Philip Corbin | |
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Country | Barbados |
Born | August 1, 1957 |
Title | FIDE Master |
FIDE rating | 2005 (January 2020) |
Peak rating | 2315 (January 1991) |
Philip Corbin (born 1957) is a Barbadian FIDE Master chess player. [1]
Corbin is a seven-time champion of Barbados [2] and has represented Barbados in eleven Chess Olympiads from 1986 through 2008, playing first board in 1986, 1990, 1998, and 2000. [3]
He is known for using the Elephant Gambit when playing with the black pieces, [4] most notably in his 2006 simultaneous exhibition win over English GM Nigel Short. [5] He also plays the Budapest Gambit and the Scandinavian Defense as black. [6] In a television interview Corbin said that he attempts to play chess in an innovative and entertaining style and referred to his playing style as "Calypso Chess." [7]
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