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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201211
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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.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-gawain-christopher-b-jones-11-xii-1987/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201212
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Christopher Wood (11-xii-1940)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Christopher Baruch Wood (11-xii-1940)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-christopher-baruch-wood-11-xii-1940/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201212
DTSTAMP:20261024T142128Z
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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.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-richard-griffith-22-vii-1872-11-xii-1955/
CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201213
DTSTAMP:20261026T144248Z
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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
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-david-brine-pritchard-19-x-1919-12-xii-2005/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Player,Variants,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201214
DTSTAMP:20201212T223944Z
CREATED:20191213T135517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201212T223944Z
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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.
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-j-shire-13-xii-1947/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Composer,Player,Problemist
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201214
DTSTAMP:20201213T110541Z
CREATED:20191213T140256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201213T110541Z
UID:2387-1607817600-1607903999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of Colin Sydenham (13-xii-1937)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of Colin Peter Sydenham (13-xii-1937)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-colin-peter-sydenham-13-xii-1937/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Composer,Player,Problemist
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201215
DTSTAMP:20201213T185406Z
CREATED:20191211T173844Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201213T185406Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201216
DTSTAMP:20201226T165141Z
CREATED:20190822T163644Z
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201217
DTSTAMP:20201030T164341Z
CREATED:20200408T130020Z
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201218
DTSTAMP:20211217T150849Z
CREATED:20200408T124730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211217T150849Z
UID:4181-1608163200-1608249599@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Paul Cooksey (17-xii-1971)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Paul S Cooksey (17-xii-1971)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-paul-s-cooksey-17-xii-1971/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201222
DTSTAMP:20211220T110902Z
CREATED:20200410T214751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211220T110902Z
UID:4390-1608508800-1608595199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Robin Moss (21-xii-1964)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Robin BW Moss (21-xii-1964)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-robin-bw-moss-21-xii-1964/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201222
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201223
DTSTAMP:20211222T110618Z
CREATED:20191212T144348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211222T110618Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM David Eggleston (22-xii-1987)
DESCRIPTION:Best Wishes to IM David Eggleston on his birthday. \nDavid James Eggleston was born on Tuesday\, December 22nd 1987 in Sunderland\, County Durham to Ian and Janet Eggleston (née Robson). David has a brother\, Thomas A\, also born in 1987 who plays chess to a high standard (2178 in 2020). Thomas also plays for Durham City and for 4NCL North East England. \nThere is one game in Megabase between the brothers from round 5 of the Durham Open in 2003 which resulted in a 13 move draw. They shared the 1st prize with 4/5. \nDavid currently resides in Durham and plays for Durham City in the North East League and for Cheddleton in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nDavid became a FIDE Master in 2007 and an International Master in 2013. \nAccording to ChessBase David’s peak FIDE rating was 2434 aged 26 in December 2013. However\, this could easily be surpassed. \nHe has a plus score against Keith Arkell\, James Jackson\, Peter Sowray and Chris Ward to name but a few. \nIM David James Eggleston \nWith the white pieces David is a staunch e4 player playing open Sicilians\, the Italian Game and 3.Nc3 versus the French and the Caro-Kann. \nAs the second player David plays the Najdorf and the Nimzo-Indian Defence. \n[pgn]\n[Event “GBR-ch 105th”]\n[Site “Hull”]\n[Date “2018.07.29”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Eggleston\, David”]\n[Black “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C54”]\n[WhiteElo “2397”]\n[BlackElo “2669”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “2018.07.28”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 185 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.06.29”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.06.29”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,87\,30\,30\,23\,14\,14\,11\,17\,55\,11\,-5\,35\,29\,35\,-10\,-9\,-13\,12\,4\,15\,20\,23\,\n-34\,-26\,-26\,-31\,-21\,-23\,-50\,-31\,-31\,-7\,-7\,-13\,-23\,-30\,-31\,-37\,-50\,-17\,-69\,-44\,\n-49\,-67\,-70\,-76\,-85\,-45\,-102\,-72\,-103\,-99\,-99\,-95\,-101\,-116\,-120\,-110\,-101\,\n-104\,-114\,-118\,-118\,-77\,-114\,-148\,-210\,-197\,-279\,-101\,-103\,-103\,-103\,85\,154\,\n229\,229\,500\,514\,1303\,1303\,1303\,2218\,29977\,29978\,29979\,29980\,29981\,29982]} 1. e4\ne5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O O-O 7. a4 a5 8. Nbd2 Ne7 9.\nRe1 Ng6 10. Nf1 Be6 11. Ng3 Bxc4 12. dxc4 Qd7 13. h3 Rfe8 14. Nh2 Nf4 15. Qf3\nNe6 16. Nf5 Qd8 17. h4 Kh8 18. g3 Rf8 19. Kg2 Ng8 20. h5 g6 21. Nh4 Ng7 22. h6\nNe6 23. Re2 Qe8 24. Qg4 f6 25. N2f3 Qf7 26. Qh3 Rae8 27. Bd2 f5 28. exf5 gxf5\n29. Rae1 f4 30. b4 Ba7 31. c5 Nxh6 32. Re4 Rg8 33. Rh1 Ng4 34. Kf1 Bb8 35. gxf4\nexf4 36. c4 h5 37. Ng2 Kh7 38. cxd6 Nf6 39. Ne5 Qg7 40. Qf5+ Kh8 41. Rxh5+ Nxh5\n42. Qxh5+ Qh7 43. Nf7+ Kg7 44. Bc3+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDavid has one book\, published in July 2014 : Hacking up the King published by Mongoose Press : \nHacking Up The King \nIM David James Eggleston
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-james-eggleston-22-xii-1987/
CATEGORIES:4NCL,Birthday,British Championships,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201225
DTSTAMP:20201030T175937Z
CREATED:20200410T131002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201030T175937Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of FM Victor W Knox (24-xii-2001)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of FM Victor W Knox (24-xii-2001)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-fm-victor-w-knox-24-xii-2001/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201226
DTSTAMP:20201224T161521Z
CREATED:20191212T161528Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Graeme Buckley (25-xii-1971)
DESCRIPTION:BCN sends best wishes to Graeme Buckley on his birthday. \nGraeme Noel Buckley born on Saturday\, December 25th\, 1971 in Wolverhampton\, West Midlands. \nHis first chess club was Bushbury which is also known as Bilston Sports & Social Club Ltd. His father David is the long time club President. \nGraeme’s first recorded games in Megabase 2020 were at the 1987 British Championship in Swansea were he scored a modest 4/11. \nGraeme married IM Susan Lalic in Sutton\, Surrey in 2001 and they reside in Sutton. They have two daughters\, Lucy and Emma who attend Nonsuch High School for Girls following in the footsteps of their mother. \nGraeme became a FIDE Master in 1994 and an International Master in 1995. \n[pgn]\n[Event “4NCL : Bolton”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1995.05.??”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Buckley\, Graeme N”]\n[Black “Quillan\, Gary M”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A45”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “33”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 1995\, page 354”]\n[WhiteTeam “Midland Monarchs”]\n[BlackTeam “North West Eagles”] \n{[%evp 0\,12\,19\,31\,14\,-9\,-11\,2\,24\,5\,6\,3\,5\,-49\,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bh4 (\n3. Bf4 c5 4. f3 Qa5+ 5. c3 Nf6 6. d5) 3… c5 4. f3 g5 5. fxe4 gxh4 6. e3 Qb6\n7. Nc3 Qxb2 (7… e6) 8. Nd5 Kd8 9. Rb1 Qa3 10. Qh5 Nc6 $6 (10… Qxa2 11. Rd1)\n11. Nf3 $16 f6 $146 (11… cxd4 12. exd4 e6) (11… e6 12. Qg5+ Be7 13. Nxe7\nNxe7 14. Kf2 Qxa2 15. Bd3 Rg8 16. Qxc5 b6 17. Qd6 Qa4 18. Rb5 Ba6 19. Rhb1 Bxb5\n20. Rxb5 Rc8 21. Ne5 $13) 12. Be2 Qxa2 $2 (12… cxd4 13. O-O) 13. O-O $18 Nb4\n$2 {[#]} 14. Rxb4 $1 cxb4 15. Ne5 $1 fxe5 16. Qxe5 e6 17. Qf6+ {and Black\nresigned.} (17. Qxh8 exd5 18. Qxf8+ Kc7 19. Qc5+ Kd8 20. Rf8#) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe has played for Midland Monarchs and Wood Green in 4NCL\, Surrey CCA\, Wimbledon 4NCL Guildford and Bushbury (in Wolverhampton) \nAccording to ChessBase Graeme reached his highest FIDE rating in July 2003\, aged 32 of 2420. \nGraeme teaches chess in many Surrey Schools and in conjunction with Susan. \nGraeme has been a director of Surrey County Chess Association for four years resigning in 2011. \nGraeme was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2009-10 season \nAccording to Easy Guide to the Queen’s Gambit Accepted\, Cadogan\, 1998 : \n“Graeme Buckley caused a stir in his first year as a professional player securing his International Master title in a matter of months\, quickly followed by his first grandmaster norm. More recently he has been involved in some major coaching projects. In 1996 he was manager of the English youth team\, who achieved the impressive double of winning both the Glorney and Faber Cups.” \nWith the white pieces Graeme playa the Queen’s Gambit nowadays with Nf3 appearing before c4 having flirted with the Trompowski in the early days. \nAs the second player he plays the Sicilian Scheveningen\, the King’s Indian and not the Queen’s Gambit Accepted despite authoring a book about it! \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 0708 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Sunningdale”]\n[Date “2007.11.16”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “King\, Daniel J”]\n[Black “Buckley\, Graeme N”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C02”]\n[WhiteElo “2528”]\n[BlackElo “2390”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “44”]\n[EventDate “2007.09.15”]\n[EventType “team”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\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\,44\,19\,38\,40\,41\,41\,1\,15\,-10\,-7\,-11\,5\,-11\,3\,-4\,-9\,-5\,13\,-37\,-37\,-26\,-21\,\n-14\,7\,-20\,0\,0\,-18\,-35\,-35\,-72\,-73\,-86\,-40\,-162\,-144\,-211\,-274\,-475\,-475\,-474\,\n-510\,-542\,-509\,-509\,-509]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 d5 4. e5 Nc6 5. d4 Bd7 6.\nBe2 Nge7 7. O-O Rc8 8. a3 Nf5 9. dxc5 $146 (9. b4 cxd4 10. cxd4 Be7 11. Bb2 Qb6\n12. Qd2 O-O 13. Rd1 f6 14. Nc3 fxe5 15. dxe5 Be8 16. Rac1 Bh5 17. Na4 Qd8 18.\nNc5 Bxc5 19. Rxc5 $11) 9… Bxc5 10. Bd3 Nh4 11. Nbd2 Bb6 12. Qe2 O-O 13. Nxh4\nQxh4 14. g3 Qh3 $11 15. Nb3 $6 (15. Nf3 Qh5) 15… f6 $1 16. exf6 $6 (16. Be3\n$19) 16… e5 $1 {[%cal Ge5e4]} 17. Be3 e4 18. Bb5 (18. Bxb6 exd3 19. Qxd3 axb6\n20. fxg7 Kxg7 $19) 18… Bg4 19. f3 exf3 20. Rxf3 Ne5 21. Nd2 Nxf3+ 22. Nxf3\nRxf6 0-1\n[/pgn] \nMultiple Choice by Graeme Buckley \nEasy Guide to the Queen’s Gambit Accepted by Graeme Buckley \nTrends in the Trompovsky\, Vol. 4 \nIM Graeme Buckley\, Surrey Open\, 2013\, courtesy of John Upham Photography
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-graeme-noel-buckley-25-xii-1971/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201226
DTSTAMP:20201225T130823Z
CREATED:20200401T144556Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WIM Rita Atkins (25-xii-1969)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Happy Birthday (and seasonal greetings) to WIM Rita Atkins (25-xii-1969) \nRita Zimmersmann was born on Thursday\, December 25th 1969 in Hungary.  \nShe became a Women’s International Master in 1992. \nHer peak FIDE rating according to Felice was 2225 in January 1998 aged 29\, however according to MegaBase 2020 her peak rating was 2280 in July 1992 aged 23. \nRita has played for the Cambridgeshire CCA and 4NCL Blackthorne Russia. \nRita’s first recorded game in Megabase 2020 was runner-up the 5th Schoeneck Under-18 Girl’s Open with 5.5/7. \nIn 1990 she was =runner-up with 6/9 in the Aarhus Women’s tournament. \nShe was =1st in the Budapest Women’s IM tournament securing a norm. \nCrosstable for the 1991 Budapest IM Women’s tournament \n[pgn]\n[Event “Budapest Spring op 08th”]\n[Site “Budapest”]\n[Date “1992.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Atkins\, Rita”]\n[Black “Almasi\, Zoltan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C48”]\n[WhiteElo “2255”]\n[BlackElo “2390”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1992.03.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “HUN”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 030 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1992.11.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1992.11.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,59\,33\,1\,12\,18\,11\,21\,20\,2\,19\,16\,19\,13\,13\,21\,21\,20\,2\,6\,6\,4\,37\,15\,7\,13\,\n19\,22\,12\,-14\,48\,35\,45\,40\,70\,41\,48\,-3\,2\,-24\,12\,3\,11\,4\,246\,407\,380\,387\,581\,605\,\n1220\,1092\,2161\,2161\,29989\,29990\,29991\,29992\,29993\,29988\,29995\,29996]} 1. e4 e5\n2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Nd4 (4… Bb4) 5. Nxd4 (5. Ba4) 5… exd4 6. e5\ndxc3 7. exf6 Qxf6 8. dxc3 c6 (8… Qe5+ 9. Qe2) 9. Bd3 d5 10. Be3 {[#]} Be6 $6\n$146 {Looks rather passive. Maybe Black was considering long castling but\nsurely that is unplayable?} (10… Bd6 {is much more sensible and “main line”.\nThe bishop compliments the structure and the c8 bishop can find a decent home\nlater.}) 11. Qd2 {Discourages long castling for sure.} Bd6 12. O-O-O $16 {\nOn the other hand\, long castles for white is totally the right way to go.} Qe7\n13. Kb1 {possibly worried about d4 from Black.} O-O 14. f4 {Pushing the king\nside pawns looks like the right plan commensurate with long castling. White’s\nattack appears to be mich faster than Blacks.} b5 $2 {Too ambitious.} (14…\nRfe8) 15. f5 $18 Bd7 16. Rde1 {Black’s position is starting to creak.} Be5 17.\ng4 f6 18. g5 Rfe8 19. Rhg1 fxg5 20. Bxg5 Qd6 21. Qf2 Bf6 $2 {[#]} 22. Re6 $1 {\nIt is likely that Black had missed this clever shot} Bxe6 23. Bxf6 g6 24. Qh4 {\nBlack can resign with dignity.} Bxf5 25. Bxf5 {It is mate in eight !} Qf8 26.\nBxg6 hxg6 27. Rxg6+ Kf7 28. Qh7+ Ke6 29. Be7+ ({Two moves faster to mate is}\n29. Bd4+ Kf5 30. Qh5+ Ke4 31. Qe2+ Kf5 32. Qg4#) 29… Kf5 30. Rf6+ {and Black\nthrew in the Tal ! A good win against a strong opponent.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn 1992 she became Hungarian Women’s champion with 8/11 : \nCrosstable for 1992 Hungarian Women’s Championship \nWith the white pieces Rita both 1.e4 and 1.d4 playing open Sicilians\, the Trompowsky Attack and the Accelerated London System. \nAs the second player she plays the Sicilian Four Knights\, the Modern Benoni and recently\, the Czech System. \nWIM Rita Atkins\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nIn 1997 Rita relocated to England and played in her first 4NCL weekend for Slough. She married IM Michael Hennigan and settled in London. \nBy 2014 Rita had transferred to Blackthorne in the Four Nations Chess League and had become Rita Atkins. \nIn the last few years Rita has become active in the field of chess education and has combined her interests of mathematics and chess especially in the teaching of children. She has presented at various London Chess Conferences and works with John Foley within ChessPlus. \nWIM Rita Atkins at the 2016 London Chess Conference  : The Didactics of Chess\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTJKk_m4T0[/embedyt]
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday for IM Vaidyanathan Ravikumar (26-xii-1959)
DESCRIPTION:Vaidyanathan Ravikumar (“Ravi” to his friends) was born in Paramakudi\, Ramanathapuram\, Tamil Nadu\, India on Saturday\, December 26th\, 1959. On this day Nelson Rockefeller announced that he would not seek the Republican Party nomination for 1960. \nRavi credits his father N. Vaidyanathan for help with his early chess development. \nAn early image of Vaidyanathan Ravikumar from page 81 of Ulf Andersson’s Decisive Games \nIn 1978 Ravi won the Asian Junior Championships in Tehran and was awarded the International Master title as a consequence. Ravi was India’s second International Master : Manuel Aaron was the first in 1961. \n“Ravi” at the 2013 UKCC Terafinal at Loughborough Grammar School\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nHis earliest recorded game in Megabase 2020 was from the 3rd of September 1978 and was from the World Under-20 Championships in Graz\, Austria. The event was won by Sergei Dolamatov and Ravi finished =25th on 6.5/13. The following year (Norway\, 1979) Ravi improved to =12th with 7.5/13 and the title was won by Yasser Seirawan. James Plaskett was =3rd. \nRavi at the UKCC Southern Gigafinal 2014 at the Rivermead Leisure Centre\, Reading. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nBy now ( 1979) Ravi had graduated from The University of Madras with a degree in commerce and relocated to England seeking more playing opportunities. He played in his first Lloyd’s Bank Open in 1979. \nRavi and IM Andrew Martin providing the commentary for the 2015 British Championships in Warwick. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nRavi made his first appearance for India in an Olympiad at Valetta\, Malta 1980. In 1981 he was runner-up to Bjarke Sahl in the 6th North Sea Cup followed by a creditable equal 10th in the 68th British Championships at Morecambe won by Paul Littlewood. In round eight he played this attractive game against Daniel King. Notes by PC Griffiths : \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-68 Championship”]\n[Site “Morecambe/ Lancashire”]\n[Date “1981.08.11”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “King\, Daniel J”]\n[Black “Ravikumar\, Vaidyanathan”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C06”]\n[WhiteElo “2320”]\n[BlackElo “2325”]\n[Annotator “PC Griffiths & British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “84”]\n[EventDate “1981.08.03”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 1981\, page 432.”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,84\,26\,16\,41\,46\,23\,50\,2\,12\,-1\,18\,10\,-5\,-3\,7\,-1\,-12\,0\,2\,2\,5\,1\,10\,10\,2\,0\,\n25\,55\,4\,21\,36\,50\,-15\,-2\,-68\,30\,-17\,-41\,-34\,-41\,-33\,-39\,-43\,-36\,-43\,-45\,-39\,-39\,\n-45\,-16\,-37\,-23\,-39\,40\,44\,44\,25\,-36\,-28\,-33\,-1\,-1\,-64\,-48\,-27\,-27\,-18\,10\,-304\,\n-291\,-332\,-292\,-586\,-427\,-686\,-317\,-333\,-322\,-322\,-104\,-661\,-662\,-659\,-671\,\n-670\,-691]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Ngf3 (5. Bd3 c5 6. c3\nNc6 7. Ne2 cxd4 8. cxd4 f6 9. exf6 Nxf6 10. Nf3 Bd6 11. O-O Qc7 12. Bg5 O-O 13.\nBh4 Nh5 14. Qc2 h6 15. Bh7+ Kh8 16. Bg6 Rxf3 17. Bxh5 Rf8 18. Bg3 Bd7 19. Rac1\n{is\, more or less the main line in 2020.}) 5… c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Bd3 Qb6 8. O-O\n{There is in any case no convenient way to defend the d-pawn again; if White\ndoes not wish to play a gambit here\, 5. Ne2 and later Ndf3 is the normal\nmethod.} cxd4 9. cxd4 Nxd4 10. Nxd4 Qxd4 11. Nf3 Qb6 12. Qa4 {One of White’s\nintentions with his twelfth move is in some circumstances to switch the queen\nto g4\, though on the whole the main danger to Black comes on the queenside in\nthis variaton.} a6 ({Another common move here is} 12… Qb4 13. Qc2 Qc5 14. Qe2\nBe7) 13. a3 h6 ({More common is} 13… Qc6 14. Qg4 g6) 14. b4 $6 $146 (14. Be3\n$1 Qxb2 $4 15. Bd4 b5 16. Qd1 Qxa3 17. Rxa3 Bxa3 $18) 14… Be7 15. Be3 Qd8 16.\nBd4 O-O 17. Rfe1 Re8 18. Rad1 Nf8 19. Qb3 Bd7 20. a4 Rc8 21. Re2 b5 {[#]} {\nNot easy to tell where White goes wrong in this game; his position still\nlookes quite good\, yet he is unable to penetrate Black’s fortress anywhere.\nPerhaps he should have tried to occupy the c-file earlier?} 22. a5 Qc7 23. Qb2\nQb7 24. Nd2 Rc6 25. Qa3 {[#]} Rc4 $1 {For the exchange he will get a strong\npassed pawn\, play on the long white diagonal and useful targets in the white b\nand e pawns.} 26. Bxc4 (26. Nxc4 bxc4 {would cost a second pawn at once.})\n26… dxc4 27. Ne4 Ng6 28. Qg3 {A king-side attack would seem the best chance.\nNf4 and then Nd3 can scarcely be permitted.} ({but if} 28. g3 Bc6 29. Rde1 Rd8\n{things just get worse.}) 28… Bxb4 29. Bc5 Bxa5 30. h4 h5 31. Qg5 Bc6 $2 {\nand now it is Black’s turn to go astray…} (31… c3 {was correct}) 32. Nf6+\n$1 gxf6 33. exf6 $18 Bc3 {[#]} 34. Bd4 $2 (34. Rd4 $3 {and Stockfish 12\nexcitedly announces mate in 13.}) 34… Bb4 $19 35. Qxh5 Bxg2 $19 (35… Rd8)\n36. Qg5 $2 Qf3 $1 37. h5 Bh3 $2 (37… Bd6) 38. hxg6 $18 Qg4+ 39. Qxg4 Bxg4 40.\nRe4 $4 {the final blunder after a roller coaster ride…} (40. f3 $1 Bxf3 41.\nRh2 Be4 42. g7 Bh7 43. Kg2 $18) 40… Bxd1 $19 41. g7 Bc2 42. Rh4 Bh7 {and\nwhite resigned} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIM Vaidyanathan Ravikumar v. Vassily Smyslov\, Lloyds Bank Open\, round 6\, 30th August 1981. The game was drawn in 33 moves. \nIn 1982 Ravi scored a creditable =3rd at the 1982 British Championships (Mile’s year) in Torquay including wins over Basman\, Muir and Plaskett : \nCross table for the 1982 British Championship in Torquay \n1983 included an excellent win over James Tarjan at the Lloyds Bank Open but Danny King got revenge for his 1981 defeat! \n[pgn]\n[Event “Lloyds Bank op 07th”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1983.08.29”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Tarjan\, James Edward”]\n[Black “Ravikumar\, Vaidyanathan”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E71”]\n[WhiteElo “2535”]\n[BlackElo “2400”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “118”]\n[EventDate “1983.08.24”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,118\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,31\,41\,60\,47\,41\,45\,40\,30\,27\,44\,62\,50\,54\,58\,55\,36\,66\,\n66\,70\,67\,76\,76\,81\,80\,153\,87\,183\,7\,0\,-91\,-66\,-71\,-77\,-85\,-85\,-73\,-85\,-79\,-85\,\n-110\,-95\,-115\,-130\,-143\,-151\,-177\,-175\,-183\,-180\,-177\,-189\,-179\,-181\,-174\,-159\,\n-176\,-164\,-222\,-222\,-222\,-222\,-222\,-230\,-215\,-212\,-205\,-241\,-251\,-209\,-228\,\n-220\,-228\,-239\,-237\,-205\,-216\,-222\,-234\,-239\,-251\,-221\,-238\,-238\,-272\,-376\,\n-394\,-398\,-396\,-314\,-324\,-306\,-325\,-316\,-323\,-393\,-415\,-395\,-433\,-249\,-292\,\n-325\,-334\,-341\,-342\,-348\,-385\,-388\,-394\,-394\,-422\,-420\,-420\,-431\,-431\,-431]} 1.\nd4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 d6 4. Nc3 g6 5. e4 Bg7 6. Bd3 O-O 7. h3 (7. Nge2) 7… a6\n{third most popular after 7…e6} (7… e6 8. Nf3 exd5 9. exd5) 8. a4 e5 9.\nNge2 b6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Be3 Kh7 $146 12. Qd2 Nbd7 13. f3 Nh5 14. h4 Ra7 15. g3\n$16 f5 {[#]} 16. O-O-O $6 {Sgt. Wilson would probably ask if long castling was\n“wise” before preventing f4.} (16. exf5 gxf5 17. O-O-O $14) 16… f4 $1 $17 17.\nBf2 fxg3 18. Nxg3 Nxg3 19. Bxg3 Rxf3 20. Qg2 Rf8 21. Rdg1 $19 {Optically this\nappears encouraging for White but Black has it all under control.} Qe8 (21…\nh5) 22. Be1 Nf6 23. Be2 Nh5 24. Qh2 Nf4 25. h5 g5 26. Kc2 Nxe2 27. Qxe2 Raf7\n28. Rg3 Rf4 29. b3 Qf7 30. Qg2 Rf1 31. a5 bxa5 32. Na4 Rxh1 33. Qxh1 Qf4 34.\nQg2 Bd7 35. Nb6 Be8 36. Rh3 a4 37. bxa4 Qf1 38. Qxf1 Rxf1 39. Kd2 g4 40. Rh2\nRf4 41. Nc8 Bf8 42. Bg3 Rf3 43. Bh4 Bxh5 {[#]} 44. Be7 $2 (44. Rf2) 44… g3 $1\n$19 45. Rh1 (45. Rxh5 g2 46. Ke2 Rg3 {is crushing.}) 45… Rf2+ {Black now\nshows good technique is wrapping this game up.} 46. Ke3 Re2+ 47. Kd3 g2 48. Rg1\nBxe7 49. Nxe7 Bf3 50. Nf5 Rxe4 51. Nxd6 Rh4 52. Ke3 Rh1 53. Kf2 Kg6 54. Nb7 e4\n55. Rxg2+ Bxg2 56. Kxg2 Rc1 57. d6 Rd1 58. Nxc5 Rxd6 59. Nxe4 Rd4 {A great win\nfrom Ravi against a strong GM.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nRavi at the closing ceremony of the 2014 British Championships at Aberystwyth. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nRavi’s second Olympiad appearance for India came at Thessaloniki\, Greece in 1984. This year provided Ravi’s highest FIDE rating of 2415 in January. \nIM Vaidyanathan Ravikumar and friends at the 1990 NatWest Young Masters \nRavi continued to be active as a player until 2000 when he started a career in coaching. He was the National Coach of the Emirates for eight years and has accompanied the ECF junior chess team to World Youth Chess Championships in 2014\, held in Al Ain\, UAE. \nRavi at the 2014 British Championships at Aberystwyth. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nAccording to Spectrum Chess Calculation : “He is an experienced chess coach and provides chess coaching in 10 schools in Hertfordshire” \nHis first book was Karpov’s Best Games\, Chess Check\, 1984. \nFollowing that Ravi wrote a biographical work on Ulf Andersson : \nUlf Andersson’s Decisive Games\, IM Vaidyanathan Ravikumar\, Peja International\, 1985. \nand then \nPlay the Benko Gambit\, Vaidyanathan Ravikumar\, Pergamon Press\, 1991 \nfollowed by \nThe Closed Sicilian\, Vaidyanathan Ravikumar\, Tournament Chess\, 1993 \nChess Tactics Quiz Book\, Chess Check\, Vaidyanathan Ravikumar\, 2004 \nand most recently \nSpectrum Chess Calculation\, Vaidyanathan Ravikumar\, Chess Check\, 2011 \nThere were also works on Anatoly Karpov and Jan Timman as well as works on the Caro-Kann Defence.
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Frank Parr (17-xii-1918  28-xii-2003)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Frank Parr (17-xii-1918  28-xii-2003)
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CATEGORIES:British Championships,Death Anniversary,History,Player,Remembering
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Brian Reilly (12-xii-1901 29-xii-1991)
DESCRIPTION:Signature of Brian Reilly from an after dinner post card from Hastings 1945-46 \nWe remember Brian Patrick Reilly who passed away on December 29th\, 1991. \nBrian Reilly probably sometime in the 1920s. \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE (written by Wolfgang Heidenfeld) :”Irish master born at Menton\, of Irish descent\, who has represented Ireland in nine Olympic team tournaments between 1935 and 1968; three times on top board. \nBrian observes a game during one of the early 1930s tournaments in Nice \nHe was also Irish representative at seven FIDE congresses. Reilly played in a number of small international tournaments\, wining first prize at Nice 1931 and sharing fourth prize with Klein and EG Sergeant behind Reshevsky\, Capablanca and Sir G. Thomas at Margate 1935. \nBrian Reilly playing Dr. Josep Vallve probably at Barcelona Chess Club in June 1935. Brian won in 61 moves. \nWinner of Irish championship in 1959 and 1960. General Editor of British Chess Magazine since 1949.” \nBrian Reilly and friends \nHis obituary in British Chess Magazine was written by Bernard Cafferty and appeared in Volume CXII (112\, 1992)\, Number 2 (February)\, page 70: \nBrian with journalist colleagues. \n“With great regret we have to report that Brian Patrick Reilly has\, to use the older term\, ‘joined the great majority’. \nBrian analysing with Irish team mate\, Wolfgang Heidenfeld \nB. P. Reilly (Menton\, 12 xii 1901-Hastings\, 29 xii l99l) was born into an expatriate family on the French Riviera\, and so was bilingual. He learned his chess in France where he had many friends and acquaintances. He knew Alekhine in the 1920s and 1930s and was a witness at Alekhine’s wedding. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Kent County CA-29 Premier”]\n[Site “Margate”]\n[Date “1936.04.23”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Reilly\, Brian Patrick”]\n[Black “Thomas\, George Alan”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E95”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “1936.04.15”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,69\,19\,31\,14\,30\,50\,30\,43\,31\,33\,56\,30\,38\,55\,55\,57\,21\,31\,0\,0\,-4\,28\,20\,30\,\n30\,28\,24\,35\,28\,50\,36\,32\,31\,40\,24\,46\,56\,60\,67\,97\,80\,80\,71\,89\,75\,109\,105\,89\,113\,\n86\,84\,169\,180\,172\,183\,183\,98\,99\,87\,90\,95\,111\,87\,87\,95\,91\,66\,134\,127\,438\,422]}\n1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 Nbd7 7. O-O e5 8. Re1\nRe8 9. Bf1 exd4 10. Nxd4 Nc5 11. f3 Nh5 (11… a5) 12. Be3 Be5 13. g3 (13. Qd2)\n13… a5 $146 {[#]} 14. Qd2 $16 {Black has yet to equalise and White maintains\nan edge.} Ne6 15. Nce2 (15. Rad1) 15… Nxd4 16. Nxd4 Bd7 17. Bg2 a4 18. Rac1\nc5 19. Ne2 (19. Nb5) 19… a3 20. b3 Bc6 21. Rcd1 Qc7 22. Nc3 Qa5 $6 23. Nd5 $1\nQxd2 24. Rxd2 Rab8 25. Red1 {[#]} b5 $2 {A natural enough looking move but Sir\nGeorge has missed something} 26. cxb5 Bxd5 {Black is forced to make this\nunpalatable exchange.} ({If} 26… Bxb5 27. f4 Bb2 28. Nc7 $18 {is the problem\nfor Black} Rec8 29. Nxb5 Rxb5 30. Rxd6 {and the d-pawn falls.}) 27. Rxd5 $18 {\nf4 is on the horizon.} Nf6 28. R5d2 Rxb5 29. Bf1 Rb6 30. Bc4 Rc8 31. Rc2 Kg7\n32. Kg2 h6 33. f4 $16 Ng4 $4 {Sir George blunders} (33… Bb2 34. Kf3) 34. Bg1\nBd4 35. Rxd4 $1 {and Black resigned} {since} cxd4 36. Bxd4+ Kf8 37. Bxb6 1-0\n[/pgn] \nMany years later he was to do extensive research on Alekhine’s life\, and was the first to establish (though he did not publish the fact) that the Russian did not complete his doctorate studies at the Sorbonne\, so that “Dr” Alekhine must be considered a purely honorary title. \nBrian won the Nice tournament of 1931\, ahead of Noteboom\, Mieses\, . . . Sir George Thomas . . . Znosko-Borovsky. . . and played for Ireland at the 1935 Olympiad beating Fine. \nCrosstable for Nice 1931 from Megabase 2020 \nThese results\, taken with his fourth place at Margate 1935\, behind Reshevsky\, Capablanca and Sir George Thomas\, made it clear that he was of IM strength. \nNice Masters\, 1931. Standing : Daniel Noteboom\, Abraham Baratz\, George Renaud (Organiser)\, John J O’Hanlon\, Marcel Duchamp\, Brian Reilly (winner)\, Seated : Eugene Znokso-Borovsky\,\, Arpad Vajda\, Sir George Thomas\, Jacques Mieses\, Stefano Roselli del Turco\, Jacob Adolf Seitz. British Chess Magazine\, 1931\, page 201 \nDuring the war Brian was interned in France as a British citizen\, coming close to starvation for a time. He described all this in the very detailed account of his life in the September 1980 BCM\, on which we have drawn\, along with the many reminiscences Brian passed on to the present writer. \nBrian analysing with the Irish team at an Olympiad \nAfter working for the Sutton Coldfield magazine just after the war (he did not get on well with B. H. Wood\, thinking him not very business-like – do we put this too diplomatically?) Brian was a freelance translator in the pharmaceutical industry before taking over BCM in 1949. At the time the magazine was technically bankrupt. \nSir George Thomas And Brian ReillySir George Thomas (left)\, leader of the British chess team\, playing Irishman Brian Reilly at the Easter Chess Congress\, Margate\, April 24th 1935. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images) \nIn 1964 he moved the office from London to St Leonards\, showing his business acumen yet again. He ran the bookstall for many years at the Hastings Congress at the Sun Lounge and the Falaise Hall. \n \nAfter the union troubles of 1970-71 and the Fischer boom he arranged for the magazine to be typeset by his son Freddy at the family home in West Norwood. This led to an expansion in the pagination after some teething troubles. \nBrian Reilly playing Cesar Munoz (Ecuador) in round 8 of the Leipzig Olympiad played on 23rd October 1960. The game was drawn in 48 moves. \nAll this while\, Brian was playing for Ireland in Olympiads\, and attending to FIDE affairs as a FIDE delegate. \nBrian relaxing during a FIDE Congress dinner \nAfter the death of his son Freddy in 1980\, the magazine was sold to the BCF and Brian retired as editor in September 1981\, remaining as a consultant for nearly a decade. \nBrian Reilly\, Ray Keene\, George Botterill\, Anatoly Karpov\, Harry Golombek and Viktor Korchnoi \nHis last years were spent in Hastings\, where it was his wont to carry on with the long sea-front walks that he had practised since a breakdown in health due to overwork. He had strong views on correct diet and exercise which he could expound to anyone willing to listen. The fact that he could walk up to six miles a day in his late eighties and that his faculties\, including his memory\, only seemed to be weakening in his last two years\, is proof enough of the validity of his theories. \nBrian Reilly playing Wolfgang Unzicker on board 1 during the preliminaries of the 1960 Leipzig Olympiad. \nOn his 90th birthday he attended the office and drank a glass of champagne to celebrate the occasion. We have the testimony of Mrs Arnold\, who worked with him so long\, that he was still talking of visiting the Hastings Congress. This was on Boxing Day\, the day after he had been admitted to St Helen’s Hospital with a chest infection. He assured her he would be up and about again\, but old friends such as Harry Golombek and Ritson Morry waited for him in vain as Hastings got under way. . . \nBrian Reilly at a FIDE Congress (possibly Nice 1974?) \nBrian Reilly at a FIDE Congress (possibly Nice 1974?) \nBCM readers\, too\, must be counted amongst his old friends who will miss him. They should be aware that\, but for Brian\, and his decades of hard work. there would now be no BCM.” \nBrian Reilly in the BCM office. Photographed most likely by Freddy Reilly. \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CI (101)\, Number 8 (August)\, pp 352 – 369 a conversation between B.P. Reilly and W.H. Cozens : \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 1 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 2 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 3 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 4 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 5 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 6 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 7 \nHe won the BCF President’s Award in 1983 along with BH Wood \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-06”]\n[Site “Warsaw”]\n[Date “1935.08.20”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Reilly\, Brian Patrick”]\n[Black “Fine\, Reuben”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A98”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “79”]\n[EventDate “1935.08.16”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “19”]\n[EventCountry “POL”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2004”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2003.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Ireland”]\n[BlackTeam “US of America”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “IRL”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “USA”] \n{[%evp 0\,79\,19\,31\,33\,12\,74\,67\,60\,60\,65\,56\,49\,50\,50\,58\,73\,53\,60\,48\,180\,218\,218\,\n177\,181\,188\,174\,198\,218\,201\,192\,206\,178\,185\,185\,123\,122\,98\,172\,88\,129\,101\,149\,\n57\,38\,67\,34\,63\,7\,27\,88\,0\,0\,94\,154\,154\,161\,173\,173\,183\,312\,363\,328\,534\,790\,833\,\n1052\,1084\,1150\,1064\,1084\,1145\,1147\,1180\,1176\,517\,556\,458\,1076\,1137\,29997\,29998]\n} 1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 f5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. c4 d6 6. Nc3 O-O 7. O-O Qe8 8. Qc2\nNbd7 9. e4 Nh5 $2 10. exf5 exf5 11. Re1 Ndf6 (11… Qf7 $2 12. Ng5) 12. Ng5 $1\nc6 13. d5 c5 14. Bd2 Ng4 15. Nb5 Qd8 16. Ne6 Bxe6 17. Rxe6 a6 18. Rae1 Rf7 19.\nNc3 Ne5 20. Nd1 f4 21. Be4 $1 g6 22. Bc3 Ng7 23. Bxe5 $1 dxe5 24. Nc3 Rf8 25.\nRd1 fxg3 26. hxg3 Nxe6 27. dxe6 Qe8 28. Rd7 Bf6 29. Bd5 $1 Kh8 30. Ne4 Bg7 (\n30… Be7 31. Qc3 Bf6 32. Nxf6 Rxf6 33. Qxe5 Qf8 34. Rf7 $18) 31. Nd6 Qb8 32.\ne7 $1 Re8 33. Nf7+ Kg8 34. Nxe5+ Kh8 35. Nf7+ Kg8 36. Nd6+ Kh8 37. Qe4 $1 Bd4\n38. Kg2 Bf6 39. Qe6 Bxe7 (39… Bg7 40. Qg8+ Rxg8 41. Nf7#) 40. Qe5+ 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 8 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 9 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 10 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 11 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 12 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 13 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 14 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 15 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 16 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 16 \nBrian Reilly conversation with William Harold Cozens\, part 1
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Journalist,Player,Remembering,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201229
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201230
DTSTAMP:20260817T135529Z
CREATED:20200411T183358Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM  Nicholas Thomas (29-xii-1966)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM  Nicholas Thomas (29-xii-1966)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-nicholas-thomas-29-xii-1966/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201230
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201231
DTSTAMP:20201229T175730Z
CREATED:20200412T131219Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Jonah Willow (30-xii-2002)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday to FM Jonah Willow \nJonah B Willow was born in Nottingham on Monday\, December 30th 2002. Jacob was the most popular boy’s name in 2002. “Lose Yourself” by Enimem was number one. \nJonah’s first recorded graded standard play tournament was the 2010 Delancey UK Chess Challenge Terafinal and his first recorded rapidplay event was the Nottingham Rapidplay in 2011. \nJonah Willow at the 2012 UKK Terafinal. Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nJonah’s first published standard play grade was 96D in January of 2012 : \nJonah’s ECF grading progress \nJonah has represented West Nottingham\, 4NCL Wood Green\, Nottinghamshire CA and Syston (Leicester). \nFIDE rating profile for FM Jonah B Willow from Megabase 2020 \nIt is a little curious as to the reason for the rating profile to halt at the end of 2018 since Jonah has played plenty of FIDE rated games since. Compare the above with : \nFIDE rating for FM Jonah Willow from fide.com \nJonah has plus scores against : Mike Surtees\, Richard Pert\, Peter Shaw\, Ranesh Ratnesan\, Shreyas Royal\, Keith Arkell and Ameet Ghasi to name but a few. \nWith the white pieces Jonah is a committed 1.e4 player but he has scored 83% with 1.Nc3! \nJonah plays the unusual Chekhover Variation  (4.Qxd4) in the 2…d6 Sicilian : this is an interesting alternative and is discussed by GM Ben Finegold : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liecBr62eqA[/embedyt] \nand  \nGM Varuzhan Akobian : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNoGIo4yjkM[/embedyt] \nJonah plays the Four Knights game with white. \nAs the second player he plays the Accelerated Dragon and the Modern Benoni. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Titled Tuesday intern op 17th Nov”]\n[Site “Chess.com INT”]\n[Date “2020.11.17”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Willow\, Jonah B”]\n[Black “Svidler\, Peter”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B53”]\n[WhiteElo “2386”]\n[BlackElo “2723”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “2020.11.17”]\n[EventType “swiss (blitz)”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “USA”]\n[SourceTitle “Mega2020 Update 58”]\n[Source “Chessbase”]\n[SourceDate “2020.11.27”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2020.11.27”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,15\,29\,25\,61\,47\,79\,62\,86\,57\,70\,22\,12\,11\,15\,6\,5\,0]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6\n3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 {The Chekhover Variation (Vitaly Checkhover 1908 – 1965)} a6\n{Black wishes to develop the knight without having it pinned. Probably also\nmakes it awkward for White to castle long.} ({The “main line” is} 4… Nc6 5.\nBb5 Bd7 6. Bxc6 (6. Qd3 Nf6 7. c4 g6 8. Nc3 Bg7 9. O-O O-O 10. h3 a6 11. Bxc6\nBxc6 12. Nd4 Nd7 13. Be3 Rc8 14. Rac1 Nc5 15. Qc2 Ne6 16. Nxe6 fxe6 $14) 6…\nBxc6 7. Nc3 Nf6 8. Bg5 e6 9. O-O-O Be7 10. Rhe1 O-O 11. Kb1 Qa5 12. Qd2 Qa6 13.\nNd4 Rfc8 14. f3 $11) 5. c4 Nc6 6. Qe3 g6 7. Be2 Bg7 8. h3 Nf6 9. O-O O-O 10.\nNc3 Nd7 11. Rd1 Nc5 12. Rb1 {[#]} f5 $2 {Probably not correct but active\nnontheless. 13 games with this in MegaBase 2020 and the move is labelled as\n“hot”.} (12… a5) 13. b4 f4 (13… Nxe4 14. Nxe4 fxe4 15. Ng5 $1 Kh8 16. Bb2 {\nRemoving the defender…} Bxb2 17. Rxb2 Bf5 18. g4 $18) 14. Qd2 $18 Bxc3 15.\nQxc3 Nxe4 16. Qc2 Nf6 17. Bxf4 $18 Bf5 18. Bd3 Bxd3 19. Qxd3 $146 (19. Rxd3)\n19… Qc8 20. Bh6 Re8 21. Re1 (21. Qb3) 21… Qf5 22. Qd2 Rad8 23. Nd4 Nxd4 24.\nQxd4 e5 25. Qb6 Rd7 26. Rbd1 (26. b5) 26… Re6 27. Qe3 Kf7 28. Rd2 d5 $2 29.\ng4 Qe4 30. cxd5 {and Svidler resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe has his own Twitch TV channel. \nOn chess.com he is JonahWillow and his highest chess.com rating has been 2863 on April 5th 2020.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Dagne Ciukšyte (01-i-1977)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Dagne Ciukšyte (01-i-1977)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Stuart Fancy (02-i-1959)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Stuart Fancy (02-i-1959)
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of GM Harry Golombek OBE (01-iii-1911 07-i-1995)
DESCRIPTION:Signature of H Golombek from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Southsea 1951. \nWe remember Harry Golombek OBE who passed away on Saturday\, January 7th\, 1995. \nHarry Golombek was born on Wednesday\, March 1st\, 1911 in Lambeth\, London and his parents were Barnet (Berl) Golombek (Golabek) (1878-1943) and Emma Golombek (née  Sendak) (1883-1967). \nThe Polish word Golabek translates to “small dove” in English. \nBarnet was a “Dealer of gas fittings” and was 33 when Harry was born and Emma was 26. Both of his parents were born in Zambov which is in the Lomza Gubernia region of the Kingdom of Poland which existed from 1867 – 1917. Their nationalities are both recorded as Russian in the 1911 UK census.  we don’t know (as yet) when Barnet and Emma settled in the UK. \nHarry had a brother Abraham (born in 1906) and a sister Rosy born in 1908. The family lived in 200b\, Railton Road\, Herne Hill. Lambeth. \n200b\, Railton Road\, Herne Hill\, Lambeth\, SE24 0JT \nHe is a recorded with a service number of 992915 as being a member of The Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1939 and was discharged as having reached the age limit in 1956 aged 45 and one day. \nHarry Golombek’s record of discharge in 1956 from the Army. \nHarry married his long time nurse\, Noel Frances Judkins (1941 – 2011) in January 1988 and they had (born in 1992) one son : Oliver Golombek-Judkins  BVSc MRCVS who is a successful Somerset based veterinary surgeon. The marriage was recorded in the district of Kensington & Chelsea. \n37\, Albion Crescent\, Chalfont St Giles\, Buckinghamshire\, HP8 4ET : the home of Harry Golombek OBE \nThe date of probate was 22 Mar 1995 and the executor of HGs will was David Anderton OBE. \nIn 1966 Harry became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)\, Civil division awarded in the 1966 Queen’s Birthday (rather than New Years) Honours list. \nThe citation read simply : \nHarry Golombek. For services to Chess : He was the first UK person to be so honoured. \nHastings memorial bench for Harry Golombek OBE\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography \nThe Harry Golombek memorial bench at St Giles Churchyard\, Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire. Photograph courtesy of Geoff Chandler.The Harry Golombek memorial bench at St Giles Churchyard\, Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire. Photograph courtesy of Geoff Chandler.In 1985 Harry was awarded the long overdue (but Honorary) title of Grandmaster by FIDE. \nHarry was Southern Counties (SCCU) Champion in the 1955-56 and 1963-64 seasons. \nHarry was in 1974-82 a FIDE Zonal President and from 1978-96 he was the FIDE Permanent Fund Administrator. \nSadly\, he never received the Presidents Award for Services to Chess from either the BCF or ECF : maybe a posthumous award is long overdue? \nHarry Golombek\, aged 20\, becomes the youngest winner of the Surrey Challenge Cup in 1931. British Chess Magazine 1931\, September\, page 419. \nHere (from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXXII (132)\, 2011\, Number 3 (March)\, pp.150-154 is an affectionate collection of memories from Bernard Cafferty : \n“In recalling four decades of knowing the GOM of 20th century English chess\, one has to stress the ‘English’ aspect. The ‘Harry’ part of his name was much more significant than the Polish surname\, and\, though he was the most cosmopolitan of men\, who fitted into any milieu\, my abiding memory of him always throws up the quirks that are the sign of an Englishman. I wonder how many of my readers recall the classic English actors Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford\, whose main preoccupation in their films was…. getting to know the latest cricket score from Lords or The Oval. \nHarry Golombek. Source : The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match \nIndeed\, Harry was a long-time member of Surrey Cricket Club\, and once\, when he came back from being an arbiter at an international tournament in Tenerife\, his main comment to me was not about the event or the players\, but rather that the volcanic rock of the Atlantic island made for brackish water\, so that one could not get…. a decent cup of tea! \nLeft to right Baruch H Wood\, Philip Stuart Milner-Barry\, Vera Menchik (playing in the women’s world championship (held concurrently with the 1939 Buenos Aires Olympiad) which she won with 17 wins and 2 draws)\, Sir George Thomas\, Conel Hugh O’Donel Alexander and Harry Golombek. England withdrew after their preliminary group due to the outbreak of war despite qualifying for the top final. Thanks to Leonard Barden \nI first met Harry in the early 1950s when I was a teenage student keen on chess and accordingly spent my meagre pocket money on a day out in Manchester to watch the Counties Final match between Lancashire and the all-conquering Middlesex side of those years. Harry and I were about the only spectators. He was there reporting for The Times. I recall that the top board game was between the veterans William Winter and WA Fairhurst. The game duly appeared in the BCM with Harry’s notes\, for he was the long-serving Games Editor of that august publication. \nPlayers at the 1946 British Championships in Nottingham : Back (from left to right): Gabriel Wood\, Reginald Broadbent\, Philip Milner-Barry\, Andrew RB Thomas\, Baruch H Wood. Front (from left to right): Bob Wade\, Frank Parr\, William Winter\, Robert Combe\, Hugh Alexander\, Harry Golombek\, Gerald Abrahams.. Photograph : BritBase \nPerhaps I may enter a belated correction to “Who’s Who” here. Some editions stated that he was editor of BCM after the Second World War. Not so. His stint in the editorial chair was 1938-40\, after which he was called up\, initially being assigned to the Royal Artillery. Perhaps that is a sign of the speciality of the Services – fitting a square peg in a round hole – but he was swiftly transferred to the Intelligence Corps\, perhaps at the behest of Hugh Alexander who knew that Harry had studied German at his London grammar school in Camberwell and then at London University. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Budapest Maroczy Memorial”]\n[Site “Budapest”]\n[Date “1952.03.19”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Geller\, Efim P”]\n[Black “Golombek\, Harry”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “E41”]\n[Annotator “Wolfgang Heidenfeld & British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “48”]\n[EventDate “1952.03.03”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “17”]\n[EventCountry “HUN”]\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\,44\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,-3\,33\,33\,30\,19\,55\,72\,62\,62\,81\,82\,85\,27\,98\,89\,78\,\n78\,78\,109\,101\,116\,116\,116\,57\,-6\,4\,0\,218\,221\,205\,194\,168\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0]} {\nThis game is a rare example of a drawn game receiving a brilliancy prize :\nsomething that HG was very proud of. Notes by Wolfgang Heidenfeld from Draw!\,\nGeorge Allen & Unwin\, 1982\, pp. 103 – 4} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 {\nThis quiet solidating move of Rubinstein’s has steadily grown in esteem since\nthe “Nimzo” became a going concern in the late ‘twenties. Its popularity has\noutstripped all its rivals. 4. Qb3\, 4.Qc2\, 4.Bg5 and 4.a3} c5 {With the square\nd4 overprotected (unlike the position after Qc2 or Qb3)\, this move does not\nforce White into possibly premature decisions on how to conduct the struggle\nfor the centre.} 5. a3 cxd4 6. axb4 dxc3 7. Nf3 {A gambit move typical of\nGeller. Golombek accepts – mainly in order to see what is going to happen.}\ncxb2 (7… O-O {followed by …d5 would be perfectly satisfactory.}) 8. Bxb2 d5\n9. c5 b6 $2 {Foolhardy play by the usually so careful Golombek\, who seems to\nhave been infected by the spirit of his opponent.} (9… O-O {was necessary\,\nthough White would have full value for his pawn – the a-file\, a strong pair of\nbishops\, and pressure by the Q-side pawns. Now Black has to struggle for\nsurvival.}) 10. Bb5+ Bd7 11. Bxd7+ {[#]} Nfxd7 $1 {An unpleasant necessity\, for\n} (11… Nbxd7 $2 12. c6 {with complete paralysis of the Q-side.}) ({If} 11…\nQxd7 12. cxb6 Qb5 $2 13. Rxa7 $1 $18) 12. Qc2 {Before hacking into the K-side\nby Bg7 : White first wishes to obtain control of the square c6. This is so\nimportant\, the resultant strangulation so fatal\, that Black has to surrender\nthe whole K-side (not merely the g-pawn) as the lesser evil.} (12. Bxg7 Rg8 13.\nBb2 Rxg2 14. Qa4 bxc5 15. bxc5 Qc7 16. Nd4 $18) ({Some critics have suggested}\n12. Qa4 {as even stronger\, because c6 is under direct control of the white Q\,\nbut this deployment of the Q also has its drawbacks. First of all she can no\nlonger assist the B by capturing on h7\, secondly she is subject to swapping\noffers.} {e.g.} bxc5 13. bxc5 Qc8 $1 14. Bxg7 Rg8 15. Bd4 Qc6 16. Qc2 Rg6 {\nwith an unclear position.}) 12… Nc6 $1 13. Bxg7 Nxb4 14. Qb1 $1 {but after\nthe text the N hangs\, the KR hangs and \, if it moves\, the KRP will go. Is\nthere a saving clause for Black?} ({Of course\, not} 14. Qb3 $2 Nxc5) 14… Rg8\n15. c6 {So as to eliminate the counter loss of the exchange after 16. Qh7: Rg7:\n! 17. Qg7: Nc2+} (15. Qxh7 Rxg7 16. Qxg7 Nc2+ 17. Ke2 Nxa1 18. c6 Nb3 19. cxd7+\nKe7 20. Ne5 Qg8 21. Qh6 f6 22. Qh4 Rf8 $16) {After the deflection of the black\nN white hopes to enjoy his extra material at leisure and without futher\ncomplications. However…} 15… Nxc6 ({If Black tries} 15… Nc5 $2 16. Qxh7\nRxg7 17. Qxg7 Nc2+ 18. Kd2 Nxa1 19. Ne5 $1 Qe7 20. Rxa1 O-O-O 21. Nxf7 Rf8 22.\nRxa7 {and wins.}) 16. Qxh7 {[#]} Nf6 $1 {An amazing combination! Black gives\nup both rooks so as to land in an unavoidable perpetual check.} 17. Bxf6 Qxf6\n18. Qxg8+ Kd7 $1 ({Not} 18… Ke7 $2 19. Qg5 $18) 19. Ne5+ Nxe5 20. Qxa8 Nf3+\n$1 {The diagonal for the Q is re-opened with gain of time.} {White choses a\nless elegant sequel :} 21. gxf3 ({The thematic continuation would now be} 21.\nKe2 Qb2+ 22. Kxf3 Qf6+ {so that Black administers his perpetual without\nregaining any material.}) 21… Qxa1+ 22. Ke2 Qa2+ {and agreed drawn. – there\nis no escape from the perpetual check. :} 23. Kf1 Qb1+ 24. Kg2 Qg6+ {etc.}\n1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nThe Judges / Arbiters from the 1953 Zurich Candidates tournament : Harry Golombek\, Alois Nagler and Alex Crisovan \nClearly\, under the conditions of 1940\, a linguist was just what was needed to make up the team of mathematicians\, cryptographers and such like who were tasked with breaking the secrecy of German coded messages. \nThe BCF Team at the Amsterdam Olympiad 1954. Left to right : Barden\, Clarke\, Penrose\, Wade\, Golombek (board three) and Alexander \nI once mentioned the misunderstanding over the “Who’s Who” entry to Brian Reilly. He laughed it off\, saying that it was almost certainly the abiding fault of HG – not taking Brian’s repeated advice to fit a new typewriter ribbon! \nHarry Golombek and Gordon Crown in around 1946-47. \nI could relate to that since Harry’s handwritten game scores\, written in pencil and descriptive notation\, were very hard to decipher\, a real scribble that only the man himself could make sense of. When I asked him why he did not use algebraic notation\, he commented that he wrote for so many English-language outlets: The Times\, The Times Weekend Supplement\, Observer and chess book publishers like Bells and Penguin who knew their audiences of those years were supporters of the Pawn to King’s Knight Three school. In fact\, Harry commented\, he had made more money out of his Penguin book The Game of Chess than from all his other extensive book authorship and journalism. \nThe Game of Chess\, Harry Golombek\, 1954\, Penguin Books \nand the paperback version : \nThe Game of Chess\, Harry Golombek\, 1954\, Penguin Books \nMoreover\, it took him about three whole days to assemble the documents and papers to enable him to fill in his income tax form. \nHarry Golombek simultaneous display at Hull Chess Club. Year and photographer unknown \nThat reminds me that\, when he was in his final years\, and in an old person’s rest home\, he arranged for his extensive library to be transferred in many large tea chests from his house in Chalfont St Giles\, Bucks\, to the St Leonards address where I had worked for the BCM for the last 12 years and which had recently been vacated as a result of Murray Chandler deciding to transfer BCM operations to London. I had the task\, arranged with The Friends of Chess and the BCF\, to do a sort-out and preliminary catalogue of his books and magazines which Harry was bequeathing to the BCF to form the nucleus of a National Chess Library. That would be a pleasant enough task\, but it was prolonged into many weeks by having to decant the valuable chess material from the tea chests\, much of it covered in dust and even spiders’ webs\, from the many financial and other papers to do with his financial affairs. It was then that I first learned what a ‘tip sheet’ was\, and it was not until stockbroker David Jarrett\, BCF Hon Treasurer\, came down for a visit that the dross amongst the many papers was separated from the gold and passed to Harry’s executor David Anderton. \nHarry Golombek contemplates his options after White (JH Donner) played 9.a3 in the 1952 Anglo-Dutch Match. Donner won in 33 moves and the game was BCM #11\,074 \nReverting to the cup of tea story\, the first time I got to know Harry well was at the British Championship at Leicester in 1960. Many of the participants were lodged in University accommodation near the venue. Every evening\, after play had finished\, a number of us got together for a chat over a cup of tea in the accommodation unit’s kitchen. There Harry would regale us with stories from his many visits abroad\, particularly to Moscow for the world title matches involving Botvinnik. Harry had formed many interesting views on Soviet society. Amongst the stories he told was of the all-pervasive dead hand of the bureaucracy. He was used to filing his reports on the match in English at the Central Post Office. One day\, a clerk behind the grille\, told him he could not accept it\, since the regulations stated that all outgoing material had to be in Russian. \nHarry Golombek\, Stanley Sedgwick\, Brian Reilly and DJ Morgan in the garden of Brian Reilly. Photo probably taken by Freddy Reilly. \nWith his logical mind\, and not appreciating the discipline and associated bureaucracy which the rulers tried to impose on Soviet society\, Harry commented that “Yesterday\, I submitted in English and it was accepted”\, at which the clerk drew herself up to her full height and stated firmly: “Yesterday was yesterday\, today is today”. Harry’s considered views included these: Communism would never be made to work properly in Russia\, since the Russians lack the requisite discipline. “They should have tried it on the Germans. They might have made it work”. He once commented that when he went to Germany in the decade or so after the war\, he was aware that some of those whom he met had been strong supporters of Nazism: “If they had had their way\, they would have turned me into a bar of soap!”. I got a benefit from Harry being in Moscow. I wanted to get a copy of Chigorin’s collected games by Grekov\, a very rare item. Harry duly promised to seek one out on his next visit to Moscow and a second-hand copy of this fine book came to me through the post some weeks later. No charge to me\, of course. \nHarry Golombek in play against Borislav Ivkov\, Hastings 1955/6. \nHarry played a big role in drawing up the Rules of Chess as they applied to post-1945 competitive play. He served on the appropriate FIDE commission for decades and always argued that too precise a codification limited the discretion of the arbiter to apply a common sense solution to a concrete set of circumstances. Alas\, that sensible approach has been moved away from in recent times\, especially with the introduction of quick-play finishes and associated fine points about time limits. \nKick Langeweg plays Hugh Alexander in the Anglo-Dutch Match of October 7th \, 1961. Peter Clarke (right) is playing Johan Teunis Barendregt and Harry Golombek observes \nA final shrewd comment from Harry\, based on his Moscow experience: “In 1917\, the new Bolshevik regime claimed that they were abolishing all titles\, privilege and so on. The result? Forty years later they have the most class-conscious society I have encountered.” One proof of this might be given – the Soviet internal passport system\, one point of which required the holder (and for a long time no peasant was allowed such an identity document – who\, then\, could claim that the Tsar had abolished serfdom in the middle of the 19th century?) to state his/her ethnic origin: Russian\, Ukrainian\, Kalmyk\, Armenian\, Jew and so on. The Western mind boggles… ” \nHarry Golombek during a team event\, Jonathan Penrose on the adjacent board. \nWe leave the final word in reminiscences of Golombek to his near-neighbour in Chalfont St Giles\, Barry Sandercock : \n” Harry was a very interesting man to talk to and liked to talk about the early days when he played against some of the great players. He was also very knowledgeable on many subjects\, the arts\, music etc. I played him when he gave a simul at Gerrards Cross in 1955 (Jan.21st} and managed a draw after 3 hours play. I remember\, the local paper once wrote an article about him\, calling him an ex-world champion. I got a letter published where I pointed out that he was an ex-British Champion not ex-world champion. I hope he didn’t see that!” \nHarry Golombek awaits the start of the game during an Anglo team match. \n“To finish\, a characteristic Golombek game\, with his own notes. I (Ed) have selected one of the games from his victorious British Championship playoff match against Broadbent in 1947. It is characteristic of him in many ways. The game features a typically smooth positional build-up\, from his beloved English Opening\, played with the Nh3 development plan\, which was a particular favourite of his. The notes are also very typically Golombek – concentrating in the main on verbal explanations\, with relatively few variations\, but also characterised by occasionally extreme dogmatism in his assessments\, such as the notes to moves 1\, 2 and 6\, for example. The game and notes were published in the December 1947 issue of The British Chess Magazine.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-34 Championship playoff”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1947.10.19”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Golombek\, Harry”]\n[Black “Broadbent\, Reginald Joseph”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A26”]\n[Annotator “Harry Golombek\, BCM. December 1947”]\n[PlyCount “75”]\n[EventDate “1947.10.18”]\n[EventType “match”]\n[EventRounds “6”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,75\,27\,-16\,-21\,-12\,-15\,-42\,18\,20\,9\,-1\,0\,-17\,-13\,-15\,-15\,-5\,2\,-1\,19\,9\,\n18\,5\,19\,14\,16\,35\,45\,45\,69\,27\,33\,21\,54\,47\,61\,61\,95\,128\,208\,170\,223\,244\,281\,285\,\n252\,188\,248\,172\,195\,213\,189\,161\,161\,121\,159\,119\,140\,106\,195\,243\,604\,735\,762\,\n784\,868\,879\,879\,884\,906\,690\,743\,830\,896\,785\,1011\,1065]} 1. c4 {I do not regard\nthis system of defence as at all satisfactory. Black\, by abandoning control of\nthe white squares in the centre to the first player\, simply plays into his\nhands..} e5 ({Both} 1… Nf6) ({and} 1… e6 {are to be preferred.}) 2. Nc3 Nc6\n({and here better is} 2… Nf6 {[%csl Gd5] \, which does at least make some\nattempt to contest the square d5}) 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 d6 6. Nh3 {\nFor the pros and cons of this method of attack\, the reader is referred to the\nremarks made in my game v BH Wood in a previous number of The British Chess\nMagazine. I would only add that it is even more effective against a king’s\nfianchetto by Black\, and this gives White further objects of attack on the\nkingside.} Nge7 ({Here\, A R B Thomas played against me\, at Nottingham 1946}\n6… Be6 7. f4 Qd7 8. Ng5 Nge7 9. O-O O-O 10. Nd5 h6 11. Nxe6 fxe6 12. Nxe7+\nQxe7 13. e3 Kh7 14. Qg4 {leaving White with a won game because of his strong\nkingside attack.}) 7. f4 O-O 8. O-O h6 {[#] Partly with the idea of limiting\nthe scope of White’s knight and partly so as to set up a formation with the\nking on h7 and pawn on f5\, with possibilities of a counterattack on the\nkingside. But he never gets time for this\, and meanwhile\, he has created pawn\nweaknesses in his own position.} ({A colourless move like} 8… Bd7 {\, though\nnot entirely satisfactory\, was better than any positively harmful line such as\nthe text.}) 9. Nf2 {The knight is centralised and will prove of great use on\nthis square during the subsequent course of this game.} f5 10. Bd2 Kh7 11. Rb1\n{Preparing further pressure on the white squares by b4-5. The luxurious\nadvantages furnished by White’s plan are such that he has the best of both\nworlds – attacks on both the kingside and the queenside.} Nd4 {In order to\nstem White’s attack on the white squares by c7-c6.} 12. e3 Ne6 13. b4 c6 14. b5\n{Just in time; Black was threatening d6-d5.} c5 (14… d5 15. bxc6 bxc6 16.\ncxd5 cxd5 17. Qb3 Nc5 18. Qb5 {and White wins material}) ({whilst if} 14… Nc5\n15. bxc6 bxc6 16. Na4 {is very strong}) 15. a4 Rb8 16. Nd5 Qe8 {Pursuing the\nfaulty plan of bringing his queen over to the kingside to f7. 16…Nxd5 was\nimperative.} 17. Bc3 Bd7 18. Qd2 Qf7 19. fxe5 dxe5 20. Qb2 Rbe8 {Black cannot\ndefend his e-pawn but strives to create tactical complications.} 21. Ne4 {\nOver-ambitious. This move wins\, it is true\, but only after some hair-raising\nadventures. The simple 21 Ng4 would have won the e-pawn and the game without\nmuch bother.} ({If now} 21. Bxe5 Nxd5 22. Bxd5 Bxe5 23. Qxe5 Ng5 24. Bxf7 Rxe5\n{with good counterchances for Black.}) 21… fxe4 {Courageously and\ningeniously played;} ({If} 21… Nc8 22. Bxe5 {is deadly}) 22. Rxf7 Rxf7 23. h4\n{White must play this weakening move to prevent Black’s Ng5} ({If} 23. Bxe5\nNxd5 24. cxd5 Bxe5 25. Qxe5 (25. dxe6 Bxb2 26. exf7 Rf8 27. Rxb2 exd3 $14)\n25… Ng5 26. Qc3 Ref8 27. dxe4 Nh3+ 28. Bxh3 Bxh3 29. Qa1 Rf2 $19 {and Black\nwins}) 23… Nf5 24. Bxe5 exd3 {Black must now give up the exchange\, after\nwhich he has only two minor pieces for the queen. But he has a dangerous\npassed pawn on d3 and White’s king is exposed to attack. White\, therefore\,\nstill has to play accurately to win\, in spite of the disparity in material.}\n25. Bxg7 Nexg7 26. Nf6+ Rxf6 27. Qxf6 Rxe3 {[#]} 28. Rb2 $1 {A simple move\,\nwhich took me a great deal of time to find. It is imperative to stop the\nadvance of the d-pawn\,} (28. Rd1 {Will not do} {because of} Rxg3 {threatening\nRxg2+ followed by Ne3+. With the rook on b2 this threat does not exist.} 29.\nQd8 Be6 30. Rxd3 {is 2020 analysis}) 28… Rxg3 29. Kf2 Rg4 ({If} 29… Ne3 30.\nKxg3 Nh5+ 31. Kf3 Nxf6 32. Kxe3 {with an easily won ending}) 30. Bd5 {\nthreatening Qf7 and a mating attack.} Be8 {Possibly overlooking White’s 32nd\nmove\, which wins a piece.} (30… Rf4+ 31. Ke1 Be6 32. Bxe6 Re4+ 33. Kd2 Nxe6 {\nand White’s superioroty in material will tell}) 31. Qf8 g5 32. h5 {A neat\nlittle finishing touch.} Rf4+ ({If now} 32… Bxh5 33. Bg8+ Kh8 (33… Kg6 34.\nQf7#) 34. Bf7+ Kh7 35. Qg8# {And since otherwise\, mate on the move is\nthreatened\, Black must give up a piece\, after which it is all over.}) 33. Ke1\nNe7 34. Qxe7 Bxh5 35. Be4+ Kg8 36. Bxd3 Rd4 37. Be2 Nf5 38. Qxc5 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match by Klein and Winter : \n“Harry Golombek is a Londoner\, He was born in 1911\, and learned chess when twelve years of age. He is another of those who went through the mill of the British Boys’ Championship\, winning it in 1926. He has played in most English international tournaments\, and has represented Great Britain in team tournaments. In the London International Tournament\, 1946\, he came fifth. \nA graduate of London University\, he served in the Foreign Office during the war\, but has since retired to the country (Chalfont St. Giles). His literary activities include 50 Great Games of Modern Chess \nFifty Great Games of Modern Chess\, Harry Golombek\, \nLegend\, according to James Pratt\, has it that HG wrote the book without the aid of a chess set! \nand Capablanca’s Hundred Best Games. \n\nCapablanca’s 100 Best Games of Chess\, H. Golombek\, Bell and Sons\, London\, 1947 \nHe reports chess tournaments for The Times\, and edits The Times Weekly chess column. \nThe World Chess Championship 1954 \nHis chess is perhaps not inspired and lacks the spark of enterprise\, but he is a solid player on the whole and is apt to hold the best to a draw.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-42 Championship”]\n[Site “Aberystwyth”]\n[Date “1955.09.02”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Franklin\, Michael J”]\n[Black “Golombek\, Harry”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “E14”]\n[Annotator “Harry Golombek & British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “84”]\n[EventDate “1955.08.22”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2018”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,19\,31\,14\,30\,51\,19\,13\,27\,27\,26\,34\,34\,24\,36\,7\,-17\,10\,10\,10\,0\,15\,28\,\n26\,31\,28\,8\,28\,2\,11\,22\,12\,-2\,-7\,-53\,-67\,-91\,-66\,-89\,-69\,-139\,-124\,-180\,-82\,-171\,\n-72\,-118\,-134\,-134\,-100\,-189\,-148\,-185\,-157\,-299\,-183\,-203\,-208\,-220\,-246\,-246\,\n-239\,-293\,-232\,-271\,-252\,-259\,-272\,-384\,-430\,-480\,-485\,-642\,-662\,-812\,-823\,\n-905\,-1012\,-1147\,-1220\,-2391\,-1139]} {See British Chess Magazine\, 1955\,\nOctober\, page 313 and British Chess\, page 79.} 1. d4 {1) BCM 1955\, p313.} Nf6\n2. Nf3 b6 3. c4 Bb7 4. e3 {Intending a solid development with Bd3 and Nc3 with\nan eventual occupation of the centre with e4.} e6 5. Bd3 Be7 6. Nc3 c5 7. O-O\ncxd4 8. Nxd4 ({or} 8. exd4 d5 {when Black will concentrate his attack on the\nisolated d-pawn.}) 8… O-O 9. e4 d6 10. Qe2 Nbd7 $1 {Much stronger} ({than}\n10… Nc6 {as on d7 the knightwill have excellent prospects of advancing to\nthe attack either on c5 or e5.}) 11. b3 Rc8 12. Bb2 Qc7 13. Rac1 Rfe8 {An\nimportant part of Black’s system not only making room for the knight to defend\non f8 but also facilitating the important d5 advance.} 14. Kh1 a6 {[#]\ncompleting the transposition to a kind of Sicilian Defence position.} 15. f4 $6\n$146 {Though it is usual to make a thrust with the kingside pawns in such\npositions\, this move it not good. Black’s kingside position and all his pieces\nare so menacingly placed for counterattack that White should really be\nconcerned with strengthening his own pawn structure before embarking on attack.\nHence the indicated move is 15.f3.} ({Many of White’s problem after f4 stem\nfrom the loose bishop on d3. Hence tucking it away with} 15. Bb1 {is sensible.}\nBf8 {has four games in Megabase 2020.}) (15. f3) 15… Qc5 $1 {Black does not\nimmediately threaten Qxd4 because of Na4 winning the queen; but he does\nthreaten b5 after which the knight would be en prise.} 16. Nc2 (16. Na4 Qh5 17.\nQxh5 Nxh5 18. g4 Nxf4 19. Rxf4 e5 20. Rf3 exd4 21. Bxd4 b5 $1 $17) 16… Qh5\n17. Rf3 ({Again the exchange of queens would be bad for white because of} 17.\nQxh5 Nxh5 18. g4 Nc5 $1 $19) 17… Nc5 18. Ne1 Nxd3 19. Nxd3 {[#]} d5 $1 20.\nNf2 (20. cxd5 exd5 21. e5 Ne4 {threatens Ng3+ whilst after a double pawn\nexchange the rook on e8 dangerously comes to life.}) 20… dxc4 21. g4 $2 {\nThis is White’s losing move.} Qa5 (21… Nxg4 $2 {Golombek gives} 22. Nxg4 Qxg4\n23. Rg1 {but\, in fact\, after} Qh4 24. Qg2 g6 {Black is winning anyway.}) 22. g5\nNd7 23. Rh3 cxb3 24. axb3 (24. Qh5 Nf8) 24… Nf8 25. Rg1 {intending Ng4 – f6+.\nBlack’s reply nips this in the bud and prepares a queenside counterattack\nespecially against the sensetive point at c3.} Bc5 26. Rg2 Bd4 27. Qe1 Rc7 28.\nRd3 Rd7 29. Qd2 Red8 30. h4 Qb4 31. Qe2 Bxf2 $1 {Forcing White to yield\ncontrol of the d-file and winning another pawn in complete safety.} 32. Rxd7\nRxd7 33. Rxf2 Qxb3 34. h5 b5 {Decisive! Owing to the weakness of the e-pawn\, a\ndirect consequence of this move\, White cannot withstand the attack of Black’s\nb-pawn.} 35. h6 b4 36. Nd5 {desperation} exd5 37. hxg7 dxe4 $1 {Quickest.} 38.\ngxf8=Q+ Kxf8 39. Kh2 e3 40. Qg4 Qd1 {and White resigned.} 41. Qxd1 Rxd1 42. Re2\nRd2 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is HGs entry from Hooper & Whyld (The Oxford Companion to CHESS) : \n“English player and author. International Master (1950)\, International Arbiter (1954)\, honorary Grandmaster (1985). In 1945 Golombek became chess correspondent of The Times\, a position he held until 1989. Also in 1945 he decided to become a professional chess-player. \nThe World Chess Championship 1957\, Macgibbon & Kee\, H. Golombek \nHe won the British Championship three times (1947\, 1949\, 1955) and was equal first in 1959 but lost the play-off (to Jonathan Penrose) and played in nine Olympiads from 1935 to 1962. An experienced arbiter and a good linguist\, supervisor of many important tournaments and matches\, he served for 30 years on the FIDE Commission that makes\, amends\, and arbitrates upon The laws and rules of chess. \nHis many books include Capablanca’s Hundred Best Games (1947)\, \nThe World Chess Championship 1948 (1949)\, \nThe World Chess Championship by Harry Golombek \nRéti’s Best Games of Chess (1954)\, \nRéti’s Best Games of Chess\, Harry Golombek\, Bell\, 1954 \nand A History of Chess (1976).” \nChess : A History\, H. Golombek\, Putnam\, London\, New York\, 1976 \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Robert Hale 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master and International Chess Judge. British Champion in 1947\, 1949 and 1955. Captained the British Chess Federation team for many years in Chess Olympiads. In the 1972 Olympiad\, captained the BCF women’s team. Chess author and chess correspondent of The Times since 1945 and the Observer since 1955. British Chess Federation to FIDE. \nPost-banquet photograph – left to right : Harry Golombek\, Andras Adorjan\, Danny Wright\, Brian Eley\, Michael Stean\, D. Silk\, Robert Silk\, AK Henderson. The Robert Silk Fellowship Tournament\, Canterbury\, 1973. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume 93\, Number 5\, page 192 \nBorn in London on 1st March 1911\, Golombek learned to play chess at the age of 12 and in 1929 won the London Boy’s Championship. Two years later he became the youngest player to win the Surrey Championships. After graduating in languages at London University\, Golombek devoted his full time to chess\, apart from the way years\, when served in the army and at the Foreign Office\, and was awarded the OBE for his services to the game in 1966. He was the editor of the British Chess Magazine from 1938 to 1939 and for many years served as its games editor. He is now its overseas news editor. In his capacity as International Chess Judge\, he has acted as judge in World Championship matches since 1954. \nTwo thirds of the BCF team for the 1964 Tel Aviv Olympiad. : Owen Hindle\, Michael Franklin\, Harry Golombek and Michael Haygarth \nHe has competed in a number of international tournaments\, his best results being 1st at Antwerp 1938\, 1st at Leeuwarden 1947\, 1st at Baarn 1948 and -4th with Barcza\, Foltys and Gliogoric at Venice 1949. in 1951\, he represented the British Chess Federation in the Zonal tournament at Bad Pyrmont and came 5th\, qualifying for the Interzonal. ” \nHarry Golombek\, Peter Wells\, Ray Keene\, Leonard Barden and Henry Mutkin take part in the obligatory “Staring at the board” posed picture during the 1985 Varsity Match \nHis publications include : Capablanca’s 100 Best Games of Chess (1947); World Chess Championship 1948 (1949); Pocket Guide to the Chess Openings (1949); \nA Pocket Guide to the Chess Openings\, RC Griffith and H Golombek Bell & Sons\, 1949 \nHastings Tournament 1948-1949 (1949); \nHastings Tournament 1948-1949\, H Golombek and W Ritson Morry\, En Passant\, 1949 \nSouthsea Tournament 1949 (1949); Prague 1946 (1950); \nPrague 1946\, H Golombek\, CHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\, 1950 \nPrague 1946\, H Golombek\, CHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\, 1950 \nBudapest 1952 (1952); \nBudapest 1952\, H. Golombek\, British Chess Magazine\, 1952 \n50 Great Games of Modern Chess (1952); Reti’s Best Games of Chess (1954); 22nd USSR Championship (1956); \n22nd USSR Championship\, H. Golombek\, British Chess Magazine\, (1956) \nWorld Chess Championship 1957 (1957); Modern Opening Chess Strategy (1959); \nModern Opening Chess Strategy\, H\, Golombek\, Macgibbon & Kee\, London (1960) \nand a translation of The Art of the Middle Game by P. Keres and A. Kotov. \nHe enjoys classical music and has been known to be successful on the Stock Exchange.” \nA reasonable enquiry might be : “What did Harry write about himself?” Well\, according to \nThe Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) \nThe Encyclopaedia of Chess \nwe have : \n“British international master\, three times British champion and the first person to figure in that country’s Honours List on account of his services to chess. Golombek was born in London and lived there till the Second World War. Educated as Wilson’s Grammar School and the University of London\, he became London Boy Champion in 1929 and London University Champion 1930-3. By this time he was part of a trio of the leading players in England\, the other two being Alexander and Milner-Barry. (Ed : It is curious that HG does not mention William Winter : maybe they were not like minded souls?) \nHarry Golombek OBE \nHis best result in the British championship before the Second World War was -2nd with EG Sergeant\, 1/2 a point below Alexander at Brighton 1938. In that year he won first prize in a small international tournament at Antwerp ahead of Koltanowski. In 1938 too he became editor of the British Chess Magazine and occupied this post till he entered the army in 1940. \nHarry Golombek OBE \nBefore the war he had already played in three International Team Tournaments (or Olympiads as they subsequently became called) at Warsaw 1935\, Stockholm 1937 and Buenos Aires 1939. \nMorris (Moses) Sobkowski\, Anatoly Karpov and Harry Golombek \nAfter the Buenos Aires event he went onto play in an international tournament at Montevideo where he came second to the World Champion\, Alexander Alekhine. \nBrian Reilly\, Ray Keene\, George Botterill\, Anatoly Karpov\, Harry Golombek and Viktor Korchnoi \nIn the war he served first in the Royal Artillery\, from 1940-1 and then\, for the rest of the war\, in the Foreign Office at Bletchley Park\, employed (like Alexander\, Milner-Barry and quite a number of other chess-players) in code breaking. \nJohn Nunn\, Adrian Hollis and Harry Golombek posing for the obligatory “staring at the board” picture for the 19?? Varsity Match sponsored by Lloyds Bank \nAfter the war he made chess and writing about the game his livelihood\, becoming Times Chess Correspondent in 1945 and Observer Chess Correspondent in 1955. As a player he had a consistently good record in the British Championship\, coming in the prize list on fourteen out of eighteen occasions he competed in the event. He was British Champion at Harrogate 1947\, Felixstowe 1949 and Aberystwyth 1955. \nHarry Golombek OBE \nHere is HGs win against his old friend PS Milner-Barry from Aberystwyth 1955 : \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-42 Championship”]\n[Site “Aberystwyth”]\n[Date “1955.08.25”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Golombek\, Harry”]\n[Black “Milner Barry\, Philip Stuart”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E02”]\n[Annotator “Harry Golombek and British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “83”]\n[EventDate “1955.08.22”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess Magazine a”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,5\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,-21]} {This is BCM game # 11\,769. annotated in\nOctober 1955\, page 310 onwards. This was reproduced in British Chess\, page 78.\n} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Qa4+ Bd7 {An inferior defence} ({\nto} 5… Nbd7 {since it eventually results in White getting control of the\ncentre.}) 6. Qxc4 Bc6 7. Nf3 Nbd7 8. Nc3 Nb6 ({In a later round Dr. Aitken\nplayed against me here} 8… Be7 {but after} 9. O-O O-O 10. Qd3 Nd5 11. Nxd5\nexd5 (11… Bxd5 $6 12. e4 $1) 12. Bf4 {White obtained enduring pressure on\nBlack’s queen’s side.}) 9. Qd3 Nbd5 {preventing White from playing e4.} ({\nAnother way of doing this was} 9… Bb4 {then\, as in another game I had\nagainst Dr. Aitken (European Zonal\, Munich\, 1954)} 10. O-O O-O 11. a3 Bxc3 12.\nQxc3 a5 13. b3 {gives White much the better game thanks to his two bishops and\npressure along the c-file.}) 10. O-O {Threatening Ne5} {inducing the following\nexchange.} Nxc3 11. bxc3 {[#] is much stronger All four games that reached\nthis position were won by White.} ({than} 11. Qxc3 {since White’s central pawn\nmajority will now prove most embarrasing for Black.}) 11… Be4 {Not a good\nmanoeuvre.} ({He should play} 11… Be7 {and hasten to get castled.}) 12. Qb5+\nBc6 $146 (12… c6 $2 {is the move given by Megabase 2020.}) (12… Qd7 13. Qb3\n$1 {threatening Ne5 is very strong.}) 13. Qb3 Be7 14. c4 O-O 15. Bb2 Qd6 {\nHoping to relieve his position by exchanging queens after Qb4. White at once\nextinguishes this hope.} 16. a3 Rab8 (16… Rad8 {is better.}) 17. Rfd1 b5 $2 {\nAlmost certainly the losing blunder.} ({Better was} 17… Rfe8 18. a4 $16) 18.\nc5 Qd8 ({Worse still is} 18… Qd5 19. Qxd5 Bxd5 20. Ne5 Bxg2 21. Kxg2 {\nwhen Nc6 cannot be prevented.}) 19. Ne5 Bxg2 20. Kxg2 Qe8 21. Qf3 Nd5 22. e4\nNf6 ({Not} 22… f6 23. Nd3 {and the black knight is lost.}) 23. Bc3 c6 24.\nRdb1 {Threatening to break through on the a-file with fatal effect\, therefore\nBlack decides to give up the a-pawn to obtain some freedom. and prevent\nWhite’s rooks from occupying that file.} a5 25. Bxa5 Ra8 26. Bc3 Qc8 27. Qe2 {\nPreparing for an eventual break through in the centre by f3\, Qb2\, Nd3-b4 and\nthe pawn advance d5.} Nd7 28. Nd3 e5 {[#] Apparently Black has at length\nsecured some counterplay but now comes a crippling blow} 29. d5 $1 cxd5 30.\nexd5 Nxc5 31. Nxe5 $18 Qf5 32. Qf3 Qxf3+ 33. Kxf3 Bf6 {Otherwise Nc6} 34. Rxb5\nNd7 35. Nxd7 Bxc3 36. Ra2 Rfd8 37. Nb6 Ra5 ({After} 37… Rab8 38. a4 {the\nfurther advance of the a-pawn is not to be prevented.}) 38. a4 f5 39. Rc2 Rxb5\n40. axb5 Bd4 {Seemingly winning one of the passed pawns but} 41. Nc8 {and\nBlack resigned} Rxd5 (41… Kf8 42. d6 Ke8 43. b6 {etc}) 42. Ne7+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHarry Golombek OBE plays Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry OBE \nHe represented England in six more Olympiads\, Helsinki 1952\, Amsterdam 1954\, Moscow 1956\, Munich 1958\, Leipzig 1960 and Varna 1962. \nHarry Golombek OBE \nHis best individual international results were first prizes at small tournaments in Leeuwarden 1947\, Baarn 1948 and Paignton 1950 (above Euwe and Donner); =4th with O’Kelly at Beverwijk 1949\, =4th with Barcza\, Foltys and Gligoric at Venice 1949\, and 5th at the European Zonal tournament at Bad Pyrmont 1951\, thereby becoming the first British player to have qualified for the Interzonal. He was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday List in 1966. \nHarry Golombek\, Norman Fishlock-Lomax and Denis Victor Mardle at the Hastings International Congress of 1965(?) \nA founding member of the FIDE Commission for the Rules of Chess\, he became a FIDE International Judge and as such officiated at six World Championship matches. He was also chief arbiter at a FIDE Candidates tournament\, at an Interzonal and two European Team Championship finals\, etc. When the FIDE President\, Dr Euwe\, had to return home from Reykjavik before the 1972 Spassky-Fischer match got started. Golombek represented FIDE in Iceland and did much to ensure that the match took place and that it continued to be played. \nHarry gave more than the average number of simultaneous displays in this career. For the photograph below Leonard Barden provided the following caption : \n“Harry was invited because it was the 50th anniversary of his victory in the London Boys 1929 a success which he often referred to in his Times column. There were seven 30-board simuls that day\, the top three being England Juniors v USSR (Spassky\, Vasyukov\, Kochiev) where Spassky had the worst simultaneous result of his career. No 4 was by Murray Chandler\, Harry was No5 and the others by Whiteley and Rumens. The juniors who played the Russians were personally invited.” \nHarry was invited because it was the 50th anniversary of his victory in the London Boys 1929 a success which he often referred to in his Times column. There were seven 30-board simuls that day\, the top three being England Juniors v USSR (Spassky\, Vasyukov\, Kochiev) where Spassky had the worst simultaneous result of his career. No 4 was by Murray Chandler\, Harry was No5 and the others by Whiteley and Rumens. The juniors who played the Russians were personally invited. \nA prolific writer and translator of books on the game\, he has had some thirty-five books published on various aspects of chess. Among them are : Capablanca’s Best Games of Chess\, London\, New York 1947; Reti’s Best Games of Chess\, London 1954; New York 1975;  The Game of Chess\, London 1954; Modern Opening Chess Strategy\, London 1959; A History of Chess\, London\, New York 1976.“ \nHarry Golombek OBE \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983)\,  Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson\,  we have this rather brief biography : \n“Thee times British Champion (Harrogate 1947\, Felixstowe 1949\, Aberystwyth 1955) and the first person to figure on the Honours List for services to Chess. He has represented England in 9 Olympiads. A FIDE International Judge and Arbiter has has officiated at 6 World Championship matches. He is chess correspondent of The Times and a prolific writer and translator” \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry \nand here is a fascinating insight into HGs Bletchley Park days. \nBill Hartston wrote this excellent obituary published in The Independent. \nA recent article from Andre Schultz of Chessbase. \nEdward Winter has written this interesting article last updated in December 2020 despite announcing self-dormancy in March 2020. \n[pgn]\n[Event “County Match”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “1963.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Golombek\, Harry”]\n[Black “Footner\, John Kenneth”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D94”]\n[Annotator “Golombek\,Harry”]\n[PlyCount “47”]\n[EventDate “1963.??.??”]\n[EventType “game”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\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\,47\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,38\,70\,63\,59\,10\,25\,13\,21\,34\,34\,34\,51\,50\,33\,19\,18\,26\,\n11\,46\,30\,24\,6\,46\,46\,34\,21\,1\,6\,-9\,32\,-23\,-15\,-11\,7\,-15\,-20\,7\,6\,-23\,3\,-57\,122\,\n128] [source: Paul Keres & Alexander Kotov: Art of the Middle Game\, London\n1964\, p. 27-29]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e3 Bg7 6. Bc4 {\nWhite’s first assault on the d5-square; Black has already made his intentions\nclear by placing his King’s Bishop on g7 and by opening u the d-file\, all so\nas to put pressure on d4.} Nb6 7. Bb3 O-O 8. Nf3 Na6 {Why here rather than on\nc6? Because Black wishes to pursue his strategic line of attack on d4 by\nplaying c7-c5.} 9. O-O c5 10. a4 {A strong move that is indirectly concerned\nwith the control of d5\,} ({and is a clear improvement on} 10. h3 cxd4 11. exd4\nNc7 12. Re1 Be6 {; when Black has full control of the d5-square\n(Simonson-Evans\, New York 1951). Now\, however\, White always has in reserve the\na4-a5 thrust which undermines Black’s central control.}) 10… Bg4 11. h3 cxd4\n12. exd4 ({And not} 12. hxg4 dxc3 {; when Black has the advantage owing to the\nincreased range of his King’s Bishop.}) 12… Bxf3 {He decides to accept the\npawn sacrifice; but White’s attack grows too strong after this as does his\npressure on the d5-square\,} ({and Black would have been better advised to play\nthe discreet} 12… Bf5) 13. Qxf3 Qxd4 ({Black would have a very bad game after\n} 13… Bxd4 14. Rd1 {when White would be threatening both Be3 and Nb5 and\nBlack could not well play} e5 {on account of} 15. Bh6) 14. a5 Qb4 15. Ba2 {\nThe reader will note how important it is to stick to the plan of controlling\nd5.} ({And not} 15. axb6 Qxb3 16. Qxb7 Nc5 17. Qxe7 axb6 {when Black has the\nadvantage.}) 15… Nc4 16. Nd5 {Now d5 is firmly in White’s hands; the\nstrategic purpose has been fulfilled and it only remains to work out the\ntactical exploitation.} Ne5 17. Qg3 Qxa5 ({Or} 17… Qd6 18. Bf4 {and the\npermanent pin\, with the threat of Re1\, is decisive.}) {White can now win a\npawn back by 18.Nxe7+\, but he has a much stronger move that utilizes to the\nfull his positional advantage of two Bishops.} 18. Bg5 e6 19. Nf6+ Bxf6 ({After\n} 19… Kh8 {White has a winning attack by} 20. Qh4 h5 21. Bxe6 Qb6 22. Bg4 {\n(threatening 23.Bxh5). If then} Nxg4 23. hxg4 Qb4 24. f4 Qc5+ 25. Kh1 Bxf6 26.\nBxf6+ Kg8 27. f5 {(or even 27.Be7) and White wins.}) 20. Bxf6 Nd7 21. Bc3 Qh5\n22. Rad1 Nac5 23. Rd4 a5 {Fending off White’s threat of winning a piece by 24.\nb4; but there is an even more deadly threat that he cannot parry.} 24. Rh4 {\nResigns.} ({For if} 24. Rh4 Qf5 25. Bb1 Qd5 26. Rxh7 Kxh7 27. Qh4+ {and mates\,\nas} Qh5 {is not a defence owing to the pin of the g-pawn.}) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHere we have  a selection of publications not already mentioned above : \nSouthsea Chess Tournament\, Harry Golombek\, En Passant\, 1949 \nB.C.M. Quarterly\, number 3: 4th Candidates Tournament 1959\, H. Golombek\, 19??. \nB.C.M. Quarterly\, number 6: 1930 Scarborough International Tournament\, H. Golombek\,\, 1962. \nChess\, Harry Golombek and Hubert Phillips\, HG & G Witherby\, 1959 \nInstructions to Young Chess Players\, Harry Golombek\, The Brompton Library\, 1966 \nFischer v Spassky\, the World Chess Championship\, 1972\, Harry Golombek\, Times Newspapers\, 1973 \nThe Laws of Chess and Their Interpretations\, H. Golombek\, Pitman Publishing\, 1976 \nImprove Your Chess\, Harry Golombek\, Pitman\, 1976 \nThe Best Games of C.H.O’D. Alexander\, 1976 \nA Dataday Chess Diary for 1979 with a foreword from Harry Golombek \nB.C.M. Classic Reprints\, number 20: World Chess Championship 1948\, Golombek\, Harold\, 01-03-1982 (1949). ISBN 978-0-900846-35-9.
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of WIM Elaine Pritchard (née Saunders) (07-i-1926 07-i-2012)
DESCRIPTION:Signature of Elaine Saunders from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Hastings Christmas Congress\, 1945-1946 \nWe remember Elaine Pritchard who passed away on Saturday\, January 7th\, 2012. \nDorée Elaine Zelia Saunders was born on Thursday\, January 7th\, 1926. Her father was Henry de Beaufort Saunders (b. 7 Aug 1900\, Folkestone\, Kent d. Between Jul 1989 and Sep 1989) and her mother was Dorée Nellie Irene Dudley (b. 3 May 1900\, d. 9 Jun 1970) \nIn the 1939 register Henry is listed as a Garage proprietor who had “retired through incapacitation”. He is recorded as a Air Raid Precautions Warden who was also a first aider. His wife is listed as undertaking “unpaid domestic duties”. The record for Elaine is blanked out with “This Record Officially Closed” meaning that they believe that she might still be alive. They are listed as residing at The George & Dragon Hotel in High Wycombe\, Buckinghamshire. \nThe George and Dragon Hotel\, High Street\, West Wycombe\, Buckinghamshire \, HP14 3AB \nShe was taught chess by her father and then her early trainer was Charles Dealtry Locock who lived with the family in the hotel above. \nElaine aged 10 playing her father Henry de Beaufort Saunders \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsfLYRuau_8[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Blindfold casual”]\n[Site “ENG”]\n[Date “1936.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Pritchard\, Elaine”]\n[Black “Saunders\, Henry de Beaufort”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C51”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “41”]\n[EventDate “1936.??.??”]\n[SourceTitle “chessgames.com”] \n{[%evp 0\,41\,19\,28\,34\,33\,13\,13\,9\,-41\,-37\,-31\,44\,43\,69\,20\,50\,19\,4\,3\,31\,-53\,-54\,\n-46\,-19\,-15\,-6\,-3\,1\,-11\,174\,30\,363\,311\,860\,884\,975\,857\,902\,955\,970\,987\,978\,\n1029]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd4\nBb6 8. O-O d6 9. Bb2 (9. Nc3) 9… Na5 {[#]} (9… Nf6 10. Nbd2) 10. Nc3 $6 (\n10. Bd3 Ne7) 10… Nxc4 (10… Ne7) 11. Qa4+ Qd7 (11… c6) 12. Qxc4 Nf6 13. e5\ndxe5 $2 14. dxe5 (14. Ba3 $1) 14… Nh5 $2 (14… Qg4) 15. h3 (15. e6 $3 fxe6\n16. Rad1 $18) 15… f5 $4 16. exf6 Nxf6 17. Rfe1+ Kf8 18. Ba3+ (18. Rad1) 18…\nc5 19. Bxc5+ Bxc5 20. Qxc5+ Kg8 21. Rad1 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nShe married David Pritchard on Friday March 7th 1952 in the Chelsea Registry Office. Elaine was living at Wylderne\, Bridge Street\, Great Kimble\, Aylesbury HP17 9TW. At the time of their marriage David was a Flight Lieutenant. \nElaine and David had a daughter\, Wanda H Zelia Pritchard 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. \nIn their later years Elaine and David lived at Badgers Wood\, Hascombe Road\, Godalming\, Surrey\, GU8 4AA : \nBadgers Wood\, Hascombe Road\, Godalming\, Surrey\, GU8 4AA \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983)\, Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : \n“Chesswise I seem already to have lived an alarmingly long time\, the era of Capablanca and Alekhine back across the war years was another world. The three games I have chosen belong to three distinctly different periods in these fifty years – the juvenile long-ago\, the most elderly present and the middle when I was playing tolerably well and was awarded the WIM title. \nMy father\, assisted by a 2d. (= almost 1p) book of rules from Smiths\, taught me the moves at somewhere round the age of five. We were rescued by the problemist CD Locock who noticed me playing in a girls’ tournament two years later. It was he who brought me up on a diet of the Scotch\, the Evans and any gambit that was going. We analysed them in some depth – for those days – and my severe task-master made me copy out long columns of dubious lines. He also made me his guinea-pig for his Imagination in Chess and it is small wonder that I still find it hard to resist a sacrifice\, and much of my undoing comes from premature sorties such as f4 and Qh5. \nMiss Elaine Saunders\, the girl chess champion playing in the annual WW White Memorial Tournament in Sevenoaks. on June 25th 1939. Source : https://www.chessmarginalia.com/miss-elaine-saunders/ \nIn retrospect he must have been a brilliant teacher. Starting in 1936 a succession of girls’ titles came my way including the FIDE under-21\, and in 1939 the British Ladies at the age of 13. It is hard to assess how strong or weak one was at the time because there has been such a marked improvement in the standard of play among women over recent years. At all events\, those pre-war years were happy ones\, especially away from chess which took second place to horses and more physical pastimes. \nThirteen Years Old Chess Champion Elaine Saunders\, of Twickenham has entered for next months British Ladies’ Championship. Source : The People\, July 23rd\, 1939. \nThe incident which received the most publicity was the ‘affair Alekhine’. Most of the pre-war giants were kindly if a little condescending towards me but the new World Champion – he had just regained the title from Euwe – showed me no mercy. He took on 30 Kent players at the Charing Cross Hotel and after 5 hours demolished all except myself. The ending was equal. He stood over our board and glowered. ‘Give the child a draw’\, said someone in Russian in the audience\, which despite them mid-night hour were everywhere on chairs and even under tables. ‘I know what I am doing’ came the reply\, and of course he did. I lost. \nAt 13 the world changed. I almost gave up chess. There were no celebrations after that Ladies Championship. The foreign masters packed their bags for home; we packed them for exile in Buckinghamshire and filling sandbags. \nMy saddest personal loss of the war was Vera Menchik\, perhaps the strongest lady player of all time. \nLeaving university with a poor\, but lightning degree in French\, I was employed by the Foreign Office and spent the next few years in London. While at college I had won the Notts County Championship and like to remember my last game on top board for county against the great HE Atkins\, so many times British Champion\, making his final appearance for Leicestershire. \nI forsook women’s events and achieved probably my best results\, finishing equal 3rd in the London Championship final\, having beaten David Hooper with an Allgaier Gambit\, and qualifying for the British Championship at Buxton in a section which included L. Barden\, V. Berger and DB Pritchard. \nMarrying David in 1952\, we went to the Far East for three years and on our return I made a come-back to women’s chess and won the title at Blackpool in 1956. I was consequently despatched to the Western Zonal in Venice and finished equal 2nd with Lazaravic. This qualified me for the Interzonal\, but my daughter Wanda arrived (March 21st 1958) before I could get to the starting post. Meanwhile with Eileen Tranmer we represented the BCF in the first women’s Olympiad in Emmen in 1957 where we finished 7th. The Finals went well for me and included a draw against Rubtsova\, the then world champion. The results of the two tournaments were sufficient for me to be awarded the IWM title. My BCF grading at that time was 200 and has gone down ever since! \nFriedl Rinder (Germany) plays Elaine Pritchard at the Havering Women’s Tournament in Romford on August 25th 1967. Tournament was won by Nona GaprindashvilliMandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock (1876414a) \nAnd so some 20 years on and still a teacher\, we reach the final period\, that of comparative dotage. Notwithstanding\, I have been fortunate enough to have played in the last four Olympiads at Skopje\, Medellin\, Haifa and Buenos Aires\, twice as captain of the team. It was\, of course\, pleasurable to win a silver medal at Haifa\, despite the fact that the East European bloc was missing. The last of the three games comes from Haifa at a crucial stage. Playing for a team has always seemed more fun. \nAlso in my dotage belong two books\, Chess for Pleasure \nChess for Pleasure by Elaine Pritchard \nand The Young Chess Player (Faber) and organisation of girl’s chess\, particularly the Faber Cup” \nThe Young Chess Player by Elaine Pritchard \n[pgn]\n[Event “Plymouth Congress”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1938.01.05”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Gordon\, ?.”]\n[Black “Saunders\, Elaine”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A85”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “36”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, page 225.”] \n{[%evp 0\,28\,19\,31\,19\,-16\,-9\,-1\,55\,48\,101\,81\,76\,61\,70\,56\,86\,48\,33\,35\,57\,19\,19\,\n-35\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0]} {This was played at the same age (12) as when Elaine\nplayed Alekhine. Her opponent in this game won the section.} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6\n3. Nc3 f5 4. Nf3 c6 5. e3 Bd6 6. Bd3 Nf6 7. O-O Nbd7 8. a3 $6 (8. cxd5 cxd5 9.\nb3) 8… Ne4 $1 9. Qc2 g5 $146 {g5 for Black in the Stonewall is a very common\nidea and theme and should be played.} 10. Nd2 {planning to control e4 with f3}\ng4 $1 {[#] inviting the losing move} 11. f3 $4 {Fatally weaking the dark\nsquares around the White king.} (11. b4 $11 {is fine for White.}) 11… Bxh2+\n$1 12. Kxh2 Qh4+ 13. Kg1 g3 {The point!} 14. Re1 Qh2+ {and White resigned.} {If\n} 15. Kf1 Qh1+ 16. Ke2 Qxg2+ 17. Kd1 Nf2+ 18. Ke2 e5 {and Black is clearly\nwinning.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Stevenson Memorial”]\n[Site “Bognor Regis”]\n[Date “1959.04.??”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Pritchard\, Elaine”]\n[Black “Hollis\, Adrian Swayne”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C01”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “49”]\n[EventDate “1959.04.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, page 226”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,43\,19\,38\,30\,51\,38\,23\,26\,11\,12\,-26\,-14\,-9\,24\,34\,39\,41\,28\,28\,38\,0\,29\,-2\,\n21\,0\,1\,3\,4\,38\,17\,-29\,-11\,-39\,-11\,19\,29\,-151\,12\,12\,110\,-21\,-16\,-1\,346\,340]} 1.\ne4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c3 Bd6 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. O-O Nge7 8. Re1\nQd7 9. Nbd2 O-O-O 10. b4 Ng6 11. b5 (11. Qa4) 11… Nce7 12. Qa4 Kb8 13. Ba3 {\n[#]} (13. Ne5 Bxe5 (13… Nxe5 14. dxe5 Bc5 15. Nb3 Bb6 16. Be3)) 13… Rhe8 $6\n$146 (13… Nf4 14. Bf1 f6 15. Bc5 Nc8 16. Qb3 $15) 14. Bxd6 Qxd6 $6 (14…\ncxd6 {Keeping a knight out of c5}) 15. c4 (15. Ne5) 15… dxc4 16. Nxc4 Qf6 17.\nNfe5 Be6 $6 {[#]} (17… Nxe5 18. Nxe5 Bc8) 18. Nc6+ $5 {Attractive but not\nsound in 2021.} (18. Be4 $16) 18… Nxc6 19. bxc6 b6 (19… Bd5 20. cxb7 Bc6\n$17) 20. Bxg6 hxg6 21. Ne5 Qe7 $4 {Ooops!} 22. Nd7+ $1 {and Black resigned.} {\nIf} Ka8 {then} 23. Qa6 Rb8 24. Nxb8 Rxb8 25. d5 {Elaine wrote : I was pleased\nwith this win as it gave me a score of 6/10 in a very strong tournament. My\nopponent\, one of the leading young players of the day\, is now better known as\na correspondence grandmaster.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad Women-07 Final A”]\n[Site “Haifa”]\n[Date “1976.11.06”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Canela\, Teresa”]\n[Black “Pritchard\, Elaine”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C42”]\n[BlackElo “2055”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “40”]\n[EventDate “1976.10.31”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ISR”]\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 “Spain (W)”]\n[BlackTeam “England (W)”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ESP”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,38\,28\,23\,24\,18\,38\,26\,53\,35\,32\,-11\,-11\,7\,20\,28\,42\,10\,48\,3\,-16\,-64\,-34\,\n-152\,-66\,-150\,-157\,-183\,-183\,-156\,-160\,-160\,-45\,-298\,-290\,-522\,-522\,-833\,-955\,\n-29997\,-29998]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Be3 {\nA rare alternative to} ({the main stream} 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8. c4 Nb4 9.\nBe2 O-O 10. Nc3 Bf5 11. a3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Nc6 13. Re1 Re8 14. cxd5 Qxd5 15. Bf4\nRac8 16. h3 {is the MML in 2021 it would appear.}) 6… c6 $146 {This is only\ngame in the history of recorded chess in which c6 was played in this position!}\n(6… Bd6 {is more active.}) 7. Nbd2 Bd6 8. Bd3 f5 9. Ne5 {Spot the threat!}\nO-O {[#]} 10. f3 $2 {This is really rather amusing. White plays Ne5 to\nthreaten Qh5+ and then blunders with f3 allowing Black to do the same!} f4 {\nSecond best and objectively good of course.} ({Winning is the brutal and\nunsubtle} 10… Qh4+ 11. g3 Nxg3 $1 12. Bf2 f4 13. Rg1 Qxh2 14. Nf1 Nxf1 15.\nBxf1 Bf5 $19) 11. Nxe4 (11. Bf2 Nxf2 12. Kxf2 Nd7 $19) 11… Bxe5 (11… dxe4\n12. fxe4 fxe3 13. Nf3 Bg4 $19) 12. dxe5 fxe3 13. Nd6 Qh4+ 14. g3 Qb4+ 15. Ke2 {\n[#]} Bh3 (15… Bg4 $3 16. fxg4 Rf2+ 17. Kxe3 Qc5# {is quite pretty and an\nunusual mating pattern}) 16. Rg1 $2 (16. c3 Qxb2+ 17. Qc2 Qxc2+ 18. Bxc2 Nd7\n$17) 16… Rxf3 17. Bxh7+ Kh8 (17… Kxh7 18. Kxf3 Bg4+ 19. Kxe3 Bxd1 20. Raxd1\n) 18. Bg6 Bg4 19. Qe1 Rf4+ {and White resigned} 20. Kxe3 (20. Kd3 Qd4#) 20…\nQd4# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Robert Hale 1970 & 1976)\, edited by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Woman Master (1957) and British Woman Champion in 1939\, 1946\, 1956 and 1965. \nRowena Bruce and Elaine Saunders at Nottingham 1946 where they tied for 1st place. Elaine won the play-off with 2.5/3. Courtesy of Keverel Chess. \nElaine Pritchard was\, as a child\, one of the few girl prodigies in the history of the game. She was taught the moves by her father when she was 5.5 and started to play in tournaments at the age of 7. When she was 10 years old\, she won an under-21 girls’ tournament sponsored by FIDE and at the age of 13 won the British Ladies Championship for the first time. \nShe is married to David Pritchard\, ex-Southern Counties Champion and Malayan Champion in 1955\, when she was stationed with the RAF in Singapore\, who tells of how when he first met her\, when she was about 7\, she was unable to reach the far side of the board. \nHer successes in more recent years include 2nd in the Western European Women’s Zonal Tournament of 1957 and 6th in the same event at Arenys de Mar in 1966; 3rd at Havering 1967 and 3rd at Paignton 1967. She played for the British Chess Federation team in the First Women’s Chess Olympiad at Emmen in 1957.” \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess\, Edited by Harry Golombek : \n“International Woman master and British Woman champion 1939\, 1946\, 1956 and 1965\, she was a girl prodigy with perhaps the most natural talent for the game of any British-born woman. She was playing competitive chess at the age of seven and was only ten when she won the FIDE Girls Open chess championship (under-21) in London in 1936\, winning eleven out of twelve games played. \nBritish Girl Champion (under-18) 1936-8 she won the British Women’s Championship in 1939 at the age of thirteen. Winning the title on three more occasions she hardly ever had a bad result in the event but\, by profession a teacher\, she did not always have the time to devote to the game. \nHer best international results were 2nd in the Western European Zonal Women’s tournament in 1957 (the year she gained the Woman master title)\, and two 3rd places in Paignton and Havering 1967. She represented the B.C.F. in Women’s Olympiads at Emmen 1957\, Skopje 1972\, Medellin in 1974 and Haifa 1976. (H.G.)” \nElaine did not merit mention by Hooper & Whyld it would appear. \nThe following obituary by James Pratt appeared in the February 2012 issue of British Chess Magazine : \n“Via Godalming Chess Club we learn of the death of International Woman Master\, Elaine Pritchard (née Dorée Elaine Zelia Saunders ) (7 i 1926 Brentford – 7 i 2012 Gloucester). British Lady Champion in 1939\, 1946\, 1956 and 1965\, she became an IWM in 1957. A child prodigy\, she won the World Girls Under 21s at the age of ten and first captured the British Ladies title at the outbreak of WWII. Mrs Pritchard wrote two books\, Chess for Pleasure and The Young Chess Player. She was an occasional BCM contributor. Her last published grade was in 2003. She was an Honorary Life Member of the ECF.” \nand here courtesy of Edward Winter is an excellent article on chess prodigies including many scanned photographs of Elaine. \nand here is an obituary for the ECF written by Stewart Reuben \nand here is her Wikipedia entry \nand some more photographs. \nand finally a discussion of Elaine on the English Chess Forum.
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SUMMARY:Birthday for GM Luke James McShane (07-i-1984)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to GM Luke James McShane on his birthday\, this day (January 7th) in 1984. \nHere is Luke’s Wikipedia entry \n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings 9798”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1997.12.31”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Black “Plaskett\, H James”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B44”]\n[WhiteElo “2455”]\n[BlackElo “2450”]\n[Annotator “McShane\,L”]\n[PlyCount “45”]\n[EventDate “1997.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “13”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 063”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.03.26”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.03.26”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,45\,26\,28\,41\,41\,43\,23\,44\,24\,40\,7\,25\,32\,20\,5\,5\,-1\,-35\,-20\,20\,20\,0\,-13\,6\,\n30\,1\,-17\,129\,129\,133\,134\,133\,136\,136\,137\,150\,153\,153\,161\,172\,172\,179\,183\,188\,\n177\,189\,185]} 1. e4 {Rodriguez\,Am} c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nb5\nd6 6. Bf4 e5 7. Be3 Be6 {Rodriguez: A flexible move order in a position where\nonly other three continuations are quite playable.} (7… Be7 {Rodriguez\,Am}) (\n7… a6 {Rodriguez\,Am} 8. N5c3 Nf6 {is probably the most reliable now since:}\n9. Bc4 Be6 10. Nd5 Nxe4 $3 {seems to work well for equality.}) (7… Nf6 {\nRodriguez\,Am} 8. Bg5 Be6 {has been the main line for years but:} 9. Bxf6 gxf6\n10. Nd2 $1 {looks promising for White these days.}) 8. Nd2 Nf6 (8… a6 {\nRodriguez\,Am} 9. Nc3 Nf6 10. Nc4 {is an important line too} b5 (10… Rb8 $5\n11. Bb6 Qd7 12. Qd2 Nb4 $1 $11 {Amador Rodríguez-Zapata\, Mexico 1993}) 11. Nb6\nRb8 12. Nbd5 Be7 {used to work well for Black until my strong novelty 13.a4!.\nSee CBM 59 or inf 69/(163) for my game against Gilberto Hernández}) 9. Bg5 d5\n$6 (9… a6 {Rodriguez\,Am} 10. Bxf6 $1 gxf6 11. Nc3 {is much more playable\nwith many options\, just one of them:} d5 12. exd5 Bxd5 {works better than in\nthe current game\, for instance:} 13. Bc4 (13. Nxd5 Qxd5 14. Nc4 Nd4 $6 (14…\nQxd1+ $14) 15. c3 Rd8 16. Ne3 Qa5 17. Bc4 b5 18. O-O bxc4 19. cxd4 Rxd4 20. Qf3\n$44 {Trepp\,M-Wyttenbach/Bern op 1989}) 13… Bxc4 14. Nxc4 Qxd1+ 15. Rxd1 Bb4\n16. O-O Bxc3 17. bxc3 Ke7 18. Nd6 Rab8 19. Nf5+ Ke6 20. Ng7+ {1/2-1/2\nKengis-Andersson/Haninge 1992}) (9… Be7 10. Bxf6 {Rodriguez\,Am} Bxf6 11. Nc4\nO-O {is also obscure and playable.}) 10. exd5 Bxd5 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Bc4 $1 {\nRodriguez: A strong move I had already discovered many years ago when I\nstarted to investigate this variation.} (12. Nc4 $6 {Rodriguez\,Am} Be6 13. Qf3\n(13. Ncd6+ Bxd6 14. Qxd6 Qxd6 15. Nxd6+ Ke7 16. O-O-O Rhd8 17. Nb5 Nb4 $17 {\nRodin\,M-Milov\,L/Komercni Banka op 1996/EXP 55}) 13… Nb4 14. Ne3 Bc5 15. Na3\nNc6 $15 {Trepp-Kaenel/Switzerland ch 1990}) 12… Rc8 (12… Bxg2 13. Rg1 $36)\n(12… Bxc4 13. Nxc4 Qxd1+ 14. Rxd1 $16) (12… a6 13. Rg1 $36 (13. Bxd5 {\nRodriguez\,Am} axb5 14. Bb3 Nd4 15. O-O Nxb3 16. axb3 Rxa1 17. Qxa1 Be7 18. Qd1\n$14 {Leko\,P-Portisch\,L/ch-HUN1997})) 13. Qg4 $1 {Xc8} (13. Bxd5 {Rodriguez\,Am}\nQxd5 14. Qg4 Qe6 $11) 13… Bxc4 {Rodriguez: A losing move} (13… Nb4 14.\nO-O-O (14. Bxd5 {Rodriguez\,Am} Rxc2 $5 {and even though the position looks\npleasant for White he must now find and active continuation not without risk.\nAs we will see soon\, the game continuation was too easy.} (14… Nxc2+ 15. Ke2\nNxa1 16. Rxa1 Rc5 17. Bc4 $16) 15. Nc3 $6 (15. Ne4 $5 Nxd5 16. Rd1) (15. O-O $5\nQxd5 16. Rac1) 15… Nd3+ $1) (14. O-O h5 15. Qe2 Rg8 16. g3 a6 $13) 14… a6)\n(13… h5 14. Qh3 (14. Qf5 $143 $6 Ne7) 14… Nb4 15. Bxd5 Nxc2+ (15… Rxc2\n16. Qb3)) 14. Nxc4 {Rodriguez: With simply too many threats.} Nd4 $2 15. Ncd6+\nBxd6 16. Nxd6+ Ke7 (16… Qxd6 17. Qxc8+ Ke7 18. Qxb7+ $18 (18. Qxh8 $6 Nxc2+\n19. Ke2 Nd4+ 20. Ke1 $11 (20. Kf1 Qa6+ $19))) 17. Nxc8+ Qxc8 18. Qxc8 Rxc8 19.\nRc1 Rxc2 20. Rxc2 Nxc2+ 21. Kd2 Nd4 22. Rc1 Nc6 23. Rc3 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nLuke James McShane \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Classic 2nd”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “2010.12.08”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “McShane\, Luke J”]\n[Black “Carlsen\, Magnus”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A37”]\n[WhiteElo “2645”]\n[BlackElo “2802”]\n[Annotator “McShane\,L”]\n[PlyCount “77”]\n[EventDate “2010.12.06”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “19”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 140”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.01.18”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.01.18”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,77\,19\,-12\,11\,2\,18\,16\,9\,4\,4\,15\,4\,5\,44\,30\,18\,18\,23\,24\,45\,32\,45\,0\,36\,41\,\n37\,-25\,15\,22\,30\,39\,26\,-3\,22\,33\,28\,67\,9\,33\,35\,11\,71\,73\,65\,65\,80\,77\,65\,65\,94\,100\,\n84\,76\,90\,90\,90\,96\,98\,98\,98\,116\,118\,81\,117\,187\,198\,219\,222\,222\,184\,195\,197\,191\,\n198\,218\,228\,228\,231\,236]} 1. c4 c5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6.\nO-O Nh6 7. d4 $5 {With this interesting idea\, White voluntarily gives up the\nbishop pair in order to increase his lead in development.} (7. b3 {was played\nin Flores-Carlsen at the Khanty Mansiysk-Olympiad in 2010}) 7… cxd4 8. Bxh6\nBxh6 9. Nxd4 Ne5 {[%csl Gc8\,Gg2\,Gh6][%cal Yg2a8] An ambitious decision\,\nrefusing to simplify the position.} 10. Qb3 O-O 11. Rfd1 {[%csl Rd8\,Rh6][%cal\nYc4c5\,Yd4f5\,Yd1d8] The position is calm on the surface\, but the situation is\ntense. Black’s queenside is under pressure\, but if Black can catch up in\ndevelopment then his pair of bishops will give him an advantage\, so it’s\nimportant for White to keep up the momentum and create threats. This move\ncreates the idea of c4-c5\, and if d6xc5 then Nd4-f5 with a discovered attack.}\nNd7 12. Qa3 a5 13. b4 $5 {[%csl Ga3][%cal Ya3a8\,Yc4c5] A brave decision which\ntook some time. I wanted to seize the initiative before my opponent had a\nchance to unravel his queenside. The immediate threat is to advance c4-c5\nwhich would break through the queenside defences.} Ra6 {[%csl Ga6][%cal Ya5b4\,\nYb7a6]} (13… Nb6 {was the critical response\, hitting c4 and protecting the\nrook on a8 so that axb4 becomes possible. Now after} 14. c5 Nc4 15. Qb3 Nd2 $5\n{is a surprising shot. During the game I thought White had good chances in the\ntactical melee which arises after 16.Qd5!?\, but perhaps} 16. Qa4 {is the\ncorrect follow up after all.}) 14. b5 Ra8 {It’s not obvious who has gained\nfrom the pawn’s advance to b5. If White can break through\, the advanced pawn\nwill be an asset\, but if Black can get a grip on c5 then the c4-pawn will be a\nlong term weakness.} 15. e3 a4 16. Rab1 Bg7 17. Ne4 {[%cal Yc4c5] White is\nthreatening c4-c5 again\, which would open the floodgates for the rest of my\npieces. It’s correct to prevent that\, but I had foreseen the nice maneouvre\nwith the other knight.} Qb6 18. Nc6 $1 {[%csl Gc6\,Gd5\,Re7][%cal Yc6e7\,Yc6b4\,\nYb4d5]} Re8 ({Capturing the knight wasn’t a great option:} 18… bxc6 19. bxc6\nQc7 (19… Qxc6 20. Nf6+ {wins the queen.}) 20. cxd7 Bxd7 21. c5 {and White\nwill probably pick up a pawn.}) 19. Nb4 {[%csl Rb6\,Gd5\,Ge4][%cal Yb4d5\,Yc4c5]\nHeading for a nice square on d5.} f5 {Certainly ugly\, but both of us thought\nthis was a necessary evil. Perhaps though\, moving the queen away was the best\nbet.} 20. Nc3 $6 (20. Nd5 $1 Qd8 21. Ng5 $1 {was the strongest continuation\,\nthreatening to hop into the hole on e6. After} Nc5 22. b6 {threatens a fork on\nc7. If both the rooks flee then} Rf8 23. Nc7 Rb8 24. Rb5 $1 {is incisive\, and\nBlack has no good answer to Rxc5.}) 20… Qc5 $2 (20… e6 $1 {was the best\ndefence. I was looking at some ideas with} 21. Na6 $5 {but the position\nremains messy. Retreating the knight to d3 should preserve an edge though.})\n21. Nxa4 Qa7 22. Na6 $3 {[%csl Ga6\,Ra7\,Gg2][%cal Yg2a8\,Yb5b6\,Ya6c7] Certainly\nMagnus missed the force of this knight sacrifice. The threat is Na6-c7 and\ntaking the knight comes with its own problems.} bxa6 (22… Rf8 23. c5 $1 Nxc5\n24. N4xc5 dxc5 25. Qxc5 {and the knight still can’t be taken:} bxa6 26. b6 Qb8\n27. Qd5+ $18) 23. b6 Nxb6 24. Rxb6 $1 (24. Nxb6 Rb8 {is less convincing.})\n24… Rb8 25. c5 $1 Be6 {Black faced an unappealing choice.} ({The alternative\nwas} 25… dxc5 26. Qxc5 Rxb6 27. Nxb6 Be6 28. Qc6 Bf7 29. Bd5 {and Black is\nin huge trouble.} e6 $2 {allows a pretty finish:} 30. Nc8 Qb8 31. Bxe6 $1 Rxe6\n32. Rd8+ Bf8 33. Ne7+ $1 Kg7 34. Rxb8 Rxc6 35. Nxc6 {with an easy win.}) 26.\nRdb1 dxc5 27. Rb7 Rxb7 28. Rxb7 Qa8 29. Nxc5 Qc8 (29… Bf7 30. Rxe7 $1 {\nis winning comfortably\, as a6 will also drop off after the exchange of rooks.}\nQb8 31. Rxe8+ Qxe8 32. Qxa6 {etc.}) 30. Qxa6 Bf7 (30… Qxc5 31. Qxe6+ Kh8 32.\nBc6 {[%csl Re7] wins the e7-pawn as well.}) 31. Bc6 Rd8 32. Nd7 $1 {[%csl Gd7]\n[%cal Yb7c7\,Ya6b6\,Yb7b8] The neatest way to finish. The threat is simply to\nplay Qb6 followed by Rc7 or Rb8 to trap the queen\, and there is no good\nresponse.} Rxd7 (32… Be6 33. Qb6 Rxd7 34. Rb8 $1 {wins with a pin.}) 33. Bxd7\nQc1+ 34. Qf1 Qxf1+ 35. Kxf1 Bc4+ 36. Kg1 Bxa2 37. Ba4 $1 {[%cal Ya4b3] Forcing\noff a pair of bishops makes the technical task much simpler.} e5 38. f3 $1 {\nA final accurate move. After exchanging bishops\, White will play e3-e4 to fix\na weakness on e5 before advancing the king.} Bh6 39. Bb3+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nLuke James McShane
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM George Botterill (08-i-1949)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to IM George Steven Botterill born on this day (January 8th) in 1949. \nHere is his Wikipedia page \nBrian Reilly\, Ray Keene\, George Botterill\, Anatoly Karpov\, Harry Golombek and Viktor Korchnoi \nand here is his academic page \nCapa vs Corzo Rerun ? Nigel Short had 1977 British Champion George Botterill on the ropes at The National Bank of Dubai Open. In the photo Nigel is considering 42 Rh5 The champ just escaped with a draw. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Bath zt”]\n[Site “Bath”]\n[Date “1987.02.15”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Botterill\, George Steven”]\n[Black “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E49”]\n[WhiteElo “2370”]\n[BlackElo “2595”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1987.02.14”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “7”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 004”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1988.06.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1988.06.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,4\,33\,-47\,-26\,-31\,-25\,-25\,-25\,-25\,-18\,-14\,-21\,-11\,\n-13\,-26\,-12\,-26\,-22\,-27\,-29\,-29\,-7\,-40\,-38\,-66\,-42\,-31\,-1\,-32\,16\,9\,42\,37\,76\,93\,\n73\,50\,48\,32\,50\,15\,16\,19\,36\,17\,35\,27\,39\,21\,36\,28\,-8\,18\,63\,35\,35\,17\,62\,77\,43\,\n-103\,91\,54\,295\,356\,352\,376\,361\,358\,353\,324\,352\,365\,870\,969\,1250]} 1. d4 Nf6 2.\nc4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 O-O 7. cxd5 exd5 8. e3 b6 9. Bd3\nc5 10. Ne2 Re8 11. O-O Ba6 12. Bxa6 Nxa6 13. Qd3 Nb8 14. Ng3 Nc6 15. Ra2 Rc8\n16. Re2 h6 17. Bb2 Ne7 18. e4 Ng6 19. Qd2 dxe4 20. fxe4 Nh7 21. Nf5 Nh4 22. Qf4\nNxf5 23. Qxf5 Rc7 24. d5 c4 25. Bc1 Qd7 26. Qf3 Rc5 27. Qh5 f6 28. h4 Re5 29.\nQf3 Nf8 30. Be3 Ra5 31. Bd4 Re8 32. Qg3 Kh7 33. Bxf6 Rxd5 34. Bd4 Ng6 35. exd5\nRxe2 36. h5 Nh8 37. Rf8 Re7 38. Qb8 Nf7 39. Rg8 Re1+ 40. Kh2 Re5 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIM George Steven Botterill (08-I-1949) \nThe Modern Defence\, BT Batsford\, 1972\, GS Botterill and RD Keene \nThe Pirc Defence\, BT Batsford\, 1973\, GS Botterill and RD Keene \nBritish Chess\, Pergamon Press\, 1983. Editors : GS Botterill\, DNL Levy\, JM Rice and MJ Richardson
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of William Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994)
DESCRIPTION:We remember William Ritson Morry who passed away on Saturday\, January 8th\, 1994. \n(A point of detail : It is incorrect\, but many do\, to write WRM hyphenated. His first name was William\, his middle name was Ritson and his surname was Morry. He chose to use his middle name and was known by his friends as Ritson. Maybe this was because he father was also William Morry?) \nWRM was born in the Wirral on Monday\, September 5th 1910 and his parents were William D Morry (born 16th July 1877). William was a sub-postmaster and seller of fancy goods. His mother was Norah Morry who undertook “unpaid domestic duties”. \nIn the 1939 register he is recorded as being a solicitor with his own practice and was living at 294 Walmley Road\, Royal Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire with his parents : he was 29 years old. \n294 Walmley Road\, Royal Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire\, B76\, 2PL \nIn 1940 WRM married Nellie Cooper in Sutton Coldfield. \nIn 1943 WRM was mentioned in the London Gazette several times: \nWRM appears in the London Gazette in 1943. \nIt would appear that this was the start of his first bankruptcy proceedings.. \nWRM was\, by now\, living at “Lyndon”\, Coleshill Road\, Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire : \nLyndon\, Coleshill Road\, Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire \nand in the same year on September 30th he was officially made bankrupt as recorded in the London Gazette\, order number 195. This notice was repeated in the Edinburgh Gazette of the same year. \nOn the 8th of June 1944 he was recorded as being struck-off the list of solicitors under the Solicitors Acts of 1932 to 1941. It was determined that WRM had engaged in “fraudulent conversion of clients money” \nBirmingham Daily Post 30 October 1945 \nFor more on this see the excellent Chess in the Courts by Edward Winter. \nIn 1954 WRM sued BH Wood for libel over a letter BHW sent to Henry Golding of the Monmouthshire County Chess Association warning him of WRMs financial history. Here is a summary of the action : \nThe Birmingham Post\, July 15th\, 1954 \nIn 1983 WRM was living at Flat 2\, 53\, Mayfield Road\, Moseley\, Birmingham\, West Midlands and recorded as a Retired Chess Journalist. Elsewhere he was recorded as a freelance chess and cricket journalist. \n57\, Mayfield Road\, Moseley\, Birmingham\, B13 9HT \nand\, unfortunately\, in this year he made another appearance in the London Gazette (2nd September 1983) having been made bankrupt. \nLondon Gazette\, 2nd September 1983 \nHowever\, despite these unfortunate life events WRMs contribution to chess goes above and beyond them as he won the BCF President’s Award in 1984. \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXIV (114\, 1994)\, Number 2 (February)\, pp. 98 – 99 we have this obituary from Bernard Cafferty: \nW Ritson Morry – a Tribute \nThat great chess character\, known to everybody simply as Ritson\, has left us in the fullness of years\, coincidentally during the first Hastings Congress he missed for decades. \nWilliam Ritson Morry (5 ix 1910-8 i 1994) was a player\, organiser\, writer\, arbiter and occasional sponsor of tournaments whose life touched so many aspects of chess that it is hard to know where to begin. \nWilliam Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994) \nRitson was educated in North Wales at the same school as BH Wood. Both were at Birmingham University at the same time\, after which Ritson trained as a solicitor. As early as 1930 he founded the Birmingham Junior League\, and a little later wrote a chess column for a time for a local newspaper\, though Ritson is hardly the first person you think of as someone who would hit deadlines consistently. He was equal second in a rather unrepresentative British Championship of 1936 and equal third in 1951. An unfortunate incident in the mid-1940s led to him being struck off\, whereupon he became a chess professional\, who eked out a precarious living for the last 48 years of his life. Yet\, I never heard him complain\, for he was able to immerse himself in chess full time\, and what could be better than that? \nWilliam Ritson Morry playing Baruch Harold Wood at the British Championships in Blackpool from 1956 \nHe ran a series of newsletters\, which hardly covered their expenses and produced and British Championship and Hastings bulletins for many years. 1951 was a significant year in his life\, for he gained the FIDE Arbiter title (he was always an expert on the rules and many of the conventions we all play to were codified by him\, or under his guidance). Later on Ritson\, a great raconteur\, was the life and soul of the show in Hastings which\, along with the Warwickshire chess team and Erdington CC\, was the great love of his life. \nAberystwyth Chess Congress 1955\, W Ritson Morry and KL Gardiner\, En Passant Chess Publications\, 1955 \nAt times he seemed to run Hastings almost single-handed in the Frank Rhoden era. In fact GM Vasyukov went back to Moscow in 1966 and wrote that Ritson Morry was the only controller to be seen in the morning\, afternoon and evening sessions of play. I recall that Ritson was amused when I told him of this\, but did not demur. To show that there was life in the old dog\, he organised a series of Birmingham international tournaments in the 1970s at which Tony Miles got much of his early experience. \nTackle Chess by William Ritson-Morry & W Melville Mitchell \nOne such tournament was financed by him alone\, on the basis of the sale of a piece of land in Sutton Coldfield where a change of planning status had led to a windfall profit. \n  \nHastings Chess Congress 1955-56\, RG Wade & W. Ritson Morry\, En Passant Chess Publications \nHe also saved Hastings in late 1974\,by giving a partial guarantee when another sponsor reduced his contribution. A few years later the Inland Revenue made him bankrupt when they could not get their piece of the action out of the deal. Doubtless Ritson thought that the money had gone to a worthier cause. I must not fail to mention his love of gambling or his erudition. Many is the time when you could have an exposition from him of the law of England\, the practice of the courts and the police\, or the political news of the day. \nWilliam Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994) \nHe was deeply immersed in local Labour Party politics in Birmingham and was a friend of football referee\, ‘rainmaker’ Dennis Howell\, one-time Minister for Sport. Ritson also played a great deal of postal chess\, winning the British title in 1943. His book on the game written in conjunction with a Birmingham schoolmaster Mel Mitchell is a very instructive one\, and he also wrote many reports and amusing articles for BCM\, particularly one on of the failings of the Elo rating system regulations. \nHere is a game Ritson won against the veteran German GM at the London Easter congress of 1940: \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Easter Congress”]\n[Site “London ENG”]\n[Date “1940.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Ritson Morry\, William”]\n[Black “Mieses\, Jacques”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C30”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “49”]\n[EventDate “1940.??.??”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 1994\, February\, page”] \n{[%evp 0\,49\,19\,31\,54\,61\,92\,2\,68\,27\,30\,1\,23\,15\,15\,-14\,25\,-14\,29\,4\,57\,69\,82\,94\,\n87\,77\,77\,85\,102\,81\,76\,100\,181\,152\,202\,204\,208\,194\,185\,210\,224\,99\,80\,75\,75\,73\,\n74\,255\,97\,710\,1413\,1495]} 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nc6 {A bit of a Mieses speciality…}\n3. f4 {Not an everyday position! In fact\, this game in 1940 was the first time\nthis position has been recorded.} (3. Nf3) 3… e5 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Bb5 {14 games\nhave reached this position in MegaBase 2020.} Bxf3 6. Qxf3 exd4 7. O-O Nge7 8.\nf5 {[#]} f6 $6 $146 (8… Qd7 9. c3 dxc3 10. Nxc3) (8… a6) 9. c3 $1 dxc3 10.\nNxc3 $18 Qd7 11. Qh5+ Kd8 12. Be3 Qe8 {Black is in serious trouble.} 13. Qe2 a6\n14. Ba4 Kc8 15. Rac1 g5 16. Nd5 Nxd5 17. exd5 Nd4 18. Qd3 Qxa4 19. Bxd4 Be7 20.\nRc4 Qa5 21. Rfc1 Bd8 22. Qc2 Kb8 23. Bf2 $1 Ra7 24. b4 Qxd5 $2 (24… Qa3 25.\nRxc7 Qxc1+ 26. Qxc1 Bxc7 27. Bxa7+ Kxa7 28. Qxc7) 25. Rxc7 {and Black resigned}\n1-0\n[/pgn] \nBernard wrote about WRM a year later for the centenary edition of the programme for the Hastings International Congress : \n“‘Ritson’ as we all knew him was an institution in British Chess\, active as a player\, writer\,  organiser\, drafter of rules and well-known for his skill as a raconteur\, Educated in North Wales\, he spent the rest of his life\, from university days onwards\, in Birmingham\, but the Hastings Congress was very close to his heart.  He played in a number of pre-war events\, and also a few post-war\, but by the time of the Frank Rhoden revival of the mid-1950s he was firmly in the saddle organising the post-Christmas traditional event. In fact I recall how perturbed Frank Rhoden was when the news came that Ritson might emigrate to the West Indies.  It was not clear then how he could be replaced\, for he supervised the morning\, afternoon and evening sessions at the Sun Lounge (his favourite venue) and later at the Falaise Hall when the congress was still of such a size that we could all\, including the Premier\, be fitted into one room. \nWilliam Ritson Morry \nRitson also did game commentaries for some years and produced a bulletin for at least three decades. He was greatly encouraging of younger talent and the objective historian has to recall the indignation he felt when players like Tony Miles and Nigel Short were not happy with the restraints imposed by financial stringency. \nHastings bench memorial bench for William Ritson Morry \nIn his declining years Ritson was still a regular until his illness of late 1993\, and a fixture at the “gate” where the public paid their entrance money at the Cinque Ports Hotel. The choice of word is deliberate as a visit to the dogs and the bookmaker was one of his rare pleasures outside chess.  Best of all\, however\, one recalls him telling his fund of stories and reminisces to anyone who cared to listen. His voice\, alas\, has been stilled\, and we are left to recall his selfless devotion to chess and\, in particular\, to the Hastings Congress. \nHere is an obituary from the Midland Counties Chess Union \nHere is an in-depth article from William Hartston in The Independent \nWilliam Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994) \nHere is a biography from the Midland Counties  Chess Union newsletter from 1994. \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nMidlands organiser and player who was a chess professional and journalist. As a player his best performances were an =2nd in the British Championship 1936 and an = 3rd in 1951. \nIn the international field his best results have been an =3rd with List in the Major Open A section of the Nottingham congress of 1936 and =1st with Milner-Barry in the Premier Reserves A at the Hastings congress 1946/7. He has played for England in international matches against the Netherlands (thrice) and against Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. \nWilliam Ritson Morry talking about Malik Mir Sultan Kahn \nA keen and accomplished correspondence player\, he had the title of British Postal Master on account of his winning the British Correspondence Championship in 1943. \nBut it is as tournament and congress organiser that he is best known. He founded the Birmingham Junior League in 1930 and has organised thirty-four Birmingham congresses. He conceived the idea of a junior world championship and in 1951 he held the first World Junior Championship tournament at Birmingham (won by Borislav Ivkov). In the same year he was awarded the title of FIDE judge. He has also had much to do with the organisation of the Hastings Christmas chess congresses in the 1970s. \nWilliam Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994) \nHe has written much for British chess magazines and was the co-author along with the late W. R. Mitchell  of Tackle Chess\, London\, 1967.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Keith Arkell (08-i-1961)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to GM Keith Arkell\, born this day (January 8th) in 1961. \nKeith Arkell \nHere is Keith’s Wikipedia entry \nGM Keith Arkell (ENG) \nThis was written about Keith aged 18 prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n“Rednal\, Birmingham. Rating 188. 2nd Lloyds Bank junior international\, 1979.” \nKeith was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 2014-15 season sharing with Jonathan Hawkins \nHere is an interview with ChessBase from 2016. \nGM Keith Arkell \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PIzZG4FlZ8[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 1415 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “England”]\n[Date “2015.02.14”]\n[Round “5.164”]\n[White “Rogers\, Jonathan”]\n[Black “Arkell\, Keith C”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[WhiteElo “2277”]\n[BlackElo “2497”]\n[Annotator “Saunders\,J/Arkell”]\n[PlyCount “82”]\n[EventDate “2014.11.15”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2016”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2015.10.08”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Barbican II”]\n[BlackTeam “Cheddleton”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,82\,19\,38\,72\,69\,71\,77\,64\,2\,30\,17\,14\,9\,29\,24\,35\,-30\,-50\,-74\,-74\,-75\,-88\,\n-128\,-3\,-16\,-56\,-32\,-43\,-43\,10\,5\,20\,16\,16\,-4\,5\,-3\,-68\,-61\,-45\,-40\,-37\,-1273\,68\,\n-201\,-202\,-210\,-197\,-207\,-208\,-228\,-194\,-183\,-149\,-150\,-148\,-143\,-143\,-141\,138\,\n141\,141\,150\,138\,140\,138\,173\,201\,198\,198\,210\,213\,236\,232\,190\,225\,138\,142\,100\,\n114\,95\,114\,95\,92]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c4 e6 5. Nf3 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bb4+\n$5 ({Databases are peppered with games where Keith has played} 6… Nc6 {\nbut perhaps he wanted to keep his opponent guessing.}) 7. Nc3 Ne7 8. h4 Nbc6 9.\na3 $5 {Jonathan\, perhaps with the far-sighted plan of not being strangled\nslowly in a rook and pawn endgame\, wants to provoke something sharp.} Bxc3+ 10.\nbxc3 Nxe5 11. Bf4 N5g6 (11… Nxc4 12. Bxc4 dxc4 {is tempting but maybe} 13.\nNb5 O-O 14. Qxd8 Rxd8 15. Nc7 Nd5 16. O-O-O $5 {gives White a bit of\ncompensation. Instead\, Black gives back material to get some pressure on the\ne-file.}) 12. Bg3 e5 13. h5 exd4 14. hxg6 Nxg6 15. Qxd4 O-O 16. cxd5 Re8+ 17.\nBe2 Ne7 18. Rd1 Nf5 19. Qd3 {[diag]} Qg5 (19… Qg5 {We haven’t quite got\nthere yet\, but we’re coming up to a spectacular mutual oversight which needs\nexplaining. Seeking enlightenment (and also wanting to be sure that the moves\nwere correctly recorded – mix-ups do happen)\, I got in touch with Keith on\nFaceBook to ask what happened. Keith responded at some length\, centring on his\nthoughts as he planned the move 19…Qg5. What followed are his own words\,\nlightly edited by me: “It’s impossible to fully explain how such a thing can\nhappen\, but let me try anyway. So\, I’m sitting there analysing the move I want\nto play in principle – which at the time was 19…Qd8-g5. I know that my\nadvantage increases if I can make the move\, but obviously I am concerned about\nhis possible reply} 20. Qb5 {So I analyse} Re4 {(other moves didn’t look very\ngood to me)} 21. d6 {- the only move that could give me any problem\, as it\nthreatens to win a piece. Visualising the position\, I then hoped that} Be6 {\nwould be strong\, as it threatened the winning 22…Bc4. Of course\, the main\npotential drawback to this is that he can then fork my rooks with} 22. Qxb7 {\nI would then need} Rxe2+ {to work or I would be lost! So – and don’t forget\,\nall this is before playing 19…Qg5 – I set about analysing 22…Rxe2+ as I\n(wrongly!) believed that 19…Qg5 hinged on this. So\, 22…Rxe2+} 23. Kxe2 Bc4+\n24. Kf3 {(obviously forced) and then\, I thought\, ”please let 24…Re8 be a\nwinning move”! It certainly looked winning. It was obvious he had to either\nput a rook on e1 or his bishop on e5 to stop …Be2 mate. I didn’t look beyond}\nRe8 {[diag]} 25. Rde1 ({I saw a pretty mate against} 25. Rhe1 {which was} Qh5+\n26. Kf4 g5+ {(my favourite move!)} 27. Kxf5 Qg6+ 28. Kg4 f5+ 29. Kh3 Qh5+ 30.\nBh4 Qxh4#) ({so that just left the irritating} 25. Be5 {to deal with. Find a\ngood move there and I could play 19…Qg5. I decided that 25…h5 must be\nwinning and anyway certainly left him in trouble.}) 25… Bd5+ 26. Qxd5 Nh4+ {\nSo I analysed no more and plunged in with 19…Qg5. He quickly replied 20 Qb5\nand\, after briefly running through all those nice lines again\, I confidently\nplayed 20…Re4. He continued following my analysis\, with 21 d6?? and I had 21.\n..Be6?? ready for him. So there you have it. The explanation is that we were\nplaying out a variation I had analysed way ahead\, and I didn’t stop properly\nto check if there might be something else going on!”}) 20. Qb5 Re4 21. d6 $4 (\n21. O-O Nxg3 22. fxg3 Re5 $5 {seems to be broadly equal.}) 21… Be6 $4 ({\nWhat Keith had missed in his move 19 analysis\, and what Jonathan also missed\nwhen playing 21.d6\, was the bone-crushing} 21… Nxg3 $3 {\, which is game over\nas} 22. Qxg5 {allows} Rxe2# {mate\, while a capture on g3 loses the queen to 22.\n..Qxb5 as the e2 bishop is pinned.}) 22. Qd3 $4 (22. O-O $1 Rd8 23. Bd3 {\nand White is well in the game.}) 22… Nxg3 {This time Black doesn’t fluff his\nlines.} 23. fxg3 Qe5 $1 24. Rh4 (24. d7 Rd8 {makes no material difference\,\nwhile a king move such as}) (24. Kf1 {loses to} Bc4 {.}) 24… Bg4 25. Qxe4 $1\n({A much better bet than} 25. Rxg4 Rxg4 {\, which looks pretty hopeless for\nWhite.}) 25… Qxe4 26. Rxg4 Qe5 $6 ({There seems to be no reason not to\nsnatch a pawn with} 26… Qxg2 27. d7 Rd8 {\, with very reasonable winning\nchances.}) 27. d7 Qxc3+ $2 ({After this\, Black’s winning chances evaporate.}\n27… Rd8 {keeps the Black flag flying\, though it’s by no means obvious how he\ncan go about winning.}) 28. Kf1 Rd8 29. Re4 $1 {White’s firm control of the\ne-file is his salvation.} Qc6 ({Possibly another oversight\, but it turns out\nto be non-critical as the following tactical sequence doesn’t leave Black too\nmuch to do to save the game. After} 29… Kf8 30. Bb5 Qf6+ 31. Ke1 g6 32. Re8+\nKg7 33. Rxd8 Qxd8 34. Rc1 {\, the game peters out to a draw.}) 30. Re8+ Rxe8 31.\nd8=Q g6 32. Qd5 Qc3 33. Bc4 Qf6+ 34. Kg1 Re7 35. Rf1 Qb6+ 36. Kh1 Qc7 {The\nzenith of White’s game – Houdini scores it at +2.13 – but it is hard to see\nhow White can bring any more pressure to bear on Black’s position or make\nmeaningful progress. Maybe Magnus Carlsen would have found a way.} 37. Qd4 a6\n38. Rd1 b5 39. Bf1 Re8 40. Kh2 Qc2 41. Qd3 Qc5 1/2-1/2 \n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJgiN5MgOns[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “Crawley e2e4 Gatwick op 10”]\n[Site “Crawley”]\n[Date “2016.10.26”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Arkell\, Keith C”]\n[Black “Wadsworth\, Matthew J”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D23”]\n[WhiteElo “2450”]\n[BlackElo “2290”]\n[Annotator “Keith Arkell”]\n[PlyCount “159”]\n[EventDate “2016.10.26”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “Arkell’s Endings : Game 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,159\,19\,29\,23\,-4\,25\,20\,30\,-2\,20\,22\,9\,-6\,15\,-19\,-25\,-6\,-8\,-13\,6\,-4\,-3\,\n-3\,6\,-21\,-8\,-11\,22\,0\,7\,1\,14\,1\,3\,11\,8\,0\,5\,5\,29\,50\,52\,22\,21\,24\,45\,27\,63\,69\,55\,70\,\n72\,80\,74\,14\,33\,25\,26\,42\,34\,44\,48\,48\,68\,63\,89\,99\,98\,92\,126\,116\,115\,116\,116\,122\,\n128\,113\,128\,129\,132\,133\,135\,151\,158\,147\,151\,136\,137\,132\,142\,134\,152\,152\,156\,\n152\,162\,164\,163\,152\,152\,152\,163\,153\,153\,161\,157\,136\,153\,153\,153\,161\,157\,157\,\n162\,157\,157\,157\,157\,157\,158\,134\,158\,134\,208\,189\,189\,189\,189\,141\,189\,165\,182\,\n160\,177\,156\,202\,184\,193\,202\,210\,195\,208\,221\,276\,293\,377\,373\,545\,373\,639\,373\,\n373\,367\,365\,381\,371\,480\,537\,732\,1259\,28004]} {Taken from Arkell’s Endings\,\nGame 14\, pp 68-71} 1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Qc2 dxc4 5. Qxc4 Bg4 6. Nbd2\nNbd7 7. g3 e6 8. Bg2 Be7 9. O-O Bh5 10. a4 $1 $146 (10. b3) 10… a5 11. Qb3\nQb6 12. Qxb6 Nxb6 13. b3 Nfd5 14. Bb2 O-O 15. Nc4 Nxc4 {This capture gave me\nsome encouragement as my pawn will gain in stature\, and I will have long-term\nprospects on the b-file.} 16. bxc4 Nb4 17. Rfd1 Rfd8 18. c5 Bf6 19. e3 b6 {\nAgainst a waiting move I planned Rab1 and Ba3} 20. cxb6 Rab8 21. Rac1 Rxb6 22.\nRd2 Bg6 23. Bc3 Be4 {[#]} {I think this was an oversight and he had missed my\n25th move.} 24. Ne5 Bxg2 25. Nc4 Ra6 26. Kxg2 {Now I have the kind of position\nI like: no weaknesses and a guarantee of permanent pressure against his\nqueenside pawns.} Rda8 27. Nxa5 {It was hard to resist playing in this\nstraightforward manner. It will now be a very tough task for Wadsworth to hang\non to his backward c-pawn.} (27. Rb1 {runs into} c5) ({and} 27. Rb2 {allows}\nNd3) 27… Nd5 28. Nb7 Rxa4 29. Rdc2 Ra2 30. Be1 g6 31. Kf3 {[%csl Gc6] With\ne3 defended I’m now threatening to capture his pawn.} Rxc2 32. Rxc2 Ne7 33.\nBb4 Ra6 34. Nc5 Ra7 {The c-pawn is lost whatever he does} ({For example} 34…\nRb6 35. Ba5 Rb5 36. Bd8 {with Nd3 or Ne4 to follow}) 35. Ne4 Kg7 {[#]} 36. Bxe7\n{I could have exchanged both minor pieces\, but felt that the subsequent ending\nwould be more favourable if I kept the knight\, which tends to be more\neffective than a bishop at close quarters.} Bxe7 37. Rxc6 h5 38. h3 {[#]} {\nHow do you set about winning such a position? Clearly not with the pieces\nalone\, but using pawns will unavoidably involve exchanges\, and you don’t\nwant too many swaps as rook\, knight and pawn versus rook and bishop is usually\na simple draw. The answer is somewhere in-between. Ideally you would like to\nfix the kingside with g4-g5\, and then organise e3-e4 and d4-d5.} Rb7 39. g4\nhxg4+ 40. hxg4 Ra7 {[#]} {I was pleased to see this and thought he should\nprefer 40…g5\, but I guess he was reluctant to put a pawn on the same colour\nas his bishop. 40…f5 was also interesting\, but I didn’t expect him to\nweaken his pawns in such a cavalier manner.} 41. g5 {Now I have a free hand to\nslowly improve my position because …f6 will always leave Black with too many\nweaknesses. So many times this is what we strive for in chess – leaving the\nopponent without any real counterplay is often half the battle.} Ra5 42. Kf4\nRa7 43. Rb6 Bd8 44. Rb5 Rd7 45. Kg4 Be7 46. Ra5 Bd8 47. Ra8 {[#]} {If you\nstudy the great endgame players such as Magnus Carlsen and Anatoly Karpov\, you\ncannot fail to observe their endless patience. Maintaining the tension rather\nthan committing oneself to immediate action tends to have a wearisome effect\non the opponent\, as well as forcing them to defend accurately to avoid further\ndamage.} Be7 48. Rc8 Rb7 49. Re8 Rc7 50. Rb8 Rd7 51. f4 Rc7 52. Kf3 Ra7 53. Nc5\nRc7 54. Nd3 Ra7 55. Rc8 Bd6 56. Ke4 Rb7 57. Nf2 {From g4 the knight will have\na choice of entry points into the heart of Black’s position.} Be7 58. Ng4 Ra7\n59. Rb8 Bd6 60. Rb5 Be7 61. Ke5 Ra3 {Spooked by my intention to make progress\nwith e3-e4 and d4-d5\, combined with Nf6 and Rb8\, Matthew gives some ground.}\n62. Rb7 Ra5+ 63. Ke4 Kf8 64. Nf6 Ra8 65. Ke5 Rd8 66. Nh7+ Ke8 67. e4 Ra8 68.\nNf6+ Kf8 69. d5 exd5 70. exd5 Rd8 71. Rb6 {[#]} {Threatening to win on the\nspot with 72 d6.} Bc5 72. Rc6 Ba3 73. d6 {Inch by inch I’ve brought about a\nwinning position. The rest is relatively straightforward.} Kg7 74. Kd5 Bb2 75.\nNg4 Ba3 76. Ne5 f6 77. Rc7+ Kg8 78. Nf7 Bxd6 79. Nxd6 fxg5 80. fxg5 1-0\n[/pgn] \nArkell’s Odyssey \nArkell’s Endings\, Keith Arkell\, GingerGM\, 2020\, ISBN-10 : 1527265595 \nBCN has reviewed Arkell’s Endings in depth
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