It is now or\nnever.} ({The trouble about} 16. Bxf5 Qxf5 17. Qd2 {is that after} Re2+ 18. Qxe2\nRxe2+ 19. Kxe2 Qb5+ {followed by …Qxb2+ the Rooks are no real match for the\nQueen. Though no double White could make a fight.}) 16… Rxe1 17. Nxe1 {[#]}\nNxd4 $1 18. cxd4 Qxd4+ 19. Kf1 Rxe1+ 20. Kxe1 Bxd3 {White is reduced to\ncomical helplessness. He is threatened with Qe3+} {So he tries} 21. Bf4 ({If}\n21. Qd2 Qg1#) ({If} 21. Bf2 Qe4+ 22. Kd2 Bg5+ 23. Kc3 Qc4#) ({If} 21. Qf3 Qxb2\n22. Qxd3 Qxa1+ {and then …Qxa2+}) 21… Qe4+ $1 {Resigns} {Immediately\ndecisive for if now} 22. Kd2 {comes} Qxf4+ 23. Kxd3 Qd4+ 24. Ke2 Qxb2+ 25. Kf3\nQxa1 {and there is no mate with} 26. Qd8+ {A fine combination by Black. What\nwith this\, and the equally fine positional play whereby Mr. Littlewood reduced\nme to similar straits. I felt that I had met more than my fair share of young\ntartars in this championship.} 0-1 \n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Lawrence Trent (28-iv-1986)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Lawrence Adam Trent (28-iv-1986) \nIM Lawrence Trent
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Norman Littlewood (31-i-1933 29-iv-1989)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Norman Littlewood (31-i-1933 29-iv-1989) \nNorman Littlewood circa 1967 \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume 109\, June (#6)\, page 265 we have the following obituary which appears to have been lifted and used in the BCF Yearbook from 1989 – 1990\, page 14\, (editor Brian Concannon) with no acknowledgement : \n“We were sorry to (announce the) hear of the death from cancer of Norman Littlewood of Sheffield(31 i 1933 – 29 iv 1989) who played with great force in British Championships of the 1960s.\nBorn into a working class family of 11 children\, Norman played for England in the 1951 Glorney Cup\, but did not make his debut in the British Championships until 1963 when he finished second to Penrose. He was then joint runner-up in the next three title contests\, impressed at Hastings Premiers\, particularly 1963-4 when he was the best of the English players\, and represented England in the 1964 and 1966 Olympiads. By 1969\, however\, he was drifting away from play in the direction of problem and study composition\, and his other interests such as bridge. He was also a skilled pianist\, a true all-rounder. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 51st”]\n[Site “Whitby”]\n[Date “1964.08.19”]\n[Round “3.1”]\n[White “Golombek\, Harry”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, Norman”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D94”]\n[Annotator “Norman Littlewood”]\n[PlyCount “78”]\n[EventDate “1964.08.17”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, Volume LXXXIV\, November\, page 339-340”] \n{[%evp 0\,78\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,38\,70\,9\,18\,34\,40\,11\,18\,25\,28\,17\,7\,31\,34\,54\,54\,36\,\n13\,13\,13\,-3\,2\,0\,24\,-27\,18\,0\,3\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-2\,-4\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,7\,24\,46\,64\,79\,33\,10\,20\,\n27\,23\,42\,-2\,-3\,-63\,-62\,-53\,-100\,-108\,-108\,-114\,-114\,-112\,-111\,-111\,-155\,-180\,\n-183\,-185\,-193\,-202\,-214\,-215\,-155\,-224\,-252]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4.\ne3 Bg7 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bc4 Nb6 7. Bb3 O-O 8. Nf3 Nc6 9. O-O Bg4 10. h3 Bxf3 11.\nQxf3 e5 $1 12. dxe5 Bxe5 13. Rd1 Qh4 $1 14. Nd5 Nxd5 15. Bxd5 Rad8 16. Bd2 {\n[#] A reasonable pawn sacrifice\, as the alternatives are not very attractive.}\nBxb2 17. Rab1 Ne5 $1 18. Qe4 Qxe4 19. Bxe4 Nc4 {Now follows an exciting\nstruggle for the initiative.} 20. Bb4 $1 ({For the moment the pawn is held as}\n20. Bxb7 $2 Rb8 21. Be4 Na3 $1 {winning the exchange .}) 20… Rxd1+ 21. Rxd1\nRe8 {This and the following two moves\, aim at keeping the Rook actively posted\,\ndespite the risks involved.} ({The passive although offering a sufficient\ndefence to the immediate threats\, cannot\, one feels\, hold out much prmise for\nthe future.} 21… Rb8) 22. Bd5 b5 23. Bc6 $1 (23. Bxc4 $2 bxc4 {would give\nBlack a strong passed pawn.}) 23… Re5 24. Rd8+ (24. Rd7 {also leads to\ncritical play} {e.g.} a5 25. Be7 Kg7 26. Rxc7 Ba3 $1 {with a position\ndifficult to assess.}) 24… Kg7 25. Ra8 a5 {[#]} 26. Bf8+ $2 {starting a\ntempting attack\, which\, however\, turns out to be insufficient.} ({The\nalternative was} 26. Bxa5 Rc5 $1 27. Be8 Nxa5 28. Rxa5 Rc1+ 29. Kh2 b4 {\nwith Black having the better chances.}) 26… Kf6 27. Ra6 b4 $1 28. Bd5+ ({If}\n28. Bb5+ Nb6 29. Rxa5 $2 c6 {wins the bishop}) 28… Nb6 29. e4 Bd4 $1 30. Bh6\n(30. Rxa5 $2 {is again} {met by} c6 $1) ({A longer resistance\, however\, could\nbe waged with either} 30. Kf1) ({or} 30. h4) 30… a4 31. Bf4 Rxd5 $1 32. exd5\nb3 33. axb3 axb3 34. Bc1 ({If} 34. Ra5 b2 35. Rb5 Nxd5 {etc.\, winning easily.})\n34… Ke5 $1 ({Inconclusive is} 34… b2 $2 35. Bxb2 Bxb2 36. d6 $1 Be5 37.\ndxc7 Bxc7 {etc.}) 35. Ra7 Nxd5 36. Rb7 Bb6 37. Bb2+ Ke4 38. Rb8 Kd3 39. Re8 Bd4\n{Resigns} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nA great impression was made on the top players at the 1964 British Championships when Norman won his first four games with his dynamic style. His victims included both Golombek and Clarke. Had he won his next game against Haygarth\, as he deserved to do\, he would have surely taken the title which fell to his Yorkshire colleague. \nNorman was always a modest but assertive character\, and with more management might well have challenged Penrose even more closely than he did. Our thanks to elder brother John Littlewood for some of the above information.” \nThe 1964 England Olympiad (Tel Aviv) Team : Owen Hindle\, Čeněk Kottnauer\, Peter Clarke\, Michael Franklin\, Norman Littlewood & Michael Haygarth \nHere is article from Yorkshire Chess History \nSee BCF Yearbook 1989-90\, page 14.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jonathan Hawkins (01-v-1983)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Jonathan Hawkins (01-v-1983)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Richard York-Weaving (01-v-1994)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Richard York-Weaving (01-v-1994) \nRichard weaving at the 2012 UKCC Terafinal\, Loughborough Grammar School
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Isidor Gunsberg (01-xi-1854 02-v-1930)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Isidor Gunsberg (01-xi-1854 02-v-1930)
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of David Hooper (31-xiii-1915 03-v-1998)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers David Hooper who passed away in a Taunton (Somerset) nursing home on Sunday\, May 3rd 1998. Probate (#9851310520) was granted in Brighton on June 24th 1998. \nPrior to the nursing home David had been living at 33\, Mansfield Road\, Taunton\, TA1 3NJ and before that at 5\, Haimes Lane\, Shaftesbury\, Dorset\, SP7 8AJ. \nFor most of the time between Reigate and Shaftesbury David lived in Whitchurch\, Hampshire. \nDavid Vincent Hooper was born on Tuesday\, August 31st 1915 in Reigate\, Surrey to Vincent Hooper and Edith Marjorie Winter who married in Reigate\, Surrey in 1909. On this day the first French ace\, Adolphe Pégoud\, was killed in combat. He had scored six victories. \nDavid was one of six children: Roger Garth (1910-?)\, Edwin Morris (1911-1942)\, Isobel Mary (12/01/1917-2009)\, Helene Edith (1916-1982) and Elizabeth Anne Oliver (1923-2000) were his siblings. \nRecorded in the September 1939 register David was aged 24 and living at 94\, High Street\, Reigate\, Surrey: \nHistorical Map showing 94\, High Street\, Reigate\, Surrey \nIn 2021 this property appears to be a flat (rather than bridge) over the River Kwai Restaurant: \n94\, High Street\, Reigate\, Surrey\, RH2 9AP \nLiving with David was his sister Isobel who was listed a “potential nurse”. David’s occupation at this time was listed as Architectural Assistant and he was single. We think that three others lived at this address at the time but they are not listed under the “100 year rule”. We know that David was also a surveyor and went on to attain professional membership of the Royal Institution of British Architects (RIBA). \nIn the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette May 27th 1944 there appeared this report of a simultaneous display on Empire Day (May 24th) at Dr. Marsh’s house: \nBath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette\, May 27th 1944 \nand from The Western Morning News\, 9th April 1947 we have: \nWestern Morning News\, 9th April 1947 \nand then from The Nottingham Evening Post\, 16th August 1949 we have: \nNottingham Evening Post\, 16th August 1949 \nIn 1950 aged 35 David married Joan M Higley (or Rose!) in the district of South Eastern Surrey. \nDavid Hooper (seated right) in play at the West of England Championships in Bristol\, Easter\, 1947. His opponent \, ARB Thomas \, was that year’s champion. Among the spectators is Mrs. Rowena Bruce\, the 1946 British Ladies’ Champion. BCM\, Volume 118\, #6\, p.327. The others in the photo are L – R: H. V. Trevenen; H. Wilson-Osborne (WECU President); R. A. (Ron) Slade; Rowena Bruce; Ron Bruce; H. V. (Harry) Mallison; Chris Sullivan; C. Welch (Controller); F. E. A. (Frank) Kitto. \nKen Whyld wrote an obituary which appeared in British Chess Magazine\, Volume 118 (1998)\, Number 6\, page 326 as follows : \nDAVID VINCENT HOOPER died on 3rd May this year in a nursing home in Taunton. He had been in declining health for some months. Born in Reigate\, 31st August 1915\, his early chess years were with the Battersea CC and Surrey. \nDavid Hooper (left) in conversation with Alan Phillips. Location and photographer unknown. \nHe won the (ed. Somerset) County Championship three times\, and the London Championship in 1948. His generation was at its chess peak in the years when war curtailed opportunities\, but he won the British Correspondence Championship in 1944. \n[pgn]\n[Event “ENG-ch corr”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1943.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Bonham\, Reginald”]\n[Black “Hooper\, David Vincent”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D04”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1943.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,18\,12\,2\,25\,23\,23\,33\,22\,16\,10\,13\,11\,14\,10\,8\,9\,12\,15\,\n-5\,-2\,-3\,1\,-3\,-9\,-12\,-8\,-15\,-16\,-121\,-138\,-107\,-84\,-125\,-79\,-114\,-135\,-140\,\n-120\,-122\,-108\,-72\,-116\,-109\,-115\,-105\,-113\,-94\,-92\,-121\,-143\,-133\,-141\,-191\,\n-64\,-101\,-81\,-64\,0\,-83\,-91\,-141\,-141\,-57\,-57\,-90\,-53\,-47\,-50\,-48\,-45\,-533\,-534\,\n-29989\,-534\,-544\,-544]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 Bf5 4. Bd3 e6 5. Bxf5 exf5 6.\nQd3 Qc8 7. c4 dxc4 8. Qxc4 Bd6 9. b3 Nbd7 10. Bb2 O-O 11. O-O c6 12. Nc3 Nb6\n13. Qe2 Nbd5 14. Nxd5 Nxd5 15. Ne5 Re8 16. Qf3 Qe6 17. g4 fxg4 18. Nxg4 f6 19.\nh3 a5 20. Rfe1 Nb4 21. Re2 a4 22. e4 axb3 23. axb3 Rxa1+ 24. Bxa1 f5 25. Ne5\nfxe4 26. Rxe4 Nd5 27. Rg4 Rf8 28. Qg3 Qh6 29. Bb2 Rf5 30. Qd3 Rh5 31. h4 Nf6\n32. Qc4+ Nd5 33. Qa4 Qd2 34. Qa8+ Bf8 35. Qc8 Rh6 36. Nd7 Qd1+ 37. Kh2 Qf3 38.\nBa3 Qxf2+ 39. Kh3 Qf3+ 40. Kh2 Qe2+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHis games from that event are to be found in Chess for Rank and File by Roche and Battersby. \nChess for the Rank and File \nAlso at that time\, he won the 1944 tournament at Blackpool\, defeating veteran Grandmaster Jacques Mieses. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Blackpool Premier”]\n[Site “Blackpool”]\n[Date “1944.07.20”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Hooper\, David Vincent”]\n[Black “Mieses\, Jacques”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A52”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “65”]\n[EventDate “1944.07.17”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2019”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,65\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,23\,5\,17\,11\,29\,14\,21\,12\,19\,23\,23\,13\,5\,16\,36\,-19\,-19\,\n-43\,6\,4\,16\,8\,1\,2\,22\,17\,37\,31\,66\,69\,43\,46\,33\,43\,101\,46\,142\,175\,186\,210\,221\,237\,\n265\,210\,261\,244\,277\,271\,285\,183\,172\,257\,254\,268\,265\,267\,281\,235\,615\,644\,648\,\n646]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 {Mieses style was characterised by high levels of\noptimism.} 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Bf4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bb4+ 6. Nc3 ({In 2021 the mainline is\n} 6. Nbd2 Qe7 7. e3 Ngxe5 8. Nxe5 Nxe5 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Bxd2 11. Qxd2 d6 12.\nb4 b6 13. c5 Bb7 14. cxd6 cxd6 15. Rfd1 Rfd8) 6… Qe7 7. Qd5 {Echoes of the\nless reputable Englund Gambit} f6 8. exf6 Nxf6 9. Qd3 Ne4 10. e3 d6 11. Nd2 Bf5\n12. Ndxe4 Bxe4 13. Qd2 {[#]} O-O $146 (13… g5 14. Bg3 h5 15. h3 Bg6) 14.\nO-O-O Qf6 15. f3 Bg6 16. Bg3 {[#]} Qxc3+ $1 {Utilising the Boden’s mate theme.}\n17. bxc3 (17. Qxc3 Bxc3 18. bxc3 $16) 17… Ba3+ 18. Qb2 Bxb2+ 19. Kxb2 Rae8\n20. e4 $16 Ne5 $6 21. c5 $1 dxc5 22. Rd5 Nf7 23. Bxc7 $18 (23. Rxc5) 23… b6\n24. Bc4 h6 25. Rd7 Kh7 26. Rhd1 a5 27. Bd6 Ne5 28. Bxe5 Rxe5 29. Rb7 Rg5 30.\nRd2 Rf6 $2 (30… h5) 31. Rb8 Re5 (31… Bf7) 32. Bg8+ Kh8 33. Rdd8 {and Black\nresigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDavid was most active in the decade that followed\, playing five times in the British Championship. \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-36 Championship”]\n[Site “Felixstowe/ Suffolk”]\n[Date “1949.08.15”]\n[Round “7.1”]\n[White “Hooper\, David Vincent”]\n[Black “Golombek\, Harry”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B13”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “83”]\n[EventDate “1949.08.08”]\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\,83\,19\,31\,68\,48\,60\,46\,46\,22\,31\,23\,34\,34\,45\,56\,35\,42\,40\,35\,20\,18\,18\,9\,8\,\n0\,-3\,0\,58\,30\,44\,14\,3\,-6\,9\,24\,28\,27\,27\,26\,27\,27\,64\,52\,67\,53\,62\,74\,57\,49\,68\,53\,\n90\,67\,93\,79\,76\,82\,91\,76\,91\,93\,102\,75\,92\,84\,105\,86\,112\,40\,71\,72\,103\,64\,86\,72\,92\,\n66\,133\,135\,341\,350\,356\,301\,293\,306]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6\n5. c3 Nf6 6. Bf4 g6 (6… Bg4 7. Qb3 Qd7 8. Nd2 e6 9. Ngf3 Bxf3 10. Nxf3 Bd6\n11. Bxd6 Qxd6 12. O-O O-O 13. Rae1) 7. Nf3 Bg7 8. h3 O-O 9. O-O Nh5 (9… Bf5\n10. Bxf5 gxf5 11. Ne5 e6 12. Nd2 Nxe5 13. Bxe5) 10. Bh2 Bh6 11. Re1 Nf4 12. Bf1\nQd6 $146 13. Nbd2 Qf6 14. Nb3 $16 Rd8 15. Ne5 (15. Bb5) 15… Nxe5 16. Rxe5 Ne6\n17. Nc1 Bf4 18. Bxf4 Nxf4 19. Nd3 Nxd3 20. Bxd3 Be6 21. Qe2 Rac8 22. Rf1 Qf4\n23. Re1 Rc6 24. g3 Qf6 25. h4 Kh8 26. Qe3 Rg8 27. Bf1 $18 Rd6 28. Bg2 b5 29.\nBf1 Rb6 30. a3 a6 31. Bd3 a5 32. Bf1 Rb7 33. Bg2 Rd7 34. Rg5 $6 (34. h5) 34…\nKg7 35. Re5 Kh8 36. f4 Qg7 37. Kf2 h5 38. Bf3 {[#]} Qh6 $2 39. Qe2 (39. Rxe6 $1\nfxe6 40. Qxe6 Rgd8 41. Qb6) 39… Bg4 $2 40. Bxg4 hxg4 41. Rxe7 Rxe7 42. Qxe7 {\nSources: Western Morning News\, 26 November 1949; Hooper’s notebook.\nContributor: Kevin Thurlow} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHis highest place there was at Nottingham 1954\, when\, after leading in the early stages\, he finished half a point behind the joint champions\, Leonard Barden and Alan Phillips. \nDavid was in the British Olympic team at Helsinki 1952\, and in the same year accidentally played top board for England in one of the then traditional weekend matches against the Netherlands. British Champion Klein took offence at a Sunday Times report of his draw with former World Champion Dr. Euwe on the Saturday and refused to play on Sunday. Thus David was drafted in to meet Euwe\, and acquitted himself admirably. Even though he lost\, the game took pride of place in that month’s\nBCM. \nAlan Phillips plays David Hooper on August 20th 1954 in round five of the British Championships in Nottingham\, photographer unknown \n[pgn]\n[Event “Match/Nation ENG-NED”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1952.06.01”]\n[Round “2.1”]\n[White “Hooper\, David Vincent”]\n[Black “Euwe\, Max”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E29”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “58”]\n[EventDate “1952.05.31”]\n[EventType “team-match”]\n[EventRounds “2”]\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[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Netherlands”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “NED”] \n{[%evp 0\,58\,19\,31\,25\,-16\,-12\,2\,30\,29\,36\,-15\,-2\,-1\,-1\,-29\,-26\,-12\,-12\,-12\,-12\,6\,\n3\,-12\,-21\,-21\,18\,-86\,-58\,-78\,-78\,-147\,-58\,-50\,-49\,-49\,17\,19\,29\,-36\,21\,-31\,37\,\n21\,23\,23\,23\,0\,30\,83\,56\,74\,-75\,-61\,0\,-154\,-173\,-197\,0\,-224\,-209]} 1. d4 Nf6 2.\nc4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 b6 7. Ne2 Bb7 8. Ng3 c5 9. Bd3\nNc6 10. O-O d6 11. f4 g6 $146 (11… Ba6) 12. Ra2 Qd7 13. f5 exf5 14. Nxf5 gxf5\n15. Bxf5 Qe7 16. e4 $11 Ne8 17. Bh6 f6 18. Bxf8 Kxf8 19. g4 $6 (19. Raf2) 19…\nBc8 20. Bxc8 Rxc8 21. g5 Qxe4 22. gxf6 $16 {[#]} cxd4 23. Re2 (23. Rg2) 23…\nQh4 24. Rg2 Rc7 25. Qf3 (25. Rg4) 25… Ne5 $17 26. Qa8 Rf7 27. cxd4 Qxd4+ 28.\nKh1 Ng4 $11 {[#]} 29. h3 $2 (29. Re2) 29… Ngxf6 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIn the following game\, played in the Hastings Premier l95l-2\, he found an improvement on Botvinnik’s play against Bronstein in game 17 of their 1951 match\, when 7.Ng3 was played because it was thought that after 7.Nf4 d5 it was necessary to play 8 Qb3. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1951/52-27 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1951.12.28”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Hooper\, David Vincent”]\n[Black “Donner\, Jan Hein”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E45”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1951.12.27”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,4\,33\,33\,34\,38\,29\,17\,28\,26\,60\,44\,35\,-17\,-17\,-17\,\n-17\,37\,0\,-56\,52\,63\,517\,499\,865\,887\,887\,665\,945\,447\,574\,443\,433\,261\,271\,244\,275\,\n308\,359\,373\,376\,346\,347\,327\,394\,387\,623\,768\,1010\,945]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3.\nNc3 Bb4 4. e3 b6 5. Nge2 Ba6 6. a3 Be7 7. Nf4 d5 8. cxd5 Bxf1 9. dxe6 Ba6 10.\nexf7+ Kxf7 11. Qb3+ (11. e4 c5 12. e5 Qxd4 13. e6+) 11… Ke8 12. Ne6 $15 {[#]}\nQd6 $6 $146 (12… Qd7 13. Nxg7+ Kd8 14. Ne6+ Kc8 15. d5) 13. e4 $16 Bc8 $2 14.\nNb5 $18 Qc6 15. Nbxc7+ Kd7 16. d5 Qb7 {[#]} 17. Nxa8 (17. Qb5+ Nc6 18. Bf4)\n17… Bd6 18. Nac7 (18. O-O) 18… Bxc7 19. O-O Ke7 20. Nxc7 Qxc7 21. Bg5 Qe5\n22. f4 Qd4+ 23. Kh1 Kf7 24. Rad1 Qxe4 25. Rfe1 Bg4 26. Rxe4 Bxd1 27. Qb4 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn his profession as architect David worked in the Middle East for some years from the mid-1950s\, and when he returned to England he made his mark as a writer. His Practical Chess Endgames \nPractical Chess Endgames (Chess Handbooks)\, David Hooper\, Routledge & Kegan Paul\, London\, 1968\, ISBN 0 7100 5226 X \nhas an enduring appeal. Two of his books appeared in the Wildhagen biographical games series on Steinitz\, and Capablanca. The last was written jointly with Gilchrist. \nWilliam Steinitz : Selected Chess Games\, David Hooper \nWith Euwe he wrote A Guide to Chess Endings; \nA Guide to Chess Endings\, Dover (1976 reprint)\, ISBN 0-486-23332-4 \nwith Cafferty\, A Complete Defence to 1.e4; \nA Complete Defence to 1.P-K4 A Study of Petroff’s Defence\, Bernard Cafferty & David Hooper\, Pergamon Press\, 1967\, ISBN 0 08 024089 5 \nA Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames; \nA Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames\, David Hooper\, Bell & Hyman Limited\, London\, 1970\, ISBN 0 7135 1761 1 \nA Complete Defence to 1.d4; \nA Complete Defence to 1d4: A Study of the Queen’s Gambit Accepted\, Bernard Cafferty & David Hooper\, Pergamon Press\, ISBN 0-08-024102-6 \nand Play for Mate; \nPlay for Mate (1990)\, DV Hooper and Bernard Cafferty\, ISBN-13: 978-0713464740 \nwith Brandreth The Unknown Capablanca\, \nThe Unknown Capablanca\, David Hooper & Dale Brandreth\, Batsford\, London\, 1975\, ISBN\, 0 7134 2964 \nand with Ken Whyld\, The Oxford Companion to Chess. \nThe Oxford Companion to Chess\, 1st Edition\, David Hooper & Ken Whyld\, Oxford University Press\, 1984\, ISBN 0 19 217540 8 \nKen Whyld \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nBritish amateur (an architect by profession) whose best result was =5 in the British Championship at Felixstowe 1949 along with\, amongst others\, Broadbent and Fairhurst. \nHooper abandoned playing for writing about chess and has become a specialist in two distinct areas. He is an expert on the endings and has a close knowledge of the history of chess in the nineteenth century. \nHis principal works : Steinitz (in German)\, Hamburg\, 1968; A Pocket Guide to Chess Endgames\, London 1970. \nHere is an interesting article from Edward Winter \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry.
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Dr. IM István (Stefan) Fazekas (23-iii-1898 03-v-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Signature of S Fazekas from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Southsea 1951. \nBCN remembers Dr. IM István (Stefan) Fazekas (23-iii-1898 03-v-1967) \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Dr Stefan (ne Istvan) Fazekas was born in Satoraljaujhely\, Hungary. Awarded the IM title in 1953 and the IMC title in 1964\, he was British Champion in 1957 and is the oldest player ever to have won the title. He passed away in 1967 in Buckhurst Hill\, Essex\, England.” \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXVII\, Number 7 (July)\, pages 195-6 we have an obituary written by Peter Clarke : \nThe death of Dr. Fazekas on May 3rd has deprived British chess of one of its leading and most colourful figures. Ever since he came to this country nearly thirty years ago he took an active part\, in the game at all levels\, from club to international\, rarely missing the chance – even when not in the best of health- to test his strength in competition and express his ideas afresh. \nStefan Fazekas was born on March 23rd\, 1898\, at Sitoraljaujhely on the Hungarian-Czechoslovak border\, but it was not until a few years after the Great War\, in which he served and was wounded\, that he got the opportunity to play serious tournament chess. By present-day standards\, however\, events were few and far between\, and the game always had to take second place to his medical work. The Doctor’s best international performances\, for which he was later awarded the master title by F.I.D.E.\, came in the ‘thirties. In 1931\, for instance\, he was 2nd at Kosice\, 3rd at Brno and 3rd at Prague. As it remained throughout his career\, his play was excessively variable: fine conceptions were always liable to be ruined by blunders or impetuosity. The following game\, played at Munchentratz in 1933\, shows all going well; it earned inclusion in Le Lionnais’ anthology Les Prix de beauté aux échecs. \n[pgn]\n[Event “CSR-ch13 Group B”]\n[Site “Mnichov Hradist”]\n[Date “1933.08.09”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Fazekas\, Stefan”]\n[Black “Gillar\, J.”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D17”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “37”]\n[EventDate “1933.08.07”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “CSR”]\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\,37\,61\,14\,28\,-11\,32\,21\,46\,5\,7\,30\,0\,-4\,44\,18\,5\,-8\,-8\,-89\,-98\,-91\,-103\,\n-78\,-55\,-143\,-141\,-112\,-116\,-217\,-78\,-58\,-3\,-20\,117\,117\,442\,442\,472\,472]} 1. d4\nd5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 Na6 7. e4 (7. f3) 7… Nxe4\n8. Bxc4 e6 9. Nxc6 $146 (9. g4 Bg6 10. Nxg6 Nxc3 11. bxc3 hxg6 12. Rb1 Qc8 13.\nBxa6 bxa6 14. Bf4 Qd7 15. O-O Bd6 16. Qf3 $13) (9. O-O Nxc3 10. bxc3 Bd6 11.\nQe2 Nc7 12. g4 Bg6 13. f4 f6 14. Nxg6 hxg6 15. Rb1 Qc8 16. Re1) 9… bxc6 10.\nBxa6 Qb6 11. Qe2 Bb4 12. O-O Nxc3 13. bxc3 Bxc3 14. Ba3 Bxd4 15. Rac1 c5 16.\nBb5+ Ke7 $2 {[#]} 17. Rfd1 $18 Rhd8 $2 18. Rxd4 $1 Rxd4 19. Bxc5+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn 1939 Dr. Fazekas brought his family to England and established himself as a successful and much loved G.P. at Buckhurst Hill\, Essex. He soon took a dominating part in county chess and went on to win the championship eleven times. In national events his inconsistency seemed too great a handicap\, but at Plymouth in 1957\, after so many tries\, he astounded everyone by winning the British Championship in front of\, among others\, Alexander and Penrose. The next year fate struck him a cruel blow when he was left out of the B.C.F. team\nfor the Munich Olympiad. Yet after returning the trophy in protest he overcame his bitterness and took his place once more in the championship tournament-he could not resist\nthe thrill of the struggle. \nKnowing that his best over-the-board days were behind him\, the Doctor decided to go in for correspondence chess in 1959\, and he at once found himself surprisingly at home in it. Here his old weaknesses could be set aside and his vast experience put to good use. Moreover\, his great love for chess enabled him to devote hours of work to the analysis of a single\nmove if necessary. His rapid successes in this field won him a place in the Semi-Finals of the 5th World Correspondence Championship (where he finished 4th out of 14) and led to his\nbeing chosen as Board 1 for the British team in the 5th Olympiad. On the results of these events he was awarded the title of international C.C. master. That he deserved it may be\njudged from this fine strategic win against a grandmaster (C.C.) opponent in the individual tournament. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCCA corr”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1965.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Fazekas\, Stefan”]\n[Black “Napolitano\, Mario”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A20”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “89”]\n[EventDate “1965.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,89\,57\,-26\,-22\,-63\,17\,10\,20\,20\,28\,31\,33\,25\,43\,45\,30\,29\,35\,6\,12\,9\,0\,-1\,\n-9\,2\,-16\,-12\,2\,1\,-15\,-12\,-12\,0\,19\,-4\,20\,-51\,-53\,8\,-2\,5\,74\,84\,77\,55\,55\,46\,77\,80\,\n74\,47\,57\,28\,36\,32\,30\,26\,84\,9\,6\,76\,50\,29\,52\,-65\,-55\,-55\,6\,-36\,-36\,-58\,-58\,-45\,\n-3\,7\,7\,-82\,6\,-71\,75\,9\,150\,104\,105\,105\,105\,105\,300\,270\,360\,254]} 1. c4 e5 2. Nf3\nd6 3. g3 Bg4 4. Bg2 c6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. O-O Nf6 7. h3 Bh5 8. b4 O-O 9. Qb3 Nbd7\n10. a3 Ne8 11. g4 Bg6 12. e4 h5 13. d3 Nc7 14. Be3 Ne6 15. Ne2 Kh7 16. Rfd1 Nf6\n17. Nh2 Qd7 18. d4 exd4 19. Bxd4 Nxd4 20. Nxd4 Ne8 21. f4 f6 22. Qe3 Nc7 23.\nBf3 Qe8 24. Qe2 hxg4 25. hxg4 Rh8 26. Nf1 Kg8 27. Ne3 Bf8 28. Qg2 Rd8 29. Re1\nBf7 30. Kf2 g6 31. Rad1 Rd7 32. g5 fxg5 33. f5 Qd8 34. Bg4 Qf6 35. Nf3 Re7 36.\nfxg6 Bxg6 37. Bf5 Rg7 38. Ng4 Qb2+ 39. Re2 Qb3 40. Rh1 Be7 41. Rxh8+ Kxh8 42.\nBxg6 Rxg6 43. Qh1+ Kg7 44. Ne3 Ne6 45. Nf5+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAt the time of his death Dr. Fazekas had made a score of 5 out of 7 in the Olympiad Final and was still engaged with Zagorovsky of the U.S.S.R.\, a performance which showed his correspondence play to be close to grandmaster standard. And to end one’s days actually playing a World Champion is a distinction which I am sure would have appealed to this Doctor’s rich sense of humour. \nWhile Dr. Fazekas’ social work as a humanist was for the peace of the world\, in chess he was noted as a great fighter\, in some ways reminiscent of Lasker. There was no retirement\nfor him. At Ilford in 1965 and 1966 he eagerly took on and held his own with a generation fifty years his junior\, and this year he had once again qualified to play in the British Champion-\nship. The tournament at Oxford will not seem quite the same without him. I and his many friends will miss his wit and ebullience\, his generosity\, his love of life and chess.-P. H. C. \nDr. Fazekas was Southern Counties (SCCU) Champion twice in 1951-2 and 1952-53. \nIn Edward Winter’s Chess Notes there is a note from Leonard Barden concerning SFs spoken English (under Chess Note #10361) \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry \nIstván (Stefan) Fazekas
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM David Ledger (03-v-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM David J Ledger (03-v-1967) \nDavid was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2004-05 season sharing the title with Tim Hebbes\, his brother Steve Ledger and the late Peter Poobalasingam.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WIM Dr. Ruth Sheldon (03-v-1980)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday WIM Dr. Ruth Sheldon (03-v-1980). \nRuth was born in Manchester and became a WFM in 1993 and WIM in 1996. Her peak rating was 2310 in July 1999. \nShe was World U12 Vice Champion in 1992\, World U14 Champion in 1993 and World U18 Champion in 1998. \nShe is a lecturer in Religion and Social Science at King’s College\, London \nWIM Dr. Ruth Sheldon \nHere is her rather brief Wikipedia entry. \nRuths’s partial Chessbase record \nWIM Dr. Ruth Sheldon during a county match (full caption below) \nCaption to photograph above \n[pgn]\n[Event “Redbus KO”]\n[Site “Southend”]\n[Date “1999.04.02”]\n[Round “1.2”]\n[White “Rowson\, Jonathan”]\n[Black “Sheldon\, Ruth”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D03”]\n[WhiteElo “2494”]\n[BlackElo “2265”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “244”]\n[EventDate “1999.04.??”]\n[EventType “k.o.”]\n[EventRounds “4”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 071”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.08.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.08.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,244\,19\,31\,14\,-9\,-9\,-5\,20\,-15\,37\,41\,41\,38\,31\,31\,60\,-1\,-4\,-17\,5\,0\,1\,-91\,\n-4\,-31\,35\,35\,46\,35\,17\,37\,0\,15\,49\,38\,89\,44\,113\,44\,44\,44\,64\,25\,45\,25\,23\,36\,23\,36\,\n84\,33\,74\,43\,31\,31\,58\,43\,50\,44\,25\,16\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,12\,10\,1\,18\,24\,9\,33\,40\,49\,-3\,27\,\n21\,59\,91\,91\,-187\,-176\,-170\,-213\,-243\,-250\,-259\,-254\,-265\,-261\,-260\,-223\,-223\,\n-219\,-225\,-213\,-218\,-203\,-208\,-203\,-221\,-210\,-218\,-225\,-224\,-222\,-221\,-221\,\n-223\,-223\,-226\,-223\,-225\,-226\,-226\,-226\,-230\,-236\,-239\,-226\,-230\,-239\,-246\,\n-246\,-251\,-251\,-251\,-250\,-263\,-263\,-254\,-254\,-254\,-235\,-236\,-245\,-241\,-246\,\n-246\,-245\,-258\,-246\,-254\,-245\,-243\,-243\,-245\,-245\,-245\,-245\,-245\,-245\,-245\,\n-245\,-245\,-244\,-238\,-244\,-241\,-233\,-238\,-206\,-229\,-215\,-229\,-215\,-212\,-180\,\n-168\,-156\,-168\,-125\,-225\,-157\,-155\,-157\,-155\,-159\,-152\,-144\,-203\,-192\,-158\,\n-154\,-255\,-244\,-148\,-111\,-310\,-316\,-355\,-374\,-377\,-382\,-399\,-407\,-402\,-358\,\n-390\,-395\,-390\,-412\,-407\,-407\,-407\,-365\,-382\,-396\,-407\,-369\,-387\,-366\,-373\,\n-384\,-391\,-391\,-392\,-363\,-355\,-355\,-355\,-355\,-395\,-364\,-399\,-399\,-399\,-405\,\n-406\,-412\,-411\,-410\,-411\,-411\,-411\,-412\,-412\,-412\,-418\,-422\,-445\,-447\,-474\,\n-449]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. Nd2 Nbd7 4. e3 g6 5. Ngf3 Bg7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O\nRe8 8. c3 e5 9. Nb3 c6 10. Rc1 a5 11. c4 a4 12. Nbd2 Qb6 13. cxd5 cxd5 14. dxe5\nNxe5 15. Nxe5 Rxe5 16. Nf3 Re8 17. Qd4 Qe6 18. Qb4 Bf8 19. Qd4 Ne4 20. Bf4 Bd7\n21. Rfd1 Bc6 22. Qb6 Qf6 23. Qd4 Qe7 24. Qb6 h5 25. Be5 Nd6 26. Bxd6 Qxd6 27.\na3 Bg7 28. Nd4 Rac8 29. Bf3 Be5 30. h3 Qf6 31. Be2 Bc7 32. Qb4 Bd6 33. Qb6 Qe5\n34. Nf3 Qf6 35. Qd4 Qe7 36. h4 Bb8 37. Bf1 Qd6 38. Qc5 Qc7 39. g3 Re4 40. Bh3\nRce8 41. Rd3 Rc4 42. Rxc4 dxc4 43. Qxc4 Bxf3 44. Qxc7 Bxc7 45. Bg2 Bxg2 46.\nKxg2 Be5 47. b3 axb3 48. Rxb3 Re7 49. Kf3 Bd6 50. a4 Kg7 51. a5 Kf8 52. a6 bxa6\n53. Rb6 Bc5 54. Rxa6 Rb7 55. Ra5 Bb4 56. Ra2 Bc3 57. Rc2 Bf6 58. Ke4 Kg7 59.\nRc8 Rb2 60. Kf3 Be7 61. Rc7 Bb4 62. Rc1 Bd2 63. Rf1 Kf6 64. Ke2 Bb4+ 65. Kf3\nKe5 66. Rc1 Kd5 67. Rg1 Rc2 68. Rd1+ Kc4 69. Rb1 Bc3 70. Rf1 Bd2 71. Ke2 Bc3+\n72. Kf3 Kb3 73. Rb1+ Rb2 74. Rg1 Kc2 75. Ra1 Kd3 76. Rd1+ Bd2 77. Ra1 Rc2 78.\nRb1 Rc6 79. Rb3+ Bc3 80. Ra3 Rf6+ 81. Kg2 Kc2 82. Kf1 Bb4 83. Ra4 Bd2 84. Ke2\nBc3 85. Ra7 Rf5 86. f4 Rf6 87. Rc7 Kb3 88. Kf3 Be5 89. Rd7 Kc4 90. e4 Bd4 91.\nRc7+ Kd3 92. Rd7 Re6 93. Rxf7 Rxe4 94. f5 Re3+ 95. Kg2 Be5 96. Rd7+ Ke4 97.\nfxg6 Rxg3+ 98. Kf2 Rxg6 99. Rh7 Rf6+ 100. Kg2 Rf5 101. Rh6 Bf6 102. Kg3 Be5+\n103. Kg2 Kf4 104. Rg6 Bf6 105. Kh3 Bd8 106. Rg8 Rd5 107. Rf8+ Ke5 108. Rh8 Kf6\n109. Rf8+ Kg6 110. Rf4 Rd1 111. Rc4 Bf6 112. Ra4 Rd2 113. Kg3 Kf5 114. Rf4+ Kg6\n115. Ra4 Be5+ 116. Kf3 Kf5 117. Rf4+ Ke6 118. Ra4 Rd3+ 119. Kf2 Kf5 120. Rc4\nRg3 121. Rc8 Rg4 122. Rf8+ Bf6 0-1 \n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Joe Gallagher (04-v-1964)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Joseph Gerald Gallagher (04-v-1964) \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 \nGM Joseph Gerald Gallagher \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMvFIWTEJA[/embedyt] \nGM Joe Gallagher \n[pgn]\n[Event “Bundesliga 0304”]\n[Site “Germany”]\n[Date “2003.11.01”]\n[Round “1.6”]\n[White “Houska\, Jovanka”]\n[Black “Gallagher\, Joseph G”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B26”]\n[WhiteElo “2380”]\n[BlackElo “2520”]\n[Annotator “Meyer\,CD/Gallagher”]\n[PlyCount “82”]\n[EventDate “2003.11.01”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\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 “Hofheim”]\n[BlackTeam “Werder Bremen”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “GER”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “GER”] \n{[%evp 0\,82\,38\,35\,41\,41\,56\,10\,30\,17\,17\,13\,23\,5\,8\,13\,2\,-7\,0\,9\,8\,-51\,-27\,-57\,-45\,\n-64\,-47\,-20\,-19\,-12\,-10\,-10\,10\,-88\,-50\,-45\,-36\,-35\,-35\,-35\,-41\,-41\,-25\,-10\,-33\,\n-28\,-29\,-19\,-21\,-21\,-30\,-48\,-25\,-38\,-36\,-59\,-56\,-122\,-124\,-124\,-142\,-156\,-169\,\n-169\,-177\,-161\,-266\,-308\,-199\,-204\,-213\,-373\,-394\,-434\,-397\,-397\,-393\,-524\,\n-616\,-639\,-394\,-404\,-408\,-425\,-459] “BEATING THE ANTI-SICILIAN!”\n(Blockadespringer plus 2. Reihe\, vorbildliche Technik)} 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3.\ng3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. Be3 Nf6 7. h3 O-O 8. Nge2 Rb8 9. O-O $6 ({Ungenau\,\nda Schwarz sofort …b5 ziehen kann. Besser ist} 9. f4 {\, z.B.} Bd7 (9… b5 $4\n10. e5) {mit komplizierter Stellung und Chancen für beide Seiten:} 10. O-O b5\n11. Qd2 (11. a3 Ne8 12. d4 cxd4 13. Nxd4 b4 14. Nxc6 Bxc6 15. axb4 Rxb4 16.\nRxa7 Rxb2 $11 {\, Spassky – Fischer\, Sveti Stefan/Belgrade 1992}) 11… b4 12.\nNd1 Qc8 $5 13. f5 Ne5 14. g4 h5 15. g5 Nh7 16. Nf4 $1 gxf5 (16… Re8) 17. Nxh5\nBh8 18. exf5 Bxf5 {\, und das Spiel ist nach wie vor unklar\, Analyse\n(auszugsweise) aus D. Rogozenko’s “Anti-Sicilians/A Guide for Black”\, Gambit\n2003}) 9… b5 10. Qd2 b4 11. Nd1 a5 {[#]} 12. Kh2 (12. Bh6 $6 Bxh6 13. Qxh6\nNd4 $1 14. Nxd4 (14. Qd2 Bxh3 $1 15. Nxd4 Bxg2 16. Nc6 Qc7 17. Nxe7+ Qxe7 18.\nKxg2 d5 $15) 14… cxd4 15. f4 $2 (15. c3) 15… Rb5 $1 16. g4 Qc7 17. Rc1 Rc5\n18. Rf2 Bxg4 $1 19. hxg4 Nxg4 20. Qh4 Nxf2 21. Nxf2 Rxc2 $17 {\, Emms – S.B.\nHansen\, Bundesliga 2001/2\, 0:1/34}) 12… Qc7 $5 13. Bh6 $6 ({Auch hier sollte\nWeiß auf diese Standardidee verzichten und sich mit} 13. f4 e6 14. a3 {und\netwa gleichen Aussichten bescheiden.}) 13… Bxh6 14. Qxh6 Nd4 15. Qd2 d5 $1 {\nSchwarz reißt die Initiative an sich.} 16. Nxd4 $6 {Erstens steht nun der Nd1\nkläglich\, zweitens erhält Schwarz so noch Druck über die halboffene c-Linie.} (\n{Vorzuziehen war} 16. exd5 $15 {. Falls} Bxh3 $5 {so} 17. Kxh3 Qe5 {\, z.B.:}\n18. Be4 (18. g4 Qxe2 19. Qxe2 Nxe2 20. f4) (18. Nf4 g5 19. Be4) 18… Qh5+ 19.\nKg2 Nxe4 20. dxe4 Qf3+ 21. Kh2 Nxe2 22. Qd3 {\, und jeweils scheint es\, daß die\nChancen des Schwarzen nur geringfügig besser sind.}) 16… cxd4 17. f4 dxe4 18.\ndxe4 Ba6 {[#]} 19. Re1 $2 ({Durch diese Ungenauigkeit gerät Weiß eindeutig ins\nHintertreffen. Die ohnehin schon schwierige Verteidigung war relativ besser mit\n} 19. Rf2 $5 {zu organisieren\, z.B.:} Rfd8 $5 (19… e5 20. fxe5 (20. a3 Nh5\n21. f5) 20… Qxe5 21. Qf4 Qxf4 (21… Nd7 22. Rd2 Rbd8 23. Nf2) 22. gxf4 (22.\nRxf4 Nd7 23. e5 Nxe5 24. Rxd4 Bb7 25. Ne3) 22… Rbc8 23. e5 Nh5 24. a3 $132 {\nist letztlich doch unergiebig für Schwarz.}) 20. a3 $132 (20. e5 Nd5 $1 21. a3\n$6 bxa3 22. Rxa3 Nb4 23. Ra1 d3 24. cxd3 Nxd3) 20… Bb7 (20… b3 21. e5 Nd5\n22. cxb3 Rxb3 23. Rc1 Qb6 24. f5) 21. axb4 axb4 22. Qd3 $15 {und Weiß leistet\nzähen Widerstand}) 19… e5 $1 $17 20. Nf2 (20. a3 {stört Schwarz jetzt kaum\nnoch:} Rfc8 ({oder auch} 20… exf4 21. gxf4 Nh5 22. e5 Bb7 23. Bxb7 Rxb7 $17)\n21. fxe5 (21. axb4 Qxc2 22. Qxc2 Rxc2 23. Rxa5 (23. fxe5 Nd7 $17) 23… Bb5 24.\nfxe5 (24. Kg1 Nh5) 24… Nd7 $17) 21… Qxe5 22. axb4 Nh5 23. Ra3 d3 $17) 20…\nRfc8 21. Rac1 Rb6 22. Nd3 Bxd3 23. cxd3 Rc6 24. Rxc6 (24. fxe5 Ng4+ $1 (24…\nRxc1 $4 25. exf6)) 24… Qxc6 25. fxe5 Nd7 26. Qf4 (26. Qf2 Qc5 27. e6 fxe6 28.\nRf1 Ne5 $1 29. Qf6 Qd6 $17) 26… Qe6 27. Qf2 Nxe5 $1 ({Besetzt das von langer\nHand angestrebte\, ideale Blockadefeld. Nicht so stark wäre} 27… Qxe5 {\, z.B.}\n28. Rf1 f6 29. h4 Rc6 30. Bh3 Nc5 31. Qc2) 28. Qxd4 Rc2 {[#] Nach diesem\nEinbruch auf der zweiten Reihe bricht die weiße Stellung allmählich zusammen.\nSeinen Vorteil verdichtet GM Gallagher nun mit vorbildlicher Technik.} 29. Rf1\n({Weiß kann nur zwischen den Übeln wählen:} 29. Kg1 {(29.Kh1?? Nf3!-+)} Rd2 (\n29… Qxh3 $2 30. Qd8+ Kg7 31. Bxh3 Nf3+ 32. Kf1 Nh2+ $11) (29… Nf3+ $4 30.\nBxf3 Qxh3 31. Qd8+ Kg7 32. Qh4) 30. Qd8+ (30. Rf1 Rxd3 31. Qa7 Rxg3 32. Qxa5\nQxh3 (32… Qe7 $17) 33. Qd8+ Kg7 34. Qf6+ Kh6 35. Qf4+ g5 36. Qf6+ Ng6 37. Rf2\nQe6 $17) 30… Kg7 31. d4 Qc4 $1 32. Qd5 Qxd4+ 33. Qxd4 Rxd4 34. Re2 Rd3 $17) (\n29. Qd8+ Kg7 30. Qd4 Qf6 31. Kh1 Qg5 32. g4 Qf4 33. Rf1 Qg3 34. Rg1 Rd2 $19)\n29… Nc6 $1 30. Qd5 Rxb2 31. Rc1 Ne5 32. Kh1 (32. Qd8+ Kg7 33. Qd4 Qf6 {\n/Rd2 und jeweils} 34. Kh1 Rxa2 $19) (32. d4 Nf3+ 33. Kh1 Qxh3+ 34. Bxh3 Rh2#)\n32… Qxd5 33. exd5 Rxa2 {[#]} 34. d6 ({Auch nach} 34. d4 Nd7 35. Rc7 Nf6 {\n(oder auch …Nf8) ist keine Rettung in Sicht:} 36. Rb7 (36. d6 b3 37. d7 Nxd7\n38. Rxd7 Ra1+ 39. Kh2 b2 40. Be4 a4 41. Rb7 a3 42. Rb3 (42. Kg2 a2 $19) 42…\nRe1 43. Rxa3 Rxe4 44. Rb3 Re2+ 45. Kg1 Re1+ 46. Kf2 b1=Q $19) 36… Rd2 37. Rb5\na4 38. Rxb4 a3 39. Ra4 a2 $19) 34… b3 35. Bd5 Rc2 $1 $19 36. Rf1 b2 37. Ba2\nKf8 38. d4 Rc1 39. Kg2 Rxf1 40. Kxf1 Nc4 41. Ke2 Na3 0-1\n[/pgn] \nGM Joe Gallagher \nWinning With the King’s Gambit\, Batsford\, ISBN 0-7134-6944-7 \nBeating the Anti-Sicilians\, Batsford/Henry Holt and Company\, ISBN 0-8050-3575-3 \nBeating the Sicilian 3 \nBeating the Anti-King’s Indians\, Batsford/International Chess Enterprises\, ISBN 1-879479-36-2 \nThe Trompovsky\, Chess Press\, ISBN 1-901259-09-9 \n101 Attacking Ideas in Chess\, Gambit Publications\, ISBN 1-901983-20-X \nThe Magic of Mikhail Tal\, Everyman Chess\, ISBN 1-85744-266-0 \nStarting Out: the Caro-Kann\, Everyman Chess\, ISBN 1-85744-303-9 \nStarting Out: King’s Indian\, Everyman Chess\, ISBN 1-85744-234-2 \nStarting Out: The Pirc/Modern\, Everyman Chess\, ISBN 1-85744-336-5 \nPlay the King’s Indian\, Everyman Chess\, ISBN 1-85744-324-1
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Danny Gormally (04-v-1976)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Daniel William Gormally (04-v-1976) \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFSHCJcw7Bs[/embedyt] \nDanny won the Southern Counties (SCCU) championship in the 2002-03 and 2010-11 (sharing with David Howell) seasons. \nHere is a ChessBase interview with Danny \nDanny Gormally Caption Competition \nand another interview from Chessbase \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsBqp3E8S3o[/embedyt] \nGM Danny Gormally \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K36XS9cDaSc[/embedyt] \nDanny Gormally with the ? Trophy \nInsanity\, Passion and Addiction \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings Masters op”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “2008.01.03”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Radovanovic\, Jovica”]\n[Black “Gormally\, Daniel W”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B99”]\n[WhiteElo “2355”]\n[BlackElo “2484”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “60”]\n[EventDate “2007.12.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 122 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2008.03.04”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2008.03.04”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,60\,31\,31\,41\,33\,82\,67\,67\,27\,24\,28\,78\,59\,62\,25\,25\,11\,31\,31\,28\,14\,29\,24\,\n29\,29\,25\,-39\,12\,17\,35\,13\,69\,70\,70\,60\,56\,73\,65\,50\,56\,61\,61\,47\,47\,45\,48\,48\,48\,48\,\n60\,61\,61\,61\,39\,41\,66\,-262\,-262\,-235\,-272\,-472\,-495]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4\ncxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3 Qc7 9. O-O-O Nbd7 10. g4\nb5 11. Bxf6 Nxf6 12. g5 Nd7 13. f5 Bxg5+ 14. Kb1 Ne5 15. Qh5 Qe7 16. Nxe6 Bxe6\n17. fxe6 g6 18. exf7+ Kxf7 19. Qe2 Kg7 20. Nd5 Qd8 21. Bh3 Rf8 22. Rhf1 Ra7 23.\nBe6 Re8 24. Bh3 $146 Rf7 25. Rxf7+ Nxf7 26. Qe1 Ne5 27. Qc3 Kh8 28. Nc7 $2 b4\n$1 29. Qxb4 Qxc7 30. Qxd6 Rd8 0-1\n[/pgn]
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