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Congratulations to Mickey Adams on his

British Championship victory, covered

inside. Adams and Nigel Short were, as

one might expect, a touch above the rest

and they finished ahead of the pack. In a

rapidplay play-off, one would back Mickey

against almost anyone in the world and so

it proved. Both Mickey and Nigel have

been gaining rating points lately. Mickey

went from Sheffield to LA and won an

international invitational.

any evidence, bar an A4 leaflet on the back

of a door, that the event was even taking

place. To be fair, the chess was submerged

by the National Junior Swimming

championships which were taking place in

the same building and had massive support

from British Gas. Still, some branding in the

huge sports hall where the tournament took

place would have been nice.

distraction from the pleasant task of

handing out the trophies. I believe that is

all Lara Barnes, a staunch gay rights

defender herself, was trying to make

when she suggested CJ’s Stonewall T

shirt was not the right sartorial statement.

(Stonewall is a gay rights organisation

and not a variation of the Dutch Defence.)

CJ refused to take part in the prize giving

and I received a call from him, he was

very upset. The whole thing got

completely out of hand as he contacted

the press and there were articles in the

Guardian and Sunday Times, the latter

co-authored by Keene.

At the opening ceremony there was no

microphone or plinth for the speakers. I

heard CJ give his opening address and

then retired to the back of the hall. Ray

Keene, who had been invited to open the

tournament, then spoke. Consequently, I

didn’t hear him. It was only some days later

I realised this when Keene tweeted, slightly

hysterically, that I had omitted him from my

report in the Daily Telegraph , an omission I

was pleased to rectify. I noticed some posts

on the internet that confirmed I was not the

only person who had missed him. It was the

40th anniversary of Keene’s victory at the

British at Blackpool in 1971 but he was an

odd choice given his fractured relationship

with the governing body that ended very

badly with the Tony Miles affair. I think that,

after all this time, CJ has decided to let

bygones be bygones and the tournament

was covered well in the Times .

Readers should also watch our website

for news on Nigel Short’s simul tour. Nigel

is going to repeat his hugely successful

trip around the UK and Ireland last year.

The following dates and stops of this new

tour have been confirmed:

From my vantage point in the Middle East

I could see this was a non-story and kept

my pen in my pocket. This stance was

vindicated when subsequently, it emerged

the whole thing had really been a

misunderstanding. I just hope the story’s

Google ranking diminishes over time. CJ

was so upset he offered to resign but his

offer was rightly rejected. The ECF needs

CJ, he is doing a fine job and I hope he

remains in post for many years.

16 October Telford

22 October Denton

23 October Cardiff

24 October Swansea

25 October Louth

26 October London

27 October Crawley

What a pleasure it was to see nearly all

the leading English players in the British

Championship. Credit goes to English

Chess Federation president CJ de Mooi

who not only backed the championships

with his own money, but also secured

sponsorship from Darwin Strategic and

transformed the event.

Lara Barnes took a lot of undeserved flak.

She wrote to me the following regarding

the Sunday Times article.

The storm in a T-shirt at the end of the

tournament, mentioned in the report

inside, was also unfortunate. It’s just as

well we have an understanding sponsor

from the chess world. I shudder to think

what British Gas might have made of it

had they been supporting the chess and

not the swimming.

CJ’s claim that he was ‘banned’ from

wearing the t-shirt is just untrue. There is

a dress code for the event, on page of

the programme “smart casual”.

However, I would add just one caveat. The

ECF does not yet look ready to stage a

professional event. For example, there was

no Press Officer. Indeed, there was little to

show that the event had commercial

sponsorship. I arrived the day before and

could detect no branding at all or indeed

He was never asked to ‘take it off’. I only

queried whether it was appropriate, had

he said ‘yes, I believe it is’ then I would

not have had anything further to say at

the time and he would have gone ahead

with the prize-giving. He is the president

of the organisation for which I do

One would expect that at a prize giving, a

jacket and tie would suit. The priority has

to be ensuring the sponsor gets the best

possible publicity and to avoid any kind of

voluntary work and I would have bowed

to his authority.

The latest Live Rating list shows that the

Classic features the world’s top four as

Magnus Carlsen, Vishy Anand, Levon

Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik have all

gained points.

Botvinnik Memorial, Suzdal 2011

V.Korchnoi - I.Zaitsev

King’s Indian Defence

1 d4 ¤f6 2 c4 g6 3 ¤c3 ¥g7 4 e4 d6

5 f3 00 6 ¤ge2 orchnoi has remained

faithful to this move order for 60 years.

remember being bashed by him in a

simul with it circa 1975. 6¤c6 7 ¥e3 e6

7...a6 is the usual move. 8 £d2 b6 9 ¦d1

9 h4! is a possibility. 9a5

I am pleased that the Chief Executive of

the ECF, Andrew Farthing, calmed

everyone down.

Underneath the original article, the

Sunday Times published this letter which

draws a line under the affair:

1 Magnus Carlsen 2823 (+2)

2 Vish Anand 2817 (0)

3 Levon Aronian 2807 (+2)

4 Vladimir Kramnik 2790 (+9.6)

I have investigated your report and have

established that prior to the prize-giving

at the British Chess Championships at

Ponds Forge, Sheffield, discussions took

place between the event organisers and

CJ de Mooi, president of the English

Chess Federation (ECF), which led to his

non-participation in the presentation.

BotvinnikBlitz

“YES, I have played a blitz game once. It

was on a train, in 1929.” So Mikhail

Botvinnik once famously told Genna

Sosonko in an interview for New in

Chess magazine that has since gone into

chess lore, but it turns out that wasn’t

entirely true.

A conversation between arbiter Lara

Barnes and de Mooi resulted in a

misunderstanding. Both parties have

since apologised to each other. I am

grateful they have shown a willingness to

draw a line under this issue.

dewFathighiefExecutiveEF

At a recent celebration of the centenary

of Botvinnik’s birth, Mark Taimanov

revealed that he once played a secret

blitz match against his mentor. 85-year-

old Taimanov was among the ten legends

(plus 89-year-old Yuri Averbakh as

arbiter) who recently took part in the

veteran's memorial tournament in Suzdal,

near Moscow.

n interesting plan, and slightly

reminiscent of Spassky-ischer, final

game 1992. 9...a5 anticipates ¤e2-

c1–b3. ow 10 ¤g3 might be met by

h5!. 10 d5 ¤e5 11 ¤g3 ¥a6 12 b3

ed5 13 cd5 ¥f1 14 ¦f1 a4 15 f4

¤ed7 16 b4 ¦e8 17 h3 ¤h5 This was a

rapidplay game so one can expect the

odd tactical flaw. 17...h5! 18 h4 ¤g4 was

better. 18 ¤h5 £h4 19 ¦f2 £h5

20 ¥d4 ¤f6 21 ¦e2 £h4 22 ¥f2 £h5

23 ¢f1 ¦e7 24 ¦de1 ¦ae8 25 £d3 g5

Adam Raoof, the Director of Home Chess

was not present at the closing ceremony

as he was running one of his events in

London. I know he wants to make some

personnel changes and one of them

should be Adam becoming tournament

director. Credit to him and CJ for finding

an excellent venue. Playing conditions

were very good.

On the day of Botvinnik’s 100th birthday

anniversary, Taimanov related during a

lecture the tale of his secret blitz match

with the Patriarch, who vehemently

despised the fast and furious form of the

game. It occurred in 1966 while both

were together at a Soviet training camp

preparing for the Chess Olympiad in

Havana of that year. Taimanov said he

was asked by Botvinnik to come to his

room one evening without telling anyone,

and although curious of such a request,

he naturally complied.

ondonChessClassic

The London Chess Classic timetable has

just been released and once again we

have plenty of tournaments and activities

running alongside the main event from

December 3-12. As the tournament falls

on two weekends, I hope we will not only

have more spectators, but more entries

in the London Chess Classic Open as

entrants will only have to take one week

off work. We will also have two weekend

tournaments, two rapidplays and of

course blitz every night.

On arrival, Botvinnik let him in, then

locked the door and pulled down the

blinds on the windows before asking:

“Would you agree to play ten blitz games

against me?” Taimanov said he

comfortably won the match 7-3. But

before he left the room, Botvinnik warned:

“Please Mark, don’t tell anyone about

this.” And for 45 years, he kept his word

by remaining silent about their blitz match.

26 e5 de5 27 fe5 n his ss

provr blog, igel avies points out

27 ¦xe5 ¦xe5 28 fxe5 ¤d7 29 £b5 was

even better. 27¤d7 28 e6

Viktor Korchnoi has agreed to come back

and will be guest of honour. The great

man will again give a couple of

simultaneous displays and the dates will

be confirmed shortly.

There will be training courses for arbiters

and for those who wish to learn more

about teaching chess. Existing chess

coaches can attend a different course to

brush up their classroom skills.

Viktor Korchnoi was the winner of the

veteran's tournament held to

commemorate the 100 th Anniversary of the

birth of the sixth world chess champion

Mikhail Botvinnik. Korchnoi, who had a

record of a win, a loss and two draws in

his personal encounters with Botvinnik as

a younger man, was undefeated with five

wins and four draws in the ten-player

veterans event, including this nice win

over Russian GM Igor Zaitsev.

Tickets are now on sale and proceeds go

to the charity Chess in Schools and

Communities. The timetable and entry

form for tournaments can be downloaded

from www.londonchessclassic.com

www.chess.co.uk

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