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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of FM Max Fuller (28-i-1945 27-viii-2013)
DESCRIPTION:September 15th\, 1980. Australian Open Chess Champion Max Fuller (35) is currently on a grand chess playing tour of Britain and Europe. He played in the British Championships last month and has included three tournaments in Denmark in his busy schedule.His tour culminates in Malta in December when he plays in his 8th chess Olympiad.Max has been playing chess since he was 13.He lives in Hamilton Avenue\, Earlwood\, Sydney.In the picture Max is playing in the Benedictine International Chess tournament in Manchester in which he was equal fourth.The Benedictine Championship was won by Britain’s number 2 seeded Grandmaster John DM Nunn of Oriel College Oxford.Picture from John Madden (NUJ)\nBCN Remembers FM Max Fuller (28-i-1945 27-viii-2013) \nTonight two Sydney ***** the N.S.W. Chess Championship at the Chess centre Liverpool St.\, City. They are Fred E Flatow\, 28 of Belmore (left.) and Max Fuller\, 21\, of Kingsgrove (right). They have been playing for about 10 Hrs up till 6.15 p.m. and had move 121. The match will go on till move 144 at which stage a draw will be declared or until either man wins before then. February 23\, 1966. (Photo by Richard John Pinfold/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).\nMaxwell Leonard Fuller was born on Sunday\, January 28th 1945 in Sydney\, New South Wales. He was brought up by his mother and\, according to Ian Rogers\, his step-father with whom he did not get on. \nKnight moves: Max Fuller in 1964. He went on to become Australia’s No.1 player and toured the world.CREDIT:STUART MACGLADRIE\nHe was Australian Junior Champion in 1962. \nHe won the New South Wales title in 1965 (and then in 1986 and 1988). \nMax came to England in late 1968 to play at Hastings and then chose to settle here. He played for Lewisham chess club. He won the Whitby Open in 1969 (See BCM\, Volume LXXXIX\, Number 8\, page 264). \nIn the 1970s be played board one for Australia whilst maintaining a FIDE rating of 2450\, and\, according to chessgames.com : “Fuller finished equal second in the British championship in 1970 and 1975\, winner of the Doeberl Cup three times\, winner of the Australian Open three times\, Joint Australian Champion 1972 with Trevor Hay and competed in nine Olympiads for Australia from 1964-1990. In 1974\, he won the 101st Athenaeum Chess Club Jubilee tournament\, held in London.” \nHe became a FIDE Master in 1980 \nFuller returned to chess in 2004 after an eight-year absence and finished equal second in the 2004 and 2005 NSW championships. \nAccording to IM Gary Lane : “Max had a heart attack and died on the day he was attending the funeral of his pal Peter Parr” \nWith the white pieces Max essayed the Ruy Lopez with a penchant for the exchange variation but nonetheless he was flexible and varied. \nAs the second player against 1.e4 he was versatile with a broad range of defences and likewise facing 1.d4/1.Nf3 he was difficult to prepare for. \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nAccording to British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXXIII (2013)\, Number 9 (September)\, page 450 : \n“From Australia the saddest of news\, the passing Maxwell Leonard Fuller (28 i 1945 Sydney – 27 viii 2013 Sydney). FM Max Fuller played in seven BCF Championships\, 1969 -80. He later claimed the scalps of Short\, Miles and Chandler. He was the most determined player imaginable and had the broadest of opening repertoires. (James Pratt)” \nAleandro Trimboli (10) of Leichhardt plays Mr Max Fuller of Newtown\, Australian Open Chess Champion. As part of the Waratah Festival Celebrations the NSW Chess Association is conducting chess games with chess champions playing up to 30 players at once\, in Hyde Park. October 17\, 1973. (Photo by Golding/Fairfax Media via Getty Images).\nIn this obituary from Ray Keene\, Ray very thoughtfully provides a game in which Max loses to Ray. \nGM Ian Rogers wrote this detailed obituary \nGreg Canfell posted this item \nMax Fuller at the Doeberl Cup in 1985. Photo : William Anderson-Smith\nHere is his Wikipedia article \nFM Max Fuller (28-i-1945 27-viii-2013) from around 1992\nSicilian Defence 11 Lines with c3\, Max Fuller and Len Pickett\, The Chess Player\, 1977\, ISBN ?\n 
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SUMMARY:Remembering IMC James Adams (04-ix-1921 27-vii-2013)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers IMC James Adams who passed away aged 91 on July 27th\, 2013 in Worcester Park\, Kingston Upon Thames\, Surrey. \nJames Frederick Adams was born on September 4th\, 1921 in Lambeth. His parents were James J Adams (DoB: 10th October 1884) who was a plumber’s mate and Lucy M Adams (née Ayres\, DoB: 22nd December 1886). He had an older brother who was William A Adams who was also a plumber’s mate and and Uncle George T (DoB: 8th March 1882) who was the plumber who presumably had many mates. \nAt the time of the 1939 register James was a telephone operator. \nThe Adams family lived at 52\, Broadway Gardens\, Mitcham\, Surrey\, CR4 4EE (rather than 001 Cemetery Lane) \n52\, Broadway Gardens\, Mitcham\, Surrey\, CR4 4EE\nFrom CHESS\, 1991\, March\, page 91 we have: \n“Whatever Happened to Human Effort? \nI am giving up postal chess after 57 years for the reason that\, like Jonathan Penrose and recently Nigel Short\, I am increasingly disturbed over the increase in the use of computers in correspondence play. It is impossible to prove but one has the feeling that many opponents see nothing wrong in using a machine and I see no pleasure in having to bash one’s brains out against a computer. I am happy in the knowledge that I won my FIDE IM title long before dedicated chess computers were ever heard of. I shudder to think of the proliferation in the use of computers in a competition like the World CC Championship. I don’t wonder that Penrose objects. \nUnfortunately\, this is the sort of thing against which it is impossible to legislate. The BCCA has banned their use but it doesn’t mean a thing. \nThe latest monstrosity is where Kasparov plays a match against another GM and both are allowed to use computers whilst the game is in progress. To me\, this is absolutely shocking. Dr. Nunn admits to the use of computers in the compilation of one of his books and I see that even ordinary annotators use a programme like Fritz to assist with their notes to a game. What happened to human effort? \nAnyway\, I have about five postal games left in progress and when they are finished I will call it a day. \nJim Adams\nWorcester Park\, Surrey \nSo who was Jim Adams? \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson we have this: \nThe smoke-laden atmosphere of the chess rooms of St. Bride’s Institute\, in the heart of the City of London\, could hardly be considered a positive encouragement to any ambitions to become an International Master\, but certainly this was so in my case. Let me explain the sequence of events. \nFace-to-face\, or over-the-board chess\, had been my main interest since my war-time days as a member of the Civil Defence. Passing time between air-raids led to the adoption of many pastimes and an absorbing game such as chess was ideal. Fortunately for me\, one of my ambulance station colleagues was a very fine player named A. F. (Algy) Battersby\, later to become General Secretary of the British Correspondence Chess Association. \nHe had spent the greater part of the First World War playing chess in the Sinai Desert and\, with his tremendous experience\, he brought to the game strategical ideas and tactical skills that\, in those early days\, were well beyond my comprehension. \nArthur Frank Battersby\, BIRTH 2 JUN 1887 • Brixton\, Surrey\, England  DEATH 11 APR 1955 • Surrey\, England\n‘Algy’ was kind enough to say some years afterwards that I was ‘the best pupil he ever had’\, but whether this was true or not\, he certainly passed on to me the theoretical groundwork that was to be so useful to me in later years. Among other books\, he encouraged me to purchase the Nimzowitch classic My System\, with the kindly warning that I would not understand it at first reading but would perhaps get some grasp of the ideas at a second or third attempt. \nMy System was a revelation to me and proved to be the greatest help to an understanding of the game that I had ever received. Up to my fortuitous meeting with ‘Algy’\, my games had been of a simple tactical nature. Pieces were left en prise\, oversights and blunders were the order of the day and an actual checkmate came as a surprise not only to the loser but often to the winner as well! \nTo win a game through sheer strength of position was completely unknown to me\, but ‘Algy’ and Nimzowitch changed all that! Under their combined influence my general playing strength improved enormously and I was soon second only to ‘Algy’ in such tournaments as were held in my home town of Mitcham\, where the local chess club was revived after the war. \nOur club soon attracted a few strong players and we played regularly in county competitions and\, later\, the London Chess League. During those years chess was an absolute joy to me and all my spare time was spent at the local club or at chess matches\, whilst Saturday afternoons were spent at the now defunct Gambit Chess Room\, in Budge Row\, where I passed countless hours playing chess\, pausing only to order light refreshment from the indefatigable ‘Eileen’\, a waitress of somewhat uncertain age who almost certainly regarded all chess players as raving lunatics! \nThe ‘Gambit’ could never have been a viable commercial proposition on what we bought and it was eventually thought necessary to introduce a minimum charge depending on the time of day. Gone for ever were the days when one could spend the entire evening playing chess\, analysing\, or having a crack at the local Kriegspiel experts\, all for the price of two cups of tea and the occasional sandwich. Sadly\, it all disappeared in the aftermath of the\nwar. \nBy 1950 I had become Match Captain of the Mitcham Chess Club and\, of course\, responsible for arranging various matches. Getting a team together was not difficult as the club membership was quite large for such a lowly club. The playing standard too was surprisingly high and whilst I\, myself\, was fortunate enough to win the club championship several times it was never easy. \nOn one occasion a ‘friendly’ match had been arranged with the BBC and all was well until a ‘flu epidemic a few days before the date of the match laid most of the Mitcham players low. On the morning of the match I was left with five players for a 1O-board match! As it was only a ‘friendly’ and in order to avoid disappointing all concerned I took myself off to the Gambit and recruited a few of the ‘regulars’ to help us out. It must be remembered that most of the strongest players in London frequented the ‘Gambit’ and since those pressganged into service were extremely strong players it seemed only courteous to give them the honour of playing on the top five boards\, leaving the Mitcham ‘stars’ who\, coincidentally\, were our usual top board players\, to bring up the rear. \nNow this composite team\, in my judgement\, was probably good enough to win the London League A Division and it was no surprise when we won 10-0. Only a friendly indeed! Any Match Captain would have given his queen’s rook for such a team but\, whilst the BBC players were warned beforehand of the composition of our team\, they were not amused and further matches were not arranged! \nMr A Corish (right)\, receives the Chess Champion cup from Mr J Adams. 18th September 1958 from the Merton Advertiser\, Photographer unknown.\nRound about this time I was playing regularly in London League matches\, nearly all of which were held at St. Bride’s Institute\, where my story began. A non-smoker myself\, I found the conditions intolerable. The place seemed to be completely airless and Government warnings about the dangers of smoking did not exist! not exist! Consequently\, the entire playing area was reminiscent of the Black Hole of Calcutta! Always susceptible to headaches\, I began to return home physically ill after every match. If this was playing chess for pleasure then something was wrong! \nMr A Corish (right)\, receives the Chess Champion cup from Mr J Adams. 18th September 1958 from the Merton Advertiser\, Photographer unknown.\nHowever\, salvation was at hand. Ever since the war I had been playing a few games by post under the auspices of the BCCA (British Correspondence Chess Association )\, and my somewhat traumatic experiences at St. Bride’s were beginning to make postal chess a far more attractive way of playing the\ngame. And so my chess career started all over again! \nMy correspondence chess activities up to the 1960s were not particularly successful\, although I had managed to win three Premier Sections and finish\nequal third in the British Correspondence Championship of 1962-63. However\, during that time a group of BCCA players\, of whom I was one\, were\nbecoming somewhat dissatisfied with the Association’s attitude towards international chess and eventually a splinter group formed a rival organization which became known as the British Correspondence Chess Society. \nThe BCCS was\, almost from the start\, internationally orientated and it was possible to play foreign players\, many of master strength. With strong opposition it seemed easier to improve and my first real success came in the Eberhardt Wilhelm Cup in 1966-67 when I was able to obtain the lM norm giving me a half=master title. However\, gone were the days when a superficial analysis was enough before posting a move\, which even if it was not the best\, was generally good enough to hold one’s own with even the best of British CC players at that time. Fortunately for British chess\, the situation is now vastly different and the strongest British CC players are recognized as being among the best in the world. \nThe Eberhardt Wilhelm Cup consisted of players all of master or near-master strength and it was in one of the games I played in this tournament that I played probably the most surprising move of my life. \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nTo win the full IM title involved getting one more IM norm and happily for my prospects\, I was selected for the British team in both the Olympiad Preliminary of 1972 and the European Team Championships of 1973. \nAlthough I was trifle unlucky to miss the IM norm by half a point in the European Championship I finally clinched the coveted IM title in the Olympiad Preliminary which\, although starting a few months before the European tournament\, went on so long that I was in suspense long after the European games finished. \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nOne of my most interesting games in the European Team Championship of 1973 was against F. Grzeskowiak\, himself an IM and a feared attacking player. \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 of James Adams on the English Chess Forum initiated by Matt Mackenzie (Millom\, Cumbria) \nHere is his entry on the ICCF web site. \nHere is his entry from chessgames.com \n39 Games of James Adams (27) of thirty nine of his games.
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