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SUMMARY:Birthday of GM David Norwood (03-x-1968)
DESCRIPTION:We wish David Norwood all the best on his birthday\, \nDavid Robert Norwood was born in Farnworth\, Bolton\, Greater Manchester on October 3rd 1968 to an electrician. His mother’s maiden name was Mellor. \nMary Hopkin was still UK number one with “Those were the days” and would remain at number one for six weeks in total. \nDavid Norwood\nDavid read history at Keeble College\, Oxford before pursuing a successful business career (see below). \nDavid became an International Master in 1985 and a Grandmaster in 1989 and his peak FIDE rating (Felice and Megabase 2020) was 2545 in July 1994 at the age of 26. \nGM David Norwood\nDavid has a score of +2 against Viswanathan Anand\, +1 against Neil McDonald\, +2 against Keith Arkell and +2 against Mark Hebden. \nPreparing for David would have been fairly straightforward as he played almost the same opening with white and black playing 1.g3 (and less frequently\, 1.d4) and the Modern Defence although his did flick the Modern Benoni into the mix every now and then. \n\nAs well as moving to Oxford for University he was =1 at the 1988 (fifth) NatWest Young Masters with 6/9 (along with Adams and Kudrin) securing a GM norm : \nCrosstable for 1988 NatWest Young Masters\nIM David Norwood at the 1988 NatWest Young Masters. Photo by Tom Elek\nIn 1990 David became the first Grandmaster to play in the annual Varsity match. This was the 108th such encounter and David played on board one against Jeremy P Sharp of Downing College\, Cambridge. David first played in the 107th match in 1989 on board two below James Howell. David played one more time in 1991 scoring 2/3 from his three appearences. \nIM David Norwood at 1991 Varsity Match. Henry Gerald Mutkin (organiser and sponsor) is seated.\nAccording to FIDE David is registered with Andorra which appropriately (for DN) has Catalan as its national language. David has yet to win the Andorran Championship. He first played in the Andorran Open in 2011 and came close to winning in 2013 with 7/9. Since 2017 David has not played in a FIDE rated event. \nA powerful Unisys personal computer being present to Bolton-born GM David Norwood by Alva Rodger (centre)\, general manager of Unisys banking district ad Dr Brian Bailey\, managing director of Infolink\, a credit referencing agency.\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nDavid is an active director of Genomics Plc\,  and 4D Pharma Plc. \nDavid Norwood\nAs a writer David wrote a chess column for The Daily Telegraph and has written : \nThe Usbourne Book of Chess Puzzles\, David Norwood\, 1992\nWinning with the Modern\, David Norwood\, B.T. Batsford Ltd.\, London\, 1994\nGrandmaster Meets Chess Amateur\, Steve David and David Norwood\, 1995\nThe Usbourne Guide to Advanced Chess\, David Norwood\, 1995\nFrom Wikipedia : \n“David Robert Norwood (born 3 October 1968) is an English businessman who runs an investment fund that finances spin-off companies from Oxford University science departments. He is also a chess grandmaster\, chess writer\, former captain of the English chess team and now represents Andorra at chess.” \n“The son of an electrician\, Norwood graduated with a history degree from Keble College\, Oxford University in 1988 before joining city investment bank Banker’s Trust in 1991.” \nPeter Wells\, Gary Lane\, John Emms and David Norwood\n“Norwood cofounded Oxford Sciences Innovation\, a £600m investment company dedicated to funding deep science from Oxford University\, and was its CEO from 2015 to 2019. Formerly he was founder of IP Group plc\, a fund that invested in spinoffs from Oxford University’s Chemistry department\, in exchange for 50% of the revenues from the licensing of the department’s intellectual property. \nIn 2017\, Norwood donated £1.9M to Keble College’s future hub for innovation at Oxford University.” \nFrom The Times of London\, November 20th\, 2008 by Ian King\, Business Editor : \n“Entrepreneur David Norwood swaps City for sun\, sea and writing \nDavid Norwood resigned all his directorships yesterday and is heading to a tiny island in the Bahamas\, where he will write the novel \nOne of the City’s best-known entrepreneurs resigned all his directorships yesterday – to move to a desert island\, where he plans to become a writer. \nIM David Norwood and IM Aldo Haik (France) taking a drink at the bar during Cappelle-Le-Grande\, 1988. Photograph by Caroline Winkler\nDavid Norwood\, a former chief executive of the stockbrokers Evolution and Beeson Gregory\, resigned from the boards of a number of companies\, including Oxford Advanced Surfaces\, ORA Capital\, Oxeco and Plus-listed Green Chemicals. He has also given up his role as special projects director at IP Group\, the intellectual property commercialisation company\, which he started eight years ago and floated on AIM in 2003. Shares of all five companies fell after the news was released.” \nGM David Norwood
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player,Writer
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SUMMARY:Birthday of WIM Sabrina Chevannes (06-x-1986)
DESCRIPTION:Birthday of WIM Sabrina L Chevannes (06-x-1986) \nWIM Sabrina Chevannes\,  4NCL\, 2014\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201007
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of GM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE (07-x-1933 30-xi-2021)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers GM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE who passed away on Tuesday\, November 30th 2021. \nIn the 1971 New Years Honours List Jonathan was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) The citation read “For services to Chess.” \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : (article by George Botterill) \n“Penrose is one of the outstanding figures of British chess. Yet many who meet him may not realize this just because he is one of the quietest and most modest of men. Throughout the late 1950s and the whole of the 1960s he stood head and shoulders above any of his contemporaries. \nSee caption below\nPress agency caption for photograph above\nHis extraordinary dominance is revealed by the fact that he won the British championship no less than ten times (1958-63 and 1966-69\, inclusive)\, a record that nobody is likely to equal in the future. \nAt his best his play was lucid\, positionally correct\, energetic and tactically acute. None the less\, there is a ‘Penrose problem’: was he a ‘Good Thing’for British chess? The trouble was that whilst this highly talented player eff0ectively crushed any opposition at\nhome\, he showed little initiative in flying the flag abroad. There is a wide-spread and justifiable conviction that only lack of ambition in the sphere of international chess can explain why he did not secure the GM title during his active over-the-board playing career. \nSee caption below\nPress agency caption for above photograph\nIt would be unjust\, however\, to blame Penrose for any of this. The truth is simply that he was not a professional chessplayer\, and indeed he flourished in\na period in which chess playing was not a viable profession in Britain. But even if the material awards available had been greater Penrose would almost certainly have chosen to remain an amateur. For he was cast in that special intellectual and ethical tradition of great British amateurs like H. E. Atkins\, Sir George Thomas and Hugh Alexander before him. \nTravel Chess2nd January 1951: British chess champions Jonathan Penrose and Leonard Barden ponder over a portable travel game in a restaurant. (Photo by Walter Bellamy/Express/Getty Images)\nHis family background indicates early academic inclinations in a cultural atmosphere in which chess was merely a game something at which one excelled through sheer ability\, but not to be ranked alongside truly serious work. It is noteworthy that Penrose\, unique in this respect amongst British chess\nmasters\, has never written at any length about the game. He has had other matters to concentrate on when away from the board\, being a lecturer in psychology. (His father\, Professor L. S. Penrose\, was a distinguished geneticist.) \nIM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE\nBeing of slight physique and the mildest and most amiable of characters\, it is probably also true that Penrose lacked the toughness and ‘killer instinct’\nrequired to reach the very top. Nervous tension finally struck him down in a dramatic way when he collapsed during play in the Siegen Olympiad of 1970. We\ncan take that date as the end of the Penrose era. \nJonathan PenroseChess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose pictured during a chess match\, circa 1960. (Photo by Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images))\nSince\, then though he has not by any means entirely given up\, his involvement in the nerve-wracking competitions of over-the-board play has been greatly reduced. instead he has turned to correspondence chess\, which is perhaps the ideal medium for his clear strategy and deep and subtle analysis. So Penrose’s career it not over. He has moved to another\, less stressful province of the kingdom of chess. \nIM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE\nFor the first game\, however\, we shall turn the clock right back to 1950 and the see the Penrose in the role of youthful giant killer. \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (BT Batsford\, 1977) by Harry Golombek : \n“British international master and ten times British Champion\, Penrose was born in Colchester and came from a chess-playing family. \nLionel Sharples Penrose\, FRS (11 June 1898 – 12 May 1972)\nHis father and mother both played chess and his father\, Professor Lionel Sharples Penrose\, in addition or being a geneticist of world-wide fame\, was a strong chess-player and a good endgame composer. Jonathan’s older brother Oliver\, was also a fine player. \nOliver Penrose FRS FRSE (born 6 June 1929) is a British theoretical physicist\nRoger Penrose won the Nobel prize for physics in 2020. \nRoger Penrose. Nobel Laureate\nJonathan learnt chess at the age of four\, won the British Boys championship at thirteen and by the time he was fifteen was playing in the British Championship in Felixstowe in 1949. \nPress agency caption for photograph above\nPress agency caption for photograph above\nA little reluctant to participate in international tournaments abroad\, he did best in the British Championship which he won a record number of times\, once more than HE Atkins. He won the title consecutively from 1958 to 1963 and again from 1966 to 1969. \nBoy Chess Champion. New York Times photo shows 14 year old J. Penrose 14 year old by chess champion of Britain\, in play at the British Chess Championships at Bishopsgate Institute today. He has had great success in the tournament so far\, beating men far above his age and experience. 2nd September 1948. Photograph by Reginald Webster\nPress agency caption for photograph above\nHe also played with great effect in nine Olympiads. Playing on a high board for practically all the time\, he showed himself the equal of the best grandmasters and indeed\, at the Leipzig Olympiad he distinguished himself by beating Mikhail Tal\, thereby becoming the first British player to defeat a reigning World Champion since Blackburne beat Lasker in 1899. \nARB Thomas and Jonathan Penrose at the Hastings Congress of 1950/1951\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nJonathan Penrose vs Mikhail Tal\, Leipzig Olympiad\, 1960\, 1-0\, Modern Benoni\nA deep strategist who could also hold his own tactically\, he suffered from the defect of insufficient physical stamina and it was this that was to bring about a decline in his play and in his results. He collapsed during a game at the Ilford Chess Congress\, and a year later\, at the Siegen Olympiad of 1970\, he had a more serious collapse that necessitated his withdrawal from the vent after the preliminary groups had been played. The doctors found nothing vitally wrong with him that his physique could not sustain. \n\nHe continued to play but his results suffered from a lack of self-confidence and at the Nice Olympiad of 1974 he had a wretched result on board 3\, winning only 1 game and losing 6 out of 15. \nDarga V Penrose29th December 1955: Klaus Darga of Germany in play against Britain’s Jonathan Penrose during the International Chess Congress at Hastings. (Photo by Folb/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)\nPossibly too his profession (a lecturer in psychology) was also absorbing him more and more and too part less and less in international and national chess. \nJonathan Penrose\nYet\, he had already done enough to show that he was the equal of the greatest British players in his command and understanding of the game and he ranks alongside Staunton\, Blackburne\, Atkins and CHO’D Alexander as a chess figure of world class.” \nHere is his Wikipedia entry \nFrom The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld : \n“The leading English player during the 1960s\, International Master (1961)\, International Correspondence Chess Master (1980)\, lecturer in psychology. Early in his chess career Penrose decided to remain an amateur and as a consequence played in few international tournaments. He won the British Championship from 1958 to 1963 and from 1966 to 1969\, ten times in all (a record); and he played in nine Olympiads from 1952 to 1974\, notably scoring + 10=5 on first board at Lugano 1968\, a result bettered only by the world champion Petrosyan. \nIM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE\nIn the early 1970s Penrose further restricted his chess because the stress of competitive play adversely affected his health.” \nThe second edition (1996) adds this : \n“He turned to correspondence play\, was the highest rated postal player in the world 1987-9\, and led the British team to victory in the 9th Correspondence Olympiad.” \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nHere is a discussion about Jonathan on the English Chess Forum \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master (1961) and British Champion in 1958 1959\, 1960\, 1961\, 1962\, 1963\, 1966\, 1967\, 1968 and 1969. \nJonathan Penrose was born in Colchester on 7th October 1933\, the son of Professor LS Penrose\, the well-known geneticist\, who was also a strong player and composer of endgame studies. \nThe whole Penrose family plays chess and Jonathan learned the game when he was 4. At the age of 12 he joined Hampstead Chess Club and the following year played for Essex for the first time\, won his first big tournament\, the British Boys’ Championship\, and represented England against Ireland in a boy’s match\, which was the forerunner of the Glorney Cup competition\, which came into being the following year. \nBy the time he was 17 Penrose was recognised as one of the big hopes of British Chess. Playing in the Hastings Premier Tournament for the first time in `1950 – 1951\, he beat the French Champion Nicholas Rossolimo and at Southsea in 1950 he beat two International Grandmasters\, Effim Bogoljubov and Savielly Tartakower. \nPenrose played for the British Chess Federation in a number of Chess Olympiads since 1952. In 1960\, at Leipzig\, came one of the best performances of his career\, when he beat the reigning World Champion\, Mikhail Tal. He became the first British player to beat a reigning World Champion since JH Blackburne beat Emmanuel Lasker in 1899\, and the first player to defeat Tal since he won the World Championship earlier that year. Penrose’s score in this Olympiad was only half-a-point short of the score required to qualify for the International Grandmaster title. \nIM Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE\nHis ninth victory in the British Championships in 1968 equalled the record held by HE Atkins\, who has held the title more times than any other player. \nPenrose is a lecturer in psychology at Enfield College of Technology and has never been in a position to devote a great deal of time to the game. He is married to a former contender in the British Girls Championship and British Ladies’s Championship\, Margaret Wood\, daughter of Frank Wood\, Hon. Secretary of the Oxfordshire Chess Association. \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nPenrose was awarded the O.B.E. for his services to chess in 1971.” \nPenrose was Southern Counties Champion for 1949-50. \nIn 1983 Jonathan became England’s fifth Correspondence Grandmaster (CGM) following Keith Richardson\, Adrian Hollis\, Peter Clarke and Simon Webb. \nSadly\, there is no existent book on the life and games of Jonathan Penrose : a serious omission in chess literature. \nDr. Jonathan Penrose OBE
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Charles Fox (09-xi-1866 11-x-1935)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Charles Fox (09-xi-1866 11-x-1935) \nCharles Masson Fox was born on Friday\, November 9th 1866 in Falmouth\, Cornwall. his father\, Howard\, was 29 and his mother\, Olivia Blanche Orme\, was 22. He had one brother and two sisters. \nHis sister Olivia Lloyd was born on 5 February 1868 in Falmouth\, Cornwall\, when Charles Masson was 1 year old. His sister Stella was born on 11 December 1876 in Falmouth\, Cornwall\, when Charles Masson was 10 years old. In 1881 he was living in Sherborne\, Dorset. In 1901 he was once more living in Falmouth and his profession was that of a timber merchant. His brother Howard Orme died on 7 June 1921 in Falmouth\, Cornwall. His father Howard passed away on 15 November 1922 in Cornwall. His mother Olivia Blanche passed away on 12 March 1930 in Falmouth\, Cornwall\, at the age of 85. \nSadly\, neither Hooper & Whyld\, Sunnucks or Golombek mention Fox in their works. \nHere is an extensive article from the British Chess Problem Society (BCPS) written by CJ Feather \nFrom Wikipedia : \n“Charles Masson Fox (9 November 1866 – 11 October 1935) was a Cornish businessman who achieved international prominence in the world of chess problems and a place in the gay history of Edwardian England. \nMasson Fox was born into a Quaker family (although he was not related to the Quakers’ founder George Fox) and was a cousin of the fraudulent sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse\, 2nd Baronet. Living throughout his life in the Cornish seaside town of Falmouth\, Fox in the early decades of his life was a senior partner of his family’s timber firm\, Fox Stanton & Company\, and was also on the Board of Messrs G C Fox & Company\, a long-established firm of shipping agents. \nC.M.Fox’s gravestone at Budock Quaker Burial Ground\nFox is described by chess historian Thomas Rayner Dawson (1889–1951) as “a friendly man\, kind\, mellow\, lovable\, bringing peace and comfort and serene joy with him”. He was also a discreet but active homosexual. In 1909 he visited Venice with his friend James Cockerton\, meeting the writer Frederick Rolfe and becoming the reluctant recipient of Rolfe’s famous Venice Letters\, in which the gay subculture of Venice is vividly described. \nIn 1912–13 Fox was blackmailed by a woman who accused him of seducing her 16-year-old son. Eventually Fox reported the matter to the police and the woman was sent to prison for five years and her son for one year\, with hard labour.[1] However\, Fox was profoundly affected by the publicity surrounding the case\, which was reported in detail in the local press. The predictable result of his courageous action was the destruction of his reputation\, and the compromise of his business and social life in Falmouth. \nAlthough he continued to live in Cornwall\, the focus of his social life shifted to London\, and in the last two decades of his life\, Fox became prominent in the world of chess. He was elected President of the Cornwall Chess Association\, played a prominent part in the development of the British Chess Problem Society\, and is still renowned as one of the greatest ever exponents of fairy chess (chess problems with variations in the rules).” \nFrom The Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement\, 1933 : \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nWhat is the shortest game\nending in this position? \nCharles Masson Fox
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CATEGORIES:Death Anniversary,History,Problemist
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201021
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Adam Hunt (21-x-1980)
DESCRIPTION:We offer IM Adam Hunt best wishes on his birthday. \nAdam Ceiriog Hunt was born on Tuesday\, October 21st\, 1980 in Oxford and his mother’s maiden name was Williams. The UK Number one single was “Woman in Love” by Barbara Streisand. Adam shares his birthday with Kim Kardashian. \n(Ceiriog was the bardic name of John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–87) \nAdam attended The Cherwell School and The University of Sussex to study general biology. \nJeremy Morse\, Adam Hunt (12)\, Nick Pert (11) and Nigel Short at the Lloyds Bank Masters\nAdam became an International Master in 2001 and then a FIDE Trainer in 2016. According to Felice and Megabase 2020 his attained his peak FIDE rating of 2466 in January 2008 at the age of 28. \nAdam Hunt in 1998  Cathy Rogers\nIn 2004 Adam was living in Headington\, Oxfordshire and in 2007 he moved to Ipswich in Suffolk and was married in 2019. Recently\, Adam and his partner became parents to Henry. \nMost recently Adam has played for 4NCL Blackthorne Russia\, prior to that Bettson.com\, Midlands Monarchs and Perceptron Youth with Witney being his original team. \nHe is Director of Chess at Woodbridge School in Suffolk and is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt \nWith the white pieces is (almost exclusively) an e4 player playing the main line of Ruy Lopez (8.c3) and favouring the Fischer-Sozin against the Najdorf. \nAs the second player Adam plays the Sicilian Najdorf and a 50:50 mixture of the King’s Indian and Grünfeld Defences. \nAdam is the brother of IM Harriet Hunt \n\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nChess Strategy: Move by Move\, Adam Hunt\, Everyman\, 2013\nIM Adam Hunt
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,Player
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM James Sherwin (25-x-1933)
DESCRIPTION:We send best wishes to IM James Sherwin\, a welcome long term visitor from “over the pond” \nJames Terry Sherwin was born on Wednesday\, October 25th 1933 in New York. and attended The University of Columbia. \nThe Columbia College chess team of 1949–1952 after a radio match with Yale. Right to left: James Sherwin\, Eliot Hearst\, Carl Burger\, Francis Mechner (Courtesy of the Columbia University Archives).\nHe became an International Master in 1958 at the age of 25 and\, according to Felice\, his peak FIDE rating was 2400 in 1969. \nIM James Sherwin\, Photograph copyright © 2001 Helen Milligan of New Zealand Chess\nMuch to his chagrin (we recommend you do not ask him about this!) James is famous for the “Sherwin slid the rook here with his pinky\, as if to emphasize the cunning of this mysterious move” annotation in Game 1\, “Too Little\, Too Late” of My Sixty Memorable Games by Robert James Fischer (and game introductions by Larry Evans). \nSince 1999 James has been a frequent entrant to English Rapidplay tournaments at Richmond and Golders Green and\, in August 2019 in Torquay\, aged 86\, tied for first place in the Rapidplay event at the British Championships. \nIM James Sherwin\nJames is registered with the Wiltshire County Chess Association and since 2015 has played only rapidplay games rated by the ECF. He currently has a rating of 204D. \nWith the white pieces James plays 1.d4\, 1.Nf3 and 1.e4 in that order of preference.  \nAs the second player he essays the Sicilian Najdorf and the Grünfeld Defence. \nHe has plus scores against Donald Byrne\, Robert Byrne\, Herbert Seidman\, Sidney Bernstein\, George Kramer and Raymond Weinstein (amongst others). His score with Fischer was 0.5/8 (but don’t mention it!). \nFrom Chessgames.com : \n“James Terry Sherwin\, born in New York\, became an International Master in 1958. In 1961\, he was Chairman of the USCF Rules Committee. He was the Executive Vice President of GAF Corporation who was the American Chess Foundation (ACF) President from 1979 to 1990. He took 5th place in the 1953 World Junior Championship. He tied for 1st place with Alexander Kevitz in the 1954-55 Manhattan Chess club championship. He took 17th place in the Portoroz Interzonal (1958). Sherwin finished in 3rd place twice in US chess championships (1957-58 and 1958-59). He won the first Eastern Open Chess Championship\, held in Washington DC\, in 1960.” \nHere is an article featuring JTS from The Wiltshire Times \nMr Sherwin\, 80\, met and played against the new members of Bradford & Avon Valley Youth Chess Club on their opening night at St Nicholas Hall on Tuesday. Photo courtesy of The Wiltshire Times\nFrom Wikipedia : \n“James Terry Sherwin (born October 25\, 1933)[1] is an American corporate executive and International Master in chess. \nBorn in New York City[1] in 1933\, Sherwin attended Stuyvesant High School\, Columbia College (Phi Beta Kappa) and Columbia Law School. He graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Officer Candidate School in 1956 and later became a Lieutenant Commander. He is an attorney admitted to the New York and Supreme Court Bars. He joined GAF Corporation in 1960 serving in various legal and operational roles and eventually becoming its Chief Financial Officer. He was CFO at Triangle Industries from 1983 to 1984\, rejoining GAF Corporation as Vice Chairman from 1985 to 1990. \nIM James T Sherwin\nWhile at GAF\, in 1988\, he was indicted by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York\, Rudolph Giuliani\, for stock manipulation in connection with the 1986 sale of stock owned by GAF.[2] He was convicted after three trials\, but the conviction was reversed on appeal[3] and dismissed with prejudice.[4] In 1991 he was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hunter Douglas N.V.\, a Dutch multinational company\, in which capacity he served until 1999. Since then he has been a Director and an adviser to Hunter Douglas. \nIM James T Sherwin\nHe is an Overseer of the International Rescue Committee and member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He received an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Bath in December\, 2007.” \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\n“In chess\, Sherwin finished third and tied for third in the US Chess Championship four times and tied for fourth three times.[5] He was Intercollegiate Champion and New York State Champion in 1951 and US Speed Champion in 1956–57 and 1959–60. He earned the International Master title in 1958.[1] He played in the Portorož Interzonal in 1958\, which was part of the 1960 World Championship cycle. While he finished only 17th out of 21 players\, he scored (+2–2=2) against the six players who qualified from the tournament to the Candidates tournament at Bled 1959. He is a previous President of the American Chess Foundation. \n\nSherwin resides with his wife\, Hiroko\, near Bath\, United Kingdom.” \nJames Sherwin\, middle row\, third from right\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.
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CATEGORIES:Birthday,British Championships,History,Player
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201030
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM Eddie Dearing (30-x-1980)
DESCRIPTION:BCN send best wishes to IM Eddie Dearing on his birthday. \nEdward J Dearing was born on Sunday\, October 30th\, 1980 in Scotland. \nEddie Dearing publicity photograph\, from EDs Facebook page.\nIn 2002 Eddie shared first place (with Karl Mah) in the Smith and Williamson Young Masters  with 6/9  with a TPR of 2458 : \nCross table for the 2012 Smith and Williamson Young Masters\nHe became an International Master in 2002 and\, according to Felice and Megabase 2020 achieved a peak rating of 2420 in July 2005 aged 25. He is currently ranked 8th in Scotland. \nEddie Dearing by Cathy Rogers\, ChessBase profile image\nEddie studied law at the University of Cambridge and did an MBA at the London Business School. Currently Eddie is a fund manager at MFS Investment Management. \nEddie is currently registered for Battersea in the London League and previously has played for Drunken Knights but has not been active since 2014. \nWith the white pieces Eddie prefers the Queen’s Gambit\, Exchange Variation. \nAs the second player Eddie plays the Sicilian Dragon and the Semi-Slav Defence. \nEddie has plus scores against : James Cobb\, Richard Palliser\, Simon Williams\, Karl Mah\, Jacob Aagard\, Colin McNab to name but a few. \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nPlay the Sicilian Dragon by Eddie Dearing\nPlay the Nimzo-Indian by Eddie Dearing
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