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SUMMARY:Birthday of Peter Lee (21-xi-1943)
DESCRIPTION:We wish Peter Lee all the best on his birthday. \nPeter Nicholas Charles Lee was born on Sunday\, November 21st in 1943 in Lambeth\, London. His mother’s maiden name was Paganucci. \nPeter attended Exeter College\, Oxford from 1962-1966 to read mathematics followed by postgraduate statistics gaining an MA in 1969. \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\nIn 1963 Peter represented Oxford in the 81st Varsity Match played at the University of London Union in Malet Street on Korchnoi’s birthday (March 23rd). Peter had black on board 5 and drew with Frederick Michael Akeroyd in a King’s Gambit Declined. \nHere is the winning Oxford (4-3) Team : \nThe winning 1963 Oxford Varsity match team : From left to right (standing): PN Lee\, JWF May\, GC Taylor\, AIN Brodie\, PD Yerbury; (sitting) JK Footner\, RW Morgan. Thanks : John Saunders in Britbase.\nPeter moved to top board in 1964 and had white against the son of BH Wood\, FM Christopher Baruch Wood and won. The match was drawn. \n1965 saw a 5.5 – 1.5 Oxford victory with Peter beating Graham Arthur Winbow. \nDuring this period Peter found time to win the British Championship at Hastings in 1965. Peter Clarke reported in the October 1965 British Chess Magazine: \n“Seventy years on from the great international tournament of 1895\, which sowed the seeds of the Christmas congresses. the fifty-second in the British Chess Federation’s annual series-and this too began at Hastings\, 1904 – saw victory and the national title go to the youngest player ever. Peter N. Lee\, of London\, a twenty-one-year-old Oxford University graduate in mathematics\, made light of playing in the Championship for the first time and led from start to finish. Jonathan Penrose and Norman Littlewood vied with him all the way but in the last round had to be content with draws sharing second place 1/2 point behind with 8. ” \nPeter Lee\nPeter played at Hastings in 1965 and we can see him here in this silent movie at 1’40” in : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuXignAhNpw[/embedyt] \nPeter’s final Varsity appearance as British Champion in 1966 saw another drawn match but Peter’s best Varsity result when he beat Bill Hartston with the white pieces in a King’s Indian Attack. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Varsity Oxford-Cambridge”]\n[Site “Atlantic House\, Holborn”]\n[Date “1966.03.19”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Lee\, Peter NC”]\n[Black “Hartston\, William Roland”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “75”]\n[EventDate “1966.03.19”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “The Times”]\n[WhiteTeam “Oxford University”]\n[BlackTeam “Cambridge University”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,75\,19\,38\,30\,3\,11\,3\,12\,31\,5\,3\,-5\,9\,9\,-2\,-6\,-9\,31\,-19\,20\,-15\,-10\,-12\,-8\,\n-56\,13\,-51\,-19\,-11\,16\,-22\,-16\,-34\,-18\,-35\,-64\,0\,-3\,7\,7\,-43\,-29\,-68\,-78\,-67\,-69\,\n-113\,-42\,-134\,-123\,-113\,-144\,-172\,-90\,-137\,-117\,-138\,-114\,-122\,-71\,-84\,-119\,\n-167\,-172\,-95\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,62\,511\,29991\,29992\,29995\,29996]} 1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3.\nNd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 b5 9. e5 Ne8 {\nthe rarer alternative} (9… Nd7 10. Nf1 a5 11. h4 b4 12. Bf4 Ba6 13. N1h2 a4\n14. a3 {has been seen numerous times.}) 10. Nf1 a5 11. h4 a4 (11… b4) 12. h5\n$146 (12. a3 b4) 12… Nc7 13. N1h2 {A thematic KIA idea : heading for f6.} Bb7\n14. h6 g6 15. Bf4 {Is this required?} (15. Ng4 {seems fine.}) 15… a3 16. b3\nd4 17. Qd2 Nd5 18. Bg5 Ncb4 19. Bxe7 Qxe7 20. Ng4 (20. Ng5 Nc3 21. Bxb7 Qxb7\n22. Ng4 Qe7 23. Nf6+ Kh8 24. Nfxh7 Rfd8 25. Nf6 Nbxa2 {Nice symmetry !}) 20…\nKh8 $15 21. Ng5 Nxc2 {[#]} 22. Nxf7+ $6 Qxf7 23. Qxc2 Nb4 $2 (23… Qf5 $1 $17)\n24. Qe2 Bxg2 $19 (24… Bf3 $19 {Flank Openings (Raymond Keene\, 1st ed\, p115)})\n25. Kxg2 Qf5 $19 {Black is winning} 26. Red1 Nd5 $2 (26… c4 $1 $19 {“was\nalso very strong” (Peter Clarke\, BCM)}) 27. Qe4 Qxe4+ 28. dxe4 Nc3 29. Rd3 Nxe4\n30. f3 Nc3 31. b4 cxb4 (31… Rfd8) 32. Rxd4 Nxa2 $2 (32… Nd5 {keeps an edge\nfor black.}) 33. Rd7 $11 Nc3 34. Nf6 Rxf6 $11 35. exf6 {[#]} Nd5 $2 {The\nlosing blunder} (35… Kg8 $11) 36. Rxd5 $1 (36. f7 {is also crushing} Ne3+ 37.\nKf2 Nf5 38. Rad1 Rf8 39. Rd8) 36… exd5 37. f7 a2 38. Re1 {Source: The Times\,\n21 Mar 1966} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn world cup year Peter was selected by the BCF to represent England at the Havana Olympiad on board two below Peter Clarke in Group 4 and then Final B scoring a creditable +4=7-1. \nLugano 1968 saw Peter playing as first reserve and scoring an excellent +7=4-2 (Penrose on top board scored a wonderful 83.3% for the silver medal. \nIn another world cup year (1970) in his final Olympiad appearance Peter played on board four and recorded +4=9-2 \nPeter Nicholas Lee (to the left of RD Keene)\nPeter played in the British Championships again in 1967\, 1968\, 1971 and finally in 1972 withdrawing after five rounds following a loss to David Pritchard. This is Peter’s last recorded game in Megabase2020. \nWith the white pieces Peter was a committed 1.e4 fan playing 8.c3 in the Lopez and open sicilians. \nAs the second player he played the Sicilian Najdorf and the Dragon along with the King’s Indian. \nAccording to Wikipedia : “Later\, he turned to contract bridge\, at which he has also been highly successful. He has won the English Bridge Union’s National Pairs title four times\, the first time in 2003\, and has also been a member of the team that won the Gold Cup\, the premier teams event in Britain\, in 2003 and 2011. This makes him the only person who has won British championships in both chess and bridge.” \nUntil 1979 he worked as a statistician to the Tobacco Research Council\, in Harrogate and then in London. From 1979 to 1984 he was an independent consultant in statistics and advisor in epidemiology and toxicology to a number of tobacco\, pharmaceutical and chemical companies. \nHe formed P N Lee Statistics and Computing Ltdin 1984 to widen these activities. Peter is a Chartered Statistician who has published over 200 papers\, letters and articles\, and several books.\nPeter is currently a director of PNLSC based in Palmers Green\, London\, N13. \nPeter Lee\nAs a consultant in medical statistics and epidemiology\, he has also published over 200 papers\, many on the effects of tobacco on health.[2] \nPeter reached a peak Elo rating of 2390 aged 47 in July 1990 according to MegaBase 2020. However\, his peak playing strength was probably in or around 1971. \n[pgn]\n[Event “WchT Students 12th Group2”]\n[Site “Sinaia”]\n[Date “1965.07.28”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Lee\, Peter N”]\n[Black “Radulov\, Ivan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “79”]\n[EventDate “1965.07.26”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ROU”]\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 “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Bulgaria”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “BUL”] \n{[%evp 0\,79\,16\,16\,26\,9\,1\,-40\,34\,27\,17\,5\,5\,10\,8\,8\,-2\,-16\,-23\,-25\,-19\,-43\,-19\,\n-54\,-56\,-67\,-1\,-7\,-3\,-27\,-20\,-17\,-15\,-47\,-20\,-23\,-12\,-16\,-13\,-29\,-7\,-27\,7\,10\,8\,\n4\,4\,122\,251\,251\,275\,275\,275\,292\,289\,303\,314\,344\,362\,384\,383\,392\,401\,307\,415\,\n421\,422\,428\,426\,450\,523\,488\,498\,463\,463\,336\,346\,445\,445\,421\,481\,471]} 1. e4 e6\n2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. e5 Nd7 9. Re1\nb5 10. h4 a5 11. Nf1 a4 12. h5 b4 13. h6 g6 14. Bf4 a3 15. b3 Ba6 $146 (15…\nBb7) 16. Qd2 $14 Rc8 17. N1h2 Na7 18. Bg5 Nb5 19. Qf4 Rc7 20. Ng4 Nd4 $6 (20…\nBxg5 21. Nxg5) 21. Bxe7 Nxf3+ 22. Bxf3 Qxe7 23. Bxd5 $1 $18 exd5 (23… Bb7 24.\nBxb7 Rxb7 25. Rad1 $18) 24. e6 $18 Nb6 25. Qxc7 $3 Qxc7 26. Nf6+ Kh8 27. e7 Qb8\n28. exf8=Q+ Qxf8 29. Re8 Qxe8 30. Nxe8 Bc8 31. Nf6 Be6 32. Re1 Nc8 33. Nxd5 Nd6\n34. Nf4 Nb5 35. Re5 Nc3 36. Rxc5 Kg8 37. Rxc3 bxc3 38. Nxe6 fxe6 39. Kg2 Kf7\n40. Kf3 1-0\n[/pgn] \nAccording to Paul Littlewood currently Peter “plays Bridge for Surrey and chess for the Athenaeum in London”.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201123
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of WIM (Patricia) Anne Sunnucks (21-ii-1927 22-xi-2014)
DESCRIPTION:We remember WIM Patricia Anne Sunnucks who passed away this day\, November 22nd\, 2014\, aged 87 years. \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1983)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“International Woman master and British Women’s Champion 1957\, 1958 and 1964. Her best international result was a 2nd in the 1954 Western European Zonal. This qualified her for the 1955 Women’s Candidates tournament\, but as this held in the USSR and she was at the time serving as a Major in the British Army\, the authorities would not give her leave to participate. \nMiss Sunnucks has represented England a number of times in Olympiads and team matches. She has compiled The Encyclopedia of Chess\, London\, 1970.” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Woman Master (1954) and winner of the British Ladies’ Championship in 1957\, 1958 and 1964. \nBorn on 21st February 1927 Anne learned the moves at the age of 8 but did not take up chess seriously until she was 21\, when she joined the same club as International Master\, Imre König” whose pupil she became. \nIn the 1954 Western European Zonal tournament\, she came 2nd and qualified for the 1955 Women’s Candidates tournament but was unable to compete. \nShe played for Great Britain v. the USSR in 1954 and for the British Chess Federation team in the Women’s Chess Olympiads of 1966 and 1972. She also represented the BCF in the Western European Zonal tournaments of 1963 and 1966.” \nAnne Sunnucks vs Chaudé de Silans (Amsterdam\, 1962)\nThe Encyclopedia of Chess by Anne Sunnucks\nAnne created Camberley Chess Club in 1972. She offered to open her spacious home at 28\, Brackendale Close\, Camberley for weekly club nights and matches. \nAnne Sunnucks (third from left) playing in the 1971 British Ladies Championship in Palatine School\, Blackpool. Courtesy of Lancashire Evening Post.\nAnne was a director of BMS (?\, Mothersill\, Sunnucks) Chess Supplies Ltd. which retailed chess books and equipment which the grateful membership purchased ! \nIn September 1984 in Bracknell\, Berkshire Anne married Richard C Mothersill. \nAnne passed away on November 22nd\, 2014 at a retirement village in Meadow Park\, Braintree\, Essex. \nFrom Brian Towers : It is also worth noting that she was an occasional contributor to the weekly chess ‘Magazine’ programme which was broadcast on the Third Network (the precursor to Radio 3) between Autumn 1958 and Summer 1964. \nAccording to Megabase2020\, her highest Elo rating was 2045 but we suspect it was in reality\, quite a bit higher. \nIn 1972 Anne was awarded with a FIDE Medal of Merit. \nWIM Patricia Anne Sunnucks\nFor much of her early chess life Anne was coached by IM Imre (Mirko) König. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad Women-05 Final A”]\n[Site “Skopje”]\n[Date “1972.10.12”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Lehmann\, Christina”]\n[Black “Sunnucks\, Patricia Anne”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B06”]\n[WhiteElo “2140”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[EventDate “1972.10.03”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “YUG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “German Dem Rep (W)”]\n[BlackTeam “England (W)”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “DDR”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,48\,19\,38\,82\,72\,97\,86\,75\,42\,98\,72\,87\,49\,45\,36\,14\,9\,4\,28\,13\,-2\,28\,32\,32\,\n19\,35\,8\,8\,-39\,-57\,-55\,-41\,-47\,-48\,-44\,-48\,-45\,-29\,-46\,-8\,-123\,-86\,-89\,-89\,-75\,\n-11\,-292\,-470\,-667\,-580]} 1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. f4 a6 5. Nf3 b5 6. a3\nBb7 7. Be3 Nd7 8. Be2 Ngf6 9. e5 Ng4 10. Bg1 e6 11. h3 Nh6 12. Bf2 Nf5 13. g4\n$146 Ne7 14. exd6 $2 (14. Qd2) 14… cxd6 15. Bd3 Qc7 16. Qe2 $19 Nd5 17. Nxd5\nBxd5 18. O-O Qb7 $15 19. Ng5 Nf6 20. b3 h6 21. Nxe6 fxe6 22. Bxg6+ Kf8 23. g5\n$4 hxg5 24. fxg5 Rxh3 $19 0-1\n[/pgn] \nWIM Patricia Anne Sunnucks\nFull Caption\nFrom Wikipedia :\nPatricia Anne Sunnucks (21 February 1927 – 22 November 2014[1]) was an author and three-times British Women’s Chess Champion (1957\, 1958\, 1964). During her chess career she was always known as Anne Sunnucks. \nShe was educated at Wycombe Abbey School[2]\, Buckinghamshire. Although she learned how to play chess at the age of 8\, she did not play seriously until the age of 21\, when she joined the same chess club as Imre König\, who became her tutor. By finishing tied for second place in the 1953 British Women’s Championship she became one of three British representatives in the 1954 Western European Zonal. \nSunnucks earned the Woman International Master title by placing second in the 1954 Western European Zonal. Although this result qualified her to play in the next event in the Women’s World Championship sequence\, she was a major in the Women’s Royal Army Corps and the authorities would not allow her to travel to the USSR where the 1955 Women’s Candidates tournament was being held. Sunnucks represented England several times in Olympiads and team matches\, including Great Britain vs. USSR 1954\, the Anglo-Dutch match in 1965\, and top board for the British Chess Federation (BCF) team at the 1966 Women’s Chess Olympiad at Oberhausen. She participated in the Women’s World Championship cycle two more times\, representing the BCF in the Western European Zonal tournaments of 1963 and 1966. Sunnucks won both the Army and the Combined Services Championships in 1968\, and was the only woman to compete in either. Sunnucks compiled The Encyclopaedia of Chess (1970\, second edition: 1976). \nHer married name was Anne Mothersill.”
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201123
DTSTAMP:20201121T152309Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Mary Rudge (06-ii-1842 22-xi-1919)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Mary Rudge who passed away one hundred and one years this day on Saturday\, 22-xi-1919. \nShe was born in Leominster\, Herefordshire on February 6th\, 1842. Her father was Henry Rudge (born 1794 in Gloucestershire) who was a surgeon and General Practitioner. Her mother was Eliza Rudge (née Barrett) who was born in Ledbury\, Herefordshire in 1802. \nMary was part of a typically large household and according to the 1851 census she had sisters Sarah (23)\, Caroline (18)\, Emily H (12)\, brothers Henry (14) and Alfred (10). Assisting Henry with medical matters was Wiliam S Boyce and acting as a “General Servant” was Thomas Rotheroe (18).  Their address is given as “21\, Middle Marsh\, Leominster\, Herefordshire\, England” (HR6 8UP). According to HM Land Registry : “Middlemarsh is in the Leominster North & Rural ward of Herefordshire\, County of\, Herefordshire\, Worcestershire and Warwickshire.” \nBy 1861 the household had relocated to 62\, Broad Street\, Leominster and the servants were James Price (18) whose occupation is given as a Groom and Sarah Gardener (21) who was the House Servant. \nMary moved\, “helpless from rheumatism”\, at some point\, to Truro and then to the British Home for Incurables\, Streatham. She died in Guys Hospital\, London\, on 22 November 1919.  \nEditor of British Chess Magazine at the time of her obituary was Isaac McIntyre Brown who afforded Mary a pathetic three lines.  \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Mary Rudge (6 February 1842 in Leominster – 22 November 1919 in London) was an English chess master. \nRudge was born in Leominster\, a small town in Herefordshire\, England. She began playing chess in a correspondence tournament in 1872. The first mention of over the board competition is in August 1874 when she played in the second class at the Meeting of the Counties’ Chess Association at Birmingham. After the death of her father\, Henry Rudge\, she moved to Bristol where she started playing chess seriously. \nRudge was the first woman member of the Bristol Chess Club\, which did not allow women to be members of the club until she joined in 1872. She played against Joseph Henry Blackburne\, who gave a blindfold simultaneous display against ten opponents. The following year she played in another blindfold simultaneous display given by Johannes Hermann Zukertort. In March 1887 she played and drew on board six for Bristol against Bath at the Imperial Hotel in Bristol. At the beginning of 1888\, Rudge played and won on board six for Bristol & Clifton against City Chess & Draughts Club. The following year\, she won the Challenge Cup of Bristol & Clifton Chess Club. In 1889\, she became the first woman in the world to give simultaneous chess exhibitions. She won the Ladies’ Challenge Cup at Cambridge 1890\, and won the second class at the Southern Counties’ tournament at Clifton 1896.[1]” \nMiss Stevenson  & Mary Rudge\n“First Women’s International Chess Congress\nShe was a winner of the first Women’s International Chess Congress under the management of the Ladies’ Chess Club of London in conjunction with the Women’s Chess Club of New York. Lady Newnes was president of the Tournament Committee\, and Sir George Newnes\, Baron Albert Salomon von Rothschild\, Mr. Harry Nelson Pillsbury and some others offered prizes. The tournament was played at the Hotel Cecil in the Masonic Hall for six days\, but the final rounds were decided at the Ideal Café\, the headquarters of the Ladies’ Chess Club\, from 22 June to 3 July 1897.[2] Miss Rudge was 55 years old and the oldest of the 20 players\,[3] and had substantial experience playing chess at the time. She was a well-known English player\, ranking in chess strength with the first class of the leading men’s clubs. She won the event with 18 wins and 1 draw\, followed by Signorina Louisa Matilda Fagan (Italy)\, Miss Eliza Mary Thorold (England)\, Mrs. Harriet Worrall (USA)\, Madame Marie Bonnefin (Belgium)\, Mrs. F.S. Barry (Ireland)\, Lady Edith Margaret Thomas (England)\, among others.” \nHere is an in-depth article about this event from Chesscafe.com \nMrs. Bowles (Hon. Sec.); Miss Rudge; and Mrs. Fagan from chesscafe.com\n“Over the next years\, she took part in various competitions\, playing in Bristol and Dublin. In 1898\, she played against world champion Emanuel Lasker in a simultaneous display at the Imperial Hotel. Lasker was unable to finish all the games in the time available\, and Rudge’s was one of those unfinished. He conceded defeat because he would be lost with best play.” \nMary Rudge\nHere is an article from the Bristol Chess Times \nand another from the same source. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lasker Emanuel sim tour”]\n[Site “Great Britain”]\n[Date “1898.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Lasker\, Emanuel”]\n[Black “Rudge\, Mary”]\n[Result “*”]\n[ECO “C45”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “55”]\n[EventDate “1898.??.??”]\n[EventType “simul”]\n[EventRounds “1”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,55\,19\,31\,34\,19\,13\,14\,26\,19\,50\,59\,101\,79\,95\,67\,66\,68\,72\,70\,97\,39\,85\,62\,\n90\,81\,81\,81\,89\,68\,112\,82\,130\,77\,88\,76\,44\,44\,49\,-62\,-83\,-97\,-34\,-34\,-59\,-144\,\n-130\,-137\,-137\,-226\,-220\,-229\,-237\,-232\,-168\,-180\,-225\,-236]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3\nNc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nxd4 5. Qxd4 d6 6. Nc3 h6 7. Bd3 Nf6 8. h3 Bd7 9. Bf4\nBe6 10. Bh2 Nd7 11. f4 Nc5 12. O-O Nxd3 13. cxd3 c5 14. Qf2 f6 15. d4 Be7 16.\nd5 Bf7 17. e5 fxe5 18. fxe5 O-O 19. e6 Bxe6 20. Qe2 Rxf1+ 21. Rxf1 Bf7 22. Rxf7\nKxf7 23. Qe6+ Kf8 24. Ne4 Qc8 25. Qg6 Qe8 26. Qh7 Rd8 27. Qh8+ Kf7 28. Qh7 *\n[/pgn] \nThe International Ladies Congress
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201125
DTSTAMP:20201123T173646Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Rev. John Owen (08-iv-1827 24-xi-1901)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Reverend John Owen who passed away on the 24th November 1901) \nJohn Owen was born on April 8th\, 1827 to John and Sarah Owen in Marchington\, Uttoxeter\, Staffordshire. \nHe was baptised at Marchington\, St. Peter on April 9th\, 1827 by H. Bennett and their residence was recorded as “Brook House”. His father is recorded as being a gentleman. \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984) by Hooper & Whyld : \n“English player\, vicar of Hooten\, Cheshire\, from 1862 to 1900. In 1858\, playing under the pseudonym ‘Alter’\, he lost (=2-5) a match against Morphy\, who conceded pawn and a move. (Hoffer attributed this poor result to Owen’s just being married.) Subsequently Owen played better. He drew a match with Kolisch in 1860 (+4-4) and at the London tournament of 1862 took third prize after Andersen (whom he defeated) and L. Paulsen ahead of Dubois\, GA MacDonnell\, Steinitz and Blackburne. \nFrom 1857 to 1898 Owen played in more than a dozen tournaments\, all of them in Great Britain. \nHe liked close openings and often played the Queen’s Fianchetto Defence\, sometimes named after him\, and the Larsen Opening.” \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \nProbably\, the strongest of all the chess-playing reverends of the nineteenth century. Owen came 3rd at Birmingham 1858\, below Löwenthal and Falkbeer\, but ahead of Saint-Amant\, Staunton and Bird; but is should be pointed out that the method of play was still by the old knock-out system. \nHe was also =3rd with MacDonnell in the first congress of the British Chess Association at London in 1862. \nHe also had the distinction of losing matches to Morphy\, Zukertort and Burn\, though he beat Burn in a later match. He drew a match with Kolisch in 1860. \nSunnucks is silent on Owen. \nAccording to The Complete Chess Addict (Faber&Faber\, 1987)\, Mike Fox & Richard James : \n“For the record (and because it’s so impressive) here is the most devout team of all time\, If there is anything in the efficacy of prayer they’d be tough to stop : \n\nFr Ruy Ruy López (de Segura)\nFr William Lombardy\nRevd GA MacDonnell\nRevd J Owen\nHis Holiness Pope Leo XIII\nHis Holiness Pope Innoncent III\nSt Teresa of Ávila (capt.)\nThomas à Becket”\n\nA much fuller biography may be found at the excellent Yorkshire Chess History web site  \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZlsydt8iqA[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Casuals Morphy-Owen +2-1=0”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1858.07.03”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Morphy\, Paul”]\n[Black “Owen\, John”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “92”]\n[EventDate “1858.07.03”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventRounds “3”]\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\,92\,19\,31\,80\,69\,69\,66\,53\,-10\,-4\,-59\,22\,23\,11\,11\,23\,15\,6\,20\,14\,10\,43\,24\,\n40\,40\,64\,7\,72\,72\,143\,62\,84\,67\,52\,57\,40\,13\,6\,15\,4\,-18\,13\,0\,18\,-39\,57\,56\,65\,66\,\n71\,54\,53\,98\,98\,66\,76\,69\,69\,65\,75\,77\,105\,94\,106\,98\,91\,88\,52\,47\,73\,-15\,-18\,-25\,\n-42\,-94\,-100\,-104\,-128\,-93\,-192\,-194\,-204\,-191\,-192\,-188\,-197\,-203\,-202\,-202\,\n-205\,-209\,-214\,-212\,-212]} 1. e4 b6 $1 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 e6 4. Nh3 c5 5. c3 cxd4\n6. cxd4 Nc6 7. Be3 Nb4 8. Nc3 Nxd3+ 9. Qxd3 Bb4 10. O-O Bxc3 11. bxc3 Nf6 12.\ne5 Nd5 13. c4 Ba6 $6 14. Bd2 Rc8 15. Rac1 (15. Qg3 $18) 15… O-O 16. Qb3 Ne7\n17. Bb4 Re8 18. Rfd1 Nf5 19. g4 $6 Nh4 20. f4 f6 21. Be1 fxe5 22. dxe5 Qe7 23.\nNg5 h6 24. Ne4 Bb7 25. Qd3 Rf8 26. Bxh4 Qxh4 27. Nf6+ $1 Rxf6 28. exf6 Qxg4+\n29. Qg3 Qxg3+ 30. hxg3 Bc6 31. fxg7 Kxg7 32. Kf2 Kf6 33. g4 h5 34. g5+ Kf5 35.\nKe3 $2 (35. Kg3 $16) 35… h4 36. Rd2 h3 37. Rh2 Bg2 38. Rc2 d5 39. g6 dxc4 40.\ng7 Rg8 41. Rcxg2 hxg2 42. Rxg2 Kf6 43. Rc2 Rxg7 $19 44. Rxc4 Rg3+ 45. Ke4 Ra3\n46. Rc2 Ra4+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QBhgUes_dM[/embedyt] \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“John Owen (8 April 1827 – 24 November 1901) was an English vicar and strong amateur chess master. He ranked among the world’s top ten chess players for certain periods of the 1860s. He was a major figure in English chess from the mid 1850s to the 1890s. \nOwen was born in Marchington\, and obtained his early schooling at Repton School\, Derbyshire. In 1850 he graduated from Trinity College\, Cambridge\, and received his M.A. from Cambridge three years later. He was ordained by the Church of England in 1851\, and served as Vicar of Hooton\, Cheshire from 1862 to his retirement in 1900. \nIn 1858 he won a chess game against the young American master Paul Morphy\, the world’s best player\, who was then touring Europe. ” \nThis led to a match between the two. Despite being given odds of pawn and the move (meaning he started the game with an extra pawn and always moved first)\, Owen lost the match 6–1\, never winning a game. \nHis performance in the very strong 1862 London tournament\, the first international round-robin event (in which each participant plays every other) was more impressive. He finished third\, ahead of future world champion Wilhelm Steinitz\, and was the only player to win against the eventual tournament winner\, Adolf Anderssen. Louis Paulsen placed second. This result was arguably Owen’s top lifetime chess achievement. \nOwen continued to play frequently and often successfully in British tournaments into the 1890s\, and performed strongly in several matches against top British players\, who were essentially chess professionals. He never competed outside the British Isles. He died in Twickenham. \nOwen is the eponym of Owen’s Defence\, a chess opening characterised by the moves 1.e4 b6. Owen was the first strong player to play this frequently\, including in his victory over Morphy.” \nAmos Burn (left) and Rev. John Owen circa 1885.
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Amos Burn (31-xii-1848 25-xi-1925)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Amos Burn who passed away on November 25th\, 1925. \nAmos Burn was born in Kingston-upon-Hull on Sunday\, December 31st 1848 to Amos and Mary Burn (née Webster). His father is recorded as a merchant. Amos and Mary were residents of Bourne Street at the time of the birth. \nOn February 15th 1849 Amos was baptized in All Saints Anglican Church\, Sculcoates\, Kingston-Upon-Hull \nAmos married Martha Ann Jäger in Birkenhead on Dec 27th 1879. They had two daughters Elsie Martha\, born 24th Oct 1880 and Hilda Marian\, born  26th Oct 1881. \nFor further detail of ABs family please consult the excellent Amos Burn : A Chess Biography by Richard Forster \nIn 2006 an article by WD Rubinstein was published in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984)\, Hooper & Whyld : \n“One of the world’s top ten players at the end of the 19th century. Born in Hull : he learned chess when 16\, came to London at the age of 21\, and rapidly established himself as a leading English player\, A pupil of Steinitz\, he developed a similar style; both he and his master were among the world’s best six defensive players\, according to Nimzowitsch. Not wishing to become yet another impecunious professional. Burn decided to put his work (first a cotton broker then a sugar broker) before his chess\, and he remained an amateur. He made several long visits to America\, and was often out of practice when he played serious chess. \nUntil his thirty-eighth year he played infrequently and only in national events\, always taking first or second prize. From 1886 to 1889 he played more often. In 1886 he drew matches with Bird (+9-9) and Mackenzie (+4=2-4); at London 1887 he achieved his best tournament result up to this time\, first prize (+8—1) equal with Gunsberg (a play-off was drawn +1=3—1); and at Breslau 1889 he took second place after Tarrasch ahead of Gunsberg\, After an isolated appearance at Hastings 1895 he entered another spell of chess activity\, 1897-1901\, The best achievement of his career was at Cologne 1898\, first prize ( + 9=5-1) ahead of Charousek\, Chigorin\, Steinitz\, Schlechter\, and Janowski. At Munich 1900 he came fourth (+9=3—3). His Last seven international tournaments began with Ostend 1905 and ended with Breslau 1912. A comparative success\, in view of his age. was his fourth prize shared with Bernstein and Teichmann after Schlechter\, Maroczy\, and Rubinstein at Ostend 1906; 36 players competed in this five-stage event\, 30 games in all for those who completed the course. \nRetired from both business and play he made his home in London and edited the chess column of The Field from 1913 until his death. A shy and retiring man\, a loyal companion to those who came to know him\, he freely gave advice to young and aspiring players.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Ostend”]\n[Site “Ostend”]\n[Date “1906.06.06”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Maroczy\, Geza”]\n[Black “Burn\, Amos”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C32”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “74”]\n[EventDate “1906.06.05”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “31”]\n[EventCountry “BEL”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,60\,19\,38\,25\,3\,36\,-19\,51\,38\,60\,16\,26\,53\,75\,49\,115\,151\,218\,217\,245\,292\,\n293\,233\,233\,233\,247\,93\,77\,92\,88\,92\,99\,99\,140\,110\,119\,117\,104\,102\,219\,219\,206\,\n184\,203\,187\,187\,170\,191\,43\,40\,26\,32\,0\,0\,42\,0\,0\,0\,-278\,-298\,-504\,-533]} 1. e4 e5\n2. f4 d5 3. exd5 e4 4. d3 Nf6 5. dxe4 Nxe4 6. Nf3 Bc5 7. Qe2 Bf2+ $6 (7… Bf5\n8. Nc3 Qe7 9. Be3) 8. Kd1 Qxd5+ $6 (8… Qe7) 9. Nfd2 (9. Nbd2 $2 {This knight\nneeds to go to c3.} f5) 9… f5 10. Nc3 Qd4 11. Ncxe4 fxe4 12. c3 Qe3 {[#]} 13.\nNxe4 $2 (13. Qh5+ $18 Kf8 14. Bc4 Qxf4 15. Qd5 $18 {is good for white.}) 13…\nQxe2+ 14. Bxe2 $16 Bb6 15. Ng5 Nc6 16. Re1 Ne7 17. Bf3 c6 18. Be3 Bf5 19. g4\nBd3 20. Ne6 Kf7 21. Nxg7 Rhd8 {Black has defended well and now gains some\ncounter-attack.} 22. Ne6 Rd6 23. Bxb6 axb6 24. Nd4 $6 (24. Ng5+ $18 {retains\nthe advantage}) 24… c5 $11 25. Nb3 Ng6 26. Kd2 Nxf4 27. Ke3 (27. Re3) 27…\nNh3 28. Bxb7 Ra7 29. Bg2 $2 Re7+ 30. Kf3 {[#]} (30. Kd2 Be4+ 31. Kc1 Bxg2 32.\nRxe7+ Kxe7 33. Nd2) 30… Be2+ $1 {White resigns. He can delay mate only by\ngiving up a piece.} 31. Kg3 Re3+ 32. Bf3 Rxf3+ 33. Kg2 Rf2+ 34. Kxh3 Rd3+ 35.\nKh4 Rxh2+ 36. Kg5 Rf3 37. Rh1 h6# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nThe front cover of the November 1975 issue of the British Chess Magazine featured Amos Burn : \nAmos Burn – See W.H.Cozen’s ‘Half a Century Back’…from the front cover of the November 1975 issue of British Chess Magazine\nFrom British Chess Magazine\, 1975\, November\, pp. 481-483 : \nHalf a Century Back\nChess in 1925\nby W.H. Cozens\n  \nAmos Burn was a very different figure and his career is poorly documented. He is overdue\, not for a reappraisal but simply an appraisal\, He was born (in Hull) in 1848 – an incredible 127 years ago. All the years that could have been his prime as a chessplayer he devoted to business. (Marine insurance was his speciality.) He was based in Liverpool but travelled considerably\, including several crossings of the Atlantic – quite an undertaking in those days. He played some casual chess\, soon overshadowing the Rev. John Owen to become Liverpool’s answer to Manchester’s Blackburne. He also played for the City of London Chess Club; but it was not until he was nearly 40\, presumably with his financial position secured\, that he entered the international chess arena. Between the ages of 38 and 64 he played in 22 international tournaments. At Breslau (1889) he was second to Tarrasch\, above Louis Paulsen\, Blackburne\, Schallop … In Amsterdam the same year he was first\, ahead of Emanuel Lasker. His finest achievement was first place at Cologne 1898\, in front of Charousek\, Chigorin\, Steinitz\, Schlechter et al.\, (16 in all) with a win against Steinitz. The lack of a book on Cologne 1898 is – since the publication of Mannheim 1914′: the biggest gap in tournament literature. \nAt Karlsbad 1911 he defeated not only the winner\, as mentioned above\, but also Alekhine\, whom he steered into a knight versus bad bishop ending. His style was unashamedly modelled on that of Steinitz\, and marked by extreme tenacity. To him is attributed the epigram ‘He who combinates is lost’. He could play a combination when in the mood but he much preferred to let the opponent break his own back by attacking too impetuously. Nimzowitsch wrote: ‘The number of really great defensive players is very small’\, adding that he knew of only six: Steinitz\, Emanuel Lasker\, Burn\, Bernstein\, Duras and Louis Paulsen. \nIn the 1911 Cable Match between G.B. and the U.S.A. Marshall came from San Sebastian straight to London and asked permission for his top board game to be played over the board. When he found that his opponent was to be the 64-year-old Amos Burn he must have smiled\, for he had twice defeated him resoundingly – at Paris 1900 (also having some fun at Burn’s expense in his annotations to the game) and again at Ostend 1905. This time he was in for a shock. Within twenty moves the old man had won his queen for two pieces. Marshall played on\, probably with a red face\, until move 37\, rather than have his loss cabled home too early. Against Burn he might have spared himself the trouble. \nBurn was a superb annotator. His work\, notably in ‘The Field‘ from 1913 on\, sets a standard to which one looks back nostalgically in these days of hieroglyphics. The day before he died\, at the age of 77\,he had been at work on analysis and annotation. Tournaments were now plentiful enough for it to be possible to pick out the band of regular professionals\, and to assess their prowess. Tartakower was placed 2\, 5\, l\, 5; Reti 5\, 5’ 5\,-11; Grunfeld 4\,8\,8\,9; Nimzowitsch was erratic with 1\,2\,9; so was Rubinstein with 1\, 2\, 3\, 12. Marshall was consistent with 3\, 4\, 5. Lasker\, Capablanca and Alekhine appeared once each – with distinction\, of course.” \nThe Burn Variation is a line in the french defence dating from the 1870s\, played regularly by Burn at the tournaments of Hastings\n1895\, Cologne 1898\, and Vienna 1898. More recently it has been favoured by Petrosyan. \n[fen cal=Gd5e4]rnbqkb1r/ppp2ppp/4pn2/6B1/3Pp3/2N5/PPP2PPP/R2QKBNR w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“A leading British player of his day\, Amos Burn was born in Hull on 31st December 1848. He learned the game when he was 16 and an apprentice with a firm of Liverpool cotton-brokers\, but it was not until 1886 that he achieved his first major tournament success by coming 2nd in the London tournament and 1st at Nottingham. These results gained him an invitation to Frankfurt 1887\, which marked the beginning of his career as an international player. \nBurn’s greatest successes were 1st at Amsterdam 1889\, ahead of Lasker\, 2nd at Breslau 1889\, behind Tarrasch but ahead of Mieses\, Von Bardeleben\, Bauer\, Gunsberg and Paulsen; and 1st at Cologne 1898\, ahead of Charousek\, Steiniitz\, Tchigorin and Schlecter. \nAfter the St. Petersburg 1909 tournament\, Burn’s results began to deteriorate and he finally retired from tournament chess after the Breslau 1912 tournament. \nFrom 1913 until his death\, Burn was chess editor of The Field. He died on 25th November 1925.” \nAmos Burn (31-xii-1848\, 25-xii-1925) circa 1920\n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings International Masters”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1895.??.??”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Marco\, Georg”]\n[Black “Burn\, Amos”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C13”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “66”]\n[EventDate “1895.08.05”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “21”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,62\,19\,17\,41\,51\,29\,30\,57\,31\,31\,31\,49\,12\,8\,-10\,-5\,4\,34\,14\,18\,-2\,9\,-25\,\n12\,6\,50\,-17\,-26\,-34\,-5\,-49\,-37\,-57\,9\,-2\,73\,61\,61\,34\,26\,-38\,24\,-47\,-51\,-80\,-75\,\n-141\,-82\,-126\,-46\,-114\,-18\,-212\,58\,-110\,-110\,-588\,-595\,-689\,-692\,-715\,-719\,\n-776\,-948]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Bxf6 gxf6\n7. c3 f5 8. Ng3 c5 9. Nf3 Nc6 10. Bb5 Qb6 11. Bxc6+ (11. Qe2) 11… bxc6 12.\nO-O $146 h5 $1 13. Qd2 h4 14. Ne2 Ba6 15. Rfe1 {[#]} O-O-O {Black is taking\nthe initiative.} 16. a3 $2 (16. Ne5) 16… Rh7 17. b4 c4 18. a4 Rg7 19. Reb1\nRdg8 20. Ne1 Bb7 21. f3 Qd8 22. b5 $2 c5 $17 (22… Bg5) 23. Qe3 Qc7 (23…\ncxd4 24. Qxd4 Qc7) 24. a5 Bg5 25. f4 Be7 {[#]} (25… cxd4) 26. g3 $2 Qd7 (\n26… hxg3 27. hxg3 Bd6) 27. dxc5 hxg3 28. hxg3 $2 Qd5 $1 $19 {white is busted}\n29. c6 Bc5 30. cxb7+ Kxb7 31. Nd4 Rxg3+ $1 {White resigns} 32. Qxg3 Rxg3+ 33.\nKh2 Rxc3 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“British Grandmaster and second only to Blackburne in late nineteenth-century British chess. He was born in Hull and learned to play chess at sixteen\, but devoted little time to the game at first\, preferring to establish himself in a commercial career. \nHe returned to chess in his middle thirties\, his first major national success being first prize at Nottingham 1886 and second prize at London 1886. Within three years he had gained an international reputation by winning at Amsterdam 1889\, ahead of Lasker\, and finishing 2nd to Tarrasch at Breslau 1889. Burn continued to appear in international tournaments until the age of sixty-four\, his most notable triumph being first prize at Cologne 1898 in front of Charousek\, Steinitz\, Chigorin and Schlechter. He was chess editor of The Field from 1913 until his death in 1925.” \nEdward Winter wrote a feature article on the game McDonald-Burn\, Liverpool\, 1910 \nHis Wikipedia article is here \nAccording to Edward Winter in Chess Notes Burn lived at 19 Luxemburg Gardens\, London W6\, England (Amos Burn\, The Quiet Chessmaster by R.N. Coles\, page 7). \nAmos Burn (31-xii-1848\, 25-xii-1925)\nand an excellent article from the Liverpool Museum is here \nAmos Burn (left) and Rev. John Owen circa 1885.\nAmos Burn\, the quiet chessmaster\, RN Coles\nAmos Burn : A Chess Biography by Richard Forster
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Stewart Haslinger (25-xi-1981)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Stewart Haslinger (25-xi-1981)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-stewart-haslinger-25-xi-1981/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Nicholas Frost (28-xi-1983)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Nicholas Frost (28-xi-1983)
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201129
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DTSTAMP:20210514T084840Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of IM Robert Wade OBE (10-iv-1921 29-xi-2008)
DESCRIPTION:We remember IM Bob Wade OBE who was born 100 years ago today on Sunday\, April 10th 1921 \nIn 1979 Queen’s Birthday Honours List\, Civil Division Bob Wade was awarded the OBE. The citation read simply : “For services to Chess” \nHe won the BCF Presidents’ Award in 1986. \nIn the Foreword to the 2009 ECF Yearbook\, President Gerry Walsh wrote : \n“As I started this report I had just heard the sad news that IM Bob Wade had died aged 87. I first met Bob at one of the Whitby Congresses and in 1972 he played in the Teeside GM Tournament where I recall he beat the three Hungarian players Portisch\, Bilek and Sax (ed : aged 51).” \nGeurt Gijssen wrote in Chesscafe.com : \n“I received the sad news that Bob Wade passed away at the age of eighty seven. He played his last tournament in London in August. When I was young I read about his exploits as a chess player\, and he was the arbiter in many important chess events. I met him in 1993 when I was the organizer of the first part of the match Karpov – Timman\, played in The Netherlands in three different cities: Zwolle\, Arnhem\, and Amsterdam. He was the only member of the Appeals Committee and Bob was always present watching the games in the playing hall. He gave me invaluable advice about all elements of the match venues. It was very clear that he was an experienced chess player and arbiter\, and I learned many things from him. May he rest in peace.” \nFrom the 1952 Ilford Congress (30 May – 2 June) and originally published in BCM\, July 1952\, page 187. (l-r) : Harold Israel\, Alan Phillips\, Bob Wade\, Otto Friedman\, Abe Yanofsky\, Alfred William Bowen and Harold Meek. Thanks to John Saunders and Leonard Barden\nWade was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1956-57\, 1957-58 and 1964-65 seasons. \nFrom the Preface of The World Chess Championship : 1951 by Lionel Sharples Penrose we have : \n“Mr. Wade is also passionately devoted to the game. Before coming to Europe\, he was three times champion of New Zealand. He had played in tournaments in England but his chief successes have been on the Continent. At Venice in 1950\, he obtained a high place in a very severe contest in which some of the strongest Russia\, Czech\, Dutch\, French\, Italian\, North and South American players took part. Much of his time is occupied in chess organising and teaching. He is an acting vice-president of the F.I.D.É and in this official capacity he attended the match in Moscow\, which is the subject of this book.” \nIM Bob Wade\nPaul McKeown researched (and Simon Spivack asked permission to reproduce his words) the earliest part of Bob’s life as follows: \n“On May 20th\, 1919\, Thomas Graham Wade\, aged 27\, Sergeant in the NZ Expeditionary Force\, repatriated with honour from war-time service in Egypt\, Gallipoli and France\, married Amy Lilian Neave\, aged 21\, in South Dunedin. A New Zealander of Scots and English descent\, his family was Graham from Montrose. The family name\, Wade\, came from Marshall George Wade\, the soldier and engineer who led the Hanoverian forces against the Scots at the time of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion and was immortalised in the original third verse of the British national anthem: \nLord\, grant that Marshal Wade\,\nMay by thy mighty aid\,\nVictory bring. \nMay he sedition hush and like a torrent rush\,\nRebellious Scots to crush\,\nGod save the King. \nIM Bob Wade\nRobert Graham Wade\, known in the Scots manner to his family as Robin\, and later to his many friends as Bob\, was their first child\, born April 10th\, 1921\, at Dunedin. Over the next few years he was joined by sisters\, Lilian\, Agnes\, Betty\, June\, his brother Ted and finally by his youngest sister Amy. The family lived for a number of years at Portobello. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wITe3tNjnfs[/embedyt] \nAt that time\, Portobello was a scattered community of about 150 people with three shops and a pub on the Otago Peninsula. Bob attended Portobello Primary School\, a small country school\, finished “dux” or top of class\, and then attended the King Edward Technical High School at Stuart Street in Dunedin.” \nIM Bob Wade\nIn The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984 & 1996)\, Hooper & Whyld: \n“Wade Variation\, 147\, also known as the Modern Variation\, in the Queen’s Gambit Declined\, Meran Variation\, from Bogoljubow-Wade\, Oldenburg\, 1949; \n[fen cal=Gc8b7]r2qkb1r/pb1n1ppp/2p1pn2/1p6/3P4/2NBPN2/PP3PPP/R1BQK2R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \n1239 in the French Defence\, introduced by Wade in a match against Schmid in 1950. \n[fen cal=Gc8d7]rn2kbnr/pp1b1ppp/1q2p3/2ppP3/3P4/2P2N2/PP3PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nHooper & Whyld go on to write : \n“New Zealand-born Robert Graham Wade (1921- ) won the championship of his homeland three times before moving to England as a young man\, He won the British Championship twice and trained many English players.” \nAside from the two variations mentioned by Hooper & Whyld there are other Wade Variations : \n[fen cal=Gc8g4]rn1qkbnr/ppp1pppp/3p4/8/3P2b1/5N2/PPP1PPPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nwhich Jim Plaskett dubbed the “Sidestep Variation” \nand \n[fen cal=Gd5d6]rnb1kbnr/ppp1pppp/3q4/8/8/2N5/PPPP1PPP/R1BQKBNR w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nwhich is the Pytel-Wade Variation of the Scandinavian Defence. \nAnne Sunnucks wrote in The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) : \n“International Master (1950 Ed: actually 1954)\, International Judge (1958)\, New Zealand Champion three times and British Champion in 1952 and 1970. \nBob Wade was born in New Zealand on 10th April 1921 and is a professional chess player. He has lived in England for many years and has played regularly for the British Chess Federation team in Chess Olympiads. He has played a prominent part in coaching schemes for juniors and is largely responsible for recent successes of English juniors in international events. \nBob Wade v. Aldecoa of the Philippines from the 1958 Munich Olympiad played on October 9th 1958. The game was won by Bob in 60 moves. From the collection of David Jarrett with many thanks.\nHe is chess correspondent of Associated Newspapers and Independent Television News and editor of a series of books on Contemporary Chess Openings published by Batsford. \nAuthor of a number of books on the game\, his publications include books on the World Championship of 1951\, 1957 (ed : this book was\, in fact\, by Golombek) and 1963\, the first in collaboration with W. Winter; The Closed Ruy Lopez (Batsford\, 1970) in collaboration with LS Blackstock and PJ Booth: World Chess Championship (Batsford\, 1972) in collaboration with Svetozar Gligoric; Games of RJ Fischer (Batsford\, 1972) in collaboration with KJ O’Connell and Soviet Chess (Neville Spearman\, 1968). \nWade was a member of the FIDE Laws Commission from 1950 to 1952.” \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RKIcwmE8IU[/embedyt] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“International Master who was born at Dunedin\, New Zealand\, but came to live In England in 1946 and has represented both countries on different occasions. He has nearly always done well in British Championships and won the title in Chester in 1952 and again at Coventry in 1970. He had played for the British Chess Federation at the Olympiads of 1954\, 1956\, 1958\, 1960 and 1962\, winning the shortest game of the Varna Olympiad in that year in nine moves against Anton Kinzel of Austria \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-15 Preliminaries D”]\n[Site “Varna”]\n[Date “1962.09.19”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Wade\, Robert Graham”]\n[Black “Kinzel\, Anton”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A40”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “17”]\n[EventDate “1962.09.16”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “BUL”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Austria”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “AUT”] \n{[%evp 0\,17\,19\,31\,116\,38\,88\,3\,29\,10\,38\,40\,44\,29\,123\,63\,204\,121\,528\,528]} 1. d4\nb5 {Spassky has played this sort of thing.} 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bg5 $146 (3. Nxb5 Bb7\n$16 {gives Black some control of e4 for the time being.}) 3… c6 4. Bxf6 gxf6\n5. e3 e5 6. Qh5 e4 $2 {It is not clear what Anton Kinzel had been doing on the\nnight before this game!} 7. f3 f5 8. fxe4 fxe4 $4 {Blacks 7th pawn move out of\n8 and not a very good one.} 9. Qe5+ {Ooops !} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe played for the New Zealand team at the 1970 Olympiad at Siegen but returned to the BCF team at Skopje in 1972. \nHis best individual international results were a fifth place at Venice 1950 and again fifth at the Masters section of the Capablanca Memorial at Cienfuegos in Cuba in 1975. Possessor of a sharp clear-cut style of play\, he once drew a match with the West German grandmaster Lothar Schmid with neither side drawing a game\, though this was before Schmid received the grandmaster title. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Match Schmid-Wade +5-5=0”]\n[Site “Bamberg”]\n[Date “1950.07.??”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Wade\, Robert Graham”]\n[Black “Schmid\, Lothar”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C75”]\n[Annotator “Koch\,B”]\n[PlyCount “39”]\n[EventDate “1950.07.??”]\n[EventType “match”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2008”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,39\,31\,32\,39\,17\,17\,28\,20\,7\,31\,3\,0\,-10\,65\,31\,14\,-17\,4\,-17\,3\,-29\,-45\,-27\,\n-16\,-75\,15\,-26\,126\,115\,306\,279\,279\,279\,279\,274\,274\,282\,274\,237\,247\,249]} 1. e4\n{1) SCHACH 19/1950 Seite 365.} e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. c3 Bd7 6.\nd4 Nge7 7. Bb3 h6 8. Nh4 $1 Nc8 {Ein umständlicher Springerrückzug\, nur um Lf8\nfreizubekommen.} 9. g3 Qf6 {Eigentlich war die Dame gar nicht “dran”\,} ({\nsondern} 9… Be7 {zu erwarten\, aber nach} 10. Qh5 O-O 11. Ng6 Re8 {ist es um\nden Punkt f7 nicht mehr ganz geheuer\, z.B.} 12. Bxf7+ $1 Kxf7 13. Nxe5+ Kg8 14.\nNf7 Bg4 15. Qg6 Qd7 16. Nxh6+ Kh8 17. Nxg4 {usw.}) 10. f4 exd4 11. O-O dxc3 12.\ne5 $1 {Der erste Stoß; dieser Bauer ist nicht gut zu nehmen.} Qe7 13. Nxc3 Nb6\n{Verhindert Sd5 und bereitet die lange Rochade vor; aber diese soll der\nschwarze König nicht mehr erleben\, denn es folgt…} 14. e6 $1 {… der zweite\nStoß. Diesmal gibt es kein Ausweichen\, hier muss genommen werden.} fxe6 15. Ng6\nQf6 16. Nxh8 g6 17. f5 $1 {Und noch einmal!} gxf5 ({Geradezu trostlos wäre das\nschwarze Spiel nach} 17… Qxh8 18. fxe6 Bc8 {Schmid schlägt darum auf f5 in\nder Erwartung\, den Sh8 immer noch abfangen zu können.}) 18. Qh5+ Kd8 19. Ng6\nBe8 (19… Bg7 20. Bxh6 Bxh6 (20… Qd4+ 21. Rf2) 21. Qxh6 Be8 22. Rae1 d5 23.\nQh4 $18) 20. Qh4 $1 {Dieser Witz rettet den Springer. Schwarz gab auf; seine\ndrei Mehrbauern können den fehlenden Turm nicht ersetzen.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe has done much valuable work in England teaching the young\, and was responsible for the text of a highly successful television series in 1975. \nHis main books are : Soviet Chess\, London\, 1967; Botvinnik-Bronstein Match 1951 (in co-operation with W. Winter)\, London\, Toronto 1951; Match Petrosian-Botvinnik\, London\, 1963; Sousse 1967\, The Chess Player\, Nottingham\, 1968.” \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) we have this article from George Botterill : \n“In the Birthday Honours list of 1979 Bob Wade was awarded the OBE for his services to chess. Few rewards can have been more thoroughly earned. For some reason\, Bob has always been held in greater esteem abroad than in the country for which he has done so much. But the many players who have turned to him for advice or who have simply enjoyed his hospitality\, which is always ungrudgingly available to fellow chess players\, know the measure of his dedication to the game. \nTheodore Tylor vs Bob Wade at Paignton 1953. Bob held TT to a draw to secure first place\nWade was born in Dunedin\, a third generation New Zealander of Scots and English ancestry. He started a a career as a civil servant in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Having won the New Zealand Championship in 1944 and 1945 he was sent over to participate in the British Championship of 1946. The result was not exactly a success – a mere 3.5 points out of 11. But Bob was not to be disheartened so easily. Feeling he was capable of better things\, he took leave of absence in 1947 and did the circuit\, such as it then was\, of chess tournament in Europe and North America. \nBob giving a simul in Leeds in the 1950s\nWhen he returned to New Zealand he found that he had been transferred to another department in a civil service reorganisation. The new job was not so congenial. He stuck it out for 6 months – during which time he won the New Zealand Championship for a third time – and then handed in his resignation to take up the precarious life of a chess professional. \nIM Bob Wade\nSettling in Britain he soon gained the IM title (ed : 1954). But even in those days when still a young man Wade did not concentrate exclusively on his own playing career. In 1949 he went to the FIDE congress and was one of the five people – the others were BH Wood\, Ragozin\, Zubarev and Rogarde – who collaborated on the writing of the official rules for the game. \nBob Wade OBE\, Murray Chandler MNZM and David Anderton OBE at the 1986 Dubai Olympiad. Photograph by Frits Agterdenbos\nHe also served as a member of the commission that determined who the original holders of international titles would be. When you consider that Wade was also on the 1950 commission that decided the composition of the World Championship Interzonals\, it becomes apparent that this man played a significant part in the shaping the structure of modern international chess. \nBob at a CentYMCA event with Neil Carr\, Mike Wills\, Aaron Rose and Jon Ady\nAlthough rarely at the top in international tournaments\, Wade was always a very dangerous player\, capable on his day of beating anybody in the world. He won the British Championship twice at Chester in 1952 and at Coventry in 1970. \nBob playing Kick Langeweg at IBM 1961.\nIn recent years Wade has put his main energies into junior training and organisation and also into his work as the editor of Batsford’s highly productive and extremely successful series of chess books. \nBob with John Nunn and Boris Spassky at the GLC Masters\nIt is hard to say in what department one should place Wade’s greatest contributions to British Chess. Living through what is retrospect look to have been the Dark Ages of British chess – the 1950s and 1960s – he has demonstrated that even in a social and cultural environment that made playing chess economically ‘impossible’ profession to follow it was still possible to dedicate a life to chess\, if one had the determination. \nLeonard Barden\, Henry Mutkin\, Adrian Hollis and Bob Wade observe Nick Ivell vs Ken Regan at the 1983 Varsity match\nDuring those years he was really the only British Player who regularly active in international tournaments. Since then he has been constantly active as an author\, editor and adviser\, always working to transform Britain into a country more congenial to good chess. \nBob at the demo board at London Central YMCA chess club.\nBut we suspect that he might regard this role as trainer and coach as the most important thing of all. He is\, quite appropriately the British Chess Federation’s Chief National Coach. \nBob doing one of the things he loved best : teaching. He was discussing a position at Havana 1965. Dr JR Capablanca\, son of the former world champion\, on the right\, interpreted.\nIf one had to choose a single best game from Wade’s whole tournament career\, it would probably be this one. \nGeorge Botterill \n[pgn]\n[Event “Skopje/Ohrid Solidarnost-02”]\n[Site “Skopje”]\n[Date “1968.??.??”]\n[Round “18”]\n[White “Wade\, Robert Graham”]\n[Black “Uhlmann\, Wolfgang”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C05”]\n[Annotator “George Botterill & British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “1968.07.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “19”]\n[EventCountry “YUG”]\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\,73\,19\,38\,30\,51\,38\,22\,1\,1\,-9\,-13\,-19\,-15\,-7\,-33\,-5\,-26\,28\,0\,30\,29\,40\,\n42\,60\,55\,63\,43\,89\,112\,124\,169\,164\,60\,32\,36\,36\,40\,66\,83\,151\,159\,178\,176\,185\,26\,\n67\,64\,615\,650\,663\,668\,997\,1093\,1092\,305\,979\,191\,500\,502\,556\,554\,554\,323\,323\,\n381\,383\,330\,440\,440\,354\,355\,656\,671\,29983\,702]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4.\ne5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ndf3 cxd4 (7… Qb6 {In 2020 this is the most\npopular line} 8. g3 cxd4 9. cxd4 Bb4+ 10. Kf2 g5) 8. cxd4 h5 ({again} 8… Qb6\n9. g3 {is more popular}) 9. Bd3 Nb6 10. Ne2 Bd7 11. O-O a5 12. a3 a4 $146 {\nIn 1968 this was a novelty.} ({In view of the surprise White has in store at\nmoves 14 and 15\,} 12… Be7 {seems wiser} 13. b3 Kf8) 13. Qe1 Na5 $6 {[#]} ({\nHere} 13… g6 {was necessary\, though it was not at all easy to see why!}) 14.\nf5 $1 exf5 15. e6 $1 fxe6 ({No better is} 15… Bxe6 16. Nf4 Qd7 17. Bxf5) 16.\nQg3 Kf7 17. Nf4 Kg8 18. Ng6 Nb3 19. Nxh8 Nxc1 ({The refutation of} 19… Nxa1 {\n[#] is rather droll.} {after} 20. Ng6 {Black has no reasonable defence\nagainst 21. Qh3 and 22.Qxh5}) 20. Raxc1 Kxh8 21. Ne5 Be8 22. Rc7 $1 {keeping\nup the attack.} h4 ({the point is that if} 22… Qxc7 23. Ng6+ {discovers an\nattack on the black queen.}) 23. Qf4 g5 24. Ng6+ $1 Kg8 {An unimportant\ninversion of moves} (24… Bxg6 25. Qe5+ Kg8 {takes us back into the game.})\n25. Qe5 Bxg6 26. Qxe6+ Kh8 27. Rxb7 Qe8 28. Rxb6 {From here on it is not too\ndifficult even against Uhlmann.} Bg7 29. Qxg6 Qe3+ 30. Kh1 Qxd3 31. Qh5+ Kg8\n32. Rd1 Qc2 33. Rb7 Rf8 34. Rxg7+ Kxg7 35. Qxg5+ Kh7 36. Rc1 Re8 37. h3 {\nand Black resigned} 1-0[/pgn] \nDr. Fazekas (left) playing Bob Wade at an Ilford Congress\, photographer unknown\nIn the January 2009 issue of British Chess Magazine John Saunders wrote a ten page obituary as follows : \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXIX (129\, 2009)\, #1 (January)\, pp. 34-43\nLeonard Barden wrote this obituary \nHere is Bob’s Telegraph obituary. \nJohn Saunders interviewed Bob at his Blackheath home and wrote this extensive article for the 1999 British Chess Magazine. \nHis detailed results in Olympiads\, from olimpbase.org\, follow. \nAmsterdam 1954\, England board 4\, 6/12 (+4−4=4);\nMoscow 1956\, England board 3\, 6½/14 (+2−3=9);\nMunich 1958\, England 1st reserve\, 7/14 (+5−5=4);\nLeipzig 1960\, England 2nd reserve\, 6/11 (+4−3=4);\nVarna 1962\, England 2nd reserve\, 6/12 (+4−4=4);\nSiegen 1970\, New Zealand board 2\, 9/15 (+7−4=4);\nSkopje 1972\, England board 3\, 7½/14 (+4−3=7).\nWade won several middle-strength Master events in the British Isles: Ilford 1957 and 1968\, Paignton 1959\, Dublin 1962\, and Southend-on-Sea 1965. \nWade was generally no more than a middle-ranking player in strong international tournaments. His other highlights against high-standard international-level competition include: \ntied 4–5th at Haifa/Tel Aviv 1958 on 7½/13 (winner Samuel Reshevsky);\n3rd at Bognor Regis 1959 on 7/10 (winner Erno Gereben);\n5th at Reykjavík 1964 on 7½/13 (winner Mikhail Tal);\ntied 4–5th at Málaga 1966 on 7/11; (winners Alberic O’Kelly de Galway and Eleazar Jiménez);\n6th at Briseck 1971 on 7/13 (winner Gideon Barcza);\n5th at Cienfuegos ‘B’ 1975 on 10/17; (winners Julio Boudy and Amador Rodriguez);\ntied 7–12th in the World Senior Championship\, Bad Woerishofen 1992\, on 7½/11 (winner Efim Geller).\nWade was the only British player to have faced Bobby Fischer in tournament play (outside of Olympiads). They met three times\, with Wade drawing one game and losing the other two. \nHis detailed Wikipedia entry may be found here \nBob was an active author and wrote (or co-wrote) around 22 books as follows : \nThe World Chess Championship\, W.Winter & RG Wade\, Turnstille Press\, 1951\nHastings Chess Congress 1955-56\, RG Wade & W. Ritson Morry\, En Passant Chess Publications\nChess Tactics for Beginners\, RG Wade\, Bott and Morrison\, 1960\nThe World Chess Championship: 1963 Botvinnik vs Petrosian\, Wade\nSoviet Chess\, RG Wade\, Neville Spearman (UK) & David McKay Company\, Inc\, New York\, 1968\nSousse 1967 : International Chess Tournament\, RG Wade\, The Chess Player\, 1968\nThe Velimirovic Attack\, Sozin Sicilian\, TD Harding and RG Wade\, Chessman Publications Ltd.\, 1969.\nThe Closed Ruy Lopez\, Wade\, Blackstock and Booth\, Batsford\, 1970\nPalma 1970 : Interzonal Chess Tournament\, RG Wade and LS Blackstock\, The Chess Player\, 1970\nThe Games of Robert J. Fischer\, Robert Wade and O’Connell\, Batsford 1972\, 2nd ed. 1972\, reprinted 1973\, First limp edition 1981\, Reprinted 1985\, 1981\, 1989\, Second edition (The Complete Games of Bobby Fischer) 1992\nWorld Championship Interzonals\, Wade\, Blackstock and Kotov\, Batsford\, 1974\nThe World Chess Championship\, Gligoric and Wade\, Batsford\, 1974\nThe Marshall Attack\, Wade & Harding\, Batsford\, 1974\nPlaying Chess\, RG Wade\, Batsford/TVTimes\, 1974\nSicilian Lasker-Pelikan\, 1978\, Batsford\, Wade\, Speelman\, Povah and Blackstock\n44th USSR Championship Final Moscow 1977\, RG Wade\, LS Blackstock and HC Thomas\, Master Chess Publications\, 1977\n45th USSR Championship Final Leningrad 1977\, RG Wade\, LS Blackstock and HC Thomas\, Master Chess Publications\, 1977\nBugojno\, 1978\, RG Wade\, LS Blackstock and HC Thomas\, Master Chess Publications\, 1978\n46th USSR Chess Championships 1978\, RD Keene\, JDM Nunn\, RG Wade\, Master Chess Publications\, 1978\, ISBN 0 906634 00 8\nTournament of the Stars:~ Montreal 1979\, RG Wade\, LS Blackstock\, AL Hosking\, Master Chess Publications\, 1979\nInterpolis Supertournament:~ Tilburg 1979\, LS Blackstock & RG Wade\, Master Chess Publications\, Chess\, Sutton Coldfield\, 1979\nFighting Chess\, Kasparov and Wade\, Harper Collins\, 1983\nTrends in the Reti\, Volume 1\, RG Wade\, 1992\nBatsford Chess Endings\, Speelman\, Tisdall and Wade\, 1993\nChess for Children\, Ted Nottingham and Bob Wade\, Sterling Juvenile\, 1996\nTrends in the Reti\, Volume 2\, RG Wade\, 1996\nWinning Chess : Tactics and Strategies\, Sterling Juvenile\, 2001\nIn 2007 Ray Cannon published the following tribute : \nBob Wade : Tribute to a Chess Master\, Ray Cannon & Ray Keene\, Impala\, 2007\nHowever\, Paul McKeown remains Bob’s official biographer. \nIM Robert Wade OBE
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Simon Williams (30-xi-1979)
DESCRIPTION:GM Simon Williams\nBest wishes to GM Simon Williams on his fortieth birthday\, this day (November 30th) in 1979. \nSimon was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion in the 2001-02 (shared with Simon Knott) and the 2006-07 season. \nHis Wikipedia entry is here \nGM Simon Williams
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Dr. James Aitken (27-x-1908 03-xii-1983)
DESCRIPTION:Signature of JM Aitken from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Hastings Christmas Congress\, 1945-1946\nWe remember Dr. James Aitken who passed away on Saturday\, December 3rd\, 1983. \nJames Macrae Aitken was born on Tuesday\, October 28th 1908 in Calderbank\, Lanarkshire\, Scotland. \nHis very early history is best record here at the wonderful Chess Scotland web site. \nHe attended Balliol College\, Oxford. \nLuckily for all of us Scottish chess enthusiast Geoff Chandler is transcribing JMAs games from the players personal scorebooks. We hope to see these games appearing in Britbase and other locations in the near future. \nFrom The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match by Klein and Winter : \n“JM Aitken was born in 1908 in Scotland\, and learned chess at the age of eight. He played several times in the Scottish Championship\, and won it in 1935. In the Stockholm international team tournament\, 1937\, he played for Scotland. His best performance in international chess was at Hastings\, 1945\, when he scored 6 points and did best among the British contingent. \nJames Macrae Aitken\nHe is a graduate of both Oxford and Edinburgh\, and a Ph.D. At the beginning of the war he joined the Foreign Office. ” \nThe Aitken Variation is a line recommended in the British Chess Magazine of 1937 of the Giuocco Piano as follows : \n[fen cal=Gc1a3]r1bqk2r/pppp1ppp/2n5/8/2BP4/B1b2N2/P4PPP/R2Q1RK1 b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CIV (104\, 1984)\, Number 1 (January)\, page 65 : \n“Dr. James Macrae Aiken (27 October 1908 – 3 December 1983) died at his home in Cheltenham on the Saturday morning when he was due to turn out in a county match that afternoon. Sh he was active to the end\, since he played in the veterans’ competition in both at the Southport BCF Congress and at the Guernsey tournament in October. \nTen times Scottish Champion\, the worthy doctor represented Scotland at Olympiads both pre- and post-war. At the 1937 Stockholm Olympiad he beat Ståhlberg\, while later on he also had the grandmaster scalps of Bogoljubow and Tartakower to his credit. \nHe retired from his work at the Foreign Office some ten years ago\, and continued playing in West Country chess\, always taking a high board for Gloucestershire. At the BCM we have a particular cause to remember him with gratitude since he was both a book reviewer and occasional annotator for two decades\, and a life-long subscriber. \nAs a person he was always friendly and objective in his judgements both of chess positions and personalities. Your editor recalls many interesting conversations with him at BCF Congresses. The loss is greatest\, of course. for Scottish Chess. \nPerhaps we may close on a lighter note\, since the following anecdote reminds one that Dr Aitken also turned out for Great Britain in matches just after the war. At an early FIDE Congress after the war the first official FIDE list of masters and grandmasters was being drawn up. The BCF made application for recognising the mastership of HE Atkins. The Soviet delegate\, Kotov\, objected since he thought he heard the name of Aitken\, whom he knew had lost both games to Bondaresvky on board eight of the 1946 GB-USSR Radio Match. It was gently pointed out that the application concerned a player who had come ahead of no less than Chigorin at Hannover 1902. End of objection! \nJames Macrae Aitken in 1965 by “Mac”\nWe take this game from the Bournemouth tournament played on the eve of the Second World War. \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-32 Premier International”]\n[Site “Bournemouth/ Dorset”]\n[Date “1939.08.18”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Abrahams\, Gerald”]\n[Black “Aitken\, James Macrae”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C50”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “56”]\n[EventDate “1939.08.14”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1998”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.11.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1997.11.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,56\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,27\,50\,50\,93\,41\,5\,-36\,4\,-34\,-35\,-44\,-21\,-39\,-32\,-62\,\n-75\,-80\,-83\,-96\,-137\,-228\,-112\,-118\,-11\,-98\,-71\,-61\,-42\,-11\,-32\,-221\,-208\,-325\,\n-474\,-479\,-413\,-771\,-930\,-930\,-983\,-1018\,-1152\,-1883\,-2123\,-29989\,-29990\,\n-29991\,-29992\,-29993\,-29994\,-29997\,-29998]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Be7 4.\nd4 d6 5. c3 $6 (5. dxe5 dxe5 6. Qxd8+ Bxd8 7. Nc3) 5… Nf6 6. Nbd2 O-O 7. Qc2\n$146 {a rare alternative and a novelty in 1939} ({More common is} 7. h3 exd4)\n7… exd4 8. Nxd4 {[#]} d5 $1 9. Nxc6 bxc6 $15 10. Be2 Re8 11. O-O Bd6 $17 {\nBlack is doing well and has more than equalised.} 12. f3 $6 (12. Bd3) 12… Nh5\n13. g3 Bh3 (13… Nxg3 $1 14. hxg3 Qg5 $19 {Is very strong.}) 14. Rd1 f5 $1 {\nThe ! is from BCM} ({Better is} 14… Bxg3 15. hxg3 Nxg3 $19) 15. f4 {[#]} Nxf4\n$1 16. gxf4 Bxf4 {This lets white off of the hook.} ({better was} 16… Bc5+\n17. Kh1 Qh4 18. Bf1 fxe4 $19) 17. Nf3 Bxc1 18. Raxc1 $2 ({Much better is} 18.\nQxc1) 18… fxe4 19. Ne1 $2 (19. Kh1) 19… Qg5+ {It’s all over now…} 20. Kh1\nRe6 (20… Rf8) 21. Ba6 Rg6 22. Qf2 Rf8 23. Qg3 Qf5 24. Ng2 Rxg3 25. hxg3 Bxg2+\n26. Kxg2 Qf3+ 27. Kh2 Rf6 28. Rd2 Rh6+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“Talented Scottish amateur who won the Scottish championship ten times\, Dr. Aitken’s chief international activity was representing Scotland in the Olympiads. \nAt Stockholm 1937 he scored 32.4% on top board but he had the distinction of beating the Swedish grandmaster Ståhlberg. At Munich 1958 he scored 67.6% on 2nd board; at Tel Aviv 1964\, 28.1% on 2nd board; at Skopje 1972\, 38.9% on 6th board.” \nBoth Sunnucks and Hooper & Whyld are silent on Aitken. \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“James Macrae Aitken (27 October 1908 – 3 December 1983) was a Scottish chess player.[1][2] Aitken was born in Calderbank\, Lanarkshire\, Scotland. In 1938 he received a PhD from Edinburgh University on the topic of ‘The Trial of George Buchanan Before the Lisbon Inquisition’.[3] \nAitken learned chess from his father at age 10.[4] He was Scottish champion in 1935\, 1952\, 1953\, 1955\, 1956\, 1957\, 1958\, 1960\, 1961 and 1965\, the latter jointly with PM Jamieson.[1] He was also London Champion in 1950.[1] In 1959 he had his best result in the British Championship\, finishing tied for seventh place.[4] Aitken represented Scotland in four Chess Olympiads. He played top board at Stockholm 1937\, scoring only 32.4% but he did defeat Swedish GM Gideon Ståhlberg[4][5] and draw with American GM Samuel Reshevsky.[4] He played second board at Munich 1958 and Tel Aviv 1964\, scoring 67.6% and 28.1% respectively. Aitken played sixth board at Skopje 1972\, scoring 38.9%.” \nAitken was Southern Counties (SCCU) Champion for the 1948-49 season \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-07”]\n[Site “Stockholm”]\n[Date “1937.08.10”]\n[Round “14”]\n[White “Stahlberg\, Gideon”]\n[Black “Aitken\, James Macrae”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A85”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “76”]\n[EventDate “1937.07.31”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “19”]\n[EventCountry “SWE”]\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 “Sweden”]\n[BlackTeam “Scotland”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “SWE”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “SCO”] \n{[%evp 0\,76\,19\,31\,43\,-23\,-9\,4\,6\,14\,14\,16\,26\,28\,39\,55\,46\,36\,84\,59\,64\,63\,61\,30\,\n26\,11\,15\,-4\,26\,19\,53\,35\,33\,19\,15\,13\,25\,-33\,12\,-29\,-52\,-60\,-25\,-209\,-223\,-259\,\n-322\,-226\,-286\,-391\,-405\,-419\,-425\,-404\,-414\,-621\,-623\,-690\,-690\,-633\,-707\,\n-714\,-712\,-691\,-626\,-626\,-630\,-634\,-657\,-650\,-650\,-965\,-820\,-829\,-819\,-866\,\n-866\,-29983\,-29986]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 O-O 6. e3\nNe4 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8. Qc2 c6 9. Bd3 f5 10. O-O Nd7 11. Rae1 b6 12. Nd2 $146 Bb7\n13. f3 Nxd2 14. Qxd2 dxc4 15. Bxc4 Rad8 16. Qc2 Kh8 17. Qa4 a6 18. f4 $6 (18.\nQa3 $142) 18… Rf6 (18… b5 19. Qb3 Nb6 20. Be2 c5 $17) 19. Qb3 c5 20. a4 Rh6\n21. Rf2 $2 Qh4 22. d5 Qxh2+ 23. Kf1 Qg3 $19 24. Ke2 Qg4+ 25. Kd2 exd5 26. Be2\nQg3 27. Ref1 d4 28. Nd1 c4 29. Qa3 dxe3+ 30. Kc1 Nc5 31. Kb1 Be4+ 32. Ka2 Nd3\n33. Bxd3 cxd3 34. Qe7 Rg8 35. Rf3 Bxf3 (35… e2 $142) 36. Rxf3 e2 37. Rxg3\nexd1=Q 38. Rxg7 Qxa4+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \n“Aitken represented Great Britain in matches against the USSR and Yugoslavia.[4] In the 1946 radio match between the United Kingdom and the USSR he lost his match with Igor Bondarevsky on board 8.[6] Aitken defeated GM Savielly Tartakower at Southsea 1949[4][7] and GM Efim Bogoljubow at Bad Pyrmont 1951.[4][8] \nDuring World War II\, Aitken worked in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park on solving German Enigma machines.[9] On 2 December 1944 Bletchley Park played a 12-board team match against the Oxford University Chess Club. Bletchley Park won the match 8–4 with C.H.O’D. Alexander\, Harry Golombek\, and Aitken on the top three boards.[10] Aitken wrote many book reviews for the British Chess Magazine.[11] Aside from chess his hobbies included golf\, philately\, bridge\, and watching cricket.[4] He died in Cheltenham in 1983\, aged 75.[2]” \nAnother biography may be found here at the wonderful Chess Scotland \nDr. James Aitken (27-x-1908 03-xii-1983)
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201206
DTSTAMP:20201204T143723Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Gavin Wall (05-xii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:Best Wishes to IM Gavin Wall on this birthday\, this day (December 5th) in 1968. Gavin is an Irish International Master whose peak rating (according to Chessbase) was 2413 at the age of 35. \nIM Gavin Wall\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0304 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “West Bromwich”]\n[Date “2004.03.21”]\n[Round “6.1”]\n[White “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Black “Wall\, Gavin”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[WhiteElo “2651”]\n[BlackElo “2413”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “78”]\n[EventDate “2003.10.18”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2005”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2004.11.15”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Wood Green”]\n[BlackTeam “Richmond”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,78\,30\,23\,23\,10\,65\,71\,75\,56\,61\,57\,44\,16\,13\,10\,36\,13\,13\,18\,57\,69\,80\,88\,\n89\,88\,88\,65\,95\,86\,110\,47\,60\,14\,14\,20\,-32\,-28\,-71\,-89\,-92\,-31\,-13\,-20\,0\,-13\,129\,\n0\,-22\,-21\,-51\,-122\,-127\,-113\,-105\,-224\,-237\,-494\,-494\,-497\,-495\,-533\,-494\,-591\,\n-625\,-630\,-662\,-666\,-709\,-711\,-709\,-728\,-722\,-715\,-726\,-712\,-709\,-710\,-710\,\n-710\,-716]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Be7 6. Qf3 O-O 7.\nNf5 Bxf5 8. Qxf5 Nc6 9. Be3 Ne5 10. Be2 b5 11. Nxb5 g6 $6 $146 (11… Rb8) 12.\nQf4 $16 Rb8 13. Bc1 Nh5 14. Qe3 f5 15. exf5 Rxf5 $18 16. Nd4 $2 Bg5 17. Qc3 $15\nBxc1 18. Rxc1 Qg5 19. Rd1 Qxg2 20. Nxf5 Qxh1+ 21. Kd2 Qd5+ 22. Kc1 $15 Qxa2 $6\n(22… Nf4 $142) 23. Nh6+ (23. Bxh5 $18 gxf5 24. f4 $18) 23… Kf8 24. Bxh5\ngxh5 25. f4 Rb5 26. b4 Qc4 27. Qd2 $2 Ng6 (27… Nc6 $142 $19) 28. f5 Nf4 $19\n29. c3 Rd5 30. Qc2 Rxd1+ 31. Qxd1 Qxc3+ 32. Kb1 Qxb4+ 33. Ka2 Qc4+ 34. Ka1 Kg7\n35. Ng4 hxg4 36. Qxg4+ Kf7 37. Qh4 Qc1+ 38. Ka2 Qc2+ 39. Ka3 Qxf5 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Gavin Wall
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-gavin-wall/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201207
DTSTAMP:20211106T121121Z
CREATED:20191130T140838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211106T121121Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM John Hawksworth (06-xii-1963)
DESCRIPTION:We wish happy birthday to IM John Hawksworth born on Friday\, December 6th\, 1963. \nJohn Crofton Hawksworth was “born in Brighton\, England\, in December 1963 to Robert Marshall Hawksworth and Norah Connor Hawksworth née Crofton. He was baptised at St Saviour’s Church of England church in Pimlico\, London\, in 1964.[1]” \nThis was written about John who was 15 just prior to the Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display in 1979 : \n“Bradford Grammar and Bradford. Rating 194. Yorkshire under-18 champion.” \nHe was awarded the IM title in 1986. \nAccording to ChessBase his highest FIDE rating was 2370 in January\, 1990 aged 27 which was the last year of serious competition at the 77th British Championships in Eastbourne. \nHe then pursued a highly successful career in the financial sector and is currently the Chief Economist for PriceWaterhouseCoopers. \nIM John Crofton Hawksworth (standing\,far left)\n[pgn]\n[Event “Lloyds Bank op 06th”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1982.09.02”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Hawksworth\, John Crofton”]\n[Black “Kortschnoj\, Viktor Lvovich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E15”]\n[BlackElo “2645”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “49”]\n[EventDate “1982.08.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2008”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,47\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,0\,33\,10\,0\,-1\,22\,22\,54\,16\,11\,22\,20\,16\,16\,-2\,19\,8\,1\,\n1\,1\,2\,-1\,3\,5\,0\,10\,12\,25\,30\,20\,28\,15\,18\,75\,84\,6\,36\,153\,167\,306\,289\,310\,324]} 1.\nd4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Nbd2 Bb4 6. Qa4 c5 7. a3 Bxd2+ 8. Bxd2\ncxd4 9. Bg2 Bb7 10. O-O Bc6 11. Qd1 Bxf3 12. Bxf3 Nc6 13. Bf4 O-O 14. Bd6 Re8\n15. Bxc6 dxc6 16. Qxd4 Nd5 $146 (16… c5 17. Qf4 Nh5 18. Qe5 f6 19. Qxh5 Qxd6\n20. Rfd1 Qe7 $14) 17. c5 e5 18. Qa4 Qd7 19. e4 bxc5 $6 20. Bxc5 Nf4 21. Qd1 Qh3\n$2 22. gxf4 exf4 23. f3 Re5 24. Qc2 $1 {and Black resigned.} Rg5+ 25. Kh1 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM John Crofton Hawksworth (standing\, second from right)\nAt the Lloyds Bank Masters : Front (l-r) : Joel Benjamin\, Ian Wells\, Rear : Peter Morrish\, Stewart Reuben\, Richard Beville\, Gary Senior\, Richard Webb\, John Hawksworth\, Andrew King\, Nigel Short\, Mark Ginsburg\, Daniel King\, David Cummings\, Erik Teichmann\, John Brandford and Micheal Pagden
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201209
DTSTAMP:20211208T155947Z
CREATED:20191208T001021Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of John Fuller (12-v-1928  08-xii-2004)
DESCRIPTION:We remember John Fuller who passed away aged 76 on Wednesday\, December 8th 2004. His death was recorded in the district of Lancaster. At the end of his life he lived in Carnforth\, in Lancashire. \nJohn Arthur Fuller was born in Hendon\, Middlesex on Saturday\, May 12th 1928. His parents were Horace Arthur Fuller (a Bank Officer) and Phyllis Fuller (née Gooch). \nJohn had three brothers: Julian Frederick who was two years older\, Nigel Anthony who was three years younger and Adrian Easterbrook who was six years younger. \nThey lived at 12\, High View\, Pinner in Middlesex. \n12\, High View\, Pinner\, Middlesex\, HA5 3PA\nOn August 26th 1939\, aged eleven\, John (described as a scholar) departed from Liverpool on board the SS Ceramic (part of the Shaw Savill & Albion Company shipping line) and duly arrived one hundred and twenty days later in Sydney\, New South Wales. \nThe family returned to Liverpool in March 1945 on board the Athlone Castle which was of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd. John was now sixteen years old. \nAccording to ancestry.co.uk he is survived by a son\, Robert. The family tree indicates that John had two sons and two daughters but his wife is marked as Private and so her name is not visible. We speculate that it may be Ann Fuller (née Dent) but this is awaiting confirmation. \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1972 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“British Master\, British Boy Champion in 1946 and British Correspondence Champion from 1953-1955. Born on 12th May 1928 Fuller learned to play chess when he was 11. In 1946 \, the year in which he won the British Boys Championship\, he also tied for the London Boys Championship. He went on to win the Middlesex Championship three times and the Warwickshire Championship twice. Fuller played for England in matches between Scotland and the Netherlands and in the Clare Benedict International Team Tournament. He also had the best British score in the Premier Tournament at Hastings in 1949 and 1955. \nHe was a design engineer.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1955/56-31 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1956.01.05”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Golombek\, Harry”]\n[Black “Fuller\, John Arthur”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E85”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “86”]\n[EventDate “1955.12.28”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. Nge2 Nbd7 8. Qd2\na6 9. d5 Ne8 10. Ng3 {[#]} ({Relevant:} 10. g4 f5 11. gxf5 gxf5 12. Bg5 Bf6 13.\nRg1 Kh8 14. exf5 Bxg5 15. Rxg5 Ndf6 16. Bh3 Ng7 17. O-O-O b5 18. Rdg1 Nge8 19.\nNe4 bxc4 20. N2c3 Nxe4 21. Nxe4 Nf6 22. Rg7 Ng8 23. Ng5 Nf6 24. Nxh7 Ng4 25.\nR1xg4 {1-0 (25) Chaude de Silans\,C-Radzikowska\,K Moscow 1955}) 10… f5 $146 ({\nPredecessor:} 10… Nc5 11. b4 Nd7 12. Rc1 a5 13. a3 axb4 14. axb4 f5 15. Bg5\nBf6 16. Bh6 Bh4 17. exf5 gxf5 18. Kd1 Rf7 19. Bd3 Nf8 20. Kc2 Ng7 21. Ra1 Bd7\n22. Kb2 Rxa1 23. Rxa1 Ng6 24. Qc2 Qc8 25. Nge2 Bf6 26. Ra7 Qb8 27. Ra3 Ne7 28.\nKb3 c6 29. Ng3 Rf8 30. Nge2 b5 31. Qd2 e4 32. fxe4 fxe4 33. Nxe4 Be5 34. Kc2\nbxc4 35. Bxc4 cxd5 36. Bxd5+ Nxd5 37. Qxd5+ Be6 38. Qa5 Qb7 39. N4c3 Qxg2 40.\nKd2 {Kottnauer\,C-Botvinnik\,M Budapest 1952 0-1}) 11. Bg5 $14 Bf6 12. Bxf6 Qxf6\n13. exf5 gxf5 14. O-O-O Qh4 15. f4 e4 16. Nge2 Nc5 17. Nd4 a5 18. g3 Qh6 19.\nBe2 Ng7 20. Qe3 Bd7 21. Rdf1 Rae8 22. h3 Kh8 23. g4 Qh4 24. Nd1 b6 25. b3 Re7\n26. Qc3 e3 27. Bf3 Rfe8 28. Re1 Qg3 29. Rxe3 Rxe3 30. Nxe3 Qxf4 31. Re1 fxg4\n32. hxg4 Ne4 33. Bxe4 {[#]} Rxe4 $2 (33… Qxe4 34. Kb2 Bxg4 35. Rf1 $14) 34.\nNdf5 $2 (34. Rf1 $1 $18 Rxe3 35. Rxf4 Rxc3+ 36. Kd2 Nh5 37. Rf8+ Kg7 38. Rd8\n$18) 34… Bxf5 35. gxf5 Re5 36. Kb1 Nxf5 37. Nc2 h5 38. Rg1 Ne3 (38… h4) 39.\nNd4 Qf2 40. Rc1 (40. Qc1) 40… Kh7 41. Qd3+ Kh6 42. Rh1 Qg2 43. Re1 {[#]} Nxc4\n$1 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsfords\, 1977) by Harry Golombek: \n“British master and design engineer by profession. British Boy Champion in 1946. Fuller was a player of great promise with a fine understanding of the game. But a serious illness disturbed the even flow of his chess career and\, though he recovered and made some more appearences in the chess world\, he eventually withdrew from chess on an international and national level. \nFuller played twice in the Hastings Premier tournament: =5th 1949/50 and 6th in 1955/6.” \nThe Oxford Companion to Chess is silent on JAF. \nThere has been considerable discussion of JAF in another place. \nBCN would like to acknowledge help received from Richard James\, Leonard Barden\, Rob Fuller and John Upham in putting this article together. \n[pgn]\n[Event “British Boys Ch”]\n[Site “Hastings ENG”]\n[Date “1946.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “John A Fuller”]\n[Black “Gordon Thomas Crown”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C80”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “17”]\n[EventDate “1946.??.??”] \n{[%evp 0\,17\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,29\,28\,3\,-1\,-1\,15\,26\,22\,-12\,-25\,-20\,782\,781]} 1. e4 e5\n2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. Re1 Nc5 7. Nc3 Nxa4 8. Nxe5 Ne7 {[#]}\n$4 (8… Be7 9. Nd5 O-O 10. Nxc6 dxc6 11. Nxe7+ Kh8 12. Qh5 $14) 9. Qf3 $18 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSubsequent to this post being published our attention was kindly drawn by John Saunders to the obituary in BCM\, Volume 125 (2005)\, #5 (May)\, page 247. Here is the article: \nJohn Fuller (12 v 1928 – 8 xii 2004\, Carnforth) was a British Master and British correspondence champion in 1954 and 1955. Having spent some of the war years in Australia\, he quickly made his mark in junior chess on his return to Britain. He shared first place with Leonard Barden in the 1946 London Boys’ Championship and went on to win the British Boys’ Championship in 1946 with 5/5 in the final section\, ahead of Gordon Crown and Leonard Barden. He beat an off-form Crown in nine moves in the last round (see game above) He played a number of correspondence games with Crown\, himself a richly gifted player\, who w0as to die tragically young in 1947\, and it was reported that Fuller had the better of these encounters. \nFuller became a design engineer\, but his business and chess careers were both affected by a serious bout of tuberculosis when he was a young man. He won the Hastings Premier Reserves ‘B’ with 8/9 in 1947/48 ahead of Alan Phillips and Arthur Winser\, and in 1949 Leonard Barden remembers playing off with him for a place in the 1949/50 Hastings premier after the two of them had made similar scores at the 1949 British Championship. \n“We played the match at Sir George Thomas’s flat in autumn 1949… and John crushed me in that. Not sure of the score\, I think it was 2.5- 0.5.” \nHe played in the Hastings Premier in 1949/50 and again in 1955/56\,and made the best British scores on both occasions – 4/9 and 3.5/9 respectively. He also represented England in matches against Scotland and the Netherlands\, and in the Clare Benedict team tournament. He only appeared three times in British Championships\, scoring 6.5 in 1949\, 5.5 in 1950 and 6.5 in 1958. He ranked in the top ten of the British Chess Federation Grading List on six occasions\, with a best place of third equal in 1958. He seems to have dropped out of over the board competition chess shortly after being awarded the (now defunct) British Master title in 1963/64. \nHarry Golombek referred to Fuller in The Encyclopaedia of Chess (1977) as a player of great promise with a fine understanding of the game”. Alan Phillips told BCM that he was “one of the most promising players of his generation… he slaughtered me three times”. \n[pgn]\n[Event “ENG-ch corr”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1955.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Parr\, Frank”]\n[Black “Fuller\, John Arthur”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E81”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “100”]\n[EventDate “1955.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,100\,39\,27\,27\,-20\,44\,37\,31\,38\,32\,10\,15\,-12\,3\,13\,-6\,-12\,19\,26\,33\,24\,36\,\n-34\,0\,-2\,0\,-35\,5\,1\,11\,-20\,18\,17\,11\,11\,7\,3\,0\,-21\,9\,9\,11\,-24\,-17\,-15\,-29\,-68\,-69\,\n-64\,-87\,-91\,-98\,-123\,-120\,-118\,-120\,-120\,-120\,-116\,-110\,-126\,-125\,-103\,-123\,\n-159\,-150\,-182\,-188\,-215\,-214\,-222\,-168\,-162\,-159\,-164\,-115\,-133\,-145\,-147\,\n-151\,-177\,-181\,-197\,-217\,-239\,-162\,-210\,-190\,-197\,-188\,-202\,-177\,-206\,-202\,\n-275\,-281\,-297\,-299\,-349\,-412\,-426\,-442]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4\nd6 5. f3 O-O 6. Bg5 c5 7. d5 Nbd7 8. Qd2 Re8 9. Nge2 a6 10. Ng3 Qa5 ({Relevant:\n} 10… Rb8 11. Be2 Qa5 12. a4 Qb4 13. O-O Ne5 14. Nd1 Qxd2 15. Bxd2 h5 16. h3\ne6 17. Nc3 exd5 18. exd5 Nh7 19. Nge4 Bf8 20. f4 Nd7 21. f5 Ne5 22. fxg6 fxg6\n23. Rxf8+ Rxf8 24. Nxd6 Bd7 25. Bh6 Rf6 26. Nce4 Rbf8 27. Bxf8 Rxf8 28. Nxc5\nBc8 29. a5 Nf6 30. Rf1 Kg7 31. Ndxb7 {1-0 (31) Lilienthal\,A-Shamkovich\,L Kiev\n1954}) 11. Bh6 {[#]} Bxh6 $146 ({Predecessor:} 11… Bh8 12. Be2 Nb6 13. Nf1\nNa4 14. Nxa4 Qxa4 15. h4 b5 16. Ne3 bxc4 17. Nxc4 Rb8 18. g4 Qb4 19. h5 Nd7 20.\nhxg6 Qxd2+ 21. Bxd2 fxg6 22. O-O-O Nb6 23. b3 Nxc4 24. Bxc4 Rf8 25. Rh3 Be5 26.\nRdh1 h5 27. Be2 hxg4 28. fxg4 Rf2 29. Kd1 Rxe2 30. Kxe2 Bxg4+ 31. Kd3 Bxh3 32.\nRxh3 Rf8 33. Bg5 Rf2 34. Bxe7 Rxa2 35. Rf3 Rb2 36. Rf8+ Kg7 37. Rd8 Rxb3+ 38.\nKc2 Rb2+ 39. Kd3 Rb3+ 40. Kc2 Rb2+ 41. Kd3 {Goodman\,J-Pollitt\,J Hastings/ East\nSussex 1953 1/2-1/2}) 12. Qxh6 $11 b5 13. Qd2 bxc4 14. Bxc4 Rb8 15. Be2 Nb6 16.\nb3 e6 17. dxe6 Bxe6 18. Nb1 {[#]} Qb4 $1 19. Kf2 Red8 20. Rd1 a5 21. Qxb4 $6 (\n21. Nc3) 21… axb4 $15 22. Nd2 Ra8 23. Bd3 Ra7 24. Ne2 Rda8 25. Nc1 Nfd7 26.\nBb5 Ne5 27. h3 Ra5 28. Bf1 Nc6 29. Nc4 Nxc4 30. Bxc4 Bxc4 31. bxc4 Ra3 32. Rb1\n$2 (32. Rxd6) 32… Rc3 $19 33. Rxd6 Nd4 34. Ke1 Rxc4 35. Nb3 Nc2+ 36. Kf2 Rxa2\n37. Rd2 Rc3 38. Nc1 Ra1 39. Rxa1 Nxa1 40. Nd3 Nb3 41. Rd1 Rc2+ 42. Ke3 Na5 43.\nNe1 Rc3+ 44. Ke2 c4 45. Rd8+ Kg7 46. Rb8 Rb3 47. Rb6 Rb2+ 48. Ke3 c3 49. Rb5\nNc4+ 50. Kd4 Na3 0-1\n[/pgn] \nLeonard Barden had the following memories of John Fuller: “He was a member of West London Chess Club\, which was historically significant as his good friend and fellow member (both living in Harrow) was Jim Slater\, who 25 years later told me that knowing John was one of the factors which kept his interest in chess up to the point where he became our Maecenas… John was a tall redhead\, outgoing and friendly\, and a natural talent who also worked on theory. With the better opportunities available to later generations I’m sure he would have reached IM strength.”
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WGM Dr. Jana Bellin (09-xii-1947)
DESCRIPTION:Happy birthday WGM Dr. Jana Bellin on this day (December 9th) in 1947. \nJana Malypetrova\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Woman Master (1969)\, Czech Woman Champion in 1965 and 1967 and British Woman Champion since 1970. \nJana Malypetrova\nJana was born in Prague on the 9th December 1947 and learned to play chess at the age of eleven. She made her first appearance in the international field when she played 2nd board for Czechoslovakia in Women’s Chess Olympiad in Oberhausen in 1966. In the same year she represented Czechoslovakia in the Zonal tournament at Varna and came 11th. \nJana Malypetrova\nShe is now married to the British International Master\, William Hartston\, and played 1st board for England in the Women’s Chess Olympiad in Skopje in 1972 and represented England in the Zonal tournament in Wijk aan Zee in 1973 in which she tied for 1st place. In the same year she came =6th in the Interzonal Tournament. She is a doctor.” \nJana & Bill Hartston celebrate a family double at the British Championships in 1973 at Eastbourne\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“Born in Prague\, Czechoslovakia\, but moved to England in 1970 after her marriage to WR Hartston. Czechoslovak Woman champion in 1965 and 1967 (under her maiden name of Malypetrova) and British Ladies champion in the five years 1970 to 1974. International Woman master since 1969.” \nBill and Jana Hartston are shown with some of their many chess sets. CHESS\, August 1973\, page 323\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : \nHastings International Chess Congress 21 year old Jana Malypetrova From Czechoslovakia And Vassily Smyslov From Russia.  Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Fresco/ANL/Shutterstock (1876232a)\n“Jana Miles was born 9 December 1947 in Prague\, Czechoslovakia. She moved to England when she married Bill Hartston. Divorced from Hartston in 1978\, she subsequently married Tony Miles.  \nHastings International Chess Congress 21 year old Jana Malypetrova From Czechoslovakia And Vassily Smyslov From Russia.  Mandatory Credit: Photo by Michael Fresco/ANL/Shutterstock (1876232a)\nShe was Czech woman champion in 1965 and 1967 and has regularly been the British Ladies Champion since moving to this country. She is a doctor of medicine.” \nBill and Dr\, Jana Hartston (née Malypetrova)\n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad Women-09”]\n[Site “Valetta”]\n[Date “1980.12.06”]\n[Round “14”]\n[White “Bellin\, Jana M”]\n[Black “Fischdick\, Gisela”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A72”]\n[WhiteElo “2220”]\n[BlackElo “2235”]\n[Annotator “Jana Miles & British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “119”]\n[EventDate “1980.11.20”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “14”]\n[EventCountry “MLT”]\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 “England (W)”]\n[BlackTeam “Germany (W)”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “GER”] \n{[%evp 0\,119\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,0\,28\,50\,81\,61\,72\,74\,99\,105\,105\,87\,93\,61\,46\,25\,28\,\n17\,28\,16\,26\,26\,24\,36\,29\,43\,53\,64\,81\,50\,46\,89\,33\,87\,14\,29\,4\,-81\,-89\,-85\,-85\,-19\,\n-20\,14\,0\,0\,0\,0\,18\,17\,0\,0\,24\,35\,64\,97\,148\,64\,109\,117\,135\,140\,232\,151\,200\,227\,\n408\,223\,251\,148\,167\,208\,225\,240\,253\,229\,232\,182\,232\,217\,208\,200\,224\,204\,206\,\n240\,256\,294\,291\,302\,294\,288\,397\,406\,497\,503\,506\,504\,524\,539\,537\,554\,561\,570\,\n591\,609\,617\,617\,619\,655\,670\,669\,670\,695\,1012\,28087]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3\nc5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. e4 Bg7 8. Bg5 a6 ({Another possibility\nis to chase the bishop immediately e.g.} 8… h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nh5 11. Bb5+\nKf8 12. e5 Nxg3 13. fxg3 dxe5 14. O-O a6 15. Bd3 b5 16. Nd2 c4 17. Qh5 f6 $146\n(17… Ra7 18. Bg6) 18. Bc2 Bd7 19. a4 Be8 20. Bg6 Nd7 21. axb5 Bxg6 22. Qxg6\naxb5 23. Rxa8 Qxa8 24. Nde4 Qe8 25. Qf5 Qd8 26. Kh1 Kg8 27. Nxb5 {winning\n(Miles-Hernandez\, Biel 1977). No wonder Benoni players seem to have abandoned\nthis particular line.}) 9. Nd2 {Last played in 2005} b5 10. Be2 O-O 11. Qc2 {\n[#]} {Curiously this same game appears with two move orders in the same (1981)\nyear of BCM. This move order is game #19833 on page 83 of volume CI (101).}\nNbd7 ({and this move order with annotations appears in the same BCM volume as\ngame #20197 on page 545. This version is reproduced in British Chess\, page 189.\n} 11… h6 12. Bh4 Nbd7 (12… Re8 13. O-O Qc7 14. Rae1 Nbd7 15. a4 b4 16. Nd1\nb3 17. Qb1 Rb8 18. Ne3 Rb4 19. Nec4 Rxa4 20. Bg3 Bf8 21. f4 Nb6 22. Nxb6 Qxb6\n23. Nc4 Qd8 24. Bh4 Be7 25. Bd3 Bb7 {as in J.Miles – D. Cramling\, Oslo\, 1980;}\n{the game continued} 26. e5 $1 dxe5 27. fxe5 $4 ({but} 27. d6 $1 {should win\nfor White e.g.} Bxd6 28. fxe5 Bxe5 29. Bxf6 Bxf6 30. Rxe8+ Qxe8 31. Rxf6 $18)\n27… Qxd5 {and Black won\,}) 13. a4 b4 14. Nd1) 12. a4 b4 13. Nd1 h6 14. Bh4\nRe8 {A new move in 1980 was} 15. Ne3 $146 {and now\, as any hyponotist might\nsay\, we are back in the room. The two versions of this game have transposed to\nthe same position.} (15. f3 {was the previous move from 1977.}) 15… b3 16.\nQb1 Qe7 $146 (16… Rb8 {has become the modern move in this position}) 17. O-O\nRb8 18. Ra3 $5 Rb4 19. f3 {With the idea of stabilising the centre and\nsurrounding the b3 pawn. After this move I left my boarda and went to survey\nthe situation of our men’s team.} {On returning I found that Black had played}\nNxe4 $2 {BCN : Despite the ? mark in BCM modern day engines find that this IS\nthe best move and asses the position as =(0.00) Am curious to know what the\nannotater thought was better for Black since no alternative was provided.} (\n19… Ne5 20. Rxb3 Rxb3 21. Nxb3 g5 22. Be1 Nh5 23. g3 $16) {At first the\nsituation looked grim} 20. Bxe7 Nxd2 21. Qc1 Nxf1 {[#]} {Eventually I realised\nI could recapture on f1 with the king! So} 22. Kxf1 $1 $15 {protecting the\nbishop and neutralising any unpleasing pins.} (22. Bxf1 $2 Rxe7 23. Nc4 Bd4+\n24. Kh1 Rxc4 25. Bxc4 Bxb2 $1 $19 {and Black wins.}) (22. Nxf1 $2 Rxe7 23. Bd3\nNe5 $19 {and White is getting squashed.}) 22… Rxe7 23. Nc4 Bb7 24. Qd1 $1 {\nTo get rid of the miserable rook on a3} Bd4 25. Rxb3 Rxb3 26. Qxb3 Bxd5 27. Qc2\n$11 Re6 {At last a defensive move from Black. By now she realised things were\nnot going to plan.} 28. Na5 Nf6 29. Bxa6 g5 $6 {BCN : This does not help\nBlack’s cause one little bit : quite the opposite.} (29… Be5) 30. Bc4 $1 {\nThe only move but sufficient} Bxc4+ 31. Nxc4 d5 32. Na3 c4 33. a5 Be5 34. g3\nBc7 $2 {By now we were both in considerable time trouble.} 35. Qa4 $1 {Black\nspotted the tactic below and played in desperation} c3 ({Intending to answer}\n35… Ra6 {with} 36. Nxc4 $1) 36. bxc3 Ra6 37. Nc4 $1 {(Anyway!)} dxc4 38. Qxc4\nRxa5 (38… Ra7 39. Qc5 Rb7 40. a6 Rb1+ 41. Ke2 Rb2+ 42. Kd3 Bb8 43. a7 Bxa7\n44. Qxa7 Rxh2 45. c4 {and wins}) 39. Qxc7 Ra1+ 40. Kg2 Ra2+ 41. Kg1 $1 $18 {\n[#] A sealed move} ({If} 41. Kh3 $2 g4+ 42. fxg4 Nh7 43. Qd8+ ({and Black can\nprobably hold the draw.} 43. g5 Nxg5+ 44. Kg4 Rxh2) 43… Kg7 44. Qd4+ Kg6 45.\nQd3+ Kg7 46. g5 Nxg5+ 47. Kg4 Rxh2 48. Qd1 Kf6 {gives Black hope of hanging in.\n}) 41… Ra1+ 42. Kf2 Ra2+ 43. Ke1 {The king is safest here.} Rxh2 44. c4 Nh7\n45. c5 Nf8 46. c6 Rc2 47. Qd6 Ne6 48. f4 gxf4 49. gxf4 Nxf4 50. Qd8+ (50. c7 $4\nNe6 $11 {was the annotation in 1981 and probably is the correct assesment.} 51.\nQd8+ Nxd8 52. cxd8=Q+ Kg7 53. Qd4+ Kg8 54. Qg4+ Kf8 55. Qa4 Rc1+ 56. Kf2 Rb1 {\nmakes the task difficult for White}) 50… Kg7 51. c7 Ne6 52. c8=Q Rxc8 53.\nQxc8 Ng5 54. Qf5 Ne6 55. Kf2 Nf8 56. Kg3 Ng6 57. Kg4 Nf8 58. Kh5 Ng6 59. Qg4\nKh7 60. Qd4 {and at last 1-0.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry OBE presents Dr. Jana Hartston with the ? prize\nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Jana Bellin (née Malypetrová; born 9 December 1947) is a British\, formerly Czechoslovak chess player. She was awarded the Woman International Master chess title in 1969 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 1982. \nMoment of concentration for reigning women’s champion of Great Britain Jana Hartston and some of the 30 Post Officer players – all men who challenged her at postal headquarters London on September 6. Jana beat seven\, drew with sixteen and lost to seven.\nBellin was born in Prague\, Czechoslovakia. She was the Czech Women’s Champion in 1965 and 1967 under her maiden name of Malypetrová. After her marriage to William Hartston she moved to England in 1970 and won the British Women’s Championship in 1970\, 1971\, 1972\, 1973\, 1974\, 1976\, 1977 (after a play-off)\, and 1979. \nMoment of concentration for reigning women’s champion of Great Britain Jana Hartston and some of the 30 Post Officer players – all men who challenged her at postal headquarters London on September 6. Jana beat seven\, drew with sixteen and lost to seven.\nShe has fifteen appearances in the Women’s Chess Olympiads\, representing Czechoslovakia in 1966 and 1969 and England thirteen times from 1972 through 2006\, seven times on first board. \nMoment of concentration for reigning women’s champion of Great Britain Jana Hartston and some of the 30 Post Officer players – all men who challenged her at postal headquarters London on September 6. Jana beat seven\, drew with sixteen and lost to seven.\nAt the Olympiad she earned individual silver medals in 1966 and 1976\, a team bronze medal in 1968 with the Czechoslovakian team\, and a team silver in 1976 with England. \nBritish Speed Chess Championship Grandmaster Nigel Short Playing Chess In The Park With L-r Susan Arkell Sheila Jackson And Dr Jana Miles. Courtesy of Shutterstock\n[pgn]\n[Event “Troll Masters”]\n[Site “Gausdal”]\n[Date “1990.??.??”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Tisdall\, Jonathan D”]\n[Black “Bellin\, Jana”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E20”]\n[WhiteElo “2480”]\n[BlackElo “2240”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “44”]\n[EventDate “1990.01.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “NOR”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 016 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1990.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1990.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,44\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,-3\,33\,-47\,12\,7\,55\,33\,95\,67\,57\,45\,25\,9\,-9\,32\,32\,\n-10\,-24\,-23\,-27\,-27\,-21\,-17\,-14\,-10\,-4\,-34\,-43\,-32\,9\,-6\,5\,-4\,-12\,-9\,-8\,-204\,\n-221\,-224\,-224]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 c5 5. d5 Nh5 6. g3 f5 7.\ne4 O-O 8. Nh3 d6 9. dxe6 Bxe6 10. Ng5 $146 Qe7 11. Nxe6 Qxe6 12. Qd5 $6 Qxd5\n13. exd5 Bxc3+ 14. bxc3 Nd7 $15 15. Kf2 Ne5 16. Be2 Rae8 17. Bd2 Nf6 18. Rab1\nRe7 19. h3 $6 (19. Kg2) 19… Rfe8 20. Rhe1 h6 21. g4 $4 fxg4 22. hxg4 Nexg4+\n$1 $19 {and White resigned.} 0-1 \n[/pgn] \n“Bellin is a medical doctor specialising in anaesthetics\, and works in intensive care at Sandwell General Hospital\, West Bromwich\, England. \nJana with Sheila Jackson to her left\nShe is also Chairman of the FIDE Medical Commission\, which supervises drug testing of chess players. \nBritish Speed Chess Championship Grandmaster Nigel Short Playing Chess In The Street With Woman Grandmaster Dr Jana Miles : Credit : Shutterstock\nBellin was married first to International Master William Hartston\, then to Grandmaster Tony Miles\, and after that to International Master Robert Bellin. She and Bellin have two sons: Robert (born 1988) and Christopher (born 1991).[citation needed] \nDr. Jana Bellin\nShe is the granddaughter of thrice Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia\, Jan Malypetr. and cousin of author and human rights campaigner Jiří Stránský. \nWGM Dr. Jana Bellin\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Peter Batchelor (10-xii-1996)
DESCRIPTION:Best wishes to FM Peter Batchelor on his birthday. \nPeter J Batchelor was born on Tuesday\, December 10th\, 1996. “Breath” by The Prodigy was the UK Number One Single. His father is the player Guy Batchelor. \nPeter’s first recorded rapidplay event was on the 17th of July 2005 in the Barnet Knights Under-9 tournament where he scored 4/6 and his first (!) standard play event was on August 20th 2005 being the British Land UK Terafinal which was not such a happy result. \nHis first published ECF grading was 56E in July 2006 at the age of ten with a rapidplay grading of 57A. \nPeter played league chess in the Middlesex and London Leagues playing initially for Willesden & Brent and then with Wanstead & Woodford both with his father Guy. \nPeter attended the Capital City Academy which is a “specialist sports and arts Academy in Willesden\, North West London\, in the borough of Brent.” He has returned there post-graduation to teach chess and run the school chess club. \nPeter studied mathematics at the University of Warwick and now lives in London. \nAccording to Ben Purton : “I captain Peter in the 4NCL chess league\, he is one of the most professional and talented players on my squad. He is extremely smart and nice to be around. Peter would be an asset to any organisation in the future and any graduate scheme would be foolish not to take such a person on. \nI have seen him grow in to one of the best U21 chess players in the UK and hope to see him gain his IM title soon.” \nPeter became a FIDE Master in 2015 and\, according to Felice and Megabase 2020 his peak FIDE rating was 2365 in December 2016. \nFIDE rating profile for Peter Batchelor according to Megabase 2020\nPeter plays for Grantham Sharks in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nWith the white pieces Peter plays the Queen’s Gambit and the Trompowsky Attack. \nAs the second player Peter plays the Classical variation of the Caro-Kann and the Alartortsev Variation. \nOn chess.com Peter plays under the nom de plume of Pbatch. \nPeter Batchelor\, 4NCL Final weekend\, 2014\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography\n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 104th”]\n[Site “Llandudno”]\n[Date “2017.08.04”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Rudd\, Jack”]\n[Black “Batchelor\, Peter J”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E24”]\n[WhiteElo “2252”]\n[BlackElo “2309”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “40”]\n[EventDate “2017.07.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “WLS”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 179 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.08.23”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.08.23”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,40\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,4\,33\,-47\,-26\,-31\,-25\,-25\,-4\,-22\,0\,-4\,-6\,-13\,-24\,\n-9\,7\,-9\,-12\,-29\,-29\,-63\,-23\,-32\,-20\,-28\,-26\,-36\,82\,96\,58\,-99\,-86\,-277\,-277\,\n-268\,-271]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c5 7. e3\n{the runner-up in this position} (7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. dxc5 Qa5 9. e4 Ne7 10. Be3\nO-O {is more common.}) 7… O-O 8. Bd3 (8. cxd5 exd5 9. Bd3 b6 10. Ne2 Ba6 11.\nO-O) 8… dxc4 (8… Nc6) 9. Bxc4 Qc7 10. Ba2 (10. Qd3 Nc6 11. Ne2 Rd8) 10…\nNc6 $146 (10… b6) 11. Ne2 b6 12. O-O Ba6 $1 13. Rf2 Rfd8 14. Qa4 Na5 15. e4\ncxd4 16. cxd4 $15 {[#]} e5 $6 (16… Rac8) 17. Bb2 Bxe2 18. dxe5 $2 (18. Rxe2\n$16) 18… Rd2 $1 19. exf6 $2 Rxb2 20. Bd5 Qc5 $1 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFM Peter Batchelor at the 2013 British Championships\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-peter-j-batchelor-10-xii-1996/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201212
DTSTAMP:20260817T135602Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Joseph Blake (11-xii-1951)
DESCRIPTION:We remember English player Joseph Blake who passed away on Tuesday\, December 11th\, 1951. \nJoseph Henry Blake was born on Thursday\, February 3rd\, 1859 in Farnborough\, Hampshire. His parents were Joseph Denner and Eliza Blake (née Early). In 1871 Joseph (aged 12) had a brother Frank (aged 10)\, sisters Annie (8)\, Elizabeth S (7)\, Eliza E (1) and a servant\, Kate Longman aged 18. The family lived in Lydia Cottage\, Hewitts Road\, Millbrook\, South Stoneham\, Hampshire. \nAccording to the 1861 census Joseph was two years old and living with his parents and Frank in Rotten Row\, Yeovil\, Somerset. \nIn 1881 the family has upped sticks again and moved to 2 St. Lawrence Road\, Saint Mary\, Eastleigh\, Hampshire. This address is also given as the South West Telegraph Office. Eliza was now the head of the household and a widower. Apart from Eliza E aged 11 everyone worked for the railway. \nIn 1891 Joseph had become Head of the Household (aged 32) and they had acquired a servant (Anna M Cornell) and a blacksmith (Francis Cornell) from Braintree in Essex. \nIn 1900 Joseph married Alice New in Cheltenham\, Gloucestershire. They lived at 24\, Barton Road\, Eastleigh\, Hampshire. Tragically\, Alice passed away in 1903. \nJoseph Henry Blake\nBy 1911 Joseph was 52 and had retained his career as a Railway Clerk. He lived at 33\, Broomfield Road\, Tolworth\, Surrey : \n33\, Broomfield Road\, Tolworth\, Surrey\nHe is recorded as the head of a household of one and a widower. \nIn 1939 Joseph was living at 10 Springfield Court\, Springfield Road\, Kingston Upon Thames\, Surrey. He was now retired. \nNo doubt there would have been other addresses not captured by the census records. \nAccording to The Encyclopedia of Chess\, (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“A leading British player in the 1890s and for many years editor of the Games Section of the British Chess Magazine between the two world wars. Blake’s best tournament performance came at the age sixty-three when\, at Weston-super-Mare in 1922\, he came 1st ahead of Maróczy\, Kostić\, Sir George Thomas and Yates. \nThe remarkable feature about Blake’s chess career is that he retained his skill and his comprehension of the game for a much longer period that most chess players. This extended from 1887 when he was 1st at the Counties Chess Association tournament at Stamford ahead of Bird and Pollock\, a performance he was to repeat in 1891 at Oxford\, to 1909 when he tied with H. E. Atkins for first place in the British Championship\, to 1923 when he won the Weston-super-Mare tournament\, right into the 1930s when he was principal annotator for the British Chess Magazine.” \nChess Endings for Beginners\, JH Blake\, George Routledge First Edition (1900)\nand according to The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“One of the leading British players at the end of the last century and the beginning of the present century. Born on 3rd February 1859. Represented England in the Anglo-American cable matches in 1902 and 1909. His best results were 1st in the Counties’ Chess Association Tournament 1887\, ahead of Bird and MacDonnell; =1st with HE Atkins in the 1909 British Championship\, but lost the play-off for the title; 1st at Weston-super-Mare 1922 ahead of Maroczy\, Kostich\, Sir George Thomas and Yates\, and winner of the brilliancy prize for his game against Sir George Thomas; 2nd in the international correspondence chess tournament organised by Le Monde Illustre in 1895. \nBlake was President of the Southern Counties Chess Association in 1911 and President of the Hampshire Chess Association from 1910-1912 and from 1927-1929. He was also Hon. Secretary of the City of London Chess Club for some years.” \nAccording to Tim Harding in the excellent Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland\, 1824-1987 : \nRailway clerk Joseph Henry Blake\, the leading English correspondence player of the 1890s; also a strong OTB amateur player. He was a regular contributor to British Chess Magazine from the 1880s to the late 1930s. \nIn British Chess Magazine\, Volume XXXIX (39\, 1919)\, Number 3 (March) we have the following from Julius du Mont : “I presume it relates more particularly to chess professionals in this country\, at any rate\, it does not seem to me that the jews hold rank amongst first-class amateurs in proportion to their numbers. \nIn London there are very few if any of the class of RC Griffith\, GA Thomas\, JH Blake\, HG Cole\, EG Sergeant\, and many others to say nothing of the younger recruits \, W.Winter and RHV Scott.” \nFrom the 1949 British Chess Magazine (written by RN Coles) we have this : \nJH Blake is Ninety \nAfter an absence of ten years I looked in recently on the Kingston and Thames Valley Chess Club. There were many new faces and a number of familiar ones\, among the latter one of rosy countenance\, trim beard and twinkling eyes\, none other than JH Blake\, more vigorous than ever and attaining his 90th birthday on the 3rd February. \nTwenty years ago in this same club I (RN Coles) was learning the game\, now middle age approaches. Blake was an elderly man in those days\, who had retired from all competitive play because of the strain it imposed; now\, so far from showing the weight of years\, he is back in competitive chess again.  He won the club championship last year and is in a fair way to repeating his victory this year. Of all the ‘Grand Old Men’ of chess\, few have still been champions in their 90th year. \nOlder readers of the BCM will remember him as their Games Editor for many years\, but few memories will cover the whole series of his successes beginning with a 1st at Stamford in 1887. Even 1922 must seem a distant year to the generation of today. That was the year that Maroczy and Kostic were invited to Weston-super-Mare to meet such rising young English masters as FD Yates and Sir George Thomas. And the first prize amongst those talented players was won by JH Blake\, who had been born just when Morphy returned to England after his Paris Victory over Anderssen ! \nAll readers of the BCM and all players everywhere will wish Britain’s oldest master continued health and increasing vigour\, and those who knew him today will be surprised if he does not continue his attack for another decade at least. \nBesides winning the first prize at Weston Blake also won the brilliancy prize with the following game : (#10\,229) \n[pgn]\n[Event “West of England Easter Festival”]\n[Site “Weston-super-Mare”]\n[Date “1922.04.17”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Thomas\, George Alan”]\n[Black “Blake\, Joseph Henry”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C84”]\n[Annotator “RN Coles and British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “84”]\n[EventDate “1922.04.15”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,19\,38\,25\,7\,30\,29\,28\,3\,9\,5\,18\,18\,15\,5\,8\,9\,36\,17\,5\,6\,11\,0\,2\,1\,10\,3\,\n21\,15\,64\,89\,108\,109\,136\,47\,45\,-56\,-32\,-32\,-20\,-28\,-25\,-25\,-10\,-58\,-71\,-125\,-84\,\n-129\,-98\,-138\,49\,14\,18\,0\,-8\,-34\,1\,-70\,-23\,-77\,-55\,-69\,-51\,-52\,32\,-231\,-231\,\n-548\,-524\,-608\,-643\,-953\,-742\,-803\,-497\,-520\,-517\,-648\,-643\,-777\,-833]} 1. e4\ne5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. Nc3 {A fairly rare sideline these days\nbut more popular in 1922. Usually white wishes to put a pawn on c3 instead and\nallowing white to preserve the f1 bishop.} (5. O-O) 5… d6 6. O-O (6. d4 b5 7.\nBb3) 6… Be7 7. d3 O-O 8. h3 Nd7 {quite a rare continuation…} (8… b5 9.\nBb3 Na5 10. Be3 Nxb3 11. axb3) 9. Bb3 $146 {A never repeated novelty.} (9. Nd5)\n9… Nc5 (9… Na5 {was possible also getting out of the way of the c-pawn\nadvance from Black.}) 10. Bd5 Ne6 11. Ne2 Bf6 12. c3 Ne7 13. Bb3 d5 14. Ng3 g6\n15. exd5 Nxd5 16. Re1 Ndf4 17. Bc2 Qd5 18. c4 Qc6 19. Bd2 {[#]} Ng5 {with the\nthreat of Nfxh3+ followed by Nxf3+ winning} 20. Ne4 Nxe4 21. dxe4 Rd8 (21…\nQxc4 22. Bxf4 exf4 23. Bb3 Qc6 24. e5 $1 $14 {“would give White chances”}) 22.\nb3 $6 (22. Qc1 Bxh3 $2 23. Bxf4 exf4 24. gxh3 $18) 22… Bxh3 23. gxh3 Qe6 24.\nRe3 Nxh3+ 25. Kf1 Nf4 26. Ne1 h5 27. Bd3 Rd7 28. Qf3 ({Not yet} 28. c5 $2 {\nbecause} Rad8 {“wins a bishop” (although\, in fact\, it does not).} 29. Qf3 Qc6\n$15 {“The accuracy of Black’s play to prevent this freeing manoeuvre is\ndelightful.”}) 28… Rad8 29. Rd1 ({“Now not”} 29. c5 {“because of”} Qg4 30.\nBa5 $16 {In fact\, 29.c5 is perfectly playable.}) 29… g5 $17 30. Bc1 g4 31.\nQh1 h4 32. Qg1 Kh8 33. c5 $2 {[#] White’s losing move.} g3 $1 34. fxg3 ({“If”}\n34. Bc4 g2+ 35. Qxg2 Qxc4+ 36. bxc4 Nxg2 37. Rxd7 Nxe3+ $19) 34… Qh3+ 35. Ng2\n({“If”} 35. Kf2 hxg3+ 36. Rxg3 Bh4 $19) 35… hxg3 36. Rf3 Rxd3 37. Rfxd3 Rxd3\n38. Rxd3 Nxd3 39. Be3 Nf4 40. Bxf4 exf4 {and White resigned.} {“If”} 41. Ke2\nQg4+ 42. Kd2 ({“If”} 42. Kf1 Qf3+ 43. Ke1 Bc3#) 42… f3 {is completely\ncrushing.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXII (72\, 1952)\, Number 2 (February)\, pp.44-46 contained an obituary with articles from MDB* : \n*(Careful investigation by Richard James suggest that MDB is Mabel Dorothy Barker\, JHB’s niece in 6th Cross Road.) \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXII (72\, 1952)\, Number 2 (February) pp. 44 – 46\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXII (72\, 1952)\, Number 2 (February) pp. 44 – 46\nand EG Sergeant : \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXII (72\, 1952)\, Number 2 (February) pp. 44 – 46\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXII (72\, 1952)\, Number 2 (February) pp. 44 – 46\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSXOFgU7Mc[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “City of London Chess Club (Casual)”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1891.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Blake\, Joseph Henry”]\n[Black “Hooke\, George Archer”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C41”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “27”]\n[EventDate “1891.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\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\,23\,19\,29\,44\,11\,84\,41\,119\,128\,140\,69\,69\,23\,167\,58\,29991\,29992\,29993\,\n29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 {A favourite game to show\nyoung players….} e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 f5 4. d4 Nf6 $2 (4… fxe4) 5. Nc3 (5.\ndxe5) 5… exd4 6. Qxd4 Bd7 $2 (6… Nc6 7. Qe3) 7. Ng5 Nc6 $4 {[#]  Ooops!} 8.\nBf7+ $1 Ke7 9. Qd5 $2 {was the actual course of the game. However…} ({\nFollowing analysis the more accurate} 9. Qxf6+ $3 {was found} Kxf6 (9… gxf6\n10. Nd5#) 10. Nd5+ Ke5 11. Nf3+ Kxe4 12. Nc3#) 9… h6 10. Bg6 Ne5 $17 11. b3\n$5 hxg5 $4 $18 {Another oops!} (11… Bc8 {and Black is winning}) 12. Qxe5+\ndxe5 13. Ba3+ Ke6 14. exf5# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFor more on this game and its often mis-reported continuation see this article from Edward Winter. \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Joseph Henry Blake (3 February 1859\, Farnborough\, Hampshire – 11 December 1951\, Kingston-upon-Thames) was an English chess master. \nBlake won many tournaments played in England toward the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He won at Stamford 1887\, Oxford 1891 (joint)\, Brighton 1892\, Cambridge 1893\, and Salisbury 1898 (joint). He also took 5th at Manchester 1882\, tied for 3-4th at Birmingham 1883 (Section B)\, took 4th at Bath 1884\, tied for 6-8th at London 1889 (Henry Bird won)\, took 2nd at Cambridge 1890\, tied for 3rd-4th at Woodhall Spa 1893\, shared 2nd at Craigside 1895\, took 3rd at Hastings (Amateur) 1895\, took 2nd\, behind Henry Ernest Atkins\, at Bristol 1896\, and won at Folkestone 1901. \nHe took 2nd in an international correspondence tournament organised by Le Monde Illustré in 1895\, shared 1st in the 1909 British Championship in Scarborough but lost to Atkins the play-off\, and shared 1st at London 1911. He was British correspondence champion in 1922. \nBlake represented England in cable matches against the United States in 1902\, 1909 and 1910. \nHis best achievement was victory\, ahead of Géza Maróczy\, George Alan Thomas\, Fred Yates and Boris Kostić\, at Weston-super-Mare 1922. He shared 2nd at London 1922 (Major Open)\, tied for 7-8th at Hastings International Chess Congress 1922/23 (Akiba Rubinstein won)\, took 2nd\, behind Thomas\, at London 1923\, took 5th at Liverpool 1923 (Jacques Mieses won)\, tied for 7-8th at Hastings 1923/24 (Max Euwe won)\, tied for 6-7th at Weston-super-Mare 1924 (Euwe won)\, took 2nd\, behind R.P. Michell\, at London 1925\, took 4th at London 1926 (Victor Buerger won)\, and tied for 7-9th at Weston-super-Mare 1926 (Euwe won).” \nHe is the author of Chess endings for beginners (London 1900). \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1923/24-04 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings Town Hall”]\n[Date “1924.01.01”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Blake\, Joseph Henry”]\n[Black “Colle\, Edgard”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B43”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “75”]\n[EventDate “1923.12.27”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,41\,38\,38\,66\,67\,67\,41\,41\,41\,77\,52\,52\,50\,73\,55\,57\,58\,74\,56\,43\,18\,26\,6\,\n17\,-1\,-20\,-25\,-18\,-71\,-71\,-70\,-70\,-66\,-53\,-64\,-50\,-55\,-50\,-51\,-40\,-34\,-37\,-41]\n} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Be2 Nf6 6. Nc3 Qc7 7. O-O Bb4 8.\nQd3 O-O 9. Bd2 Nc6 10. Nf3 (10. Nxc6 dxc6 11. Qf3) 10… Be7 11. a3 Rd8 12.\nRfd1 $146 b5 $15 13. Bf1 d5 (13… Bb7) 14. Qe2 dxe4 15. Nxe4 Bb7 16. Ng3 Bc5\n17. c4 Ng4 18. Be1 bxc4 19. Qxc4 Nce5 20. Nxe5 Nxe5 21. Qc3 Rdc8 22. Rac1 Ng4\n23. Qd2 $11 Rd8 $6 (23… Qe7) 24. Qe2 Rxd1 25. Qxd1 Rc8 $2 26. Rxc5 $1 Qxc5\n27. Qxg4 $18 f5 28. Qg5 Rf8 29. Bb4 Qc8 30. Bxf8 Qxf8 31. h4 f4 32. Nh5 f3 33.\nBc4 fxg2 34. Bxe6+ Kh8 35. Bd5 h6 36. Qe5 Bc8 37. Nxg7 Qxg7 38. Qe8+ 1-0\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Matthew Turner (11-xii-1975)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Matthew James Turner (11-xii-1975)
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of FM Peter Clarke (18-iii-1933 11-xii-2014)
DESCRIPTION:PH Clarke\nWe remember FM Peter Clarke who passed away on Thursday\, December 11th\, 2014 whilst living at Chapel House\, Bude\, Cornwall\, EX23 9SQ \nPeter Hugh Clarke was born on Saturday\, March 18th 1933 in West Ham\, London. His mother’s maiden name was Ekblom. \nFrom The Modest Master of Morwenstow by James Pratt (sadly\, as yet\, unpublished) : \n“Peter Hugh Clarke was born in London on 18th March\, 1933. At the age of eight or nine he taught himself the game from ‘The Book of Knowledge’ and played friendly games with his cousin\, who was about a year older. Peter’s father supported his game for many years. PHC was a student at St. Bonaventures School and London University. World War II\, and its even longer aftermath\, robbed him of a number of playing opportunities. It is surprising that he had no childhood heroes\, although later the play of Botvinnik\, Keres and Smyslov impressed him.” \nPeter Clarke with father\, Courtesy of Keverel Chess\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon\, 1983) written by George Botterill : \nChess correspondent of The Sunday Times\, Clarke played for England in the Olympiads of 1954\, 56\, 58\, 60\, 62\, 66 and 68. He has never won the British Championship but has come 2nd on 5 occasions. \nA fine writer. His best books are Mikhail Tal’s Best Games of Chess \nMikhail Tal’s Best Games of Chess\, PH Clarke\, Bell\, 1961\nand Petrosian’s Best Games of Chess 1946-1963 both published by Bell. \nPetrosian’s Best Games of Chess 1946-1963\, PH Clarke\, George Bell & Sons Ltd\, 1964\nThe most remarkable thing about Clarke’s chess career was they way in which he became transformed\, in about 1968-9\, into the most drawish of players. In British tournaments he has become notorious for correct but dull solidity.” \nPeter was Southern Counties (SCCU) Champion for the 1945-55 season. \nPeter was England’s third Correspondence Grandmaster (CGM) in 1980 after Keith Richardson and Adrian Hollis. \nPeter at the dinner table\nFrom BCM / ECF : \n“FIDE and British Master P.H. Clarke will be best remembered as biographer to Tal and to Petrosyan\, but he was so much more. The young Clarke played for Ilford CC in the London League and for Essex at county level. Doing national service he was to learn the Russian that was to so shape his writings. \nThe 1964 England Olympiad (Tel Aviv) Team : Owen Hindle\, Čeněk Kottnauer\, Peter Clarke\, Michael Franklin\, Norman Littlewood & Michael Haygarth\nFor a brief period in the late 1950s\, and early sixties\, he was the number two player in England\, ahead of the vastly more experienced Alexander and Golombek. He played\, of course\, below Jonathan Penrose\, a partnership that bore fruit when preparing openings; latterly they both became Correspondence Grandmasters.” \nPeter Clarke at the 1963 Ilford Whitsun Congress. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXIII\, Number 7 (July)\, page 194\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-44 Championship”]\n[Site “Plymouth/ Devon”]\n[Date “1957.08.27”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Alexander\, Conel Hugh O’Donel”]\n[Black “Clarke\, Peter Hugh”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B43”]\n[Annotator “Clarke\,Peter”]\n[PlyCount “114”]\n[EventDate “1957.08.19”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,114\,19\,38\,72\,49\,51\,40\,38\,29\,69\,62\,79\,61\,94\,75\,63\,61\,61\,39\,37\,44\,9\,-29\,\n-7\,-47\,-23\,-38\,-31\,-45\,-43\,-44\,-45\,-44\,-40\,-45\,-41\,-51\,-70\,-57\,-61\,-61\,-38\,-45\,\n-58\,-77\,-67\,-57\,-47\,-74\,-81\,-76\,-67\,-70\,-55\,-59\,-65\,-59\,-81\,-88\,-86\,-66\,-87\,\n-76\,-78\,-83\,-75\,-117\,-111\,-123\,-120\,-120\,-87\,-84\,-88\,-78\,-91\,-117\,-128\,-128\,\n-50\,-66\,-70\,-63\,-69\,-73\,-89\,-99\,-53\,-76\,-86\,-101\,-90\,-105\,-85\,-96\,-83\,-96\,-96\,\n-96\,-104\,-101\,-114\,-136\,-165\,-176\,-170\,-181\,-192\,-192\,-185\,-231\,-181\,-230\,-263\,\n-327\,-209]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 (5. Be2 Nf6 6. Nc3\n(6. Bf3 e5 $1 7. Nb3 d5 $1)) (5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bb4 7. Bd3 Nc6 8. Nc2 Bxc3+ 9.\nbxc3 d5 10. exd5 exd5 11. Ba3 Be6 12. Qe2 Qa5 13. O-O Qxc3 14. Rab1 dxc4 15.\nBf5 O-O-O $132 {Bannik-Furman\, USSR-ch 1957}) (5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Be3 Qc7 7. O-O Nf6\n8. c4 b6 9. Nd2 Bb7 10. Qe2 Be7 11. Rac1 O-O 12. a3 Nxd4 13. Bxd4 $11 {\nPenrose-Clarke\, BCF-ch 1957}) 5… Qc7 6. g3 (6. Be2 Nf6 (6… Bb4 7. O-O Nf6\n8. Qd3 (8. Bd2 $5 Bxc3 9. Bxc3 Nxe4 10. Bb4 {Lipnitsky}) 8… Nc6 9. Nxc6 dxc6\n10. f4 $1 {Olafsson-Pilnik\, Rejkjavik m 1957}) 7. O-O d6 8. f4 Nc6) 6… b5 7.\na3 Bb7 8. Bg2 Nf6 9. O-O Nc6 10. Nde2 (10. Nxc6 $142 Bxc6 11. Bf4 d6 12. Re1\nBe7 13. Qe2 O-O 14. Rad1 Rfd8 $11) 10… Be7 11. b3 O-O 12. Bb2 Rfd8 13. Nf4\nRac8 (13… b4 14. axb4 Nxb4 15. Qe2 (15. e5 $2 Bxg2 16. exf6 Bxf6 $1) 15… d5\n) 14. Re1 d6 15. Rc1 Ne5 $1 16. Nd3 Qb6 $1 17. Qe2 Nfd7 18. Kh1 Bf6 19. Nxe5 (\n19. f4 $142) 19… Bxe5 20. Nd1 Qc5 21. c4 Bxb2 22. Qxb2 (22. Nxb2 Qxa3 $17 23.\ncxb5 axb5 24. Qxb5 $2 Qxb2 25. Rb1 Bc6 $19) (22. b4 Bxc1 $1 23. bxc5 Rxc5 24.\ncxb5 axb5 $19) 22… Ne5 $1 23. Re3 bxc4 24. bxc4 (24. f4 Ng4 25. Rxc4 Qh5 26.\nBf3 Qh3 $1) 24… Bc6 25. Rec3 Rb8 26. Qe2 Rb6 27. f4 Nd7 28. Nf2 Rdb8 29. Nd3\nQd4 30. Qf2 $2 (30. c5 $142 $5 Rb3 $1 31. Rxb3 Rxb3 32. Nb4 Bb5 33. c6 $1 Nb6 (\n33… Bxe2 $2 34. cxd7 $18) 34. c7 Nc8 35. Nc6 (35. Qe1 a5 36. Nc2 (36. Nc6\nBxc6 37. Rxc6 Rxa3) 36… Qb2 37. Ne3 Qxa3) 35… Rc3 $1) 30… Qxf2 31. Nxf2\nNc5 32. Kg1 $2 (32. Bf3 $142) 32… f6 $138 (32… Rb1) 33. Kf1 (33.\nBf3 $142) 33… Rb1 34. Rxb1 Rxb1+ 35. Ke2 Rb2+ (35… f5 36. Ke3 fxe4 $19) 36.\nKe3 e5 37. Bf3 Kf7 (37… Ne6 $5) 38. f5 Ke7 39. h4 Kd7 40. Nd3 Nxd3\n41. Kxd3 Ra2 42. Ke3 Kc7 43. Bh5 Kb6 44. Bf7 Kc5 45. Bd5 Ba4 46. Bb7 Kb6 47.\nBd5 Rg2 48. Kf3 Rb2 49. Ke3 (49. Bg8 h6 50. Rd3 Kc6 $1 51. Bd5+ (51. Rd5 Rb3+\n52. Kf2 Rxa3 53. Ra5 Ra2+ 54. Ke3 Bb3) 51… Kc7 52. Be6 Bc2 $1 53. Rc3 Kc6 $19\n) 49… Bc2 $1 50. Bg8 (50. Kd2 Bxe4+ 51. Kc1 Rb1+) 50… h6 51. Be6 Kc5 {\n} 52. Bf7 a5 53. Be6 a4 54. Bd5 Bb3 55. Bf7 Ra2 56.\nRd3 (56. Be8 Rxa3 57. Bxa4 Kb4 58. Rxb3+ Rxb3+ 59. Bxb3 Kxb3 60. Kd3 h5 $19)\n56… Rxa3 57. Rd5+ Kb4 $1 (57… Kb4 58. Rb5+ Kc3 59. c5 Bxf7 60. cxd6 Kc4+\n61. Ke2 Kxb5 62. d7 Bc4+ 63. Kf2 Rd3) 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFM Peter Clarke\n“At the British Championships itself he finished second on his first appearance; he was to tie for silver medal on no less than five occasions\, appearing\, almost without a break for thirty years\, a run that ended in 1982. He represented the BCF – as it then was – in eight Olympiads\, playing on top board in 1966. \nBorislav Ivkov playing Peter Clarke at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad. The game was a QGA which was drawn\nThe Clarke family moved to the West of England in the late Sixties. PHC played in thirteen WECU Championships\, and lost only twice. As a player he could be cautious\, agreeing too readily to draws. Accuracy and respect meant more to him than ambition. The biographer became a journalist as illness cut short his playing career. In his time he beat Larsen\, Penrose and Szabo. \n \nIn 1962 he married BH Wood’s daughter\, Peggy. They had three daughters. In 1975 my mother happened across Peter and Peggy on Morecambe prom. ‘Never’ she was later to tell me\, ‘have I seen a couple more in love.'” \nPeter Clarke & Peggy Wood in 1962\, Courtesy of Keverel Chess\nWe are grateful to James Pratt to allow us to quote from the the sadly unpublished “Modest Master from Morwenstow” as follows : \nPHC by John Littlewood : \n“Peter had a relatively short career at the top and it is interesting to comment on his style. In essence\, his great strength lay in positional understanding which backed-up his defensive skills rather than helped his ability to create wins; in other words\, he won games in which his opponents over-pressed or opted for dubious positional moves. \nAfter doing well in English chess\, he was perhaps pushed into international chess too early for him to develop his own personal creative style. Playing for England and meeting strong players\, he tended towards a rather negative approach that may have been necessary for the team but was not good for his own personal progress\, as shown when he later met English opponents who outstripped him in their positive will-to-win. His friendship with Penrose (a far stronger player) led to far too many draws which did neither of them any good. \nMikhail Tal’s Best Games of Chess\, PH Clarke. Bell\, 1961\nTo be fair\, Peter was not an easy player to beat but\, on the other hand\, he was not too hard to draw against if you felt so inclined. His forte lay in his knowledge of the game and his excellent writing skills\, where he was at his happiest; there is hardly a book of his that I haven’t enjoyed.” \nPetrosian’s Best Games of Chess 1946-1963\, PH Clarke\, Bell\, 1971\nWriting in BCM 04/64\, John Littlewood called PHC a self-style non-tactician and disagreed with Clarke’s belief in the inner logic (‘I have made no mistakes and therefore my position is OK.’) of positions where tactics are to the fore. \nFM Peter Clarke\nPHC by Leonard Barden : \n“Peter’s contribution to British Chess was important as a player and even more so as a writer. His best period was 1956-61. He\, Penrose and myself used to stay in the same hotel during the British Championships and prepare and analyse together\, although we played hard when actually paired. Peter was the solid man in the English team\, gradually taking over the role of Golombek. It was important that we did reasonably well in this period which provided a bridge between the Alexander/Golombek era and the rise of Keene/Hartston. \nPeter was always a good friend to me and his family gave me hospitality each year during the Ilford Congress. Peter’s books\, especially the one about Tal\, were real works of scholarship in an era where there were no computers to facilitate the job. He could have achieved more as a player if he had been able to concentrate fully on that\, but the economic climate then was poor for professionals.” \nPeter and life long friend\, Jonathan Penrose\, Courtesy of Keverel Chess\nPHC by Bernard Cafferty : \n“Right up to that point of his illness in the 1980’s he had worthily defended the reputation of the older generation in the British Championship\, as the last survivor\, still active at that level\, from the Penrose era. I first saw Peter at the 1951 British Championship at Chester and first played him at the 1952 Bristol Universities individual contest. \n24th USSR Chess Championships\, PH Clarke\, British Chess Magazine\, 1959\nHe left the University of London before taking his degree (study of chess rather taking over his life)\, but then had the good fortune to go on to study Russian while doing his National Service\, around 1954-55. Or was he still in the Army when the Moscow 1956 Olympiad took place? He certainly did well there\, perhaps less affected than other Westerners by the strangeness of the place that was just recovering slightly from the depths of Stalin’s baleful influence. \n  \nVV Smyslov – My Best Games of Chess\, edited and translated by PH Clarke\, Routledge and Kegan Paul\, 1958\nI do recall that for a couple of years Peter changed his cautious style. This was around 1957-58 when he scored one of his two wins against Penrose. Was it at Ilford? I remember that the game appeared with notes by B.H. Wood in ‘The Illustrated London News’ column. \nCien Miniaturas Rusas\n  \nI used to see Peter regularly at the Paignton and Hastings Congresses in the 1990’s but not in the last couple of years. His health seems restored.” \nPeter with Brian Reilly observing playing ? with ? in the background.\nPHC by Ken Harman : \n“I am very pleased to hear about your book about Peter Clarke; not sure I can contribute much as I wasn’t a friend of his so only knew him through seeing him and Margaret at chess tournaments. He was a quiet spoken gentleman who played such quiet positional chess that I would call it ‘monastic chess’. I think Clarke thought chess a search for spiritual truth\, only to be found in the cloisters of spiritual truth\, only to be found in the cloisters of contemplative life – ‘The Thomas Merton of Chess’\, if you like. Of course\, I have no idea if he was a spiritual man in real life but his chess always struck me as if he was reaching for heaven and found hell in a doubled pawn. He seemed like a nice man and I suspect his wife Margaret was the dominant one. I have his book on Mikhail Tal’s Best Games of Chess (Bell 1961) which is signed by him and may well have been his copy\, because as you open the book – there is a small newspaper clipping and a photo of Clarke sellotaped which is rather unusual being that the book is about Tal\, and not him. ” \nPeter plays Erich Gottlieb Eliskases at the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad\nPHC by Alan P. Borwell (ICCF Honorary President) : \n“I first met Peter at the 1959 BCF Congress in York when I was a member of local organising committee and then at Paignton and when York played & won the National Club Championship in 1964/5. \nIn 1966 I played Peter in the British Chess Championship in last round in Sunderland.” \nPeter analyses “al fresco” with ?. Possibly from Hastings ?\nand from Wikipedia : \nPeter Hugh Clarke (18 March 1933 – 11 December 2014) was an English chess player\, who hold titles FIDE master (FM) and International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1980)\, FIDE International arbiter (1976)\, Chess Olympiad individual silver medal winner (1956). \nPeter Clarke started playing chess at the age of six. He twice won the London Boys’ Chess Championship (1950\, 1951). He was British Chess Championship multiplier participant where five times won silver medal. \nSince 1959\, Peter Hugh Clarke has been working as a chess journalist in the newspaper Sunday Times and magazine British Chess Magazine. He known as the biographical book’s author of Mikhail Tal (1961) and Tigran Petrosian (1964). Thanks to his good knowledge of Russian language\, he translated the book about Vasily Smyslov in 1958. In 1963 he wrote a book 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures. \nPeter Clarke played for England in the Chess Olympiads : \nIn 1954\, at second reserve board in the 11th Chess Olympiad in Amsterdam (+2\, =2\, -3)\,\nIn 1956\, at reserve board in the 12th Chess Olympiad in Moscow (+7\, =5\, -0) and won individual silver medal\,\nIn 1958\, at fourth board in the 13th Chess Olympiad in Munich (+2\, =10\, -3)\,\nIn 1960\, at third board in the 14th Chess Olympiad in Leipzig (+4\, =7\, -3)\,\nIn 1962\, at second board in the 15th Chess Olympiad in Varna (+3\, =10\, -2)\,\nIn 1964\, at second board in the 16th Chess Olympiad in Tel Aviv (+2\, =8\, -2)\,\nIn 1966\, at first board in the 17th Chess Olympiad in Havana (+2\, =10\, -1)\,\nIn 1968\, at third board in the 18th Chess Olympiad in Lugano (+0\, =7\, -1).\nAlso he played for England in the World Student Team Chess Championship (1954\, 1959)and in the Clare Benedict Chess Cup (1960-1961\, 1963\, 1965\, 1967-1968) where won team silver medal (1960) and 4 bronze medals (1961\, 1963\, 1967\, 1968). \nIn later years\, Peter Clarke active participated in correspondence chess tournaments. In 1977\, he won British Correspondence Chess Championship. In 1976\, Peter Clarke was awarded the International Correspondence Chess Master (IMC) title and received the International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (GMC) title four years later.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Gawain Jones (11-xii-1987)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Gawain Christopher B Jones (11-xii-1987) \nGawain was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2012-13 season.
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CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Christopher Wood (11-xii-1940)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Christopher Baruch Wood (11-xii-1940)
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Richard Griffith (22-vii-1872 11-xii-1955)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Richard Griffith (22-vii-1872 11-xii-1955)\n\nSee Chess World\, Volume 11\, Number 6\, June 1956\, page 128.\n\nHere is his Wikipedia entry.
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of David Pritchard (19-x-1919 12-xii-2005)
DESCRIPTION:We remember David Pritchard who passed away on Monday\, December 12th\, 2005.\n\nDavid Brine Pritchard was born on Sunday\, October 19th\, 1919. On this day the first US Distinguished Service Medal was awarded to a living female recipient\, Anna Howard Shaw.\n\nHe was born in Wandsworth taking his mothers’  Winifred maiden name of Brine (as was customary in those days). His father was Arthur Pritchard (DoB : 4th January 1890) and he was the managing director of an Engineering Company. Arthur and Winifred married in Maidenhead\, Berkshire in 1917.\n\nAt the time of the 1939 census David was a chiropodist and recorded as single and living in Munee Cottage\, Main Street\, Bedford. Main Street appears to have been renamed to Main Road which is in Biddenham. It is likely DBPs cottage was something like :\n\n48 and 50 Main Road Biddenham\, Bedford\, Hertfordshire\n\nDuring the second world War David joined the Royal Air Force and was stationed in the Far East and following the war\, he switched to intelligence work also for the RAF. He attained the rank of Squadron Leader and played much chess during this period of his life.\n\nIn 1950 David completed his first book : The Right Way to Play Chess\, Elliot Right Way Books\, 1950\, ISBN 1-58574-046-2\n\nThe Right Way to Play Chess\, Elliot Right Way Books\, DB Pritchard\, 1950.\n\n(Ed : This was the first chess book of this article’s author and was thoroughly consumed!)\n\nOn page 224 of said book David wrote :\nChessplayers – and this must be whispered – are generally an egotistical\, ill-mannered crowd. If they conformed to common rules of decorum these words would not have to be written\nfollowed by\nI once carried out a private survey at a well-known chess restaurant where a large number of ‘friendly’ games are always in progress. In less than 30 per cent of those observed was resignation made with a good grace. In two-thirds of the games the loser either knocked his king over\, abruptly pushed the pieces into the centre of the board\, started to set up the men for a fresh game\, or got up and walked away without saying a word to his opponent.\nHe married Elaine Saunders in 1952.\n\nElliot Right Way Books was an excellent choice of publisher for David and only 36 minutes by car from his new home in Godalming.\n\nHe won the Singapore Championship in 1954 and the Malaysian Championship in 1955.\n\nVisiting https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter97.html you will find two images of David and Elaine playing chess in Singapore.\n\nDavid and Elaine had a daughter\, Wanda on March 21st 1958. She became Wanda Dakin who was also a chess player. Wanda attended Guildford High School for Girls and then Royal Holloway College\, Egham.\n\nDavid was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1958-59 and 1965-66 seasons.\n\nFrom the British Championships\, 1959 in York we have this sparkling game with Frank Parr :\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-46 Championship”]\n[Site “York/ North Yorkshire”]\n[Date “1959.08.10”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Parr\, Frank”]\n[Black “Pritchard\, David Brine”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A65”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “56”]\n[EventDate “1959.08.10”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,56\,36\,23\,18\,-16\,32\,37\,40\,44\,42\,40\,37\,41\,54\,30\,68\,60\,53\,45\,110\,50\,64\,\n32\,40\,-46\,-83\,-83\,-50\,-39\,-71\,-48\,-37\,-71\,-71\,-70\,-58\,-39\,-49\,-287\,-338\,-362\,\n-362\,-399\,-360\,-306\,-325\,-325\,-377\,-393\,-419\,-478\,-466\,-468\,-485\,-485\,-509\,\n-511\,-513]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 g6 4. Nc3 d6 5. e4 Bg7 6. Bd3 O-O 7. Nge2\ne6 8. O-O exd5 9. cxd5 Re8 10. Bg5 a6 11. a4 Nbd7 12. f4 $6 {[#]} (12. h3 {\nseems to be wise}) 12… c4 $1 13. Bxc4 Qb6+ 14. Kh1 Ng4 $17 {White is\nstruggling} 15. a5 $146 (15. Qd2) 15… Nf2+ (15… Qc5 $1 16. Bd3 Nf2+ 17.\nRxf2 Qxf2) 16. Rxf2 ({Better was} 16. Kg1 $1 Nxd1+ 17. axb6 Ne3 18. Bb5 Nxf1\n19. Kxf1 $15) 16… Qxf2 17. e5 f5 18. e6 b5 $1 19. Ba2 h6 20. Qg1 Qxg1+ 21.\nNxg1 Nc5 $19 22. Bh4 b4 23. Nd1 b3 24. Bb1 Bb7 25. Nc3 Bxc3 26. bxc3 Bxd5 27.\ne7 b2 28. Ra3 Be4 {Powerful attacking play from DBP once he seized the\ninitiative with 12…c4!} 0-1\n[/pgn]\n\nBy now David had developed an  interest in chess variants and board games in general.\n\nHe played in and won (several times) the Battle of Britain Chess Tournament : DBP was the organisations President.\n\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-57 Championship”]\n[Site “Coventry/ West Midlands”]\n[Date “1970.08.15”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Pritchard\, David Brine”]\n[Black “Penrose\, Jonathan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E98”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “105”]\n[EventDate “1970.08.10”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n\n{[%evp 0\,105\,26\,40\,28\,-14\,49\,40\,40\,37\,37\,39\,37\,31\,46\,38\,82\,63\,73\,55\,71\,57\,54\,\n-21\,-25\,-17\,-14\,-8\,8\,11\,29\,-3\,14\,6\,13\,-12\,-1\,-27\,-12\,-30\,-4\,1\,-3\,-2\,12\,14\,58\,\n50\,43\,40\,50\,50\,38\,60\,26\,-1\,0\,-34\,-28\,0\,0\,14\,29\,-81\,-49\,-43\,-62\,-97\,-46\,-41\,-19\,\n-9\,0\,0\,151\,130\,118\,118\,250\,233\,238\,258\,230\,230\,230\,325\,266\,271\,290\,278\,278\,278\,\n666\,706\,29977\,29978\,29981\,29982\,29983\,29984\,29985\,29986\,29987\,29988\,29989\,\n29990\,29995\,29996]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 e5\n7. O-O (7. dxe5 $6 dxe5 8. Qxd8 Rxd8 9. Nxe5 Nxe4 $1 $15) 7… Nc6 8. d5 Ne7 9.\nNe1 Nd7 10. Nd3 f5 11. exf5 {A digression from the norm} (11. Bd2 Nf6 12. f3 f4\n13. c5 g5 14. cxd6 cxd6 15. Nf2 Ng6 16. Qc2 {etc}) 11… Nxf5 12. f3 Nf6 13.\nNf2 c5 (13… Nd4) 14. Bd3 a6 (14… Nd4 15. Nfe4) 15. a4 {[#]} (15. Bg5) 15…\nBd7 (15… Nd4 16. Be3 Nh5 17. Nfe4 Nf4 18. Kh1 {was Hort – Penrose\, Palma de\nMallorca\, 1969\, 1-0.}) 16. Nfe4 Qc7 17. Rb1 b5 18. b3 Nxe4 19. Nxe4 Rab8 20.\naxb5 axb5 21. Bg5 bxc4 22. bxc4 Bh6 23. Qd2 Bxg5 24. Qxg5 $16 Kg7 25. Rxb8 Qxb8\n26. Qd2 Nd4 27. Qg5 Bf5 28. Rb1 Qc7 29. Rb2 Bxe4 30. Bxe4 Qa5 31. Qc1 Rb8 32.\nKf2 Rb4 33. Kg3 Rxb2 34. Qxb2 Qe1+ 35. Kh3 Ne2 36. Qb7+ Kg8 37. Qb8+ Kg7 38.\nQc7+ Kg8 $2 (38… Kh6 $11) 39. Qxd6 $18 Nf4+ 40. Kg4 Nxg2 41. Qe6+ Kf8 42.\nQd6+ Kg8 43. Qd8+ Kf7 44. Qd7+ Kf8 45. Qxh7 $18 {[#]} Qg1 $4 (45… Qd2) 46.\nQh6+ Ke7 47. d6+ Kxd6 48. Qxg6+ Kc7 49. Qc6+ Kd8 50. Qd6+ Kc8 51. Bf5+ Kb7 52.\nQd7+ Ka6 53. Qc6+ {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn]\n\nIn 1970 he brought out his third book :  Begin Chess\, David Pritchard\, Elliot Right Way Books\, 1952\n\nBegin Chess by David Brine Pritchard\, Elliot Right Way Books\, 1970\n\nBegin Chess by David Brine Pritchard\, Elliot Right Way Books\, 1970\n\nDavid became President of British Chess Variants Society and wrote many books on variants and indoor games.\n\nHere is an interview compiled by Hans Bodlaender about David’s Encyclopedia of Chess Variants :\n\nEncyclopedia of Chess Variants\, DB Pritchard\, GAMES & PUZZLES PUBLICATIONS\, 1994\n\nParticularly interesting was this Q&A :\n\nDo you think computers and the Internet will have effect on chess and on chess variants? If so\, in what way?\nI think that the Internet will inevitably introduce chess to more players but I forsee chess variants\, because of their novelty\, benefitting in particular from publicity on the net. I expect variants to gain more and more adherents in the future.\nDavid was preparing a second edition before he passed away. This was completed and made available on-line by John Beasley.\n\nThe Pritchard family lived at Badgers Wood\, Hascombe Road\, Godalming\, Surrey\, GU8 4AA in an idyllic location :\n\nBadgers Wood\, Hascombe Road\, Godalming\, Surrey\, GU8 4AA\n\nand here is the exceptional interior with games room :\n\n \n\nBadgers Wood\, Hascombe Road\, Godalming\, Surrey\, GU8 4AA\n\nAt the time of his passing he had five grand children.\n\nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXVI (126\, 2006)\, Number 2 (February)\, page 76 :\n\n“David Brine Pritchard (19 x 1919 Streatham\, London – 12 xiii 2005\, London) has died following a fall . He was a strong amateur player and a successful author of books on chess and other games.\n\nDavid Pritchard was a Squadron Leader in the RAF during the war and later rejoined it to work in intelligence. Whilst serving with the RAF he won the Malayan Chess Championships in 195\, and he was also instrumental in the running the UK event known as Battle of Britain Tournament which attracted a strong field in its heyday and generated revenue for the RAF Benevolent Fund.\n\nHe was a dangerous. attacking played who scored a number of notable scalps in the British Championship including Penrose and Miles\, without ever achieving the consistency required to challenge for the leading positions.  He won the Southern Counties championships in 1959 and 1966.\n\nAs an author\, Pritchard’s most successful book was The Right Way to Play Chess (Elliott\, 1950\, with numerous reprints). which is still to be found for sale in many British bookshops.\n\nHe will also be remembered as a leading authority on chess variants : he was reported to be in the process of preparing a second edition of The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants (1994) at the time of his death. He was also a very good correspondence player\, an inventor composer of chess puzzles of all sorts (some of which appeared in BCM) and his interest in Fairy chess dated back to the 1940s.\n\nHis wife Elaine Pritchard\, the leading woman player of the 1950s and 1960s\, and their daughter Wanda (who also played competitive chess) survive him. We send them our condolences on behalf of BCM and its readers.”\n\nDavid Pritchard (19-x-1919 12-xii-2005)\, Passport photograph\n\nHe was a leading member of Godalming Chess Club and played in the Surrey Border League.\n\nThe David Pritchard Shield from the Surrey Border League\n\nHere is David’s Wikipedia entry\n\nThe Family Book of Games\, DB Prichard\, Brockhampton Press\, 1994
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SUMMARY:Birthday of David Shire (13-xii-1947)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday to David Shire. \nDavid John Shire was born on Saturday\, December 13th 1947. On the same day “Ballerina” by Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra hit #1 on the Billboard Best Sellers in Stores record chart.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Colin Sydenham (13-xii-1937)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of Colin Peter Sydenham (13-xii-1937)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Brandon Clarke (14-xii-1995)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday Wishes to IM Brandon George I Clarke born on this day (December 14th)\, 1995. “Earth Song” by Michael Jackson was the UK Number One single. \nIn the 2003 London Junior Championships he was =13 with 4/7 \nIn July 2004 he secured his first published standard play grading of 84D and 62D for rapid play.  His first recorded rapid  play tournament was on the 4th of October 2003 being the Mini Squad Under 8s. In this event he beat a certain Jamie Horton who had a grading of 45D at the time. \nIn 2006 Brandon won outright the London Under 12 title with 7.5/9. Marcus Harvey was a runner-up. This situation was repeated one year later. \nIn 2009 Brandon won the LJCC Under-16 title this time with Akash Jain as runner-up. His TPR for a score of 5/6 was 199. \nBrandon was a chess scholar at Wellington College\, Berkshire and was part of the strongest school / college team to play in the National Schools competition for many years that included James Holland\, Felix Jose Ynojosa-Aponte\, Alexander Galliano\, Latefah Meesam-Sparkes\, Akash Jain\, Adrian Archer-Lock and latterly William Foo and Richard Zhu. Despite being easily the strongest team they were denied the title by the antiquated age handicapping rules. \nFIDE rating profile for Brandon Clarke according to MegaBase 2020 \nHe became an International Master in early 2019 and plays much chess in Australia\, New Zealand and England having lived in the USA for some time after leaving Wellington College. \nAged 24 Brandon has achieved his highest FIDE rating of 2445 and it shows every sign of increasing. \nIM Brandon Clarke\, British Championships (Major Open)\, Torquay 2019\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nWith the White pieces Brandon is almost exclusively an e4 player with occasional forays with the Queen’s pawn. Against the Najdorf he prefers 6.Bg5 and allows the Marshall against the Ruy Lopez. \nAs the second player he plays the Najdorf and the King’s Indian Defence most of the time. \nBrandon has his own YouTube Channel. \nOn Chess.com he plays under the handle of Biranidun with a blitz rating of 2847. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch Major 106th”]\n[Site “Torquay”]\n[Date “2019.07.29”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Clarke\, Brandon GI”]\n[Black “Sugden\, John N”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B42”]\n[WhiteElo “2433”]\n[BlackElo “2068”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “77”]\n[EventDate “2019.07.27”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2020”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2019.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,77\,34\,21\,52\,43\,49\,34\,40\,41\,66\,48\,47\,47\,43\,35\,47\,41\,41\,55\,77\,75\,36\,18\,\n67\,99\,103\,85\,104\,101\,87\,91\,119\,104\,92\,97\,97\,93\,197\,192\,187\,100\,100\,114\,184\,161\,\n176\,177\,184\,187\,187\,195\,188\,202\,202\,157\,202\,209\,208\,213\,214\,209\,249\,267\,274\,\n238\,270\,269\,658\,276\,279\,269\,292\,308\,309\,298\,342\,356\,356\,361]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3\ne6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Nxc6 dxc6 7. Nd2 e5 8. Nc4 Nf6 9. O-O\nBg4 10. Qe1 Nd7 11. f4 exf4 12. Bxf4 Bc5+ 13. Kh1 O-O 14. Qg3 Bh5 15. Nd6 $16\nBxd6 16. Bxd6 Re8 17. e5 Nf8 18. Rf4 Re6 $146 (18… Ne6) 19. Raf1 Rh6 20. Bxf8\nQxf8 21. Bc4 Qe7 $6 (21… b5 22. Bb3 Qe7 $16) 22. Bxf7+ $1 Bxf7 23. Rxf7 Qxf7\n24. Rxf7 Kxf7 25. Qb3+ Kf8 26. Qxb7 Rd8 27. Qb4+ Ke8 28. h3 Re6 29. Qb7 Rd5 30.\nQxg7 Re7 31. Qg8+ Kd7 32. e6+ Kc7 33. Qg3+ Kb7 34. c4 Rd8 35. c5 Kc8 36. Qa3\nRxe6 37. Qxa6+ Kc7 38. Qa7+ Kc8 39. Qxh7 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn January 2019 Brandon scored a very impressive victory in the 126th (!) New Zealand Open. “The 2019 126th New Zealand Open is part of the 126th New Zealand Congress and is a 9-round Swiss event being held at the Waipuna Conference Centre in Auckland from 14-22 January 2019.” \nCross table from the 126h New Zealand Open \nBrandon made a welcome return to the UK and comfortably won the 2019 Major Open in Torquay with 8.5/9 as an IM. \nBrandon plays for Australia Kangaroos in the Pro Chess League. \nThe ECF grading web site shows his only club to be Littlethorpe (in Leicestershire) although Brandon played for Warwickshire Select in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nIM Brandon Clarke\, British Championships (Major Open)\, Torquay 2019\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-brandon-george-i-clarke-14-xii-2005/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201215
DTSTAMP:20201030T162932Z
CREATED:20191211T174157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T162932Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Ian Thomas (14-xii-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Ian Thomas (14-xii-1967)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-ian-thomas-14-xii-1967/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201215
DTSTAMP:20201030T163058Z
CREATED:20191211T174833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T163058Z
UID:2317-1607904000-1607990399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Karl CC Mah (14-xii-1980)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Karl CC Mah (14-xii-1980) \nIM Karl CC Mah \nIM Karl CC Mah
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-karl-cc-mah-14-xii-1980/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201216
DTSTAMP:20201226T165141Z
CREATED:20190822T163644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201226T165141Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Horatio Caro (05-vii-1862 15-xii-1920)
DESCRIPTION:We remember Horatio Caro who passed away on Wednesday\, December 15th\, 1920. \nHoratio Caro was born on Saturday\, July 5th 1862. On the same day Heinrich Georg Bronn\, German geologist and paleontologist passed away. \nHis parents were (in the 1861 census) Jacob and Mathilda Caro (née Lüpschütz\, possibly Lipschütz) living at 4\, Warwick Place\, Jesmond\, Newcastle upon Tyne. \nHoratio’s birth was recorded at Lombard Street\, Newcastle upon Tyne. \nJacob and Horatio moved to Berlin to live at 2\, Winterfeld Strasse. They both had joint German/British citizenship. \nIn 1896 Jacob passed away and his affairs were handled by family solicitors\, Daggett and Grey of 3 Dean Street\, Newcastle-upon-Tyne : \nThe London Gazette\, 1896 \nOn December 15th 1920 JHD Reid\, Master of the Institution of South Grove (a workhouse) recorded the discharge of Horatio. The reason stated was “dead”. \nHis death was registered in Mile End Old Town and he is buried in the East Ham Jewish cemetery\, London Borough of Newham\, Greater London located at Section E Row 18 Plot 14. \nGrave marker for Horatio Caro. Photograph from Gordon Cadden to Ken Whyld Assocation \nAccording to Wolfgang Heidenfeld in The Encyclopedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE : \n“A minor English master who spent most of his chess life in Berlin. Though he had indifferent tournament not much better match results (he lost to Mieses\, and Winawer\, drew twice with Von Bardeleben and beat Lewitt)\, his name has become immortal through the Caro-Kann Defence\, which he expounded in his own journal\, Brüderschaft\, in 1886.” \nThe Caro-Kann Defence is characterised by \n[fen flip=true cal=Gc7c6]rnbqkbnr/pp1ppppp/2p5/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \n(as an alternative to the French Defence) in which the c8 bishop may be active from an early stage. \nCaro famously was able to overcome Emanuel Lasker in just 14 moves in 1890 : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Berlin”]\n[Site “Berlin”]\n[Date “1890.07.21”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Caro\, Horatio”]\n[Black “Lasker\, Emanuel”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D11”]\n[Annotator “Donev\,I”]\n[PlyCount “27”]\n[EventDate “1890.07.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2009”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2008.11.26”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2008.11.26”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Bf5 3. c4 c6 4. Qb3 Qc8 5. cxd5 cxd5 6. Nc3 e6 7. Bf4 a6 $2 8.\nNa4 $1 {Greift sofort das geschwächte Feld b6 an.} Ra7 $2 (8… Qd8 $142 9.\nQxb7 $16) 9. Nb6 Qd8 (9… Qc6 10. Bxb8 Bc2 11. Qc3 Qxb6 12. Qc8+ Ke7 13. Bxa7\n$18) 10. Bxb8 Qxb8 11. Qa4+ Ke7 12. Rc1 $1 $18 g5 (12… Nh6 13. Rc8 $18 Qd6\n14. Qe8+ Kf6 15. Nd7+ Kg6 16. Nxf8+ Kh5 17. a3 b5 18. h3 Rc7 19. g4+ Bxg4 20.\nhxg4+ Kxg4 21. Ne5+ Kf5 22. Rh5+ Ke4 23. e3) (12… Nf6 13. Ne5 $18) 13. Ne5 $1\nNh6 14. Nc8+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nThere is also the Caro Variation of the Ponziani Defence which was known since the 1850s and recommended by Caro in Deutsches Wochenschach\, 1893: \n[fen cal=Gc8d7]r2qkbnr/pppb1ppp/2n5/3pp3/Q3P3/2P2N2/PP1P1PPP/RNB1KB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nFrom Chess\, Facts and Fables (McFarland and Company\, Inc.\, 2006)\, page 12\, Chess Note 3096\, Edward Winter : \n“We can now add a tenth specimen to the collection (of ‘Rare queen sacrifices’)\, having noted the following position on page 81 of Brüderschaft\, 10 March 1888 : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Berlin”]\n[Site “Berlin”]\n[Date “1888.02.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “NN”]\n[Black “Caro\, Horatio”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[Annotator “Horatio Caro”]\n[SetUp “1”]\n[FEN “3r4/kbq2pp1/pb2p1p1/7n/B7/1PP5/1QP2PPP/RN3RK1 b – – 0 1”]\n[PlyCount “7”]\n[EventDate “1888.02.??”]\n[EventCountry “GER”]\n[SourceTitle “Bruderschaft\, 10th March “] \n{[#]} 1… Qg3 $3 2. hxg3 Rh8 {“an elegantly quiet continuation”} 3. Bc6 Nxg3\n4. Rxa6+ Bxa6 {and mate on h1 is unstoppable.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nThe magazine (see also page 155 of the 12 May 1888 issue) stated that in this game\, played in February 1888 (in Berlin?)\, Horatio Caro mated his unidentified opponent in five moves as above.” \nIn another place we are grateful to Brian Denman who mentioned that  Caro made an  appearance for the Great Britain team in the 1898 cable match against America. He lost on board 3 against John Barry. \nRichard James replied : “He also represented Berlin in a cable match against New York in 1905. EdoChess has his highest rating as 2545 (11th in the world) in 1892.” \nAlso\, according to Richard James : \n“He spent most of his life in Germany. Page 353 of the Jubiläums-Ausgabe (1926) of Kagans Neueste Schachnachrichten (yes\, I also read Edward Winter’s Chess Notes) claims that he lived in Frankfurt up to his 22nd year and in Berlin from 1882 onwards (arithmetic fail). Some sources claim\, incorrectly\, that he died in Berlin. \nHis death was registered in Mile End Old Town. In the 1911 census there are a lot of Caros in St George in the East\, just the other side of the Commercial Road from Mile End Old Town\, from their first names clearly Jewish. There’s also Blanche Caro\, a 65-year-old Polish born widow\, described as a furrier\, in hospital in Mile End Old Town.” \nThere is extensive discussion from the same above source. \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Horatio Caro (5 July 1862 – 15 December 1920) was an English chess master. \nCaro was born in Newcastle upon Tyne\, England\,[1] but spent most of his chess career in Berlin\, Germany. He played several matches. In 1892\, he drew with Curt von Bardeleben (+2 –2 =2)\, lost to Szymon Winawer (+2 –3 =1). In 1897\, he lost to Jacques Mieses (+3 –4 =3). In 1903\, he drew with Bardeleben (+4 –4 =0). In 1905\, he won against Moritz Lewitt (+4 –3 =5). \nIn tournaments\, he won in Berlin (1888\, 1891\, 1894\, 1898 (jointly)\, and 1903). He also took 10th at Berlin 1883\, took 4th at Berlin 1887\, tied for 2nd-3rd at Nuremberg 1888\, took 3rd at Berlin 1889\, took 2nd at Berlin 1890. \nHe took 3rd at Berlin 1894\, took 9th at Berlin 1897\, took 17th at Vienna 1898\, took 4th at Berlin 1899\, tied for 6-7th at Berlin 1902\, tied for 11-12th at Coburg 1904\, tied for 7-8th at Barmen 1905\, took 9th at Berlin 1907\, tied for 3-5th at Berlin 1908\, and took 4th at Berlin 1911. \nCaro died in London at age 58. \nHis claim to fame is linked to the opening Caro-Kann Defence (B12)\, which he analysed along with Marcus Kann and jointly published about on the German journal Bruederschaft in 1886.”
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-horatio-caro/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201217
DTSTAMP:20201030T164341Z
CREATED:20200408T130020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T164341Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Stephen J Cullip (16-xii-1973)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Stephen J Cullip (16-xii-1973)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-stephen-j-cullip-16-xii-1973/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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