| John Emms | |
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 John Emms (2001) | |
| Full name | John Michael Emms |
| Country |  England |
| Born | 14 March 1967 |
| Title | Grandmaster (1995) |
| FIDE rating | 2408 (December 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2586 (July 1999) |
John Michael Emms (born 14 March 1967) is an English chess Grandmaster and chess author. He tied for first in the 1997 British Championship.
Born in 1967, Emms learned to play chess at the age of five or six. [1] He finished joint first in the Politiken Cup in 1992 and 1993, [2] [3] and was awarded his grandmaster title in 1995. He tied for first place in the 1997 British Chess Championship, but lost out on the title in the play-off round. [4]
He was the 2002 captain of the English Olympiad team. [5] In October 2004, he also coached a woman's team in the 36th Chess Olympiad in Calvià, Majorca. [6]
John Denis Martin Nunn is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician. He is one of England's strongest chess players and was formerly in the world's top ten.
The Queen's Indian Defense (QID) is a chess opening defined by the moves:
The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move:
Joseph Gerald Gallagher is a British-born Swiss chess player and writer. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 1990 and has been the national champion of both Britain and Switzerland.
The Najdorf Variation of the Sicilian Defence is one of the most popular, reputable, and deeply studied of all chess openings. Modern Chess Openings calls it the "Cadillac" or "Rolls-Royce" of chess openings. The opening is named after the Polish-Argentine grandmaster Miguel Najdorf, although he was not the first strong player to play the variation. Many players have relied on the Najdorf.
The Philidor position is a chess endgame involving a drawing technique for the defending side in the rook and pawn versus rook endgame. This technique is known as the third-rank defense due to the positioning of the defending rook. It was analyzed by François-André Danican Philidor in 1777. Many rook and pawn versus rook endgames reach either the drawn Philidor position or the winning Lucena position. The defending side should try to reach the Philidor position; the attacking side should try to reach the Lucena position. Grandmaster Jesús de la Villa said, "[The Lucena and Philidor positions] are the most important positions in this type of endgame [...] and in endgame theory."
The Siberian Trap is a chess opening trap. After a series of natural moves in the Smith–Morra Gambit of the Sicilian Defence, White can lose a queen. The name appears to result from Boris Schipkov of Novosibirsk in southwestern Siberia.
Christopher Geoffrey Ward is a British chess Grandmaster (GM), chess coach, and author. He grew up in North West Kent, on the edge of Vigo Village and played his early chess at the village school chess club.
In chess, the Sicilian Defence, Alapin Variation is a response to the Sicilian Defence characterised by the moves:
Much literature about chess endgames has been produced in the form of books and magazines. A bibliography of endgame books is below.
Peter Kenneth Wells is an English chess Grandmaster and author. Wells was British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 2002, 2003 and 2007.
Jacob Aagaard is a Danish-Scottish chess grandmaster and the 2007 British Chess Champion.
Graham K. Burgess is an English FIDE Master of chess and a noted writer and trainer. He became a FIDE Master at the age of twenty. He attended Birkdale High School in Southport, Merseyside. In 1989 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in mathematics. In 1994 he set a world record by playing 510 games of blitz chess in three days, winning 431 games and drawing 25.
Vladimir Sergeyevich Antoshin was a Soviet chess Grandmaster, a theoretician and a national champion of correspondence chess.
Anthony Cornelis Kosten is an English-French chess Grandmaster and chess author.
John Leonard Watson is an American chess player and author who was awarded the title of International Master in 1979.
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