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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
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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/
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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/
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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]
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-peter-thomas-roberson-22-iii-1989/
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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
URL:https://britishchessnews.com/event/birthday-of-im-craig-hanley-23-iii-1984/
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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)
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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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CATEGORIES:Birthday,Player,Writer
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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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SUMMARY:Birthday of CGM Christopher Jones (06-iv-1952)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of CGM Christopher JA Jones (06-iv-1952)Here is an excellent biography from Chess Scotland \nHere is an article about Helpmates from CJAJ published by Chessbase \nGrandmaster of Composition Christopher Jones\nCGM Christopher James Austin Jones\nCGM Christopher James Austin Jones with James Pratt and David Shire at Eton College
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,Composer,Player,Problemist,Writer
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DTSTAMP:20201224T001334Z
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Julius du Mont (15-xii-1881 07-iv-1956)
DESCRIPTION:Signature of J du Mont from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Southsea 1951.\nBCN Remembers Julius du Mont (15-xii-1881 07-iv-1956) \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume LXXXVI\, Number 5\, 1956 we have this obituary written by DJ Morgan : \nIn our February issue we wrote an appreciation of one of the distinguished past editors of this magazine\, R. C. Griffith. He had been followed in the chair in 1938 by our present Games’ Editor\, and when he\, in turn\, was called in 1940 to sterner duties\, he was succeeded by Julius du Mont. During the war years\, and through the difficult post-war period\, till 1949\, he held the reins. As we wrote on another occasion\, “His had been difficult years: the “B.C.M.” had survived when so much else had succumbed during the stress and strain of total war.” lt is with regret that we now record his death on April 7th\, in a Hastings nursing home\, at the age of seventy-four\, after a protracted illness. \ndu Mont was born in Paris-a little-known fact which he himself once disclosed to us-on December 15th\, 1881. lt was there also that he received his education. His early bent and ambitions were musical. The tradition that chess and music have a close relationship may be traced as far back\, at least\, as Philidor’s great eminence in both. du Mont was truly in the line of such dual personalities. He pursued his musical studies at the Frankfort-on-Main Conservatoire and at Heidelberg\, and soon became established as a concert pianist.’ Later he achieved great success as a music teacher\, and among his pupils was the well-known concert pianist\, Edna lles. The French and German background also explains his facility as a linguist. \nHe came to England as a young man and brought with him a considerable talent for chess. Settling in London\, he rapidly improved as a player\, and successes followed. At the Kentish Congress\, Tunbridge Wells\, 1912\, he came equal second and third. He was Champion of the strong Hampstead Club for two years\, and Middlesex Champion in 1913 and 1915. He quickly mastered our language and showed this during the First World War by writing a manual on the Lewis gun. After the war\, music kept its place in his life\, but more and more chess became his main activity. He forsook playing and turned to journalism and authorship\, and his output of books is evidence of his gifts and industry. Titles come readily to mind: Chess Openings lllustrated\, Centre Counter Defence (1919) and Centre and Danish Gambit (1920); The Elements of Chess (1925) ; Ihe Basis of Combination in Chess (1938) ; 200 Miniature Games (1941); More Miniature Games (1953); (with Dr. Tartakower) 500 Master aomes of Chess\, two volumes (1952)\, to which was added a third volume in 1954\, 100 Master Games of Chess. He also translated Edward Lasker’s Chess Strategy\, and Alekhine’s two volumes of My Best Games of Chess (the first with M. E.Goldstein). \nThe wealth of material ready to hand combined with a foreigner’s gift of lucid expression in “the other tongue” made his books very popular. To the great value and importance of these books\, a whole generation of chess-players will readily testify. \nFor some years\, du Mont was chess editor of The Field and of The Manchester Guardian. During the last war he organized chess championships for the Armed Services. We pay tribute to his services to the game\, to his many kindnesses and friendships to its players\, and\, in particular\, to his devotion to this magazine.-D. J. M. \nD. C.\, who enjoyed a long friendship with our late Editor\, writes to us as follows- \nBy the death of J. du Mont\, the chess world has lost an eminent and popular personality. That this popularity was well deserved will be apparent even to those who knew him only slightly.  \nEssentially kind\, he performed many generous acts\, and having\, by his own efforts\, become the best-known British writer on chess\, he not only filled this position with modesty and dignity\, but was liberal in the help he gave to those starting on the road he had so successfully followed. \nIn the tournament room-where his presence was always welcome-he was invariably quiet and courteous\, and although gifted with a fine wit\, he never used it\nunkindly. He *as an excellent companion\, and players at many congresses will recall the happy times they spent in their visits to him at all hours of the evening. It is sad to think that these gatherings have now irrevocably reached their end: to quote A. E. Housman’s beautiful lines- \nThey come and were and ore not\nAnd come no more anew. \nBut as long as a literature of chess remains\, the name of Julius du Mont will not be forgotten. His many friends\, however\, have no need of his writings in order to keep alive their memory of him. \nIn Chess Secrets I learned from the Masters\, Edward Lasker\, Hollis and Carter\, 1952 : \nJ. DuMont became the author of a number of interesting monographs on chess openings\, and for many years he was the Editor of the British Chess Magazine. It was he who translated my own translation of Schachstrategie which I attempted in the summer of 1913. Naturally\, my English was not fit to be printed. DuMont had to rewrite everything I had written\, and except for his untiring labors Chess Strategy might never have been published. He gave the book a certain literary flavor\, which no doubt added greatly to its popularity. It went into fourteen printings before it was replaced by Modern Chess Strategy in 1945.  \nDuMont was a pianist of note and I took lessons from him; however\, the time I took from my chess activities to practise the piano was shamefully meagre. No wonder I have been told more than once that as a pianist I am a good chess player.”
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,Hastings,History,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of CGM Keith Richardson (02-iv-1942 10-iv-2017)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers CGM Keith Richardson who passed away on Monday\, April 10th\, 2017. \nKeith Bevan Richardson was born in Nottingham\, on Thursday\, April 2nd 1942. On this day : The LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans and US auto factories switch from commercial to war production. \nKeith’s parents were Arthur (30) and Hilda May (née Nicholls\, 25). He married Sandra Sowter on the 11th of September 1971 in Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire. They had two children\, Neil and Ian. They lived at 19\, The Ridings in Camberley\, Surrey. \nSadly\, Keith was diagnosed in the 1990s with Parkinson’s disease and became unwell whilst playing in a chess tournament in Cannes in April 2017 and passed away on the 10th of May 2017. Keith was 75. He continued to actively play chess into his final year. \nCGM Keith Richardson\nKeith was the Treasurer of the Friends of Chess during the period known the English Chess Explosion (late 1970s and 1980s). \nKeith received the ECF President’s Award in 2015 for services to the management of the BCF Permanent Invested Fund (PIF) together with Dr. Julian Farrand and Ray Edwards. \n[pgn]\n[Date “2007.01.26”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith Bevan”]\n[Black “Stefanova\, Antoaneta”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A12”]\n[WhiteElo “2250”]\n[BlackElo “2483”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “103”]\n[EventDate “2007.01.23”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 116 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2007.03.07”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2007.03.07”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,103\,19\,-12\,34\,32\,20\,7\,-18\,-16\,-16\,11\,-15\,-16\,5\,12\,23\,32\,74\,89\,89\,90\,\n42\,24\,13\,18\,101\,-57\,31\,54\,64\,86\,86\,27\,14\,-107\,0\,26\,11\,0\,123\,25\,53\,42\,55\,0\,5\,11\,\n10\,22\,20\,24\,45\,34\,61\,61\,60\,52\,49\,43\,49\,51\,43\,16\,25\,-14\,-1\,-24\,-55\,-19\,14\,4\,100\,\n9\,217\,250\,408\,480\,473\,430\,489\,221\,234\,250\,267\,286\,290\,287\,309\,309\,330\,275\,265\,\n259\,253\,4\,6\,6\,567\,567\,817\,809\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} 1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3.\nb3 dxc4 4. bxc4 e5 5. Nc3 Bd6 6. g3 f5 7. d3 Nf6 8. Bg2 e4 9. dxe4 fxe4 10. Ng5\nQa5 11. Qd2 Be5 12. Bb2 Bf5 13. O-O h6 14. f4 Qc5+ 15. e3 Bxc3 16. Bxc3 Nbd7\n17. Rab1 b6 18. g4 hxg5 19. gxf5 g4 20. Bb4 Qxf5 21. Qd6 c5 22. Be1 Kf7 23. Bg3\nRac8 24. a4 Rhe8 25. a5 Re6 26. Qd2 Nf8 27. Ra1 Re7 28. Rfb1 Rd7 29. Qc2 Rd3\n30. axb6 axb6 31. Rxb6 Rxe3 32. Raa6 Nh5 33. Ra7+ Kg8 34. Rbb7 Rd8 35. Re7 Rd4\n36. Re5 Qg6 37. Bf2 Red3 38. Bxd4 Rxd4 39. Bxe4 Qb6 40. Rxh5 Qxa7 41. Bh7+ Kf7\n42. Rf5+ Ke7 43. Qe2+ Ne6 44. Re5 Qd7 45. Qxg4 g6 46. Bxg6 Rxc4 47. Bf5 Qd4+\n48. Kg2 Qb2+ 49. Re2 Qb7+ 50. Kf2 Qh1 51. Rxe6+ Kf8 52. Rf6+ 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom CHESS\, Volume 41 (1975)\, Numbers 729-730 (September)\, pp. 380 the news of Keith’s success was initially reported: \n“BRITAINS’ FIRST CHESS GRAND MASTER \nThe first grand master title to be won by a British player has been achieved in the field of correspondence chess by Keith B. Richardson\, aged 33\, of Camberley. \nThe title of Correspondence Chess grand master is awarded by the lnternational correspondence Chess Federation. Keith Richardson fulfilled the norm by sharing third place in the final of the 7th World Correspondence Chess Championship with a score of 11 points from 16 games. The tournament began in February 1972 and results of the last adjudicated games were recently announced making J. V. Estrin U.S.S.R. first with l2 points; J. Boey Belgium scored 11.5; K. B. Richardson G.B. and Dr. V. Zagorovski U.S.S.R. 11. \nThere are only 25 Correspondence Chess Grand masters throughout the world.” \nThis was followed in the next month’s issue by a correction and more depth in CHESS\, Volume 41 (1975)\, Numbers 731-732 (October)\, pp. 30-31: \n“K. B. Richardson\, though the first Britain to become a grand master by play was preceded by Comins Mansfield as grandmaster of problem composition\, a title he gained in 1972. Our report last month did not make this clear. \nKeith B. Richardson was born 2 April 1942 and was educated at Nottingham High School. At 16\, he passed Grade 8 in Royal\nSchools of Music at pianoforte. At Durham University\, he obtained a B.A. in French and German and was awarded the University Palatinate (equal to a ‘blue’) in cricket and fives. He could have become a professional cricketer or a concert pianist but\nmade his career instead with Barclays Bank which brought him to London and a home in Camberley\, Surrey\, where he has settled down with his wife\, Sandra (from Sutton Coldfield!). They now have two baby sons\, Neil aged three years and Ian who is only two months old – both born since the final of the 7th World Correspondence Chess Championship began. \nCGM Keith Bevan Richardson (from a Barclays publicity article)\nKeith’s other interests include bridge and squash. He plays squash for his bank and is Secretary of the London Squash League. As a young chess player\, Keith won the Notts. under l4 Championship\, held the Notts. under l8 Championship for four years and the Notts. Championship for two years and was British Junior Champion in 1962. In 1963\, he was Durham County Champion and joint winner of the British Universities’ Championship which he won outright the following year. He was twice captain of the British Universities Students’ Olympiad team. He held the Midlands Championship (Forrest Cup) for three years and was joint London Champion and London Banks’ Champion in 1970 but has been content to hold the latter title since then and concentrate on correspondence chess. \nKeith Richardson aged 20 at the 1963 Niemeyer Under-21 Tournament in Groningen. The forerunner of the European Junior Championship\nNiemeyer Under-21 Tournament\, Groningen 1963. The forerunner of the European Junior Championship.\nIn 1964\, Keith Richardson was runner up for the British Correspondence Chess Championship and at the same time won a Master Class tournament of the lnternational Correspondence Chess Federation (I.C.C.F.) which qualified for a place in the World C.C. Championship semi-final. He came second in the 1965-67 semi-final and tried again in the 1968-71 event which he won. At the same time\, he was representing Great Britain on Board 5 in the 1965-67 I.C.C.F. Olympiad Preliminary and on Board 4 in the 1968-71 event. His score of 5 points from 7 games helped the British team to win its section in the 1968-71 Preliminary and qualify for a place in the I.C.C.F. Olympiad Final which started in 1972. When Keith began play in the World C.C. Championship Final involving l6 tames\, he was also asked to take Board 3 in the Olympiad Final involving another 9 games. \nHe accepted – a mistake which might possibly have cost him the World C.C. Championship! His next assault on the World title will be in 1979 and in the meantime he plans to play in the next I.C.C.F. Olympiad Preliminary and write a book on the 7th World C.C. Championship. \n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch07 corr7278”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1972.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith Bevan”]\n[Black “Estrin\, Yakov Borisovich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B36”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “96”]\n[EventDate “1972.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,96\,28\,28\,51\,46\,72\,38\,35\,40\,81\,14\,39\,29\,51\,70\,57\,2\,10\,-24\,3\,15\,14\,-17\,\n-24\,-15\,-26\,-18\,-21\,-36\,-38\,-36\,-48\,-46\,5\,-25\,-4\,-39\,-42\,-35\,88\,91\,93\,95\,98\,95\,\n95\,94\,94\,50\,52\,53\,50\,48\,73\,48\,41\,30\,46\,64\,74\,84\,77\,97\,98\,109\,109\,95\,95\,91\,124\,\n127\,132\,125\,110\,127\,124\,128\,133\,136\,154\,158\,159\,153\,153\,163\,165\,174\,183\,187\,\n199\,191\,191\,202\,217\,219\,220\,220\,209]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6\n5. c4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Nxd4 7. Qxd4 d6 8. Be3 Bg7 9. f3 O-O 10. Qd2 Qa5 11. Nb5 Qxd2+\n12. Kxd2 b6 13. a4 Nd7 14. Ra2 Bb7 15. Be2 Rfc8 16. a5 Bc6 17. axb6 axb6 18.\nNa7 Bb7 19. Rha1 Rc7 20. Nb5 Rcc8 21. Rxa8 Rxa8 22. Rxa8+ Bxa8 23. b4 Bc6 24.\nNa7 Bb7 25. Bd1 Ba6 26. Bb3 e6 27. Kc2 Bf6 28. Ba4 Ne5 29. Bxb6 Nxc4 30. Bf2\nKf8 31. b5 Bb7 32. Nc6 Bxc6 33. bxc6 Bd8 34. f4 Ba5 35. Bb3 Na3+ 36. Kd3 Nb5\n37. g4 Ke8 38. f5 gxf5 39. gxf5 exf5 40. exf5 Ke7 41. Bh4+ f6 42. Bg8 Na7 43.\nKc4 Bb6 44. Bd5 Bg1 45. h3 Bb6 46. Bg3 Bc5 47. Be1 Bb6 48. Bc3 h6 49. Bd2 h5 50.Bc3 1-0 [/pgn] \nIn this position\, with Black in Zugzwang\, the game went for adjudication (after more than three years’ play\, a very necessary evil): \n“In order to substantiate White’s claim for a win\, it was necessary to submit three pages of analysis proving that every possible move loses for Black. If the knight moves\, White’s king claims an entry. If Black moves the bishop along the a7-g1 diagonal\, White plays Ba5. If the Black bishop moves on the d8-a5 diagonal\, White plays Bd4 : KBR” \nThe game was adjudicated a win for White. This was only defeat inflicted upon the new World Champion. \nCGM Keith Richardson in 1975\nThis article was followed (with some glee no doubt) by an article in  British Chess Magazine\, Volume LIXIV (95\, 1975)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 526 as follows: \n“Keith B. Richardson recently became the third British player to receive a grandmaster title (the other two both in 1972\, are Comins Mansfield for chess composition’ and R.W. Bonham’ correspondence grandmaster of the blind). The title of Correspondence Chess Grandmaster is awarded by the International Correspondence  Chess Federation  (ICCF) and Keith Richardson fulfilled the norm by sharing third place in the final of the 7th World Correspondence Championship. Leading scores in the tournament (February 1972 – Summer 1975): 1. Y. Estrin (USSR) 12/16; J.Boey (B) 11.5; 3-4 K.B. Richardson (ENG)\, V. Zagorovsky (USSR) 11; etc. \nKeith\, born 2nd April1942\, was educated at Nottingham High School and Durham University-. He won the Nottinghamshire U-14 Championship\, held the Notts U-18 championship for four years\, the senior Notts  Championship for two years and was British Junior Champion in 1962. In 1963\, he was  Durham County Champion and joint winner of the British Universities Championship  which he won outright the following year. He was twice captain of the British team in Students Olympiads. \nKeith Richardson from BCM\, 1984\, page 545\nIn 1964 Keith left university to make a career with Barclays Bank.  In the same year he was runner-up in the British Correspondence Championship and won an ICCF master tournament which qualified him for a place in the World Championship final. He came second in the 1965-7 semi-final\, tried again\, and won the 1968-71 event thus gaining entry to the 7th final. \nKeith Richardson lives in Surrey at Camberley. He is married and has two baby sons – both born since the final of the 7th World Correspondence Championship began. At present he is writing a book on the 7th Championship and\, for a change playing some OTB (over-the-board) chess in the London League for the Athenaeum club\, to which he makes a great contribution – it is a marvellous feeling to know  that the player next to you (on your side!) is a grandmaster. \nKeith Richardson playing for BCM Dragons in the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL\, courtesy of John Upham Photography.\nThe following three games are – Keith’s best from  the -championship. In them he defeats three of the five Russians in the\ntournament (his overall score against the Russians was 3.5/5 – a wonderful achievement.” \n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch07 corr7278”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1972.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith B”]\n[Black “Dubinin\, Piotr Vasilyevich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B78”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “63”]\n[EventDate “1972.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,63\,19\,38\,40\,41\,66\,77\,66\,55\,55\,20\,70\,53\,40\,34\,30\,13\,22\,26\,44\,-4\,8\,4\,23\,\n-5\,1\,-4\,25\,-17\,-8\,15\,87\,96\,103\,80\,142\,32\,40\,40\,82\,91\,281\,262\,318\,344\,443\,459\,\n452\,524\,524\,524\,524\,524\,1106\,1141\,29991\,29992\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996\,29997\,\n29998\,29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3\nBg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Qa5 11. Kb1 Rfc8 12. Bb3 Ne5 13.\nBg5 $5 Rc5 14. Rhe1 Rac8 15. f4 Neg4 $2 {[#]} 16. Nf3 $1 Rxc3 17. bxc3 Bc6 18.\ne5 $1 Ne4 19. Rxe4 Bxe4 20. Bxe7 dxe5 21. Ng5 Bf5 22. Nxf7 Ra8 23. h3 Nf6 {[#]}\n24. Bxf6 $1 Bxf6 25. fxe5 Bg7 26. g4 Bc8 27. Ng5+ Kh8 28. Qd8+ Qxd8 29. Rxd8+\nBf8 30. Rxf8+ Kg7 31. Rg8+ Kh6 32. Nf7# 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand here is the printed version of the above report: \nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LIXIV (95\, 1975)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 526\nBritish Chess Magazine\, Volume LIXIV (95\, 1975)\, Number 12 (December)\, page 527\n[pgn]\n[Event “W-ch07 corr7278”]\n[Site “ICCF corr”]\n[Date “1972.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Richardson\, Keith B”]\n[Black “Zagorovsky\, Mikhail Pavlovich”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “D42”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “61”]\n[EventDate “1972.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “16”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,61\,19\,38\,72\,69\,71\,70\,45\,17\,13\,28\,33\,27\,32\,25\,25\,15\,18\,32\,28\,28\,40\,33\,\n59\,47\,56\,55\,17\,-1\,77\,28\,55\,70\,133\,96\,89\,132\,303\,259\,263\,268\,268\,278\,293\,293\,\n293\,308\,368\,291\,372\,389\,493\,504\,511\,520\,532\,535\,572\,592\,765\,797\,802\,877]} 1. e4\nc6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Be7 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8. Bd3 O-O\n9. O-O Nc6 10. Re1 Bf6 11. Be4 Nce7 12. Ne5 g6 $2 {[#]} 13. Qf3 $5 Bg7 14. h4\nNf5 15. Bxf5 gxf5 16. h5 Nb4 17. Qg3 Kh8 18. Bg5 f6 $2 {[#]} 19. Ng6+ $3 Kg8\n20. Nxf8 Kxf8 21. Bf4 Nc2 22. h6 Bh8 23. Nb5 Nxa1 24. Rxa1 Bd7 25. Bc7 Qe8 26.\nBd6+ Kf7 27. Nc7 Qg8 28. Nxa8 Qxa8 29. Rc1 Bc6 30. d5 $1 f4 31. Qxf4 1-0\n[/pgn] \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \n“English player. International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster (1975)\, bank manager. Around 1961 Richardson decided that over-the- board play\, which had brought him some successes as a. junior\, would interfere with his professional career and he took to postal chess instead. His best performance in this field was his sharing of third place with Zagorovsky after Estrin and Boey in the 7th World Correspondence Championship\, 1968-71. ” \nIn October 1984 Keith took part in the A. E. Axelson Memorial tournament organised by the Swedish CC Committee and with fifteen grandmasters was one of the strongest CC tournaments in history.  Keith finished in 11th place ahead of Boey. \nIn 1991 Jonathan Berry wrote a potted biography in  Diamond Dust\, International Chess Enterprises\, ISBN 1-879479-00-1 as follows : \n“Camberley\, Surrey\, England. Born 2 April 1942. Married with two sons. Bank Manager. \nHe was British Under-21 Champion in 1962. At Groningen 1962/63\, he was placed 2nd in the European Junior Championship. At Bristol 1967 he was equal 5th in the British Championship. \nIn CC\, he gained the IMC in 1968\, GMC in 1975. In CC WCh VII\, he won the semi-final with 9.5/12\, and placed =3rd in the final\, 11/16. In CC WCh X\, he again tied for third in the final with 10/15. Playing board 3 for Britain in OL-VIII\, finals\, 1972-76\, he scored 7.5/9\, the highest score on any board. He won the Prefors Memorial\, 1976-1980\, 9.5.12” \n1976-1980 Prefors Memorial\nKeith was a founding member of Camberley Chess Club in 1972. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opp68Jw4dlA[/embedyt] \nA one-day tournament (The Keith Richardson Memorial) in memory of Keith was started in 2017 and has been held four times in total being played on-line for the first time in 2021. \nKen Coates presents Clive Frostick with the trophy for the 2019 Keith Richardson Memorial Tournament.\nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“Keith Bevan Richardson was born in Nottingham\, England. Awarded the IMC title in 1968 and the GMC title in 1975\, he finished 3rd= in the World Correspondence Championships of 1975 and 1984.” \nHere are his games from chessgames.com \nAn obituary from Ray Edwards / ECF. \nHere is an excellent biography by Peter Rust from the web site of the Hamilton Russell Cup \nBarclay’s Bank pay tribute to Keith on the corporate site. \nHere is an entry from the Belgian chess history web site.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Erik Teichmann (11-iv-1961)
DESCRIPTION:FM Erik Oskar Michael Charles Teichmann\nBirthday of FM Erik Oskar Michael Charles Teichmann (11-iv-1961) \nErik was born in Westminster\, London\, his mother (née Jorgensen) being Danish and his father was Max Teichmann. They lived in London for two years and then emigrated to Melbourne\, Australia until Erik was six when Erik and his mother moved to Cambridge\, England. Erik played much chess in England including the British U-18 and U-21 championships\, Lloyds Bank events \n[pgn]\n[Event “British CF-68 Championship”]\n[Site “Morecambe/ Lancashire”]\n[Date “1981.08.11”]\n[Round “8”]\n[White “Teichmann\, Erik Oskar Michael”]\n[Black “Davies\, Nigel Rodney”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “E67”]\n[BlackElo “2360”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1981.08.03”]\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\,81\,18\,32\,83\,54\,37\,41\,33\,31\,37\,39\,61\,40\,48\,54\,43\,26\,14\,11\,91\,39\,62\,52\,\n60\,24\,56\,113\,83\,83\,83\,81\,115\,95\,103\,87\,59\,72\,72\,71\,202\,158\,229\,227\,261\,74\,78\,5\,\n7\,10\,10\,11\,69\,-36\,-82\,-260\,-77\,-77\,-62\,-55\,-55\,-157\,-14\,-43\,-16\,-22\,-15\,-251\,\n-335\,-346\,-141\,-255\,-185\,-287\,356\,450\,509\,450\,532\,535\,1141\,140\,847\,893]} 1. d4\ng6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nf3 d6 4. g3 Nd7 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg2 Ngf6 7. O-O O-O 8. e4 c5 9.\nh3 Rb8 10. Qe2 b5 11. e5 Ne8 12. Rd1 cxd4 13. Nxd4 Nxe5 14. cxb5 axb5 15. f4\nNc4 16. Nc6 Qb6+ 17. Kh2 e6 18. Nxb8 d5 19. a4 b4 20. Nxd5 exd5 21. Bxd5 Na5\n22. Qb5 Qf2+ 23. Bg2 Nb3 24. Rb1 Bf5 25. Rf1 Qc2 26. Qxb4 Nf6 27. Kg1 Be4 28.\nBxe4 Nxe4 29. Be3 Nxg3 30. Rfe1 Ne2+ 31. Rxe2 Qxb1+ 32. Re1 Qxb2 33. Qb6 Qc3\n34. Rd1 Re8 35. Bf2 Nd2 36. Nc6 Ne4 37. Rd8 Qc1+ 38. Kg2 Nf6 39. Ne7+ Kf8 40.\nRxe8+ Kxe8 41. Nc6 {time} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nand the Islington and other opens swisses. Erik played for Cambridge University (Magdalen College) in the 1982 (100th) Varsity Match drawing with Gareth Anthony (Trinity Hall). \nErik Oskar Michael Charles Teichmann (rear\, far right) at a Lloyds Bank event\nErik (left) analyses with Mark A Johnstone (right) and James Pratt at the 1981 Islington Open. Your Truly was the photographer.\nIn 1985 Erik emigrated once more to Australia living in Eltham\, Melbourne and became a lifestyle guru and coach. \nErik Teichmann standing\, holding trophy)\nErik became a FIDE Master in 1990 and his peak rating was 2388 in July 2010. \nFM Erik Teichmann\nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“FIDE Master Erik Oskar Michael Charles Teichmann won the Nova Scotia Open in 1999.” \nHere is Erik’s favourite game : \n[pgn]\n[Event “Melbourne Cup”]\n[Site “Melbourne”]\n[Date “2010.11.02”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Cheng\, Bobby Sky”]\n[Black “Teichmann\, Erik Oskar Michael”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “D02”]\n[WhiteElo “2227”]\n[BlackElo “2329”]\n[Annotator “johnu”]\n[PlyCount “70”]\n[EventDate “2010.10.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “AUS”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2012”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2011.11.24”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2011.11.24”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,70\,19\,31\,98\,26\,30\,21\,18\,9\,1\,11\,9\,1\,13\,14\,13\,7\,9\,8\,23\,14\,6\,-9\,54\,38\,40\,\n39\,45\,45\,51\,23\,13\,0\,10\,-8\,10\,-20\,-4\,7\,18\,21\,26\,39\,21\,27\,40\,35\,90\,46\,19\,40\,1\,24\,\n0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-188\,-274\,-816\,-999\,-938\,-1249\,-1273\,-1332\,-29993\,-2157\,-2157\,-2078\,\n-29989\,-1385]} 1. d4 Nc6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 Bg4 4. Nbd2 e6 5. e3 Bd6 6. Bxd6 Qxd6\n7. c4 Nge7 8. Be2 O-O 9. O-O Rad8 10. c5 Qd7 11. b4 Ng6 12. b5 Nce7 13. a4 f6\n14. h3 Bf5 15. Nb3 e5 16. Na5 c6 17. Ra2 Qc7 18. Qd2 e4 19. Nh2 Bc8 20. Rb2 f5\n21. g3 f4 22. exf4 Bxh3 23. Rfb1 Nf5 24. Bf1 Bxf1 25. Nxf1 Qd7 26. bxc6 bxc6\n27. Rb7 Qe6 28. Rxa7 Nfh4 29. Nh2 Qh3 30. gxh4 Nxf4 31. f3 e3 32. Qc2 e2 33.\nKf2 Qxh2+ 34. Ke1 Ng2+ 35. Kxe2 Ne1+ 0-1\n[/pgn] \nErik now lives in Lyon\, France with his girlfriend both being Buddhists. \nFM Erik Teichmann\, photo by Cathy Rogers
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Richard Webb (11-iv-1962)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM Richard Mark Webb (11-iv-1962) \nThis was written about Richard just prior to the 1979 Spassky vs the BCF Junior Squad simultaneous display : \n“Forest of Needwood High and Burton on Trent.Rating 192. Second youngest British men’s championship finalist\, 1977.” \nRichard Webb (front\, far left) at a Lloyds Bank event\nAt the Lloyds Bank Masters : Front (l-r) : Joel Benjamin\, Ian Wells\, Rear : Peter Morrish\, Stewart Reuben\, Richard Beville\, Gary Senior\, Richard Webb\, John Hawksworth\, Andrew King\, Nigel Short\, Mark Ginsburg\, Daniel King\, David Cummings\, Erik Teichmann\, John Brandford and Micheal Pagden
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Rev. Charles Ranken (05-i-1828 12-iv-1905)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of Rev. Charles Edward Ranken (05-i-1828 12-iv-1905)From The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nA leading member of the formidable band of reverends who played such a strong role in early Victorian English chess\, he is described as ‘one of the writing rather than the fighting clergy in chess’ in P. W. Sergeant’s Century of Britsh Chess. Though he learnt chess at an early age’ he made his first really earnest study of the game when he was an undergraduate at Wadham College\, Oxford 1847-50\, in particular devoting himself to a theoretical study of Staunton’s Handbook\, which he rightly regarded as a great landmark in chess literature. \nOn leaving Oxford he competed in the provincial section at London l85l where he came second to Boden.\nIn 1867 he became vicar of Sandford-on-Thames and lived at Oxford where\, in collaboration with Lord Randolph Churchill (Winston’s father)\, he founded the Oxford University Chess Club\nand became its first President. \nResigning his living at Sandford in 1871\, he went to live at Malvern where he stayed till his death. He played in many of the congresses organized by the Counties Chess Association\, his best result being 1st in the first class section at Malvern 1872 with a score of l2 points\, followed by two other reverends\, Thorold 11.5 and Wayte 10.5. It was at this congress that he brought about a reconciliation between Staunton and Löwenthal who had been estranged for a considerable time. \nHe played in the Yizayanaqaram tournament at London 1883 and started well but his health gave way after the first week and he divided fifth place with G. H. D. Gossip.\nHis chief importance during the later stages of his chess career was as a writer\, first as editor of the Chess Player’s Chronicle in 1877 and later as a member of the staff of the British Chess Magazine in which he wrote on many aspects of chess but specialized in analysis (of the openings\, middle-game and the endings)’ In 1889 he published\, in collaboration with E. Freeborough\, Chess Openings Ancient and Modern. (London)’ ( H’G’) \nChess Openings Ancient and Modern 1889\nThe Ranken Variation is a good line for White in the Four Knights Opening\, analysed in the Chess Players Chronicle\, 1879 by Ranken first president of the Oxford University Chess Club. \n[fen]r1bqkb1r/1ppp1ppp/p1B2n2/4p3/4P3/2N2N2/PPPP1PPP/R1BQK2R b KQkq – 0 1[/fen]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Harry Grieve (12-iv-2001)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Harry James M Grieve (12-iv-2001) \nHarry at the 2014 UKCC Terafinal\nHarry is studying mathematics at St. Catherine’s College\, Cambridge having previously been a pupil and member of the very strong chess team of Royal Grammar School\, Guildford. He started his league chess with Fleet & Farnborough Chess Club (same as Simon Williams !) and then transferred his allegiance to the very strong Farnham chess club playing top board in many matches. Round 5 of the Caplin Hastings International Chess Congress featured the board 10 clash between one of England’s stronger Grandmasters\, Danny Gormally (2508) and FM Harry Grieve (2299). Here is their game : [pgn] [Event “Hastings Masters 2019-2020”] [Site “Hastings”] [Date “2020.01.01”] [Round “5”] [White “Gormally\, Danny”] [Black “Grieve\, Harry”] [Result “0-1”] [ECO “A80”] [Annotator “British Chess News”] [PlyCount “86”] [EventDate “2019.12.28”] [EventType “swiss”] [EventRounds “9”] [EventCountry “ENG”] {[%evp 0\,51\,19\,31\,75\,31\,54\,23\,36\,47\,59\,45\,53\,34\,86\,79\,53\,60\,63\,20\,43\,29\,46\,24\, 44\,33\,50\,65\,60\,50\,44\,61\,51\,51\,83\,68\,47\,-11\,63\,12\,85\,7\,-17\,-29\,16\,-24\,22\,41\,69\, 8\,-6\,1\,61\,25]} 1. d4 f5 {[%cal Gf5e4\,Gg8f6]} 2. Bg5 {[%cal Gg5d8] The Bogoljubov Variation\, aimed as an anti e6 and anti-Classical Dutch line\, favoured by Tony Miles.} h6 3. Bh4 g5 4. e3 (4. e4 $5 {is also critical : may be more so ?} Rh7 5. Qh5+ Rf7 6. Nf3 Nf6 7. Qg6 Nc6 8. Bxg5 fxe4 9. Ne5 Nxe5 10. dxe5 hxg5 11. exf6 exf6 $6 (11… e6) 12. Nc3 Bb4 $2 13. O-O-O $1 Bxc3 14. Bc4 $18 {Gormally – Williams\, EU Championship\, Liverpool\, 2006\, 1-0\, 19.}) 4… Nf6 5. Bg3 (5. Be2 $5 Bg7 6. Bg3 O-O 7. Nc3) 5… d6 6. h4 $1 {Kasparov} Rg8 ( 6… Bg7 7. hxg5 hxg5 8. Rxh8+ Bxh8 9. Nh3 $14 g4 $142 (9… Ne4 $143 $5 10. Qh5+ Kd7 11. Bh4 $1 Bf6 12. Bxg5 $18) 10. Nf4 Ne4 11. Bh4 $14) (6… g4 { McDonald} 7. Ne2 (7. Nc3 Nh5 8. Nge2)) 7. hxg5 hxg5 8. Nc3 (8. c4 $1 { Kindermann} e6 9. Nc3 Qe7 10. Qb3 $16) 8… e6 9. Qd2 Qe7 10. O-O-O Nc6 11. f3 {[%cal Ge3e4]} Bd7 12. e4 fxe4 (12… f4 $143 13. Bf2 $14) 13. fxe4 O-O-O 14. d5 {Kasparov} (14. Kb1) (14. Bb5) 14… exd5 (14… Ne5) 15. exd5 Ne5 16. Nf3 $146 {[%cal Gf3e5]} (16. Qd4 Kb8 17. Nb5 Bxb5 18. Bxb5 Bg7 19. Nh3 Nfd7 20. Kb1 $15) (16. Re1 Kb8 17. Kb1 Bg7 18. a3 Rh8 19. Rxh8 Rxh8 20. Bxe5 dxe5 21. Nf3 { Kasparov – Illescas Cordoba\, Dos Hermanas\, 1996\, 1/2\, 48.}) 16… Nxf3 (16… Nfg4 17. Re1 Bg7 18. Nd4 Kb8) 17. gxf3 Kb8 18. Nb5 {White has ideas of saccing on c7 or a7 so Black is more or less obliged to capture the knight.} Bxb5 19. Bxb5 Nd7 {[%cal Gd7c5] aiming for c5} 20. Rhe1 (20. Bxd7) 20… Qf6 21. Re6 Qf7 (21… Qxf3 22. Re3 Qf6 23. Rf1 Qg7 24. Qe2 $14) 22. Kb1 Bg7 (22… Nc5 $142 23. Qe3 Nxe6 24. dxe6 Qe7) 23. Qe3 Be5 24. Bxd7 Bxg3 25. Re7 Bf2 $5 {critical position} (25… Qf6 26. Rh1 Bf4 27. Qe1 $15) 26. Qe2 $143 (26. Qxa7+ $142 $1 Kxa7 27. Rxf7 Rdf8 28. Rxf8 Rxf8 29. Rd3 $14) 26… Qf6 27. Bg4 {Stockfish 10 believes the position to be level.} Bb6 28. Rd3 {Is the start of a faulty plan ? Is White’s back rank too weak for this idea ?} Rh8 {of course !} 29. a3 a6 30. Rb3 $6 (30. Rd1 $1 {White should be happy to halve out.}) 30… Qd4 $1 { Very strong centralisation still eyeing up b2 and g1} 31. Rd3 $2 {This must simply be an oversight.} Rh1+ 32. Ka2 Qg1 $19 {and White is busted. So\, what did Danny miss ?} 33. Rd2 {There is no defence after this.} (33. Kb3 Qa1 34. c3 Bc5 35. Re8 Rxe8 36. Qxe8+ Ka7) 33… Qa1+ 34. Kb3 Rb1 35. c3 Bc5 $1 {There is nothing White can do.} 36. Kc4 Qa2+ 37. Kd3 Qxd5+ 38. Kc2 Qa2 39. Kd3 Qd5+ 40. Kc2 Qa2 41. Kd3 Rc1 $1 {Is this the move Danny missed at move 31 ?} 42. Qe6 d5 {and mate in 14 according to Stockfish 10 !} 43. Rd7 {and Danny sportingly allows Harry to deliver checkmate : Black’s first win with either colour against a strong Grandmaster.} Qc4# 0-1 [/pgn] Following this game Harry needs 2.5/4 to obtain his first IM norm : Good luck ! \nHarry Grieve\, 2014 Terafinal
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM Peter Markland (13-iv-1951)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes a happy birthday to Peter Markland born on Friday\, April 13th\, 1951 \nFrom the rear cover of “Sicilian:…e5 : \n“P.R. Markland is a British Master\, and a member of many English international teams\, including those at the 1972 and 1974 Olympiads\, and is also a British correspondence international” \nPeter first qualified to the British Championship in 1967 (Oxford) and obtained an IM and GM norm at Hastings 1971. \nIn 1984 he became a Grandmaster for correspondence chess (GMC). \nPeter became a banker and lives in Woodbridge\, Suffolk\, IP13. \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) we have this contribution from Peter himself: \n“1951 seems to have been a vintage year for chessplayers and although I cannot claim to count myself in the company of Andersson\, Karpov\, Ribli and Sax we do all share the same year of birth. \nAlthough I learned the moves at the age of 5\, I only took any real interest in the game at 13 when I began to play schools chess. Compared with such as Nigel Short I was a very late starter! \nI was educated at Bolton School and played for Bolton and Lancashire in my early years. This was fortunate in that all three of these teams enjoyed great success in the late 1960s. In all three teams I played along side Martyn Corden who was to precede my rise to international level himself by playing in the Siegen Olympiad team in 1970. In 1967\, I qualified for the British Championship at my first attempt and I was pleased to score 5/11. The following year the school team won The Sunday Times tournament playing without Martyn Corden in the finals. \nUp to this time I had concentrated chiefly on junior teams and had won the NCCU junior titles. Over Christmas and New Year of both 1966-7 and 1967-8 I travelled down to play at the Devon Junior Congress at Plymouth but in 1968 I decided to try my luck at Hastings. This proved to be one of the turning points of my career. \nI was placed in the Challengers Reserves for 1968-9 and after the first round loss (to the eventual winner) my play gained momentum and I qualified for the Challengers the following year. The intervening year passed quietly with a trip to Ireland in the Glorney Cup. I went up to Balliol College\, Oxford in October 1969. \nThe Scottish Junior International\, Glasgow\, 1969. l-r: David Watt\, Rene Borngässer\, David Levy\, Heinz Wirthensohn\, Peter Markland. Courtesy of Chess Scotland \nThe Hastings Challengers tournament 1969-70 began when I met the same opponent as in the previous year in the first round. This time I managed to come out on top. By the time the last round came\, I had played most of the leaders and had 6/8 including two pleasing wins with my favourite defence at the time – the Sicilian Pelikan variation. \nSicilian:…e5 by TD Harding & PR Markland\, Batsford\, 1976\, ISBN 0 7134 3209 8 \nIn the last round I was paired against de Veauce who had a reputation as a good strategist and whom I hoped to unsettle tactically. I had white and my plan failed. He outplayed me in the opening and middlegame and I sacrificed my isolated centre pawn to activate my pieces. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1969/70-Challenger”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1970.01.07”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “De Veauce\, Louis”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “C54”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland / British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “69”]\n[EventDate “1969.12.29”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, page 158.”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.11.22”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,69\,19\,28\,23\,19\,22\,4\,4\,2\,-2\,37\,-6\,-19\,2\,2\,14\,45\,42\,29\,26\,28\,28\,32\,32\,\n23\,60\,33\,67\,43\,37\,30\,11\,6\,84\,13\,13\,-24\,1\,-3\,3\,13\,0\,0\,0\,-12\,-14\,-12\,-19\,-15\,-21\,\n0\,0\,0\,-55\,-37\,-23\,-31\,-8\,-16\,0\,0\,0\,-41\,0\,-25\,-46\,0\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} {\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983)\, pp158: In the last round I was\npaired against de Veauce who had a reputation as a good strategist and whom I\nhoped to unsettle tactically. I had white and my plan failed. He outplayed me\nin the opening and middlegame and I sacrificed my isolated centre pawn to\nactivate my pieces.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 exd4 6.\ncxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Bxd2+ 8. Nbxd2 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Qb3 Nce7 11. O-O O-O 12.\nRfe1 Nb6 13. Bd3 h6 (13… Bf5 14. Rxe7 Bxd3 15. Rae1 Bg6) 14. a4 $6 a5 {[#]}\n15. h3 $146 Nc6 16. Rac1 Qd5 17. Qxd5 $6 (17. Be4) 17… Nxd5 18. Nb3 Ncb4 19.\nBe4 b6 20. Na1 Bd7 21. Nc2 Ra7 22. Nxb4 Nxb4 $15 23. b3 Be6 24. Re3 Rc8 25. Ne5\nRd8 26. Rd1 c5 27. d5 Bxd5 28. Bxd5 Rxd5 29. Rxd5 Nxd5 30. Rd3 Nb4 31. Rd6 {[#]\n} {In the diagrammed position it is clear that a draw should result although\nperhaps white has some chances of advantage after the fall of black’s b-pawn.\nInstead the game continued} Re7 32. f4 {[#]} f6 $2 33. Ng6 {Now white has a\nclear edge.} Rb7 $4 34. Rd8+ Kf7 35. f5 {and Black resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nSo I then had to wait had to wait to see the other results before I could confirm a somewhat lucky place in the Premier. \nIn 1970 I had the opportunity to travel with the student team to the Olympiad in Haifa. My score of 5.5/7 was reasonably pleasing but the standard of opposition was far from good. \nPeter Markland at Hastings 1970-71 \nAt the end of the year came the Hastings Premier – a tournament which I can only describe as the highlight of my career. I began nervously and lost a nondescript game to Uhlmann in the first round. My confidence grew with two comfortable draws with Portisch (the eventual winner) and Keene. In round four I met the surprise leader\, Mestrovic (who had 3/3) and perhaps partly due to the fact that this game was played on 1st January I won convincingly in 18 moves. \nPeter Markland during his game with Portisch on December 30th 1970 \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1970/71-46 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1971.01.01”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “Mestrovic\, Zvonimir”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B00”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “35”]\n[EventDate “1970.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 1999”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,35\,19\,29\,72\,-9\,56\,41\,67\,53\,31\,46\,46\,24\,40\,-8\,-1\,0\,49\,19\,91\,70\,307\,341\,\n444\,451\,486\,486\,580\,688\,754\,767\,1527\,598\,633\,633\,633\,622]} {Possibly this game\nwas influenced by the previous nights celebrations?} 1. e4 c5 2. c3 b6 3. d4 e6\n4. Nf3 Bb7 5. Bd3 Nf6 $6 (5… Ne7 6. O-O Ng6 7. Bg5 Be7 8. Bxe7 Qxe7 9. Re1\nO-O $10 {Florian-Haag\, Gyula 1965}) 6. Nbd2 (6. Qe2 Be7 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3) 6…\nd5 (6… Nc6) 7. exd5 {A rare choice} (7. e5) 7… Qxd5 8. O-O Bd6 $6 $146 (\n8… Be7 $142 {0-0}) 9. Re1 Qh5 $2 {Black will regret this…} 10. dxc5 $16 {\n[#]} (10. Qa4+ Nbd7) 10… Bxc5 $4 ({Not much better is} 10… Qxc5 11. Ne4\nNxe4 12. Rxe4 $1 Nd7 (12… Bxe4 $4 13. Bxe4 $18 Nc6 14. Be3 {and Black can\nresign})) 11. Re5 $1 $18 g5 {desperation} (11… Qg4 12. h3 Qf4 13. Ne4 $18)\n12. Rxg5 Qh6 13. Ne4 (13. Rxc5 $1 bxc5 14. Ne4) 13… Nxe4 14. Bxe4 Bxe4 {[#]}\n15. Rxc5 $1 Qg7 16. Qa4+ (16. Rc8+ Ke7 17. Rc7+ Ke8 18. Qd6) 16… Nd7 17. Qxe4\nRd8 18. Rg5 {and the tournament leader resigned.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nThe next four rounds brought an uneventful draw with Wade and three exciting encounters with Byrne\, Krogius and Gligoric all of which after several reversals of fortune ended in draws. \nPeter Markland at Hastings 1970-71 \nIn the last round I was to play Hort who needed to to win to gain a share of first prize. He played a horribly passive opening and by move 14 I was already well on top. To try to compensate he snatched a queenside pawn and gave me the chance to play the type of move one can only dream about! \n[pgn]\n[Event “Christmas Congress 1970/71-46 Premier”]\n[Site “Hastings”]\n[Date “1971.01.07”]\n[Round “9”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “Hort\, Vlastimil”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “A24”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland / British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “59”]\n[EventDate “1970.12.29”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “British Chess\, Pergamon P”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1998.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,59\,35\,14\,69\,16\,79\,73\,73\,18\,32\,38\,25\,17\,43\,30\,30\,13\,13\,18\,21\,31\,26\,25\,\n66\,55\,79\,54\,99\,70\,93\,58\,82\,75\,141\,147\,149\,144\,153\,103\,106\,106\,85\,130\,100\,-7\,22\,\n-192\,317\,277\,443\,310\,729\,231\,301\,317\,332\,414\,565\,616\,29993\,29994]} 1. e4 c6 2.\nc4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. g3 e5 5. Bg2 d6 6. Nge2 Nd7 7. O-O Ngf6 8. d3 O-O 9. h3 Nc5\n10. Be3 {[#]} a5 (10… Ne6) 11. f4 exf4 $6 12. gxf4 Qe7 13. Qd2 Rb8 $146 14.\nRae1 $18 Ncd7 15. Ng3 Ne8 16. d4 $16 Nc7 17. e5 dxe5 18. fxe5 Qb4 (18… c5 19.\nBg5 Qe8 20. Nce4 $16) 19. Bh6 Qxc4 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21. Re4 $1 Ne6 22. Rh4 {\nCrude but effective!} h5 {[#] Now pause the video as the saying goes….} 23.\nBd5 $3 {PRM : I remember that as soon as I played this move Hort’s face fell.\nThere was an also an eerie silence in the spectators – no doubt some felt I\nhad taken leave of my senses. The move is basically a square clearence with\ngain of tempo. The piece cannot be accepted.} {So\, the queen is lost and\nwith it the game.} Qxf1+ (23… cxd5 24. Nxh5+ $1 gxh5 (24… Kh8 25. Nf6+ Kg7\n26. Rh7#) (24… Kg8 25. Qh6 $1 gxh5 26. Qxh5 $18) 25. Qg2+ Kh6 26. Rf5 $1 $18\n(26. Qg4 $4 Qxd4+ $1 $19) 26… Ng7 27. Qxg7+ Kxg7 28. Rg5+ Kh8 29. Rhxh5#) 24.\nKxf1 cxd5 25. Nxd5 b6 26. Nf4 Nxf4 27. Qxf4 Ba6+ 28. Kg1 Bd3 29. Qg5 Kh8 30.\nQh6+ {and Black resigned.} (30. Qh6+ Kg8 31. Rxh5 $1 $18) 1-0\n[/pgn] \nThis victory meant an equal second on 5/9 with Gligoric\, Hort\, Krogius and Uhlmann and both a GM and IM norm. \n[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mZS5j-97hY[/embedyt] \nAs a result of this I became a regular member of the England side. During 1971 my results were erratic\, possibly caused by too much play. I was pleased with my 3.5 score in my first Clare Benedict\, although I lost my first game for England due to nervousness and I was first equal with George Botterill in the Slater Young Masters at Hastings (again). Here I declined a last round draw offer\, blundered almost next move and lost to an up-and-coming junior by the name of Michael Stean! On the debit side my performances in the British Championship\, The Oxford International Congress and the Robert Silk tournament left room for improvement. \nWhilst playing with Bolton in the National Club Championship\, we had never won the competition although we had reached the semi-finals many times. This year\, 1971\, playing for Oxford University\, we won the tournament beating our old rivals Cambridge University in the final on board count. \nThe Hastings tournament of 1971-72 saw me firmly entrenched near the bottom. It is very difficult in this type of international tournament when one becomes marked as an out-of-form player. All the other players make extra efforts to beat you and this drains your strength further. \nMy main problem at Hastings was a lack of defence to 1.e4. I lost five games against this move. In the last round I had a very interesting struggle against Karpov who needed to win this game to tie first with Korchnoi who had beaten him in the previous round\, but the strength of 1.e4 proved too much. \nThe summer of 1972 saw the advent of my University finals and thus I played very little for the first six months of the year – even I had to decline an invitation to the Teeside GM event. Later in the year I played in the student Olympiad in Graz and then in the Olympiad is Skopje. \nIn the preliminaries we had drawn Yugoslavia and Switzerland\, who were the only other teams likely to qualify for the ‘A’ final. We missed qualification narrowly and I think that every team member had one poor result in the qualifying rounds – mine being a scraped draw against a Syrian team. \nWe won the ‘B’ final by beating the Israeli team in the last round and I felt pleased by my score of 11.5/16 with no losses. Indeed\, in my last round game with Balshan I was quite rightly instructed to agree a draw in a winning position to secure the team’s first place. \nI feel that this tournament from my point of view aptly demonstrates the difference in title norms in the early 1970s and today. I played five players who had no Elo ratings and only four titled players. Hence an IM norm would not have been available under any circumstances. The main reason for the lack of Elo ratings in 1972 was that the new system had only just been introduced and for many players this was their first Elo-rated tournament. In the last Elo list\, all but one of the sixteen players are rated\, there are now four GMs and five IMs amongst my opponents and the norm figures would be 10.5/16 and 12.5/16 for IM and GM respectively. \nHere is my best game from the Olympiad. It is indicative of an early combination prevailing through into a winning ending. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-20 Preliminaries B”]\n[Site “Skopje”]\n[Date “1972.09.22”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Black “Bhend\, Edwin”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B10”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland”]\n[PlyCount “133”]\n[EventDate “1972.09.18”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “7”]\n[EventCountry “YUG”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “England”]\n[BlackTeam “Switzerland”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ENG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “SUI”] \n{[%evp 0\,133\,14\,14\,69\,26\,20\,13\,40\,7\,7\,-7\,11\,12\,13\,11\,3\,0\,24\,6\,6\,11\,11\,27\,38\,\n-34\,-41\,-44\,-40\,11\,45\,-28\,-34\,-42\,-50\,-32\,-29\,53\,53\,137\,150\,144\,122\,148\,131\,\n127\,160\,127\,172\,127\,219\,177\,206\,138\,130\,119\,115\,115\,129\,115\,103\,117\,113\,106\,\n102\,95\,109\,80\,66\,66\,65\,-3\,151\,152\,158\,147\,210\,230\,183\,212\,221\,224\,232\,246\,182\,\n182\,188\,166\,176\,178\,174\,176\,176\,176\,126\,120\,154\,248\,248\,248\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,\n0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,416\,838\,982\,1012\,1016\,1002\,1012\,1022\,1022\,1032\,1032\,1032\,1032\,1032\,\n1032\,1032\,1687\,1527\,29971\,1032\,29993\,29994]} 1. e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4.\ncxd5 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nxd5 6. Bc4 Nb6 7. Bb3 Nc6 8. Nf3 g6 9. a4 a5 10. d4 Bg7 11.\nBe3 Nb4 12. d5 $1 $146 O-O 13. O-O Bf5 14. Bd4 Bh6 $6 15. Ne5 $1 N6xd5 16. Nxd5\nNxd5 17. Qf3 Nf6 {[#]} 18. Nxf7 $1 Qxd4 19. Nxh6+ Kh8 20. Nxf5 gxf5 21. Qxf5\nQxb2 22. Rab1 Qd2 23. Rfd1 Qh6 24. Be6 Ra6 25. Qe5 Qh4 26. Bd5 Qxa4 27. Qxe7\nRe8 28. Qxb7 Rd6 29. Bb3 Rxd1+ 30. Rxd1 Qe4 31. Qxe4 Nxe4 32. Re1 Rc8 33. f3\nNc3 34. Re7 a4 35. Bc2 Nd5 36. Rxh7+ Kg8 37. Be4 Rc7 38. Rxc7 Nxc7 39. Bd3 a3\n40. Bc4+ Kg7 41. Kf2 Nb5 42. g4 Nc3 43. h4 Kf6 44. Ke3 a2 45. Bxa2 Nxa2 46. Kf4\nNc3 47. g5+ Ke6 48. h5 Nd5+ 49. Ke4 Nc3+ 50. Kf4 Nd5+ 51. Kg4 Ne3+ 52. Kg3 Kf5\n53. h6 Kg6 54. f4 Nf5+ {[#]} 55. Kf3 $1 Nd6 56. Kg4 Kh7 57. Kh5 Ne4 58. g6+ Kg8\n59. f5 Nf6+ 60. Kg5 Ne4+ 61. Kf4 Nf6 62. h7+ Kg7 63. Ke5 Nd7+ 64. Ke6 Nf8+ 65.\nKe7 Kh8 66. g7+ Kxh7 67. Kxf8 1-0\n[/pgn] \nIn 1973 I was once more plagued by too many invitations and played indifferently throughput the year. The only bright spots were my score of 3/7 on boards 3 and 4 of the European Team Finals and second place in the Woolacombe International. \n1974 was once again an Olympiad year. The England team won the Clare Benedict for the first time in Menorca and I was able to contribute 5/6 winning both a board prize and the best score prize. I was drafted into the Olympiad team as a late replacement and although we qualified easily enough for the ‘A’ finals this was in no way due to my efforts as I had a 50% score in the preliminaries. \nWe had qualified for the ‘A’ final with one round to spare and our last group match against the USE (from which the score was to be carried forward) began the final matches. It had been decided\, as a tactical measure and in our view of our differing styles\, that I should take black whenever we had this colour on the fourth board\, so that Whiteley and Stean could utilize a greater proportion of whites. This worked to a limited extent and indeed\, Stean obtained an IM Norm. Also\, as it worked out I played in matches against seven of the top eight teams (being rested against Yugoslavia) and only three teams below us. In the end\, I was pleased with my +3 =1 -4 with black in the finals to give overall a 50& score. \nDuring 1973 and 1974 I was co-author of two books in the Batsford opening series\, both with Tim Harding on Sicilian Defence variations. \nThe Sicilian Richter-Rauzer\, TD Hardign and PR Markland\, Batsford\, 975\, ISBN 0 7134 2979 8 \nI also wrote a best game collection of Karpov which was by far the most interesting of the three books to write. \nThe Best of Karpov\, PR Markland\, Oxford University Press\, 1975\, ISBN 10: 0192175343 \nAt about this time\, I decided to embark upon a career in banking and to abandon that of a professional chessplayer. Since then I have concentrated on correspondence chess. \nHaving received  master certificate\, I entered a European and World tournament in both of which I finished first. The second of these two results qualified me for the world Championship Semi-finals. But first attempt in the eleventh championship ended in failure to qualify. \nAs a result of an invitation received by the BPCF I played in the Eino Heilimo Memorial Grandmaster event. I have \, however\, qualified as a postal IM by scoring the required seven points and had an outside chance of trying for first place at one stage. \nHere is my best game from this event. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Heilimo mem-B corr7782”]\n[Site “Finland”]\n[Date “1977.??.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Duenhaupt\, Heinz Wilhelm”]\n[Black “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B25”]\n[Annotator “Peter Markland”]\n[PlyCount “80”]\n[EventDate “1977.??.??”]\n[EventType “tourn (corr)”]\n[EventRounds “13”]\n[EventCountry “FIN”]\n[SourceTitle “Corr Nr. 1”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1997.09.01”]\n[SourceVersion “2”]\n[SourceVersionDate “2000.04.19”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,80\,14\,12\,86\,19\,14\,12\,34\,21\,21\,17\,24\,18\,20\,17\,23\,15\,15\,14\,14\,12\,21\,14\,\n34\,58\,52\,48\,65\,0\,38\,9\,0\,-43\,-72\,-73\,-24\,-101\,-84\,-84\,-24\,-24\,-52\,-149\,-153\,\n-153\,-19\,-127\,-35\,-52\,-27\,-27\,-2\,8\,50\,-167\,-165\,-202\,-25\,-20\,-20\,-7\,-191\,-252\,\n-244\,-240\,-252\,-252\,-262\,-263\,-279\,-281\,-279\,-281\,-288\,-323\,-315\,-388\,-422\,\n-421\,-336\,-309\,-288]} 1. Nf3 g6 2. g3 Bg7 3. Bg2 c5 4. e4 Nc6 5. O-O e5 6. d3\nNge7 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Nd2 d6 9. Nc4 Be6 ({Doctor Dunhaupt used this set-up\nagainst Shamkovich in the BdF Jubilee 1970-74\, when Black preferred 9…Nd4?\nwith the result that after} 9… Nd4 $2 10. a4 Be6 11. Nd5 Qd7 12. c3 Ndc6 13.\na5 Rae8 14. Qa4 {White had a considerable advantage.}) 10. Nd5 f5 (10… Qd7 {\nPlaying Forintos in the Eino Heilimo White once again achieved a good game\nafter} 11. a4 Kh8 12. c3 Ng8 13. a5 Rae8 14. f4 Qc8 15. Be3) 11. c3 Qd7 12. a4\nRae8 13. a5 Kh8 14. Qa4 $2 {[#]  In this position this move leaves the queen\nexposed in the forthcoming attack. It is interesting to note that Doctor\nDunhaupt has had some success with this set-up.} f4 15. gxf4 {This capture is\nforced to prevent 15…f3} (15. f3 {loses a pawn on d5}) ({If} 15. Nxe7 {\nBlack can prepare the doubling of rooks with} Rxe7 ({of transfer his queen to\nthe kingside after} 15… Qxe7)) 15… Bh3 16. f3 ({After} 16. Qd1 Bxg2 17.\nKxg2 exf4 18. Nxf4 d5 $1 {Black still has a strong attack.}) 16… Bxg2 17.\nKxg2 exf4 18. Nxf4 {[#]} d5 $1 {To capture this pawn would allow the black\nrook on e8 access to the e2 square with fatal consequences for White.} 19. Na3\n{The problem with the knight retreat is that both d2 and e3 are excluded\nbecause of the hanging knight on f4 whilst the retreat chosen leaves the queen\ncut off.} ({For example\,} 19. exd5 Nxd5 20. Nxd5 Re2+ 21. Rf2 (21. Kh1 Qh3) (\n21. Kg1 Qh3) 21… Qxd5) 19… g5 20. Nh5 Ng6 $1 {White must accept the second\npawn because otherwise the threat of 21…Nh4+ is too strong.} 21. Bxg5 h6 22.\nBe3 $1 {The only chance. This bishop heads for g1 to defend the weak h2 square.\n} d4 23. cxd4 cxd4 24. Bg1 ({A further point is that} 24. Bf2 {is met by} Rxf3\n$1) 24… Nh4+ 25. Kh1 (25. Kg3 Be5+ 26. Kxh4 Rg8 {wins quickly.}) 25… Qh3\n26. Qc2 Rxf3 27. Rf2 ({The alternative defence of} 27. Rfd1 {could be met by\neither} Ref8 {threatening 28…Rf2} ({or} 27… Be5 {and 28…Rg8})) 27… Ref8\n28. Raf1 {[#]} Qxf1 $1 {This temporary queen sacrifice wins by force.} 29. Rxf1\nRxf1 30. Qe2 {the best chance to prevent 30…Nf3} ({After} 30. Ng3 Re1 31. Nc4\nNf3 32. Ne2 Nxg1 33. Nxg1 Rff1) 30… Ne5 {preventing 31.Qg4. Now the threat\nof 31…Rc1 and 32…Nef3 cannot be prevented even by White’s next move.} 31.\nNxg7 Rc1 $1 32. Nf5 Nhf3 {the most accurate.} 33. Qf2 ({If} 33. Kg2 Rxg1+ 34.\nKf2 Rh1 35. Kg3 Rg8+ {wins. The rest is easy.}) 33… Rg8 34. Ng3 Rxg1+ 35.\nQxg1 Nxg1 36. Kxg1 Nxd3 37. Nc4 Rc8 38. Nd6 Rc1+ 39. Kg2 Nxb2 40. e5 Nd3 {\nand White resigned.} 0-1\n[/pgn] \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry. \nThe English Chess Forum has discussed Peter. \nPeter’s games are here. \n[pgn]\n[Event “Olympiad-21 Final A”]\n[Site “Nice”]\n[Date “1974.06.28”]\n[Round “13”]\n[White “Debarnot\, Roberto Luis”]\n[Black “Markland\, Peter Richard”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B38”]\n[Annotator “Keene\,R”]\n[PlyCount “42”]\n[EventDate “1974.06.15”]\n[EventType “team-tourn”]\n[EventRounds “15”]\n[EventCountry “FRA”]\n[SourceTitle “EXT 2000”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.11.16”]\n[SourceQuality “1”]\n[WhiteTeam “Argentina”]\n[BlackTeam “England”]\n[WhiteTeamCountry “ARG”]\n[BlackTeamCountry “ENG”] \n{[%evp 0\,42\,19\,31\,14\,-14\,43\,-5\,-20\,-1\,3\,-6\,41\,32\,20\,23\,23\,19\,28\,32\,39\,39\,47\,32\,\n38\,30\,44\,51\,62\,55\,54\,32\,58\,41\,45\,-95\,-6\,-169\,-169\,-162\,-208\,-233\,-231\,-280\,\n-285]} 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 g6 6. e4 d6 7. Be2 Bg7\n8. Be3 O-O 9. O-O Nxd4 (9… Bd7) 10. Bxd4 Be6 11. Rc1 Qa5 12.\nf4 Rfc8 13. b3 a6 14. f5 Bd7 (14… gxf5 $2 15. exf5 Bxf5 16. b4 $1 $16) 15.\nQe1 (15. Bxf6 Bxf6 16. Nd5 Bg5 17. f6 exf6 $1) 15… Bc6 16. Qh4 (16. fxg6 hxg6\n17. Nd5 Qxe1 18. Nxe7+ Kf8 19. Nxg6+ fxg6 20. Rcxe1 Ke7 21. e5 $13) 16… b5\n17. g4 $2 b4 18. g5 {[#]} Nxe4 $3 19. f6 (19. Bxg7 Qc5+ 20. Rf2 Qxf2+ $1) 19…\nQxg5+ 20. Qxg5 Nxg5 21. h4 Ne6 0-1\n[/pgn]
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Peter Wells (17-iv-1965)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of GM Peter Kenneth Wells (17-iv-1965) \nHere is his very brief Wikipedia entry \nPeter Wells (seated\, far LHS) \nand from chessgames.com : \n“Peter Kenneth Wells was born in Portsmouth\, England and became a FIDE Master in 1982\, an IM in 1987\, and a GM in 1994. He is also a FIDE Senior Trainer (2015).” \nPeter Wells (between Harry Golombek and Ray Keene) takes part in the obligatory “Staring at the board” posed picture during the 1985 Varsity Match \n[pgn]\n[Event “BCF-ch 86th”]\n[Site “Scarborough”]\n[Date “1999.08.11”]\n[Round “10”]\n[White “Wells\, Peter K”]\n[Black “Ward\, Christopher”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B36”]\n[WhiteElo “2475”]\n[BlackElo “2470”]\n[Annotator “Wells\,P”]\n[PlyCount “81”]\n[EventDate “1999.08.05”]\n[EventType “swiss”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[SourceTitle “CBM 071 Extra”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.09.14”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.09.14”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,81\,19\,29\,55\,19\,46\,14\,24\,16\,13\,18\,24\,30\,17\,19\,2\,20\,27\,18\,-4\,30\,29\,17\,\n17\,38\,43\,46\,55\,26\,32\,16\,25\,21\,7\,14\,14\,42\,30\,-37\,33\,0\,82\,66\,66\,82\,107\,52\,52\,58\,\n39\,72\,87\,40\,82\,-53\,-19\,-68\,-31\,-81\,172\,216\,216\,213\,274\,279\,275\,297\,312\,327\,328\,\n336\,553\,561\,559\,559\,641\,862\,945\,960\,1000\,1334\,1344\,1572]} 1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 g6 $5\n{Well\, he certainly got his surprise in first. I half expected 2…Nc6 3 Nc3\ne5 as we had already had in one quick-play game\, or perhaps 2…Nc6 3 Nc3\nNd4!? which seems . I had never seen Chris playing the black side of a Maroczy\nBind before\, although of course in the ‘pure’ Dragon he is a well known\nspecialist.} 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. e4 Nf6 6. Nc3 d6 7. Be2 Nxd4 8. Qxd4 Bg7\n9. Bg5 O-O 10. Qd2 Be6 11. Rc1 {It is also possible to castle here\, but I\nthink the text and white’s next two prophylactic moves form the most logical\nset-up. White prevents tactical breaks ( notably those involving a quick …b5\n) by solidly bolstering his c4 and e4 pawns. Most importantly since there is a\nhigh probability of a queen exchange on d2 following black’s …Qa5\,there is a\nstrong case for keeping the king in the centre for the ensuing ending ( or\nmore properly perhaps ‘queenless middlegame’ ).} Qa5 12. f3 Rfc8 13. b3 {\n[%csl Yc4\,Ye4][%cal Ga7a6\,Gb7b5]} Kf8 $5 {At the time I was very struck by the\nlogic of this move – black also centralises his king\, and prepares to answer\nalmost any Nd5 which white may care to throw at him by capturing with the\nknight\, without relying on a tactical defence to e7 ( compare the note on 13…\na6. ) Also white has to find a good move\, since in the absence of a weakness\non b6\, there is little mileage in attempting to head for the ending\nimmediately. There are two possible objections to black’s move: 1) White can\ntry to punish it in ‘middle-game’ terms – trying to prove that the king is\nsubstantially more vulnerable on f8 and that this justifies a switch to direct\nattack. This seems in principle a bit doubtful\, although it is the course the\ngame eventually takes. 2) White can find a strong preparatory move for the\nendgame. Since to create play black will have to play …a6 anyway\, he may\nhave committed himself to a move ( 13…Kf8!? ) which while generally useful\,\nis not critical in the particular case. This should be a more serious question!\n} (13… a6 {is the main line. White has two routes to provoke an endgame:} 14.\nNa4 $5 (14. Nd5 {is now generally acknowledged to be less dangerous in view of}\nQxd2+ 15. Kxd2 Nxd5 $5 (15… Bxd5 16. cxd5 $14 Kf8 17. g4 Nd7 18. h4 Bb2 19.\nBh6+ Kg8 20. Rxc8+ Rxc8 21. Be3 Bc3+ 22. Kd1 Nc5 23. h5 Bf6 24. g5 Bg7 25. Bf1\n$5 {[%cal Yh2c2\,Gf1h3\,Yh1h2]} Rc7 26. Rh2 Nd7 27. h6 Bh8 28. Bh3 $16 {1-0\nCifuentes Parada\,R-Monell\,C/Andorra op 1995/EXT 95op (41)}) 16. cxd5 Bd7 17.\nRxc8+ Rxc8 $11 {although the argument does rest upon black’s compensation after\n} 18. Bxe7 $140 Bh6+ (18… Bc3+) 19. Ke1 $8 {Few white players have wanted to\ntest this\, although it is not totally clear what is black’s best course.\nPerhaps} f5 $5 (19… Rc2 20. Bxd6 Bb5 $6 21. Bxb5 axb5 22. Rf1 $14) (19…\nRc1+ 20. Bd1) 20. Bxd6 (20. exf5 Bxf5 21. Bxd6 Bb1 $1 $13 {[%cal Rb1a2\,Ra2d5]})\n20… fxe4 21. Kf2 (21. fxe4 $2 Rc1+ 22. Bd1 Bg4 $17) 21… e3+ 22. Kg3 Rc2\n$132) 14… Qxd2+ (14… Qd8 15. c5 $1 $14) 15. Kxd2 Nd7 (15… Rc6 16. Nc3\nRac8 17. Nd5 Kf8 18. Be3 Nd7 19. h4 $1 {As we shall see\, this generation of\nplay on the king-side is white’s main strategy here.} Bxd5 20. exd5 R6c7 21. h5\nKg8 22. f4 $1 {[%cal Ge2g4]} Nc5 23. Bg4 Ne4+ 24. Kd3 f5 25. Bf3 b5 26. g4\nbxc4+ 27. Rxc4 Rxc4 28. bxc4 Nc5+ 29. Bxc5 $1 Rxc5 30. h6 Bf8 31. Kc3 $16 {\n[%csl Rf8] 1-0 Karpov\,A-Kavalek\,L/Nica (ol) 1974/Inf 17 (45)}) 16. h4 (16. g4\n$5) 16… Kf8 $6 (16… f6 $1 {is the modern approach. One example:} 17. Be3 f5\n18. exf5 gxf5 19. Bd3 Rab8 20. Nc3 Nc5 21. Nd5 Kf7 22. g4 Nxd3 23. Kxd3 b5 $132\n{0-1 Vaisser\,A-Antunes\,A/Tilburg 1994/CBM 44 (39)}) 17. h5 h6 18. Be3 g5 19. g3\n$1 $40 {[%cal Gf3f4]} Rcb8 20. Nc3 b5 21. Nd5 Bxd5 22. cxd5 b4 23. Rc7 Nc5 24.\nBxc5 dxc5 25. f4 Bc3+ 26. Ke3 Rc8 27. Rxc8+ Rxc8 28. e5 {1-0 Psakhis\,L-Pigusov\,\nE/USSR 1980/Inf 31 (41)}) 14. h4 $1 {The appeal of this stage of the game is\nthat it is as yet unclear whether I have opted for strategy 1) or 2). In fact\,\nI have a suspicion it was none too clear to me either. Others fail to convince:\n} (14. Rc2 a6 15. Na4 Qxd2+ 16. Kxd2 Nd7 17. g4 (17. h4 f5 $5) 17… Bd4 18.\nRhc1 Ke8 19. Be3 Bxe3+ 20. Kxe3 {1/2-1/2 Agrest\,E-Andersson\,U/Skelleftea 1999\n(20)}) (14. O-O {Another way to switch to the direct attack approach\, but\nblack’s counterplay on the queenside could come quite quickly.} a6 15. Be3 Rab8\n$6 (15… b5 $1 $132) 16. f4 b5 17. f5 b4 18. fxe6 bxc3 19. Qxc3 Qxa2 20. Bd1\nQa3 21. Bd4 fxe6 22. e5 $40 {1-0 Eising\,J-Westerveld\,W/Amsterdam 1976/MCL.})\n14… a6 {[%csl Rb6] So there we are – this move is critical to black’s\ncounterplay\, despite the potential weakness of b6.} 15. h5 $5 {This probably\nshould be ‘?!’ but it is redeemed because it did provide a high level of\nentertainment. Objectively better\, and in my view fully vindicating 14 h4! is}\n(15. Na4 $1 Qxd2+ (15… Qd8 $14) 16. Kxd2 Nd7 17. h5 {I had now expected} h6\n18. Be3 g5 {considered 19 g3! clearly the way forward\, but in ignorance of\nPsakhis – Pigusov above\, failed to comprehend quite how promising this was.})\n15… Rc5 $1 {The point – suddenly there is no going back. White’s next move\nis just about forced} 16. f4 {[%csl Re1\,Re4] Reluctantly – this weakening of\ne4 seriously adds to black’s counterplay\, and emphasises the discomfort of\nwhite’s king in the middle.} (16. Bxf6 $6 {hardly comes into consideration\, and\n}) (16. hxg6 $2 Rxg5 17. gxh7 (17. b4 Qxb4 18. Qxg5 hxg6 $17 {[%csl Rc4\,Re1]\n[%cal Gg7c3]}) 17… Rh5 $19) 16… b5 $6 {Maybe black in turn underestimates\nhis opponent’s resources.} (16… Rac8 $1 {was much safer\, since after} 17.\nhxg6 {black can capture with the h-pawn\, preparing to answer} hxg6 $1 18. f5 $6\ngxf5 19. Bh6 {with} Bxh6 20. Qxh6+ Ke8 {and with his rook protected the black\nking can run to the queenside.}) 17. hxg6 fxg6 (17… hxg6 18. f5 gxf5 19. Bh6\n$40 {[%csl Ra8] is now strong.}) 18. Bxf6 Bxf6 19. Rxh7 Bg8 {Andrew Martin\, in\nhis entertaining comments on the Championship web site\, here commented: ”\nWhite is attempting a hybrid of the Maroczy Bind\, Yugoslav Attack and the\nLevenfish Variation\, a marriage made in hell”. In fact after 15…Rc5 my\ncourse of action was strictly limited\, and the Levenfish element was\ndefinitely involuntary. Still\, the following sacrifice I was very proud of.\nRetreat would clearly pass the initiative to black\, but after…} 20. e5 $1 {\n[%mdl 640] there is no way for black to avoid ceding good compensation for the\nexchange.} dxe5 (20… Bxe5 $5 21. fxe5 (21. Rxe7 $5 Qd8 $1 $132) 21… Bxh7\n22. exd6 $44) 21. fxe5 Bg5 $1 (21… Bxh7 22. exf6 Kg8 (22… exf6 $2 {[%csl\nRc5]} 23. Qd6+) 23. Qe3 $16 {[%csl Rc5\,Rg8\,Rh7]}) 22. Qxg5 Bxh7 23. Qh4 $1 {\n[%csl Rc5\,Re7\,Rh7][%cal Yh4f2] An important resource which black had\noverlooked.} Kg8 24. Qxe7 Rc7 $8 {[%cal Gc7g7] Here\, sadly in appalling\ntime-trouble my play went to pieces. I had underestimated the extent to which\nblack’s basic defences would be held together by 24…Rc7\, and although the\nposition still favours white it is not easy to prove.} 25. Qd6 Re8 26. Kf2 $5 {\nEven now\, when a little concern for the king would be quite understandable\, my\nmain concern was to bring in the knight. White has two pawns for the exchange\,\nblack’s bishop is out of the play ( although the possibility of …g5 is not\nto be underestimated ) and the dark squares around black’s king are weak.\nStill\, the e-pawn’s status as asset or weakness is still up for grabs\, and the\nwhole thing is not as good as it looks!} (26. b4 $6 Qa3 27. Kd1 Rcc8 28. Nd5\nRcd8 {Simply gives white a new king problem.}) (26. Bf3 $5 bxc4 27. Bd5+ Kh8\n28. b4 Qa3 29. Ne2 Rg7 30. Bxc4 $14) (26. Rc2 $6 g5 $132) 26… Rf7+ 27. Bf3 $2\n$138 {[%mdl 8192] This self-pin is disastrous.} (27. Kg3 $1 {Seems the way to\nconfirm e-pawn as asset. Black’s counter play is greatly curtailed with …bxc4\nno longer a problem.} b4 (27… Qc7 28. Qxc7 Rxc7 29. Nd5 Rf7 30. cxb5 Rxe5 31.\nBc4 $16) 28. Nd5 Qxa2 (28… Rd8 29. Qc6 $1 {[%cal Ye5e8]} (29. Qe6 Qxa2 30.\nRf1 Rdf8 $13) 29… Qxa2 30. e6 $16) 29. e6 Rff8 30. e7 Qxb3+ 31. Kh2 $16)\n27… bxc4 28. e6 Rfe7 (28… Rf6 $5) 29. b4 Qc7 $4 $138 {He who blunders last\nloses.} (29… Qa3 $1 30. Rc2 g5 $1 {[%csl Rc2\,Rc3][%cal Gh7c2] would have\ncompletely swung matters in black’s favour.}) 30. Qxc7 Rxc7 31. Nd5 $18 {\nThe rest presents no technical problems even in high time-trouble.} Rce7 32.\nNxe7+ Rxe7 33. Rxc4 Kg7 34. Rc6 Ra7 35. Be2 a5 36. b5 Ra8 37. Rc7+ Kh6 38. b6\ng5 39. e7 Be4 40. Bf3 Bxf3 41. gxf3 {A great scrap\, albeit marred by the\nconsequence of some mutually shocking clock handling.} 1-0\n[/pgn] \nPeter Wells (second from right) at a Lloyds Bank event. \nGM Peter Wells \nThe Complete Semi-Slav \nPiece Power \nThe Complete Richter-Rauzer \nThe Scotch Game \nWinning with the Trompowsky \nChess Explained : The Queen’s Indian \nGrandmaster Secrets : The Caro-Kann \nDangerous Weapons : Anti-Sicilians \nGM Peter Wells
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SUMMARY:Birthday of FM David Wood (18-iv-1969)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of FM David A Wood (18-iv-1969)
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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM Willy Watson (18-iv-1962)
DESCRIPTION:William Watson \nBirthday of GM William Nicholas Watson (18-iv-1962) \nWilliam Watson \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry \nWilliam Watson at a BCF National Club Final \n[pgn]\n[Event “Brighton Knight Flight Int”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “1982.12.??”]\n[Round “?”]\n[White “Watson\, William N”]\n[Black “Shamkovich\, Leonid Alexandrovic”]\n[Result “1-0”]\n[ECO “B23”]\n[WhiteElo “2330”]\n[BlackElo “2470”]\n[Annotator “British Chess News”]\n[PlyCount “53”]\n[EventDate “1982.12.13”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “11”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “8”]\n[SourceTitle “MCD”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,53\,19\,31\,72\,8\,28\,4\,60\,6\,15\,15\,27\,21\,17\,-8\,-8\,-16\,-6\,-7\,-3\,-39\,-20\,-16\,\n-6\,0\,0\,0\,53\,48\,46\,68\,23\,-9\,66\,60\,60\,55\,45\,29\,-9\,-36\,8\,-20\,97\,124\,137\,167\,128\,\n157\,1180\,29988\,29993\,29994\,29995\,29996]} 1. e4 c5 2. f4 Nc6 3. Nf3 g6 4. Bb5\nBg7 5. O-O Nf6 6. d3 O-O 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8. Nc3 d6 9. Bd2 c4 10. d4 Qb6 11. Rb1 e5\n12. fxe5 dxe5 13. Na4 Qc7 14. Nxe5 Nxe4 15. Bf4 Qd6 16. Nc3 Bf5 17. g4 Nxc3 18.\nbxc3 Be4 19. Nxf7 Qd5 20. Nh6+ Kh8 21. Be5 Rf3 22. Rxf3 Bxf3 23. Qe1 c5 24. g5\nRe8 25. Rb8 Rxb8 26. Bxg7+ Kxg7 27. Qe7+ 1-0 \n[/pgn] \nWilliam Watson (2nd from left) \n[pgn]\n[Event “Brighton CGL Int”]\n[Site “Brighton”]\n[Date “1983.12.15”]\n[Round “4”]\n[White “Plaskett\, H James”]\n[Black “Watson\, William N”]\n[Result “0-1”]\n[ECO “B76”]\n[WhiteElo “2440”]\n[BlackElo “2395”]\n[Annotator “ChessBase”]\n[PlyCount “56”]\n[EventDate “1983.12.12”]\n[EventType “tourn”]\n[EventRounds “9”]\n[EventCountry “ENG”]\n[EventCategory “8”]\n[SourceTitle “MCL”]\n[Source “ChessBase”]\n[SourceDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceVersion “1”]\n[SourceVersionDate “1999.07.01”]\n[SourceQuality “1”] \n{[%evp 0\,56\,19\,38\,40\,41\,66\,77\,66\,55\,55\,20\,70\,53\,40\,34\,30\,13\,22\,6\,25\,28\,4\,25\,36\,\n21\,15\,9\,98\,63\,74\,63\,159\,132\,327\,440\,0\,0\,0\,0\,0\,-60\,-128\,-196\,-316\,-445\,-289\,\n-500\,-194\,-470\,-576\,-569\,-565\,-608\,-605\,-908\,-873\,-29999\,-30000]} 1. e4 c5 2.\nNf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. g4 (\n9. Bc4 {main line}) (9. O-O-O d5 $5) 9… Be6 10. O-O-O Nxd4 11. Bxd4 Qa5 12.\na3 (12. Kb1 $6 Rfc8) 12… Rfc8 13. h4 Rab8 14. h5 (14. Nd5 $5 Qxd2+\n15. Rxd2 Nxd5 $1 16. Bxg7 (16. exd5 Bxd5 $1 17. Bxg7 Bxf3 18. Rh3 Bxg4 19. Rg3\nKxg7 20. Rxg4 Rc7 $13) 16… Kxg7 17. exd5 Bd7 18. Be2 {Nunn} Rc5 19. f4 Rbc8\n20. Kb1 a6 $10) 14… b5 15. h6 (15. Nd5 $2 Qxd2+ 16. Rxd2 (16. Kxd2\nNxd5 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. exd5 Bxd5 $19) 16… Bxd5 17. exd5 Bh6 $19) (15. hxg6 $5\nb4 $5 (15… hxg6 16. Qg5 $1 a6 $6 17. Rd2 Qc7 $2 18. Rdh2 b4 19. Qh6 $1 Bxh6+\n20. Rxh6 g5 21. Bd3 Bxg4 22. Rh8+ Kg7 23. R1h7+ Kg6 24. e5+ Ne4 25. Rh6+ Kf5\n26. Bxe4+ Kf4 27. Ne2#) 16. gxh7+ Kh8 17. Nd5 Bxd5 18. exd5 Qxd5 19. g5 Qa2 20.\nQe3 e5 21. gxf6 Bxf6 22. Rg1 bxa3 23. Qxa3 $16) 15… b4 (15… Bh8 $6 16. Nd5\nQxd2+ 17. Rxd2 Nxd5 18. exd5 Bxd4 (18… Bxd5 19. Bxh8 Bxf3 20. Rh3 Bxg4 21.\nRg3 Kxh8 22. Rxg4 $16 {Short\,N-Georgiev\,Ki/Oakham/1984/}) 19. Rxd4 Bd7 $14 {\nTal\,M-Sax\,G/Mosow/1982/}) (15… Bf8 $5 {Sapi} 16. Bxf6 b4 $5 (16… exf6 17.\nNd5 Qxd2+ 18. Rxd2 Bxd5 19. Rxd5 Rc5 $10) 17. Nd5 (17. Bd4 bxa3 18. b3 Bxb3 19.\ncxb3 Rxb3 $19) 17… Bxd5 18. Qxd5 Rc5 19. Qb3 exf6 20. a4 Qc7 21. Kb1 $13) 16.\nhxg7 (16. axb4 $2 Qa1+ 17. Nb1 Ba2 $19) (16. Nb5 $5 Rxb5 17. Bxb5 Qxb5 18. hxg7\nbxa3 19. Qd3 (19. bxa3 Qa4 $13) 19… axb2+ 20. Bxb2 Bc4 21. Qe3 Be2 $15) 16…\nbxa3 17. Qh6 (17. Nd5 $2 axb2+ 18. Bxb2 Rxb2 19. Nxe7+ Kxg7 20. Qh6+ Kh8 21.\nNxc8 Qb4 $19 {Fernandez-Martin Gonzalez\,A/Barcelona/1985/0-1/}) 17… axb2+ 18.\nKd2 Bxg4 {Mestel} 19. Bxf6 {[#]} (19. fxg4 e5 $1 20. Qe3 exd4 21. Qxd4 Rxc3 22.\nQxc3 Nxe4+ $19) 19… Bh5 $1 20. Bd4 $2 (20. Ke3 $2 Rxc3+ 21. Bxc3 Qxc3+ 22.\nBd3 a5 $19) (20. Kd3 $2 b1=Q 21. Rxb1 Rxb1 22. Nxb1 Qb5+ 23.\nKe3 Qxb1 $19) (20. Bh3 $6 exf6 $1 21. Bxc8 Rxc8 22. Qe3 Qb4 23. Rh4 d5 24. exd5\nQxh4 $19) (20. Rxh5 $1 gxh5 21. Bh3 exf6 22. Bxc8 Rxc8 23. Qxf6 Qb4 24. Rb1 a5\n25. Kd3 Qc4+ 26. Kd2 Qb4 27. Kd3 $10) 20… e5 21. Rxh5 (21. Kd3 exd4 22. Nd5\nRc3+ 23. Ke2 Rxc2+ 24. Kd3 Qb5+ 25. Kxc2 b1=Q+ 26. Rxb1 Qxb1+ 27. Kd2 Rb2#)\n21… gxh5 22. Qg5 (22. Qxh5 b1=Q 23. Rxb1 Rxb1 24. Bd3 Ra1 25. Qf5 Rc7 26. Ke2\nexd4 27. Nd5 Qe1#) 22… Qb4 (22… b1=Q $1 23. Rxb1 Rxb1 24. Bd3 Ra1 25. Qf5\nexd4 26. Qxc8+ Kxg7 $19) 23. Bd3 Qxd4 24. Nd5 (24. Nb1 Qf2+ 25. Be2 Rxc2+ 26.\nKxc2 Qxe2+ 27. Kc3 Qxd1 $19) 24… Qf2+ 25. Be2 Rxc2+ 26. Kxc2 Qxe2+ 27. Kc3\nQxf3+ 28. Kc4 Qb3# 0-1\n[/pgn] \nWilliam Watson (2nd from left)
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