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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210310
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Mark Lyell (09-iii-1961)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Mark Lyell (09-iii-1961)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-mark-lyell-09-iii-1961/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210313
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Douglas Bryson (12-iii-1957)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Douglas Marshall Bryson (12-iii-1957)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-douglas-marshall-bryson-12-iii-1957/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200313
DTSTAMP:20200823T093911Z
CREATED:20200821T105836Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of Mandy Hepworth (12-iii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes Mandy Hepworth Happy Birthday (12-iii-1968) \nMandy Allison S. Hepworth was born in Scunthorpe\, (now) Humberside (but at the time Lincolnshire)  on Tuesday\, March 12th 1968 to Neville Ian Hepworth and Alice Hepworth (née Ma). Neville was a Computer Manager and Alice Ma was originally from Singapore. The family  moved to “Mulgoa”\, The Fleet\, Fittleworth\, Pulborough\, RH20 1HS\, West Sussex. \n(Thanks to David Mills who updated us on the Lincolnshire / Humberside issue) \nNeville taught Mandy how to play chess. \nShe attended Westergate Comprehensive and Community School where Peter Barton coached both the boys and the girls teams. \nFrom The Bognor and Arun Chess Club Archive we have : \n“One particular junior\, Mandy Hepworth\, came to notice. In the British championships at Brighton in 1980 she came first equal in the girls under-14 competition. Peter Barton also organised some external competitions and from 1981 for a few years he organised young masters’ tournaments at the Westergate School after receiving sponsorship from the Amey Roadstone Corporation. ” \nFrom The Bognor Regis Observer we have : \nWestergate girls were chess queens in 1980 \nThis group of girls had every reason to smile ‘“ they had just pulled off the school chess world’s equivalent of David v Goliath. \nIt was January 1980 and they all attended Westergate Comprehensive and Community School and had just beaten the mighty Dorothy Skinner High School\, in Brighton\, to qualify for the final of the Sussex Girls under-16 chess championships. Pictured from left: Melaine Wright\, 11\, Mandy Hepworth\, 11\, Lesley Glen\, 11\, Deborah Baxter\, 12\, Gail Curryer\, 11\, and Tracey Redding\, 12.\n“It was January 1980 and they all attended Westergate Comprehensive and Community School and had just beaten the mighty Dorothy Skinner High School\, in Brighton\, to qualify for the final of the Sussex Girls under-16 chess championships. \nThe team’s captain\, Mandy Hepworth\, who was just 11-years-old at the time\, was lauded by the school’s chess teacher as “one of the hottest properties in junior chess”. \nHis name was Peter Barton and\, according to the report published in the Observer on January 25 1980\, he had masterminded something of a chess resurgence at Westergate.” \nSome 50 youngsters at the school were playing chess proficiently and 10 of them were girls. \nEven though junior chess was somewhat dominated by boys at the time\, Mr Barton was confident his girls could deal with any challenge thrown at them by anyone – and he had high hopes for Mandy. \nHe told the paper: ‘For a girl she has remarkable ability and we would hope to enter her for the British junior championships later this year. \nIn the past it has always been a boys’ game but\, if you can catch the girls when they are young and keep their enthusiasm\, there is no reason why they cannot go on to become masters.’ \nDoes anyone know if the girls won the final? Did Mandy make it to the British junior championships?” \nMandy Hepworth\nMandy entered her first major competition when she was 11 and beat her father when she was 14. She became the Under-12 British Girls’ Champion (Ed: this is not correct) and the Under-14 Champion in Brighton\, 1980 (shared with Susan Walker)\, the Under-16 Champion in Brighton\, 1984 \nIn 1985 she played in the Eileen Tranmer Memorial in Brighton. All the players resided in the same guest house. The event was organised by Ray Keene. Mandy was 4th with a TPR of 2296. \nIn 1986 she represented England in the Women’s Olympiad (Dubai) and scored an excellent 75% on the Reserve Board. \nIn 1988 she played at the Oakham Young Masters and had a tough time scoring 2.5/9 \nIn October 1988 she travelled to Adelaide\, Australia to play in the World Under-20 Girls’ Championship. \nFollowing that we have no further information. It would appear (perhaps you can help?) that Mandy gave up competitive chess and did not play again. \n1986 Press Release for Mandy Hepworth. Warning : some details are not entirely accurate.\nWe end with this against an experienced opponent : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Eileen Tranmer Memorial-07”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “1985.12.??”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Jackson\, Sheila”]\n[Black “Hepworth\, Mandy”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B90”]\n[WhiteElo “2235”]\n[BlackElo “1960”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “86”]\n[EventDate “1985.12.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2007”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2006.11.23”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2006.11.23”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,86\,30\,32\,53\,51\,86\,86\,63\,26\,26\,37\,65\,44\,89\,54\,38\,40\,41\,46\,20\,25\,31\,31\,\n32\,38\,34\,23\,25\,23\,23\,26\,35\,19\,30\,32\,56\,62\,166\,150\,152\,154\,154\,132\,223\,227\,217\,\n210\,206\,145\,309\,279\,266\,208\,218\,205\,174\,141\,136\,155\,171\,161\,209\,146\,188\,136\,\n177\,-54\,-40\,-165\,-104\,-87\,-177\,-177\,-172\,-172\,-172\,-195\,-260\,-419\,-331\,-377\,\n-486\,-497\,-499\,-1081\,-1121\,-1180\,-1198]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4\nNf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Qc7 7. a4 e5 8. Nf3 h6 9. a5 Be6 10. Nd5 Nxd5 11. exd5 Bf5\n12. c4 Nd7 13. b4 Be7 14. Be2 O-O 15. O-O Bh7 16. Nd2 f5 17. f3 Bf6 18. Rc1 b6\n19. axb6 Nxb6 20. c5 Nd7 21. cxd6 Qb8 22. Rc7 Nb6 23. Rc6 Bd8 24. Bc5 Rf6 25.\nQa1 Bg6 26. Qxe5 a5 27. Bd4 axb4 28. Rb1 Nd7 29. Qf4 Rf8 30. h4 Nf6 31. Bc4 Nh5\n32. Qh2 Be8 33. Ra6 Rxa6 34. Bxa6 f4 35. Ne4 Bb6 36. Bf2 Bxf2+ 37. Nxf2 Qxd6\n38. Bc4 Qc5 39. Bb3 Bg6 40. Rd1 Qc3 41. Ba4 b3 42. Ne4 Bxe4 43. fxe4 Qe3+ 0-1\n[/pgn]
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-mandy-hepworth-12-iii-1968/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210314
DTSTAMP:20210305T155513Z
CREATED:20190823T084712Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jonathan Mestel (13-iii-1957)
DESCRIPTION:GM Jonathan Mestel\nBirthday of GM Jonathan Mestel\, 13-iii-1957
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-jonathan-mestel/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210314
DTSTAMP:20210305T182112Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of IM William Fairhurst CBE (21-viii-1903 13-iii-1982)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of IM William Albert Fairhurst CBE (21-viii-1903 13-iii-1982) \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International chess master\, British Champion in 1937 and Scottish Champion in 1932\, 1933\, 1934\, 1936\, 1937\, 1938\, 1946\, 1947\, 1948\, 1949 and 1962. \nBorn in Alderney Edge in Cheshire on 21st August 1903\, Fairhurst taught himself to play chess from books on the game\, when he was 13\, when he was 18 he won the Cheshire Championship. \nHis first major international success was at Scarborough in 1927\, where he tied for Yates for 2nd prize\, ahead of Bogoljubov\, Sir George Thomas\, Buerger\, among others. \nIn 1931 he went to live to Scotland\, quickly established himself as a leader of Scottish chess and played a major role in agreements between the British Chess Federation and the Scottish Chess Association. In 1932 he gave a blindfold simultaneous display\, winning nine games and drawing three\, in the Polytechnic Club in Glasgow\, and in 1933 he drew match of six games against Eliskases. \nFairhurst has represented Great Britain in matches against Czechoslovakia and the USSR in 1946 and 1947; against the Netherlands in 1937\, 1938\, 1949 and 1952 and against the USSR in 1954. He also played in the Great Britain v. Australia radio match in 1947. He has represented Scotland in six chess Olympiads\, those of 1933\, 1956\, 1958\, 1964\, 1966 and 1968. \nAt Hastings in 1947 he came 5th and went through the tournament without losing a game. \nSenior partner of a leading firm of engineers and designer of the new bridge over the River Tay at Dundee (the longest river crossing in Europe)\, Fairhurst was Chairman of the Scottish Branch of the Institute of Structural Engineers and author of Arch Design Simplified. He was also a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland.” \nArch Design Simplified\nHere are his games \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \n[pgn]\n[Event “NZL-ch”]\n[Site “Upper Hutt”]\n[Date “1976.??.??”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Fairhurst\, William Albert”]\n[Black “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D64”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “1976.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “NZL”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1998”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.11.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1997.11.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,87\,17\,25\,25\,4\,4\,4\,-5\,-10\,23\,23\,23\,24\,39\,33\,40\,12\,16\,24\,16\,19\,38\,36\,46\,\n44\,69\,44\,66\,84\,69\,69\,69\,14\,34\,88\,67\,66\,95\,117\,97\,120\,112\,114\,117\,86\,116\,104\,\n128\,128\,136\,137\,154\,154\,132\,121\,122\,117\,168\,164\,166\,172\,173\,166\,173\,166\,176\,\n185\,185\,185\,190\,190\,190\,194\,188\,207\,194\,191\,197\,196\,221\,221\,221\,155\,158\,164\,\n187\,209\,208\,143]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Nf3 Nbd7\n7. Rc1 c6 8. Qc2 b6 9. Bd3 Bb7 10. cxd5 exd5 11. O-O c5 12. Rfd1 c4 13. Bf5 g6\n14. Bh3 Re8 15. b3 a6 16. bxc4 dxc4 17. Ne5 b5 18. Rb1 Qc7 19. Nxd7 Nxd7 20.\nBxe7 Rxe7 21. a4 bxa4 22. Qxa4 Nf6 23. Rb4 Bc6 24. Qa2 Nd5 25. Rxc4 Nxc3 26.\nRxc3 Qd6 27. Qa3 Qxa3 28. Rxa3 Bd7 29. Bxd7 Rxd7 30. Rda1 Rd6 31. Kf1 Kg7 32.\ng4 g5 33. Ra5 h6 34. Kg2 Rb6 35. Kg3 Ra7 36. h4 Kg6 37. R1a3 Ra8 38. e4 f6 39.\nf4 gxf4+ 40. Kxf4 Ra7 41. g5 fxg5+ 42. hxg5 h5 43. Rf5 Kg7 44. Rf6 1-0\n[/pgn]
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/remembering-im-william-albert-fairhurst-cbe-21-viii-1903-13-iii-1982/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210315
DTSTAMP:20210314T122947Z
CREATED:20190823T084056Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM David Levy (14-iii-1945)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes IM David Levy happy birthday (14-iii-1945) \nSome of the participants in the Paul Keres display on November 25th\, 1962\, at St Pancras Town Hall\, London WC1. Back row : AJ. Whiteley\, D Floyer\, PJ Collins\, PJ Adams\, RC Vaughan\, KB Harman\, D. Parr\, DNL Levy\, Front row : MV Lambshire\, AE Hopkins (selector) Paul Keres\, Miss D. Dobson\, RE Hartley\, BC Gillman\, WR Hartston and PN Lee. Photograph by AM Reilly. Source : BCM\, 1963\, page 13\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHere is his entry from the chessprogramming wiki \nThe PCW Microchess Championship\nFrom chessgames.com : \n“International Master and International Arbiter David Neil Lawrence Levy was born in London\, England. Awarded the IM title in 1969\, he won the Scottish Championship in 1968 and 1975 (=Stephen Swanson). He scored +6=5-7 at the top Olympiad board for Scotland in 1972. He is also a noted chess author and computer expert. \nIn 1968 he started a landmark wager of (initially) £500 with two Artificial Intelligence luminaries that no computer program would win a chess match against him within 10 years. \nHe won his bet in 1978 at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto by beating computer chess program CHESS 4.7 (Computer)\, which ran on a CDC Cyber 176 mainframe computer. These events led to a prize of $5\,000 offered by Omni magazine to the authors of the first chess program to defeat Levy. The prize was not won until 1989\, when IBM accepted the challenge with their chess computer Deep Thought (Computer). \nHistory of Computer Chess: An AI perspective. http://video.google.com/videoplay?d… Wikipedia article: David Levy (chess player)” \nThe PCW Microchess Championship\nHere are his games from chessgames.com \nVideo Chess Event (See caption below)\nA famous letter from David to Raymond Keene. \nVideo Chess Caption\nMichael Stean chats with David Levy at the London Chess Classic\n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1969/70-45 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1970.01.03”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Levy\, David Neil Lawrence”]\n[Black “Littlewood\, John Eric”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C44”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “71”]\n[EventDate “1969.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,71\,31\,34\,25\,18\,10\,8\,8\,-57\,-44\,-43\,50\,58\,117\,58\,66\,81\,126\,119\,125\,136\,\n149\,149\,195\,183\,212\,-5\,197\,223\,236\,258\,258\,268\,291\,268\,342\,318\,463\,289\,316\,334\,\n334\,339\,345\,334\,366\,362\,296\,344\,344\,276\,210\,298\,370\,368\,501\,405\,1039\,1123\,1351\,\n1439\,1521\,1549\,1576\,1576\,1576\,2105\,2285\,2344\,2550\,2354\,29987\,29992]} 1. e4 e5\n2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. c3 Nf6 5. e5 Ne4 6. Qe2 d5 7. exd6 f5 8. Nxd4 Bxd6 9.\nNxc6 bxc6 10. f3 O-O 11. fxe4 fxe4 12. Be3 Rb8 13. Na3 Qf6 14. Nc4 Ba6 15.\nO-O-O Qe6 16. b3 Rf5 17. Qg4 Qf6 18. Kc2 Bc8 19. Qe2 Bf8 20. g4 Rf3 21. g5 Qe7\n22. Bg2 Bf5 23. Qd2 a5 24. Qd4 a4 25. Rde1 axb3+ 26. axb3 Ra8 27. Kb2 Be6 28.\nBxf3 Ra3 29. Qxe4 Rxb3+ 30. Kxb3 Qa3+ 31. Kc2 Qa2+ 32. Kd3 Bd5 33. Qxd5+ cxd5\n34. Bxd5+ Kh8 35. Rhf1 Bd6 36. Ra1 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7bsn9VS0kA[/embedyt] \nThe Chess Scene\nThe Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov\nThe Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov\nHow to Play the Sicilian Defence\, Batsford\, 1978\nBritish Chess\, Pergamon Press\, 1983. Editors : GS Botterill\, DNL Levy\, JM Rice and MJ Richardson\n 
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-david-neil-laurence-levy/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210315
DTSTAMP:20210305T182656Z
CREATED:20191117T162714Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IA Stewart Reuben (14-iii-1939)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of Stewart Reuben (14-iii-1939) \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nHis personal catchphrase is “If only I had been consulted eariler” \nJimmy Adams and Stewart Reuben\nRichard W. O’Brien and Stewart Reuben working on a bulletin\nSR attempting to dance\nStewart Reuben interviews Stewart Reuben at the home of Stewart Reuben\nThe Chess Scene\nLeonard Barden\, Stewart Reuben and Michael Franklin at the 1978 Aaronson Masters\nThe Chess Organiser’s Handbook\nLondon 1980: Phillips and Drew Kings Chess Tournament
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-stewart-reuben-14-iii-1939/
CATEGORIES:Arbiter,Birthday,British Championships,Official,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210315
DTSTAMP:20210305T183318Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM John Emms (14-iii-1967)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM John M Emms (14-iii-1967)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-john-m-emms-14-iii-1967/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210315
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CREATED:20200409T133940Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Owen Hindle (14-iii-1940)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Owen Mark Hindle (14-iii-1940)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-owen-mark-hindle-14-iii-1940/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210314
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DTSTAMP:20210314T123254Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of IM Simon Webb (10-vi-1949 14-iii-2005)
DESCRIPTION:We remember IM Simon Webb (10-vi-1949 14-iii-2005) \nDavid Nixon and Simon Webb at the London Evening Standard Congress\nSimon became England’s fourth Correspondence Grandmaster in 1983 following Keith Richardson\, Adrian Hollis and Peter Clarke. \nIM Jonathan Speelman vs IM Simon Webb at the 1978 British Championships in Ayr\, Courtesy of John Upham\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-61 Championship”]\n[Site “Clacton on Sea/ Essex”]\n[Date “1974.08.14”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Webb\, Simon”]\n[Black “Hartston\, William R”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A31”]\n[Annotator “Simon Webb and Bill Hartston”]\n[PlyCount “74”]\n[EventDate “1974.08.05”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,74\,19\,29\,18\,21\,56\,-11\,-17\,-25\,25\,16\,18\,-3\,56\,33\,50\,36\,37\,36\,38\,34\,59\,\n54\,58\,44\,43\,48\,44\,23\,44\,31\,47\,31\,43\,36\,24\,22\,8\,17\,17\,-16\,-27\,-79\,-109\,-66\,-59\,\n-94\,-86\,-61\,-65\,-168\,-179\,-171\,-224\,-224\,-199\,-199\,-202\,-202\,-56\,-161\,-80\,-90\,\n-162\,-338\,-326\,-489\,-539\,-548\,-311\,-401\,-465\,-389\,-337\,-616\,-671]} 1. Nf3 Nf6\n2. d4 c5 3. c4 (3. d5) 3… cxd4 4. Nxd4 b6 $1 {An unusual move allowing White\nfull control of the centre and with no particular intrinsic merit. Its get an\nexclamation mark however\, because the player of the white pieces is S. Webb!\nI always like to fianchetto my king’s bishop in such positions and this is the\none move which prevents me from doing so. Had it occurred to me that Hartston\nmight play this move I would have played 3.g3 or 2.c4 and then 3.g3.} 5. Nc3\nBb7 6. f3 d6 7. e4 e6 8. Be2 Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Be3 Nbd7 {Putting White very\nmuch on the spot to find a plan\, despite his spatial advantage for four ranks\nto three. Again quotes from the two players : “Now the position bears a\nstrong resemblance to a Sicilian. I felt quite happy now since I seem to have\nspent half my life playing positions of this type\, while my opponent\, not\nnormally an e4 player\, had to be less familiar with the problems” : Hartston.\n“Objectively speaking\, I knew that this position was good for White but from\nthis point I had to decide on some sort of strategy. Should I go for f4 and\nthen f5? Or g4 and then g5? Or try to and get play against the backward d-pawn\nby doubling rooks on the d-file? None of these plans looked particularly\nconvincing so I settled for putting my rooks in the centre and waiting to see\nwhat happened ! Its no good having a good position if you don’t know what to\ndo with it!”} 11. Qd2 a6 12. Rfd1 Qc7 13. Rac1 $14 Rac8 14. Bf1 Qb8 15. Qf2\nRfe8 {“White has made a series of natural moves and maintains a spatial\nadvantage; nevertheless I believe that Black already has the better prospects.\nThe Black pieces\, are at first sight a little cramped\, are beautifully placed\nto leap into action after the thematic d5 breakout\, possibly with a pawn\nsacrifice” : Hartston Indeed it seems that the best White can hope for is to\ntry and prevent b5 or d5 by perhaps 16.Nc2 followed by Rd2 and Rcd1 although\neven in that case his c-pawn is weak.} 16. Kh1 $2 {Weirdly enough this is the\nmost popular move here.} (16. g4 {(is the 2020 engine’s choice)}) 16… Bf8 17.\nNc2 Ne5 18. Bxb6 {An ugly sort of move. The loss of the b-pawn is\ninconsequential compared with the disappearance of White’s valuable c-pawn\nwhich is restraining Black’s advances.} ({The alternative} 18. b3 $2 b5 $1 {\nwas even worse.}) (18. Na3 $2 d5 $1) 18… Nxc4 19. Bxc4 (19. Ba7 Qa8 20. b3\nNb2 21. Rd2 Rxc3 22. Bd4 Na4 23. bxa4 Rc6) 19… Rxc4 20. Ne3 Rc6 21. Ba5 {\nThe bonfire is lit and now the fireworks begin. Hartston immediately activates\nhis entire force giving Webb no time to reorganise his disjointed position} d5\n$1 22. exd5 exd5 23. Nf5 {[#] taking the pawn with either night loses\nimmediately so Webb tries to put up some sort of blockade on d If he could\nindeed achieve this\, then he would have defensive chances} ({e.g.} 23. Nexd5\nNxd5 24. Rxd5 Rxc3 $19) ({and e.g.} 23. Ncxd5 Nxd5 24. Rxc6 Nxe3 $19) {By the\nfollowing sacrifice Hartston rips open the position} 23… d4 $1 24. Nxd4 (24.\nRxd4 $2 Bc5) (24. Qxd4 Rc5 $1 {[%cal Gc5a5\,Gc5f5]} (24… Re5 $1 {[%cal Ge5f5\,\nGe5a5]})) 24… Rc5 {[%cal Gc5a5\,Gc5h5]} 25. Bb6 Rh5 26. h3 Ng4 $3 {\nhighlighting the fantastic coordination in the Black camp. Although this move\ndoesn’t lead to immediate mate White has no way of reorganising his defence to\nmeet the threats.} 27. fxg4 {This is one offer that cannot be refused.} ({if}\n27. Qg1 {then} Qg3 $1) 27… Rxh3+ 28. Kg1 Qh2+ 29. Kf1 Rg3 30. Rc2 Rxg4 $1 (\n30… Bxg2+ 31. Qxg2 Rxg2 32. Rxg2 Qf4+ 33. Kg1 Qd6 34. Ba5 Qc5 35. Kf1 Qxa5\n$19) (30… Rxg2 31. Qxg2 Bxg2+ 32. Rxg2 Qf4+) 31. Qg1 Qh6 32. Nf5 $2 {A wild\nattempt at playing actively which only succeeds in losing back the piece\nwithout blunting Black’s attack. But it is difficult to see how White could\ndefend.} ({If} 32. Ba5 {the reply} Bc5 {leaves White hopelessly tied up}) ({\nwhile} 32. Nb3 {allows} a5 {[%cal Gb7a6] with the powerful threat of Ba6+}) ({\nPossibly} 32. Ba7 {would have been the best chance} {planning to meet} Rh4 ({\nAfter} 32… Re5 {it is difficult to find a move which doesn’t lose something\n(Webb)}) {with} 33. Nf5) 32… Qf6 33. Rf2 Qxb6 34. Qh2 a5 35. Qh3 Rg6 36. Nd5\n$2 {there was no defence to Ba6+ but this loses a straight piece.} Qb5+ 37. Kg1\nBxd5 {and White resigned} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nSimon Webb (above Stewart Reuben at the Lloyds Bank Masters\nJoint winners of the 1973 Strasbourg Open : N. Karaklaic and Simon Webb. Photography by Mike Rose. CHESS\, Volume 88\, June\, page 283\nChess for Tigers\nChess for Tigers
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Gerald Abrahams (15-iv-1907 15-iii-1980)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Gerald Abrahams who passed away in Liverpool on Saturday\, March 15th 1980. He was buried in the Allerton Cemetery in the Jewish Springwood plot. \nGerald Abrahams was born in Liverpool on Monday\, April 15th 1907.  On this day the Triangle Fraternity was formed at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. \nHis parents were Harry (b. 10th September 1880) and Leah (b. 12th March 1884) Abrahams (née Rabinowitz) who married in West Derby in the third quarter of 1903. \nGerald learnt chess at the age of ten during the first world war. He obtained an Open Scholarship to Wadham College\, Oxford in 1925 reading PPE and earning himself an MA in Law in 1928. He became a practising barrister at Law. \nFrom the 1939 register we learnt that Harry was a Drapery manufacturer and Leah carried out “unpaid domestic duties”. Gerald was not an only child: the first born was Winnie (b. 22nd November 1903) who was a Secretary and Clerk Typist and factory assistant. Elsie Abrahams (b. 14th April 1905) helped her mother with “unpaid domestic duties”. Blanche was Gerald’s older brother and he was “General Assistant In Fathers Business Drapery Manufacturer”. Gerald is listed (aged 32) as a Barrister at Law and author. The family resided at 51 Prince Alfred Road\, Liverpool\, Lancashire (now L15 6TQ) and their original property has been since replaced. \nHistorical map showing the 1939 residence of Gerald Abrahams\nWe learn from “Philanthropy\, Consensus\, and broiges: managing a Jewish Community A history of the Southport Jewish Community\nby John Cowell” of an incident in January 1942 that was to cause ripples in the community. The headline was \nPOLICE RAID DISTURBS CLUB CARD PLAYERS \nThe full list of people present seems to have been largely or entirely Jewish in religion or ethnicity: it included a famous chess-playing barrister from Liverpool\, Gerald Abrahams\, representing himself\, who had taken a First in P.P.E. at Oxford\, and later married Elsie Krengel\, who had also been present\, and with Leslie Black representing the rest of the defendants\, apart from the hosts and Captain Lionel Husdan\, who sent a letter to the court. \nThe full list of those present\, charged with “resorting and playing in a common gaming house\,” and bound over was as follows:- Mott Alexander\, Fannie Finn\, Maxwell Glassman\, Kate Lippa\, Myer Lister\, Gertrude Mannheim\, Joseph Mannheim\, Rita Mannheim\, Simon Mannheim\, Harry Peters\, Sadie Peters\, Lily Leah Ross\, Harry Sapiro\, Benjamin Stone. Those charged with “resorting in a common gaming house” and bound over\, were:- Gerald Abrahams\, Joseph Appleton Bach\, Samuel Myer Barnett\, Herbert Solomon Isaacson\, Elsie Krengel\, Manuel Mannheim\, Louis Michaelson\, Abraham Ross\, Bernard and Elsie Ross. \n“Gerald Abrahams\, the barrister charged\, said he was interested to protect his reputation from being stigmatised by a conviction\, and asked Sergeant Laycock about alcohol: the latter replied that none was being consumed. He submitted that the club was not a gaming house\, and that draw poker had not been proved other than as a game of skill. Charges were dismissed against Henry\, Eva and Marjorie Black\, Myer Waldman\, and Captain Lionel Husdan\, of Ryde\, Isle of Wight\, all of whom had said that they were merely taking refreshments in the club\, and had not played. David Platt said that he had not the slightest idea that they were breaking the law\, and Mrs Platt said that it had not been a paying venture.” \nThe Complete Chess Addict (Faber& Faber\, 1987)\, Fox & James notes: that Gerald Abrahams as authority on bridge cast doubt on assertions that Emanuel Lasker “was good enough to represent Germany” \nGerald’s comparisons of chess and bridge are discussed by Edward Winter in Chess Facts and Fables (McFarland\, 2005) page 130 in GAs 1962 book Brains in Bridge: \nBrains in Bridge\, Gerald Abrahams\, Constable and Company\, 1962\, ISBN ?\nGerald eventually married Elsie Krengel (born 15th January 1909) in the fourth quarter of 1971 in Liverpool at the age of 64. Elsie had lived in the Southport area for most of her life and her family was associated with the manufacture of handbags.  They had known each other for many years (at least since 1942 as mentioned previously). \nGerald Abrahams\nLeonard Barden modestly recounts : \n“At the end of Nottingham 1954  Gerald claimed that Alan Phillips had accepted his draw offer so tieing Gerald for the British championship with some rabbit whose name escapes me.  When Phillips strongly denied having accepted the draw\, Gerald collapsed on the floor and had to be aided by his old enemy Dr. Fazekas.” \nFrom The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match (1946) by Klein and Winter: \n“G. Abrahams was born in Liverpool in 1907. He learned chess at the age of ten\, and showed an early aptitude for tactical complications. He has played with varying success\, his best performances being third and fourth with Rossolimo\, behind Klein and Najdorf\, but head of List at Margate\, 1938\, and fourth\, fifth and sixth with Sir George A. Thomas and König in London\, 1946. He has made two valiant bids for the British Championship. \nA graduate of Oxford\, he is a barrister by profession and has written several books\, including some fiction. He has solidified his chess without allowing it to become dry. Indeed\, most of his games sparkle with interesting complications.” \nHarry Golombek OBE wrote (in The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)): \n“Brilliant British amateur who in the 1930s was playing master-chess. In that period he was the most dangerous attacking player in England. \nGerald Abrahams watching the opening at the Hastings Chess Congress 1947. Also watching is Sir George Thomas who was GAs round one opponent. The Mayor was Alderman W. J. Fellows and he is opposite Sir Edmund McNeill Cooper-Key. Second from left is Percy J. Morren who was the Hasting’s Club President\nHe was in the prize-list (i.e. in the first four) in the British championship on three occasions 1933\, 1946 and 1954. His best international performance was in the Major Open at Nottingham in 1936 where he came =3rd with Opocensky. Another fine result was his score of 1.5-0.5 against the Soviet Grandmaster Ragozin\, in the 1946 Anglo-Soviet radio match. \nHe is the inventor of the Abrahams variation in the Semi-Slav Defence to the Queen’s Gambit: 1.P-Q4\, P-Q4;2.P-QB4\, P-QB3;3.N-QB3\, P-K3;4.N-B3\, PXP;5.P-QR4\, B-N4;6.P-K3\,P-QN4;7.B-Q2\, P-QR4; 8.PxP\, BxN;9.BxB\,PxP;10.P-QN3\,B-N2; \n[fen]rn1qk1nr/1b3ppp/4p3/pp6/2pP4/1PB1PN2/5PPP/R2QKB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nThis is sometimes known as the Noteboom variation after the Dutch master who played it in the 1930s\, but Abrahams was playing it in 1925 long before Noteboom. \nHe is a witty and prolific writer on many subjects: on law (he is a barrister by profession)\, philosophy\, and chess; he also writes fiction. His main chess works are: The Chess Mind\, London 1951 and 1960 \nThe Chess Mind\, Gerald Abrahams\, The English Universities Press\, 1951\, ISBN 0 340 19492 8\nand here is a later cover: \nThe Chess Mind\, Gerald Abrahams\, The English Universities Press\, 1951\, ISBN 0 340 19492 8\nand Not Only Chess\, London 1974. \nNot Only Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, George Allen & Unwin Ltd.\, 1974\, ISBN 0 04 794005 0\nEdward Winter in Kings\, Commoners and Knaves\, cites the subtitle of the above book in his page 235 list of chessy words: “A selection of Chessays”. \nFrom Not Only Chess we learn that GAs favourite game was played in 1930 against Edmund Spencer of Liverpool. “Edmund Spencer was a man who is remembered with affection by all players who ever met him\, and who is remarkable in that his strength developed in what should have been hid middle life. When he died\, lamentably early\, in the 1930s\, at about 53 he was at his best\, and of recognised master status. \nThis game was played in 1930.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Liverpool”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1930.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Abrahams\, Gerald”]\n[Black “Spencer\, Edmund”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D93”]\n[Annotator “Gerald Abrahams & BCN”]\n[PlyCount “39”]\n[SourceTitle “Not Only Chess\, page 237.”] \n{[%evp 0\,19\,31\,43\,13\,-4\,39\,28\,30\,9\,55\,33\,67\,69\,40\,41\,68\,33\,36\,53\,30\,24]} {\nThe notes for this game are sourced from Not Only Chess\, page 237. One of the\nmost delightful chess books in chess book history.} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3\nNf6 4. Nc3 g6 {BCN: The Schlecter Slav} 5. Bf4 Bg7 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd3 b6 $6 {\nGA: There is a slight error of order.} ({Better is} 7… Nbd7 8. O-O dxc4 9.\nBxc4 Nb6 10. Bb3 Nbd5 11. Be5 Bg4 12. h3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3) {Now with} 8. Ne5 $1\n$146 {I am able to give shape to the game. BCN: although 7…b6 is rare it is\nsurprising that on-one else played 8.Ne5 since.} (8. O-O Bb7 9. Qe2) 8… Bb7 (\n8… Nbd7 $2 9. Nxc6) 9. cxd5 cxd5 {[#]} 10. h4 $1 {BCN: Strong in 1930 and\nstrong in 2021!} h6 $2 $19 {This P-KR3 is made in reliance on quite a clever\ndefensive method which only fails against an extraordinary sacrifice.} ({\nBCN: Best is} 10… Nh5 {although GA did not like it since it invited} 11. Be2\n({although GA did not like 10…h6 since it invited} 11. g4) 11… Nxf4 12.\nexf4 Nc6 13. h5 e6 14. Qd2 $16) ({The decision was a difficult one because}\n10… h5 {invites} 11. g4) ({GA: Best was probably} 10… Nbd7 {then after} 11.\nh5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Ne4 {and there are defences}) 11. h5 g5 12. Bxg5 {GA: The\nobvious sacrifice} hxg5 13. h6 Bxh6 {GA : My opponent had expected equality\nafter this} ({GA: Interesting is} 13… Bh8 14. h7+ Kg7 15. f4 gxf4 16. Qf3 {\nGA: The theme song of this game. Black would be helpless.}) 14. Rxh6 Kg7 {\n[#] with this Black is threatening …Rh8} 15. f4 $1 (15. Rh7+ {My opponent\nhad expected} Nxh7 ({GA: I had myself rejected Rh7+ because of} 15… Kg8 {\n\, ignoring it. Also I had a preconceived idea. what my opponent had not seen\nis a move that the late Emanuel Lasker described as one of the best sacrifices\nin the history of chess.}) 16. Qh5 f5 17. Qg6+ Kh8 18. Bxf5 Rxf5 19. Qxf5 Qg8 {\nand decided he could hold the attack.}) 15… Kxh6 {GA: There is nothing\nbetter.} ({If} 15… gxf4 16. Qf3 {GA: When one gives a gift one gives it.})\n16. fxg5+ Kxg5 {GA: In answer to this} ({GA: Observe that if} 16… Kg7 17.\ngxf6+ Kxf6 18. Qf3+ Ke6 19. Qf5+ Kd6 20. Nb5#) {I played} 17. Qf3 {GA: a quiet\nmove} Kh6 ({GA: If} 17… Nh5 18. Qf5+ Kh6 19. Nxf7+ Kg7 20. Qg6#) 18. Qf4+ Kg7\n19. Qg5+ Kh8 {[#]} 20. O-O-O {GA: and my opponent resigned. The late\nZnosko-Borovski\, who printed the game in Novoye Vremya\, wanted to know why\n0-0-0 is a better move than K-K2. I (GA) told him that I always wanted to\ndemonstrate that castling is an attacking move\, not a defensive one. BCN:\nReaders of this game should recall the finish of Lasker-Thomas\, 1912 and\ncompare Dr. Lasker’s final move!} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand for an alternative view of the same game: \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQr81C23CG8[/embedyt] \nGA is amongst a rare breed of game annotators claiming the title of An Immortal for one of his own games. Edward Winter devotes a couple of column inches discussing exactly which year the game was played between 1929 and 1936. Here is the game: \n[pgn]\n[Event “Liverpool : An Immortal”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1930.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Abrahams\, Gerald”]\n[Black “Thynne\, RS.”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D64”]\n[Annotator “Gerald Abrahams & BCN”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[SourceTitle “Not Only Chess\, page 246”] \n{[%evp 0\,21\,31\,13\,38\,-4\,-4\,3\,13\,-51\,12\,16\,27\,40\,38\,35\,34\,8\,42\,33\,56\,41\,68\,30]\nThis game is sourced from Not Only Chess\, page 246. There is some doubt over\nthe veracity of the year played as discussed by Edward Winter in Chess Facts\nand Fables\, page 278.} 1. d4 {[%mdl 512]} Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Be7 5.\ne3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Rc1 c6 8. Qc2 Re8 9. Bd3 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Nd5 11. Ne4 $5 ({\nBCN: more common is} 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. O-O Nxc3 13. Qxc3 e5 14. dxe5 Nxe5 15.\nNxe5 Qxe5 16. Qxe5 Rxe5 17. Rfd1 Bf5 18. Rd4 Rae8 19. Rcd1 Kf8) 11… Bxg5 $146\n{This move was a TN in 1930 and has not been seen since in master games.} (\n11… Qa5+ $1 12. Kf1 f6 13. Bh4 $15) 12. Nexg5 N5f6 {GA: Best} 13. Kf1 $5 {\nGA: So as to make possible Ne5} h6 {[#]} 14. h4 $1 hxg5 $2 ({BCN: The Knight\nshould remain on g5 and be ignored.} 14… Qa5 {is more cicumspect.}) 15. hxg5\ne5 {BCN: Much too loosening} (15… Nd5 16. Qh7+ Kf8 17. Rh4 Ke7 18. g6) 16.\ngxf6 Qxf6 17. Qh7+ Kf8 18. Nh4 $2 (18. Rh4 $1 Ke7 19. dxe5 Nxe5 20. Rf4 Nxc4\n21. Rxf6 gxf6 22. Rxc4 $18) 18… Nb6 $1 {GA: Preventing the threatened Nf5}\n19. dxe5 (19. Bxf7) 19… Qxe5 $4 {[#] GA: Here is a fine example of luck in\nchess. [We have good luck\, never bad luck: “we should have seen it.”] In\nanswer to …Qxe5 I had been saving something up. In fact I’d invited an old\ngentleman who was pottering towards the door\, to stay\, because in a few\nminutes I’d have a good move for him to see.} (19… Rxe5 {BCN : keeps Black\non the board. GA: leaves me still trying to win.} 20. Nf3 Bf5 21. Qh2 $11) 20.\nQg8+ $3 {and the rest is history.} (20. Bxf7 {is what my opponent was\nexpecting.}) 20… Ke7 ({If} 20… Kxg8 21. Ng6 {forces mate.}) 21. Qxf7+ Kd8\n22. Rd1+ Bd7 23. Ng6 Qf6 24. Qxe8+ {and Black resigned.} Kxe8 (24… Kc7 25.\nQf7 $18) 25. Rh8+ Qf8 26. Rxf8# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFor more of GAs excellent games see the superb article further on by Steve Cunliffe. Also\, Not Only Chess in Chapter 28 (“A Score of my Scores”) contains a veritable feast of entertaining games of GAs). \nGerald famously fell out with Anne Sunnucks when he discovered she had omitted him from her 1970 Encyclopaedia of Chess. Despite this the 1976 edition was also devoid of a mention. \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess (OUP\, 1984 & 1996)\, Hooper & Whyld: \n“The English player Gerald Abrahams (1907-80) introduced the move when playing against Dr. Holmes in the Lancastrian County Championship in 1925 (ed: January 31st in fact) . Abrahams played the variation against his countryman William Winter (1898-1955) in 1929 and in the same year Winter played it against Noteboom\, after whom it is sometimes named. (Dr\, Holmes was the favourite pupil of Amos Burn and a leading ophthalmologist). \nGerald Abrahams\nThe precursor\, known from a 16th-century manuscript\, was published by Salvio in 1604: \n1.d4 d5;2.c4 dxc4;3.e4 b5;4.a4 c6;5.axb5 cxb5;6.b3 b4;7.bxc4 a5; 8.Bf4 Nd7;9.Nf3 \n[fen]r1bqkbnr/3npppp/8/p7/1pPPPB2/5N2/5PPP/RN1QKB1R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nWriting in 1617\, Carrera made his only criticism of Salvio’s analysis in this variation. He suggested 8…Bd7 instead of 8…Nd7\, or 9.Qa4 instead of 9.Nf3. Salvio nursed his injured pride for seventeen years and then devoted a chapter of his book to a bitter attack on Carrera. The argument was pointless: all these variations give White a won game.” \nGA famously wrote : \nChess is a good mistress\, but a bad master \nand also \nThe tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do. \nand \nIn chess there is a world of intellectual values \nand \nGood positions don’t win games\, good moves do \nand \nWhy some persons are good at chess\, and others bad at it\, is more mysterious than anything on chess board. \nIn the recently (February 25th\, 2020) published “Attacking with g2 – g4” by GM Dmitry Kryakvin writes about Abrahams as follows : \n[fen]rnbqkbnr/pp4pp/2p1p3/3p1p2/2PP2P1/2N1P3/PP3P1P/R1BQKBNR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \n“It is believed that the extravagant 5.g2-g4 was first applied at a high level\, namely in the British Championship by Gerald Abrahams. Abrahams was a truly versatile person – a composer\, lawyer\, historian\, philosopher\, politician (for 40 years a member of the Liberal Party) and the author of several books. Of his legal work\, the most famous is the investigation into the murder of Julia Wallace in 1931 in Liverpool\, where her husband was the main suspect. As an alibi\, William Herbert Wallace claimed he was at a chess club. Dozens of books and films have been devote to the murder of Mrs. Wallace – indeed\, this is a script worthy of Arthur Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie! \nby Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd)\, whole-plate film negative\, 21 August 1933\nAbrahams played various card games with great pleasure and success\, but the main passion of the Liverpool resident was chess. Abrahams achieved his greatest success in the championships of Great Britain in 1933 and 1946\, when he won bronze medals. The peak of his career was undoubtedly his participation in the USSR-Great Britain radio match (1946) where on the 10th board Abrahams beat Botvinnik’s second and assistant grandmaster Viacheslav Ragozin with a score of 1.5-0.5 \nGerald Abrahams had a taste of studying opening theory\, and made a distinct contribution to the development of the Noteboom Variation\, which is often known as the Abrahams-Noteboom. \n[fen]rnbqk1nr/5ppp/2p1p3/pp6/PbpP4/2N1PN2/1P1B1PPP/R2QKB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nTen years after he introduced the move 5.g2-g4 to the English public (1953)\, the famous grandmaster Lajos Portisch brought it into the international arena.” \nGerald Abrahams\nGerald was also a keen studies composer. Here are some examples of his work: \nGerald Abrahams\, 1923 \n[fen]r7/4P1k1/3P1b1p/7P/8/5RPK/p7/8 w – – 0 1[/fen] \n1/2-1/2 \nSolution: 1. Ra3! Ra3 […a1=q;2.Ra1 Ba1;3.d7 Kf7;4.d8=q];2.e8=q a1=q;3.Qd7 \nand \nGerald Abrahams\, 1924 \n[fen]k7/p5p1/5b2/P5Pp/7P/5N2/8/r4R1K w – – 0 1[/fen] \n1-0 \nHere is an interesting article by Tim Harding on the naming of the Abrahams-Noteboom Variation of the Semi-Slav Defence \nHere is an article about GA and a blindfold exhibition \nGerald Abrahams contributed to opening theory in the Queen’s Gambit Declined / Semi-Slav Defence with his creation of the Abrahams-Noteboom Defence as discussed in the following video : \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFI0nON4QDg[/embedyt] \n[pgn]\n[Event “London Sunday Chronicle-B”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1946.01.??”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Abrahams\, Gerald”]\n[Black “Winter\, William”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B20”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1946.01.14”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\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\,59\,25\,18\,41\,-57\,-27\,-68\,-35\,-42\,-42\,-61\,14\,-8\,1\,8\,5\,-3\,8\,-36\,-37\,-47\,\n-34\,-51\,-53\,-97\,-4\,-28\,-19\,-53\,-26\,-46\,-21\,-56\,-50\,-50\,26\,-117\,-117\,-139\,-141\,\n-141\,-131\,-146\,-146\,-147\,-176\,-176\,-143\,-166\,-136\,-202\,-102\,-62\,105\,130\,135\,\n498\,29985\,29986\,29987\,29988]} 1. e4 c5 2. b4 cxb4 3. Bb2 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. c4\nbxc3 6. Nxc3 Qd8 7. Nf3 Nf6 8. d4 e6 9. Bd3 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. Re1 Nc6 12. Re3\nNd5 13. Nxd5 exd5 14. Ne5 Bg5 15. Rg3 g6 16. Ba3 Re8 17. Bb5 Bf4 18. Bxc6 bxc6\n19. Nxc6 Qh4 20. Qb3 Bxg3 21. hxg3 Qe4 22. Qb4 Kg7 23. Ne7 Ba6 24. Re1 Qd3 25.\nQd6 Qc4 26. Bc5 Rf8 27. Nxd5 Rfe8 28. Qf6+ Kg8 29. Rxe8+ Rxe8 30. Bf8 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHere is a nine page article (Gerald Abrahams – Talent without Discipline) written by Steve Cunliffe that appeared in British Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 292-300: \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 292\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 293\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 294\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 295\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 296\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 297\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 298\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 299\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CVIII (1988)\, Number 7 (July)\, pp. 300\n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nttq5zKNS0[/embedyt] \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nSee his games at Chessgames.com \nHow to Teach Yourself Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, D Van Nostrand Company\, Inc\, New York\, 1950\nTechnique in Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, George Bell & Sons Ltd.\, 1961\,\nTest Your Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, Constable and co\, 1963\, ISBN 0 330 24336 5\nThe Pan Book of Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, Pan\, 1965\, 10: ISBN 0330230735\nTeach Yourself Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, The English Universities Press Ltd\, 1965\,\nTechnique in Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, Dover\, 1973\, ISBN ISBN 13: 9780486229539\nBrilliance in Chess\, Gerald Abrahams\, Pitman Publishing\, 1977\, ISBN 10: 0273000349
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/death-anniversary-of-gerald-abrahams/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Death Anniversary,History,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210316
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210317
DTSTAMP:20210305T184040Z
CREATED:20191212T143635Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T184040Z
UID:2338-1615852800-1615939199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Michael Basman (16-iii-1946)
DESCRIPTION:IM Michael John Basman\nBirthday of IM Michael John Basman (16-iii-1946)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-michael-john-basman-16-iii-1946/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200316
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200317
DTSTAMP:20260817T141220Z
CREATED:20201106T193152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260817T141220Z
UID:11055-1584316800-1584403199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Reginald Bonham MBE MA (31-i-1906 16-iii-1984)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Reginald Bonham (known as “Bon”) who passed away\, this day\, March 16th in 1984 in Worcester\, Worcestershire. \nIn 1970 New Years Honours\, Civil Division he was awarded the MBE for “Services to the blind”. Interestingly\, in 1992 his sister Mary also received an MBE for “Services to the blind” This is surely an unusual happening. \nReginald Walter Bonham was born on Wednesday\, January 31st 1906 : the same day as the Ecuador–Colombia earthquake which measured 8.8 on the Richter Scale. \nHe was born in St. Neots\, Huntingdonshire\, Cambridgeshire. \nIn the 1911 census aged 5 he lived in the High Street\, St. Neots with William R Bonham (father\, master butcher\, aged 45)\, Edith Mary Ann Bonham (mother\, 38)\, Howard William Bonham (6)\, Maurice George Bonham (3) and Ernest Charles Bonham (1). The family had a servant / domestic duties assistant called Elise Annie Goss aged 18. The census did not record any disability for Reginald. \nReg\, like others in his family\, suffered from deficient eyesight and was therefore unable to attend a “mainstream” school. \nFrom 1922 – 1925 he attended the Royal Worcester College for the Blind (originally Worcester College for the Blind Sons of Gentlemen) in Whittington Road\, Worcester\, WR5 2JX. The Headmaster (GC Brown) encouraged his chess and rowing talents and in 1926 he was sent up to St. Catherine’s College\, Oxford to read mathematics. \nReginald was a highly competant rower\, competing for his college and reaching the trial stage for the Oxford Varsity crew. \nIn 1934 Reg founded the Braille Chess Magazine. \nIn the 1939 census he was recorded as living at 4\, St. Catherine’s Hill\, Worcester\, WR5 with his wife\, Josephine Bonham (born 24th September 1904). Reginald was listed as being a Mathematics tutor at the Royal Worcester College for the Blind (originally Worcester College for the Blind Sons of Gentlemen) in Whittington Road\, Worcester\, WR5 2JX. The college is now named New College Worcester. Their home was around a mile from the College. Josephine was listed as carrying out “unpaid domestic duties”. \nHe taught a combination of Braille and mathematics and was an amateur thespian and keen bridge player. \nRW Bonham and a Braille chess set set-up incorrectly\nInterestingly RWB in 1939 was an ARP (Air Raid Precautions) Warden and a St. John Ambulance volunteer for the College. \nHe was Worcester champion twenty times and four times Midlands champion winning the Birmingham Post Cup twice. \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-36 Championship”]\n[Site “Felixstowe/ Suffolk”]\n[Date “1949.08.12”]\n[Round “5.9”]\n[White “Harris\, Peter A”]\n[Black “Bonham\, Reginald Walter”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[Annotator “Harry Golombek”]\n[SetUp “1”]\n[FEN “r3r1k1/pp3qpp/3B1n2/2P5/1P2p3/8/1PQ3PP/3RR1K1 w – – 0 26”]\n[PlyCount “8”]\n[EventDate “1949.08.08”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2018”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,8\,25\,0\,10\,-96\,-41\,-636\,-650\,-650\,-667]} 26. Re3 $2 (26. b5 $14) 26…\nNd5 27. Rb3 e3 28. Qc4 $4 (28. Rf1 $11) 28… Qf2+ 29. Kh1 e2 {Source: BCM\,\nSept 1949\, p301} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nOn June 6th 1947 Bonham played in Birmingham in a match between Great Britain and Czechoslovakia playing Ladislav Alster and won this attractive game : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Match/Nation GBR-CSR”]\n[Site “Birmingham”]\n[Date “1947.06.17”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Bonham\, Reginald Walter”]\n[Black “Alster\, Ladislav”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A42”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “79”]\n[EventDate “1947.06.17”]\n[EventType “team-match”]\n[EventRounds “2”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,79\,37\,25\,29\,-16\,35\,42\,44\,39\,31\,-1\,-11\,8\,8\,-19\,-22\,-24\,-24\,-16\,-24\,-30\,\n-22\,-31\,-21\,-51\,-8\,-22\,-37\,-56\,-45\,-35\,-35\,-46\,0\,-12\,0\,-8\,-8\,-10\,-10\,-2\,-4\,-11\,\n53\,53\,75\,75\,54\,67\,67\,67\,82\,55\,135\,96\,135\,139\,151\,168\,172\,169\,173\,160\,185\,225\,\n215\,195\,213\,213\,247\,230\,240\,247\,559\,629\,717\,763\,820\,664\,786\,843]} 1. d4 Nf6 2.\nc4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 e5 7. Nge2 exd4 8. Nxd4 Nc6 9. Nxc6\nbxc6 10. O-O Be6 11. Qa4 Nd7 12. Be3 {[#]} Ne5 $146 (12… Bxc3 13. bxc3) 13.\nc5 $1 Nc4 14. Nd1 Nxe3 15. Nxe3 dxc5 16. Rad1 Qe7 17. b3 $11 Bd7 18. Qa5 Be6\n19. Rd2 Bd4 20. Nc2 Rfd8 21. Nxd4 cxd4 $6 (21… Rxd4 $11) 22. Rc1 $16 Rab8 23.\nRxc6 Rb6 24. Qc5 Qxc5 25. Rxc5 Rd7 26. e5 (26. f4) 26… Ra6 27. f4 h5 28. Bb7\n$1 Rb6 29. Bc8 Rd8 30. Bxe6 Rxe6 31. Rxc7 $18 {[#]} Ra6 32. Kf2 Ra3 33. Kf3 a5\n34. Rc4 Kf8 35. Ke4 d3 36. Rd4 Rxd4+ $2 (36… Ra8) 37. Kxd4 a4 38. b4 Ke7 39.\nKc4 Ke6 40. b5 {time} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn 1951 he founded the International Braille Chess Association (IBCA) and continued as its President for 23 years. The IBCA affiliated to FIDE in 1964. see http://www.schachkomet.de/ibcachp4.htm for historical detail. \nHe was Blind World Champion in 1958 and Correspondence Blind World Champion in 1957\, 1959\, 1961\, 1964 (jointly) and 1966. \nOne of his students was broadcaster Peter White MBE who described Bon in his autobiography See it My Way \nSee it My Way\, Peter White\, 1994\nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume XCII (92\, 1972) Number 6 (June)\, page 216 we have this item in News in Brief : \n“At the closing ceremony of the 4th Chess Olympiad for the Blind at Pula\, Yugoslavia (April 6-18) the International Braille Chess Association awarded the title of Correspondence Grandmaster of the Blind to R.W. Bonham of Worcester\, for having won the Postal Championship more than three times.” \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CIV (104\, 1984) Number 5 (May)\, page 194 we have this obituary : \n“We regret to announce the death in March of two early winners of the grandmaster title (the other was Comins Mansfield MBE). \nR.W.Bonham (31 i 1906 – 16 iii 1984) died at Worcester\, where he had long served as a Master at the Royal Worcester College for the Blind. In the 1950s he took part in the British Championship with success. Many older players will remember him fingering his special board before announcing his move and checking his clock with its markers outside the glass face. \nHe was also active in postal play\, taking part in international events in the decade after the war when few British players ventured “into Europe”. A note in the 1972 BCM (page 216) records the award of the title Correspondence GM of the Blind by the International Braille Chess Association\, so his omission from the recent book British Chess seems rather unfortunate. \nAmong the titles won by Reginald Bonham were British Correspondence Championship\, shared in 1947 with J. Cairncross and shared in 1951 with E. Brown) and Midland Champion (1947 and 1950). \nHe was also (with Wormald) joint author of those fine little books Chess Questions Answered and More Chess Questions Answered.” \nSadly\, RWB did not merit articles in Sunnucks or Golombek’s Encyclopedias or Hooper’s and Whyld’s Oxford Companion or\, as mentioned previously\, British Chess. \nHere is a short biography from Ray Collett and here is his Wikipedia article. \nMore information here. \nThe Braille Chess Association has this entry in its Hall of Fame. \nChess Questions Answered\, RW Bonham & RD Wormald\, Jordan & Sons Ltd\, London\, 1945\nMore Chess Questions Answered\, RW Bonham & RD Wormald\, Jordan & Sons Ltd\, London\, 1948
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/11055/
CATEGORIES:Blind,Death Anniversary,History,Honours,Player,Remembering,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210319
DTSTAMP:20210318T094549Z
CREATED:20200123T105643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210318T094549Z
UID:2996-1616025600-1616111999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Jim Plaskett (18-iii-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday GM Harold James Plaskett born on this day (March 18th) in 1960 \nGM Harold James Plaskett\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nJim accepts the 1981 Grand Prix shield from ?\nHere are his games \nJim obtained his FM norm in 1980 according to Gino de Felice. \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Harold James (Jim) Plaskett was born in Dkeliha\, Cyprus. He was awarded the IM title in 1981 and became a GM in 1985. Plaskett’s tournament results include first place at Plovdiv 1984 and a tie for second at Hastings 1984-85. He was British champion in 1990.” \nJim with David Anderton OBE at the 1983 Benedictine International (Manchester)\nJames Plaskett almost became a millionaire \nTrends in the Sicilian Richter Rauzer\nTrends in the Sicilian Sozin\nTrends in the Gruenfeld without cd5\nThe English Defence\nPlaying to Win\nThe Sicilian Taimanov\nThe Sicilian Grand Prix\nCoincidences\nCan You Be a Tactical Chess Genius?\nThe Scandinavian Defence\nStarting Out: Attacking Play\nCatastrophe In The Opening\nThe Queen’s Bishop Attack Revealed.\nBad Show
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-gm-harold-james-plaskett-18-iii-1960/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,English,Player,Writer
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210319
DTSTAMP:20230317T091443Z
CREATED:20200402T175239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230317T091443Z
UID:3990-1616025600-1616111999@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of FM Steve Berry (18-iii-1951 04-i-2019)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of FM Stephen H Berry (18-iii-1951) \nObituary from Andrew Stone
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-stephen-h-berry-18-iii-1951/
CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,Player,Remembering
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210320
DTSTAMP:20210305T185257Z
CREATED:20200319T110448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T185257Z
UID:3582-1616112000-1616198399@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Justin Tan (19-iii-1997)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Justin Hsien Y Tan (19-iii-1997) \nGM Justin Tan\nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Grandmaster (2018). \nFM (2013); IM (2015). \nJustin Tan is one of Australia’s promising juniors\, and is one of two juniors amongst Australia’s top ten players. \nInternational Master Norms \nTan won his first IM norm during the 2013-14 NCL. His 2nd IM norm came at the Caissa GM tournament held in Kecskemet in Hungary in February 2014\, and he secured his 3rd IM norm \, and the IM title\, at the Bunratty Classic 2015 in Ireland on 22 February 2015. \nChampionships \nTan scored his first positive result against an accredited Master when he drew with WIM Narelle Szuveges in the Noble Park Club Championship in February 2008. Six months later he scored his first win against a master at the Noble Park Grade A Championship when he defeated FM Al-Rashid Abdul Wahab of Iraq. At the age of 12\, he competed in the World U16 Championship 2009 that was held in Antalya in Turkey\, scoring a solid rating-enhancing 5.5/11. He scored 5.5/9 in the 2011 U14 World Championship\, beating the eventual winner FM (and now GM) Kirill Alekseenko in their individual encounter. He first played in the Oceania Zonal 3.6 in 2011 and scored 6.5/9 in the Zonal 3.6 tournament in 2013\, earning his FM title under the 50% rule. He placed second to Alastair Cameron in the 2012 Australian U18 Open with 7.5/9 and did well in scoring 6/11 in the 2012 Australian Championship. He was equal second at the Victorian Championship in 2013. In September 2015\, he was equal first at the Illinois Open State Chess Championship. \nIn October and November 2015\, Tan contested the World U18 Championship staged in Greece\, and placed =4th with 8/11. \nTournaments \n<2007-2009> Tan’s first FIDE-rated event was the Arthur Tan Malaysian Open Championship in 2007. His first significant result at the sharp end of the leader board was equal first at the Noble Park Chess Club Open in Melbourne in May 2009. \n<2010-2012> In May 2010\, he scored his first win against an International Master when he defeated Mirko Rujevic at the City of Melbourne Open. He was equal first at the MCC ANZAC Day Weekender in 2010 alongside Erik O M C Teichmann and Mirko Rujevic\, and won the same event in 2012 in Melbourne with 6.5/7. He won the Noble Park Grade A event in 2011\, was equal first (second on tiebreak) at the 2011 Noble Park Club Championship\, placed fourth in the Noble Park Club Championship 2012\, and was equal first at the Noble Park Masters 2012. He finished 2012 by winning the Bob Brooking Round Robin ahead of IMs James Morris and Rujevic. \n<2013-2015> 2013 started with equal first at the Noble Park Club Championship. He was equal first at the Canterbury Summer Swiss 2013 held in December 2013 in Melbourne. He chanced his arm at the powerful Isle of Man Masters (2015) held in October 2015\, and scored a rating-neutral 4.5/9. \nTeam Events \n6/10 on board 2 at the 2012 World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad\, helping the Australia “A” team to 8th place. Tan played board 2 for Oxford 1 in the 2013-14 4NCL\, winning his first IM norm during that event. \nRating and Ranking \nTan’s initial rating was 1802 in April 2008. His highest rating and ranking to date is 2446 and Australian #6 in November 2015.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “Bunratty”]\n[Site “Bunratty”]\n[Date “2015.02.21”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Tan\, Justin Hy”]\n[Black “Hunt\, Adam”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B81”]\n[WhiteElo “2383”]\n[BlackElo “2428”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “127”]\n[EventDate “2015.02.18”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “IRL”]\n[EventCategory “8”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 164 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2015.03.02”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2015.03.02”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,127\,19\,38\,72\,47\,88\,61\,62\,50\,48\,26\,55\,24\,51\,12\,12\,15\,23\,22\,26\,21\,9\,47\,\n61\,33\,47\,71\,63\,87\,87\,46\,162\,8\,125\,77\,85\,122\,149\,157\,157\,149\,157\,108\,335\,164\,\n135\,103\,145\,218\,173\,173\,173\,80\,92\,114\,135\,71\,148\,-6\,-4\,-49\,-35\,-78\,-78\,-94\,-96\,\n-104\,-107\,-123\,152\,-23\,85\,31\,115\,-74\,-126\,-126\,-122\,-133\,-121\,-122\,-124\,-132\,\n-89\,-146\,-26\,-26\,0\,0\,0\,0\,122\,122\,164\,166\,149\,156\,162\,159\,157\,180\,138\,138\,138\,\n138\,138\,138\,149\,149\,284\,293\,509\,527\,537\,507\,527\,537\,527\,537\,537\,537\,29971\,\n29972\,29975\,29970\,29971\,29972\,29973\,29974]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4.\nNxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e6 7. g4 d5 8. Bg2 Bb4 9. O-O Bxc3 10. bxc3 Nxe4 11.\nBa3 Nd6 12. Nf5 Nxf5 13. gxf5 Nc6 14. c4 d4 15. Rb1 Qa5 16. Qd3 Qc3 17. Bxc6+\nbxc6 18. Qe4 Qxa3 19. Qxc6+ Ke7 20. Qxa8 Qxh3 21. Qa7+ Bd7 22. Qc5+ Kf6 23.\nQxd4+ e5 24. Qd6+ Be6 25. Rb3 Qxf5 26. Rg3 g5 27. Re1 Rc8 28. c5 h5 29. Kg2 e4\n30. c6 Qd5 31. Rd1 Qxc6 32. Qd4+ Kg6 33. c3 h4 34. Re3 f5 35. Qe5 Kf7 36. Rd6\nQc4 37. Rb6 Qd5 38. Qxd5 Bxd5 39. Rd6 Bxa2 40. Rxa6 Bd5 41. Rd6 Rc5 42. Kg1 Bc6\n43. Re1 Rxc3 44. Ra1 Ke7 45. Rg6 Be8 46. Ra7+ Bd7 47. Rg7+ Kf6 48. Rgxd7 Rc5\n49. Rh7 Ke5 50. Rag7 Kf4 51. Rc7 Rb5 52. Kg2 Rb2 53. Rc3 Kg4 54. Re7 h3+ 55.\nRxh3 Rxf2+ 56. Kxf2 Kxh3 57. Rg7 Kg4 58. Ke3 Kh4 59. Rh7+ Kg3 60. Rf7 g4 61.\nRxf5 Kh2 62. Rh5+ Kg2 63. Rg5 g3 64. Kf4 1-0\n[/pgn] \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKAvBjbm624[/embedyt] \nGM Justin Tan
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-justin-tan-19-iii-1997/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210322
DTSTAMP:20210305T185740Z
CREATED:20200410T093006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T185740Z
UID:4319-1616284800-1616371199@britishchessnews.com
SUMMARY:Birthday of IM James Jackson (21-iii-1991)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM James P Jackson (21-iii-1991) \nJames became a FIDE Master in 2014 and an International Master in 2019
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-james-p-jackson-21-iii-1991/
CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210323
DTSTAMP:20210305T190014Z
CREATED:20200318T134950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T190014Z
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Peter Roberson (22-iii-1989)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Peter Thomas Roberson (22-iii-1989) \nIM Peter Roberson\nPeter is IM Squirlolz on chess.com \nIM Peter Roberson\nPeter’s games from chessgames.com \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-chT 1617 (4NCL)”]\n[Site “Reading”]\n[Date “2017.01.14”]\n[Round “3.83”]\n[White “Moreby\, James”]\n[Black “Roberson\, Peter T”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A21”]\n[WhiteElo “2192”]\n[BlackElo “2388”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “70”]\n[EventDate “2016.11.19”]\n[EventType “team-swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2018”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “North East England”]\n[BlackTeam “Grantham Sharks”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,70\,19\,-12\,-27\,-51\,-4\,2\,20\,9\,14\,13\,15\,31\,36\,31\,45\,45\,55\,43\,73\,60\,69\,77\,\n74\,30\,30\,0\,34\,12\,36\,0\,36\,27\,23\,-16\,-11\,-50\,-37\,-37\,-36\,-33\,-34\,-69\,-33\,-11\,-7\,\n-4\,5\,5\,9\,-5\,20\,-1\,22\,0\,-73\,-86\,-77\,-91\,-87\,-123\,-116\,-105\,-84\,-87\,-79\,-121\,-90\,\n-304\,-317\,-756\,-799]} 1. c4 e5 2. g3 d6 3. Bg2 f5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e3 Be7 6. Nge2\nO-O 7. O-O c6 8. d4 Nbd7 9. b3 Qe8 10. Ba3 e4 11. Nf4 Nb6 12. f3 g5 13. Nfe2 d5\n14. Bxe7 Qxe7 15. c5 exf3 16. Rxf3 Nbd7 17. Qd3 Ne4 18. Nxe4 dxe4 19. Qc4+ Kg7\n20. Rf2 Nf6 21. Bh3 Be6 22. Qc1 Nd5 23. Nc3 Rf6 24. Nxd5 cxd5 25. Qd2 Raf8 26.\nRaf1 h5 27. b4 h4 28. gxh4 g4 29. Bg2 Rh6 30. Bh1 Qxh4 31. Rg2 Qg5 32. Rf4 Rh3\n33. Qf2 Rfh8 34. Qe2 g3 35. Rxg3 Qxg3+ 0-1\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Craig Hanley (23-iii-1984)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of IM Craig A Hanley (23-iii-1984) \nIM Craig Hanley
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Sir Stuart Milner-Barry KCVO CB OBE (20-ix-1906 25-iii-1995)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Sir Stuart Milner-Barry KCVO CB OBE who passed away on Saturday\, March 25th\, 1995 in Lewisham Hospital\, London aged 88. He was laid to rest in the Great Shelford Cemetery\, Cambridge Road\, Great Shelford\, Cambridge CB22 5JJ. \nA memorial service was held for him at Westminster Abbey on 15 June 1995. \nGreat Shelford Cemetery Gravestone of Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry KCVO CB OBE by Geoffrey Gillon\nSignature of PS Milner-Barry from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Margate 1936.\nPhilip Stuart Milner-Barry was born on Thursday\, September 20th 1906 in Mill Hill in the London Borough of Barnet. Mill Hill falls under the Hendon Parliamentary constituency. \nParents\nHis parents were Lieutenant-Commander Edward Leopold (1867-1917) and Edith Mary Milner-Barry (born 17th May 1866\, died 1949\, née Besant). Edward was in the  Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\, H.M.S. “Wallington.” Prior to his war service his father was a professor of modern languages at the University of Bangor and Edith was the daughter of Dr. William Henry Besant\, a renowned mathematical fellow of St John’s College\, Cambridge University. \nStuart was the second born of six children\, There was  an older sister Alda Mary (18th August 1893-1938) and four brothers Edward William Besant (?-1911) \, Walter Leopold (1904-1982)\, John O’Brien (4 December 1898 – 28 February 1954) and Patrick James . Many of the Milner-Barry family were laid to rest in the Great Shelford churchyard. \nStuart learned chess at the age of eight and his autobiographical article below goes into more depth. \nHe was educated at Cheltenham College\, and won a scholarship to Trinity College\, Cambridge\, where he obtained firsts in classics and moral sciences. \nOn leaving Cambridge in 1927 he went to work at the London Stock Exchange (LSE). \nAccording to the 1928 and 1929 electoral rolls he was living with his mother Edith  and his brothers Walter and John O’Brien at 50 De Freville Avenue\, Cambridge CB4 1HT: \n50 De Freville Avenue\, Cambridge CB4 1HT\nIn 1931 the family had relocated to 11\, Park Terrace\, Cambridge which is nearby to Emmanuel College. Now living  with the family was brother Patrick James. \n11\, Park Terrace\, Cambridge\, CB1 1JJ\nPeriod map of the area of 11\, Park Terrace\, Cambridge\, CB1 1JJ\nHe discovered that he did not enjoy his LSE work and switched careers to became chess correspondent of The Times in 1938. \nAt the time (September 29th) of the 1939 register he (aged 33) was living as a journalist in a household of three with his mother Edith who carried out “unpaid domestic duties” and sister Alda who was of “private means”. \nHonours\nIn 1946 Stuart was awarded the OBE from the Civil Division in the  New Years Honours . The citation reads that was “employed in a Department of the Foreign Office”. A modern translation of this was he was engaged in Top Secret work at Bletchley Park alongside Alan Turing\, Gordon Welchman and Hugh Alexander and was thus honoured for his war work. More on this later… \nAfter the war he worked in the Treasury\, and later in 1966 administered the British honours system where he helped to facilitate the award of honours to other chess players ultimately retiring in 1977. \nAs well as the OBE he was made Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1962 and Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCV0) in 1975. \nA conference room was named after him at the Civil Service Club\, 13 – 15 Great Scotland Yard\, London SW1A 2HJ. \nPeter Hennessy* and The Rewarding Career of Sir Stuart Milner-Barry\n*Peter Hennessy is a renowned historian and journalist. The following was originally published in The Times in 1977 following  PSMBs retirement. \n“Few careers can have been as varied and rewarding as that of Sir Stuart Milner-Barry\, who retires today as Ceremonial Officer to the Civil Service Department and custodian of the British honours system. \nInto the 48 years since he left Cambridge with a degrees in classics and moral sciences\, he has crammed spells as a stockbroker\, chess correspondent of  The Times and member of the British chess team\, a wartime codebreaker for MI6 and a senior Treasury official before taking over administration of the nations “gongs and bongs ” nearly 11 years ago. \nThe richness of Sir Stuart’s progression is all the more striking given the difficulty he experienced in finding a job at all after university because of the Wall Street crash in 1929. His first 10 years spanned the slump of the 1930s\, when there was little for a stockbroker to do\, but fill his days reading The Times. \nIn 1938 he joined the paper full time as chess correspondent and\, along with many of the world’s leading players\, he was nearly trapped in Buenos Aires when war broke out the next year (ed. should be month rather than year). Catching the first ship home\, he finished up with that brilliant collection of dons\, antique dealers\, mathematicians and chess players billeted in Nissen huts in the park of Buckinghamshire country house\, who broke the code transmitted by the German Enigma machine. \nThe original Hut 6 building (photographed in 2004). Milner-Barry joined Hut 6 in early 1940\, and worked in the section throughout World War II. He became head of Hut 6 in Autumn 1943.\nSir Stuart eventually rose to lead hut six\, which broke the most secret messages of the Luftwaffe. Quartered in a comfortable Bletchley public house with another formidable chess player\, C. H. O’D. Alexander\, and Gordon Welchman\, the Cambridge mathematician\, he acquired a taste  for rum\, the only alcohol in plentiful supply for some reason\, and a sense of guilt about enjoying\, his stimulating\, important job\, safe while other men faced the bullets. \nHe was not tempted to stay on in the arcane world of code-breaking after the war\, unlike his friend\, the late Hugh Alexander\, as he regards such activities in peacetime as akin to reading somebody’s private correspondence\, though he recognizes the necessity of such efforts for intelligence work. Instead\, he took the reconstruction competition for the administrative class of the Civil Service and entered the Treasury. \nWhile battling with the post-war dollar shortage in Treasury Chambers he “found a wife\, carried her off and lived happily ever after”\, as he cheerfully puts it. Apart from a spell as establishment officer to the Ministry of Health\, he stayed at the Treasury until he reached the normal retiring age of 60 in 1966. \nLord Helsby\, then Head of the Home Civil Service\, asked him to stay on and take over the smooth machine that underpins the honours system\, which had been built up over many years by Sir Robert Knox. Sir Stuart has loved every minute of it. \nHe looks every inch the part\, a tall stately man of immense natural dignity\, he is the incarnation of propriety. The stresses to which the honours system has been subjected to in recent years must have caused him great distress but he is far too proper a civil servant to talk about it. His retirement at 70 has nothing to do with the alarums and excursions stimulated by the honours lists associated with Harold Wilson. \n“One of my principal jobs has been the protection of the system”\, he says. “The pleasures are very great. It’s fascinating in itself. You see so much of the history of people in every walk of like”. \nSir Stuart waxes eloquent about the beauty and uniqueness of the British honours system. He is a confirmed monarchist\, so the spontaneity of the jubilee celebrations  provides the perfect backcloth for his departure. He is succeeded by Mr. Richard Sharp\, an under-secretary at the Treasury.” \nBelow is the original article: \nSir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry OBE\nMarriage to Thelma\nIn the third quarter of 1947 Stuart married Thelma Tennant Wells in Westminster. A consequence of the “rules of the day” of the marriage was that Thelma had to resign her post in the Treasury immediately.  (Ed: this somewhat antiquated view of life was finally corrected in 1972 when the Civil Service dispensed with this rule). \nLady Thelma was to support Stuart in his chess activities for their married life. She also served as the first UK Director of Women’s Chess and made many lasting friendships in the chess world. She was buried together with Stuart in 2007. Stuart himself was President of the British Chess Federation between 1970 and 1973 as well as being Director of International Chess following his presidency. \nStuart and Thelma had three children\, one son and two daughters: Philip O. (born 1953)\, Jane E (born 1950) and Alda M (born 1958). \nDave Rumens is pleased to accept a cheque for £200 from Lady Thelma Milner-Barry for winning the 1978 Nottingham Congress with 5.5/6. Photograph provided by Nottinghamshire County Council.\nStuart was knighted on January 1st 1975 for his role as the “Ceremonial Officer of  Civil Service Department” between 1966-77. Technically the knighthood is known as a KCVO. \nMilner-Barry was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1960-61 season. \nHe first competed in the British Championship in 1931 and made regular appearences as late as 1978: a span of 47 years! \nIn their retirement  years Stuart and Thelma lived at the salubrious location of 43 Blackheath Park\, Blackheath\, London SE3 9RW. \nAutobiography\nIn June of 1933 at the age of 27 Stuart wrote an autobiographical piece for British Chess Magazine to be found in Volume LIII (53\, 1933)\, Number 6 (June)\, pp. 241-2 as follows: \nStuart Milner-Barry in 1933 taken from BCM\, 1933\, June\nP.S. Milner-Barry\nChampion of the City of London Chess Club\nI learned chess at the age of eight and played regularly after that with members of my family. My first-class practise (with due respect to my family) began at fourteen\, when Mr. Bertram Goulding Brown and  started a series of serious friendly games which has continued ever since\, almost without interruption. The vast majority of these games were begun with 1 P-K4\, P-K4\, and as we both eschewed the Lopez and the Four Knights\, we have acquired  a fairly extensive knowledge of the older forms of the King’s side openings – King’s Gambit (all sorts)\, Vienna\, Guioco Piano\, Evans’s Gambit\, Danish Gambit\, Bishop’s Opening\, etc. These games have undoubtedly born the most important influence in my development\, apart from which the serious friendly game is to me much the most enjoyable form of chess. We each have runs of success\, and there has never been much to choose between us. \n(An aside : Stuart wrote a extensive obituary of Bertram Goulding Brown which appeared in British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXV (85\, 1965)\, Number 12(December) pp.344-45 in which he noted: \nB. Goulding Brown was my oldest and closest Cambridge friend\, I started playing with him in 1920\, and we have played ever since\, though\, alas\, not nearly so often since the War as in the 1920s and 1930. Our last games\, when he was eighty three\, were played about a year ago in the same book-congested upstairs study at Brookside as all the others had been. Both were cut-and-thrust draws: a Kieseritzky Gambit from myself and Two Knights’ (with 4.P-Q4 for White) were typical of the openings we adopted. We were planning another this Autumn\, but he died suddenly and peacefully at the end of August\, ) \nI have also been very fortunate in playing a good deal with C.H.O’D. Alexander. Our games have taken the form of a series of short matches (first player to win three games) played with clocks. Alexander was already stronger than me when he came up to Cambridge\, and he won the University Championship from me in his first year and my fourth. \nCHO’D Alexander plays his old friend PS Milner-Barry\nAll three matches have been won by him\, the first easily and the last two by the narrowest possible margin; a fourth now in progress looks like coming to an early  and ignominious conclusion (Score 0-2-2). These results have neither surprised nor disappointed me : I would not back any player in England to do better. \n(ed. For more detail on PSMBs matches with Hugh we refer to you our article on Hugh). \nIn 1923 I won the first Boy’s Championship at Hastings\, but lost badly the following year (ed. Alexander won). \nBoy Chess Champion PS Milner-Barry (Cheltenham College)\, first boy chess champion of England\, receiving the cup from Mrs. AG Ginner\, the donor \, at the Hastings Chess Club\nSince then I have competed twice at Hastings\, once tieing with Miss Menchik in the Major Reserve for the first place and once for the last\, in the Major. In between I played in the Major Open at Tenby\, and came out fifth\, with my first important win against Znosko-Borovsky. \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-21 Major Open”]\n[Site “Tenby (Wales)”]\n[Date “1928.07.09”]\n[Round “7”]\n[White “Milner-Barry\, Philip Stuart”]\n[Black “Znosko Borovsky\, Eugene”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B13”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “51”]\n[EventDate “1928.07.02”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2019”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2018.10.10”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,51\,20\,24\,64\,70\,60\,53\,44\,23\,19\,15\,31\,25\,37\,15\,47\,15\,61\,38\,71\,56\,52\,46\,\n44\,37\,36\,28\,34\,18\,47\,16\,27\,12\,8\,10\,12\,10\,6\,-6\,0\,-20\,29\,-2\,71\,89\,168\,300\,312\,\n312\,944\,1219\,1218\,1245]} {This game does NOT feature in The Art of Chess\nCombination by EZB but perhaps it should have done.} 1. e4 {[%mdl 128]} c6 2.\nd4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c3 Nf6 (5… Qc7 {was a favourite of\nTartakower.}) 6. Bf4 Bg4 7. Nf3 e6 8. Qb3 Qc8 9. Nbd2 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. h3 ({\nIn 2021 the following is de rigour:} 11. Rfe1 Bh5 12. Ne5 Nxe5 13. Bxe5 Bg6 14.\nBxg6 hxg6 15. a4 Qc6) 11… Bh5 12. Rae1 (12. Rfe1 Bg6 13. Bxg6 hxg6 14. Ne5\nNxe5 15. Bxe5 Qc6 16. a4 Rfc8) 12… Bg6 13. Bxg6 hxg6 14. Ne5 Nd7 15. Ndf3\nNcxe5 $146 16. Nxe5 Nxe5 17. Bxe5 Qc6 $11 {[#] and now a typical plan for\nblack against the c3 pawn would be to launch a minority attack.} 18. Re3 $1 {\nMB wishes to recapture on c3 with the lifted rook.} b5 {as predicted…} 19.\nQd1 $1 b4 20. h4 $5 bxc3 ({ZB probably should capture but It is not inviting\nto allow white potential access to h7 and h8.} 20… Bxh4 21. Qg4 Bd8 22. Rh3\nbxc3 23. bxc3 Rc8) 21. Rxc3 $14 Qa6 $2 {(Corrected from Qb6 in a note in BCM\,\nNov 1928\, p434)} ({Better is} 21… Qb6 22. Rb3 Qc6 23. h5 $14) 22. h5 g5 $2 {\nAs Sergeant Wilson might say: Is that wise?} 23. h6 $1 $18 {Of course. Did ZB\nreally miss this move?} f6 {giving the king a flight square.} 24. Qh5 Bd8 25.\nQg6 $1 {Crushing…} Qb7 {[#] and now pause the video.} 26. Rc7 $3 {Sources:\nYorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer\, 11 July 1928; Western Daily Press\, 12\nJuly 1928; Glasgow Herald\, 21 July 1928; Cheltenham Chronicle\, 28 July 1928;\nBCM\, Sept 1928\, p349; Cheltenham Chronicle\, 6 October 1928} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nMeanwhile I played four years against Oxford\, with somewhat chequered results. The first year I won against G. Abrahams\, the second and third years\, I played K.H. Bancroft and scored a (very fortunate) draw and a win\, while finally I permitted Abrahams to fork my King and Queen with a Knight\, a performance unhappily repeated by R.L. Mitchell in the following year (his Queen was pinned by a Bishop). Since then the spell has been broken. In 1931 I played in the British Championships at Worcester\, and was quite satisfied with my form\, though my score of 5 out of 11 was nothing to write home about. In February 1932\, I have the great good fortune to fill a vacant place in the Sunday Referee* London International Tournament\, an extremely exhausting but very valuable experience which I greatly appreciated. \n*The Sunday Referee was a newspaper of the time which was adsorbed into The Sunday Chronicle in 1939. \nFull Crosstable for the 1932 Sunday Referee or London International Masters Tournament\nMy score of 3.5 out of 11\, equal with Sir George Thomas and above W. Winter and V. Buerger\, was quite as good as I expected. After this came the Cambridge Tournament\, which\, though a very delightful little congress\, was a fiasco from my point of view. Three of my opponents were unkind enough to show their best form against me\, and two other games I spoilt by clock trouble. \nI do not expect to play much serious competitive chess in future. I admire sincerely the business man who is ready\, after a hard day at the office\, to undergo a further four hours of strenuous mental exertion; and who is also prepared to spend his all too brief holidays in the same exhausting pursuit. Moreover\, while many players find the atmosphere of match and tournament play a stimulus or an inspiration\, it only renders me nervous\, and though this does not affect my play it certainly interferes with my enjoyment. As long as I can play my week-end games with B.G.B.\, and inveigle Alexander from Winchester to add another to his monotonous series of victories\, I shall not much mind if I can only occasionally take part in congresses. ” \nPS Milner-Barry Cup\nIn issue #53 (April 1946)  of West London Chess Club’s Gazette we have a news item concerning a newly inaugurated trophy called the PS Milner-Barry Cup: \nissue #53 (April 1946)  of West London Chess Club’s Gazette\nSergeant on Milner-Barry\nWriting in A Century of British Chess (Hutchinson\, 1934)\, PW Sergeant records in Chapter XXI\, 1925 to 1934: \nThe City of London C.C.’s Championship Tournament which ended this (1933) spring deserves special mention; for it introduced an entirely new name on the list of champions\, that of P.S. Milner-Barry\, formerly of Cheltenham College and of Cambridge University.  Ten years previously he had won the first boys’ championship at Hastings. \nNow\, he won the City of London Championship with a score of 11 out of 14\, followed by the bearers of such noted names as R.P. Michell (10 points)\, Sir George Thomas (9)\, and E.G. Sergeant (8.5). It caused some surprise\, therefore\, when it was found that he was not selected as a British representative at Folkestone. \nGolombek on Milner-Barry\nSurprisingly and disappointingly there is no direct entry in either Hooper & Whyld or Sunnucks for Sir Stuart but (as you might expect) Harry Golombek OBE does not let us down  in The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977): \n“British master whose chess career was limited by his amateur status but whose abilities as a player and original theorist rendered him worthy of the title of international master. \nBorn at Mill Hill in London\, he showed early promise and in 1923 won the British Boys Championship\, then held at Hastings. \nHe studied classics at Cambridge and developed into the strongest player there. At the university he was to meet (ed. three years later) C. H. O’D. Alexander with whom he played much chess. \nThough nearly three years younger\, Alexander exerted a strong influence over him and both players cherished and revelled in the brilliance of play in open positions. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Kent County CA-28 Premier”]\n[Site “Margate”]\n[Date “1935.04.24”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Milner-Barry\, Philip Stuart”]\n[Black “Mieses\, Jacques”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “43”]\n[EventDate “1935.04.24”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,41\,29\,28\,20\,40\,40\,21\,46\,46\,28\,-1\,15\,-5\,-5\,-10\,-3\,-3\,-3\,-5\,7\,-24\,-17\,\n-30\,2\,19\,7\,-3\,-13\,-13\,45\,-71\,-67\,-67\,263\,295\,295\,74\,573\,573\,691\,831\,1288\,1363]\n} 1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. d5 Ne5 5. f3 {A Blackmar-Diemer style\nsacrifice of which Milner-Barry was so fond. He loved opening the f-file toward\nhis opponents king!} exf3 6. Nxf3 Nxf3+ 7. Qxf3 Nf6 8. Bf4 a6 9. h3 g6 10. g4 (\n10. O-O-O Bg7 11. g4 Bd7 {transposes}) 10… Bg7 11. O-O-O Bd7 $146 (11… O-O)\n12. Qg3 Rc8 13. Be2 O-O 14. h4 c6 15. h5 (15. dxc6 Rxc6) 15… Nxd5 16. hxg6 {\n[#]} Bxc3 $4 {The losing move} (16… fxg6 {is fine and Black remains in the\ngame.}) 17. Qh4 {Should have been spotted by Mieses.} Nf6 18. g5 (18. Bg5 {\nis even more crushing} Bxb2+ 19. Kxb2 Qb6+ 20. Kc1) 18… Qa5 {to support h5\nand offer the exchange of queens.} 19. gxf6 h5 20. gxf7+ Kxf7 21. Bxh5+ {\nand it is mate in six so Mieses resigned.} Ke6 22. Bg4+ {etc.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \n24th April 1935: J Mieses of Germany in play against PS Milner-Barry during the Premier Tournament of the Kent County Chess Association in the Grand Hotel\, Margate. (Photo by F. Sayers/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)\nBy then along with Alexander and Golombek\, he had become recognized as one of the three strongest young players in the country. Whilst not as successful as they were in tournaments as the British championship in which stamina was essential\, he was a most formidable club and team match player\, as he had already shown in 1933 when he won the championship of the City of London Club ahead of R. P. Mitchell and Sir George Thomas. \nHarry Golombek OBE plays Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry OBE\nHe played in his first International Team tournament at Stockholm 1937 and was to play in three more such events : in 1939 at Buenos Aires where\, on third board\, he made the fine score of 4/5 ; in Helsinki 1952; and in Moscow 1956 where\, again on third board\, he was largely responsible for the team’s fine showing. \nLeft to right Baruch H Wood\, 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\nIn 1940 he shared first prize with Dr. List in the strong tournament of semi-international character in London and then\, like Alexander and (later) Golombek\, helped in the Foreign Office code-breaking activities at Bletchley Park for the duration of the Second World War. Staying in the Civil Service afterwards\, he rose to the rank of Under-Secretary in the Treasury and was knighted for his services in 1975. \nSir Stuart Milner-Barry talks about Malik Mir Sultan Khan\nBelow is footage (start at 1′ 55″) of Sir Stuart discussing the talent of Malik Mir Sultan Khan: \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYCwOpjKab0[/embedyt] \nAfter the war\, too\, he had some fine results in the British championship\, his best being second place at Hastings in 1953. \nHartston on Milner-Barry\nThe following article is sourced from November 1995 edition* of Dragon\, the Cambridge University Chess Club magazine: \n(*Edited by Jonathan Parker) \nA sample cover of Dragon\, the Cambridge University Chess Club Magazine\n“I first met Sir Stuart Milner-Barry when I was fifteen years old (1962) playing in a tournament in Bognor Regis who played some rustic king’s pawn opening against me\, sacrificing a pawn for nothing in particular and then astonished by writing “castles” in full on his scoresheet.  I think he used “kt” for a knight too. I thought I had discovered  a true relic from a bygone age and the more I got to know him I realised the more correct that judgement was. \nMilner-Barry was the last of the true gentlemen amateurs and was one of the few people I have ever met who played chess for the sheer love of the game. \nA few typical incidents may give a flavour of his unique personality. First and most typical was the way he would resign: with a firm handshake\, a smile and a booming whisper of ‘You are far too good for me I’m afraid!’ When I first heard those words I was totally taken aback : What was this\, a chessplayer acknowledging that his opponent was better than him? Impossible! \nOnce\, at close of play in a county match against Milner-Barry I had the extra pawn in a difficult queen and pawn ending.  We analysed a little with most variations suggesting I was winning. It was the kind of position you would send for adjudication even if you are convinced it is lost. It avoids having to resign anyway and the adjudicator may always discount the pawns. But\, Sir Stuart never thought like that. After ten minutes analysing he extended his hand and congratulated me. \nSir Stuart Milner-Barry in play against Daniel Yanofsky from round 6 of the British Championship in Hastings\, 15th August 1953\nFinally there was the splendid incident in Moscow during the (Ed. 6th) European Team Championships in the late 1970s (Ed. 1977) Stuart was then the President of the BCF and took up an invitation of his old friend the British Ambassador to the USSR (Ed. Sir Howard Smith) to visit the event.  Since he was staying at the Embassy he had a KGB tail assigned to him to follow him everywhere. On one of his morning walks Sir Stuart got lost and was not certain which bridge he should be on to get back to the Embassy. So\, he turned around and walked back to the not very secret policeman\, followed him and asked for directions! For the rest of his stay they walked practically hand-in-hand. \nWhilst most of us knew Stuart as an amiable old gent who played for Kent and in the Lloyds Bank Masters who could still play brilliant attacking games in his eighties  most knew little of his distinguished career in real life. \nSir Stuart Milner-Barry\nWe suspected with some justification  that in his civil service career he was responsible for doling out all those OBEs to chess players  in the 70s and 80s when he was in charge of the honours list. \nIt was the wartime work at Bletchley Park that was Milner-Barry’s greatest achievement. As everybody knows the allies won the Second World War mainly because of the brilliant code-breaking work of the Cambridge quartet of Alan Turing\, Gordon Welchman\, Hugh Alexander and Stuart Milner-Barry. Turing and Welchman were mathematical geniuses\, Milner-Barry was the supreme administrator and Alexander straddled the gap with great talents in both areas. \nThe astonishing achievement at Bletchley was not so  much in breaking enemy codes as maintaining complete secrecy of the entire operation for the duration of the war. Only with such people as Milner-Barry and Alexander in charge could such a large operation be run so successfully without anybody knowing about it. \nMilner-Barry’s importance in the running at Bletchley may be judged from the fact that he personally delivered the note to Winston Churchill stressing overriding importance of their work asking for more funds. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4hHCeA7ZSs[/embedyt] \nCompared with that the invention of the Milner-Barry Gambit and the Milner-Barry variation of the Nimzo-Indian are minor achievements. \nSir Stuart was proof that nice guys can be chess players although one cannot help suspecting he would achieved even better results if he had even a slight streak of nastiness about him. He would surely have not let Capablanca off the hook in Margate in 1938 when the attacking player secured a winning position against the ex-champions dragon variation and he would have surely also not let the British Championship slip from his grasp in 1953 when he finished as runner-up  after losing his last two games. \nHe always performed well when playing in Olympiads (or Team Tournaments as they were known then) for England during the 1930s and 50s. He was\, after all\, one of the most naturally gifted players this county has produced.  What other Englishman has two opening (or even just one) named after him? \nWhile at Cambridge while he won the University Championship in 1928\, losing to Alexander in the following year\, Milner-Barry composed some fine problems\, a frivolity he never returned to later in his life. \n[pgn]\n[Site “Swansea”]\n[Date “1951.08.30”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Mardle\, Denis Victor”]\n[Black “Milner Barry\, Stuart”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C58”]\n[Annotator “Milner Barry\, Stuart”]\n[PlyCount “52”]\n[EventDate “1951.08.20”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “GBR”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2018”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2017.10.13”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,52\,10\,34\,43\,38\,28\,3\,7\,-29\,5\,5\,-25\,8\,-11\,1\,1\,9\,34\,0\,24\,26\,10\,-5\,-30\,\n-121\,-164\,-206\,-171\,-166\,-186\,-314\,-284\,-341\,-378\,-376\,-217\,-284\,-443\,-443\,\n-739\,-727\,-983\,-29985\,-29986\,-29989\,-793\,-947\,-999\,-1027\,-1123\,-1123\,-1123\,\n-1123\,-1134]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6\n7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Qf3 ({An old move recently revived with considerable success.\nAll the same I believe} 8. Be2 {to be solider.}) 8… Rb8 ({Giving up the\nexchange by} 8… cxb5 9. Qxa8 {is probably not good enough. But the text move\nseems to be a very promising gambit.}) 9. Bxc6+ (9. Bd3) 9… Nxc6 10. Qxc6+\nNd7 11. d4 Be7 12. Nxf7 Kxf7 13. Qd5+ Ke8 14. dxe5 Bb7 15. Qe6 Bxg2 16. Rg1 Rb6\n17. Qf5 Rb5 18. f4 Nxe5 19. fxe5 Rf8 20. Qe6 Rb6 21. Qc4 Bh4+ 22. Ke2 Bf3+ 23.\nKe3 Bg5+ 24. Rxg5 Qxg5+ 25. Kd3 Qxc1 26. Nd2 Qxa1 {Sources: Manchester\nGuardian\, 3 Sept 1951; BCM\, Nov 1951\, p320} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nAn excellent though infrequent writer on the game\, he wrote a fine memoir of C.H.O’D. Alexander in Golombek’s and Hartston’s The Best Games of C.H.O’D. Alexander\, Oxford\, 1976.” \n\nThe Best Games of C.H.O’D. Alexander\, Harry Golombek and William Hartston. With A Memoir by Sir Stuart Milner-Barry\, Oxford University Press\, 1976\, ISBN 10: 0192175351 ISBN 13: 9780192175359\nAn Obituary from Bernard Cafferty\nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXV (115\, 1995)\, Number 5 (May)\, pp. 258-59 we have this obituary by Bernard Cafferty: \n“Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry KCVO CB  OBE (20 ix 1906 – 25 iii 1995) was the oldest of the British chess masters who came to prominence in the 1930s\, He was always thought of in conjunction with his great friends Hugh Alexander and Harry Golombek who both predeceased him. The length of Stuart’s career is amazing  – he was inaugural British Boy Champion in 1923 and was still playing for Kent first team in the Counties Championship  of recent years\, thus spanning a period of seven decades! Botvinnik spoke of him to me on my 1994 visit to Moscow. \nDavid Anderton OBE (rhs) congratulates Sir Stuart Milner-Barry OBE for winning the “Board of Honour ” game versus Edward Lasker at the 1976 Lloyds Bank Match by Telex\, London – New York. From BCM\, volume XCVI (96) Number 11 (August)\, Page 494. The venue was the Bloomsbury Hotel\, London. Photo courtesy of Lloyds Bank\nYet Stuart\, who never gained the IM title\, was always the true amateur and genuine English gentleman\, whose sense of duty and tradition was very great. It speaks volumes of him that he agonised over whether he should attend the Times Kasparov-Short match of 1993\, in a private capacity. He would have liked to watch the play\, but as a former British Chess Federation President\, 1970-73\, he felt it was his duty not to lend any extra recognition to the contest other than that assigned it by the BCF. \nBefore the war\, after graduating from Cambridge in Classics\, he took some fine scalps including those of Tartakower and Mieses and should have beaten Capablanca at Margate 1939. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Kent County CA-32 Premier”]\n[Site “Margate”]\n[Date “1939.04.17”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Milner-Barry\, Philip Stuart”]\n[Black “Capablanca\, Jose Raul”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “B74”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “57”]\n[EventDate “1939.04.12”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2017”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2016.10.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2016.10.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,57\,38\,38\,46\,59\,71\,91\,58\,43\,26\,27\,84\,45\,32\,34\,41\,36\,36\,20\,20\,23\,34\,39\,\n48\,18\,22\,12\,19\,1\,24\,24\,40\,10\,5\,-10\,-10\,-10\,-10\,-2\,140\,21\,21\,71\,71\,71\,68\,68\,68\,\n88\,41\,-15\,3\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6\n6. Be2 Bg7 7. Be3 Nc6 8. O-O O-O 9. Nb3 Be6 10. f4 Na5 11. f5 Bc4 12. Nxa5 Bxe2\n13. Qxe2 Qxa5 14. g4 Nd7 15. Nd5 e6 16. f6 exd5 17. fxg7 Kxg7 18. Rad1 dxe4 19.\nRxd6 Rad8 20. Qf2 Kg8 21. Bh6 e3 22. Qxe3 Rfe8 23. Qf4 Qc5+ 24. Kh1 f6 25. Rfd1\nQxc2 26. Qd2 Qe4+ 27. Qg2 Qe1+ 28. Qg1 Qe4+ 29. Qg2 1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nCapablanca and Stuart Milner-Barry at Margate\, England\, April 15\, 1936. AP Photos\n[pgn]\n[Event “London International Masters”]\n[Site “London”]\n[Date “1932.02.02”]\n[Round “2”]\n[White “Milner Barry\, Philip Stuart”]\n[Black “Tartakower\, Saviely”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B12”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1932.02.01”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “HCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,36\,36\,65\,73\,117\,105\,90\,89\,106\,86\,88\,89\,109\,99\,109\,103\,89\,60\,106\,51\,\n77\,47\,54\,54\,110\,37\,38\,19\,21\,41\,26\,-3\,-1\,16\,30\,32\,84\,84\,84\,79\,79\,82\,82\,82\,82\,47\,\n76\,60\,62\,58\,153\,67\,64\,56\,40\,59\,128\,106\,144\,121\,182\,217\,257\,254\,268\,276\,258\,249\,\n245\,259\,407\,414\,630\,631\,631\,674\,688\,681\,686\,696\,941\,982]} 1. e4 c6 2. d4 Nf6 3.\ne5 Nd5 4. c4 Nc7 5. Nc3 d6 6. f4 dxe5 7. fxe5 g6 8. Nf3 Bg7 9. Be3 f6 10. exf6\nexf6 11. Qd2 O-O 12. O-O-O Be6 13. Bh6 Bxh6 14. Qxh6 Qd7 15. Bd3 Nba6 16. h4\nNb4 17. Be2 Qf7 (17… Qg7 $1) 18. Rhf1 Qg7 19. Qxg7+ Kxg7 20. a3 Nba6 21. d5\ncxd5 22. cxd5 Bd7 23. Nd4 Rac8 24. Kb1 Nc5 25. Bf3 Rcd8 26. Rfe1 Rfe8 27. Rxe8\nRxe8 28. b4 Na4 29. Nxa4 Bxa4 30. Rc1 Nb5 $2 {[#]} 31. Ne6+ Kh6 32. Nc5 Nxa3+\n33. Kb2 Nc2 34. Nxa4 Nxb4 35. Rc7 b5 36. Nc5 Re5 37. d6 Rxc5 38. d7 Nd3+ 39.\nKb1 Rxc7 40. d8=Q Rc1+ 41. Ka2 1-0\n[/pgn] \nHe worked\, rather unhappily\, in a stockbroking firm up to 1938 and it is in that capacity that his name appears on the official document that set-up the British Chess Magazine as a limited company in 1937. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Ilford “]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1951.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Milner-Barry\, Philip Stuart”]\n[Black “Trott\, Arthur Henry”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C02”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “33”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, 115\, page 259”] \n{[%evp 0\,29\,26\,29\,48\,28\,30\,0\,-4\,19\,2\,-4\,6\,3\,38\,52\,46\,24\,161\,316\,614\,614\,646\,\n648\,735\,735\,766\,734\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3\nNc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Bd3 Nge7 $2 (6… Bd7 7. O-O cxd4 8. cxd4 Nxd4 9. Nxd4 Qxd4\n10. Nc3 a6 11. Qe2 Ne7 12. Kh1 Nc6 13. f4 Nb4 14. Rd1 Nxd3 15. Rxd3 Qb6 16. Be3\nBc5 17. Bxc5 Qxc5) 7. dxc5 $1 Qc7 {[#]} (7… Qxc5 8. b4 Qb6 9. b5) 8. Na3 $1\n$146 {This is the only documented game in this position AND Na3! is the best\nmove.} (8. Qe2) (8. O-O) 8… Nxe5 $2 (8… a6 {was required}) 9. Nb5 $18 Nxd3+\n10. Qxd3 Qxc5 11. Be3 d4 12. Bxd4 Qc6 13. Ne5 Qxg2 14. Nd6+ Kd8 {[#] Now pause\nthe “video”….} 15. Bb6+ $1 {and Black resigned as it mate in two.} axb6 16.\nNdxf7+ Kc7 (16… Ke8 17. Qd8#) 17. Qd6# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nDuring the war he played his part in the Bletchley Park code-breaking undertaking along with Alexander and Golombek\, and after the war went into the Civil Service where he had a distinguished career at the Treasury. Then his career was extended as he spent his final working years in the patronage department that sifted recommendations for the honours list. \nI recall asking him in 1981 if there was any chance that Brian Reilly could qualify for an award. Stuart’s diplomatic answer was to the effect that he was now retired but would drop a word in the right quarter. \nStuart represented England at the Olympiads or 1936\, 1939\, 1952 and 1956. At the last of these he played particularly well on fourth board. He was conscious that his old friend Hugh Alexander could not take part in Moscow because of the sensitive nature of his work in the Intelligence Service. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-12 Preliminaries C”]\n[Site “Moscow”]\n[Date “1956.09.05”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Milner-Barry\, Philip Stuart”]\n[Black “Hanninen\, Veikko”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C29”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “43”]\n[EventDate “1956.09.01”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “URS”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Finland”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “FIN”] \n{[%evp 0\,43\,48\,29\,42\,26\,6\,1\,9\,-36\,-36\,-34\,-38\,-25\,-27\,-27\,8\,7\,4\,-3\,9\,8\,23\,-19\,\n45\,25\,-12\,5\,395\,383\,394\,413\,464\,478\,445\,240\,322\,415\,453\,432\,815\,1004\,1004\,1010\,\n1040\,1040]} {This game appeared in BCM\, 1995\, May\, page 259 within an Obituary\nby Bernard Cafferty.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d5 4. fxe5 Nxe4 5. d3 Nxc3 ({\nSafer than} 5… Qh4+ 6. g3 Nxg3 7. Nf3 Qh5 8. Nxd5 {which is a line\nMilner-Barry revelled in} Nxh1 9. Nxc7+ Kd8 10. Nxa8 Bg4 11. Bg2 Nc6 12. d4\nBxf3 13. Qxf3 Qxf3 14. Bxf3 Nxd4 15. Be4 Bc5 16. c3) 6. bxc3 d4 7. Nf3 c5 8.\nBe2 Be7 9. O-O O-O (9… dxc3) 10. Qe1 f6 (10… dxc3) 11. Qg3 {[#]} fxe5 $2 {\nToo many pawn moves for comfort when the Englishman has so many open lines.} ({\nBetter is} 11… Nc6) 12. Bh6 $16 Bf6 13. Nxe5 $1 Bxe5 $4 $146 {The losing move\n} (13… Nd7 {keeps Black in the game.} 14. cxd4 cxd4 15. Nc4) (13… Qe7 14.\nBf3 Be6 15. Ng4 Bxg4 16. Qxg4 Nd7 17. Rae1 Ne5 18. Qg3 Kh8 19. Bf4 Nxf3+ 20.\nRxf3 Qd7 21. Ref1 dxc3 22. Be5 Qe6 23. Bxc3 Rae8 24. Qf2 Qd6 25. Bxf6 Rxf6 26.\nRxf6 gxf6 27. Qxf6+ Qxf6 28. Rxf6 Re2 29. Rf8+ Kg7 30. Rb8 b6 31. Rb7+ Kg6 32.\nRxa7 Rxc2 33. Ra6 Rb2 34. Ra3 Kf5 35. Kf1 Kf4 36. Ra7 Ke3 37. Re7+ Kxd3 38.\nRxh7 Rxa2 39. Rd7+ {and a draw was agreed in Milner-Barry – Alexander\, British\nChampionship\, round 11\, 1931\, 21st August.}) 14. Qxe5 Rf6 ({Worse is} 14…\ngxh6 15. Rxf8+ Qxf8 16. Bf3 $18) 15. Bxg7 Re6 (15… Kxg7 16. Qg5+ Kh8 17.\nQxf6+ Qxf6 18. Rxf6 {winning.}) 16. Qh5 Qe7 17. Bh6 {[#]} Nd7 {Development at\nlast!} 18. Bg4 Re5 19. Qh3 Nb6 $2 20. Rf8+ $1 Qxf8 21. Bxf8 Kxf8 22. Qxh7 {\nand Black resigned with his position in ruins.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn playing style Milner-Barry\, a tall gaunt figure\, delighted in an open tactical fight. \nHe was The Times correspondent 1938-45\, resigning the post to let Harry Golombek take over. His best result after the war\, apart from the 1956 Moscow Olympiad\, was probably his second place in the British Championships of 1953 at Hastings. The abiding impression of his opponents over the years must have been  that here was a player who greatly enjoyed the game\, win\, lose or draw. \nCertainly\, that was my idea of him in the tussles we had from the British Championship of 1957 up to county matches in the 1980s. \nWe shall not see his like again. The England that formed his character is no longer with us.” \nMilner-Barry Variations\nThough never at home in close(d) positions\, he was an outstanding strategist in the open game and it is significant that his most important contribution to opening theory was the Milner-Barry variation of the Nimzo-Indian Defence which is essentially as attempt to convert a close position into an open one (1.P-Q4\, N-KB3; 2.P-QB4\, P-K3; 3. N-QB3\, B-N5; 4.Q-B2\, N-B3).” \n[fen]rnbqk2r/pppp1ppp/4pn2/8/1bPP4/2N2N2/PP2PPPP/R1BQKB1R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nHooper & Whyld (1996) note: \n“Sometimes called the Zurich or Swiss variation\, this is a line in the Nimzo-Indian Defence introduced by Milner-Barry in the Premier Reserves tournament\, Hastings 1928-9. This line became more widely known when it was played at Zurich 1934.” \nTwo famous opening lines are named after him – 4…Nc6 in the Nimzo-Indian (as above)\, and the gambit in the French Defence: 1.e4 e6;2.d4 d5;3.e5 c5;4.c3 Nc6;5.Nf3 Qb6;6.Bd3 cxd4;7.cxd4 Bd7;8.0-0 Nxd4; \n[fen]r3kbnr/pp1b1ppp/1q2p3/3pP3/3n4/3B1N2/PP3PPP/RNBQ1RK1 w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nStuart played this line both in correspondence and over-the-board play. If Black takes the pawn with 10…Qxe5\, White gets a fierce attack by 11\,Re1 Qd6 (else 12.Nxd5) 12.Nb5. \nThere is also a sub-variation of the Caro-Kann which is named after Sir Stuart viz: \n[fen]rnbqkbnr/pp2pppp/2p5/8/3Pp3/2N2P2/PPP3PP/R1BQKBNR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nwhich is a Blackmar-Diemer style pawn sacrifice. \nThere is also a Milner-Barry variation in the Falkbeer Counter Gambit to the King’s Gambit thus: \n[fen]rnbqkbnr/ppp2ppp/8/3pp3/4PP2/2N5/PPPP2PP/R1BQKBNR b KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \nwhich is an ancient line that he revived at Margate 1937. \nand finally\, there is a Milner-Barry Variation in the Petroff Defence: \n[fen]r1b1kb1r/pppnqppp/3p1n2/6B1/8/3P1N2/PPP1QPPP/RN2KB1R w KQkq – 0 1[/fen] \ngiving a total of five named variations. How many English players have that many? \nProblems and Compositions\nStuart developed an interest in problem composition in the 1920s \nSir Stuart Milner-Barry\, Problem\, Morning Post\, 1923\nSir Stuart Milner-Barry\, Problem\, The Observer\, 1925\nSir Stuart Milner-Barry\, Problem\, British Chess Magazine\, 1926\nFurther examples may be found on the excellent Meson Database maintained by Brian Stephenson \nMilner-Barry on The English Chess Explosion\nStuart was a great supporter of the development of British chess. Nothing would have given him more pleasure than to witness  the meteoric advances of English players in the 1970s. Indeed\, he wrote the foreword to the English Chess Explosion (Batsford\, 1980) by Murray Chandler and Ray Keene: \nThe English Chess Explosion (from Miles to Short)\, Murray Chandler & Ray Keene\, Batsford\, 1981\, ISBN 0 7134 4009 0\n“It gives me great pleasure to have been asked to write a foreword for this book. Nothing has given me more satisfaction than the flowering of British chess talent that has taken place in the past few years. \nBetween the wars\, though we had some splendid players like H. E. Atkins\, Sir George Thomas and F. D. Yates\, we were a second rate power at chess: in the great Nottingham tournament of 1936\, for example\, our quartet brought up the rear\, and that was where\, with occasional shining exceptions\, our representatives in international tournaments tended to find themselves. Similarly\, after the war in the 1950’s and 1960’s\, in spite of Alexander and Penrose\, we seldom achieved a really creditable place in the Olympiads. \nAlexander who retired early from the arena because of the exacting demands of his profession\, must have had rather a depressing time as non-playing captain. \nSir Stuart Milner-Barry OBE\nI myself date the renaissance from the Spring of 1974 when we won a closely contested match against West Germany at Elvetham Hall.\nThereafter we went from strength to strength\, with the appearance year by year of highly talented\, original and adventurous young men from the Universities – Keene and Hartston\, closely followed by Miles\, Stean\, Nunn\, Mestel\, Speelman\, and a still younger generation of schoolboy prodigies like Nigel Short. \nThe peak of our performance so far has been the third place (after the USSR and Hungary) last winter in the finals of the European Team Tournament at Skara (compared with our eighth and last place at Moscow in 1977). \nSir Stuart Milner-Barry OBE presents Dr. Jana Hartston with the ? prize\nHow did all this come about in the short space of six years? The Spassky-Fischer match of 1972 was a watershed. Since then\, and the first time\, it has been possible for able young men from universities to consider chess seriously as a full-time profession\, or at least as a career to which they devote the major part of their time and interest\, Secondly\, the fruits were being reaped of the unobtrusive but devoted spadework in junior training pioneered by Barden\, Wade and many others. Lastly\, no doubt\, sheer good fortune smiled upon us in the simultaneous emergence of a group of brilliant enthusiastic and likeable young men\, five of them already grandmasters and others likely to become so before long. \nIt is sad that Alexander\, who did so much to uphold the prestige of British chess in the doldrums\, did not survive to witness the transformation. I would like to wish the BCF President\, David Anderton\, and Alexander’s successor as captain\, all possible success for the future.” \nFooter from the foreword of The English Chess Explosion (from Miles to Short)\, Murray Chandler & Ray Keene\, Batsford\, 1981\, ISBN 0 7134 4009 0\nFurther Material\nAn obituary from The Independent by Bill Hartston \nAn article from Spartacus Educational \nHere are his games from chess.com \nMore on his time at Bletchley Park \nLocation of his grave \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \n\nSignature of Sir Stuart Milner-Barry\nAccording to Edward Winter in Chess Notes PSMB lived at these addresses : \n\n11 Park Terrace\, Cambridge\, England (Ranneforths Schachkalender\, 1938\, page 78).\n43 Blackheath Park\, Blackheath\, London SE3 9RW\, England (letter reproduced in C.N. 3809).
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Chris Ward (26-iii-1968)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Christopher Geoffrey Ward (26-iii-1968)Here is his Wikipedia entry \nGM Chris Ward\nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Grandmaster and British Chess Champion in 1996. He is the author of several chess books\, among them Winning With the Sicilian Dragon 2 (2001)\, Winning with the Dragon (2003) and The Controversial Samisch King’s Indian (2004).” \nChris plays Jiang Chuan Ye at the 1997 England – China match\nHere are his games \nChris Ward commentating during the Hastings Congress\nChris earned his IM title in 1990 and his GM title in 1996. According to Chessbase and Felice his peak rating was 2531 in July 2003 when he was 35. \nChris is President of the English Primary Schools Chess Association (EPSCA)\, Chris is the Chief Coach of the Kent Junior Chess Association (KJCA). Chris plays for KJCA Kings in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nChris with the British Championship Trophy from 1996 (Nottingham)\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch 83rd”]\n[Site “Nottingham”]\n[Date “1996.??.??”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Ward\, Christopher”]\n[Black “Summerscale\, Aaron”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D10”]\n[WhiteElo “2460”]\n[BlackElo “2500”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “35”]\n[EventDate “1996.08.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 054 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1996.11.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1996.11.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,35\,19\,31\,19\,-16\,26\,44\,57\,1\,11\,9\,1\,0\,15\,-55\,-61\,-68\,-64\,-68\,-50\,-160\,\n18\,45\,12\,-52\,40\,-117\,-37\,-55\,-41\,-41\,98\,-126\,483\,234\,29997\,29998]} 1. d4 d5 2.\nc4 c6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. e4 b5 5. a4 b4 6. Nb1 Ba6 7. Nf3 (7. Qc2 $142 Nf6 8. Nd2\nQxd4 9. Ngf3 b3 10. Nxd4 bxc2 11. f3 c3 12. bxc3 Bxf1 13. Kxf1 $14) 7… Nf6 8.\ne5 Nd5 9. Ng5 (9. e6 f6 10. Be2) 9… h6 $146 10. Qh5 {[#]} hxg5 $2 (10… g6\n$142 11. Qh3 e6 12. Ne4 $17) 11. Qxh8 Nf4 12. Be3 (12. Bxf4 gxf4 13. Nd2 Qxd4\n14. O-O-O Nd7 $13) 12… Qd5 $17 13. f3 Ne6 14. Nd2 Nxd4 15. O-O-O c3 16. Nc4\nBxc4 $2 17. Rxd4 (17. Bxc4 $142 Qxe5 18. Bxd4 $18) 17… Qxe5 $4 18. Qxf8+ {[#]\n} 1-0\n[/pgn] \n“Not sure about best\, but 18.Qxf8+ against Summerscale en route to winning the 1996 British Championship will be forever ingrained in my mind. Sorry\, Aaron!”\n– GM Chris Ward (when asked for his best move) \nSource: Chess Monthly 2017 December \nGM Chris Ward\nEndgame Play\nThe Queen’s Gambit Accepted\nThe Genius of Paul Morphy\nImprove your Opening Play\nWinning With the Sicilian Dragon 2\nStarting Out: The Nimzo-Indian\nIt’s Your Move: Improvers\nUnusual Queen’s Gambit Declined\nWinning with the Dragon\nIt’s Your Move: Tough Puzzles\nStarting Out: Rook Endgames\nThe Controversial Samisch King’s Indian\nPlay the Queen’s Gambit\nStarting Out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WIM Heather Richards (27-iii-1983)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of WIM Heather S Richards (27-iii-1983)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Peter Sowray (29-iii-1959)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday FM Peter John Sowray (29-iii-1959)Born in London\, Peter obtained his FM title in 1984. He has been a regular member of the very strong Wood Green team. His peak rating (according to Chessbase) was 2384 aged 59 in March 2018. He currently plays for Barbican in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL). \nPeter Sowray at the South Bank See image below for caption\nCaption for above image\nPeter Sowray watchign Tony Miles at the Lloyds Bank Masters. Sir Jeremy Morse watches.\nPeter Sowray (top right) with a victorious Wood Green team\nFM Peter Sowray\nHere are Peter’s games from chessgames.com \n[pgn]\n[Event “Barcelona Sants op 16th”]\n[Site “Barcelona”]\n[Date “2014.08.26”]\n[Round “5”]\n[White “Sowray\, Peter John”]\n[Black “Granda Zuniga\, Julio E”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E42”]\n[WhiteElo “2325”]\n[BlackElo “2663”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “2014.08.22”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “10”]\n[EventCountry “ESP”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 162 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2014.10.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2014.10.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,59\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,4\,33\,33\,34\,18\,8\,34\,27\,13\,-2\,1\,21\,3\,30\,6\,17\,-9\,41\,\n43\,43\,59\,47\,55\,53\,38\,53\,53\,70\,44\,50\,51\,33\,-1\,0\,0\,44\,0\,75\,148\,168\,163\,155\,198\,\n143\,222\,259\,233\,235\,240\,254\,254\,348\,421\,517\,558]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4\n4. e3 b6 5. Nge2 c5 6. a3 Ba5 7. Rb1 Qe7 8. Bd2 Na6 9. Ng3 Bb7 10. d5 O-O 11.\nBd3 g6 12. O-O exd5 13. Nxd5 Nxd5 14. cxd5 Bxd2 15. Qxd2 Nc7 16. e4 d6 17. f4\nNe8 18. Rbe1 Nf6 19. e5 dxe5 20. fxe5 Nxd5 21. Qh6 Rfe8 22. Ne4 Qf8 23. Qh4 Qg7\n24. Nd6 Rxe5 25. Rxe5 Qxe5 26. Rxf7 Qe3+ 27. Kh1 h5 28. Rf3 Qc1+ 29. Rf1 Qd2\n30. Qe4 1-0\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Tony Corkett (29-iii-1958)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Anthony R Corkett (29-iii-1958)
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-fm-anthony-r-corkett-29-iii-1958/
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Augustus Mongredien (1807 - 30-iii-1888)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Augustus Mongredien (1807 – 30-iii-1888) \nHere is his Wikipedia entry
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of IMC Ken Messere OBE (16-iv-1928 31-iii-2005)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Ken Messere who passed away on Thursday\, March 31st 2005 aged 76 in Paris-16E-Arrondissement\, Paris\, France. \nKenneth Charles Messere was born on Monday\, April 16th\, 1928 in Richmond-on-Thames\, Surrey. His father was Charles (George) Messere (1901-1974) or Eisenberg and aged 26. His mother was Gertrude Marie Newman (1899-1978) and aged 29. \nKen had three siblings: Barbara Marie Messere (1930–2005)\, Hugh Martin Messere (1932–1985) and Derek R Messere (1934–2012) \nKen attended St. Peter’s College\, Oxford from 1946 – 1951 to read philosophy and is reported in the 1951 St. Edmund Hall Magazine\, as a member of the Trillick (debating) Society as follows: \n‘ That this House would rather be a live Communist than\na dead Democrat.’ The proposer established to his own satisfaction that democracy was founded on ‘selfishness\, capitalism and bourgeois hypocrisy.’ He did not satisfy J. F. R. Bonguard of St. Peter’s Hall who opposed\, using arguments taken from Hindu philosophy. K. C. Messere of St. Peter’s Hall\, spoke third and added some able arguments. \nIn June 1954 Ken married Mary Elizabeth Humphrey (1929-2003) in Ealing. They had a son Miles Jonathan Messere born in 1964 who passed away in 1965. \nPrior the time of his passing his wife Mary was living at 142B\, Herbert Road\, Woolwich\, London\, SE18 3PU. \nIn 1991 he was awarded the OBE (Civil Division) in the Queen’s Birthday honours list. The citation reads: Kenneth Charles Messere\, lately Head of Fiscal Affairs Division\, OECD\, Paris. \nKen appears each year from 1953 to 1967 in the noted publication Britain\, Royal And Imperial Calendars the function of which is to list entries for those engaged in UK public service. He worked for HM Customs and Excise. Prompted by this we consulted the venerable A History of Chess in the English Civil Service by Kevin Thurlow (Conrad Press\, 2021) on page 447 and found \n“He played for Customs. In 1964\, he went to work for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and was head of fiscal affairs from 1971 – 1991. In 1954 he began playing postal chess and became a leading player. He won a semi-final of the 5th World Correspondence Championship (1961 – 64) and became the first English player to compete in a World Championship Final.” \nThere are 31 games listed at his personal entry at chessgames.com starting with games from 1965. \nChessbase’s Correspondence Database 2020 records 69 games the earliest being from 1958 listing Ken’s federation as being France. \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) we have this lengthy contribution from Ken himself: \n“Between the ages of 6\, when I learnt to play and 23 (ed: 1951)\, when I ceased to be a student\, chess had a relatively low priority among various time-competing interests and activities\, so I never got around to studying theory. Things changed when I became a civil servant and needed a replacement for philosophy as an intellectually absorbing subject which could be argued about with friends over beers\, and for the next 12 years chess became my main interest. \nSince 1964 I have been working for the OECD in Paris\, where my friends are not chess enthusiasts and\, although chess remains a major pleasure\, my commitment to it has lessened. Nowadays\, out-side correspondence chess\, I play only occasional blitz games. \nComing late to serious chess has probably had at least some influence on my deficiencies and stylistic preferences. The deficiencies include an inability to visualize ahead with sufficient clarity to support accurate analysis\, slow sight of the board which leads to silly errors through time trouble or failing stamina and less familiarity with theory than my better opponents. As to chess style\, I have had to play romantically and subjectively to get good results. \nIf a game takes the form of a clear-cut position\, where strategical objectives are clear and superior technique prevails\, then mine generally does not. Consequently I have tended to play either sharp gambits or counter-gambits or to try to render the position sufficiently obscure for imagination and intuition to assume maximum importance. In keeping\, my chess heroes have been Alekhine\, Bronstein and Tal who revel in fantasy\, however much Alekhine may claim that it is logically based. \nWhen I took up competitive chess seriously in 1952\, I made some progress and won a few minor tournaments\, but in view of the defects already mentioned\, it soon became clear that my potential for improvement was limited and that nearly all my games were aesthetically flawed. Fortunately\, these defects represent no great handicap at correspondence chess\, where I found myself pleased with a reasonable proportion of the game I played\, and in addition\, capable on the day (or more accurately over the years) of winning against almost anyone. Thus\, against world champions I have two wins and one loss\, (see below). I also have 80 per cent from five games against Russian grandmasters\, even if a meagre 28 per cent from my eighteen games against all correspondence grandmasters. In 1954 when I began playing postal chess competitively\, I did sufficiently well in a few British Postal tournaments to be accepted at a reasonably high level in the official international tournaments. \n[pgn]\n[Event “ICCF Championship 1958-60”]\n[Site “?”]\n[Date “1958.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Messere\, Kenneth Charles”]\n[Black “Bergquist\, Rune”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[Annotator “Ken Messere and BCN”]\n[SetUp “1”]\n[FEN “8/1p1bk3/pK5p/2R1P1p1/2pP4/8/8/8 w – – 0 46”]\n[PlyCount “11”]\n[EventDate “1958.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, page 168”] \n{[%evp 0\,11\,-29\,-29\,-59\,-59\,-11\,-90\,0\,65\,207\,237\,260\,260] [#]} 46. d5 $1 {\nKCM: Capturing either b or c-pawn loses.} ({In fact} 46. Rxc4 $16 {is also\nwinning but not as strong.} g4 47. d5 h5 48. e6 Bb5 49. Kc7 $1 Bxc4 50. d6+\nKxe6 51. d7 $18) (46. Kxb7 $2 g4 47. d5 g3 48. Rxc4 h5 49. Rc2 h4 $19) 46… g4\n47. Rxc4 h5 48. e6 $18 Bb5 $2 {KCM: the move played enables White to sacrifice\nrook and pawn to win with his last pawn.} ({KCM: Correct is} 48… Bxe6 $1 {\nKCM: which should draw after} 49. Re4 $1 Kd6 $1 50. Rxe6+ $1 (50. dxe6 $2 Ke7\n$1 {KCM: wins for Black. BCN: in fact this is winning for white as follows:}\n51. Kc5 g3 52. Re1 b5 53. Kd4 h4 54. Ke5 g2 55. Rc1 a5 56. Rc7+ Ke8 57. Kd6 Kf8\n58. e7+ Kf7 59. Rc8 Kf6 60. e8=Q {etc but this was hideously complicated to\nwork out and SF10 did the work for us!}) 50… Kxd5 51. Rh6 $11) 49. Kc7 $1\nBxc4 50. d6+ Kxe6 51. d7 {and Black resigned six moves later.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nNot without luck (see Diagram l)\, I secured the 75 per cent necessary in two seven-player tournaments to qualify for the fourteen player preliminaries\, the winner of which was to qualify for the following world championship. In the 1961-64 preliminaries\, I played the best chess of my life\, including valid opening innovations\, imaginative pawn and piece sacrifices and even a technically efficient win in a queen and pawn end-game. I won the tournament with eleven wins\, one draw and one loss\, 1.5 points ahead of Maly of Czechoslovakia and two points ahead of Masseev\, the Russian favourite\, thereby obtaining my first norm towards the International Master title. My first annotated game is the win against Maly (ed: to be inserted once we have tracked down the game score!) which was typical stylistically and also crucial\, since if he had won it\, he would have qualified for the World Championship instead of me: the second against Bartha of the United States is the most compulsive and difficult tactical game I have ever played\, the last five moves alone requiring over 100 hours of analysis. \n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch05 sf03 corr”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1962.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Bartha\, Ferenc”]\n[Black “Messere\, Kenneth Charles”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “A41”]\n[Annotator “Messere”]\n[PlyCount “92”]\n[EventDate “1962.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[SourceTitle “Myers”]\n[Source “Myers”]\n[SourceDate “2012.11.12”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2012.11.12”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%mdl 36928][%evp 0\,92\,19\,27\,80\,59\,88\,37\,24\,24\,52\,32\,36\,55\,64\,5\,8\,10\,18\,-40\,0\,\n-17\,9\,-3\,-8\,-8\,1\,-20\,-13\,-123\,-40\,-48\,-27\,-55\,-48\,-48\,-11\,-2\,6\,-21\,58\,92\,92\,92\,\n92\,102\,99\,104\,150\,139\,143\,135\,128\,35\,153\,91\,95\,-17\,-17\,23\,34\,34\,26\,-18\,-18\,-18\,\n-18\,-66\,0\,-6\,-1\,-47\,-72\,-72\,-72\,-105\,-40\,-40\,-52\,-51\,-50\,-50\,-50\,-70\,-40\,-28\,0\,\n-86\,0\,-5\,0\,0\,0\,-63\,-63] Messere: My game with Bartha\, superficially a wild\ntactical skirmish\, required a number of unexpected moves by both players for\nsurvival even in the beginning. The last five moves\, which took me at least\n100 hours of analysis going nearly twenty moves deep in several variations\,\nrendered it quite the most compulsive game I have ever played. That the margin\nbetween win and draw was so fine and that in many variations K and two pawns\ndefeated K\, R\, N and pawns made it even more deeply absorbing.} 1. Nf3 {\nMyers Harding Messere} d6 2. d4 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. e4 Bg4 5. Be2 Nc6 6. Be3 e5 7.\nd5 Bxf3 8. Bxf3 Nd4 {[#]} 9. Bg4 $146 (9. Bxd4 $1 exd4 10. Nd2 (10. Na3 Ne7 11.\nO-O c6 12. Rb1 O-O 13. Nc2 c5 14. b4 Nc8 15. Qd3 Qc7 16. Be2 Re8 17. bxc5 dxc5\n18. f4 b5 19. Rxb5 Nd6 20. e5 Nxb5 21. cxb5 Qa5 22. d6 Qxa2 23. Qc4 Qb2 24. Bf3\nRab8 25. Bc6 Red8 26. Qxc5 d3 27. Nb4 d2 28. Nd3 Qb3 29. Nf2 Qa4 30. g3 a6 31.\nb6 Rdc8 32. b7 Rxc6 33. Qa7 Rxb7 34. Qxb7 Rc1 35. Qf3 Qd4 36. Kg2 Re1 37. Nd1\nBf8 38. Qf2 Qd5+ 39. Kg1 Rxf1+ 40. Kxf1 f6 41. exf6 Bxd6 42. Qe3 Kf7 43. Ke2\nBc5 44. Qc3 Qe4+ 45. Kf1 Qh1+ 46. Ke2 Qxh2+ 47. Kf3 Qh1+ {0-1 Portisch\,\nL-Timman\,J/Antwerp 1989/}) 10… Ne7 (10… c5 11. dxc6 bxc6 12. b4 Rb8 (12…\nNe7 13. O-O O-O 14. Nb3 Qb6 15. a3 Rab8 16. c5 dxc5 17. Nxc5 Rfd8 18. Nd3 a5\n19. Qc2 axb4 20. axb4 Ra8 21. g3 Ra7 22. Rxa7 Qxa7 23. e5 Qa6 24. Re1 Nd5 25.\ne6 Qb5 26. exf7+ Kxf7 27. Qe2 Bf6 28. Qe6+ Kg7 29. Ne5 Rf8 30. Bxd5 cxd5 31.\nNd7 Rf7 32. Nxf6 Rxf6 33. Qe7+ Rf7 34. Qe5+ Kh6 35. Qxd4 Qc4 36. Qd2+ Kg7 37.\nRc1 Qe4 38. b5 d4 39. Qb2 Rb7 40. b6 Qe5 41. Ra1 Qc5 42. Rb1 h5 43. Qb5 Qd6 44.\nQb4 Qf6 45. Rb3 Qd8 46. Qb5 Qd6 47. h4 d3 48. Qa6 Rd7 49. Qa1+ Qd4 50. Qd1 d2\n51. Rb1 Qe4 {1/2-1/2 Epishin\,V-Gulko\,B/Yerevan 1996/}) 13. Rb1 Ne7 14. a3 O-O\n15. Nb3 c5 16. b5 f5 17. O-O Kh8 18. a4 fxe4 19. Bxe4 d5 20. Bd3 dxc4 21. Bxc4\nQd6 22. Rc1 Rbc8 23. Qd3 Rf5 24. Nd2 Nd5 25. Bxd5 Qxd5 26. Nc4 Rcf8 27. Rce1\nRg5 28. Re4 Rf4 29. Rfe1 h5 30. a5 Kh7 31. g3 Rxe4 32. Rxe4 Rf5 33. b6 axb6 34.\naxb6 Rf7 35. Kg2 Re7 36. f3 Rxe4 37. fxe4 Qb7 38. Qf3 Qa6 39. Qb3 Be5 40. Qd3\nBb8 41. e5 Qa2+ 42. Kg1 Kg7 43. Qf1 Qc2 44. Nd6 d3 45. Qf6+ Kh7 46. Qe7+ Kg8\n47. Qd8+ Kg7 48. Qd7+ Kh6 49. Nf7+ Kg7 50. Ng5+ Kh6 51. Nf7+ Kg7 52. Nd6+ Kh6\n53. Nf7+ {1/2-1/2 Epishin\,V-McNab\,C/Catalan Bay 2003/}) (10… Nf6 11. O-O Nd7\n12. Be2 d3 13. Bxd3 Bxb2 14. Rb1 Bg7 15. f4 O-O 16. Nf3 Qf6 17. Qd2 Bh6 18. g3\nNc5 19. Rbe1 Rae8 20. Bb1 Qd8 21. h4 Qd7 22. Kg2 Qa4 23. Qc2 Re7 24. Rf2 Rfe8\n25. Rfe2 Bg7 26. e5 a6 27. h5 Qxc2 28. Bxc2 dxe5 29. hxg6 hxg6 30. fxe5 f5 31.\ne6 Bf6 32. g4 fxg4 33. Ne5 Bh4 34. Rh1 Nxe6 35. dxe6 Rxe6 36. Rxh4 Rxe5 37. Rf2\nRg5 38. Rd2 Re7 39. Bd1 Kg7 40. Rxg4 Rxg4+ 41. Bxg4 Re4 42. Bc8 b6 43. Bxa6 Kf7\n44. Rd7+ Re7 45. Rxe7+ Kxe7 46. c5 bxc5 47. a4 Kd6 48. a5 {1-0 Epishin\,\nV-Djuric\,S/Cutro 1999/}) 11. Be2 O-O 12. O-O c5 (12… c6 13. Nf3 Qb6 14. Qd2\nf5 15. Bd3 fxe4 16. Bxe4 cxd5 17. cxd5 Rac8 18. Qe2 Bf6 19. Ne1 Bg7 20. Nd3\nRce8 21. Rfe1 Qb5 22. g3 Nxd5 23. Nf4 Nc7 24. Qxb5 Nxb5 25. Ne6 Rxe6 26. Bd5\nKh8 27. Rxe6 d3 28. Rd1 Bd4 29. Rxd3 Bxf2+ 30. Kg2 Nd4 31. Re4 Nc2 32. Rf3 Ne1+\n33. Rxe1 Rxf3 34. Re8+ {1-0 Epishin\,V-Gulko\,B/Philadelphia 1998/}) 13. f4 (13.\ng3 Nc8 14. h4 Nb6 15. h5 Nd7 16. hxg6 hxg6 17. Kg2 Re8 18. Rh1 Rb8 19. f4 a6\n20. a4 d3 21. Bxd3 Bxb2 22. Ra2 Bf6 23. e5 dxe5 24. f5 g5 25. Ne4 Bg7 26. f6\nNxf6 27. Rf2 b5 28. Nxf6+ Bxf6 29. Rh7 e4 30. Qh5 Rb7 31. Be2 bxc4 32. d6 Qxd6\n33. Bxc4 Re6 34. Rxf6 Rb2+ 35. Kh3 g4+ 36. Qxg4+ {1-0 Epishin\,V-De la Villa\nGarcia\,J/Lausanne 2001/}) 13… a6 14. Bd3 Rb8 15. h4 b5 16. h5 Nc8 17. hxg6\nfxg6 18. Qg4 Kh8 19. b3 Nb6 20. Nf3 Qd7 21. Qxd7 Nxd7 22. g3 bxc4 23. bxc4 Rb2\n24. Rf2 Rxf2 25. Kxf2 Rb8 26. Re1 Rb2+ 27. Re2 Rxe2+ 28. Kxe2 Bf6 29. Bc2 Kg7\n30. Kd3 g5 31. Ba4 Nb6 32. Be8 Kf8 33. Bh5 gxf4 34. gxf4 Na4 35. e5 Be7 36. Nd2\nNc3 37. Ne4 dxe5 38. d6 Bxd6 39. Nxd6 exf4 40. Ne4 Na4 41. Kc2 {1-0 Epishin\,\nV-Hennig\,D/Hamburg 1997/}) (9. Nc3 Ne7 10. h4 (10. g4 c5 11. h4 a6 12. Be2 Rb8\n13. h5 h6 14. hxg6 fxg6 15. g5 hxg5 16. Rxh8+ Bxh8 17. Bxg5 b5 18. b3 bxc4 19.\nBxc4 Qd7 20. Bxa6 Qh3 21. Be3 Nf3+ 22. Ke2 Nd4+ 23. Kd3 Bf6 24. Qh1 Qd7 25. Bc4\nKd8 26. Qg2 Qa7 27. Rh1 Qa3 28. Bc1 Qa5 29. Rh7 Rb7 30. Rf7 Nxd5 31. Bxd5 {\n1-0 Ftacnik\,L-Lipka\,J/Czechia 2001/}) 10… h5 (10… c5 11. h5 a6 12. Be2 f5\n13. hxg6 hxg6 14. Rxh8+ Bxh8 15. Bd3 Kd7 16. b4 f4 17. Bxd4 exd4 18. Na4 cxb4\n19. c5 Ke8 20. Qg4 dxc5 21. Nxc5 Qc8 22. Qh4 Qxc5 23. Qxh8+ Kf7 24. Qh7+ Kf6\n25. Kf1 Re8 26. e5+ Kxe5 27. Qf7 Qc8 28. Re1+ {1-0 Krasenkow\,M-Zlotnikov\,M/\nVoskresensk 1992/}) 11. Be2 c5 12. Bd3 Qd7 13. a3 O-O 14. b4 b6 15. Rb1 f5 16.\nbxc5 bxc5 17. Bg5 f4 18. Qa4 Rfd8 19. Qxd7 Rxd7 20. Kd2 Kf7 21. Nb5 Nxb5 22.\nRxb5 Bf6 23. Rhb1 Bxg5 24. hxg5 Ke8 25. Bc2 Kd8 26. Ba4 Rc7 27. Ra5 a6 28. Rb6\nNc8 29. Rbxa6 Rxa6 30. Rxa6 h4 31. Bd1 Rb7 32. Kc2 f3 33. Bxf3 Rf7 34. Bg4\nRxf2+ 35. Kb3 Rxg2 36. Be6 h3 37. Ra8 Rxg5 38. Rxc8+ Ke7 39. Rh8 Rg3+ 40. Ka4\nRc3 41. Kb5 {1-0 Krasenkow\,M-Kakageldyev\,A/Oviedo 1993/}) ({Relevant:} 9. Nc3\nNe7 10. h4 c5 11. Bg4 f5 12. exf5 gxf5 13. Bh5+ Ng6 14. g4 Qd7 15. gxf5 Qxf5\n16. Bg4 Qc2 17. Rb1 h5 18. Bxh5 Qxd1+ 19. Bxd1 Nxh4 20. Ba4+ Ke7 {1/2-1/2 (20)\nSalm\,M-O’Kelly de Galway\,A ICCF corr 1959}) 9… c5 $2 (9… Nf6 $142 $1 {\nMessere} 10. Bxd4 exd4 11. Nd2 O-O 12. O-O c5 13. Rb1 Qa5 (13… Re8 14. Bf3\nBh6 15. b4 b6 16. b5 Bxd2 17. Qxd2 Nxe4 18. Bxe4 Rxe4 19. Rfe1 Rxe1+ 20. Rxe1\nQd7 21. a4 a6 22. Qg5 axb5 23. axb5 Kg7 24. h3 h6 25. Qc1 Qf5 26. Rd1 Ra2 27.\nRd2 Qf4 28. Rc2 Qxc1+ 29. Rxc1 d3 30. Kf1 Rc2 31. Rd1 Rxc4 32. Rxd3 Rb4 33. Ke2\nRxb5 34. Re3 c4 35. Rc3 Rb2+ 36. Ke1 b5 37. h4 Kf6 38. g4 Ke5 39. Rf3 f5 40. h5\ngxh5 41. Rxf5+ Ke4 42. Rxh5 c3 43. Rxh6 Rb1+ 44. Ke2 c2 45. f3+ Kd4 {0-1\nFernandes\,E-Silveira\,N/Vitoria BRA 2006/}) 14. Bh3 Qxa2 15. f4 Rae8 16. Re1 Qa5\n17. e5 Nh5 18. e6 fxe6 19. Bxe6+ Kh8 20. g3 Qc7 21. Ne4 Bh6 22. Qd3 Ng7 23. Nf2\nNf5 24. Ng4 Bg7 25. h4 b5 26. b3 Qa5 27. Rec1 Rb8 28. Ra1 Qb6 29. Rab1 bxc4 30.\nbxc4 Qc7 31. Nf2 Ne3 32. Ne4 Rxb1 33. Rxb1 Rb8 34. Ng5 Bf6 35. Ne4 Bd8 36. Re1\nRb2 37. Nxd6 Rg2+ 38. Kh1 Rxg3 39. Nf7+ Kg7 40. Qe4 Qe7 41. Qe5+ Qf6 42. Nxd8\nQxe5 43. fxe5 d3 44. d6 d2 45. Rb1 Rg2 46. Bg4 Rxg4 47. Ne6+ Kf7 48. d7 Rxh4+\n49. Kg1 Rg4+ 50. Kh1 Rd4 51. Nxd4 Ke7 52. Nc2 d1=Q+ 53. Rxd1 Nxd1 54. e6 Nf2+\n55. Kg2 Ne4 56. Ne3 Ng5 57. Nd5+ Kd8 58. Nf4 a5 59. Kg3 a4 60. Kg4 h6 61. Nxg6\nNxe6 62. Ne5 a3 63. Kf5 Nf8 {0-1 Beutelhoff\,J-Bednarski\,J/Dortmund 1975/}) (\n9… Ne7 10. Nc3 (10. f4 O-O 11. fxe5 dxe5 12. O-O c5 13. dxc6 bxc6 14. Nc3 Qb6\n15. Na4 Qb4 16. b3 Rad8 17. Qc1 f5 18. Bd1 fxe4 19. Nc3 Rxf1+ 20. Kxf1 Rf8+ 21.\nKe1 Nef5 22. a3 Qb6 23. Bf2 e3 24. Bg1 Nh4 25. Qb2 e4 26. b4 Ndf3+ 27. gxf3\nexf3 28. c5 f2+ 29. Bxf2 exf2+ 30. Qxf2 Bxc3+ {0-1 Chekhova Kostina\,T-Frog\,I/\nMoscow 1991/}) (10. h4 h5 11. Bh3 O-O 12. Nc3 c5 13. Rc1 f5 14. exf5 Nexf5 15.\nBg5 Bf6 16. Ne4 Be7 17. Rc3 a6 18. Bxf5 Nxf5 19. g4 Nxh4 20. Bh6 Rf7 21. gxh5\ng5 22. Rg1 Kh7 23. Nxg5+ Bxg5 24. Bxg5 Qg8 25. Rcg3 Nf5 26. Qc2 e4 27. Rg4 Rg7\n28. Qe2 Re8 29. Bf6 Rxg4 30. Rxg4 Qf7 31. Rg6 Nd4 32. Qg4 Rg8 33. Rxg8 Qxg8 34.\nQxe4+ Kh6 35. Bxd4 cxd4 36. Qe6+ Kh7 37. Qxg8+ Kxg8 38. c5 {1-0 Luna\,J-Duin\,L/\nBuenos Aires 1965/}) (10. O-O c5 11. Bxd4 cxd4 12. Qa4+ Kf8 13. f4 exf4 14.\nRxf4 Be5 15. Rf1 Kg7 16. Qb3 b6 17. Nd2 Rf8 18. Qd3 a6 19. Nf3 b5 20. c5 f6 21.\nNxd4 Bxd4+ 22. Qxd4 g5 23. Bf5 Ng6 24. Bxg6 hxg6 25. b4 Qe7 26. Rac1 Rh8 27. h3\ng4 28. cxd6 Qxd6 29. Rc6 Qe5 30. Qxe5 fxe5 31. Rff6 gxh3 32. Rxg6+ Kf7 33. Rxa6\nhxg2 34. Raf6+ Ke7 35. Re6+ Kf7 36. Rxg2 Rac8 37. Rf2+ Kg7 38. Rxe5 Rh4 39. d6\nRc1+ 40. Kg2 Rd1 41. Rg5+ Kh6 42. Rd5 Rxd5 43. exd5 Rd4 44. Rf8 Rxd5 45. Rd8\nKg5 46. d7 {1-0 Glawischnig\,A-Wilczek\,R/Feffernitz 1999/}) 10… O-O 11. Nb5 c5\n12. dxc6 Nexc6 13. O-O a6 14. Nxd4 exd4 15. Bf4 Re8 16. Re1 Ne5 17. Be2 Qb6 18.\nQb3 Qc6 19. Bf1 Nd7 20. f3 Nc5 21. Qa3 a5 22. Rad1 Ra6 23. Bg3 Qb6 24. b3 Qb4\n25. Qxb4 axb4 26. Bd3 Rxa2 27. Bxd6 b6 28. Re2 Rea8 29. Rxa2 Rxa2 30. Bc7 Bh6\n31. h4 Nd7 32. Bf1 Rb2 33. Bd6 Rxb3 34. f4 Nc5 35. Rxd4 Ne6 36. Rd3 Rxd3 37.\nBxd3 b3 38. g3 Bg7 39. e5 Bf8 40. Kf2 Bxd6 41. exd6 Kf8 42. Ke3 Ke8 43. f5 Nc5\n44. fxg6 fxg6 45. h5 Nxd3 46. hxg6 hxg6 47. Kxd3 Kd7 48. Kc3 Kxd6 49. Kxb3 Ke5\n50. Kb4 Kd4 51. g4 g5 52. Kb5 Kd3 53. Kb4 {1/2-1/2 Krijgelmans\,J-Marechal\,A/\nBelgium 2002/}) (9… h5 10. Bxd4 hxg4 11. Bc3 Qh4 12. Qa4+ Kf8 13. Nd2 Bh6 14.\nNf1 Nf6 15. Ng3 Bf4 16. Qb4 b6 17. Bd2 Kg7 18. O-O-O Nh5 19. Qc3 Qf6 20. Rdf1\nRh7 21. Ne2 Rah8 22. f3 Qg5 23. fxg4 Bxd2+ 24. Qxd2 Qxg4 25. Qe3 Nf6 26. Nc3\nRxh2 27. Rxh2 Rxh2 28. Qf3 Qg5+ 29. Kd1 Rxg2 30. Rf2 Rxf2 31. Qxf2 Qg4+ 32. Qe2\na6 {0-1 Facino\,H-Dolezal\,C/San Fernando 1992/}) 10. Qa4+ $146 (10. Nc3 $5 h5 (\n10… Nh6 11. h3 f5 12. exf5 Nhxf5 13. O-O O-O 14. Bd2 a6 15. Be2 b5 16. cxb5\nNxe2+ 17. Qxe2 Nd4 18. Qc4 axb5 19. Nxb5 Nxb5 20. Qxb5 Rb8 21. Qc4 Rxb2 22. Bc3\nRf4 23. Qd3 Rb7 24. a4 Qa8 25. a5 c4 26. Qd2 Bh6 27. Qe2 Qa6 28. Rfb1 Rbf7 29.\nBd2 Rh4 30. Rb6 Qc8 31. Bxh6 Rxh6 32. a6 c3 33. a7 Rxa7 34. Rxa7 c2 35. Qxc2\nQxc2 36. Rb8+ {1-0 Janjgava\,L-Fang\,J/Philadelphia 1990/}) 11. Qa4+ Kf8 12. Bh3\ng5 13. g3 a6 14. Qd1 b5 15. Bf1 b4 16. Nb1 Nh6 17. Nd2 Bf6 18. Bd3 Ng8 19. a3\na5 20. Qa4 Rb8 21. axb4 axb4 22. Qa5 Qe7 23. Qa7 Rb7 24. Qa8+ Kg7 25. Qc8 Rc7\n26. Qh3 g4 27. Qg2 Bg5 28. h3 Nh6 29. h4 Bf6 30. Rf1 Ra7 31. Rb1 Ra2 32. Kd1\nQd7 33. Bxd4 exd4 34. Kc1 b3 35. Kd1 Rha8 36. Ke2 Qa4 37. Rfd1 Re8 38. Kf1 Qb4\n39. Kg1 Bd8 40. Qf1 Ba5 41. Kh1 Qb7 42. f4 f5 43. Qg2 Bxd2 44. Rxd2 fxe4 45.\nBxe4 Qe7 46. Bd3 Qe3 47. Rbd1 Kf6 48. Re2 Qxe2 49. Bxe2 Rxb2 50. f5 Rexe2 51.\nQf1 Rf2 52. Qe1 Rbe2 53. Qa5 Nxf5 54. Qd8+ Kf7 {0-1 Knyshenko-Katalymov\,B/\nSochi 1952/}) 10… Kf8 11. Nd2 (11. Nc3 a6 12. Bxd4 $2 (12. O-O $142 $1 Nf6\n13. Qd1 b5 14. cxb5 axb5 15. f3 $16 {Myers}) 12… exd4 13. Ne2 Nf6 14. Bf3 Nd7\n15. O-O Ne5 16. Ng3 h5 17. Bd1 h4 18. Ne2 b5 19. cxb5 axb5 20. Qxb5 Rb8 21. Qa6\nRxb2 22. f4 Ng4 23. Qd3 Ne3 24. Rf3 c4 25. Qa3 Nxd1 26. Rxd1 Rxe2 27. e5 d3 28.\nQb4 Rc2 29. a4 Kg8 30. e6 fxe6 31. dxe6 h3 32. Qb7 Bd4+ 33. Rf2 Bxf2+ {0-1\nJackson\,D-Harper\,B/London 1972/}) 11… h5 (11… Bh6 12. O-O Kg7 13. Bd1 f5\n14. Qa3 $16 {[%cal Gb2b4\,Ge4f5] Myers}) 12. Bd1 $1 a6 13. Bxd4 (13. b4 $5 b5\n14. Qa3 cxb4 15. Qxb4 a5 16. Qc3 b4 17. Qd3 Qh4 18. Nf3 Nxf3+ 19. Bxf3 Bh6 20.\nc5 Bxe3 21. Qxe3 dxc5 22. Rc1 $16 {Myers}) (13. O-O $5 a5 14. f4 Nh6 15. h3 Kg8\n16. Nb3 Kh7 17. fxe5 Bxe5 18. Nxd4 Bxd4 19. Bxd4 cxd4 20. Bc2 $16 {Myers})\n13… exd4 (13… cxd4 $5) 14. b4 $6 (14. O-O $142 $5 h4 15. Rb1 h3 16. g3 Qe8\n17. Qa3 Nf6 18. Re1 $16 {Myers}) 14… Bh6 (14… d3 $5) 15. Nf3 b5 $6 (15…\nb6 16. bxc5 bxc5 17. O-O $14) (15… Qe7 $2 16. O-O $1 Qxe4 $2 17. Re1 $16) (\n15… Qe8 $142 $1 $14 {Harding}) (15… Nf6 $142 $5 $14 {Myers}) 16. Qb3 (16.\ncxb5 $5) 16… Nf6 17. Bc2 Kg7 $6 (17… Qb6 $142 $1 $14 {Myers}) 18. O-O Re8 (\n18… Qb6 $5) 19. Rae1 $6 (19. bxc5 $142 $1 dxc5 20. Rfe1 Rb8 21. e5 $1 $16 {\nMyers}) 19… a5 $2 (19… Qb6 $5) 20. bxc5 bxc4 21. Qxc4 dxc5 22. d6 $1 (22.\ne5 $6 Nxd5 23. Be4 $8 (23. Bb3 $2 a4 $17) 23… Nb6 $5 (23… Nf4 $6 24. Bxa8\nQxa8 25. Qxc5 d3 26. Rd1 $16) 24. Qxc5 Rc8 25. Qb5 Nc4 26. Bb7 Rc7 27. Bd5 $14\n{Harding}) (22. Qxc5 $2 Rc8 23. Qxd4 Rxc2 24. d6 Re6 25. e5 Nd7 26. Qa7 $132 {\n[%cal Yf3d4] Myers}) 22… Nd7 23. e5 $1 Bf4 24. Qd5 $1 Rc8 25. g3 (25. Bb3 $5\nRf8 26. Qe4 Bh6 27. Bc2 $18 {Harding}) 25… Bh6 26. Nh4 $2 (26. e6 $3 {Harding\n} fxe6 27. Rxe6 Rxe6 28. Qxe6 Qe8 (28… Nf8 29. Qd5 $1 Qd7 30. Ne5 $18 {\nHarding}) 29. Qh3 $1 {[%cal Yf1e1]} Qf7 (29… Nf8 30. Re1 Qc6 31. Ne5 $18 {\nHarding}) 30. Nh4 $1 Rd8 31. Bxg6 Qf6 32. Re1 Nf8 33. Bd3 $18 {Myers}) (26. Rb1\n{[%cal Yb1b7]} Rb8 27. Rxb8 Qxb8 28. Bb3 Rf8 29. Qe4 $5 Qc8 30. Re1 $18 {Myers}\n) 26… Nb6 27. Qe4 Nc4 {[%cal Yc4d6\,Yc4e5]} 28. Qb7 $2 (28. Nxg6 $142 $5 {\nMessere} Nxd6 $8 (28… Nd2 $2 29. Qf5 Qg5 30. Ne7 Qxf5 31. Nxf5+ $18 {[%cal\nGe5e6]}) 29. Qd3 {[%csl Rh7][%cal Yg6e7]} c4 $8 30. Qxd4 $8 Nf5 31. Qxd8 $8\nRcxd8 $8 (31… Rexd8 $2 32. Bxf5 $18) 32. Bxf5 fxg6 33. Bb1 $14 {Harding}) (\n28. Nf5+ $142 $1 {Harding} gxf5 29. Qxf5 $1 Rh8 $8 (29… Kf8 $2 30. d7 $18)\n30. Bb3 $5 (30. d7 Rb8 31. e6 Qf6 32. Qxc5 Nb6 33. f4 $1 fxe6 34. Bb3 Nxd7 35.\nQd6 Rbe8 36. Qxd7+ $16 {Harding}) 30… Qg5 31. Qxg5+ Bxg5 32. Bxc4 Bd2 33. Re2\nBc3 34. f4 Rcd8 35. f5 Rhf8 36. Re4 $18 {Myers}) 28… Rxe5 (28… Rb8 29. Qd5\nNd2 30. e6 $1 $16 Rxe6 (30… Nxf1 $2 31. Nf5+ $1 $18) (30… fxe6 31. Qxc5\nNxf1 $2 32. Qa7+ $18) 31. Rxe6 fxe6 32. Qe5+ Qf6 33. Qxc5 Kg8 34. Qc7 Rf8 (\n34… Qd8 35. Bxg6 $18) 35. Nxg6 Nxf1 36. Nxf8 Be3 37. fxe3 Nd2 38. Bh7+ Kxf8\n39. Qc8+ Kg7 40. Qg8+ Kh6 41. Qg6+ Qxg6 42. Bxg6 dxe3 43. d7 e2 44. Kf2 Nf3 45.\nKxe2 Nd4+ 46. Ke3 Nc6 47. Be4 Nd8 48. Kd4 $18 {Harding}) 29. Rxe5 Nxe5 30. Bxg6\n$5 (30. f4 Qd7 {Tait} (30… Nc4 $5 31. Bxg6 Nxd6 32. Nf5+ Kxg6 33. Nxd6 Qxd6\n34. Qxc8 d3 35. Qh8 d2 36. Rd1 $11) (30… Nd7 31. Bxg6 fxg6 32. Re1 Rb8 33.\nRe7+ Qxe7 34. dxe7 Rxb7 35. e8=Q Nf8 36. Qe5+ $18 {Myers}) 31. Qe4 Nc6 (31…\nQxd6 $1 32. fxe5 Qc6 33. Qg2 Qxg2+ 34. Kxg2 c4 $15 {Myers}) 32. Nxg6 Qxd6 33.\nNe5 (33. Nh4 Kf8 $1 34. Qh7 Qf6 35. Bd3 Ne7 36. Rc1 $11 {Myers}) (33. Qf5 Qe6\n34. Nh4 Kf8 35. Qxh5 Ne7 36. Nf5 $11 {Myers}) 33… d3 34. Bxd3 Qd4+ 35. Qxd4\nNxd4 36. Rb1 Nc6 37. Nxc6 Rxc6 38. Bc4 Kg6 39. Rb7 f5 40. Ra7 $16) (30. Qd5 $2\nNd7 $1 31. Bb3 Qf6 32. Rd1 Rd8 $17 {Myers}) (30. Re1 $5 d3 31. Ba4 d2 32. Rxe5\nQxd6 33. Rd5 {Harding} Qe6 34. Rd7 Rb8 35. Rxf7+ Qxf7 36. Qxb8 Bg5 37. Qb2+ $16\n{Myers}) 30… Qd7 $8 (30… Nd7 $2 31. Bxh5 Rb8 32. Nf5+ Kh7 33. Qd5 $18 {\nMyers}) (30… Rb8 $6 31. Qd5 fxg6 (31… Nxg6 $2 32. Nf5+ $18) 32. Qxe5+ Kh7 (\n32… Qf6 33. Qxc5 $18) 33. Qxc5 $1 Bf8 34. Qa7+ Bg7 35. d7 $1 $18) (30… Nxg6\n$2 31. Nf5+ Kf8 32. Nxh6 Ne5 33. Re1 $18) 31. Nf5+ $2 (31. Qxd7 $142 $1 Nxd7\n32. Bxh5 Bg5 33. Nf5+ Kf6 34. Ne7 $1 Rh8 35. Bg4 Ne5 36. Nd5+ Kg6 37. Bd1 $16 {\nMyers}) 31… Kf6 32. Qxd7 Nxd7 33. Ne7 Rb8 $2 (33… fxg6 $6 34. Nxc8 c4 35.\nf4 c3 36. Kf2 Bg7 37. Ke2 Ke6 38. Re1 Kd5 39. h3 $14 {Myers}) (33… Rh8 $142\n$1 34. Bxh5 $1 c4 $5 (34… Bf8 35. Nd5+ Ke6 $15 {Harding}) 35. Bg4 Ne5 $1 36.\nNd5+ Kg6 37. Bc8 Bd2 38. f4 Nd3 39. d7 c3 $17 {Myers}) 34. Bf5 $2 (34. Bxh5\n$142 $1 Bd2 35. Bg4 $1 Nf8 36. Rd1 Rb2 37. Nc6 Rxa2 38. d7 $1 Nxd7 39. Bxd7 d3\n40. Be8 $16 {Myers}) 34… Rb7 $1 (34… Ne5 35. f4 $5 (35. Bc8 Bf8 36. Nd5+\nKg7 37. d7 Nc6 38. Rc1 $14) 35… Nc4 36. Nc6 Nxd6 37. Nxb8 Kxf5 38. Nc6 d3 39.\nKf2 c4 40. Nxa5 $14) 35. Be4 $2 (35. f4 $5 Bf8 $1 (35… c4 36. Rd1 d3 37. Bxd7\nRxd7 38. Nd5+ Ke6 39. Ne3 Rxd6 40. Nxc4 $14 {Harding}) 36. Re1 $1 (36. Rc1 $2\nBxe7 37. dxe7 Kxe7 38. Bxd7 Rxd7 39. Rxc5 d3 40. Rc1 Kf6 $17 {Harding}) 36…\nc4 37. Bxd7 Rxd7 38. Nd5+ Kg6 39. Nb6 Rxd6 40. Nxc4 Rd5 41. Rd1 $11 {Myers}) (\n35. Re1 $5 c4 36. Bxd7 Rxd7 37. Nd5+ Kg7 38. Nb6 Rxd6 39. Nxc4 Rd5 40. Rd1 $11\n{Myers}) 35… Rb2 36. Ng8+ Ke5 $1 (36… Kg7 $2 37. Nxh6 Kxh6 38. Bf5 $1 Nf6\n39. d7 Nxd7 40. Bxd7 Rxa2 41. Rd1 $16 {Myers}) 37. Bc6 Kxd6 $2 (37… Nb8 $142\n$1 {Myers} 38. Be8 (38. f4+ Kxd6 39. Be8 Bg7 40. Bxf7 Nd7 $17) 38… Bd2 39.\nBxf7 (39. d7 Nxd7 40. Bxd7 c4 41. Be8 Ke6 42. Ba4 c3 $19 {Myers}) 39… Kxd6\n40. f4 Nd7 41. Nh6 Ke7 42. Bxh5 c4 $1 (42… Rxa2 43. Nf5+ Kf6 44. Nd6 Be3+ 45.\nKh1 a4 46. g4 a3 $17 {Harding}) 43. Nf5+ Kf8 44. Nxd4 Be3+ 45. Kh1 Bxd4 46. Rd1\nc3 47. Rxd4 c2 48. Rc4 Rxa2 49. Rc8+ Ke7 50. Re8+ Kf6 51. Rc8 Ra1+ 52. Kg2 c1=Q\n53. Rxc1 Rxc1 $19 {Myers}) 38. Bxd7 Bd2 (38… Kxd7 39. Nxh6 Ke6 $1 40. Re1+\nKd5 41. Re8 c4 42. Nf5 c3 $1 (42… Rxa2 43. Rd8+ Ke4 44. Nxd4 c3 45. Nb3 a4\n46. Nc5+ Ke5 47. Nd3+ Ke4 48. Nc5+ $11 {Harding}) 43. Rd8+ Ke4 44. Nxd4 Rd2 45.\nf3+ Ke5 46. Nc6+ Kf6 47. Rc8 c2 48. Nxa5 Rd1+ 49. Kg2 $1 c1=Q 50. Rxc1 Rxc1 51.\nNb3 Rc2+ 52. Kh3 Rxa2 53. f4 {Harding} Kf5 54. Nd4+ Ke4 55. Nb5 Rd2 56. Nc7 Rd7\n57. Na6 Kd5 $1 58. Kh4 Rb7 59. Kxh5 Kd6 60. Kg5 Rb6 $19 {Myers}) 39. Bf5 $6 (\n39. Be8 $2 c4 40. Bxf7 c3 41. Bg6 c2 42. Bxc2 Rxc2 43. Nf6 Rxa2 (43… Ke5 44.\nNxh5 d3 {Messere} 45. a4 Ra2 46. Rd1 Kd4 47. Nf6 Bc3 48. Kf1 Rxa4 $17 {Myers})\n44. Ne4+ Kd5 45. Nxd2 Rxd2 46. Ra1 d3 47. Rxa5+ Kd4 48. Ra1 Kc3 $17 {Myers}) (\n39. Ba4 $5 c4 40. Nf6 Rxa2 (40… Ke5 41. Nd7+ Kd6 42. Nf6 Rxa2 43. Bb5 c3 $15)\n41. Bb5 Kc5 (41… c3 $5 42. Bc4 Rb2 43. Ne4+ Ke7 44. Bd3 f5 45. Nxd2 Rxd2 46.\nBxf5 Kf6 (46… c2 47. Bxc2 Rxc2 48. Rd1 Rc4 $15) 47. Be4 d3 (47… Ke5 {\nHarding} 48. Re1 Kf6 49. f4 a4 50. Ra1 $14) 48. Rc1 c2 49. Bf3 Ke5 50. Bxh5 Kd4\n$19 {Myers}) 42. Be8 d3 43. Bxf7 Rb2 (43… Kd4 $5) 44. Ne4+ Kd4 45. Nxd2 Rxd2\n46. Ra1 $8 Rb2 $3 (46… c3 $5 47. Ra4+ Ke5 48. Rxa5+ Kf6 49. Bxh5 c2 50. Ra1\nRe2 51. Bxe2 d2 $1 52. Rd1 $1 c1=Q 53. h4 $14) 47. Rxa5 (47. Ra4 $5 d2 (47…\nRb4 $5 48. Rxa5 c3 49. Rd5+ Ke4 $11) 48. Bxh5 Rb5 49. Bg4 (49. Be2 Rb4 50. Ra1\nc3 51. Bd1 Kd3 52. Kg2 a4 $11) 49… Rb4 50. Ra1 c3 51. Bf5 Ke5 52. Bd3 Rb2 53.\nKf1 $16) 47… c3 48. Rd5+ $8 Ke4 49. f3+ $8 Ke3 50. Bg6 Rb1+ 51. Kg2 Rd1 52.\nRe5+ $8 (52. Bxd3 Rd2+ 53. Kh3 Rxd3 $17) 52… Kd4 53. Re4+ Kc5 54. Re8 d2 $1\n55. f4 Rc1 56. Bxh5 c2 57. Rd8 d1=Q 58. Bxd1 cxd1=Q 59. Rxd1 Rxd1 $19) 39… c4\n40. Rb1 (40. a4 d3 41. Kg2 Ke5 42. Bh7 Ke6 43. Kf3 f5 44. Nh6 $8 Bxh6 45. Bg8+\nKe5 46. Bxc4 Kd4 $17 {Myers}) 40… Rxa2 41. Rb8 $6 (41. Rb7 $142 $5 $17 {Myers\n}) 41… a4 $5 (41… d3 $1 42. Rd8+ (42. Nf6 $2 Ke5 43. Bxd3 cxd3 44. Nxh5\nRa1+ 45. Kg2 Bc3 $19 {Harding}) 42… Ke5 43. Bxd3 cxd3 44. Rxd3 a4 45. Kg2 Ke6\n(45… Bb4 46. Nh6 a3 47. Nxf7+ Kf6 48. Rf3+ Kg7 49. Ne5 Re2 $19 {Harding}) 46.\nRd8 a3 47. Re8+ Kd5 48. Nf6+ Kc4 49. Rc8+ Kb3 50. Rb8+ Ka4 51. Nd7 Rc2 52. Nb6+\nKa5 53. Ra8+ Kxb6 54. Rxa3 f6 $19 {Myers}) 42. Rc8 c3 43. Be4 Bg5 (43… a3 $5\n44. Rc6+ Ke5 (44… Kd7 $2 45. Nf6+ Ke7 46. Nd5+ Kf8 47. Ra6 c2 48. Bxc2 Rxc2\n49. Rxa3 Kg7 $15 {Harding}) 45. Bh7 Rb2 46. f4+ Bxf4 47. gxf4+ Kxf4 48. Ne7 a2\n49. Rf6+ Ke5 50. Rf1 c2 51. Nc6+ Kd5 52. Bxc2 Kxc6 53. Be4+ Kd6 $17 {Myers})\n44. h4 (44. f4 $5 Re2 45. Bf3 Rb2 $2 (45… a3 $142 $1 46. fxg5 (46. Bxe2 a2\n47. Ra8 c2 $17) 46… a2 $1 47. Rc6+ Kd7 48. Nf6+ Ke7 49. Nd5+ Kf8 50. Bxe2\na1=Q+ $17 {Harding}) 46. Rc6+ $5 (46. fxg5 c2 47. Rc6+ Kd7 48. Nf6+ Kd8 49.\nBxh5 (49. Bd5 Ke7 50. Ng8+ Ke8 51. Nf6+ Ke7 52. Ng8+ $11 {Myers}) (49. Rd6+ Ke7\n50. Rd7+ Ke6 51. Bd5+ Ke5 52. Re7+ Kd6 53. Rd7+ $11 {Myers}) 49… d3 50. Ne4\nKe7 51. Rc7+ Kd8 52. Rc5 Ke7 53. Rc7+ $11 {Harding}) 46… Kd7 47. fxg5 a3 48.\nNf6+ Kd8 (48… Ke7 $142 49. Nd5+ $11 {Harding}) 49. Rd6+ Kc7 50. Rc6+ (50.\nRxd4 $4 a2 $19 {Harding}) 50… Kd8 51. Bd5 c2 52. Bxf7 d3 53. Ne4 a2 54. Bxa2\nRxa2 55. g6 $16 {Myers}) (44. Rc6+ Ke5 $1 45. Bh7 (45. f3 $2 Re2 46. Rc5+ Kd6\n47. Rxg5 Rxe4 48. fxe4 c2 49. Rd5+ Ke6 50. Rc5 d3 $19 {Messere}) 45… f5 46.\nf4+ Bxf4 47. gxf4+ Kxf4 48. Ne7 Kf3 {[%cal Ra2a1]} 49. h3 c2 50. Nxf5 Ra1+ 51.\nKh2 c1=Q 52. Rxc1 Rxc1 53. Nxd4+ Ke3 $17 {Harding}) 44… Re2 $1 45. Bd3 (45.\nBf3 Re1+ 46. Kg2 a3 $1 (46… Be7 47. Bxh5 a3 48. Bxf7 Kd7 $1 49. Nxe7 Rxe7 $17\n) 47. Rc6+ Kd7 48. hxg5 a2 49. Nf6+ Ke7 50. Rc7+ Kd8 51. Ra7 c2 $19 {Myers})\n45… Rd2 $6 (45… a3 $142 $5 {Harding} 46. Rc4 $3 (46. Bxe2 a2 47. Ra8 c2 48.\nRxa2 c1=Q+ 49. Kg2 Qc8 50. Ra5 Qc2 (50… Qxg8 51. Rxg5 Qc8 52. Rxh5 $11 {Tait}\n) 51. Bxh5 Be3 52. Ra6+ Kc5 53. Rf6 d3 54. Ne7 Bd4 $17 {Myers}) (46. hxg5 Re1+\n47. Kg2 a2 48. Ra8 a1=Q 49. Rxa1 Rxa1 50. Nh6 Ra7 51. Kf3 Kc5 $17 {Harding})\n46… a2 47. Rxd4+ Ke5 48. Ra4 c2 49. Bxc2 Rxc2 50. hxg5 Rc1+ 51. Kg2 a1=Q 52.\nRxa1 Rxa1 53. f4+ $5 (53. Nf6 Ra2 54. Nxh5 Kf5 55. Nf4 Kxg5 56. Nd5 Kf5 $11 {\nTait}) 53… Kf5 54. Nh6+ Kg6 55. g4 Ra2+ 56. Kh3 Ra3+ 57. Kh4 hxg4 58. Kxg4\nRa1 59. Nf5 $11 {Myers}) 46. Be4 $2 (46. Bb5 $3 a3 47. Rc6+ $1 (47. hxg5 a2 48.\nRc6+ Ke5 49. Rc5+ Ke6 $15) 47… Kd5 (47… Ke5 48. Rc5+ Kd6 49. Rc6+ Ke5 50.\nRc5+ Kd6 51. Rc6+ $11 {Harding}) 48. hxg5 a2 49. Nf6+ $8 Ke5 50. Ra6 (50. f4+\nKf5 51. Ra6 $8 Rd1+ $8 52. Kf2 a1=Q 53. Bd3+ $1 Rxd3 54. Rxa1 c2 $1 $11 {Myers}\n) 50… Rd1+ 51. Kg2 a1=Q 52. f4+ Kf5 53. Bd3+ Rxd3 54. Rxa1 c2 $11 {Myers})\n46… a3 $1 (46… Be7 47. Rc6+ (47. Ra8 d3 48. Rxa4 Rd1+ 49. Kg2 d2 50. Bc2\nRc1 51. Bb3 $11 {Messere}) 47… Ke5 48. Bg2 Bd6 49. Nh6 Ke6 50. Bh3+ Kd5 51.\nBg2+ $11 {Myers}) (46… Rd1+ $5 47. Kg2 a3 $1 48. Rc6+ Ke5 49. Kf3 a2 50. Rc5+\nKd6 51. Rc6+ Kd7 52. Ra6 a1=Q 53. Rxa1 Rxa1 54. hxg5 Ra2 $19 {Myers}) (46… a3\n$1 47. hxg5 a2 48. Rd8+ (48. Ra8 $5 Rd1+ 49. Kg2 a1=Q 50. Rxa1 Rxa1 51. Nh6 Ra7\n$17) 48… Kc5 49. Ra8 (49. Rc8+ $5 Kb4 50. Rb8+ Kc5 51. Rc8+ Kd6 52. Rd8+ Kc7\n53. Ra8 Rd1+ $17) 49… Rd1+ (49… Kc4 50. Kg2 d3 51. Nf6 $11 {Myers}) (49…\nc2 50. Bxc2 Rxc2 51. Kg2 d3 52. Kf3 d2 53. Ke2 Kd4 $17 {Myers}) 50. Kg2 a1=Q\n51. Rxa1 Rxa1 52. Nh6 $1 {Messere} Re1 53. Bc2 Re2 54. Bf5 c2 $19 {Myers}) (\n46… Bxh4 47. gxh4 a3 48. Kg2 a2 49. Ra8 c2 50. Bxc2 Rxc2 51. Nh6 d3 $17) 0-1\n[/pgn] \nIMC Ken Messere OBE (16-iv-1928 31-iii-2005)\nThe quality of my chess in the 1965-68 World Championship was much inferior. The tournament began disastrously. I went in for three losing variations as Black and made a suicidal clerical error in the opening so that after 3 months I had four losses from four games. Later\, there were compensations. I won against V. Zagarovsky\, the reigning world champion (the third annotated game) and obtained just (but only just) the necessary 33.3% per cent to obtain the correspondence chess international master title. For this I needed a win and draw from my last two games which\nafter 3.5 years\, had to be adjudicated. \n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch05 corr6568”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1965.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Estrin\, Yakov Borisovich”]\n[Black “Messere\, Kenneth Charles”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “C45”]\n[Annotator “Ken Messere and BCN”]\n[PlyCount “110”]\n[EventDate “1965.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1\, British Ches”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 e5 3. Nf3 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nb3 Bb4+ 6. c3 Be7 {[#]} 7. Be2\n$146 ({Relevant:} 7. f4 d6 8. Bc4 Nf6 9. O-O Nxe4 10. Bxf7+ Kxf7 11. Qd5+ Be6\n12. Qxe4 Bf6 13. f5 Bxb3 14. axb3 Re8 15. Qd5+ Kf8 16. Bf4 Qe7 17. Nd2 a6 18.\nRa4 Qf7 19. Qd3 d5 20. Nf3 h6 21. Qd2 Re4 22. Rxe4 dxe4 23. Nd4 Nxd4 24. cxd4\nRd8 25. Qb4+ Kg8 26. Be5 Qd5 27. Bxf6 gxf6 28. Qe7 Qd6 29. Qxe4 Qxd4+ 30. Qxd4\nRxd4 31. Rc1 c6 32. Rc3 Rf4 33. Rg3+ Kf7 34. Rg6 Rxf5 35. Rxh6 Kg7 36. Rh3 a5 {\nLazarevic\,M-Gaprindashvili\,N Leningrad 1964 1/2-1/2}) 7… Nf6 8. N1d2 d5 9.\nexd5 Nxd5 10. Nf3 O-O 11. O-O Bf5 12. Nbd4 Nxd4 13. Nxd4 Bg6 14. Qb3 Nb6 15.\nBf3 c6 16. Bf4 Bd6 17. Ne6 fxe6 18. Qxe6+ Rf7 19. Qxd6 Qxd6 20. Bxd6 Nc4 21.\nRfd1 Nxb2 22. Rd4 Re8 23. h4 h6 24. a4 Nd3 25. a5 Ne1 $16 {Here I offered\nEstrin a draw but he turned the offer down.} 26. a6 $17 (26. Bd1) 26… Nxf3+\n27. gxf3 b6 28. f4 {KCM: I refused draw offers from Estrin at 28 and 30 and\nlater the shadow of adjudication came into play.} c5 29. Rdd1 Bc2 30. Re1 Rc8\n31. Re3 Rc6 32. Be5 b5 33. Kh2 h5 34. Rg3 g6 35. Ra2 Bf5 36. Rg1 Rd7 37. Re1\nKf7 38. Ree2 b4 $2 {KCM:Believing there were only three moves left to play\, I\nwanted to show the adjudicator a passed pawn on the sixth rank and sent this\nand the 39th move as a conditional; BCN: The engines both rate this as the\nbest move by some margin.} ({KCM: Both the slower} 38… Ke6) ({and} 38… Be6\n{were both better.}) 39. Reb2 (39. Rab2 Rb6 40. cxb4 cxb4 $19) 39… Rb6 $2 {\nBCN: The ? is rather harsh since this move is still good for Black.} ({KCM:\nBetter} 39… Be6 40. Ra4 b3 41. c4 Rb6) 40. Ra5 bxc3 41. Rxb6 $2 (41. Bxc3 $1\n{draws after} Rxb2 42. Bxb2 c4 ({or} 42… Rc7 43. Be5 {KCM: Another\nadjudication induced error?}) 43. Rc5) 41… axb6 42. a7 Be4 $1 43. Ra4 $1 {\nKCM: Other moves lose quickly.} Ba8 $1 ({BCN: According to SF} 43… c2 $1 44.\nRxe4 Rxa7 45. Rc4 Ra2 46. Bc7 b5 47. Rxc5 b4 $17) 44. Bxc3 Ke6 ({KCM: Not}\n44… b5 $2 45. Ra6 {draws. At this point we learnt adjudication was postponed\n5 months\, but now I am winning. BCN: SF evaluates this as dead level!}) 45.\nRa6 Rd6 46. Ra1 b5 $1 47. Ra5 Rb6 (47… b4 {KCM: Not} 48. Be5 {draws}) 48. Bd2\n$11 Kd5 49. Be3 Kc4 50. Ra1 Rc6 51. Rd1 Rc8 ({KCM: Not} 51… Rc7 $4 52. Rd8 $1\nRxa7 53. Rc8 {draws}) 52. Rd6 $2 {BCN: this is Black’s losing move although\nKCM does not mention this.} ({BCN: In fact\, Estrin should have played} 52. Rc1+\nKd5 53. Rd1+ {and Black cannot make progress.}) 52… b4 $1 {KCM: Only this\npawn sacrifice wins} 53. Rxg6 ({KCM: is no better} 53. Rb6 Rc7) 53… b3 54. f5\nRc7 55. f6 b2 {and wins} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nFortunately\, the win and draw were relatively clear\, though this would not have been so a few moves earlier. An an illustration of how the threat of adjudication breeds irrationality\, Diagram II gives the closing stages of my win against J.Estrin of the USSR – a more recent correspondence chess world champion. My only other game against a world champion was against the winner of this tournament\, Hans Berliner of the United States\, with whom I collaborated on a book of the tournament. The collaboration was stimulating but not without friction\, since I had to write 75 per cent of the book to see it ever finished. It took a year to complete\, 3 years to appear (published by BCM) but in the end was well-reviewed\, sold over 2000 copies and royalties are still (gently) drifting in. \nThe Fifth Correspondence Chess World Championship\, Hans Berliner & Ken Messere\, British Chess Magazine\, BCM Quarterly Nunber 14\, 5th December 1971\, ISBN 978-0-900846-05-2.\n  \nIn the early seventies\, in order to reduce numbers of games\, I retreated altogether from individual tournaments\, just playing twice for England in the Olympiads. Whether team play did not suit my style\, or whether my technique had improved but imagination withered\, I drew nine of my seventeen games from the two tournaments\, winning four and losing four. As England looked likely to aspire to medals for the first time ever\, my 50 per cent would not help matters and I gladly retreated to first reserve\, which to my dismay required taking over five unfinished games of Hugh Alexander\, who died during the tournament\, and who\, for me\, has always been England’s most attractive player and writer. My most uncomfortable decision in correspondence chess was a rejection of Hugh’s intended continuation in one of these games\, {Diagram III). Of these five games\, I lost one and drew four and England won a bronze medal. \nIn 1974 was invited to compete in the Potter Memorial Tournament of four postal grandmasters and nine international masters. After so many years of responsible’ team chess for England\, I went beserk and sacrificed a pawn in ten of the twelve games\, trying later to salvage inferior end-games. Result 33 % per cent. B. H. Wood invited me to write a book of the tournament\, to which a number of the players contributed and this was published in 1979. \nThe Potter Memorial\, Ken Messere\, CHESS (Sutton Coldfield)\, 1975\nAlso in 1979 I began to play in another invitation tournament of thirteen players organised by the Australian Correspondence Chess League\, which became a memorial to CJS Purdy\, its president and the first world postal champion\, who died soon after the tournament began. At the time of writing\, this tournament\, comprising four grandmasters (including one former world champion and two runners-up) and eight international masters\, is still in its early stages.” \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXV (125\, 2005)\, Number 5 (May)\, page 226 we have this obituary: \n“Kenneth Charles Messere (16 iv 1928\, Richmond – 31 iii 2005\, Paris) was one of Britain’s strongest correspondence players (he held the correspondence IM title) and well-known author of books on the subject. After graduating from Oxford University\, Ken Messere went to HM Customs and Excise\, and thence to the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD) where he became head of the fiscal affairs division and a world expert on fiscal law. He reached the final of 1965-8 world correspondence championship\, beating world champions Zagorovsky and Estrin\, and wrote the book of the tournament with Hans Berliner (published by BCM)” \nFrom The Potter Memorial by Ken Messere\, CHESS (Sutton Coldfield)\, “Chess for Modern Times” Series\, 1975 we have this potted biography: \n“Compiler of this book\, took 3rd place in 1957 and 2nd in 1968 in the championship of the Postal Chess Club. Scores of 4.5 out of 6 in the ICCF Masters 1957-8 and 4/6 in the 1959-61 Championship took him to victory with 11/5 out of 13 in the 1961-3 semi-finals\, securing him his first international master norm and qualifying him for the 5th World Championship 1964-7 in which he scored 5.5\, just enough for the IM title\, with wins over Zagorovsky\, then world champion and Estrin\, world champion now. Ken Messere collaborated with Berliner\, who won it\, in a book on the tournament. \nHe then switched to play exclusively as a member of the British Olympiad team\, taking over 2nd board when Alexander died. \nThe switch back from rather cautious team play to enterprising individual games in 1974-7 provides some of the subject matter of this book.” \n  \nThe Tax System in Industrialized Countries\, Ken Messere\, Oxford University Press\, 1998\, ISBN 10: 1982933135 / ISBN 13: 9781982933135
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Miroslav Houska (02-iv-1978)
DESCRIPTION:Miroslav Houska\nBirthday of IM Miroslav Houska (02-iv-1978) \nMiroslav gained his International Master title in 1998 and his peak rating according to Felice was 2385 in January of 1998\, aged 20. \nHere are his games on chessgames.com \nIM Miroslav Houska\, photograph by Jovan Petronic\nIM Miroslav Houska\, photograph by Cathy Rogers\n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch 84th”]\n[Site “Hove”]\n[Date “1997.08.09”]\n[Round “6”]\n[White “Houska\, Miroslav”]\n[Black “Plaskett\, H James”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A46”]\n[WhiteElo “2360”]\n[BlackElo “2450”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “73”]\n[EventDate “1997.08.04”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,73\,19\,31\,14\,30\,55\,19\,45\,45\,45\,-1\,22\,16\,27\,4\,37\,20\,18\,12\,28\,7\,4\,0\,5\,\n-13\,17\,-46\,6\,8\,13\,9\,5\,19\,35\,3\,45\,42\,37\,5\,5\,3\,10\,14\,103\,102\,71\,83\,109\,109\,109\,\n114\,75\,60\,54\,40\,32\,53\,80\,68\,56\,67\,72\,3\,114\,126\,95\,83\,29989\,29990\,29991\,29992\,\n29995\,437\,437\,432]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. c3 b6 4. Bg5 Bb7 5. Bxf6 gxf6 6. e3\ne6 7. Be2 Qc7 8. Nbd2 Rg8 9. O-O Nc6 10. a3 Ne7 11. Re1 Bh6 12. Bf1 f5 13. g3\nNd5 14. Bg2 Bg7 15. Qe2 Rc8 16. Rad1 Ne7 17. e4 Kf8 18. dxc5 bxc5 19. Ng5 Bh6\n20. Ngf3 d6 21. Nh4 f4 22. Qh5 Bg7 23. Nc4 Rd8 24. e5 d5 25. Nd6 Ng6 26. Nxb7\nQxb7 27. Nxg6+ hxg6 28. Qg5 Qc7 29. Qxf4 c4 30. b3 cxb3 31. c4 dxc4 32. Rxd8+\nQxd8 33. Qxc4 Qa5 34. Qc8+ Ke7 35. Qb7+ Kf8 36. Rd1 Bxe5 37. Rd7 1-0\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of BH Wood MSc FCS OBE (13-vii-1909 04-iv-1989)
DESCRIPTION:We remember “BH” Wood MSc FCS OBE who passed away on Tuesday April 4th\, 1989 in the district of Birmingham. \nHe was buried alongside his wife Marjorie in the Sutton Coldfield Cemetery Extension which was opened in 1934 as an extension to the Holy Trinity Church. \nYorkshire Childhood\nBaruch Harold Wood (generally known as BH Wood\, or simply “BH”\, by the chess world) was born on Tuesday\, July 13th 1909 in Ecclesall\, Sheffield\, Yorkshire. The registration district was Ecclesall Bierlow. \nGravestone of BH & ME Wood\, photo by Glen Livet\nThe birth record suggests that he was baptised as Harold Baruch Wood. His parent’s were Baruch Talbot (1881-1951) and Florence Muriel Wood (née Herington). He appears as Harold Baruch on the 1911 census. \n1911 Census record for the Wood household\n1911 Census record for the Wood household\nInterestingly\, the Census form was signed by Talbot Wood so maybe BHs father also did not like his own first name! At the time of the Census the family lived at 30\, Violet Bank Road\, Nether Edge\, Sheffield\, S7 1RZ. \nWelsh School Days\nBaruch attended Friars School\, Bangor (established in 1557) along with William Ritson Morry. BHW was one year and three months older than WRM so it is entirely possible that they had met. \nMarriage to Marjory\nIn October 1936 BHW married Marjory Elizabeth Farrington in Ross\, Herefordshire. When Marjory died on 7th September 1977 they were living at 146\, Rectory Road\, Sutton Coldfield\, West Midlands. Baruch and Marjory had four children\, FM Christopher Wood\, Philip\, Frank and Peggy. \n146\, Rectory Road\, The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield\, West Midlands\, B75 7RS\nHonours\nIn the 1984 New Years Honours List\, Civil Division\, BHW was awarded the OBE. The citation read simply : “For services to Chess” \nHe won the BCF President’s Award in 1983 alongside TJ Beach and Brian Reilly. \nBH Wood playing board 9 in the Anglo team in the Anglo-Soviet Radio Team Match of 1946\nThe 1946 Anglo-Soviet Radio Match\nFrom The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match by Klein and Winter : \n“BH Wood was born in Sheffield in 1909. A great lover of the game\, he founded the magazine Chess in 1935\, and has written a book for beginners. He scored a notable success by winning the British Correspondence Championship on one occasion. Wood has competed in the British Championship on several occasions\, and in a number of Premier Reserves tournaments. He also played for Great Britain in the international team tournament (ed. Olympiad) at Buenos Aires in 1939. \nLeft to right Baruch H Wood\, 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\nHe is a graduate of the University of Wales and Birmingham University. He has been very active in recent years in giving simultaneous exhibitions and in organising correspondence chess.” \nSignature of BH Wood from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Margate 1936.\nBetween 1938 and 1957\, BH won the championship of Warwickshire eight times. He held the record (until 2006) for the most Birmingham & District Chess League Individual titles – nine\, all won in Division 1: 1937\, 1939\, 1954\, 1956\, 1958\, 1960\, 1966\, 1967\, and 1983. He was the Records Secretary for the League from 1951-61. \nBirth of a Magazine\nCHESS Cover for volume 1\, September 1935 – August 1936. Source : Michael Clapham\nFrom CHESS\, Volume 52 (1987)\, Number 1014-15 (Christmas)\, we have the very last issue of the magazine for which BH was the Editor before becoming Founding Editor (and Paul Lamford became Editor). BH Wrote: \n“Countless people have asked me ‘Why did you start CHESS?’ I was in love with university life and has just taken an M.Sc.\, a waste of time after a good first-class honours\, and decided to have a go at replacing the old Chess Amateur\, which had closed down.  I had edited the students’ magazine in both Bangor and Birmingham. The first had been produced by The Daily Post Printers in Liverpool\, who agreed to print  1\,000 copies for £90. That £90 would be nearly £2\,400 now. \nCHESS masthead for Volume 1\, Number 1\, 1935. Source : Michael Clapham\nA year’s subscription I announced as 10 shillings (50p). \nTwo bits of luck! J.H. Van Meurs\, a Dutchman who did a lot for British Chess\, had listed in his still young B.C.F. Year Book some hundreds of chess clubs. \nW.H. Watts\, another great figure of those days\, had floated a rather short-lived magazine The Chess Budget\, donated a ‘Budget Cup‘\, for knock-out team competition and published excellent books on big tournaments\, etc. He handed me a list of keen chess players all around the world. I spent a week addressing envelopes by hand to all the clubs and people. \nTo individuals I sent single copies of CHESS; to each club three copies\, inviting payment or subscriptions. Hardly anybody failed to pay. Obviously there was a demand for a chess magazine with a lighter touch than the B.C.M. \nYears later\, I learnt why Mr. Watts had been so generous. He had fallen out with the establishment and welcomed the arrival of a new publication. \nWithin three months I was selling 3\,000 copies an issue. \nSome early ideas were chessy short stories \, cartoons and a competition for humorous anecdotes. \nI soon went to Amsterdam for the first Euwe-Alekhine match. I traced Alekhine to his hotel room with difficulty. He was officially incommunicado. He came to the door in pyjamas\, and within five minutes we had agreed to a £5 article per month. I was\, of course\, already on conversational terms with him (and remained so!). \nNow I fell into trap. 3\,000 readers in four months meant 6\,000 in eight months\, 9\,000 in  a year…? \nNot so! This is extrapolation\, a matter of calculation full of risks. \nMy preparations had been too good. In the remaining eight months of the year I picked up only a thousand more readers. Alekhine lost the title. With three months to go\, my money ran out\, I struggled to the end of the year.  The twelfth issue was pathetically thin compared with the first few but renewals staring rolling in and CHESS blossomed again. \nThe fifty-two years since have been gruelling\, unremitting toil but fascinating interest. How we bought our own presses and the effect this had on the world’s chess press – A law suit that went to appeal – How CHESS linked people in Malta\, Australia\, Hungary – Adventures in ‘simuls’\, postal chess etc. How we helped police to identify a drowned man\, etc. So many tales to tell! \nBHW \nBCF Obituary\nHere is an obituary from the BCF Yearbook 1989 – 1990\, page 14 : \nB.H. Wood\, O.B.E\nBaruch H. Wood\, O.B.E.\, founder of CHESS\, and the magazines editor for 52 years\, died at the age of 79 on 4th April. \nBorn in Sheffield on 13 July 1909\, “B.H.”\, as he was widely known in chess circles\, took up the game early playing competitively at school and at University. After graduating from the University College of Wales\, Bangor with a 1st class honours degree in chemistry\, he took an MSc at Birmingham University. Soon\, however\, his love of chess took him away from a career in chemistry\, with his launch of CHESS in 1935.  He was to continue as editor\, publisher\, for many years printer\, and often major contributor\, for over half a century. \nCHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\nThe magazine quickly won an international reputation for its frankness and outspokenness. It speaks much for the character and determination of its editor that he was able to continue publishing CHESS throughout the difficult years of the Second World War\, whilst holding a full-time job as director of a chemical research laboratory in Lichfield. \nWood will be best remembered for the magazine\, and for his other journalistic activities. He was for many years chess correspondent of The Daily Telegraph and of The Illustrated London News\, and his best known book Easy Guide to Chess went through three editions and many impressions. \nEasy Guide to Chess\, BH Wood\, CHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\, 1945\nThe above book (albeit the later Cadogan version) is available online. \nEasy Guide to Chess\nNigel Davies wrote “One of the best beginners books on the market.” \nWood’s feat in writing\, publishing\, printing and selling his own book may be unique. However\, Wood was no mean player as his draw against the then world champion Max Euwe\, who became a life-long friend\, testifies. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1949/50-25 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1949.12.29”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Wood\, Baruch Harold”]\n[Black “Euwe\, Max”]\n[Result “1/2-1/2”]\n[ECO “E39”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “74”]\n[EventDate “1949.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,74\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,-11\,-3\,33\,-19\,0\,-1\,-2\,-3\,4\,-49\,-23\,-30\,-17\,-12\,0\,-12\,\n-7\,-14\,-37\,-40\,-22\,-24\,-29\,-18\,-21\,-20\,-20\,-13\,0\,5\,2\,-2\,12\,5\,14\,15\,24\,21\,22\,26\,\n26\,26\,26\,15\,17\,5\,1\,10\,18\,-7\,-14\,-14\,-14\,-17\,-19\,-19\,-19\,-27\,-30\,-30\,-32\,-29\,\n-12\,-30\,-51\,-44\,-44\,-42\,1\,0\,0]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 c5 5. dxc5\nO-O 6. Nf3 Na6 7. Bg5 Nxc5 8. a3 Bxc3+ 9. Qxc3 Nfe4 10. Bxd8 Nxc3 11. Be7 Nb3\n12. Bxf8 Kxf8 13. Rd1 Nxd1 14. Kxd1 b6 (14… a5 15. e3 a4 16. Nd2 Nc5) 15. Nd2\nNxd2 $146 {The only game to have reached this position.} 16. Kxd2 Ba6 (16…\nBb7) 17. e4 $11 {[#]} (17. Kc3 $2 Rc8 18. e4 b5 19. b4 bxc4 20. Be2 $17) 17…\nRc8 18. b3 Ke7 19. Bd3 e5 20. f3 Rc6 21. Rc1 Rh6 22. h3 Rg6 23. Bf1 Rc6 24. b4\nRc8 25. a4 Bb7 26. c5 bxc5 {[#]} 27. Rxc5 $2 ({Better was} 27. bxc5 $1 Bc6 28.\nBb5 $11) 27… Rxc5 28. bxc5 d6 $1 {activating Black’s king.} 29. cxd6+ Kxd6\n$17 {Black has an edge.} 30. Kc3 Kc5 31. Bc4 Bc6 $6 ({better is} 31… f6 {\nretaining the weakness on a4.} 32. Bb5 h6) 32. Bb3 Bd7 33. h4 $6 {This looks\nnatural but} (33. Bxf7 {is better exchanging weaknesses} Bxa4) 33… g6 $2 {\nEuwe misses his chance.} (33… f6 {is still correct.}) 34. g3 (34. Bxf7) 34…\nf5 (34… Be6 35. Bd1 f6 36. Be2) 35. exf5 $11 gxf5 36. Bd1 h6 37. g4 a5 {\ndraw agreed.} 1/2-1/2\n[/pgn] \nHe represented England in the International Team Championship at Buenos Aires in 1939\, scoring 50%. He also took first prize in international tournaments at Baarn 1947\, Paignton 1954\, Whitby 1963\, Thorshavn 1967 and Jersey 1975 and was second in the 1948 British Championship. He was British Correspondence Chess Champion in 1945. \nThe Cedars Chess Club May 1962 – Baruch is seated\, second from the right. Photograph sourced from ECF obituary.\nA life member of F.I.D.E. Wood was also an International Arbiter\, and organised 21 annual chess festivals at seaside venues from the 50’s onwards. In addition he was an active behind-the-scenes inspirer of many chess events\, and in particular was known as a driving spirit of university chess\, being until the time of his death President of the British University Chess Association. \nThe Author’s British Record Simultaneous Display. Some of the 127 schoolboys the author played simultaneously at Ilford County High School\, Winning over a a hundred of the games in 4 hours and 50 minutes.\nHe founded the Postal Chess Club and League and was for many years President of the British Postal Chess Federation. \nLetter from BH Wood to JE Upham dated 7th July 1983\n“B.H.” at Bournemouth in May 1971\nHe was awarded the O.B.E. for services to chess in 1984. \nHis wife Marjory\, predeceased him; he leaves three sons Christopher\, Frank and Philip\, and a daughter Peggy. \nBH Wood & his daughter Peggy\nand here is the article as it appeared in the Yearbook. \nBCF Yearbook\, 1989-90\, page 14\nBCF Yearbook\, 1989-90\, page 15\nGolombek on Wood\nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)  by Harry Golombek : \n“A well known British player\, editor of Chess (starting 1935) and chess correspondent of The Daily Telegraph and Illustrated London News. A FIDE judge\, he has founded and conducted 21 annual chess festivals\, notably at Whitby\, Eastbourne and Southport. \nBH Wood playing AY “Johnnie” Green in the 1956 British Championships in Blackpool\, photographer unknown\nWinner of a number of small and semi-international tournaments : Baarn 1947\, Paignton 1954\, Whitby 1963\, Thorshavn 1967\, and Jersey 1975. \nPlayed for the BCF in the International Team Tournament at Buenos Aires 1939. His best tournament result was probably his equal second in the British Championship at London 1948. \nIn 1954 BHW was sued BH Wood for libel by William Ritson Morry 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\nand two years in 1956 we have this telling photograph of Ritson and BH playing at the British Championships in Blackpool. It must have been an entertaining pairing for the organisers if no-one else! \nWilliam Ritson Morry playing BH Wood at the British Championships in Blackpool from 1956\nPossibly WRM was thinking this as they played: \nEverybody Loves Wood\nAmong his books are : Easy Guide to Chess\, Sutton Coldfield 1942 et seq; World Championship Candidates Tournament 1953\, Sutton Coldfield 1954. “ \nWorld Championship Candidates Tournament 1953\, BH Wood\, CHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\, 1954\nCafferty on Wood (1989)\nHere is the obituary from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CIX (1989\, 109)\, Number 5 (May)\, pages 210 – 211: \nB. H. WOOD\nBaruch Harold Wood (13 viii 1909-4 iv 1989) popularly known as “B. H.” was a significant figure of the last fifty-odd years in British chess. His life touched practically all aspects of the game as player\, both OTB and CC\, magazine publisher and editor\, organiser of club\, congress and university chess\, journalist . . . the list seems endless. In 1984 he was awarded the OBE for services to chess. \nBorn at Sheffield\, which he sometimes used as an excuse when he was accused of stubbornness\, (“It’s my Yorkshire blood\, you know”) he was educated in North Wales (Friar’s School\, and then University College\, Bangor) and at Birmingham University. \nHe started his chess magazine at Sutton Coldfield in 1935 as an impecunious graduate who could not find suitable work in the Depression\, and his lively style ensured that it was a beacon in British chess for fifty years to come! For many British chess fans he was “Mr Chess” yet it seems a miracle that he kept the magazine going in the difficult times when interest in the game was at a low ebb. He may well have subsidised it from his journalistic work (Birmingham Post\, Illustrated London News and Daily Telegraph) and from his wartime work as manager of a chemical laboratory (“The first time I ever earned a decent salary”). \nHis duodenal ulcer prevented him doing military service\, and later in life he suffered from failing eyesight and the inability to walk which resulted from his diabetes\, not diagnosed till he had suffered from it for decades. \nHe worked a seven-day week on the magazine\, and his wife who predeceased him was often unsure when he would be home such was his devotion to the work. At times he would take off for trips abroad or long simul tours through Britain while trying to keep the magazine on schedule. \nOne of his last long tours was in 1967 when he drove Botvinnik around the UK. The world champion was duly impressed by the work load and wrote a very favourable account of the trip\, revealing incidentally that Barry was still paying off the mortgage on his large house in Rectory Road\, Sutton Coldfield where the car was parked on the forecourt as the garage was the reserve storage for a large library of chess books! His ability to quote chemical formula from memory also impressed Botvinnik. \nHe brought up a family of four\, all of whom were skilled players\, apart\, perhaps from the youngest boy. Daughter Peggy\nwas prominent in women’s chess and married Peter Clarke at the time of the Botvinnik visit. Elder sons Chris and Frank were of over-200 strength\, but had seen too much of their father’s life at close hand to want to take over the business from him. He ultimately sold out to Pergamon in 1987 though negotiations had been started much earlier. It was probably too much of a wrench to let go until failing health left him with little alternative\, but he described\nthe terms as very generous. \nBarry was a gifted linguist who was welcome abroad for his un-English approach of having a go at the native tongue. As a player he was at his best in the late 1930s (a member of the 1939 Olympiad team in Buenos Aires) till the 1950s. He should really have won the 1948 British Championship when he had the enterprising idea of having Paul Schmidt as personal coach! Yet his tournament wins run on as late as Guernsey 1975 and he was playing in the First Division of the Birmingham League within a few weeks of his death. The flesh may have been weak but a great spirit kept him going to the end. \nShall we ever see his like again? \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1948/49-24 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1949.01.01”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Wood\, Baruch Harold”]\n[Black “Koenig\, Imre”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E32”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase / British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “69”]\n[EventDate “1948.12.30”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,69\,39\,31\,43\,-7\,0\,-4\,10\,-29\,13\,-14\,21\,2\,-3\,-13\,1\,-18\,-18\,-8\,24\,29\,21\,\n30\,37\,31\,34\,41\,28\,33\,77\,41\,93\,95\,102\,71\,116\,93\,93\,-42\,25\,32\,80\,82\,67\,170\,119\,\n46\,235\,140\,138\,105\,132\,140\,225\,245\,427\,385\,435\,385\,385\,382\,553\,512\,518\,506\,577\,\n601\,612\,618\,618\,650]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. Nf3 (5. a3) (\n5. Bg5) 5… d6 6. a3 (6. Bd2 Nbd7 7. a3 Bxc3 8. Bxc3 Qe7 9. e3 b6 10. Be2 Bb7\n11. O-O) 6… Bxc3+ 7. Qxc3 Nbd7 8. b4 {White has the two bishops and more\nspace on the queenside. Blacks has to look for attacking chances on the\nkingside.} a5 9. e3 (9. g3 $5 {safer}) 9… axb4 $146 (9… b6 10. Bb2 Bb7 11.\nBe2) 10. axb4 Ne4 {Blacks is aiming for a Dutch-like position.} 11. Qb2 Rxa1\n12. Qxa1 f5 {The Dutch move.} 13. Bd3 Ndf6 14. O-O Qe8 {Blacks pieces have to\ngo to the kingside.} 15. Nd2 (15. Ne1 $5) 15… Qg6 16. f3 Ng5 $1 {Black\ncorrectly doesn’t change\, he preserves the knight for attacking purposes.} (\n16… Nxd2 17. Bxd2 $14) 17. Kh1 h5 $1 18. Rg1 h4 {[#] /\Nf5-h5-g3+ with\nmating attack.} 19. g4 $2 $8 (19. f4 Ng4) (19. Qa5 $14 {is is very reasonable})\n19… hxg3 $2 {A missed opportunity} ({whereas} 19… Nh3 $1 20. Rf1 (20. Rg2\nQh6 21. Nf1 fxg4 22. fxg4 Nxg4 $19) 20… Qh6 21. Nb3 fxg4 $19) (19… Qh6 $1 {\nis very strong} 20. e4 Nh3 21. g5 Qg6 22. exf5 exf5 23. Rf1 Nf4 $19) 20. Rxg3 {\n/\f3-f4} Qh5 $2 (20… Qh6 $1 21. Bb2 Nh5 $1 22. Rg2 Nh3 {/\Qh6xe3; ..f5-f4\,\nNh5-g3+}) 21. Bb2 f4 $5 (21… Kf7 $2 {/\Rf8-h8} 22. Qg1 $1) 22. exf4 Nh3 {\n[#] /\Nh3-f2+-d3} 23. d5 $1 $16 (23. Qf1 $2 Nxf4 $15) 23… e5 (23… Nf2+ 24.\nKg2 Nxd3 25. Bxf6 $36 Nxf4+ 26. Kh1 g6 27. Be7 $11) 24. fxe5 $18 Nf2+ 25. Kg2 (\n25. Kg1 $1 Nh3+ 26. Kf1) 25… Nxd3 $6 (25… N6g4 $5 26. fxg4 Nxg4 27. Nf3 $1\n(27. Qg1 $2 Rf2+ 28. Qxf2 Qxh2+ $19) 27… Rxf3 (27… Ne3+ 28. Kh1 Rxf3 29.\nBe2 $18) 28. Kxf3 $1 Nxe5+ 29. Kg2 Nxd3 30. Rxg7+ Kf8 31. Qf1+ Bf5 32. h4 $1\nNxb2 33. Rg5 $18) 26. exf6 Bh3+ $2 (26… Re8 27. Ne4 Rxe4 28. fxe4 Qe2+ 29.\nKg1 Qf2+ 30. Kh1 Qe2 31. Kg1 Qf2+ 32. Kh1 Qe2 $11) 27. Kg1 (27. Rxh3 $2 Nf4+)\n27… Re8 28. Ne4 Nxb2 29. Qxb2 Rxe4 30. fxe4 Qd1+ 31. Kf2 Qf1+ 32. Ke3 Qe1+\n33. Kf4 Qf1+ 34. Kg5 Bd7 35. fxg7 {and Black resigned. An exciting contest\, typical of White’s\ngritty style.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nJulius Silverman former MP for Aston (Birmingham) writes: I am very sorry to learn of the death of Barry Wood. I knew him for about 55 years and I always found him a pleasant and interesting companion and a good friend. On the last few occasions that I have met him he seemed increasingly frail. I know that the death of his dear wife was a great blow to him. \nBarry’s contribution to Chess in this country has been enormous and his passing is the end of an era in chess journalism.\nBarry’s journalism and his imaginative editorship made Chess a fascinating journal which it was always a pleasure to read.\nIts survival for well over 50 years was a unique achievement which required persistence and dedication. He has had many\nhills to surmount. \nOne was “… the chess lawsuit of the Century …” (This ran for about two and a half years\, ending in 1940 in a victory for the magazine on appeal\, Ed). Jacques versus Chess which might have brought Chess to an end. I appeared for him as counsel. We won. I received a life subscription to Chess as part of my fee. My copy still comes to me regularly. I have never enjoyed a fee so much. \nHere is the article in its original form: \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CX (109)\, Number 5 (May)\, page 210\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume CX (109)\, Number 5 (May)\, page 211\n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-44 Championship”]\n[Site “Plymouth/ Devon”]\n[Date “1957.08.21”]\n[Round “3”]\n[White “Wood\, Baruch Harold”]\n[Black “Beaty\, John H”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E87”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “87”]\n[EventDate “1957.08.19”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2001”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,87\,58\,35\,26\,-11\,56\,37\,33\,32\,37\,19\,53\,25\,21\,23\,33\,14\,11\,5\,44\,27\,44\,21\,\n54\,28\,41\,41\,90\,56\,59\,46\,48\,60\,60\,-4\,8\,25\,53\,-34\,-15\,-97\,-85\,-123\,-74\,-75\,51\,5\,\n69\,-119\,-123\,-138\,-173\,-189\,-201\,-185\,-198\,-195\,-117\,-305\,-304\,-284\,-338\,-357\,\n-330\,-394\,-242\,-395\,-144\,-252\,-223\,-202\,-160\,-439\,-364\,-262\,-167\,-377\,-202\,\n-186\,-93\,-48\,91\,107\,108\,115\,29997\,29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3.\nNc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 e5 (5… O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 c6 8. Qd2 cxd5 9. cxd5) 6.\nd5 O-O 7. Be3 Nh5 8. Qd2 f5 9. O-O-O a6 10. Kb1 Qe8 11. Bd3 Bd7 12. Rc1 Nf6\n$146 13. Nge2 b5 14. c5 b4 15. Nd1 Bb5 16. b3 fxe4 17. Bxe4 a5 18. Ng3 a4 19.\nQxb4 Na6 $19 20. Qd2 axb3 21. axb3 Qb8 22. Nb2 Nd7 23. c6 Ndc5 24. Rc3 Qb6 25.\nRhc1 Qa5 26. Kc2 Nb4+ 27. Kd1 Nxe4 28. Nxe4 Na2 29. Ng5 Nxc3+ 30. Rxc3 Qb4 31.\nNe6 Ra1+ 32. Kc2 Rf7 33. Bg5 Bf8 34. Re3 Qa3 35. Re4 Qa2 36. Qb4 Rb1 37. Bc1\nRa1 38. Qd2 Bg7 39. Rb4 Ba6 $11 40. Rb8+ {[#]} Bf8 $4 (40… Rf8 41. Nxf8 Bxf8\n42. Qg5 Qb1+ 43. Kd1 Qxb2 44. Rxf8+ Kxf8 45. Qd8+ Kf7 46. Qxc7+ Kf6 47. Qxd6+\nKg7 48. Qe7+ Kg8 49. Qe6+ $11) 41. Qh6 $18 Qb1+ 42. Kd1 Qf5 (42… Qxc1+ 43.\nQxc1 Rxc1+ 44. Kxc1 Bf1 45. g3 $18) 43. Rxf8+ Rxf8 44. Qg7# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nBernard on Barry (2004)\nREMEMBERING BARRY WOOD (1909-1939) \nby Bernard Cafferty \nOne of the most influential figures in British chess of the 20th century was B. H. Wood\, whom I knew personally from 1951\, and whom I played regularly\, over a period of three decades\, till l moved from Birmingham to Hastings in 1981. Here are some\nmemories of the man who was thought of by many in Britain as “Mr Chess”. \nBorn in Sheffield\, Baruch Harold Wood had his secondary education in North Wales at the same grammar school as W Ritson\nMorry who was later to become his Midlands colleague and bitter rival. BH always attributed his well-known stubbornness (he never resigned early) to “his Yorkshire blood”. Wood and Morry were to be students together at Birmingham University after BH gained his BSc in Wales. Then the pair faced the hard task of finding work in depression-struck mid-1930s England. BH founded his monthly magazine CHESS in 1935\, an act of amazing optimism which only his great appetite for work could justify. The magazine was based in Sutton Coldfield\, just north of Birmingham\, at gloomy premises known as Masonic Buildings. \nThe early decades of this publication were marked by the outpouring of glorious journalism of a popular sort. The man’s love\nof the game shone through his work and he recruited such contributors as the chatty Koltanowski and the prince of annotators\nAlexander Alekhine. Later he became the long-serving columnist of the Birmingham Post\, from 1949 of the weekly Illustrated London News\, and even later of the Daily Telegraph. A feature of the magazine was its lively letters from readers which made for more interesting reading than the equivalent occasional letter to be found in the staid\nBCM. The readers also made pertinent contributions to opening theory\, especially in going through the 1946 MCO with a fine toothcomb and reporting their discoveries to Sutton Coldfield. \nBH wrote a best-selling Easy Guide to Chess which went through several editions and was far more user-friendly than other primers on the market at the time. He also designed a luxury set\, the Coldfield\, and produced various chess clocks with new features. BH was a member of the BCF Olympiad side that played in the first part of the Buenos Aires Olympiad in the autumn of 1939. After the team’s withdrawal due to the outbreak of war\, he stayed on in Argentina for a short while\, taking part in a short tournament where he met the legendary Alekhine. \nOne Hundred Victorian Chess Problems\, BH Wood\, Wayland Publishers\, London\, 1972\nBH was married to Marjorie\, a Birmingham primary school teacher\, and had three sons and a daughter. The elder two boys\,\nChris and Frank\, were strong players but not Philip. His daughter Peggy was our leading girl player of the 1950s\, and married Peter Clarke in 1962. One should note that BH was not Jewish\, as many assumed from the name Baruch – he was generally addressed as Barry by his wife and close friends. Others called him just by the initials BH. Everyone in British chess knew exactly who you meant when you said BH. Many thought of him as a sharp business-man. In any event\, the fearsome workload he shouldered meant that none of his children\, seeing this at first hand\, aspired to carry on the magazine as a family business. To many in the British chess community who had never seen top players in action\, BH was their first contact with the wider chess world due to the exhausting simul tours he made to many clubs the length and breadth of the UK. \nLater\, he organized CHESS Festivals starting from 1953. These were our earliest open tournaments\, held at attractive venues such as Cheltenham\, Whitby\, Eastbourne and Southport. These events created the opportunity for British amateurs to meet continental grandmaster opposition like Donner and O’Kelly. BH had great confidence in his ability – his MSc at Birmingham University was in chemistry\, but in 1946-7 he started studying nuclear physics privately\, telling Brian Reilly\, who was employed by him at that time\, that it was the science of the future. I have to simply marvel at this – where did he find the time? In his self-portrait in connection with the GB-USSR match of 1946 he revealed that he had been studying Russian privately with a view to taking an external degree in it at Birmingham University. \nThe post-war decade saw him at his most active. He was BCF delegate at early FIDE meetings post-1946\, the period that saw the mighty Soviet Union admitted to membership in 1947. BH was instrumental in maintaining Spain’s membership of FIDE at the same time\, despite Soviet opposition to Franco’s fascism. He claimed to me he was always a most welcome guest in Spain thereafter. \nBattles with the BCF\nBH had been exempt from military service due to a duodenal ulcer. He spent the war keeping the magazine alive in his spare time as he was put in charge of a research laboratory at the Birmingham Chemical Company. During the war the government had the power under emergency legislation to direct citizens into any sort of work that would contribute to the war effort. His comment to me on that intensive period was: “It was the first time I ever drew a decent salary”. After a short spell as BCF FIDE delegate\, he fell out with the ruling body in the early 1950s. His view was that the national body was ultra-conservative and not open to fresh ideas such as the knockout championship open to all which he organised in 1949-50. Lo and behold\, a few months later the BCF started organising regional competitions to arrange for qualification for the British Championship! BH often criticised the BCF in his magazine. In June 1950 he wrote the first of a planned series of articles on the evergreen theme “Where is British Chess Going?” and forwarded a copy to the BCF just before publication. The BCF legal eagle Professor Wheatcroft immediately threatened to take out an injunction\, so putting the frighteners on the printers. Rather than delay the July issue (not that subscribers were not used to a rather irregular schedule!)\, BH brought out the issue with white space\, on two pages\, a dramatic way of alerting the readers to the dispute. The promised articles\, which he said would appear after the dispute was settled\, never appeared. \nDW Anderton OBE plays BH Wood MBE in 1981 in a Blitz tournament outside of the National Film Theatre. Photograph courtesy of John Saunders\nThere were also tensions with BCF figures like Alexander and Golombek\, in the latter case probably due to professional rivalry and Harry G’s identification with the BCM. Another prominent figure with whom BH crossed swords was the flamboyant Liverpool barrister Gerald Abrahams who threatened to sue over a report in CHESS of gambling debts incurred “on the turf’. \nBH was no stranger to litigation. For example he had had a lawsuit with Jaques culminating in 1940 over the use of the term\n“genuine Staunton-pattern sets” in his advertising. The case was initially lost\, a potentially crippling blow\, but then won on appeal with the aid of solicitor Julius Silverman (later a prominent Birmingham MP)\, Ritson Morry\, Sir George Thomas and\nother well-wishers. When Wood-Morry hostility was at its height in the early 1950s over pro- and anti-BCF views\, BH drew attention in a letter to a Welsh chess organiser to Ritson’s short period in jail. The uncomplimentary term ‘gaolbird’ was used. A court case followed which the penurious Ritson\, having been struck off as a solicitor could hardly afford\, yet BH was cleared on the defence of justification. My fellow students and I at Birmingham University could only marvel at the daily press reports on the wrangles between two of our patrons whom we had feted at a celebratory dinner only a short while before. \nHere is the point at which to mention BH’s support for chess in the universities. He was the long-time President of the\nBUCA (British Universities’ Chess Association) and turned up at many of their events with support. He loaned equipment in the early days when not every chess club had sufficient clocks for a match – bear in mind that the austerity period in Britain lasted for years after 1945. BH also supported correspondence chess\, being the founder of the Postal Chess League\, a team event very popular in its day but now defunct. \nBH’s best playing performance was the British Championship of 1948 when he came second to Broadbent. The Midlander had actually started with 6.5 points from seven games\, but the unsatisfactory position arose that he had to meet Broadbent in the last round when each had an adjourned game still to finish off. \nBH Wood during the 1948 British Championships at Bishopsgate Institute\, London. Taken on August 30th 1948 by Keystone Press Agency\nThe tension got to BH\, he missed a clear winning chance against the Northerner and lost. Yet he should really have taken the title on the merits of the positions he had achieved. His rivals resented the fact that he had hired a second\, namely Paul Schmidt\, the Estonian player who was once thought of as almost as good as Keres in his native land. Schmidt had won the German Championship during the war in 1941. The British amateurs of 1948 were not impressed by this intrusion of professionalism and the importation of someone who carried the taint of possible Nazism. According to Brian Reilly\, Gerald Abrahams was particularly scathing. \nBH made a good impression on Botvinnik when the latter stayed at the Wood residence in Rectory Road\, Sutton Coldfield\, in 1967 (the reference for those who can read Russian is Baturinsky’s “…Tvorchestvo” trilogy on Botvinnik. The article was entitled: Albion shakhmatny i inoy. It appears on pp435 -448 of the third volume. A shortened version appears in English in Botvinnik’s autobiography Achieving the Aim). When I drew BH’s attention to the article and its peculiar title he responded with his usual erudite comment: ‘Albion? Yes\, that’s the Roman reference to the white cliffs of Dover”. For most Brummies\, “The Albion” did not mean a local pub\, but rather the West Bromwich Albion football team! \nIn theory\, the communist Botvinnik should have been distant from his host\, the Midlands entrepreneur and business man\, who drove him round to his engagements in Britain for three weeks\, but their common love of chess triumphed over ideological\ndifferences. In particular\, the speed of production of CHESS\, now on its own presses\, was compared very favourably by the Soviet Patriarch to that of Shakhmaty v SSSR. British trade unions had a different view of course\, in pre-Thatcher days\, and BH had some tricky obstacles to overcome in this field. The Muscovite Botvinnik recorded the fact that the garage of BH’s large house was full of chess books (as were various rooms – to the abiding despair of Marjorie)\, so the family car was always parked outside on the drive. BH revealed to Botvinnik that he had not been able pay off his mortgage for decades due to the variable cash flow from his business and journalism. \nBH was in love with study as a young man\, he once told me\, and he had a facility in various European languages\, which made him always welcome abroad. Over the years\, BH had a number of employees who were strong players\, such as Brian Reilly\, Owen Hindle and Robert Bellin\, but none of them lasted long. Owen Hindle\, a person of placid temperament\, stuck it out the longest\, but even he had his patience tried by the ‘boss’. One cannot hide the fact that BH was a controversial figure – perhaps the clue after all is that reference to his stubbornness and Yorkshire blood? I contributed to his magazine for many years\, but certainly never wanted to work for him full-time! \nI used to see BH in the last decade of his life only in the Hastings press room. For his age\, he still took on a fantastic workload. Peter Clarke once commented that his father-in-law gave the impression of believing he would live for ever. Finally\, Anno Domini told and BH sold his business to Robert Maxwell of Pergamon fame/notoriety in 1988. \nIn his final year\, BH suffered from diabetes\, and the resulting inability to walk meant he was confined to a wheelchair\, but he still insisted on visiting Hastings one last time\, where\, in his prime\, he had specialised in taking away Premier score sheets. Often they were taken not just to his hotel room\, but even back to Sutton Coldfield\, so hindering the work of other chess journalists unless Ritson or later\, Peter Griffiths had got in first to create the bulletin. \nWhat a character! We lack such a colourful figure nowadays. Where he still alive today\, I imagine he would still be trying to put a bomb under the BCF. \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-35 Championship”]\n[Site “London (Bishopsgate)”]\n[Date “1948.09.10”]\n[Round “11”]\n[White “Broadbent\, Reginald Joseph”]\n[Black “Wood\, Baruch Harold”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[Annotator “Bernard Cafferty / British Chess News”]\n[SetUp “1”]\n[FEN “3q1rk1/7p/1Np1b1p1/P3p3/1P2P2b/3pB3/3Q2P1/R5K1 w – – 0 27”]\n[PlyCount “9”]\n[EventDate “1948.08.30”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “BCM\, Nov 1948\, p. 379.”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.11.25”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,9\,-76\,-345\,-417\,-380\,797\,623\,889\,907\,938\,952] [#]} {Sicilian Dragon\,\n33 moves. When Broadbent and Wood sat down to play this last-round game\, they\nstill had one adjourned game each to finish (Broadbent\, his 7th round game\nwith Morry\, and Wood his 10th round game with Milner-Barry). Hence they both\nhad 7/9 at the time.} 27. a6 $4 ({Broadbent should have played Br} 27. Kh2 {\nto prevent Wood’s bishop from making its home on g3. Now He’s lost}) 27… Bg3\n$1 $19 28. Rf1 {with the idea of Rf3} Qh4 $4 (28… Bh2+ $1 29. Kxh2 Rxf1 30.\nBf2 Qe7 $19 {and Baruch Wood would have been 1948 British Champion}) 29. Rxf8+\nKxf8 30. a7 $18 Qh2+ 31. Kf1 {… 33 moves (Source: BCM\, Nov 1948\, p379)\nBlack resigned on move 33. He had temporarily overlooked the fact that bishops\nhave a reverse gear and that 32.Bg1 would defend against 31…Qh1 “mate” As\nBCM said at the time\, “Typical last round”.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nWinter\, Jaques and Wood\nFrom Chess Explorations (Cadogan Chess\, 1996) by Edward Winter we have further detail on the Jaques court case: \n“Paul Timson\, a lawyer\, sends us reports on two legal  cases connected with chess. In 1939 B.H.Wood found himself in the dock for having advertised for sale in CHESS in 1937 ‘genuine Staunton chessmen’. The plaintiffs were John Jaques & Son\, Ltd. Sir George Thomas.\, Max Euwe and Lodewijk Prins appeared as witnesses for the defence. The case is referred to by Fred Wren in his article ‘Tales of a Woodpusher: Woodpusher’s Woodpile’\, which appeared in Chess Review\, 1949 and was reprinted in Reinfeld’s The Treasury of Chess Lore. The issues of CHESS of the time also contained a huge amount of material on the case. The decision was that ‘Staunton’ alone was permissible description\, but that the phrase ‘genuine Staunton’ implied a product made by Jaques & Son Ltd.\, as opposed to any Staunton pattern.  However\, B.H. Wood appealed and\, in 1940\, won.” \nOther Sources\nIf you can get access then we recommend the eleven-page “B.H. Wood and his chess playing family” article in the August-2009 issue of Chess Monthly written by his son Chris Wood (helped by brother Frank). \nLikewise The Chess Lawsuit of the Century is detailed in CHESS\, volume 52\, Number 1018\, pp.392 – 394 by BHW himself. \nHere is an obituary from the MCCU \nBackground information from Sutton Coldfield Chess Club \nAlekhine’s Articles for CHESS by Michael Clapham \nHere is his Wikipedia entry.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Murray Chandler (04-iv-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday GM Murray Chandler MNZM (04-iv-1960) \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \n“International Grandmaster (1983)\, a New Zealander who settled in England at the age of 15. subsequently playing for his adopted country in the Lucerne Olympiad\, 1982. He scored +4=6 to share first prize at New York 1980\, came second (+5=5 — 1) equal with Hort at Dortmund 1983\, and scored +5 = 6 (a GM norm) to share first prize at Amsterdam 1983\, a Swiss systemtournament. Chandler has edited the magazine Tournament Chess since its inception in 1982.” \nA White Pawn in Europe\, Murray Chandler\, 1975\nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nMurray Chandler\, Ray Keene and Miguel Najdorf\nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Murray Graham Chandler was born in Wellington\, New Zealand. He was awarded the IM title in 1977 and the GM title in 1982. He was joint New Zealand Champion in 1975-76 (shared with Lev Isaakovich Aptekar and Ortvin Sarapu) and joint Commonwealth Champion in 1984. His best tournament results were 2nds at London 1984\, London 1986 and Amsterdam 1987 and he has played both for New Zealand (1976-1980) and England (1982-86) in the Olympiads. He edited Tournament Chess for a time from 1981 onwards and as well as writing he became the managing director of Gambit Publications. \nLeonard Barden (left) and Murray Chandler display the Lloyds Bank Trophy which the 19-year old New Zealander won ahead of 3 Grandmasters and 10 International Masters for his finest international success up to 1979. in the Lloyds Bank Masters\nHe was the organiser and winner of a large tournament\, the Queenstown Classic in New Zealand in January 2006 and this tournament also incorporated the 113th New Zealand Championship making Chandler the New Zealand Champion for the second time. He won his third New Zealand title at the 115th New Zealand Championship (2008) which was held in Auckland where he currently resides.” \nMurray Graham Chandler\n[pgn]\n[Event “Hastings 9192”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1991.??.??”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Adams\, Michael J”]\n[Black “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B33”]\n[WhiteElo “2615”]\n[BlackElo “2605”]\n[Annotator “Chandler\,Murray”]\n[PlyCount “84”]\n[EventDate “1991.12.??”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “14”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “14”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 027”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1992.04.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1992.04.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,84\,18\,27\,38\,36\,40\,46\,46\,27\,27\,53\,35\,28\,24\,-10\,-16\,-13\,-5\,-20\,-37\,-23\,\n15\,-42\,-36\,-35\,0\,4\,4\,5\,0\,-20\,-20\,-43\,-7\,-7\,-7\,-7\,3\,-24\,-24\,-24\,33\,-5\,-33\,-66\,\n-90\,-121\,-70\,-63\,-77\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-101\,-105\,-145\,-147\,-172\,\n-173\,-171\,-130\,-175\,-182\,-181\,-185\,-200\,-202\,-214\,-199\,-200\,-200\,-200\,-190\,\n-190\,-170\,-169\,-157\,-157\,-147\,-159\,-166\,-166\,-155]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4\ncxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bf4 e5 8. Bg5 a6 9. Bxf6 (9. Na3 {\nDies ist die moderne Zugfolge.} b5 10. Bxf6 Qxf6) 9… gxf6 10. Na3 f5 $1 {\nEine attraktive Alternative zu 10…b5} 11. exf5 Bxf5 12. Nc4 Nd4 13. Ne3 Be6\n14. Bc4 Qg5 15. Ncd5 Rc8 16. Bb3 Nxb3 17. axb3 f5 18. g3 f4 $6 {Ein\nlohnenswertes Bauernopfer\, um Linien für die Läufer zu öffnen.} 19. h4 Qg6 20.\ngxf4 Bh6 (20… exf4 21. Nxf4 $1 Qe4 22. Nfg2) 21. Ra4 $6 (21. h5)\n21… Rf8 $1 22. h5 Qg8 $1 23. fxe5 $2 (23. f5 $5) 23… Bxd5 $1 24. Qxd5 (24.\nNxd5 $2 Qg2 25. Rf1 Rc5 26. c4 (26. Rd4 Rxd5 27. Rxd5 Qe4+ $19) 26… Rf5 $1\n27. f4 Bxf4 $17) 24… Bxe3 $2 25. Qxg8 $2 (25. Qxb7 $1 {Beide Spieler\nübersahen die Möglichkeiten\, die hinter diesem Zuge schlummern.} Bxf2+ 26. Kd1\nQe6 {Während der Partie schätzten beide Spieler diese Stellung als\nhoffnungslos für Weiss ein.} 27. exd6 $1 Rf7 28. Re4 $1 Rxb7 29. Rxe6+ $10)\n25… Bxf2+ $1 {Schwarz sackt auf diese Weise einige Bauern ein.} 26. Kf1 Rxg8\n27. Kxf2 Rxc2+ 28. Kf3 dxe5 29. Re1 Rg5 30. Rg4 Rxh5 31. Rg7 Rf5+ 32. Ke4 Rf7\n33. Rg8+ Kd7 34. Rd1+ Kc7 35. Rg3 Rxb2 36. Rc3+ Kb6 37. Kxe5 Re2+ 38. Kd6 Re8\n39. Rh1 Rg7 40. Rh4 a5 41. Rh5 Rd8+ 42. Ke6 Ka6 0-1 \n[/pgn] \nMurray Graham Chandler\n[pgn]\n[Event “Interzonal-15”]\n[Site “Manila”]\n[Date “1990.??.??”]\n[Round “1”]\n[White “Chandler\, Murray G”]\n[Black “Ivanchuk\, Vassily”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C19”]\n[WhiteElo “2560”]\n[BlackElo “2680”]\n[Annotator “Chandler\,Murray”]\n[PlyCount “97”]\n[EventDate “1990.06.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “13”]\n[EventCountry “PHI”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 019”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1990.12.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1990.12.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,97\,27\,12\,32\,32\,32\,44\,31\,31\,25\,25\,8\,6\,8\,5\,26\,6\,5\,5\,8\,-17\,24\,18\,27\,13\,\n23\,28\,33\,34\,41\,48\,52\,52\,47\,39\,58\,47\,68\,42\,40\,33\,54\,66\,65\,62\,125\,108\,109\,128\,\n152\,128\,161\,161\,193\,193\,231\,165\,164\,106\,93\,89\,93\,93\,85\,85\,98\,9\,2\,-1\,56\,66\,124\,\n127\,134\,16\,18\,21\,13\,13\,30\,53\,60\,60\,60\,62\,90\,91\,138\,125\,147\,128\,252\,254\,254\,254\,\n274\,274\,258\,267]} 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Ne7\n7. Nf3 Qa5 (7… Bd7 8. a4 Qa5 9. Bd2 c4 $5 10. Ng5 $5 (10. Qb1 Nbc6 11. g3)\n10… h6 (10… Bxa4 $6 11. Qh5 Ng6 12. h4 {Stohl}) 11. Nh3 Bxa4 12. Nf4 $146 {\nStohl}) 8. Bd2 Nbc6 (8… Bd7 9. Be2 $6 Ba4) 9. a4 Bd7 10. Bb5 $5 O-O-O (10…\na6 $6 11. Be2) (10… Qc7) (10… f6) (10… c4) 11. O-O c4 $6 (11… f6 12. c4\nQc7 13. cxd5 $13 {Stohl}) 12. Bc1 $1 $14 f6 (12… Qxc3 $5 13. Bd2 Qb2 14. Rb1\nQa3 15. Qe1 $1 (15. Ra1 $10) (15. Bg5 $6 Rde8 (15… h6 $2 16. Bxc6 Bxc6 17.\nRa1 Qb4 18. c3 $18) 16. Qd2 Nf5 17. Ra1 Qf8 {Stohl}) (15. Ng5 Be8 (15… Rdf8\n$1 16. Qe1 $5 h6 $1 $8 (16… a6 $2 17. Bb4 $3 Nxb4 18. Bxd7+ Kxd7 19. Rxb4 $16\n{Stohl}) 17. Bc3 Nf5 18. Bxc6 (18. Nf3 Re8 19. Bxc6 Bxc6 20. Bb4 Qxa4 21. Qc3\nQa6 22. Ra1 Ba4 {Stohl}) 18… Bxc6 19. Bb4 Qxa4 20. Bxf8 Rxf8 21. Ra1 Qxc2 22.\nRxa7 $13) 16. Qe1 a6 17. Bc3 $1 Nf5 (17… axb5 18. axb5 $5 $36) 18. Bxc6 bxc6\n19. Bb4 $16) 15… Nf5 (15… a6 16. Ng5 (16. Bc3 Nf5 17. Bxc6 Bxc6 18. Bb4\nQxa4 19. Qc3 Be8 $17) 16… axb5 (16… Rdf8 17. Bb4) 17. axb5 Nxd4 $1 18. Bb4\nNxc2 19. Bxa3 Nxe1 20. Rfxe1 (20. Bxe7 Nd3 21. Nxf7 Rde8 $13) 20… Nf5 21.\nNxf7 Nd4 $146 {Stohl}) 16. Bxc6 Bxc6 17. Bb4 Qxa4 18. Qc3 Qa6 $6 19. Ra1 $40\nBa4 20. Ba5 b6 21. Rxa4 bxa5 22. Rb1 $18) 13. Qe1 $5 (13. Re1) 13… Rhe8 (\n13… Rde8 $5) (13… Nxe5 $2 14. dxe5 Bxb5 15. Ba3) 14. Ba3 Kb8 (14… fxe5\n15. dxe5 $14) 15. Bxc6 $1 Nxc6 16. Qe3 Ka8 17. Rfb1 $14 Bc8 (17… Qxa4 $2 18.\nQd2 Qa6 19. Bc5 (19. Be7 $6 Qxa1 20. Rxa1 Rxe7 21. exf6 gxf6 22. Qh6 Rf7 $14)\n19… Na5 20. exf6 gxf6 21. Qh6 $16) 18. Bd6 Rd7 (18… b6 $5 {?! Stohl} 19.\nRb5 Qa6 $14 20. Qf4 $16 {(Stohl 90)}) 19. Rb5 Qd8 20. a5 $5 g5 $2 (20… Rxd6\n$5 21. exd6 Qxd6 $14 22. Qd2 $14) (20… f5) (20… fxe5) (20… Rg8 $5 21. Bc5\nQe8 $132) 21. Bc5 $3 $16 g4 22. Bb6 $1 Rc7 $5 (22… axb6 $2 23. axb6+ Kb8 24.\nQc1 Qe7 25. Qb2 $18) (22… Qe7 23. exf6 $1 Qxf6 24. Ne5 $16) 23. Ne1 (23. Nd2\n$142 $5 fxe5 24. dxe5 Qe7 25. Bxc7 Qxc7 26. f4 {Stohl}) 23… fxe5 (23… f5\n24. g3 Qe7 25. Ng2) 24. dxe5 Bd7 $6 (24… Qe7 $142 $5 25. Bxc7 (25. a6 $6 bxa6\n26. Bxc7 axb5) 25… Qxc7 26. f4 (26. Rc5 Bd7) 26… Ne7) 25. Qc5 $1 $40 (25.\nRbb1 $16 {y}) 25… Re7 (25… Qc8 26. Rbb1) 26. a6 $1 bxa6 (26… axb6 $2 27.\naxb7+ Kb8 28. Qxb6 $18) 27. Rxa6 Be8 (27… Qc8 28. Bxc7 Qxa6 $2 29. Qxc6+ $1\nBxc6 30. Rb8#) 28. Bxc7 Rxc7 29. Qd6 $2 (29. Rb1 $142 Nxe5 (29… Nb8 30. Rd6 (\n30. Qd6 Rd7 31. Qxe6)) 30. Qd4 $18 Nc6 31. Qxg4) 29… Qxd6 $1 30. exd6 Rb7 $1\n31. Rxb7 (31. Rc5 $2 Rb1 32. Kf1 Kb7) 31… Kxb7 32. Ra1 Kc8 33. Rb1 $6 (33. f3\n$142 h5 (33… gxf3 34. Nxf3 Kd7 35. Nd4 $1 $18) 34. Kf2 Kd7 35. fxg4 hxg4 36.\nKg3 $18) 33… a5 (33… Kd7 $5) (33… h5 $5) 34. f3 h5 35. Kf2 Kd7 36. fxg4\nhxg4 37. h3 $2 (37. Kg3 $142 $18) 37… gxh3 38. gxh3 Kxd6 39. Nf3 a4 $2 (39…\ne5 $142 $1 40. Ke3 Bg6 41. Kd2 $16 {Stohl}) 40. Nd4 $1 e5 (40… Nd8 41. Rb8\nKc7 42. Ra8) 41. Nxc6 $18 Kxc6 42. Ke3 Kc5 43. Kd2 Kd6 (43… d4 44. Re1 Kd5\n45. cxd4 (45. h4) 45… Kxd4 46. c3+ Kd5 47. Ke3 $18) 44. Rb6+ Kc5 45. Rf6 (45.\nRe6 Bd7) 45… Kb5 (45… d4 46. Re6) 46. Re6 $1 Bd7 47. Rxe5 Bxh3 48. Rxd5+\nKb6 49. Kc1 1-0\n[/pgn] \nMurray Graham Chandler\nThe English Chess Explosion\nSicilian 2.c3\nThe Complete c3 Sicilian\nTournament Chess\nHow to Beat Your Dad at Chess\nChess Tactics for Kids\nChess for Children\nChess Puzzles for Kids
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Geoff Lawton (04-iv-1960)
DESCRIPTION:Happy Birthday IM Geoff Lawton (04-iv-1960) \nGeoff became an International Master in 1984. His peak rating according to Felice was 2407 in July 2003 at the age of 43. \nHe won the Maidenhead Open in 1995 with 5/5 and TPR of 2685. \nHere are his games from chessgames.com \nHe has plus scores with the following notable players : Stuart Conquest\, Mark Condie\, John Nicholson\, Jon Cox\, Colin McNab\, Julian Hodgon\, Paul Littlewood\, David Cummins and Vaidyanathan Ravikumar amongst others. \nIt’s Only Me\, edited by Geoff Lawton\n[pgn]\n[Event “Maidenhead op”]\n[Site “Maidenhead”]\n[Date “1995.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Lawton\, Geoffrey W”]\n[Black “Cummings\, David H”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E92”]\n[WhiteElo “2385”]\n[BlackElo “2375”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “83”]\n[EventDate “1995.??.??”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “5”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1998”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.11.17”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1997.11.17”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,83\,19\,31\,14\,30\,64\,47\,24\,32\,47\,49\,42\,31\,61\,11\,18\,5\,20\,-3\,13\,9\,16\,0\,25\,\n7\,66\,71\,68\,64\,70\,65\,61\,68\,70\,70\,67\,60\,60\,66\,63\,39\,46\,49\,58\,58\,72\,56\,72\,75\,54\,\n57\,54\,44\,51\,35\,44\,44\,54\,54\,66\,16\,74\,93\,18\,20\,37\,9\,0\,10\,10\,10\,139\,154\,158\,23\,73\,\n0\,-12\,-37\,357\,369\,350\,378\,375\,378]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5.\ne4 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bh4 Na6 10. O-O Bd7 11. b3 Nc5 12. Nd2\nNfxe4 13. Bxd8 Nxc3 14. Qe1 Rfxd8 15. Nb1 Nxe2+ 16. Qxe2 e4 17. Nd2 Bxa1 18.\nRxa1 Re8 19. Qe3 Kh7 20. a3 f5 21. Qd4 b6 22. Re1 Nd3 23. Re3 Ne5 24. h3 g5 25.\nNb1 Rf8 26. Nc3 Rf7 27. Ne2 Re8 28. Nc3 Ra8 29. Kh2 g4 30. Ne2 gxh3 31. Rxh3 f4\n32. Rh5 Ng4+ 33. Kg1 Re8 34. f3 exf3 35. gxf3 Ne3 36. Nxf4 Nf5 37. Qd3 Re3 38.\nQc2 Rxf3 39. Ne6 Rg3+ 40. Kf2 Rc3 41. Qe4 Re3 42. Rxf5 1-0\n[/pgn]
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