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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200726
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200727
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of WFM Jessica Gilbert (30-i-1987 26-vii-2007)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of WFM Jessica Laura Corey Gilbert (30-i-1987 26-vii-2007) \nFrom Find A Grave by by Peterborough K: \n“Professional Chess Player. A native of Croydon\, England\, Gilbert became the youngest person ever to win the Women’s World Chess Federation Master Title.  \nA talented chess player since the age of 8\, she also won the Women’s World Amateur Championship when she represented England in 1999 at the age of 11.  \nIn a career that spanned over seven years she played in over 153 matches in such events as the Gibtelcom Chess Festival\, the 7th European Championship\, Ilsan 1st\, 37th Chess Olympiad\, Hastings Chess Congress\, Hastings Master Op\, Coventry Op\, and the Gausdal Byggern Masters.  \nOn July 26\, 2006\, while in Pardubice\, Czech Republic\, to play in the Czech Open\, she mysteriously fell to her death from the balcony of her room on the eighth floor of the Hotel Labe. Gilbert was only 19 years old.” \nInteresting article by Alexander Barron \nHere is Jessie’s entry from Chessgames.com \nHere is Jessie’s extensive Wikipedia article.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-wfm-jessica-laura-corey-gilbert-26-vii-2007/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200728
DTSTAMP:20210727T105805Z
CREATED:20200409T175701Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (27-vii-1976)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to Demis Hassabis CBE FRS FREng FRSA (27-vii-1976) \nFrom https://achievement.org/achiever/demis-hassabis-ph-d/ : \nDemis Hassabis\, the eldest of three\, was born in London on July 27\, 1976\, to a Greek Cypriot father and a Chinese Singaporean mother. \n(Originally his surname was spelt Hassapis and his brother George retained his.) \n“Demis Hassabis was born in London\, England. He is of both Greek and Chinese ancestry; his father came from Cyprus\, his mother from Singapore. Demis and his family moved frequently as his father pursued a variety of business and creative ventures. \nDemis was four years old when he saw his father and an uncle playing chess and asked them to teach him the game. He took to it quickly and was soon beating both of them. He showed a precocious aptitude for all games employing logic and strategy. ” \nDemis Hassabis\nWhen 13 (in 1989) Demis achieved a FIDE rating of 2300 which\, at the time\, was the second highest rating for his age.  First highest was Judit Polgar. \nDemis was SCCU Under-18 champion in 1989 and was presented with the “old Trophy” according to the SCCU report. \nLawrence Cooper\, Demis Hassabis\, Cathy Haslinger and Dharshan Kumaran in around 1986. Possibly at a Lloyds Bank event.\nDemis was a Candidate Master and brother of George Hassapis. \nDemis started off with Hampstead Junior Chess Club. \nHe then played for Barnet Knights\, Queens College College Union and Finchley chess clubs. \nDemis Hassabis courtesy of Cathy Rogers\nAccording to Tryfon Gavriel : \nDemis wrote a hit computer game called “The theme park”\, that was at the top of the charts for six months and sold than more 3.5 million copies. He also did quite well in the 1997 Mind Sports Olympiad. \nDemis Hassabis\, IMMO KLINK/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES\nHassabis returned to academia to obtain his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London (UCL) in 2009 supervised by Eleanor Maguire. He sought to find inspiration in the human brain for new AI algorithms. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEU3NXxI7s[/embedyt] \nDanny Gormally wrote (in March 2014) this : \n“Demis Hassapis is a former chess prodigy who recently sold his company to Google for £400 million. Demonstrating that if you have the brainpower to be good at chess\, you are far better off putting that intelligence to use in some other activity where you might actually get rewarded. Then in fairness\, even most strong chess players aren’t as bright as Demis.” \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcLU0DhDhi0[/embedyt] \nDemis was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018 \nIn May 2021 Demis was cited by Dominic Cummings in his evidence to the  Commons Heath\, and Science and Technology committees as having played an important contribution  to managing and understanding the PHE and NHS data during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. \nHere are his listed games \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT2 9900 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “2000.01.22”]\n[Round “5.2”]\n[White “Anderton\, Matthew”]\n[Black “Hassabis\, Demis”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B22”]\n[WhiteElo “2216”]\n[BlackElo “2235”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “43”]\n[EventDate “1999.10.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Guildford II”]\n[BlackTeam “Invicta Kts II”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,43\,27\,27\,46\,0\,15\,-20\,-15\,-15\,-6\,-8\,10\,10\,40\,32\,25\,44\,35\,23\,66\,22\,15\,\n-16\,20\,-33\,-1\,25\,35\,21\,51\,2\,8\,-18\,-4\,-99\,-50\,-87\,-121\,-145\,-125\,-179\,-216\,-220\,\n-197\,-244]} 1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 cxd4 7.\ncxd4 e6 8. Nc3 Qa5 9. h3 Bh5 10. d5 exd5 11. Nd4 Bg6 ({Relevant:} 11… Bxe2\n12. Qxe2+ Be7 13. Nxc6 bxc6 14. O-O Kf8 15. Re1 Bf6 16. Bd2 Qd8 17. Rac1 Ne7\n18. Na4 Rb8 19. a3 h5 20. Qf3 h4 21. Nc5 Kg8 22. b4 Rc8 23. Rc2 Ng6 24. Nd3 Qd7\n25. Rec1 Kh7 26. b5 Ne7 27. Qh5+ Kg8 28. Qg4 Qxg4 29. hxg4 Kh7 30. bxc6 Rhd8\n31. Kf1 g5 32. a4 d4 33. c7 Rd7 34. Ba5 Nd5 35. Rc6 Kg7 36. Nc5 Re7 37. Nb7 Be5\n38. Nd6 Bxd6 39. Rxd6 Nb6 40. Rdc6 f6 41. Bb4 {Ponomariov\,R (2585)-Babula\,V\n(2575) Elista 1998 1-0}) 12. Bb5 {[#]} Nge7 $146 (12… Bb4) ({Predecessor:}\n12… Rc8 13. O-O Nf6 14. Re1+ Be7 15. Bg5 Kd8 16. Nb3 Qc7 17. Nxd5 Nxd5 18.\nQxd5+ Qd7 19. Qxd7+ Kxd7 20. Rxe7+ {1-0 (20) Kosintseva\,N-Skrochocka\,J Menorca\n1996}) 13. O-O O-O-O 14. Nce2 (14. Qg4+) 14… Nxd4 15. Nxd4 {[#]} Nf5 $1 16.\nBf4 $6 Bd6 17. Nxf5 $2 Bxf4 18. Qg4 Bc7 19. Nd4+ Kb8 20. Rac1 a6 21. Be2 Rhe8\n22. Rfd1 $19 0-1\n[/pgn]
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-demis-hassabis-27-vii-1976/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Honours,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200727
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200728
DTSTAMP:20210727T110050Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Graham Lee (27-vii-1953)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Graham David Lee (27-vii-1953) \nFM Graham Lee 2282 v WIM Eva Jiretorn 2155 alongside WIM Regina Pokorna 2352 v WIM Christin Anderson 2173.\nFM Graham Lee\, courtesy of Cathy Rogers\nGraham Lee (second from left) and a victorious Wood Green team. Trophy presented by Magnus Magnusson
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210729
DTSTAMP:20260817T135416Z
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SUMMARY:Happy Birthday Richard James (28-vii-1950)
DESCRIPTION:Here is the citation from the 1997 BCF Official Chess Yearbook for the 1996 President’s Award : \nHe has almost single handedly fostered\, developed and maintained Richmond Junior Chess for two decades. This year Richmond Juniors have won the major National competitions\, and the Richmond Chess Initiative has blossomed under his skills. However\, his work has fostered chess as a whole. \nHe formed the Richmond Junior Club with Mike Fox in 1975. He has built it up and kept it going from a nucleus of a handful of juniors on a Saturday to over 40 juniors on a Saturday morning\, and over 30 on a Saturday afternoon\, 48 weeks a year\, running four Thames Valley League teams during the week. The club has over 175 members. \nThe Richmond record under his dedication has included winning numerous EPSCA\, NYCA and National individual titles at all ages with a wide range of individuals\, both boys and girls. He has generated ‘team spirit’ as well as individual motivation whilst enabling individual Richmond schools to claim their own successes from their own efforts that completed his with the Junior Club. \nHe has been responsible for recognising early the talent of many England juniors. He has then encouraged and facilitated their development. Many of these have subsequently becomes Masters whom he has persuaded to come back and coach at the club.  However\, he has also been unfailing in encouraging the less gifted players and facilities for them. \nHe has never sought any monetary reward and has given considerable extra time to recording\, annotation and distributing games\, as well as calculating grades for hundreds of players\, on top of running the club activities and organising and running numerous tournaments for Richmond and non-Richmond juniors. This year he was instrumental in initiating the new Richmond rapidplays. \nHe has\, with Mike Fox\, been instrumental in opening chess up to a much wider audience\, whilst destroying the mythical image of introverted individuals\, that some of the general public held. They have achieved this by producing their ‘Chess Addict’ books and articles in order to provide spice and humour alongside the ‘normal’ literature\, and not to forget ‘Move One’ published in 1990. \nAlthough aided by help from other sponsors\, he has been the cornerstone of the relatively recently formed Richmond Chess Initiative. He provided guidance and skills to assist local councillors\, business men and schools to build up a local structure to publicise and develop further still Richmond as a recognised centre of chess. This included helping to establish the Richmond International\, the first of which in 1994 was held at the Star and Garter Home and was held again in 1995. He was awarded the Initiative’s reward for services in 1996.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/happy-birthday-richard-james-28-vii-1950/
CATEGORIES:Coach,English,Journalist,Junior,Official,Organiser,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200801
DTSTAMP:20210731T120436Z
CREATED:20200408T184817Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Nigel Davies (31-vii-1960)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Nigel Davies on his birthday\, this day (July 31st) in 1960. \nNigel Rodney Davies was born in Southport\, Merseyside. \nHe lived in the Wirral\, Merseyside\, moved to Sidcup and then to St. Helen’s\, Merseyside where he resides with his chess playing son\, Sam who is ECF 1928A currently. \nIn July 2020 Nigel graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Computing from Edge Hill University. \nNigel Davies (centre) at a Lloyds Bank event\nHe became an FIDE Master in 1980\, an International Master in 1982 and a Grandmaster in 1993. \nNigel Davies\nHe won the British Under-21 Championship in 1979 (Chester) and the British Rapidplay Championship in 1987. \nNigel receives a much welcome prize (in Manchester) from Miss Benedictine in 198?\nHe won The Regency Ramsgate Masters 1980\, Wrexham 1994\, Katrineholm 1995 and the Blackpool Hilton Premier in 2003. \nNigel Davies\nNigel publishes his Chess Improver Blog and Tiger Chess for online training. The ECF lists this as his main club. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgWpZ9WsL0[/embedyt] \nIn 2015 Nigel transferred his international allegiance from England (the English Chess Federation) to Wales (Welsh Chess Union). He maintains an ECF standard play rating  of 2448E. \nWilliam Watson\, Jonny Hector\, Alexander Khalifman\, Jonathan Tisdall and Nigel Davies at the 1991 Watson\, Farley\, Williams tournament in London.\nHis peak FIDE rating was 2530 in January 1995 at the age of 35. \nHere is one of Nigel’s favourite games \nNigel Davies\, seated\, second from right\, event unknown\nIn 2015 Nigel contributed to an article by Guardian journalist\, Stephen Moss entitled “Grandmaster crash: the inside story of how English chess pawned its future” \nGM Nigel Davies\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHere is an article : Fight against the solid Caro-Kann opening with the Caro Krusher – GM Nigel Davies \nNigel’s repertoire with White is wide including Queen’s Gambit\, King’s Indian Attack\, English/Reti and the Ruy Lopez. \nAs black Nigel’s repertoire is also varied and difficult to pin down. The Modern Defence is a favourite and is the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “WchT U26 03rd”]\n[Site “Graz”]\n[Date “1981.08.28”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Polajzer\, Danilo”]\n[Black “Davies\, Nigel Rodney”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A42”]\n[WhiteElo “2315”]\n[BlackElo “2395”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News / Nigel Davies”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[EventDate “1981.08.17”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “AUT”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Yugoslavia”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “YUG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,38\,19\,31\,73\,46\,47\,34\,32\,28\,53\,30\,60\,65\,39\,15\,52\,39\,49\,24\,20\,17\,16\,5\,\n26\,31\,32\,-23\,7\,-43\,-7\,37\,11\,0\,0\,12\,12\,13\,-447\,-457\,-288]} 1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3.\nNc3 d6 4. e4 Nc6 5. Be3 e5 6. d5 Nce7 7. g4 c5 ({More popular is} 7… f5 8.\ngxf5 gxf5 9. Qh5+ Kf8 10. Bh3 Nf6 11. Qf3 f4 12. Bd2 Ng6 13. Bxc8 Qxc8 $14) (\n7… a6 $5) (7… Nf6 $1) 8. h4 (8. Bd3 Nf6) 8… Nf6 9. g5 $146 (9. f3 $142 h5\n10. g5 Nd7 $14) 9… Nh5 $1 $17 10. Be2 Nf4 11. Bf3 O-O 12. Nge2 {[#]} f5 $1\n13. Qd2 (13. Nxf4 exf4 14. Bxf4 fxe4 $19) (13. exf5 Bxf5 14. Qd2) (13. gxf6\nBxf6 14. Qd2 g5 15. Rg1 Neg6 $17) 13… Qa5 $1 (13… fxe4 14. Bxe4 Nh5) 14.\nO-O-O (14. Nxf4 exf4 15. Bxf4 fxe4 16. Bxe4 (16. Nxe4 Qxd2+ $19) 16… Bxc3 17.\nbxc3 Rxf4 18. Qxf4 Qxc3+ 19. Ke2 Qxc4+ $19) 14… Rb8 15. Nxf4 $2 exf4 16. Bxf4\nfxe4 $19 17. Bxd6 $2 {[#]} (17. Be2 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Rxf4 19. Qxf4 Qxc3+ 20. Kb1\nb5 $19) (17. Bxe4 Bxc3 18. bxc3 Rxf4 19. Qxf4 Qxc3+ 20. Kb1 b5 21. Qxd6 Rb6 $19\n) 17… Rxf3 $1 18. Bxb8 Rxc3+ $1 19. Kb1 (19. bxc3 Bxc3) 19… e3 20. fxe3\nBf5+ 21. Ka1 Rc2 $1 {and White resigned} {because} 22. Qxa5 Bxb2+ 23. Kb1 Rd2+\n24. e4 Bxe4# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nNigel is an active user of Twitter and may be found @GMNigelDavies \nIn 2020 the Welsh Chess Union successfully endorsed Nigel’s application to FIDE to become a FIDE Senior Trainer which he became in 2021: \nNigel Davies\, FIDE Senior Trainer\nNigel has had many books and DVDs published : \nThe Chess Player’s Battle Manual. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-7043-7\nThe Power Chess Program. Batsford. ISBN 0-7134-8415-2.\nThe Grünfeld Defence. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-239-3.\nThe Veresov. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857443356.\nThe Dynamic Reti. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857443523.\nThe Trompowsky. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857443764.\nKing’s Indian Attack. Hamburg: ChessBase. ISBN 978-3-86681-071-6.\nStarting Out: The Modern. Everyman Chess. ISBN 9781857445664.\nPlay the Catalan. Gloucester Publishers plc (formerly Everyman Publishers plc). ISBN 9781857445916.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-nigel-rodney-davies-31-vii-1960/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200801
DTSTAMP:20210710T144415Z
CREATED:20200731T001056Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jacob Aagaard (31-vii-1973)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Jacob Aagaard (31-vii-1973) \nJacob was born in Hørsholm in Denmark. \nHe became an International Master in 1997 and a Grandmaster in 2007. \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2542 in May 2010 aged 36. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsB9PrXXAk[/embedyt] \nJacob is the owner of publishing house\, Quality Chess and works with IM Andrew Greet. \nGM Jacob Aagaard takes on all-comers!\n[pgn]\n[Event “Hampstead IM”]\n[Site “Hampstead”]\n[Date “1998.03.28”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Aagaard\, Jacob”]\n[Black “Williams\, Simon Kim”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A84”]\n[WhiteElo “2395”]\n[BlackElo “2315”]\n[Annotator “Aagaard\,J”]\n[PlyCount “50”]\n[EventDate “1998.03.25”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “4”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,50\,25\,29\,44\,4\,39\,53\,55\,36\,77\,49\,56\,29\,83\,83\,83\,71\,79\,20\,83\,48\,121\,88\,\n93\,11\,87\,41\,62\,57\,55\,84\,60\,-37\,10\,122\,158\,141\,141\,142\,135\,154\,225\,219\,309\,296\,\n296\,314\,336\,319\,499\,427\,528]} 1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 c6 $6 5. Qc2\nd5 6. Bf4 Be7 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3 Ne4 9. g4 $1 $14 Qa5 10. Ke2 Kh8 11. h4 $5 Nd7\n12. h5 Ndf6 $2 13. Ne5 Nxc3+ 14. bxc3 Ne4 $2 15. Bxe4 fxe4 {[%tqu “En”\,”Can\nwhite win?”\,””\,””\,”e5g6″\,””\,10]} 16. Ng6+ $3 hxg6 17. hxg6+ Kg8 18. Qc1 $1 {\n[%csl Rh7][%cal Rc1h1\,Rh1h8]} Qd8 {[%tqu “En”\,”Now how can white stop Bh4?”\,””\,\n“”\,”f4c7″\,””\,10]} 19. Bc7 $1 Rxf2+ $2 (19… Bh4 $1 20. Bxd8 Rxf2+ 21. Kd1 Bxd8\n22. Ke1 Rf3 23. Ke2 Rg3 24. Qa3 $1 $18) 20. Kxf2 Bh4+ 21. Ke2 Qg5 22. Qg1 $1 e5\n23. Qh2 Bxg4+ 24. Kd2 exd4 25. cxd4 dxc4 {[%cal Rc7a5]} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nJacob’s publications include : \n (1998). Easy Guide to the Panov-Botvinnik Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-563-3.\n (2000). Easy Guide to the Sveshnikov Sicilian. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-280-9.\n (2001). Dutch Stonewall. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-252-6.\n (2001). Excelling at Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-273-1.\n (2002). Queen’s Indian Defence. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-300-4.\n and Esben Land (2002). Meeting 1.d4. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-224-3.\n (2003). Excelling at Positional Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-325-7.\n (2004). Excelling at Chess Calculation. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-360-8.\n (2004). Excelling at Combinational Play. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-345-5.\n (2004). Excelling at Technical Chess. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-364-6.\n (2004). Starting Out: The Grunfeld. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-350-9.\n (2004). Inside the Chess Mind. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857443578.\n (2006). Practical Chess Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-975244-4-5.\n (2008). The Attacking Manual: Basic Principles. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-0-8.\n (2008). The Attacking Manual 2: Technique and Praxis. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-91-976004-1-5.\n (2012). Grandmaster Preparation – Calculation. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-31-6.\n(2012). Grandmaster Preparation – Positional Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-27-9.\n (2013). Grandmaster Preparation – Strategic Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-29-3.\n(2013). Grandmaster Preparation – Attack & Defence. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-70-5.\n(2014). Grandmaster Preparation – Endgame Play. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-27-9.\n (2017). Grandmaster Preparation – Thinking Inside the Box. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-35-4.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-jacob-aagaard-31-vii-1973/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200802
DTSTAMP:20210801T175847Z
CREATED:20200401T105351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210801T175847Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Rawle Allicock (01-viii-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Rawle Anthony Allicock (01-viii-1970)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-rawle-anthony-allicock-01-viii-1970/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220402
DTSTAMP:20220404T160618Z
CREATED:20200401T115720Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T160618Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of CM David Anderton OBE (02-viii-1941 01-iv-2022)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers CM David Anderton OBE who passed away on Friday\, April 1st\, 2022 aged 80. \nIn the 1977 New Years Honours List\, Civil Division\, David was awarded the OBE. The citation read simply : “For services to Chess” \nDavid William Anderton was born in the district of Walsall\, Staffordshire\, West Midlands. His mother’s maiden name was Coltart and David resided in Walsall. \nDavid was married to Doreen in 2005. \nDavid Anderton (rhs) congratulates Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry for winning the “Board of Honour ” game versus Edward Lasker at the 1976 Lloyds Bank Match by Telex\, London – New York. From BCM\, volume XCVI (96) Number 11 (August)\, Page 494. The venue was the Bloomsbury Hotel\, London. Photo courtesy of Lloyds Bank\nDavid was an Honorary Life Vice-President of the English (formerly British) Chess Federation. \nJohn Nunn\, David Anderton and Jonathan Speelman\n“David won the ECF President’s Award in 2009 following his stepping down as ECF legal expert. This is the citation from the 2010 ECF Yearbook : \n“As this is Gerry Walsh’s last year as President it was considered appropriate that he be allowed to choose someone receive the award. Gerry has worked with David for all his time with BCF and ECF and has selected him due to his tireless and selfless devotion to both the BCF and ECF over many years. \nDavid Anderton OBE\, ? and Teresa Needham\nMost of you will know David and will agree that this is a well deserved award. It is fair to state that David’s assistance over the years has been invaluable and that without it many areas of the Federation would have found it difficult\, if not impossible to operate. \nJim Plaskett with David Anderton OBE at the 1983 Benedictine International (Manchester)\nSince my election David has been a constant friend and confidante. He has invariable given sound advice throughout my term of office. It was John Wickham who rang me and suggested that due to my length of tenure\, a special award might be in order. \nJim accepts the 1981 Grand Prix shield from David Anderton OBE\nAfter years of selfless and generous devotion serving as ECF President\, International Director\, Captain of the England Team and legal adviser\, this seems to be a fitting tribute. \nFrom the Praxis Bath Zonal Tournament of 1987. David Anderton OBE is second from right\nDavid’s advice both legal and general\, has been invaluable in such matters as the John Robinson legacy and the change of name from BCF to ECF Limited\, and I certainly hope that this advice will continue. \nGerry Walsh” \nBob Wade OBE\, Murray Chandler MNZM and David Anderton OBE\nDavid is a FIDE Candidate Master (CM). \nFrom the BCF 1979-80 Year Book of Chess : Robert Bellin\, the new British Champion\, explains the secret to the Mayor of Chester (?) and to David Anderton\, BCF President\nWith the White pieces David exclusively plays 1.d4 aiming for a Queen’s Gambit and main lines. \nWith Black David plays the Winawer and the Classical French plus the Lenningrad Dutch. \nMrs. Joan Agar; Chairman of Leigh Interests\, presents the Leigh trophy (for 1981) to Mark Hebden. Left\, David Anderton\, BCF President; on the right Malcolm Wood\, Leigh’s Chief Executive. BCM\, 1981\, page 104\nHere are his games. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Kilkenny Masters”]\n[Site “Kilkenny”]\n[Date “1997.11.28”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Anderton\, David William”]\n[Black “Watson\, William N”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B07”]\n[WhiteElo “2200”]\n[BlackElo “2535”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1997.11.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “6”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 061 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,17\,28\,70\,75\,74\,61\,88\,52\,41\,41\,36\,30\,37\,51\,39\,40\,44\,28\,70\,51\,60\,31\,\n36\,-4\,6\,41\,27\,29\,47\,43\,85\,65\,98\,84\,94\,98\,193\,74\,77\,77\,79\,79\,55\,48\,84\,88\,88\,103\,\n113\,79\,85\,133\,130\,120\,225\,222\,275\,195\,326\,194\,271\,92\,92\,92\,90\,91\,77\,98\,148\,118\,\n62\,-11\,19\,-249\,-240\,-256\,-277\,-267\,-267\,-306\,-306]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3\ng6 4. Nge2 Bg7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 c6 7. O-O e5 8. h3 b5 9. a3 a6 10. Be3 Nbd7 11.\ng4 Bb7 12. Ng3 h6 $146 13. Qd2 $14 exd4 14. Bxd4 Nb6 15. b3 Kh7 16. Rad1 Qc7\n17. f4 d5 {[#]} 18. Qf2 $1 Nbd7 (18… Nfd7 $142) 19. e5 (19. g5 $1 Ne8 20.\nexd5 Bxd4 21. Rxd4 c5 22. Rd2 b4 23. d6 $18) 19… Ng8 20. b4 a5 21. h4 Qd8 22.\nh5 axb4 23. axb4 Qh4 $1 24. Qf3 Qe7 25. Rb1 Ra3 26. Rfe1 Bh8 27. Bf1 $18 c5 28.\nbxc5 Nxc5 29. Rxb5 Ne6 30. Bf2 (30. f5 $1) 30… Rc8 31. Rb3 $6 (31. f5) 31…\nRxb3 32. cxb3 Nxf4 $1 33. Qxf4 Rxc3 34. b4 Qe6 35. Bd4 Rb3 36. b5 Ne7 $11 37.\nNh1 g5 38. Qf2 Qxg4+ 39. Bg2 Nf5 40. Rf1 Bc8 $19 {White (presumably) won on\ntime.} 1-0 \n[Event “Kilkenny Masters”]\n[Site “Kilkenny”]\n[Date “1997.11.28”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Anderton\, David William”]\n[Black “Watson\, William N”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B07”]\n[WhiteElo “2200”]\n[BlackElo “2535”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1997.11.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “6”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 061 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.03.09”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,17\,28\,70\,75\,74\,61\,88\,52\,41\,41\,36\,30\,37\,51\,39\,40\,44\,28\,70\,51\,60\,31\,\n36\,-4\,6\,41\,27\,29\,47\,43\,85\,65\,98\,84\,94\,98\,193\,74\,77\,77\,79\,79\,55\,48\,84\,88\,88\,103\,\n113\,79\,85\,133\,130\,120\,225\,222\,275\,195\,326\,194\,271\,92\,92\,92\,90\,91\,77\,98\,148\,118\,\n62\,-11\,19\,-249\,-240\,-256\,-277\,-267\,-267\,-306\,-306]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3\ng6 4. Nge2 Bg7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 c6 7. O-O e5 8. h3 b5 9. a3 a6 10. Be3 Nbd7 11.\ng4 Bb7 12. Ng3 h6 $146 13. Qd2 $14 exd4 14. Bxd4 Nb6 15. b3 Kh7 16. Rad1 Qc7\n17. f4 d5 {[#]} 18. Qf2 $1 Nbd7 (18… Nfd7 $142) 19. e5 (19. g5 $1 Ne8 20.\nexd5 Bxd4 21. Rxd4 c5 22. Rd2 b4 23. d6 $18) 19… Ng8 20. b4 a5 21. h4 Qd8 22.\nh5 axb4 23. axb4 Qh4 $1 24. Qf3 Qe7 25. Rb1 Ra3 26. Rfe1 Bh8 27. Bf1 $18 c5 28.\nbxc5 Nxc5 29. Rxb5 Ne6 30. Bf2 (30. f5 $1) 30… Rc8 31. Rb3 $6 (31. f5) 31…\nRxb3 32. cxb3 Nxf4 $1 33. Qxf4 Rxc3 34. b4 Qe6 35. Bd4 Rb3 36. b5 Ne7 $11 37.\nNh1 g5 38. Qf2 Qxg4+ 39. Bg2 Nf5 40. Rf1 Bc8 $19 {White (presumably) won on\ntime.} 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nDW Anderton OBE plays BH Wood MBE in 1981 in a Blitz tournament outside of the National Film Theatre. Photograph courtesy of John Saunders\nDuring 1989-93 David was an Executive Board Member of FIDE. \nThe England Team from the 1990 Novi Sad Olympiad : John Nunn\, Jon Speelman\, Julian Hodgson\, David Anderton OBE (Captain)\, Nigel Short\, Michael Adams and Murray Chandler\nIn 2002 David was awarded the title of International Master by the ICCF (correspondence chess) \nIn 2015 David stood down from all of his roles within the ECF. \nDavid Anderton OBE\, Paul Bazalgette (Senior Partner at Philips & Drew) and Tony Banks (GLC Arts & Recreation Department) at the 1982 Philips and Drew Kings Tournament Opening Ceremony. Photograph by Clive Field\nDavid has won the British Seniors Championship in 2003 (shared)\, 2005\, 2007 (shared)\, 2009 (shared) and 2011. \nHere is a potted biography from The Express and Star Newspaper \nDavid Anderton OBE at the 2019 British Championships in Torquay\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nDavid is Head of Regulatory Law at Anson’s Solicitors. He is also Secretary of the Erasmus Darwin Foundation (03270753) and Director of Unionist Buildings Ltd.\, Wallsall Conservative Investments Ltd. and Wallsall Unionist Holdings Ltd. \nCM David William Anderton OBE
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Captain William Davies Evans (27-i-1790 03-viii-1872)
DESCRIPTION:BCN Remembers Captain William Davies Evans (27-i-1790 03-viii-1872) \nCaptain William Davies Evans (27-i-1790 03-viii-1872)\nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“Inventor of the Evans gambit\, for about half a century one of the most popular attacking weapons. He was born in (Musland Farm in the parish of Saint Dogwells\,) Pembroke\, Wales\, went to sea at the age of 14\, was employed by the Postal Department from about 1815\, and rose to the rank of captain four years later. In 1824\, soon after taking command of the first Royal Mail steam packet to sail from Milford Haven to Waterford\, and while aboard\, he invented his gambit. Evans was a keen player. He gathered a small chess circle in Waterford\, and when on leave in England played chess in London\, notably in 1826 when he showed his gambit to Lewis and McDonnell\, and in 1838 when he played a long series of games with Staunton at the Westminster Chess Club. In Jan. 1840 he was pensioned off on account of ill-health. He went to Greece\, became captain of a steamer that sailed the Mediterranean\, and returned to London at the end of 1842. During the next 13 years there are several accounts of his presence in London\, and then he settled abroad. He died and was buried in Ostend\, \nEvans claimed to have solved the three pawns problem (See below) \, which\, however\, had already been solved by others. His claim to the invention of tri-coloured lighting for ships has not been verified independently\, although he is known to have investigated the subject. For this invention he states that the Tsar of Russia gave him a gold chronometer\, and that he also received money. For a more detailed life of Captain Evans see British Chess Magazine\, 1928\, pp\, 6-18.” \nThe Evans Gambit is a variation of the Giuoco Piano or Italian Game : \n[fen]r1bqk1nr/pppp1ppp/2n5/2b1p3/1PB1P3/5N2/P1PP1PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nWhen Evans originally devised his gambit the move order was slightly different : \n[fen]r1bqk1nr/ppp2ppp/2np4/2b1p3/1PB1P3/5N2/P1PP1PPP/RNBQ2KR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nin which White sacrifices the b-pawn for increased central control and development viz : \n[pgn]\n[Event “London”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1829.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Evans\, William Davies”]\n[Black “McDonnell\, Alexander”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C51”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “39”]\n[EventDate “1829.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2010”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2010.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2010.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,39\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,27\,27\,-50\,-30\,-36\,35\,4\,-5\,122\,37\,44\,129\,125\,166\,166\,\n200\,219\,215\,212\,212\,212\,266\,383\,584\,706\,690\,723\,746\,874\,29995\,29996\,29997\,\n29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 $1 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6.\nO-O (6. d4 $142 exd4 7. O-O d6 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. d5) 6… Nf6 7. d4 exd4 (7… Bd6\n) 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. e5 d5 (9… Ng4 $142) 10. exf6 $18 dxc4 11. Re1+ Kf8 12. Ba3+\nKg8 13. d5 Na5 (13… gxf6 $142 14. dxc6 Qxd1 15. Rxd1 bxc6 $18) 14. Be7 $18 {\n[#]} Qd7 15. fxg7 Kxg7 16. Qd2 Qg4 17. Qc3+ Kg8 (17… Bd4 18. Nxd4) 18. Qxh8+\n$1 Kxh8 19. Bf6+ Qg7 20. Re8# {[#]} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“Inventor of the Evans Gambit\, an opening described by a player in the last century as ‘A yellow fever attack : if you live through the initial stages and avoid any carelessness that may bring on a relapse\, you will come out alright’. \nCaptain Evans discovered the gambit in about 1824. It was a favourite opening during the last century and was adopted by a number of leading players including La Bourdonnais and Morphy. \nFor some years Commander in H.M. Royal Mail Packet Service on the Milford and Waterford station\, Captain Evans later became Commander in the P.& O. Company’s service and agent for the Royal Mail Steampacket Company\, Port Grande. On retirement he lives for many years in Holland and Belgium. \nThe story is told of how\, in 1870\, the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia\, brother of the Tsar\, was visiting Bruges when he heard that the inventor of the Evans Gambit was living in Ostend. Being a keen chess player he invited Evans to play a game. When Evans had won\, the Grand Duke turned to his adversary and said : ‘I believe you invented the Evans Gambit ?’\, ‘Yes’ replied Evans ‘and it’s not the only thing I’ve invented for which you have not paid me.’ ‘What’s the other?’ asked the Grand Duke.\nEvans then explained that he was the inventor of the ship’s lights which were being used by the Russian Navy\, in which the Grand Duke held the rank of Admiral. Several months later Evans was invited to the Russian Consulate in Ostend\, where he was handed a letter from the Grand Duke\, a gold chronometer\, a gold chain and a draft of money\, ostensibly in payment for the Russia’s rights to use the captain’s invention in her ships. ” \nEnjoy this interesting article from “Introuble2” on chess.com \nEvans analyzed the “Little Game of Chess” (an endgame composition involving only two kings with three pawns each) \n[fen]4k3/5ppp/8/8/8/8/PPP5/3K4 w – – 0 1[/fen] \nto independently discover that it actually won for the player who moves first\, not drawn as had been believed for over a hundred years. \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek we have : \n“After his retirement Evans went to live abroad and eventually found a haven is Ostend and there\, ill\, and almost blind and in very straightened circumstances\, he dictated a letter on 22 March 1871\, which was published in the Gentlemen’s Journal supplement for June 1872\, along with an appeal for him organised by George Walker. The letter gives the authentic facts of his life and is worth quoting in full\, if only to refute various unfounded reports about a meeting with the Tsar’s brother\, or according to that rich source of misinformation\, the Rev GA MacDonnell\, that the Evans Gambit was discovered off the coast of Africa by a middle-aged lieutenant in the Royal Navy -perhaps the reverend gentleman was confusing Waterford with the Canary Islands. \nThe letter runs : \nWilliams Davies Evans is a native of Pembrokeshire\, South Wales\, and was born on 27 January 1790. He commenced a naval career at the age of fourteen. He was about twenty-eight years of age when he first learnt the moves of the game of Chess. Having the advantage of frequent practise with Lieut H. Wilson\, R.N.\, who was a player of some reputation in his time\, beside corresponding on the subject of the game with the late Mr. W. Lewis\, and also with George Walker\, the able Chess Editor of Bell’s Life \, he made a rapid progress in the game. Captain Evans received at first the odds of a Rook from Lieut. Wilson. After a continuance of play for some years\, the odds were greatly reduced\, until ultimately Captain Evans succeeded in defeating his formidable antagonist playing even. \nAbout the year 1824\, being then in command of a Government Mail Steamer\, the passages between Milford Haven and Waterford were favourable to the study of the game of Chess and at this time he invented the Gambit\, which bears his name. The idea occurred to him while studying a narration of Giuoco Piano in Sarratts’s Treatise on Chess. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Berlin ‘Evergreen'”]\n[Site “Berlin”]\n[Date “1852.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Anderssen\, Adolf”]\n[Black “Dufresne\, Jean”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C52”]\n[Annotator “Kasparov\,Garry”]\n[PlyCount “47”]\n[EventDate “1852.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 059”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.08.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1997.08.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,47\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,27\,27\,-50\,-30\,-31\,-31\,-57\,-31\,-88\,0\,-21\,-3\,40\,40\,-7\,\n0\,-84\,-31\,34\,21\,37\,40\,0\,70\,65\,115\,119\,122\,0\,0\,0\,72\,-231\,-156\,-158\,29993\,29994\,\n29995\,29996\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000] Today we will look at a game that\nbewitched its contemporaries and became known as the “evergreen”.} {Heute\nwerden wir eine Partie betrachten\, die ihre Zeitgenossen bezaubert hat und als\n“Immergrüne” in die Geschichte eingegangen ist. Dufresne war ein deutscher\nJurastudent und Journalist\, dessen “Kleines Lehrbuch des Schachspiels” ganze\nGenerationen von Schachspielern begleitet hat.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5\n4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. O-O d3 8. Qb3 Qf6 9. e5 Qg6 10. Re1 Nge7 11.\nBa3 b5 12. Qxb5 Rb8 13. Qa4 Bb6 14. Nbd2 Bb7 15. Ne4 Qf5 16. Bxd3 Qh5 {[#]\nWhite has a huge advantage and it is time for decisive action. In accordance\nwith his own romantic style and public demand Anderssen played [#] Weiß hat\neinen gigantischen Vorteil\, die Zeit ist reif für den Sturm. Seinem eigenen\nromantischen Stil getreu\, und dem Publikumsgeschmack gehorchend\, spielte\nAnderssen} 17. Nf6+ {?!! The two exclamation marks are for one of the most\nbeautiful combinations in chess history\, which was started with this move. But\nobjectively the search for beauty created unnecessary complications. The\nprosaic ?!! Zwei Ausrufezeichen\, weil eine der glanzvollsten Kombinationen der\ngesamten Schachgeschichte mit diesem Zug eingeleitet wurde. Aber objektiv\ngesehen kann das Streben nach Schönheit unnötige Komplikationen schaffen. Das\nprosaische} (17. Ng3 Qh6 18. Bc1 Qe6 19. Bc4 Nd5 (19… Qg6 20. Nh4 Qg4 21.\nBxf7+) 20. Ng5 Qg4 21. Re4 {would finish the game without any troubles\, but\nthen chess would have lost one of the jewels from its crown! hätte die Partie\nohne weitere Schwierigkeiten beendet. Aber damit würde heute dem Schachspiel\nein Juwel in der Krone fehlen.}) 17… gxf6 18. exf6 Rg8 $1 {At first sight an\nopen g-file gives Black excellent counter-attacking chances\, but Anderssen’s\ncalculations were beyond the fears of an ordinary human being. Auf den ersten\nBlick bietet die offene g-Linie Schwarz ausgezeichnete Chancen für einen\nGegenangriff. Aber die Berechnungen von Anderssen waren jenseits der Ängste\nvon normalen Menschen.} 19. Rad1 $1 {I’ll spare you hundreds of analyses by\nfollowing generations of chess players. After endless debate they have agreed\nthat 19.Rad1 was better than the alternative 19.Be4. Now the best reply was 19.\n..Rg4!\, which would pose some difficult problems for White\, but in the\nemerging wild complications White would\, in my opinion\, retain the upper hand.\nIch werde Ihnen die unzähligen Analysen von Generationen von Schachspielern\nersparen. Nach endlosen Debatten haben sie beschlossen\, daß Anderssens Zug\nbesser als die Alternative 19.Le4 war. Danach wäre 19…Tg4! der beste Zug.\nWeiß hätte einige schwierige Probleme zu meistern\, aber nach meiner Meinung\nbehält er in den wilden Komplikationen\, die folgen\, eindeutig die Oberhand.}\nQxf3 $2 {Now White’s king is suddenly just one step from decapitation. But how\ncan we reproach Dufresne from not recognising the magic of a genius? [#]\nJetzt steht der weiße König nur einen Schritt vor seiner Hinrichtung. Aber\nkönnen wir Dufresne einen Vorwurf machen\, weil er die magischen Fähigkeiten\neines Genies nicht erkannt hat? [#]} 20. Rxe7+ $1 Nxe7 $5 {Another proof that\nchess masterpieces require the generous cooperation of the loser! Nowadays a\nprofessional player and\, of course\, a computer\, would have without hesitation\nresorted to Ein weiterer Beweis dafür\, daß die Meisterwerke des Schachs der\ngroßmutigen Kooperation des Opfers benötigen! Heutzutage würde ein Schachprofi\n— und natürlich auch ein schachspielender Computer — ohne Zögern den Zug 20..\n.Kd8 wählen\, um die nahende Vernichtung zu vermeiden.} (20… Kd8 {preventing\nthe upcoming demolition\, but losing anyway later after Aber Schwarz verliert\nauch so:} 21. Rxd7+ $1 Kc8 (21… Kxd7 22. Bf5+ Ke8 23. Bd7+ Kd8 24. Bxc6+ {\nwith mate nebst Matt.}) 22. Rd8+ $1 Kxd8 (22… Rxd8 23. gxf3 {or}) (22… Nxd8\n23. Qd7+ $3 {- the same motif mit dem gleichen Motiv}) 23. Be2+ {less clear is}\n({weniger klar ist} 23. Bf5+ Qxd1+ 24. Qxd1+ Nd4 25. g3 Rg5 $1 26. Bh3 Bf3 $1)\n23… Nd4 24. Bxf3 Bxf3 25. g3 Bxd1 26. Qxd1 {with a boring but winning\nendgame. mit einem langweiligen aber gewonnenen Endspiel.}) 21. Qxd7+ $3 Kxd7\n22. Bf5+ Ke8 23. Bd7+ Kf8 24. Bxe7# {It was not surprising that chess players\nof the time\, impressed by this kind of greatness\, did not want to listen to\ndull positional advice. But the old combinational school\, led by its first\nknight Anderssen\, was doomed in the battle against the modernized warfare\ntechniques of Paul Morphy\, whose tactics had much better positional\nfoundations. Es ist nicht verwunderlich\, daß die Schachspieler jener Zeit\nangesichts solcher großartigen Angriffspartien wenig Neigung hatten\, stumpfe\nstrategische Regeln zu lernen. Aber die alte kombinatorische Schule\, geführt\nvon ihrem strahlendsten Ritter Anderssen\, war letztendlich zum Untergang\nverdammt. Ihre Vertreter konnten den fortschrittlicheren Techniken eines Paul\nMorphy\, dessen taktische Schläge ein viel solideres positionelles Fundament\nbesaßen\, nicht lange widerstehen.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nCaptain Evans was the first who gave to the world a true solution of that very difficult end game\, the King and three Pawns unmoved against King and three Pawns also unmoved. This position was handed down to us through a period of some centuries as a drawn game\, but Captain Evans proved that the first player can always win. \nCaptain Evans acquired some celebrity as “Inventor of the System of Tri-Coloured Lights for Ships to Prevent Collisions at Night”\, which has been adopted by all nations possessing a marine. For this invention the English Government awarded him the sum of £1\,500 \, and the Czar of Russia a gold pocket chronometer\, value £160\, together with a donation of £200. \nThe subscription that amounted to over £200 was too late. He died in 1872 and was buried in Ostend where his grave bears the inscription : \nTo the sacred memory of William Davies Evans\, formerly Commander in the Post Office and Peninsular and Oriental Steam Services\, Superintendent In the Royal Mail Shipping Company\, and inventor of the system of tri-coloured light for shipping. Also well known in the Chess World as the author of the Evans Gambit \nBlue Plaque for Captain WD Evans\nHere is his Wikipedia entry. \nRead here of the Plaque in Wolfscastle \nBlue Plaque for Captain William Davies Evans (27-i-1790 03-viii-1872)\nPlay The Evans Gambit (co-author Tim Harding). Cadogan. ISBN 1-85744-119-2.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Sam Franklin (03-viii-1994)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Samuel Gideon A Franklin (03-viii-1994) \nFM Samuel GA Franklin from the Varsity Match\, 9th March 2014\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nFM Samuel GA Franklin from the London Chess Classic\, 29th December 2013.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Laurence Webb (04-viii-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Laurence E Webb (04-viii-1970)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Mike Waddington (07-viii-1966)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Michael P Waddington (07-viii-1966)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-michael-p-waddingham-07-viii-1966/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Angus Dunnington (09-viii-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Angus Dunnington (09-viii-1967) \nAngus James Dunnington was born in Wakefield\, West Yorkshire\, his mother’s maiden name was Townend. \nHe has lived in Castleford\, West Yorkshire and most recently in Lockerbie\, Dumfriesshire. \nAngus became a FIDE Master in 1990 and an International Master in 1991. \nAngus has been a recipient of a Chess Journalists of America award and was chess correspondent for The Yorkshire Post. He has been an Olympiad trainer. \nAngus has played for 4NCL White Rose and his peak FIDE rating was 2450 in January 1996\, aged 29. \nHe won Toulouse 1993 with 6.5/9\, we was first equal (3) in the London Agency tournament on 1997 with 6/9\, we was equal first in the 1999 Hampstead IM tournament with 6.5/9. \nAs White Angus prefers a Reti style double fianchetto\, the King’s Indian Attack and also the Queen’s Gambit and is an expert on the Catalan and KIA. \nAs Black Angus essays the Modern Defence for most of the time. \nHis most recent ECF grading was 212E in 2005 and was 232A in 1996. \nIn 2018 after a lengthy absence Angus made a welcome return to the Scottish Championship Open with a strong =3rd place. \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT2 0203 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “West Bromwich”]\n[Date “2003.05.03”]\n[Round “9.1”]\n[White “Dunnington\, Angus J”]\n[Black “Trevelyan\, John”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[WhiteElo “2388”]\n[BlackElo “2191”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “41”]\n[EventDate “2002.11.??”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2004”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “White Rose”]\n[BlackTeam “SW Dragons II”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,29\,18\,18\,83\,73\,82\,52\,52\,72\,64\,66\,50\,39\,41\,34\,44\,22\,34\,-14\,31\,35\,45\,45\,\n198\,166\,158\,138\,262\,250\,249\,265]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 e5 $5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nbd7\n5. Bc4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. a4 c6 8. Ba2 h6 (8… Qc7) 9. Nh4 Nxe4 $6 (9… exd4\n10. Qxd4 d5 $1) 10. Nxe4 Bxh4 (10… d5 $142) 11. Nxd6 $14 {[#]} exd4 $2 12.\nQh5 $1 (12. Nxf7) 12… Nf6 13. Bxf7+ Kh7 14. Qg6+ Kh8 15. Bxh6 {and Black\nresigned} gxh6 16. Qxh6+ Nh7 17. Bg6 Qe7 18. Bxh7 Qxh7 19. Qxf8+ Qg8 20. Nf7+\nKh7 21. Qh6# 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y43h4Wc__iQ[/embedyt] \nIM Angus Dunnington\, photograph by Gisbert Jacoby\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nThe Ultimate King’s Indian Attack\, 1993\nPawn Power !\, 1994\nWinning with the Catalan\, 1997\nEasy Guide to the Reti Opening\n101 Winning Chess Strategies\, 1999\nWinning Unorthodox Openings\, 2000\nMastering the Middlegame\, 2001\nChess Psychology\, 2003\nNimzo-Indian Rubinstein: Complex Lines with 4e3\, 2004\nBlunders and How to Avoid Them\, 2004\nIM Angus Dunnington\, photograph by Cathy Rogers
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Poker,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Michael Rahal (10-viii-1970)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Michael A Rahal (10-viii-1970) \nMichael Anthony Rahal was born in Aldershot\, Hampshire to Spanish parents. His mother’s maiden name is Vives Escoda. Michael attended Salesian College in Farnborough. Previously the strongest player from Aldershot may have been Michael Antony Pagden. \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1994 and an International Master in 1999. \nHis peak FIDE rating was 2431 in January 2005. \nHe is a Spanish resident. \nHere is his YouTube Channel \nHis handle on the Internet Chess Club is “mikerahal” \n.With the white pieces Michael prefers the Spanish(!) Opening \nWith the black pieces Michael plays the French Winawer and the Classical Dutch. \nSmash the Sicilian with the Smith-Morra Gambit – Michael Rahal (PC-DVD)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Andrew Webster (10-viii-1973)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Andrew A Webster (10-viii-1973) \nAndrew became a FIDE Master in 1991 and an International Master in 1993
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200812
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Bill Hartston (12-viii-1947)
DESCRIPTION:IM William Hartston\, FIDE Candidates\, 2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\nOn the “glorious twelfth” of August we celebrate the birthday of one of England’s most popular chess players and writers\, IM Bill Hartston. \nWilliam Roland Hartston was born in Willesden\, Middlesex on Tuesday\, August 12th\, 1947. His father was William Hartston\, a significant member of the Royal College of Physicians who was married to Mary Rowland. Bill has a sister. \nBill Hartston\nHe studied at the City of London School and then studied mathematics at Jesus College\, Cambridge and graduated with a BA in 1968 and an MA in 1972\, but did not complete his PhD on number theory. \nAn early Bill Hartston\, event unknown\nWhile studying for his PhD at Cambridge\, Hartston developed an intricate system for balancing an entire chess set on top of a single rook. Here is an article with an explanation letter from Bill. \nBill married Dr. Jana Malypetrova in January\, 1970 in Cambridge. In 1978 Bill married Elizabeth Bannerman\, also in Cambridge and from that marriage he had two sons\, James and Nicholas. \nBill and Dr. Jana Hartston (née Malypetrova)\nBill became an International Master in 1972 and his highest FIDE rating was 2485 in January 1979. \nWith the white pieces Bill almost exclusively played 1.e4 and the Ruy Lopez. \nWith the black pieces Bill played the Sicilian Taimanov and the Czech Benoni. \nBill plays his trusty Sicilian Taimanov against an unknown opponent\nBill is a self-proclaimed follower of Prof. AJ Ayer (See the Acknowledgements in “Soft Pawn”) Clint Eastwood and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. \nBill and Jana Hartston are shown with some of their many chess sets. CHESS\, August 1973\, page 323\nBill was the chess correspondent of The Independent and The Mail on Sunday. He was also a regular presenter and commentator for television. He worked with Jeremy James on the BBC’s Master Game. \nThe Master Game\, Series 6&7 with Jeremy James and Bill Hartston\nBill is an industrial psychologist. \nCuriously the 1984 edition of the usually reliable The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper and Whyld does not have an entry for the twice British Champion : was this simply an oversight ? Jana is also not mentioned. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1DYzR7wc8w[/embedyt] \nBill wrote about himself in British Chess (Pergamon\, 1983) : \n“To summarise more than 20 years of playing competitive chess in a few hundred words is an impossible task. My attitude to the game has changed a great deal\, especially in recent times\, but I have always enjoyed and felt at home in the tense and lively atmosphere of chess tournaments\, whether as a competitor\, spectator or journalist. \nCaption as per photograph below\nCaption for above photograph\nI consider myself lucky to have been a ‘promising junior’ just at the time when chess was beginning to be taken seriously as a sport in England. The English team consisted mainly of amateurs and there were clear opportunities for anyone willing to work at the game. As a result of the changing attitudes to the game in this country\, the development between 1965\, when I first played for the national team\, and 1975 was far greater than in any other decade. One statistic which I have always found personally amusing is that I progressed from youngest player in 1967 for the Clare Benedict tournament to become the oldest in the 1971 team. From promising junior to veteran in four years = is this a record ? \nBill Hartston commentating on games from the Phillips & Drew King’s 1982\nSince my second British Championship win in 1975\, I have been writing more and playing less. I always realised that I was not going to become a sufficiently strong player to be happy just wandering round the tournament circuit\, but giving up chess entirely is\, of course\, unthinkable. I believe now that the time is ripe for chess to be presented to far wider audiences and I like to think that some of what I do will help in that aim. If the Master Game television series and “Soft Pawn” cannot sell chess to the masses then nothing will.” \nBill was always a keen supporter of junior chess. Here at the Teachers Assurance National Schools Championships in 1980\n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-21 Final A”]\n[Site “Nice”]\n[Date “1974.06.25”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Hartston\, William R”]\n[Black “Portisch\, Lajos”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C19”]\n[Annotator “William R Hartston”]\n[PlyCount “57”]\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 “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Hungary”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “HUN”] \n{[%evp 0\,57\,19\,38\,30\,51\,38\,32\,32\,44\,31\,32\,25\,31\,25\,15\,30\,3\,25\,25\,26\,10\,17\,10\,\n15\,30\,13\,-5\,0\,25\,20\,-11\,-11\,-18\,32\,-11\,-4\,-17\,-9\,-51\,-57\,1\,4\,-3\,20\,49\,36\,102\,\n594\,624\,29991\,29992\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} {\nBill described this game as one of four nice Nice games in the British Chess\nMagazine Games Department of Volume XCIV (94)\, Number 9 (September)\, 1974.\nAdditional comments were from Bill’s entry in “British Chess”\, by Botterill\,\nLevy\, Rice and Richardson\, Pergamon Press\, 1983.} 1. e4 e6 2. Nc3 {This is\njust a joke really\, but usually worth between 20 seconds and five minutes on\nthe clock.} d5 ({White invites Black to change his mind and play a Sicilian\nwith} 2… c5) 3. d4 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 $1 {One of the most horrible things\nabout playing Portisch is that it is almost impossible to avoid his detailed\nopening preparation without playing something dubious.\, with which he is also\nwell equipped to deal. Hartston goes straight into the critical line. The\nexclamation mark is for bravery.} Bxc3+ ({The unusual} 5… Ba5 {is much\nbetter than its reputation. The Swiss master\, Werner Hug\, always obtains good\npositions against me with that move.}) 6. bxc3 Ne7 (6… Qc7 {is a good move\norder for those} {fear} 7. Qg4 {when} f6 $1 8. Nf3 c4 $1 {takes the sting out\nof the attack. But\, what are you playing the Winawer for if you ever\nconsidered Qg4 to be a threat !}) 7. Nf3 ({The complications arising from} 7.\nQg4 {have never been fully solved\, but nowadays (1974) most players prefer the\npositional continuation chosen} Qc7 8. Qxg7 Rg8 9. Qxh7 cxd4 10. Ne2 Nbc6 11.\nf4 Bd7 12. Qd3 dxc3 13. Nxc3 a6 14. Rb1 Na5 15. h4 Nf5 16. Rh3 O-O-O 17. h5 Nc4\n18. h6 Rg6 19. h7 Rh8 20. Rb4 {is the way to go in 2020.}) (7. a4 {is another\ndecent option.}) 7… Bd7 {[%cal Gd7a4]} (7… Qc7 8. a4 b6 9. Bb5+ Bd7 10. Bd3\nNbc6 11. O-O {is the move usual order referred to after Whites 11.Bd3!? below.\n}) ({In 2020} 7… Nbc6 8. a4 Qa5 9. Bd2 Bd7 10. Bb5 c4 11. O-O {is the way to\ngo in 2020.}) 8. a4 {Already necessary before Black stifles the queen’s win\nwith Ba4} Nbc6 ({More usual is} 8… Qa5 {when} 9. Bd2 {is the fashionable\nresponse} ({though I still believe in} 9. Qd2)) 9. Be2 ({After} 9. Bd3 Qc7 10.\nO-O {Black may elect for the plan of castling long} {with} c4 11. Be2 O-O-O ({\nor attacking the centre with} 11… f6 {I usually prefer to discourage this by\nleaving the bishop on e2 but it may be that 9.Bd3 is the better move.})) 9…\nQc7 10. O-O b6 11. Bd3 $5 {I played this move because it transposed into a\nposition I had analysed and played a great deal about three years ago.\nUnfortunately\,as the game demonstrates\, I had forgotten almost all of this\nanalysis!. The more usual move order is referenced above after 7…Qc7} (11.\nRe1 Na5 12. Bd3 h6) 11… h6 {having played b6\, Black is less ready to castle\nlong since his King’s position would be more vulnerable; the text move\nprepares 0-0} ({if} 11… O-O $2 {immediately} {then} 12. Bxh7+ Kxh7 {and} 13.\nNg5+ {with the standard mating attack.} Kg6 14. h4 $18 (14. Qg4 $5 f6 15. exf6\nKxf6 16. Qh5 $16) (14. Qd3+ Nf5 15. g4 f6 $16) 14… Qc8 15. Qg4 $18) 12. Ba3\n$5 {This whole variation was thoroughly tested at Hastings 1971-2 when Peter\nMarkland lost a lot of games with the black pieces from this position.\nPossibly Byrne’s continuation is the strongest; white has good chances of\nsacrificing the bishop on h6 for a mating attack in the middlegame.} ({Robert\nByrne played} 12. Re1 Na5 13. Be3 (13. Qd2 {Mecking and Karpov} Rc8 (13… O-O\n14. Qf4 f5))) 12… Na5 13. Re1 $6 {An “innovation” – because I could not\nremember what I had played in the earlier game. The point of 12.Ba3 I soon\nremembered is to continue 13.Nd2! 00 14.dc bc 15.Nb3 with some advantage to\nWhite as in Hartston – Markland\, Hastings 1971-2 and Williams-Keene \, British\nChampionship\, 1973.} O-O 14. dxc5 bxc5 15. Nd2 {[%cal Gd1g4\,Gd1h5] An\nimportant move to allow White’s queen to enter the attack.} Ng6 $1 {And\nmeeting with the correct reply.} ({The obvious} 15… f6 {would have\ncompletely justified the White move order} {when} 16. exf6 Rxf6 17. c4 $16) (\n15… Bxa4 {fails to} 16. Qg4 $1 Bd7 17. Nf3 Kh8 18. Bc1 $1 {with a dangerous\nattack.}) 16. Qh5 {Apparently aggressive but really the only way to defend the\nKing’s pawn.} Be8 {The move played threatens f5 embarrasing the white queen.\nShe hastens to get out of the way.} (16… Nf4 17. Qg4 Nxd3 18. cxd3 {is a\nlittle better for White since his bishop is more effective. With the text move\nBlack threatens …f6 or …f5 with a veiled attack on the queen. According\nto “Excellent notes” from Krogius this position is fantastic for White who has\nat a stroke created the opportunity for direct attack with Re3 – g3 or h3\ndepending on circumstances.}) (16… Bxa4 {was more double-edged but\, here too\nin all lines White keeps the initiative viz :} 17. Bxg6 fxg6 18. Qxg6 Bd7 (\n18… Qc6 19. Bc1) (18… Rae8 19. Bc1 Bd7 20. Nf3) ({and probably Black’s\nbest try should be} 18… Qe7 19. Nf3 (19. Bc1 Be8 20. Qg3 Nc6 21. Nb3 {\nwith the idea of Ba3}) 19… Be8 20. Qg3 Nc4 21. Bc1 Kh7) 19. Nf3 Nc4 20. Bc1)\n17. Qe2 {The third consecutive queen move along the same diagonal It’s lucky I\nwon this game or my play would have been open to terrible criticism.} {After\nan hour’s thought Portisch played} Bxa4 $2 {which I had not even considered.\nPerhaps I was so used to losing the a pawn in this line that I did not see\nthat it was en prise.} ({More prudent was} 17… f6 {giving White no chance to\ndevelop an attack.}) ({Black should have been consistent and maintained his\nvigil with} 17… f5 18. exf6 Rxf6 {when he has good chances. Hartston now\nlaunches a dangerous attack.}) 18. Qg4 $1 Bd7 19. Nf3 $1 ({All methods of\nwinning the pawn back such as} 19. Bxg6 fxg6 20. Qxg6 {leave Black with some\nadvantage owing to the weaknesses remaining in the white camp. In this\nposition the initiative is of far more importance; after all Blacks a pawn\nwill not be serious threat for some time.}) 19… Nc4 {Perhaps Black’s\nposition is already untenable. The threat of Bc1 and an eventual sacrifice on\nh6 is difficult to prevent.} (19… Bc8 20. Bc1 Nc6 21. Bxg6 fxg6 22. Qxg6 Qf7\n23. Qg3 $16) 20. Bc1 Bc8 $2 {The decisive mistake} (20… Ncxe5 21. Nxe5 Nxe5\n22. Qg3 f6 23. Bxh6 Rf7 24. Bf4 {looks just as bad}) ({The only chance for\ndefence was pointed oout by Krogius.} 20… Ngxe5 21. Nxe5 Nxe5 22. Qg3 f6 23.\nBxh6 Be8 24. Bf4 c4 25. Bf1 a5 {and Black can create enough detours to keep\nWhite at bay. Now he is flattened.}) 21. Qh5 {Suddenly it is all over; there\nis really no defence to 22. Bxh6!} Rd8 22. Bxh6 $1 gxh6 23. Qxh6 Nb2 {Keene\nwrote that even at this stage Portisch was still moving rapidly and looking\nconfident. One can imagine his feelings when the knight appeared on h7!} 24.\nNg5 Nxd3 25. Nh7 $1 {Black resigns. I was specially pleased by this game\nbecause I had lost the previous day to Hort also in 25 moves. A fighting game\nby Bill Hartston} {26.Nf6 mate can only be prevented by} f5 {when} 26. Nf6+ Kf7\n27. Qh7+ Kf8 28. Qg8+ $1 Ke7 29. Qg7# {is even stronger than winning a queen.}\n1-0\n[/pgn] \nHarry Golombek wrote the following in a 1980 Dataday chess diary : \n“Hartston played hardly at all during the period from my last entry of him in the 1977 diary and that little\, though respectable\, was hardly the performance of an active master. His equal 3rd to 5th at the big Aaronson’s Masters Tournament (a swiss system event with 72 players) did not really affect his rating and indeed he finished up without changing his Elo rating at all. \nNevertheless\, this glimpse of his true powers was impressive as can be seen in the following game which was played in the 6th round of the Aaronson tournament.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Aaronson Open”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1978.??.??”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Wicker\, Kevin J”]\n[Black “Hartston\, William R”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E61”]\n[WhiteElo “2305”]\n[BlackElo “2475”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “72”]\n[EventDate “1978.03.23”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,72\,19\,-31\,22\,6\,7\,7\,3\,5\,17\,10\,23\,15\,4\,0\,33\,0\,33\,15\,57\,37\,47\,27\,24\,1\,-5\,\n-42\,-10\,-14\,-16\,-23\,-16\,-21\,-6\,-86\,-59\,-67\,-72\,-66\,-50\,-51\,-38\,-43\,-9\,0\,-13\,-7\,\n1\,-3\,14\,-43\,-46\,-92\,-104\,-112\,-108\,-111\,-57\,-142\,-135\,-143\,-146\,-156\,-154\,-168\,\n-164\,-269\,-296\,-323\,-299\,-333\,-244\,-572\,-355]} 1. b3 b6 2. Bb2 Bb7 3. e3 Nf6 4.\nc4 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O c5 8. Nc3 d6 9. d4 a6 10. Qc2 Nbd7 11. d5 b5\n12. a4 $6 $146 (12. e4) 12… b4 13. Na2 e5 14. Nd2 Qe7 15. Bd3 Rae8 16. e4 h5\n17. f3 $6 (17. Nc1) 17… Bh6 18. Rfe1 h4 19. Nf1 Nh5 20. Nc1 Kg7 21. Ne2 Bc8\n22. Bc1 Bxc1 23. Qxc1 Ndf6 24. Ra2 Nh7 25. Bb1 Ng5 26. f4 $6 (26. Nd2) 26…\nexf4 27. Nxf4 Nxf4 28. Qxf4 h3 29. g3 f5 $17 30. e5 dxe5 31. Rae2 Qf6 32. Qf2\ne4 33. Rd1 $2 f4 $1 34. gxf4 Bg4 35. Ng3 Qxf4 36. Rf1 $4 (36. Qxf4 Rxf4 37. Rf1\nNf3+ 38. Kh1 e3 $19) 36… Qe5 $1 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess(Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master (1972) and British Champion (1973) William Hartston was born in London on the 12th August 1947. He was taught to play chess by his father when he was seven and five years later joined Enfield Chess Club. His results in junior events included 1st in the London Boys’ Under 16 Championship and 2nd in the British Boys’ Under 15 Championship in 1962 and =2nd in the British Boys Under 18 Championship in 1963. \nBill had a keen interest in computer chess and technology\nIn 1965\, Hartston made his first appearance in the British Championship and came =5th. In the same year he won the Ilford and Paignton Premier tournaments. Playing on board 3 for England in the 1966 Olympiad. Hartston scored the best result of any British player\, 66.7%. In the Olympiad of 1970\, he had the best overall score on board 3\, 12.5 out of 16 and in the Olympiad of 1972 he won the prize for the 3rd best score on board 2\, 12.5 out of 18. In 1972 he narrowly failed to qualify for the Interzonal tournament\, when he came 3rd in the Zonal tournament at Vranjacka Banja.” \nMike Basman plays Bill during the play-off for the 1973 British Championship\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek : \n“British International Master and twice British Champion. Hartston was born in London and his early chess was played there.\, where he became London Boy (Under-16 Champion in 1962. \nHe was educated at the City of London School and Jesus College\, Cambridge\, where he took a degree in mathematics. \nIt soon became clear that he was one of the leading young players in England and a rivalry developed between him and Raymond Keene in which first one and then the other obtained the upper hand. \nAfter a number of near misses he won the British Championship at Eastbourne in 1973 and again at Morecambe in 1975. \nJana & Bill Hartston celebrate a family double at the British Championships in 1973 at Eastbourne\nInternationally he has already had a distinguished career and has been especially good and consistent in his representation of England at the Olympiads. At Havana in 1966 he scored 66.7% on board 3 but did not play at Lugano in 1968. Again on board 3 at Siegen in 1970 he obtained the best score on board 3 with 78.1%. At Skopje 1972 he fulfilled the second norm of the international master title with 12.5 points out of 18 on second board. Playing on first board at Nice 1974 he attained 52.7% and had a most meritorious and well fought draw with the World Champion\, Karpov. \nBill Hartston draws with Anatoly Karpov at Nice 1974\nHe achieved a breakthrough in the field of international tournament chess when he came third in a strong Premier tournament at Hastings 1972/3 \nHastings\, England\, 4th January 1972\, Chess\, Russian Grand Master Viktor Korchnoi (right) is pictured in a match with William Hartston (UK) during the 47th Hastings International Chess Tournament (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)\nand in 1973 he scored a first at Alicante. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Alicante”]\n[Site “Alicante”]\n[Date “1973.11.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Hartston\, William R”]\n[Black “Westerinen\, Heikki”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C24”]\n[Annotator “William R Hartston”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1973.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “chessgame.com”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,30\,18\,18\,17\,17\,25\,39\,20\,4\,26\,70\,47\,39\,58\,134\,140\,152\,131\,190\,180\,\n185\,116\,121\,122\,163\,285\,285\,187\,187\,190\,263\,250\,333\,54\,58\,38\,-3\,-36\,73\,184\,184\,\n138\,138\,138\,161\,210\,224\,379\,375\,387\,29991\,29992\,29995\,29994]} 1. e4 e5 2. Bc4\nNf6 3. d3 Be7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. f4 exf4 6. Bxf4 c6 {the threat of 7…d5 is\nawkward since White’s king is liable to be trapped in the centre.} 7. e5 d5 $6\n(7… Nd5 8. Bxd5 cxd5 9. Nxd5 Qa5+ 10. Nc3 f6 11. exf6 Bxf6) 8. exf6 Bb4 {\nBlack wins his piece back and hopes that his active pieces will also give him\na strong attack\, but he has not calculated with sufficient precision.} 9. Bb3\nd4 10. Nge2 dxc3 11. O-O ({There is no time for} 11. bxc3 {when would follow}\nRe8 12. cxb4 $2 (12. O-O $1 Bc5+ (12… Bd6 13. fxg7 $18 Be6) 13. d4) {\nthreatening} 12… Bg4 $1) 11… cxb2 12. fxg7 Qb6+ (12… Kxg7 13. Be5+ {\nmust win for white with Black’s king having nowhere to hide.}) (12… Re8 13.\nBxf7+ Kxf7 14. Bg5+ {also wins quite easily}) 13. Kh1 Re8 14. Bxf7+ Kxf7 15.\nBe3+ {is probably a mistake} ({I remember looking at} 15. Ng3 $3 {during the\nthe game but feeling that is it just looked too fantastic !} bxa1=Q 16. Qh5+\nKe7 17. Bg5+ Kd6 (17… Kd7 18. Qxe8+ Kxe8 19. g8=Q+ Kd7 20. Qf7+ Kd6 21. Ne4+\nKe5 22. Bf6#) 18. Qxe8 {gives White a winning attack as pointed out by Dr. JM\nAitken whose analysis confirmed the suspicion of the players after the game.})\n({Analysis in 2020 reveals that} 15. Nd4 $3 {is crushing} bxa1=Q 16. Qh5+ Ke7\n17. Qxe8+ Kxe8 18. g8=Q+ Bf8 19. Rxa1 Qc5 20. Bg5 Kd7 21. Rf1 Kc7 22. Rxf8 Kb6\n23. Rxc8 {etc}) 15… Kg8 16. Bxb6 Bg4 ({After a long think my opponent saw\nthat} 16… bxa1=Q 17. Qxa1 axb6 18. Qf6 Be6 19. Nd4 Nd7 20. Qf4 Bxa2 21. c4\nRe7 22. Nf5 {wins for White. I had seen most of this combined with a little\nfaith was enough to allow me to play 14.Bxf7+. 16…Bg4 I had not seen at all!}\n) 17. c3 bxa1=Q 18. Qxa1 Bxe2 19. Qb2 $1 {There is neither the necessity nor\nthe time to save the rook; Black’s king must be driven out before his\nqueenside pieces can come to help.} (19. Qb1 $144) 19… Bxf1 20. Qb3+ Kxg7 21.\nBd4+ Kg6 22. Qxb4 {Black has vast reservoirs of pieces but they are all asleep.\nThere is no defence to the combined attack of queen and bishop.} c5 23. Qxc5\nNc6 24. Qd6+ Kh5 25. Bg7 Bxd3 ({If Black tries} 25… Rad8 {then} 26. Qh6+ Kg4\n27. Bf6 {wins; the text allows a more elegant finish.}) 26. h3 Bg6 27. Qf4 {\nand Black resigned as it is mate in three.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHis best tournament result came three years later when he won 1st prize at Sarajevo 1976. \nSarajevo 1976 Crosstable from English Chess Explosion (1980)\nHis style of play is sound and competent in all the spheres of the game. That he can be brilliant when necessary he demonstrated his beautiful brilliancy game against the Finnish grandmaster Westerinen at Allicante in 1973. He has a fine\, broad knowledge of the openings and has written a number of articles and books on that theme. \nBill was always a keen supporter of junior chess. event unknown.\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-61 Championship”]\n[Site “Clacton on Sea/ Essex”]\n[Date “1974.08.14”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Webb\, Simon”]\n[Black “Hartston\, William R”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A31”]\n[Annotator “Simon Webb and Bill Hartston”]\n[PlyCount “74”]\n[EventDate “1974.08.05”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\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\,74\,19\,29\,18\,21\,56\,-11\,-17\,-25\,25\,16\,18\,-3\,56\,33\,50\,36\,37\,36\,38\,34\,59\,\n54\,58\,44\,43\,48\,44\,23\,44\,31\,47\,31\,43\,36\,24\,22\,8\,17\,17\,-16\,-27\,-79\,-109\,-66\,-59\,\n-94\,-86\,-61\,-65\,-168\,-179\,-171\,-224\,-224\,-199\,-199\,-202\,-202\,-56\,-161\,-80\,-90\,\n-162\,-338\,-326\,-489\,-539\,-548\,-311\,-401\,-465\,-389\,-337\,-616\,-671]} 1. Nf3 Nf6\n2. d4 c5 3. c4 (3. d5) 3… cxd4 4. Nxd4 b6 $1 {An unusual move allowing White\nfull control of the centre and with no particular intrinsic merit. Its get an\nexclamation mark however\, because the player of the white pieces is S. Webb!\nI always like to fianchetto my king’s bishop in such positions and this is the\none move which prevents me from doing so. Had it occurred to me that Hartston\nmight play this move I would have played 3.g3 or 2.c4 and then 3.g3.} 5. Nc3\nBb7 6. f3 d6 7. e4 e6 8. Be2 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Be3 Nbd7 {Putting Whte very\nmuch on the spot to find a plan\, despite his spatial advantage for four ranks\nto three. Again quotes from the two players : “Now the position bears a\nstrong resemblance to a Sicilian. I felt quite happy now since I seem to have\nspent half my life playing positions of this type\, while my opponent\, not\nnormally an e4 player\, had to be less familiar with the problems” : Hartston.\n“Objectively speaking\, I knew that this position was good for White but from\nthis point I had to decide on some sort of strategy. Should I go for f4 and\nthen f5? Or g4 and then g5? Or try to and get play against the backward d-pawn\nby doubling rooks on the d-file? None of these plans looked particularly\nconvincing so I settled for putting my rooks in the centre and waiting to see\nwhat happened ! Its no good having a good position if you don’t know what to\ndo with it!”} 11. Qd2 a6 12. Rfd1 Qc7 13. Rac1 $14 Rac8 14. Bf1 Qb8 15. Qf2\nRfe8 {“White has made a series of natural moves and maintains a spatial\nadvantage; nevertheless I believe that Black already has the better prospects.\nThe Black pieces\, are at first sight a little cramped\, are beautifully placed\nto leap into action after the thematic d5 breakout\, possibly with a pawn\nsacrifice” : Hartston Indeed it seems that the best White can hope for is to\ntry and prevent b5 or d5 by perhaps 16.Nc2 followed by Rd2 and Rcd1 although\neven in that case his c-pawn is weak.} 16. Kh1 $2 {Weirdly enough this is the\nmost popular move here.} (16. g4 {(is the 2020 engine’s choice)}) 16… Bf8 17.\nNc2 Ne5 18. Bxb6 {An ugly sort of move. The loss of the b-pawn is\ninconsequential compared with the disappearance of White’s valuable c-pawn\nwhich is restraining Black’s advances.} ({The alternative} 18. b3 $2 b5 $1 {\nwas even worse.}) (18. Na3 $2 d5 $1) 18… Nxc4 19. Bxc4 (19. Ba7 Qa8 20. b3\nNb2 21. Rd2 Rxc3 22. Bd4 Na4 23. bxa4 Rc6) 19… Rxc4 20. Ne3 Rc6 21. Ba5 {\nThe bonfire is lit and now the fireworks begin. Hartston immediately activates\nhis entire force giving Webb no time to reorganise his disjointed position} d5\n$1 22. exd5 exd5 23. Nf5 {[#] taking the pawn with either night loses\nimmediately so Webb tries to put up some sort of blockade on d If he could\nindeed achieve this\, then he would have defensive chances} ({e.g.} 23. Nexd5\nNxd5 24. Rxd5 Rxc3 $19) ({and e.g.} 23. Ncxd5 Nxd5 24. Rxc6 Nxe3 $19) {By the\nfollowing sacrifice Hartston rips open the position} 23… d4 $1 24. Nxd4 (24.\nRxd4 $2 Bc5) (24. Qxd4 Rc5 $1 {[%cal Gc5a5\,Gc5f5]} (24… Re5 $1 {[%cal Ge5f5\,\nGe5a5]})) 24… Rc5 {[%cal Gc5a5\,Gc5h5]} 25. Bb6 Rh5 26. h3 Ng4 $3 {\nhighlighting the fantastic coordination in the Black camp. Although this move\ndoesn’t lead to immediate mate White has no way of reorganising his defence to\nmeet the threats.} 27. fxg4 {This is one offer that cannot be refused.} ({if}\n27. Qg1 {then} Qg3 $1) 27… Rxh3+ 28. Kg1 Qh2+ 29. Kf1 Rg3 30. Rc2 Rxg4 $1 (\n30… Bxg2+ 31. Qxg2 Rxg2 32. Rxg2 Qf4+ 33. Kg1 Qd6 34. Ba5 Qc5 35. Kf1 Qxa5\n$19) (30… Rxg2 31. Qxg2 Bxg2+ 32. Rxg2 Qf4+) 31. Qg1 Qh6 32. Nf5 $2 {A wild\nattempt at playing actively which only succeeds in losing back the piece\nwithout blunting Black’s attack. But it is difficult to see how White could\ndefend.} ({If} 32. Ba5 {the reply} Bc5 {leaves White hopelessly tied up}) ({\nwhile} 32. Nb3 {allows} a5 {[%cal Gb7a6] with the powerful threat of Ba6+}) ({\nPossibly} 32. Ba7 {would have been the best chance} {planning to meet} Rh4 ({\nAfter} 32… Re5 {it is difficult to find a move which doesn’t lose something\n(Webb)}) {with} 33. Nf5) 32… Qf6 33. Rf2 Qxb6 34. Qh2 a5 35. Qh3 Rg6 36. Nd5\n$2 {there was no defence to Ba6+ but this loses a straight piece.} Qb5+ 37. Kg1\nBxd5 {and White resigned} 0-1 \n[/pgn] \nDanish chess grandmaster Bent Larsen (1935 – 2010\, left) takes on English player William Hartston (right) during the annual Hastings International Chess Congress\, UK\, 13th January 1973. Larsen won the game. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)\nA lucid and entertaining writer\, he has also appeared with success in BBC Television chess programmes. \nBill Hartston at a promotional event\nAmong his chief works are : \nThe Benoni\, London\, 1969\nThe Grunfeld Defence\, London\, 1971\nThe Best Games of CHO’D Alexander (with H. Golombek)\, Oxford\, 1976.” \nIn modern times Bill has made regular appearances with World Cluedo champion\, Josef Kollar on Channel Four’s Gogglebox with a pair of painted breasts as background. \nHere is his Wikipedia article \nSee his entry from the Jewish Lives Project \nThe King’s Indian Defence\, 1969\nThe Benoni\, 1969\nHow to Cheat at Chess\, 1976\nThe Best Games of C.H.O’D. Alexander\, 1976\nThe Grünfeld Defence\, 1977\nBenoni\, 1977\nKarpov-Korchnoi\, 1978\nSoft Pawn\, 1980\nThe Phillips & Drew King’s Chess Tournament\, 1980\nThe Penguin Book of Chess Openings\, 1981\nThe Psychology of Chess\, 1984\nShort vs Kasparov\, 1993\nThe Kings of Chess\, 1995\nThe Guinness Book of Chess Grandmasters\, 1996\nWilliam Hartston
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,History,Journalist,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Malcolm Pein (14-viii-1960)
DESCRIPTION:BCN sends IM Malcolm Pein best wishes on his 61st birthday. \nIM Malcolm Pein at the King’s Place Rapidplay 2013\, photograph courtesy of John Upham\nMalcolm Bernard Pein was born in Liverpool (South). South Lancashire and his mother’s maiden name is Max. (Gaige\, Felice and chessgames.com all incorrectly have Malcolm L. Pein). \nMalcolm Pein\nThis was written about Malcolm aged 19 just prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n” London University and Liverpool\, Rating 199. British under-18 co-champion\, 1977. Currently No.1 player for London University.” \nMalcolm hard at work\nMalcolm studied Chemical Engineering at University College\, London entering in September 1978. He won The University of London championship in February 1979. \nHe became an International Master in 1986 and is a FIDE Delegate (for England) and an International Director. \nMalcolm’s peak rating was 2450 in January 1992 at the age of 32. \nMalcolm Pein (third from  right) and a victorious Wood Green team. Trophy presented by Magnus Magnusson\nWith the white pieces Malcolm prefers the Queen’s Gambit almost exclusively with 1.e4 rarely seeing the light of day scoring 62% \nAs the second player\, Malcolm champions the Pirc\, Modern and Grunfeld defences scoring 49% which MegaBase 2020 claims is “above average”. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Manila op”]\n[Site “Manila”]\n[Date “1992.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Pein\, Malcolm”]\n[Black “Valdes\, P.”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E25”]\n[WhiteElo “2445”]\n[Annotator “Pein\,Malcolm”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1992.??.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “PHI”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 030”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1992.10.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1992.10.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,16\,28\,27\,-16\,-9\,4\,4\,-78\,-50\,-91\,-47\,-47\,-29\,-14\,41\,9\,10\,8\,23\,12\,34\,\n27\,55\,5\,-11\,12\,10\,9\,9\,20\,20\,32\,32\,38\,147\,186\,22\,66\,85\,82\,123\,47\,3\,-17\,-18\,-12\,\n29987\,29988\,29989\,29990\,29991\,29992\,29993\,29994]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4\n4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 (6… O-O 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. e4 Nxc3 9. Qb3 Qxd4\n10. Bb2 Qe3+ 11. Be2 Nd5 12. Qxe3 Nxe3 13. Kf2 Nd5 14. exd5 exd5 15. Rc1 $16)\n7. cxd5 Nxd5 {[#]} 8. Qd2 {According to ECO this move has not been played for\n20 years! In comparison with Qd3 the queen is not exposed on a6 f1 diagonal\nbut the Bc1 is restricted} f5 (8… Qa5 9. e4 $1 Nxc3 (9… Qxc3 10. Rb1 Qxd2+\n11. Bxd2 Nc7 12. dxc5 Nd7 13. Bb5 {White is slightly better}) 10. Bb2 cxd4 11.\nNe2 {White regains one pawn and gets an attack} e5 12. Nxc3 dxc3 13. Bxc3 Qc7\n14. Bb4 Nc6 15. Bd6 Qd8 (15… Qa5 16. Qxa5 Nxa5 17. Bxe5) 16. Bb5) 9. e3 O-O\n10. Nh3 $146 {This is a theoretical novelty the old move was 10.Bd3 intending\nNe2 but after Black plays Nc6 and e5 he stands well.} b6 11. Bb2 cxd4 (11…\nBa6 12. c4 (12. Bxa6 Nxa6 13. O-O Nac7 14. e4 {Is also good}) 12… Nf6 13. Nf4\n{With advantage to White so Black switches plans}) 12. cxd4 Nc6 {Now 13..Na5\nis going to be annoying so White gets going} 13. e4 $1 (13. Bd3 Na5 14. Rd1 Bd7\n{With lots of play on the white squares}) 13… fxe4 14. fxe4 Nf6 (14… Qh4+\n15. Nf2 Rxf2 (15… Nf4 16. g3 {Wins}) (15… Nf6 16. g3) 16. Qxf2 Qxe4+ 17.\nQe2 {Black has insufficient compensation}) 15. Nf2 Na5 16. Qe3 Bb7 17. Bd3 Rc8\n18. Qh3 $1 {Black finds the only defence} Qe8 19. O-O {Now both e5 and d5 are\nthreatened} (19. e5 Nh5) 19… Nh5 {It was very tempting to play 20.Ng4 but it\ndoes not quite work} 20. e5 {Threat g4} (20. Ng4 Nf4 21. Rxf4 Rxf4 22. e5 Be4\n23. Nh6+ Kh8) 20… Nc4 21. Bc1 h6 {[#]} (21… g6 22. Bh6 Nf4 23. Bxf4 Rxf4\n24. Bxc4 Rxc4 25. Ng4 {Nf6+ will win material}) 22. Bxh6 $1 {Winning} gxh6 (\n22… Rxf2 23. Rxf2 gxh6 24. Raf1 {Winning}) (22… Qc6 23. Be4) 23. Ng4 {\nThreatening 24.Rxf8+} Qc6 (23… Nf4 24. Qxh6 Nxd3 25. Rxf8+ Qxf8 26. Nf6+) (\n23… Rc7 24. Nxh6+ Kg7 25. Qg4+ Kxh6 26. Rxf8) (23… Ng7 24. Nxh6+) 24. Nxh6+\nKh8 25. Nf7+ $1 Kg8 26. Bh7+ Kg7 (26… Kxh7 27. Qxh5+ Kg7 28. Qh6+ Kg8 29.\nQh8#) 27. Qg4+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM Malcolm Pein at the Bristol heat of the British Blitz Qualification  event in 2019\nIn addition to his newspaper column and magazine editorial\, Malcolm has written a number of chess books and booklets\, including : \nGrunfeld Defence (Batsford\, 1981) – ISBN 978-0713435948\nBlumenfeld Defence [with Jan Przewoznik] (Everyman\, 1991) – ISBN 978-0080371337\nDaily Telegraph Guide to Chess (Batsford\, 1995) – ISBN 978-0713478143\nThe Exchange Grunfeld [with Adrian Mikhalchishin] (Everyman\, 1996) – ISBN 978-1857440560] \nNigel Short’s Chess Skills (1989)(was ghost written by Malcolm)\nMalcolm won the ECF President’s Award in 2017: \n“Malcolm Pein’s contribution to English Chess is well known.  He is CEO of Chess in Schools and Communities\, has been largely involved in the organisation of the London Chess Classic and is currently the ECF’s Delegate to FIDE and International Director.  On top of all that he is also an IM\, writes the ‘Daily Telegraph’ Chess Column\, and edits CHESS Magazine.” \nIM Malcolm Pein at the London Chess Classic 2013\, photograph courtesy of John Upham\nMalcolm is also owner (and a director) of the London Chess Centre (a company incorporated on May 1st 1997) which has relocated to 44\, Baker Street\, former home of the British Chess Magazine retail premises.  This was purchased from Stephen Lowe and Shaun Taulbut in 2010 when the leasehold on the Euston Road premises expired. Another director is Henry Gerald Mutkin who is the main organiser of the annual Varsity match. \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nMalcolm has a son\, Jonathan who is a strong player and he resides in London\, NW7. \nJonathan and Malcolm Pein at the 2016 Michael Uriely Memorial Tournament\nMalcolm Pein & Dominic Lawson
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,Organiser,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM John Pigott (15-viii-1957)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes IM John Pigott all the best on his birthday (15-viii-1957) \nJohn Christopher Pigott was born in Croydon\, Surrey and his mother’s maiden name was Fletcher. \nIn 1975 John was selected by the BCF junior selectors and travelled with Jonathan Speelman and Peter J Lee (Hampshire) to the 8th Biel International Open in Switzerland. Leonard Barden wrote in the October 1975 British Chess Magazine (the cover was of Geller and Smyslov) : \n“17-year-old John Pigott’s 8.5/11 included wins against IM Kluger\, IM Messing and the 1975 Budapest Champion Rajna and earned him 2\,000 Swiss francs in prize money. The three English juniors who competed\, Pigott\, Speelman and Lee were chosen by the BCF junior selectors and travelled to Switzerland with the help of grant from the Slater Foundation and the London Chess Club.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Biel International Open”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “2020.08.08”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Messing\, H”]\n[Black “Pigott\, John Christopher”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B67”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “60”]\n[EventDate “1975.07.21”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 1975\, page 447”] \n{[%evp 0\,24\,19\,38\,40\,41\,66\,77\,66\,31\,42\,26\,60\,60\,64\,51\,66\,43\,36\,29\,43\,50\,33\,58\,\n51\,51\,143]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bg5 e6 7.\nQd2 a6 8. O-O-O Bd7 9. f4 b5 10. a3 {A fairly rare sideline} ({Much more\npopular is} 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Kb1 Qb6 12. Nxc6 Bxc6) 10… Rc8 11. Kb1 Be7 12.\nNf3 {threatening e5} b4 $146 (12… h6) 13. axb4 Nxb4 14. e5 $14 dxe5 15. fxe5\n({Better is} 15. Nxe5) 15… Nfd5 16. Nxd5 Nxd5 17. Bxe7 Qxe7 18. c4 ({Not} 18.\nBxa6 Nc3+ (18… Rb8 $1) 19. bxc3 Rb8+ 20. Ka2 Ra8 {“Regaining the piece with\nadvantage : according to Golombek”} 21. Qd6 $1 {is the move Golombek missed.})\n18… Nb6 19. Qf4 $6 (19. Qd6) 19… Qb4 20. Ng5 O-O 21. Qe4 g6 22. Qh4 h5 23.\nNe4 ({If} 23. Rd4 Na4 24. Qf2 Bc6 {and Black has the upper hand : Golombek})\n23… Nxc4 24. Nf6+ Kh8 25. Bxc4 Rxc4 26. Qf2 (26. Qg5 {does lead to mate :}\nQxb2+ $1 27. Kxb2 Rb8+ 28. Ka3 Ra4#) 26… Rf4 27. Qe3 Bc6 28. Rd2 Be4+ 29. Ka1\n({The ending after} 29. Nxe4 Qxe4+ 30. Qxe4 Rxe4 {is hopeless}) 29… Rc8 30.\nb3 $2 {white is lost anyway} (30. Rd4 Qa5+ 31. Qa3 Qxe5 $19) 30… Qa5+ {\nWhite resigned} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nJohn represented England at the 1975 Anglo-Dutch match (25th and 26th of October) scoring 0.5/2 versus Paul van der Sterren. The game scores appear to either have been lost on not recorded. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqVMNBdJfkc[/embedyt] \nIn 1976 John scored 4.5/5 in the Surrey Open and shared the 3rd\, 4th and 5th prize. \nThe caption is in the photograph below\nThe caption is in the photograph above\nJohn became a FIDE Master in 1984 and an International Master in 2017\, a gap of some 33 years! \nJohn plays for Little Heath\, 4NCL Barbican\, Hon Members LCCL and King’s Head chess clubs. \nAfter a sojourn from chess John returned to the ECF grading list in January 2015 with a grading of 269F attracting some attention. \nHis highest FIDE rating was 2419 in February 2018 at the age of 61.  \nWith the white pieces John plays the Queen’s Gambit and the Giuoco Piano. \nAs the second player John enjoys the Sicilian Najdorf and the Nimzo Indian Defence. \nJon Speelman’s Agony Column #40 \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2NHfrw_Y5s[/embedyt]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Andrew Smith (15-viii-1959)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to FM Andrew Smith (15-viii-1959) \nAndrew became a FIDE Master in 1994 and is registered with the Irish Chess Union. \nHis highest FIDE rating was 2310 in July 1994 at the age of 35. \nFM Andrew Smith\, photographer unknown\nHe plays for Bourne End Chess Club in the Buckinghamshire League and in the Berkshire League. \nAndrew also plays for 4NCL Barnet Knights (he has played for Atticus)\, Buckinghamshire CCA in the Chiltern League and Hon Members LCCL. \nHe has won the Berks & Bucks Congress in 2018 and 2016 (joint) and he became Berkshire Individual Champion as a direct consequence winning the Cadogan Cup. \nWith the white pieces Andrew is (almost) exclusively a 1.e4 player favouring the Centre Game \nand as the second player Andrew plays the Philidor Defence and the Benoni. \nHe is known to favour “enterprising” variations such as the Mason Variation of the Philidor\, the Haldane Attack versus the French and other such exotica. \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXXII (132)\, Number 7 (July) front cover features FM Andrew Smith from the final 4NCL weekend of the 2011-2012 season\, courtesy of John Upham Photography\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT2b 1112 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2012.02.12”]\n[Round “6.3”]\n[White “Smith\, Andrew Philip”]\n[Black “Girdlestone\, Paul C”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C22”]\n[WhiteElo “2204”]\n[BlackElo “2191”]\n[Annotator “Andrew P Smith”]\n[PlyCount “75”]\n[EventDate “2011.11.12”]\n[EventType “team-match”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2013”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2012.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2012.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Spirit of Atticus”]\n[BlackTeam “Brown Jack”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,75\,19\,31\,34\,25\,5\,-1\,-3\,-12\,-20\,-36\,-38\,-31\,-26\,-30\,-41\,-8\,1\,-59\,13\,-2\,\n-2\,-222\,-254\,-322\,-193\,-225\,-133\,-160\,-85\,-149\,-83\,-101\,-80\,-80\,-69\,-43\,-41\,\n-84\,21\,48\,60\,-100\,-71\,-82\,65\,177\,182\,136\,220\,173\,273\,89\,89\,57\,57\,-140\,-137\,\n-128\,15\,36\,333\,767\,29985\,434\,394\,127\,141\,105\,125\,134\,245\,256\,273\,237\,29999\,\n-30000]} {My notes are based on my thoughts during the game and have not been\nchecked by a computer.  Going into this game\, I felt under pressure both from\nteam and personal perspectives. I joined Atticus at the beginning of this\n(2011) season and my first three appearences had seen me accumulate a very\nround zero !  We already suspected that our team would be in the second\ndivision ‘demotion pool’ so we desperately needed points to avert relegation.\nThis was my fourth game for the team so I was keen to address my shortcomings\nand put some sort of score on the board. No easy matter as my opponent was\nrated higher than myself and had beaten me the previous year at the Berks &\nBucks Congress.} 1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 $1 {I have been playing this\n“Offbeat” line for over 25 years so I have a great deal of experience with it.\nOften scoffed at\, but as with many Offbeat lines it is not so easy for Black\nto deal with !} Nc6 4. Qe3 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Bd2 O-O 7. O-O-O Re8 8. Bc4 $5 ({\nIn previous games I have also speculated with Morozevich’s tricky innovation}\n8. Qg3 {which he played against Mark Hebden} d6 9. f3 Ne5 10. h4 c6 11. h5 d5\n12. Nge2 Nc4 13. h6 {was Morozevich-Hebden\, Lloyds Bank\, 1994\, 1-0\, 27.}) (8.\nf3) 8… d6 $5 (8… Bxc3 9. Bxc3 Nxe4 (9… Rxe4 $2 {loses} {to} 10. Bxf6 Rxe3\n11. Bxd8 $18) 10. Qf4 $1 Qe7 $4 ({Instead of 10…Qe7  he could have played}\n10… Nf6 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 (11… gxf6 $16 {just looks too horrible to\ncontemplate.}) 12. Qxc7 Qxf2 (12… Qg5+ 13. Kb1 Qxg2 14. Qf4 Ne5 15. Bd5 {\nagain with great attacking chances for the pawn.}) 13. Nf3 $14 {with\ntremendous compensation for the pawn}) (10… Nxc3 11. Bxf7+ Kh8 12. Bxe8 Qxe8\n13. bxc3 d6 $16 {and I prefer White.}) 11. Re1 $1 $18 {winning as Black will\nlose material after 12.f3}) 9. Nf3 $5 Bf5 $5 10. Qf4 Bg6 ({If} 10… Bxe4 {\nWhite has} 11. Bxf7+ Kxf7 12. Ng5+) (10… Bxc3 11. Bxc3 Bxe4 12. Ng5 Bg6 13.\nh4 {gives play.}) 11. Ng5 h6 12. h4 Ne5 ({If} 12… hxg5 13. hxg5 Nh7 14. Qh2 {\nlooks interesting\,  threatening f4 and f5} {and if} Bxc3 15. bxc3 Bxe4 (15…\nQd7 $1 $19) 16. Bd3 $18 {seemed good.}) 13. Bb3 Nh5 (13… hxg5 14. hxg5 Nh7\n15. Qh4 $40 {with f4 and f5 to follow.}) 14. Qe3 Qd7 {I wasn’t sure what Black\nwould played here.} ({I analysed} 14… hxg5 15. hxg5 {and felt I had good\nchances because Black’s knight on h5 is exposed to a White pawn surge.}) 15. f4\nNg4 16. Qf3 {The crisis point of the game is here. White threatens the\ncrushing 17.f5} hxg5 {Black saw now nothing better. The knight is finaly\ncaptured after being en prise for five moves. I remember looking at the clock\nsituations and being amazed that we had only played 16 moves !} 17. f5 $1 ({If\n} 17. hxg5 $6 {then} Bxc3 18. Bxc3 Bxe4 19. Qh3 Bg6 {and maybe Black is OK?})\n17… Ne5 18. Qe3 Bxf5 ({Or} 18… Bc5 19. Qxg5 {is strong} Bxf5) 19. exf5 Nf4\n{In a mutual time scramble this is a tricky little move.} 20. Kb1 ({Not\nfalling for} 20. hxg5 $4 Ned3+ {winning my queen.}) 20… Nc4 21. Qg3 Nxd2+ 22.\nRxd2 Qxf5 23. hxg5 Bxc3 24. bxc3 Re4 $18 {I could feel my opponents sudden\noptimism after he played this move. If Black could continue with Rae8 then he\nwould be OK.} 25. Rf2 $1 {Repositioning my only ineffectual piece. On d2 \, this\nrook was not doing anything. – now it pins the knight against the queen and\nall White’s pieces contribute a threat to Black’s king.} Qe5 ({I’m sure he\nwould have liked to have played} 25… Rae8 {but} 26. g6 {is still a difficult\nreply to meet as} Qxg6 27. Qxg6 Nxg6 28. Bxf7+ Kf8 29. Bxg6+ {wins}) 26. g6 $1\n{Fortunately for me Black’s capture on c3 has freed up a flight square on b2\nfor my king so I don’t have to worry about checks on my back rank.} d5 {\nBlocking the diagonal of my strong bishop on b3. His king is about to be\nexposed!} 27. gxf7+ Kxf7 {With both of use having a few minutes left and time\ncontrol a long way ff at move 40\, the tension is palpable as this result is\ncrucial to the outcome of the match.} 28. Rh4 {To save the knight Black is\nforced to expose his king still further.} g5 29. Rh7+ Ke6 30. Qg4+ Kf6 31. Qd7\n{Probably winning for White} Qe6 $2 {A blunder – albiet in a lost position. –\nbut in mutual time trouble I let him get away with it.} 32. Qg7+ ({Now} 32.\nRh6+ {wins the queen and it would have been quite a nice game if it had\nfinished this way. But\, I mistakenly thought he could intercept with the knight\nforgettimg it was pinned.}) 32… Kf5 33. Rh6 Qe7 {Now with both flags hanging\nand both players blitzing to reach the time control\, I decided to bail-out and\nwin a piece.} 34. Qxe7 Rxe7 35. g3 Kg4 36. gxf4 gxf4 37. Bxd5 Kg3 $4 {three\nseconds left !} 38. Rg2# {with about 15 seconds left !  It was big relief to\ncome away with the full point as the match score\, after some heroic defence by\nSheila Jackson in her game with Mike Truran was 4.5 – 3.5 to us (Atticus).} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFM Andrew Smith at the 2019 Keith Richardson Memorial\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Leonard Barden (20-viii-1929)
DESCRIPTION:Ninety-two today is Leonard Barden\, born Tuesday\, August 20th\, 1929. \nHis mother’s maiden was Bartholomew and she became Elise EM Barden when she married Leonard’s father who was William C Barden and in 1939 they lived at 89\, Tennison Road\, Croydon. \n89\, Tennison Road\, Croydon\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek OBE: \n“British Master and joint British Champion 1954. Barden was born in Croydon and learned to play at his school\, Whitgift\, which became a frequent producer of fine players. \nIn 1946 he tied for first place in the London Boys Championship and in the following year he tied with Jonathan Penrose for first place in the British Boys Championship\, but lost the play-off. \nIn 1952 he came first at Paignton ahead of the Canadian Grandmaster Yanofsky and he reached his peak in 1954 when \, after tieing for first place with the Belgian Grandmaster O’Kelly de Galway at Bognor\, he tied for for first place in the British Championship at Nottingham with A. Phillips. The play-off was drawn and so the players became joint champions. \nAlan Phillips and Leonard Barden are joint British Champions of 1954 in Nottingham\, photographer unknown\nHe played for the BCF in four Olympiads from 1952 to 1962 and then abandoned competitive chess\, applying all his energies to writing (he is chess correspondent of the Guardian\, the Financial Times\, the Evening Standard and the Field\, and has written many books on the game. \nHe has also developed two special interests\, in junior chess and in grading\, working with utmost persistence and energy in both of these fields. \nLeonard authored a series of articles on what was to become the Yugoslav Attack versus the Sicilian Dragon. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 7 (July)\, page 208\nAmongst his best works are : a A Guide to Chess Openings\, London\, 1957; The Ruy Lopez\, Oxford\, 1963; The King’s Indian Defence\, London\, 1968.” \nDisappointingly  Sunnucks Encyclopedia does not mention Barden at all and and surprisingly Hooper and Whyld’s usually excellent Oxford Companion only from a connection with Jim Slater. \nLeonard Bardens’ Evening Standard column ends after 63 Years \nSignature of LW Barden from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Southsea 1951.\nHere is an in-depth article from Edward Winter \nLeonard Barden’s Blunder Theory from Kingpin Magazine \n54-Year-Old Chess Record established in 2009 \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Leonard William Barden (born 20 August 1929\, in Croydon\, London) is an English chess master\, writer\, broadcaster\, organizer and promoter. The son of a dustman\, he was educated at Whitgift School\, South Croydon\, and Balliol College\, Oxford\, where he read Modern History. \nTravel Chess2nd January 1951: British chess champions Jonathan Penrose and Leonard Barden prepare their openings over breakfast in the Yelton Hotel before the 9.30 am round start at Hastings 1950-51. (Photo by Walter Bellamy/Express/Getty Images)\nHe learned to play chess at age 13 while in a school shelter during a World War II German air raid. Within a few years he became one of the country’s leading juniors.[1] He represented England in four Chess Olympiads. Barden played a major role in the rise of English chess from the 1970s. As a chess columnist for various newspapers\, his column in London’s Evening Standard is the world’s longest-standing chess column. \nLeonard Barden (seated\, second from right) Before Botvinnik’s 1981 Pergamon Press clock simul against England juniors\, the final competitive event of the Patriarch’s career.Standing: Stuart Conquest\, Neil Dickenson. Gary Lane\, Alan Byron\,Daniel King\, John Hawksworth\, Pergamon editor.Seated: Julian Hodgson\, Byron Jacobs\, Mikhail Botvinnik\, Leonard Barden\, Bernard Cafferty.\nIn 1946\, Barden won the British Junior Correspondence Chess Championship\, and tied for first place in the London Boys’ Championship. The following year he tied for first with Jonathan Penrose in the British Boys’ Championship\, but lost the playoff. \nBarden finished fourth at Hastings in 1951–52. In 1952\, he won the Paignton tournament ahead of the Canadian future grandmaster Daniel Yanofsky. He captained the Oxfordshire team which won the English Counties championship in 1951 and 1952. \nBarden making a move at Southend 1955.\nIn the latter year he captained the University of Oxford team which won the National Club Championship\, and he represented the university in the annual team match against the University of Cambridge during his years there. In 1953\, he won the individual British Lightning Championship (ten seconds a move). \nThe following year\, he tied for first with the Belgian grandmaster Albéric O’Kelly de Galway at Bognor Regis\, was joint British champion\, with Alan Phillips\, and won the Southern Counties Championship. \nLeonard Barden vs Victor Korchnoi\, Leipzig Olympiad\, 1960\nHe finished fourth at Hastings 1957–58\, ranked by chessmetrics as his best statistical performance. In the 1958 British Chess Championship\, Barden again tied for first\, but lost the playoff match to Penrose 1½–3½. \nLeonard Barden (centre) with Raaphi Persitz\, JB Sykes\, OI Galvenius and DM Armstrong\, Ilford\, May\, 1953\n[pgn]\n[Event “British Lightning Championship\, Ilford “]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1953.05.17”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Barden\, Leonard William”]\n[Black “Green\, Arnold Yorvath”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C84”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “39”] \n{[%evp 0\,39\,19\,31\,34\,19\,13\,4\,13\,-2\,-9\,3\,20\,2\,19\,-7\,-7\,-7\,19\,-79\,35\,27\,22\,51\,34\,\n-22\,17\,-3\,14\,-42\,91\,49\,96\,104\,104\,104\,2111\,2604\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29994]} 1. e4\ne5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d4 exd4 7. e5 Ne4 8. Nxd4 Nc5\n9. Nf5 g6 10. Nxe7 Qxe7 11. Bxc6 dxc6 12. Re1 $146 (12. Bh6) 12… Bd7 13. Nc3\nO-O-O $15 14. Qf3 Rdf8 (14… Bf5) 15. Qg3 f5 16. Bg5 Qf7 17. Qe3 Ne6 $4 18.\nQa7 $18 Be8 19. Rad1 Nd4 20. Rxd4 {and Black resigned} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nLWB observes analysis between David Rumens and Murray Chandler from Brighton 1980. Photograph courtesy of John Upham.\nHe represented England in the Chess Olympiads at Helsinki 1952 (playing fourth board\, scoring 2 wins\, 5 draws\, and 4 losses)\, Amsterdam 1954 (playing first reserve\, scoring 1 win\, 2 draws\, and 4 losses)\, Leipzig 1960 (first reserve; 4 wins\, 4 draws\, 2 losses) and Varna 1962 (first reserve; 7 wins\, 2 draws\, 3 losses). The latter was his best performance by far. \nLeonard Barden (left) and Murray Chandler display the Lloyds Bank Trophy which the 19-year old New Zealander won ahead of 3 Grandmasters and 10 International Masters for his finest international success up to 1979. in the Lloyds Bank Masters\nBarden has a Morphy number of 3\, having drawn with Jacques Mieses in the Premier Reserves at Hastings 1948–49. Mieses drew with Henry Bird in the last round of Hastings 1895\, and Bird played a number of games with Paul Morphy in 1858 and 1859. \nEngland’s under-12 junior teams finished first and second in the international Eumig Cup\, 1981.Front row: Peter Morrish (organiser)\, Jimmy Hockaday\, Darren Lee\, Neil Fox\, Neil Carr. Second row: James Howell\, Stuart Conquest\, Teresa Needham. Far right: LB.\nIn 1964\, Barden gave up most competitive chess to devote his time to chess organisation\, broadcasting\, and writing about the game. He has made invaluable contributions to English chess as a populariser\, writer\, organiser\, fundraiser\, and broadcaster. \nLeonard Barden at Bob Wade’s 80th birthday party\, 2001.\nHe was controller of the British Chess Federation Grand Prix for many years\, having found its first sponsor\, Cutty Sark. He was a regular contributor to the BBC’s Network Three weekly radio chess programme from 1958 to 1963. His best-known contribution was a consultation game\, recorded in 1960 and broadcast in 1961\, where he partnered Bobby Fischer against the English masters Jonathan Penrose and Peter Clarke. This was the only recorded consultation game of Fischer’s career. The game\, unfinished after eight hours of play\, was adjudicated a draw by former world champion Max Euwe. Barden gave BBC television commentaries on all the games in the 1972 world championship. From 1973 to 1978 he was co-presenter of BBC2’s annual Master Game televised programme. \nJulian and Nigel Short play Korchnoi in the Evening Standard 1976 simul. Leonard Barden observes.\nAs of 2021\, his weekly columns have been published in The Guardian for 65 years and in The Financial Times for 46 years. A typical Barden column not only contains a readable tournament report\, but is geared toward promoting the game. His London Evening Standard column\, begun in summer 1956\, is now the world’s longest running daily chess column by the same author\, breaking the previous record set by George Koltanowski in the San Francisco Chronicle. Koltanowski’s column ran for 51 years\, 9 months\, and 18 days\, including posthumous articles.” \nLeonard Barden (Linda Nylind of the Guardian)\nLeonard wrote this on the English Chess Forum in 2021 : \n“I retired after Ilford 1964 when I finished a poor last in the England Olympiad team qualifier\, returned at Hammersmith 1969 (equal 2nd behind Keene) and then played around 6-8 weekenders a year until 1972. My overall performance level between early 60s and early 70s dropped from around 225 to 215 BCF\, so I wasn’t encouraged to pursue the comeback further.” \nLeonard was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 1953-54 season. \nLeonard Barden\, Stewart Reuben and Michael Franklin at the 1978 Aaronson Masters\nLeonard reveals this as his best game : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1950-51-26 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1950.12.30”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Barden\, Leonard William”]\n[Black “Adams\, Weaver Warren”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C57”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1950.12.28”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,27\,23\,32\,18\,-13\,54\,47\,160\,142\,71\,14\,0\,0\,0\,13\,247\,242\,\n199\,5\,11\,81\,88\,93\,88\,86\,73\,66\,107\,114\,98\,212\,184\,267\,311\,302\,560\,534\,581\,605\,\n560\,615\,828\,383\,616\,751\,573\,704\,895\,887]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5\nd5 5. exd5 Nxd5 $2 (5… Na5 $1 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Be2 h6 9. Nf3 e4 $44\n) 6. d4 $1 (6. Nxf7 Kxf7 7. Qf3+ Ke6 8. Nc3 Ncb4 $1 $13) 6… Bb4+ 7. c3 Be7 8.\nNxf7 Kxf7 9. Qf3+ Ke6 10. Qe4 $1 (10. O-O $6 Na5 11. Qg4+ Kf7 12. Qf3+ Ke6 $10)\n10… Bf8 (10… Qd6 11. f4 Na5 12. f5+ $18) (10… b5 $5 11. Bxb5 Bb7 12. f4\n$36) 11. O-O Nce7 12. f4 c6 13. fxe5 Kd7 14. Be2 Ke8 (\n14… Kc7 15. c4 Nb6 16. Bf4 Ng6 17. Bg3 ) 15. c4 Nc7 16. Nc3\nBe6? {[#]} 17. Bg5! Qd7 18. Rad1 Rc8 (18… Bf5 19. Qf3) (18… Rd8 19. Bxe7\nBxe7 20. d5 cxd5 21. cxd5 Bxd5 22. Rxd5 Nxd5 23. Bb5 $18) 19. Bxe7 Qxe7 (19…\nBxe7 20. d5 Bc5+ 21. Kh1 cxd5 22. cxd5 Bxd5 23. Rxd5) 20. d5 Qc5+ 21. Kh1 cxd5\n22. cxd5 Bd7 (22… Bf7 23. Qf5) 23. e6 Bb5 24. Qf4 Kd8 (24… Be7 25. Qf7+ Kd8\n26. d6 Bxd6 27. e7+ Kd7 28. e8=Q#) 25. Bxb5 Nxb5 26. Nxb5 Qxb5 27. d6 (27. d6\nRc4 28. Qxf8+ Rxf8 29. Rxf8+ Qe8 30. Rxe8+ Kxe8 31. d7+ Kd8 32. e7+ Kxe7 33.\nd8=Q+) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nLeonard has authored or co-authored a number of highly regarded books\, most of which are highly instructional to this day: \nA Guide to Chess Openings (1957)\, \nA Guide to Chess Openings\nHow Good Is Your Chess? (1957)\, \nHow Good is Your Chess ?\nChess (1959)\,\nIntroduction to Chess Moves and Tactics Simply Explained (1959)\, \nAn Introduction to Chess Moves and Tactics Simply Explained\nModern Chess Miniatures (with Wolfgang Heidenfeld\, 1960)\,\nErevan 1962 (1963)\,\nThe Ruy Lopez (1963)\, \nThe Ruy Lopez\nThe Guardian Chess Book (1967)\, \nThe Guardian Chess Book\nAn Introduction to Chess (1967)\, \nAn Introduction to Chess\nThe King’s Indian Defence (1969)\, \nThe King’s Indian Defence\nChess: Master the Moves (1977)\,\nGuide to the Chess Openings (with Tim Harding\, 1977)\, \nGuide to the Chess Openings\nLeonard Barden’s Chess Puzzle Book (1977) (a collection of his Evening Standard columns)\, \nLeonard Barden’s Chess Puzzle Book\nThe Master Game (with Jeremy James\, 1979)\, \nThe Master Game\nHow to Play the Endgame in Chess (1979)\, \nHow to Play The Endgame in Chess\nPlay Better Chess (1980)\, \nPlay Better Chess\nBatsford Chess Puzzles (2002)\, \nBatsford Chess Puzzles\nOne Move and You’re Dead (with Erwin Brecher\, 2007) : Can you supply an image? \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-38 Championship”]\n[Site “Swansea”]\n[Date “1951.08.28”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Barden\, Leonard William”]\n[Black “Klein\, Ernst Ludwig”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D93”]\n[Annotator “Barden\,L”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “1951.08.20”]\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\,73\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,38\,70\,32\,37\,37\,70\,60\,63\,33\,40\,33\,80\,67\,86\,68\,86\,54\,\n51\,59\,29\,37\,42\,45\,47\,45\,83\,87\,75\,73\,91\,101\,112\,97\,97\,92\,99\,93\,90\,83\,91\,72\,86\,\n99\,303\,299\,304\,302\,311\,305\,313\,273\,277\,280\,285\,285\,294\,296\,297\,283\,289\,288\,296\,\n303\,318\,339\,364\,316\,367\,380]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bf4 c6 5. e3 Bg7\n6. Nf3 O-O 7. Qb3 Qa5 ({I prefer this to the alternative} 7… dxc4 8. Bxc4\nNbd7 9. Ng5 $1 Qe8 10. Bc7 $1) 8. Ne5 b6 ({Better\, and adequate for equality is\n} 8… Nh5 {e.g.} 9. cxd5 Nxf4 10. exf4 cxd5 11. Qxd5 Qb6 {regaining the pawn\n– Gligoric-Boleslavsky\, Saltsjobaden 1948}) 9. Be2 Ba6 10. O-O Rc8 11. Rac1\nNbd7 12. Rfd1 Nxe5 13. Bxe5 dxc4 14. Bxc4 Bxc4 15. Qxc4 b5 16. Qb3 a6 17. Bxf6\nBxf6 18. Ne4 Bg7 19. Rc5 Bf8 20. Rdc1 e6 21. R5c2 Be7 22. h3 Qb6 23. Nc5 a5 24.\na4 Rab8 $4 ({An oversight which loses at once\, but Black had a very difficult\ngame anyway:} 24… Bxc5 25. Rxc5) (24… b4 25.\nNxe6 $1 fxe6 26. Qxe6+ Kf8 27. d5 $1 $18) 25. Nd7 Qd8 26. Nxb8 Rxb8 27. Rxc6\nbxa4 28. Qxb8 Qxb8 29. Rc8+ Qxc8 30. Rxc8+ Kg7 31. Ra8 Bb4 32. Ra7 g5 33. e4\nKg6 34. g4 f6 35. Kf1 h5 36. Ke2 hxg4 37. hxg4 {Sources: Universities Chess\nAnnual (2nd issue)\, Nov 1951; BCM\, Oct 1951\, p267} 1-0\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Thomas Wilson Barnes (1825 20-viii-1874)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Thomas Wilson Barnes (1825 20-viii-1874) \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by David Hooper and Ken Whyld : \n“One of the strongest English players during the 1850s\, He made little impression in his one and only tournament\, London 1862\, but is remembered for having scored more wins than anyone else in friendly play against Morphy in 1858. He reduced his corpulence by 130 pounds in ten months and as a result died. ” \nHe is perhaps most well know for having a reasonable score against Paul Morphy of -19 +8 which was a lot better than most ! \n[pgn]\n[Event “Casuals Morphy-Barnes +19-7=0”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1858.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Morphy\, Paul”]\n[Black “Barnes\, Thomas Wilson”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C30”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “106”]\n[EventDate “1858.07.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “8”]\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\,106\,23\,30\,30\,-30\,4\,7\,2\,-16\,-9\,-20\,-39\,-95\,-51\,-57\,-59\,-111\,-112\,-138\,\n-158\,-179\,-275\,-229\,-66\,-120\,-92\,-178\,-83\,-83\,-7\,-70\,-70\,-70\,-70\,-27\,-12\,-66\,\n-43\,-106\,-124\,-135\,-109\,-86\,-110\,-146\,-139\,-134\,-134\,-192\,-105\,-38\,0\,-46\,-52\,\n-46\,-132\,88\,88\,44\,112\,3\,0\,-203\,-219\,-219\,-242\,-244\,-244\,-244\,-227\,-231\,-209\,\n-222\,-145\,-216\,-139\,-154\,-166\,-164\,-218\,-214\,-214\,-248\,-274\,-283\,-245\,-326\,\n-269\,-417\,-417\,-436\,-462\,-457\,-310\,-310\,-310\,-288\,-288\,-288\,-294\,-294\,-294\,\n-459\,-472\,-585\,-665\,-709\,-1074]} 1. e4 e5 2. f4 Bc5 3. Nf3 d6 4. b4 Bb6 5. Bc4\nNf6 6. Qe2 Nc6 7. c3 O-O 8. d3 exf4 9. Bxf4 d5 10. Bb3 dxe4 11. dxe4 Bg4 12.\nNbd2 Nh5 13. Be3 Ne5 14. O-O-O Nd3+ 15. Kc2 Nhf4 16. Bxf4 Nxf4 17. Qf1 Qe7 18.\nh3 Bh5 19. g4 Bg6 20. Kb2 Rad8 21. Nd4 Bxd4 22. Qxf4 Be5 23. Qe3 Qxb4 24. h4 h5\n25. Nc4 Qe7 26. Rxd8 Rxd8 27. gxh5 Bxh5 28. Qg5 Qxg5 29. hxg5 Bf3 30. Rf1 Be2\n31. Nxe5 Bxf1 32. g6 Kf8 33. gxf7 Rd6 34. Nf3 Rf6 35. Ng5 Rf2+ 36. Ka3 c5 37.\nBd5 b5 38. Nh7+ Ke7 39. f8=Q+ Rxf8 40. Nxf8 Kxf8 41. e5 g5 42. Bf3 Bh3 43. c4\nbxc4 44. Kb2 g4 45. Bd5 g3 46. Kc3 Be6 47. Bf3 Ke7 48. a3 Bd7 49. Bd5 Be6 50.\nBf3 Kd7 51. Kd2 Bh3 52. Ke3 Ke6 53. Be2 c3 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzPR5utx2fY[/embedyt] \nAccording to chessgames.com : \n“Thomas Wilson Barnes was one of the strongest English players in the 1850s. His only tournament appearance was in London 1862 but he did not do himself justice. He’s best remembered for having more wins against Paul Morphy in friendly play than anyone else. Being overweight he decided to reduce his size\, but the loss of 130 pounds in 10 months was more than his system could handle and resulted in his death in 1874.” \nThe Barnes Opening\, was played by T. W. Barnes. This opening move has no particular merit but he liked to avoid book lines\, to which end he\nsometimes answered 1 e4 by 1…f6.  \n[fen]rnbqkbnr/ppppp1pp/5p2/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nHe died at 68\, Cambridge Street\, Pimlico. \nHis death was registered in the St George\, Hanover Square district. \nHe was buried on August 25th\, 1874 in Brompton Cemetery (plot number 76449). According to the burial records he had a “Private Grave” the plot of which had coordinates of 113.3 x 18.3 relative to the NE corner of the cemetery. Also “no extra depth” was required meaning his depth was 5ft whereas some are at 17 foot down with others above.
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200822
DTSTAMP:20260811T104024Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WCM Dinah Norman (née Dobson) (21-viii-1946)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday to Dinah Norman on August 21st\n\nDinah Margaret Dobson was born on Wednesday\, August 21st 1946 in Exeter\, Devon. Her parents were Leslie and Barbara Dobson (née Hayward).\n\nSome of the participants in the Paul Keres  display on November 25th\, 1962\, at St Pancras Town Hall\, London WC1. Back row : AJ. Whiteley\, D\, Floyer\, PJ Collins\, PJ Adams\, RC Vaughan\, KB Harman\, D. Parr\, DNL Levy\, Front row : MV Lambshire\, AE Hopkins (selector) Paul Keres\, Miss D. Dobson\, RE Hartley\, BC Gillman\, WR Hartston  and PN Lee. Photograph by AM Reilly. Source : BCM\, 1963\, page 13\n\nDinah became a WCM in 2002.\n\nAccording to chessgames.com : “Dinah Margaret Norman Dobson is a WCM. She was British champion (w) in 1967 (=Rowena Mary Bruce\, Oxford)\, 1968 (Bristol) and 1969 (=Rowena Mary Bruce\, Rhyl).”\n\nDinah Dobson 22-year-old Champion British Chess Player Deep In Thought During Chess Competition In Hastings. Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock\n\nDinah played on board three (i.e. 1st reserve) for England in the third FIDE Women’s Olympiad in Oberhausen\, Germany in 1966 and in 1969 she played board 1 in Lublin\, Poland.\n\nEnglish Chess Champion Dinah Dobson Playing Against Two German Boys During Lunch-break At Chess Competition In Hastings. Box 658 221121512 A.jpg.English Chess Champion Dinah Dobson Playing Against Two German Boys During Lunch-break At Chess Competition In Hastings. Mandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock\n\nShe played in the 1968 Anglo-Dutch match on the Ladies board\, which\, at that time\, did not count in the overall match result.\n\nThe Annual International Chess Championship opened today at Hasting. Dinah “Dobson\,” “23\,” of Northwood Middlesex. December 1969\n\nNow (1071) living in Northwood\, Middlesex\, she married Danny Wright in Westminster and in 1983 she married Ken Norman in Richmond.\n\nDinah Wright (third from right) playing in the 1971 British Ladies Championship in Palatine School\, Blackpool. Courtesy of Lancashire Evening Post.\n\nDinah has been a member of Crowthorne Chess Club and has played in the Berkshire League.  She has represented 4NCL Iceni and Guildford in other competitions.\n\nAccording to Megabase 2020 her highest FIDE rating was 2085 in July 1990 at the age of 44. However\, it would have been higher than this in the late 1960s and 1970s had ratings been established then.\n\nDinah Norman at the 2017 Keith Richardson Memorial organised by Camberley Chess Club. Courtesy of John Upham Photographic\n\n\nWith the white pieces she has essayed the Colle-Koltanowki Opening for many years and as the second player she has played the Caro-Kann\, Smyslov Variation and the Semi-Slav Defence.\n\n\nDinah Norman with Sandra Richardson at the 2017 Keith Richardson Memorial organised by Camberley Chess Club
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200823
DTSTAMP:20260811T104346Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Ernst Klein (29-i-1910 22-viii-1990)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Ernst Klein (29-i-1910 22-viii-1990) \nFrom CHESS\, July 1946 (and also The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match) : \nSince Ernst Klein came to England in 1935 his play has earned our ungrudging admiration. Born in Vienna\, 1910\, he learned chess at the age of eleven. His grandmother taught him the moves\, his father having died when he was eight. Steinitz was a frequent guest in his grandparents house. At eighteen\, he shared first\, second and third prizes in the Championship of Vienna. Before coming to England\, he had lived for some years in Switzerland\, France and Italy and his French\, German and English are equally impeccable. In his last tournament at Bournemouth\, in 193\, he finished equal with Flohr after Euwe ahead of König\, Landau\, Aitken and others. He met his wife\, who is an Englishwoman\, during the blitz. They were married in 1944. He holds a London University degree and teaches mathematics in Southend. \nAbout 1940\, he offered to give any opponent in Great Britain the odds of the draw.; his challenge was never taken up\, no doubt owing to the conditions of the moment\, but we imagine there would be many “takers” if it were repeated now.” \nLater\, Klein clarified matters by writing What I said was: “I am ready to accept the challenge of any player in this country and am prepared to give the odds of a draw in a contest at least twelve games if he so wishes. That is\, I offered to concede victory on a score of 6 : 6 draws counting\, which is the necessary and sufficient condition to justify my offer. It is still open.  \nSee below photograph for caption \nCaption for above photograph \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nEdward Winter has written a detailed article here.  \nThe Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match (1947\, Pitman)
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CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200823
DTSTAMP:20200822T155428Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of William Lewis (09-x-1787 22-viii-1870)
DESCRIPTION:We note the passing today (August 22nd) in 1870 of William Lewis of the Lewis Counter Gambit. \nThe Lewis Counter Gambit \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“English player and author. He left his native Birmingham as a young man and worked for a time with a merchant in London. He learned much of his chess from Sarratt\, a debt that was not repaid.  \nAround 1819 he was operator of the Turk\, meeting all-comers successfully. With Cochrane he visited Paris in 1821\, received odds of pawn and move from Deschapelles\, and defeated him in a short match (+ 1=2)\, Lewis had already begun to write and of the more useful books he published around this time were translations of Greco and Carrera which appeared in 1819 and 1822 respectively. Although he considered Sarratt’s A Treatise on the Game of Chess (1808) a poorly written book\, Lewis published a second edition in 1822 in direct competition with Sarratt’s last book\, published in 1821 by his impoverished widow\, (In 1843 many Englishmen contributed to a fund for Mrs Sarratt in her old age\, Lewis’s name is not on the subscription list\,}  \nWilliam Lewis\, George Walker and Augustus Mongredien \nIn 1825 Bourdonnais visited England. Lewis recalled that they played about 70 games\, and according to Walker seven of them constituted a\nmatch which Lewis lost (+2—5). With no significant playing achievements to his credit Lewis acquired such a high reputation that a correspondent writing to the weekly magazine Bell’s Life in 1838 was moved to call him grandmaster.  \nFrom 1825 he preserved this reputation by the simplest means: he declined to play on even terms. In the same year he opened a club where he gave lessons at half a guinea each. McDonnell and Walker were among his pupils. Speculating unwisely on a piano-making patent\, Lewis went bankrupt in 1827\, and the club closed. After three precarious years of teaching chess (rich patrons were becoming fewer) Lewis became actuary of the Family Endowment Society and enjoyed financial security\nfor the rest of his life.  \nWilliam Lewis \nCircumstances now made it possible for him to concentrate on his writing and he published his two most important works: Series of Progressive Lessons (1831) and Second Series of Lessons (1832)\, both republished with various revisions. Lewis continued to write but gradually withdrew from other chess activities; his last notable connection with chess was as stakeholder for the Morphy-Lowenthal match of 1858.  \nChess Board Companion by William Lewis \nLewis’s Lessons contain extensive analyses of many opening variations\, examined in the closeness of his study. Subsequent writers\, notably Lasa\, were influenced by these books\, but more on account of the form than the content\, which\, adequate for the 1830s\, were soon out of date.  \nAround 1840 writers no longer worked in isolation (a circumstance Lewis found unavoidable) and new positional ideas were being shaped. Because Lewis failed to assimilate these his judgements were faulty\, and his voluminous Treatise on the Game of Chess (1844) was out of date when published. \nIndustrious rather than inventive\, he made only one innovation\, the Lewis Counter-Gambit; but it had no practical value in 1844\, for simpler defences had already been discovered. Lewis’s work commands respect\, but he is more aptly described as the last and one of the best of the ‘old’ writers than the first of the new\, a more fitting description for Jaenisch and the authors of Bilguer’s Handbuch. ” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Cafe de la Regence Casual Games”]\n[Site “Paris”]\n[Date “1821.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Lewis\, William”]\n[Black “Deschapelles\, Alexandre”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[SetUp “1”]\n[FEN “rnbqkbnr/ppppp1pp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq – 0 1”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1821.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventCountry “FRA”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2015”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2014.11.20”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2014.11.20”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%csl Gf7][%evp 0\,53\,148\,134\,136\,144\,147\,149\,148\,131\,119\,150\,150\,152\,152\,151\,\n151\,165\,82\,78\,113\,123\,106\,106\,106\,120\,116\,98\,65\,65\,65\,23\,133\,91\,91\,70\,65\,32\,\n132\,273\,582\,582\,582\,572\,740\,349\,378\,97\,526\,523\,975\,1046\,1162\,1187\,1216\,1327]\nGeorge Walker\, Chess Studies Comprising One Thousand Games\, London 1844\, p. 78\,\nchapter 8\, game 3 (421)} 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 e5 3. d5 Nce7 4. Bg5 Nf6 5. Bxf6 gxf6\n6. Qh5+ Ng6 7. Nf3 Qe7 8. d6 Qxd6 9. Nh4 Bg7 10. Nxg6 hxg6 11. Qxg6+ Kf8 12.\nBc4 Qe7 13. O-O Rh6 14. Qg3 c6 15. Nc3 d6 16. Rad1 f5 17. f4 d5 18. Bb3 dxe4 $2\n19. Nxe4 $1 fxe4 $4 20. fxe5+ Ke8 21. Bf7+ Qxf7 22. Rxf7 Kxf7 23. Qb3+ $2 (23.\nQf4+ $18) 23… Ke7 24. Qg8 Bf8 25. Qg5+ Kf7 26. Rf1+ Ke8 27. Qg8 {and Black\nresigned} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \nChess theoretician\, teacher\, author and one of the leading players in England in the nineteenth century.  \nWilliam Lewis was born in Birmingham on 9th October 1787. As a young man he went to London and took chess lessons from JH Sarratt. Within a short time he was making chess his principal means of livelihood. \nIn 1819 he was engaged as the player concealed in the chess-playing automaton\, ‘The Turk’\, when it was exhibited in London. In 1825 he opened some chess rooms in St. Martin’s Lane in London\, where he taught chess. Among his pupils was Alexander McDonnell. After going bankrupt in 1827\, the chess rooms were closed\, and Lewis decided to put his lessons into a book. He soon became a highly-successful writer\, His Chessboard Companion published in 1838 ran into nine editions\, and his Series of Progressive Lessons of the Game of Chess has been described as one of the landmarks in the history of the game. This book included some completely new analyses of various chess openings and later formed the basis of the Handbuch des Schachspiels. Lewis also translated the work of Greco and Stamma and was author of The Elements of Chess (1882)\, Fifty Games of Chess (1832) and Chess for Beginners (1835). \nChess Board Companion by William Lewis \nTowards the end of his life\, Lewis rarely played chess\, and his last public appearance in chess circles was 12 before he died\, when he acted at stake-holder in the match between Morphy and Lowenthal in 1858. He died on 22nd August 1870. \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek : \n“Author of The Chessboard Companion\, London\, 1838\, and several other popular works on chess (including translations of Greco and Stamma). Lewis was also a leading chess teacher – his most famous pupil was Alexdander McDonnell – and for a time he ran chess rooms in St. Martin’s Lane. In 1819 he operated the chess-playing automaton ‘The Turk’ when it was exhibited in London. The Lewis Counter-Gambit is 1.P-K4\, P-K4; 2.B-B4 B-B4; 3.P-QB3\,P-Q5!?” \nChess for Beginners \nFrom “Chess : A History” by Harry Golombek there are two references to WL on pages 98 and 123 alluded to above. \nHere is an interesting article from Chess.com  \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“William Lewis (1787–1870) was an English chess player and author\, nowadays best known for the Lewis Countergambit and for being the first player ever to be described as a Grandmaster of the game.[1] \nBorn in Birmingham\, William Lewis moved as a young man to London where he worked for a merchant for a short period. He became a student of chess player Jacob Sarratt\, but in later years he showed himself to be rather ungrateful towards his teacher.[1] Although he considered Sarratt’s Treatise on the Game of Chess (1808)[2] a “poorly written book”\, in 1822 Lewis published a second edition of it three years after Sarratt’s death in direct competition with Sarratt’s own superior revision published posthumously in 1821 by Sarratt’s poverty-stricken widow. In 1843\, many players contributed to a fund to help the old widow\, but Lewis’ name is not on the list of subscribers.[1] \nAround 1819 Lewis was the hidden player inside the Turk (a famous automaton)\, meeting all-comers successfully. He suggested to Johann Maelzel that Peter Unger Williams\, a fellow ex-student of Sarratt\, should be the next person to operate inside the machine. When P. U. Williams played a game against the Turk\, Lewis recognised the old friend from his style of play (the operator could not see his opponents) and convinced Maelzel to reveal to Williams the secret of the Turk. Later\, P. U. Williams himself took Lewis’ place inside the machine.[3] \nLewis visited Paris along with Scottish player John Cochrane in 1821\, where they played with Alexandre Deschapelles\, receiving the advantage of pawn and move. He won the short match (+1 =2).” \n“Lewis’ career as an author began at this time\, and included translations of the works of Greco and Carrera\, published in 1819[5] and 1822[6] respectively. \nHe was the leading English player in the correspondence match between London and Edinburgh in 1824\, won by the Scots (+2 = 2 -1). Later\, he published a book on the match with analysis of the games.[7] In the period of 1834–36 he was also part of the Committee of the Westminster Chess Club\, who played and lost (−2) the match by correspondence with the Paris Chess Club. The other players were his students McDonnell and Walker\, while the French line up included Boncourt\, Alexandre\, St. Amant and Chamouillet.[8] When De La Bourdonnais visited England in 1825\, Lewis played about 70 games with the French master. Seven of these games probably represented a match that Lewis lost (+2 -5).[9] \nLewis enjoyed a considerable reputation as a chess player in his time. A correspondent writing to the weekly magazine Bell’s Life in 1838 called him “our past grandmaster”\, the first known use of the term in chess.[1] Starting from 1825 he preserved his reputation by the same means that Deschapelles used in France\, by refusing to play anyone on even terms. In the same year Lewis founded a Chess Club where he gave lessons to\, amongst others\, Walker and McDonnell. He was declared bankrupt in 1827 due to bad investments on a patent for the construction of pianos and his chess club was forced to close. The next three years were quite difficult until in 1830 he got a job that assured him of solid financial security for the rest of his life. Thanks to this job\, he could focus on writing his two major works: Series of Progressive Lessons (1831) and Second Series of Progressive Lessons (1832). The first series of the Lessons were more elementary in character\, and designed for the use of beginners; the second series\, on the other hand\, went deeply into all the known openings. Here\, for the first time we find the Evans Gambit\, which is named after its inventor\, Capt. Evans.[10] \nThe works of Lewis (together with his teacher Sarratt) were oriented towards the rethinking of the strictly Philidorian principles of play in favour of the Modenese school of Del Rio\, Lolli and Ponziani.[11] When he realised that he could not give an advantage to the new generation of British players\, Lewis withdrew gradually from active play[1] (in the same way that Deschapelles did after his defeat against De La Bourdonnais). \nAfter his retirement he wrote other chess treatises\, but his isolation prevented him from assimilating the positional ideas of the new generation of chess-players. For this reason\, Hooper and Whyld in their Oxford Chess Companion describe the last voluminous work of Lewis\, A Treatise on Chess (1844)\,[12] as already “out of date when published”.”
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200823
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200824
DTSTAMP:20210822T083858Z
CREATED:20200409T172256Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Alan Hanreck (23-viii-1954)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Alan Emile Hanreck (23-viii-1954)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-alan-emile-hanreck-23-viii-1954/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200824
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200825
DTSTAMP:20210822T084002Z
CREATED:20200409T172640Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Andrew Harley (24-viii-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Andrew D Harley (24-viii-1967)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-andrew-d-harley-24-viii-1967/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200826
DTSTAMP:20210827T204043Z
CREATED:20190823T074228Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WFM Helen Milligan (25-viii-1962)
DESCRIPTION:We wish WFM Helen Milligan all the best on her birthday\, this day (August 25th) in 1962. \nHelen became a Woman’s FIDE Master in 2000 and a Candidate Master in 2013. \nHer highest FIDE rating was 2138 in July 1999. \nHelen Milligan (born Helen Scott; 25 August 1962) is a Scottish-New Zealand chess player holding the FIDE titles of Candidate Master (CM) and Woman FIDE Master (WFM)\, and three-time Asian senior women’s champion. The CM title was earnt at a FIDE open zonal. \nWFM Helen Milligan \nIn 2004 Milligan co-authored the book “Chess for Children” with Grandmaster Murray Chandler. She has been an officer of the New Zealand Chess Federation\, and has worked as a coach at Murray Chandler’s National Chess Centre in Auckland. She currently works as a self-employed chess coach. The National Chess Centre has since been sold by Murray Chandler. \n[pgn]\n[Event “EU-chT (Women)”]\n[Site “Leon”]\n[Date “2001.11.11”]\n[Round “6.1”]\n[White “Milligan\, Helen”]\n[Black “Reizniece Ozola\, Dana”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B32”]\n[WhiteElo “2117”]\n[BlackElo “2303”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “2001.11.06”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ESP”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2002”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2001.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Scotland (W)”]\n[BlackTeam “Latvia (W)”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “SCO”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “LAT”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,38\,40\,41\,51\,40\,25\,22\,3\,11\,1\,-14\,-28\,-8\,-8\,-8\,21\,4\,16\,26\,19\,-24\,\n12\,-14\,-10\,-62\,-30\,-36\,-48\,-59\,16\,19\,18\,13\,12\,12\,54\,33\,109\,96\,117\,15\,43\,41\,41\,\n31\,103\,43\,-56\,-74\,-64\,-35\,-30\,-56\,-21\,-110\,-96\,-130\,507\,537\,29991\,29992]} 1. e4\nc5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 {Lowenthal / La Bourdonnais} 5. Nb5 d6 6.\nc4 {The second most popular move but interestingly given little mention in the\nfamous book by Tim Harding and Peter Markland.} (6. N1c3 a6 7. Na3 (7. Nd5 $6\naxb5 8. Be3 Be6 $17) (7. Bg5 $6 f6 8. Nd5 axb5 9. Be3 Be6 $17) 7… b5 8. Nd5\nNge7 9. c4 Nd4 10. Be3 Nxd5 11. cxd5 Be7 12. Bd3 O-O 13. O-O f5 14. Bxd4 exd4\n15. exf5 Bxf5 16. Nc2 Qb6 17. Bxf5 Rxf5 18. Nxd4 Rf7 19. Ne6 Bf6 20. Qd2 $18 {\nis the modern main line in 2020.}) 6… Be7 7. N1c3 a6 8. Na3 f5 ({Relevant:}\n8… Be6 9. Nc2 Rc8 10. b3 Nf6 11. Bd3 O-O 12. O-O Nd7 13. Bb2 Nc5 14. Ne3 Bg5\n15. Ncd5 Nd4 16. Re1 b5 17. cxb5 axb5 18. Bxd4 exd4 19. Nf5 Bxd5 20. exd5 Bf6\n21. Bxb5 d3 22. Rc1 g6 23. Ng3 Qa5 24. Bxd3 Qxa2 25. Bc4 Qa5 26. Ne4 Nxe4 27.\nRxe4 Rfe8 28. Rxe8+ Rxe8 29. g3 Qb6 30. Kg2 Bd4 31. Rc2 Kg7 32. Bb5 Qxb5 33.\nQxd4+ Kg8 34. Rc6 Qxb3 35. Rxd6 Qc2 36. Rd7 Qf5 37. Rc7 Qe4+ 38. Qxe4 {\nIvanchuk\,V (2740)-Kramnik\,V (2730) Paris 1995 1/2-1/2 (66)}) 9. Bd3 (9. exf5\nBxf5 10. Bd3 Be6 11. O-O Nf6 12. Nc2 O-O $15 {has been a common path.}) 9… f4\n10. Nc2 Nf6 {[#]} 11. Be2 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11. b3 O-O 12. Bb2 Kh8 13. Qe2\nBe6 14. Nd5 Rc8 15. O-O-O b5 16. Kb1 bxc4 17. Bxc4 Na5 18. Bxa6 Ra8 19. f3 Nxd5\n20. exd5 Bf7 21. b4 Bf6 22. Bb5 Qb6 23. bxa5 Rxa5 24. a4 Bg6 25. Qc4 Raa8 26.\nRd2 Rfc8 27. Qb3 Rc7 28. Rc1 Rac8 29. Ka2 Qa5 30. Re2 h6 31. Bc6 Bf7 32. Nb4\nRb8 33. Ka3 Bd8 34. Re4 Ra7 35. Bc3 Bb6 36. Kb2 Be3 37. Rb1 Rc7 38. Kc2 Rb6 39.\nQc4 Qa7 40. Qd3 Bg6 {De Firmian\,N (2605)-Shabalov\,A (2645) Denver 1998 1-0})\n11… Be6 12. g3 O-O 13. gxf4 exf4 14. Nd4 Nxd4 15. Qxd4 f3 (15… Nd7 $142 16.\nf3 Bh4+ 17. Kd1 b5 $17) 16. Bxf3 Nd7 17. Be2 Ne5 18. Nd5 Bh4 19. Be3 b5 20. Rg1\nbxc4 $6 (20… Kh8) 21. Kd1 (21. O-O-O) 21… Bxd5 22. Qxd5+ Kh8 23. f4 $1 Ng6\n24. Rc1 Nxf4 25. Bxf4 Rxf4 26. Rxc4 Rb8 27. b3 Qf6 28. Rc7 Qa1+ 29. Rc1 Qxa2 $4\n(29… Qf6) 30. Qb7 $1 Rg8 31. Qxg7+ {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nMilligan has won or jointly won the Scottish women’s championship three times: in 1982\, 1986 and 1988. In 1983 she was joint British Ladies’ champion with Rani Hamid. \nWFM Helen Milligan in 2010 \nMilligan represented Scotland in eleven Women’s Chess Olympiads between 1982 and 2006. Since 2008 she has played for New Zealand in this competition\, having transferred national federations in 2007. \nWFM Helen Milligan vs Susan Arkell \nMilligan became Oceania women’s champion at the Queenstown Chess Classic tournament in January 2012. She also competed in Women’s Zonal Chess Championships in Bath 1987\, Blackpool 1990\, Delden 1993\, Saint Vincent 1999\, and the open zonal at Gold Coast in 2009. \nShe won the Asian senior women’s (50+) champion title in 2014 in Sri Lanka\, 2015 in Larestan\, Iran\, 2016 in Mandalay\, Myanmar and 2017 in Auckland. \nHere is Helen’s chess web site \nHere is Helen’s Lichess coaching account \nHelen co-authored Chess for Children with Murray Chandler in 2004 : \nChess For Children\, Helen Milligan \nHere is a notable game : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad Women-28”]\n[Site “Thessaloniki”]\n[Date “1988.11.13”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Savereide\, Diane”]\n[Black “Milligan\, Helen”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C42”]\n[WhiteElo “2245”]\n[BlackElo “2020”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “38”]\n[EventDate “1988.11.13”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “14”]\n[EventCountry “GRE”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2019”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “US of America (W)”]\n[BlackTeam “Scotland (W)”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “USA”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “SCO”] \n{[%evp 0\,38\,31\,15\,40\,24\,43\,-2\,44\,36\,21\,-7\,8\,11\,11\,48\,48\,21\,32\,18\,16\,0\,0\,0\,26\,\n12\,28\,61\,55\,-137\,-139\,-305\,-287\,-969\,-1057\,-1082\,-1196\,-1196\,-937\,-1196\,-1252]\n} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8.\nRe1 Bg4 9. c3 f5 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Qb3 Kh8 12. Qxb7 Rf6 13. Qb3 Rg6 14. Ne5 $2 (\n14. Bb5 Nxd2 15. Nxd2 Bd6 16. Nf1 $16) 14… Nxe5 15. dxe5 Nxf2 $1 16. Kxf2\nBc5+ 17. Kf1 Qh4 $19 18. Re2 Qxh2 19. Ke1 Qg3+ {and white resigned} 0-1\n[/pgn]
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200826
DTSTAMP:20200821T162836Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Jeff Horner (25-viii-1949)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes IM Jeff Horner\, all the best on his birthday. \nJeffrey Horner was born in Bolton\, Lancashire on Thursday\, August 25th\, 1949. \nJeff played for Poulton-le-Fylde Teacher Training College  and is registered for Lancashire CA. \nJeff became a FIDE Master in 1989 (aged 40) and an International Master in 2008 (at the age of 58) and a gap of some 19 years! \n(Compare this with John Pigott : John became a FIDE Master in 1984 and an International Master in 2017\, a gap of some 33 years!) \nHe achieved a peak rating of 2450 in January 1975 at the age of 26. \nHis most recent ECF grading was 233E in January 2017. His last recorded game was played on June 30th 2018 and was a win with black versus Andrew Ledger graded 227. \nJeff played 1.e4 playing 1.g3 once against Graham Lee and winning and the Trompowski once against Murray Chandler and losing. In recent years he favoured the Wormald (Alapin) Attack in the Ruy Lopez. \nWith the black pieces Jeff defended the main line Ruy Lopez and the King’s Indian Defence. \nHere is a comment from PQB4 from chessgames.com : \n“A pity we don’t have more games here by this gifted attacking player\, arguably the most respected amateur in the North of England. 220 BCF/2300+ for about 30 years\, he’s beaten a string of grandmasters\, but his best stuff probably occurs in weekend congresses\, hence we don’t have enough recorded. I hope there are many such players in the world whose respect for the game and other players shows more of the quality of a true chess black belt than that of some of the more famous. Off the board he’s a schoolteacher\, and presumably a pretty inspiring one\, to judge by his infectious love of chess and the encouraging words he invariably has for opponents. I’ve had the pleasure of playing Jeff a few times and… let’s just say that The Day of My Revenge will surely come.” \nAccording to David Norwood : \n(from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/chess/3601119/David-Norwood-shows-how-there-is-life-in-an-old-dog-yet.html) \n“There have been so many headlines about Britain’s 12-year-old chess prodigy\, David Howell\, that it nice to turn our attention to someone at the other end of the spectrum. Perhaps few readers will have heard of 53-year-old Jeff Horner- unless\, that is\, you have played on the north of England chess circuit\, where Jeff has been dominating events since before I was born. My first meeting with Jeff was at Bolton Chess Club at the age of six\, but it was another ten years before I fancied my chances against him. And it wasn’t just me who feared him. Few indeed were the top players who travelled “Up North” and got the better of Horner.” \n2002 : Jeff Horner takes on world under-10 chess champion Luke McShane blindfolded \nThe above photograph was recovered from The Bolton News \nwhich goes on to write : \n“IT’S hard enough challenging a world champion to a game of chess\, but to then say you’ll do it blindfold is bordering on the ridiculous. \nBut that’s exactly what Jeff Hormer from Radcliffe did back in 1993. \nTeacher Jeff’s showdown with Luke McShane\, the world under-10 chess champion from London was the main attraction at a two-day chess festival held at Bolton’s Moat House. \nJeff\, 43\, faced off against nine-year-old\, Luke\, with a thick black cloth placed over his eyes. \nThe youngster had full view of the board\, but Mr Horner was forced to play with the aid of an assistant who placed his pieces and let him know the moves Luke was making \nJeff’s amazing memory and powers of concentration coupled with his greater experience proved too much for the young chess champion. \nAnd despite the handicap of the blindfold\, he beat the world champion relatively easily.. \nIt ended up being one of the few matches that Luke McShane lost as he gained international recognition as a chess prodigy. \nJeff Horner\, Isle of Man 2008\, Photograph : John Saunders \nAged just 16 he became the youngest British chess player to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by the International Chess Federation in 2000 and now\, although he works as a trader in the City of London\, Luke is regarded as the best amateur chess player in the world. \nJeff Hormer was a long-standing member of Bolton chess club and was renowned for his ability on the board\, often taking on – and beating – internationally-renowned players. \nHe famously beat British Grand Master Tony Miles\, who himself had only recently defeated the reigning world champion Anatoly Karpov. \nJeff was awarded the title of International Master by the International Chess Federation.” \nJeff Horner \nHere are his games \n[pgn] \n[Event “Blackpool Ron Banwell Masters”]\n[Site “Blackpool”]\n[Date “2003.08.08”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Horner\, Jeff”]\n[Black “Howell\, David”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C86”]\n[WhiteElo “2354”]\n[BlackElo “2323”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “97”]\n[EventDate “2003.08.04”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “2”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 095 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2003.09.04”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2003.09.04”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,97\,27\,25\,25\,25\,22\,22\,25\,7\,0\,-36\,-12\,-41\,-49\,-35\,-22\,-24\,-28\,-34\,-13\,\n-40\,-8\,2\,55\,2\,76\,75\,70\,11\,28\,36\,36\,12\,27\,9\,29\,-28\,-32\,-10\,2\,16\,10\,16\,15\,18\,26\,\n29\,47\,51\,42\,18\,42\,-1\,0\,0\,20\,0\,0\,0\,28\,47\,42\,6\,65\,72\,94\,94\,89\,67\,65\,92\,78\,93\,90\,\n96\,85\,84\,84\,84\,86\,83\,96\,97\,90\,95\,79\,72\,80\,67\,156\,79\,111\,99\,371\,364\,378\,394\,395\,\n395]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Qe2 Be7 6. c3 b5 7. Bb3 O-O\n8. O-O d6 9. Rd1 Bg4 10. d3 d5 11. Nbd2 Na5 12. Bc2 c5 13. h3 Bh5 14. Nf1 Nc6\n15. Ng3 Bg6 16. Nh4 d4 17. Nhf5 Re8 18. cxd4 Nxd4 19. Nxd4 Qxd4 20. Bb3 Rac8\n21. Be3 Qd8 22. Qf3 Qd7 23. a4 h6 24. axb5 axb5 25. Rac1 Nh7 26. Bd5 Nf6 27.\nBb3 Red8 28. Qe2 Nh7 29. Ra1 Ra8 30. Rxa8 Rxa8 31. Qc2 h5 32. Ne2 Rc8 33. Nc3\nBg5 34. Nd5 Qd6 35. Qe2 Kh8 36. Ra1 Bxe3 37. Qxe3 Nf6 38. Nxf6 Qxf6 39. Bd5 Qe7\n40. Ra6 f6 41. Rb6 Be8 42. Qf3 Rd8 43. Qf5 b4 44. Re6 Qf8 45. Rb6 Qe7 46. h4\nRd7 47. Re6 Qf8 48. Rxe8 Qxe8 49. Bc6 1-0 \n[/pgn] \n[pgn] \n[Event “Sale”]\n[Site “Sale”]\n[Date “1977.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Horner\, Jeff”]\n[Black “Short\, Nigel D”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C15”]\n[WhiteElo “2395”]\n[Annotator “Upper\,J”]\n[PlyCount “49”]\n[EventDate “1977.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\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\,49\,19\,31\,41\,46\,51\,29\,37\,22\,30\,44\,27\,3\,-10\,-19\,18\,41\,50\,22\,135\,73\,57\,\n62\,53\,47\,66\,66\,66\,34\,21\,12\,68\,68\,141\,125\,122\,117\,187\,186\,259\,197\,239\,280\,374\,\n374\,424\,489\,592\,586\,1580\,1965]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nge2 dxe4 5. a3\nBe7 6. g3 f5 7. Bg2 c5 $2 {This move seemed a good idea at the time but really\nI should have played Nf6 and castled before attempting to grab some more\ncentral control. After all\, I was playing the Black pieces and should have\nbeen looking more to consolidating and not losing ground\, rather than getting\ntoo adventurous too soon. I paid for it later – I lost because my king was\nstuck in the middle. Still\, lessons learned the hard way certainly stick in\nthe mind and since this game I have always been mindful of the advisability of\ntucking the king away as soon as is convenient\, and certainly before embarking\nupon any premature advances – Short\, “Nigel Short’s Chess Skills”} 8. Bf4 Nc6\n9. d5 $1 Nd4 10. Nxd4 cxd4 11. Qxd4 Bf6 12. Qc4 Bxc3+ 13. Qxc3 Nf6 14. dxe6\nBxe6 15. Rd1 Qe7 $2 (15… Qc8 $142) 16. Bd6 Qf7 17. O-O Rc8 18. Qd4 b6 19. f3\nRc4 20. Qd2 Qb7 21. b3 Rc8 22. fxe4 Nxe4 23. Bxe4 fxe4 24. Bb4 Bh3 25. Qd6 1-0\n[/pgn] \nMore from David Norwood : \n“I still remember Tony Miles\, fresh from his historic victory against World Champion Anatoly Karpov\, stopping off at the Blackpool Open. Miles had become a legend overnight but nobody bothered to tell Jeff\, who calmly trounced him just as he would us. Two weeks ago David Howell had to play Jeff Horner in Blackpool. Both players needed two wins from their last two games to earn an international master (IM) result. Would it be Britain’s youngest new IM or our oldest new IM?” \nJeff Horner
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200827
DTSTAMP:20210826T123948Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Aaron Summerscale (26-viii-1969)
DESCRIPTION:BCN offers best wishes to Aaron Summerscale on his 52nd birthday. \nAaron Piers Summerscale was born on Tuesday\, August 26th 1969 in Westminster\, Greater London. His mother’s maiden name is Mayall. Aaron lives in SW18 and teaches chess. He married Claire Lusher (Basingstoke) but they are now separated. \nAaron Summerscale \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1992\, an International Master in 1994 and a Grandmaster in 1997. \nAaron was runner-up (to Jonathan Parker) with 8/11 in the 1995 British Championship in Swansea. \nBritish Championship (Swansea) 1995 Crosstable \nHis highest FIDE rating was 2513 in October 2000 and was joint (with Ameet Ghasi) British Rapidplay Chess Champion in the same year. \nAaron Summerscale courtesy of John Henderson \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch 87th”]\n[Site “Millfield”]\n[Date “2000.08.02”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Summerscale\, Aaron”]\n[Black “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D58”]\n[WhiteElo “2459”]\n[BlackElo “2526”]\n[Annotator “John Emms”]\n[PlyCount “129”]\n[EventDate “2000.07.31”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 077 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.09.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.09.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,127\,19\,31\,14\,30\,28\,-14\,4\,-3\,24\,18\,35\,-18\,16\,22\,33\,32\,36\,3\,28\,0\,5\,-3\,\n26\,10\,10\,15\,29\,3\,-8\,-11\,-3\,-20\,-19\,-21\,2\,-21\,-26\,-3\,-3\,-32\,-32\,-31\,-23\,-40\,-35\,\n-42\,-42\,-42\,20\,0\,175\,199\,257\,224\,201\,201\,282\,250\,526\,105\,321\,124\,131\,305\,201\,\n244\,244\,126\,115\,155\,146\,198\,312\,286\,380\,326\,340\,0\,61\,54\,97\,97\,95\,95\,111\,108\,\n118\,119\,112\,115\,115\,102\,98\,103\,132\,139\,181\,173\,174\,174\,174\,174\,197\,197\,218\,124\,\n125\,180\,180\,182\,182\,221\,228\,229\,236\,242\,298\,173\,289\,327\,574\,630\,851\,29982\,\n29989\,29990\,29991\,29992]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 h6 6.\nBh4 O-O 7. e3 b6 8. Bd3 Bb7 9. O-O Nbd7 {[#]} 10. Bg3 {This strange looking\nretreat is in fact quite a common move here. White’s intentions are well\nexplained in Matthew Sadler’s recent excellent book on the QGD\, which has\ninspired Summerscale to play this line with both White and Black. Here White\nanticipates Black’s freeing move Nf6-e4 and takes measures against there being\ntoo many exchanges\, which would liberate Black’s position.} (10. Qe2 c5 11.\nRfd1 Ne4 12. Bg3) 10… c5 11. Qe2 a6 $5 {This move is quite uncommon. Black\nmay be preparing to gain space on the queenside with dxc4 followed by b5.} ({\nBlack normally plumps for} 11… Ne4 12. cxd5 exd5 13. Rad1 Qc8 14. Rc1 Ndf6\n15. dxc5 bxc5) 12. cxd5 {White’s choice releases some of the tension in the\ncentre. Summerscale believed that the resulting position was roughly level.}\nexd5 13. Rad1 c4 14. Bb1 b5 15. a3 Ne4 $146 (15… b4) (15… Re8) 16. Nxe4\ndxe4 17. Nd2 Nf6 {Originally Black’s position is fine\, but around this stage\nChandler was taking lots of time over his moves which gave Summerscale some\ncause for optimism.} 18. Bh4 Re8 19. f3 exf3 20. Nxf3 Ne4 ({Bogdan Lalic\nsuggested} 20… Be4 {as an improvement. The point is that White’s centre\nbecomes less of a force and more of a liability as pieces are exchanged.}) 21.\nBxe7 Qxe7 22. Ne5 f6 23. Ng6 Qf7 24. Nh4 g6 $2 {[#] The punters in the\ncommentary room did not like this move at all. and I’m sure that the official\ncommentator Andrew Martin didn’t miss his chance to put his boot in. Blacks\nwants to prevent Nh4-f5 but in doing so he weakens his kingside irrevocably.} (\n24… Rad8 $11) 25. Qg4 Kh7 26. d5 $1 h5 27. Qf3 Bxd5 28. Nxg6 $1 $18 {Now\nBlack is completey busted\, but surprisingly the action is far from over.} Bc6\n29. Nh4 Re5 {[#]} 30. Nf5 $6 ({Both} 30. Rd6 $1 $18) ({and} 30. Qxf6 $1 $16 {\nare winning on the spot.}) 30… Kh8 31. Nd6 Qe6 32. Nxe4 Bxe4 33. Bxe4 Rxe4\n34. Qxh5+ ({And now} 34. Rd4 $1 $18 {gives White a decisive advantage. By this\nstage both players were in deep time trouble.}) 34… Kg7 35. Qc5 $16 Rc8 36.\nQa7+ Kg6 37. Rf3 Rg4 38. Rd7 Rg8 39. Qc7 Qe4 40. Qb7 $11 {[#]} Qxb7 $2 {\nOn the last move before the time control \, Chandler misses his one big chance.}\n({The shocking} 40… Rxg2+ $1 {is difficult to meet} {as} 41. Kxg2 {loses} ({\nWhite has to make do with} 41. Kf1 {but the unclear endgame position reached\nafter} Qxb7 42. Rxb7 {is a much better version for Black than the actual game\ncontnuation.}) {after} 41… Kh6+ 42. Kf1 Qb1+ 43. Ke2 Rg2+ 44. Rf2 Qxb2+ 45.\nRd2 Rxf2+ 46. Kxf2 Qxd2+ $19) 41. Rxb7 Rd8 42. Rb6 Rd1+ 43. Rf1 Rxf1+ 44. Kxf1\nc3 45. bxc3 Ra4 46. Kf2 Rxa3 47. Kf3 Kf5 48. h4 Rxc3 49. Rxa6 Rc4 50. g3 Kg6\n51. Rb6 {White’s three-versus-one pawn majority on the kingside is decisive.}\nRb4 52. g4 Kg7 53. e4 Rb1 54. e5 $1 {Creating two connected passed pawns\, a\nwinning advantage in this type of ending.} fxe5 55. Ke4 Rb4+ 56. Kf5 Rf4+ 57.\nKg5 b4 58. h5 Rc4 59. Rb7+ Kg8 60. h6 e4 61. Kh5 e3 62. g5 e2 63. h7+ Kh8 64.\nKh6 {and Black resigned.} Rc8 {is answered by} 65. g6 {A well fought battle\ndespite its faults.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHis highest ECF grading was 244A in 2001 and he won the Staffordshire GM tournament in the same year : \nStaffordshire GM Tournament 2000 Crosstable \nAaron plays for Wood Green in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) and has played for Pride and Prejudice. \nAaron Summerscale \nAaron wrote “Confessions of a British Nightclubber” for Kingpin Magazine. \nWith the white pieces Aaron is very much a Queen’s pawn player mainly employing the Colle-Zukertort System and the Barry Attack. \nAaron Summerscale from Foxy Video 20. d4 Dynamite! talks about the Barry Attack\, \nAs the second player Aaron prefers the Classical French and the Slav Defence. \nHere is a video of a young Aaron talking about his 150 Attack video for Foxy Video : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KpOx-mFm0Q[/embedyt] \nAaron Summerscale courtesy of Gabriele Winkler \n[pgn]\n[Event “Oz.com qual blitz”]\n[Site “ICC INT”]\n[Date “2000.03.05”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Summerscale\, Aaron”]\n[Black “Benjamin\, Joel”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A41”]\n[WhiteElo “2430”]\n[BlackElo “2591”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “99”]\n[EventDate “2000.03.05”]\n[EventType “swiss (blitz)”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “USA”]\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\,99\,25\,20\,64\,71\,97\,87\,74\,67\,72\,70\,94\,70\,68\,71\,59\,33\,21\,24\,58\,40\,0\,-6\,\n-11\,-29\,-24\,-39\,-46\,-26\,-33\,-46\,-42\,-24\,16\,-4\,-2\,0\,0\,-18\,55\,45\,32\,32\,28\,12\,39\,\n17\,34\,23\,31\,44\,19\,60\,31\,-47\,-9\,6\,53\,3\,88\,102\,183\,183\,172\,172\,136\,0\,-1\,0\,0\,-36\,\n-106\,-106\,110\,-48\,120\,150\,211\,216\,221\,216\,229\,228\,278\,294\,347\,342\,337\,334\,355\,\n364\,377\,385\,384\,398\,397\,396\,396\,466\,539\,664]} 1. d4 d6 2. Nf3 Bg4 3. e4 Nf6 4.\nNc3 e6 5. h3 Bh5 6. Qe2 c6 7. g4 Bg6 8. Bg5 Nbd7 9. O-O-O Qa5 10. Bg2 d5 11.\nBxf6 Nxf6 12. exd5 Nxd5 13. Nxd5 cxd5 14. Ne5 Bd6 15. Nxg6 hxg6 16. Kb1 O-O-O\n17. c4 dxc4 18. Qxc4+ Kb8 19. Qb3 Qb4 20. Qf3 Rd7 21. Rd3 Qa5 22. Rb3 Qa6 23.\nRc1 Rc8 24. Rxc8+ Kxc8 25. a3 Rc7 26. h4 Kd8 27. h5 gxh5 28. gxh5 Ke7 29. Qe3\nQa5 30. d5 Qc5 31. Qg5+ Ke8 32. Qxg7 Qxf2 33. h6 Qe1+ 34. Ka2 Rc1 35. Rd3 Ra1+\n36. Kb3 Qa5 37. Qc3 Qxc3+ 38. Rxc3 Rb1 39. h7 Be5 40. h8=Q+ Bxh8 41. Rc8+ Kd7\n42. Rxh8 exd5 43. Bxd5 b6 44. Bxf7 Rf1 45. Bc4 Rf3+ 46. Kb4 Kc6 47. Rh6+ Kc7\n48. Rh7+ Kb8 49. Rb7+ Kxb7 50. Bd5+ 1-0 \n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haULRgCC5I4[/embedyt] \nBooks : \nSummerscale\, Aaron (1999). A Killer Chess Opening Repertoire. Globe Pequot. ISBN 978-1-85744-519-0. \nA Killer Chess Opening Repertoire \nA Killer Chess Opening Repertoire \nSummerscale\, Aaron; Summerscale\, Claire (2002). \nInterview With a Grandmaster. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-243-4. \nInterview with a Grandmaster \nFoxy Video : d4 Dynamite by Aaron Summerscale \nGM Aaron Summerscale courtesy of John Upham Photography
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Alexander Cherniaev (26-viii-1969)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Alexander Sergeevich Cherniaev (26-viii-1969) \nAlexander Sergeevich Cherniaev was born on Tuesday\, August 26th 1969 in Arkhangelsk\, Western Russia. \nHe became an International Master in 1993 and a Grandmaster in 2004. \nHe became a FIDE Senior Trainer in 2016. \nHis peak FIDE rating (according to Megabase 2020 and Felice) was 2509 in July 2002\, aged 33. \n(Gaige is silent on Alexander). \nAlex is registered with the Russian Federation and plays for Hackney\, Wood Green\, Russia (unsurprisingly!) and 4NCL Barnet Knights and makes regular appearences in Richmond\, Golders Green and other rapidplay event\, the London Chess Classic and 4NCL. \nHe made his first appearance in a UK event at Hastings 1993/1994. Since 1999 he has been London based playing in many UK events. \nHe won the Coulsdon Easter Congress in 2007 with 7.5/9 and the Canadian Open in 2019 with 9/9 \nAs the first player Alex mainly champions the Ruy Lopez and with the Black pieces he enjoys the Sveshnikov Sicilian and the Old Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Staunton Memorial 7th GM”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “2009.08.08”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Kortschnoj\, Viktor Lvovich”]\n[Black “Cherniaev\, Alexander”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A54”]\n[WhiteElo “2561”]\n[BlackElo “2428”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “118”]\n[EventDate “2009.08.08”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “9”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 131 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2009.09.03”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2009.09.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,118\,22\,22\,22\,14\,36\,23\,23\,11\,45\,44\,58\,24\,51\,27\,36\,54\,34\,35\,34\,34\,36\,24\,\n75\,73\,73\,77\,95\,54\,78\,72\,69\,69\,70\,61\,66\,48\,67\,36\,30\,22\,60\,40\,32\,31\,25\,7\,17\,3\,10\,\n-12\,-12\,-37\,29\,-25\,-55\,-48\,6\,-18\,-26\,-26\,110\,53\,110\,63\,29\,45\,48\,69\,70\,122\,124\,\n45\,32\,55\,55\,41\,16\,42\,42\,0\,113\,-48\,-23\,-37\,-12\,-73\,-158\,-145\,-97\,-216\,-313\,-317\,\n-340\,-334\,-123\,-123\,-123\,-146\,-128\,-191\,-156\,-195\,-194\,-207\,-181\,-268\,-280\,\n-311\,-320\,-310\,-179\,-268\,-204\,-163\,-112\,-90\,-71\,-28\,-72]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3.\nNc3 e5 4. Nf3 e4 5. Nd2 Qe7 6. Nb3 c6 7. Bg5 Bf5 8. e3 Nbd7 9. h4 h6 10. Bf4\nQd8 11. Be2 h5 12. d5 c5 13. Nd2 a6 14. a4 Qe7 15. Qb3 Rb8 16. f3 exf3 17. gxf3\nNe5 18. e4 Bc8 19. Bg5 Qc7 20. Nf1 Nh7 21. Bf4 g6 22. Ne3 Bg7 23. Kd2 O-O 24.\nRhg1 Re8 25. Rg2 Qe7 26. Bg3 Kh8 27. f4 Ng4 28. Bxg4 Bxg4 29. Nxg4 hxg4 30. Re1\nb5 31. axb5 axb5 32. Nxb5 Nf6 33. Rge2 Nh5 34. e5 dxe5 35. fxe5 Rxb5 36. cxb5\nc4 37. Qc3 Qc5 38. d6 Qxb5 39. Bh2 g3 40. Bg1 Rd8 41. Re4 Rxd6+ 42. Rd4 Rc6 43.\nRee4 Kh7 44. Rd7 Ra6 45. Ra7 Qd5+ 46. Qd4 Qa5+ 47. Ke2 Rxa7 48. Qxa7 Qb5 49.\nQb6 Qa4 50. Qd4 Qa1 51. Rg4 Bxe5 52. Qxc4 Qxb2+ 53. Kd3 Qb7 54. Re4 Qb1+ 55.\nKd2 Bg7 56. Be3 g2 57. Rg4 Nf6 58. Rxg2 Ne4+ 59. Ke2 Nc3+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \nThe Samisch King’s Indian Uncovered \nThe New Old Indian \nGM Alexander Cherniaev\, Hastings 2013-2014\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
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