Happy Birthday WIM Dr. Ruth Sheldon (03-v-1980). Ruth was born in Manchester and became a WFM in 1993 and WIM in 1996. Her peak rating was 2310 in July 1999. She was World U12 Vice Champion in 1992, World U14 Champion in 1993 and World U18 Champion in 1998. She is a lecturer in Religion … Continue reading Birthday of WIM Dr. Ruth Sheldon (03-v-1980)
BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Joseph Gerald Gallagher (04-v-1964) Streatham & Brixton becoming BCF National Club Champions in 1989. The team was Tony Kosten, Mark Hedben, Daniel King, Nigel Povah (Captain), Joe Gallagher and Julian Hodgson : quite a strong team Here is his Wikipedia entry GM Joseph Gerald Gallagher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMvFIWTEJA GM Joe Gallagher … Continue reading Birthday of GM Joe Gallagher (04-v-1964)
BCN wishes Happy Birthday to GM Daniel William Gormally (04-v-1976) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFSHCJcw7Bs Danny won the Southern Counties (SCCU) championship in the 2002-03 and 2010-11 (sharing with David Howell) seasons. Here is a ChessBase interview with Danny Danny Gormally Caption Competition and another interview from Chessbase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsBqp3E8S3o GM Danny Gormally https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K36XS9cDaSc Danny Gormally with the ? Trophy … Continue reading Birthday of GM Danny Gormally (04-v-1976)
Death Anniversary of Alfred Crosskill (05-v-1904) Here is excellent article from Yorkshire Chess History An interesting article within British Endgame Study News (BESN) by John Beasley 8/3R1K1k/2r5/8/8/4B3/8/8 w - - 0 1 "White to play cannot win; Black to play loses, but it takes White 45 moves to capture the rook"
Birthday of FM Koby Kalavannan (05-v-2002)
From chessgames.com :"Timothy David Harding was born in London. He has been playing both over-the-board and correspondence chess since the 1960s. Harding played on the Irish team at the 1984 FIDE Olympiad in Thessaloniki, scoring 50%. In 2002 he achieved the title of Senior International Master of Correspondence Chess. He is also a Candidate Master … Continue reading Birthday of Dr. Tim Harding (06-v-1948)
Birthday of FM Tyson A Mordue (07-v-1961)
Birthday of IM Gavin Crawley (08-v-1963)
Birthday of FM Stuart James Hutchings (08-v-1951)
Birthday of IM Neil H Bradbury (09-v-1964) {[%evp 0,77,19,31,116,116,103,100,97,87,81,109,115,69,130,111,79,102,113,108, 88,29,29,104,151,208,208,127,143,150,143,134,196,129,151,163,173,112,220,125, 130,26,26,-84,-84,-61,-61,-34,-49,-82,174,189,327,34,-3,-3,140,-85,-42,-98, -102,-42,-25,-24,193,190,203,203,252,237,242,138,132,167,160,153,198,202,29995, 29996]} 1. d4 b5 2. e4 Bb7 3. Nd2 b4 4. Ngf3 e6 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 d5 7. exd5 Bxd5 8. O-O bxc3 9. bxc3 Nf6 10. Ne5 cxd4 11. Bb5+ Nbd7 12. c4 Bb7 13. Ndf3 Qc7 14. Bg5 a6 … Continue reading Birthday of IM Neil Bradbury (09-v-1964)