Vernon Small

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Vernon Small
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Vernon Small at the "Journalism Matters" EPMU Summit Meeting, Wellington 2007.
CountryNew Zealand
Born (1954-07-18) 18 July 1954 (age 69)
England
Title International Master (1988)
FIDE   rating 2313 (April 2005)
Peak rating 2390 (January 1989) [1]

Vernon Albert Small (born 18 July 1954, England) is a New Zealand chess International Master (IM). [2] He represented New Zealand in eight Chess Olympiads from 1976 to 1992. Previously a journalist for Fairfax Media, Small is now a press secretary to Cabinet minister David Parker.

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Biography

Small moved to New Zealand at the age of 9 in 1964 from England. Small was educated at Shirley Boys' High School in Christchurch, New Zealand.[ citation needed ] He was awarded a PhD in English Literature from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) in 1985. His doctoral thesis was titled The authorial persona: A truth conditional account. [3] He has previously worked as National Affairs Editor for Fairfax Media New Zealand, based in the Parliamentary Press Gallery; for which he has received numerous awards. Since the formation of the Sixth Labour Government after the 2017 New Zealand general election, he has worked as press secretary to Cabinet minister David Parker. [4]

He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Chess career

He represented New Zealand in eight Chess Olympiads from 1976 to 1992, playing on board 1 in 1982, 1984 and 1988. [5] His best result was his Olympiad debut at the 22nd Chess Olympiad, Haifa 1976, when he scored 7/9, and finished equal third with Grandmaster Larry Evans for the bronze medal on board 3. [5] [6]

Small won or jointly won the New Zealand Chess Championship on four occasions; 1979/80 (shared with Ortvin Sarapu and Ewen Green), 1980/81 (shared with Ortvin Sarapu and Roger Nokes), 1981/82, and 1984/85. [7] [8]

He has defeated a number of strong players, including Jonathan Mestel, Eugenio Torre and Oscar Panno. [9]

Notable games

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References

  1. ↑ Vernon Small FIDE rating history, www.olimpbase.org
  2. ↑ Vernon Small FIDE player profile, www.fide.com
  3. ↑ Small, Vernon (1984). The authorial persona: A truth conditional account (Doctoral thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/4750. hdl:10092/4854.
  4. ↑ "Beehive 'newsroom' needs to move the story on". Stuff. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  5. 1 2 Vernon Small Chess Olympiad Statistics, www.olimpbase.org
  6. ↑ 22nd Chess Olympiad, Haifa 1976 Individual Medals, www.olimpbase.org
  7. ↑ The New Zealand Championships: A Brief History by Peter Stuart
  8. ↑ Vernon Small player profile, www.chessgames.com
  9. ↑ Mestel-Small Haifa Olympiad 1976,Small-Torre, Wellington 1978, Small-Panno, Thessaloniki Olympiad 1988, chessgames.com
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