Michael Freeman (chess player)

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Michael Freeman
Full nameMichael Roy Freeman
CountryFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Born (1960-12-09) 9 December 1960 (age 63)
United Kingdom
Title Candidate Master (2013), Senior International Correspondence Chess Master (2003)
FIDE   rating 2203 (October 2017)
Peak rating 2218 (January 2004)
ICCF   rating 2530 (October 2021)
ICCF   peak rating 2534 (April 2019)

Michael Roy Freeman (born 9 December 1960) is a New Zealand chess player.

He was NZ Correspondence Champion in 1979/80 and 1983/84, and earned a NZ Correspondence Chess Master title. In 1995 he gained an International Correspondence Master title (2450 level) and in 2003 he won the International Correspondence Chess Federation (ICCF) 50th anniversary IM-D event and gained a Senior International Master title.

Over the board Freeman has represented NZ in chess at the 1996 Chess Olympiad and the 1983, 1993 and 1995 Asian Teams events and was NZ Team Captain for four Chess Olympiads (1994, 1996, 1998, 2000) and a member of the FIDE Executive Board from 1998 to 2002. He is the current FIDE delegate and also the NZ delegate to ICCF.

Freeman is also webmaster of the NZ Chess website www.nzchess.co.nz.

Freeman is a civil servant working for the Stratford District Council. [1]

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References

  1. "Piece work". 31 January 2009.