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Jon Speelman
Full name
Jonathan Simon Speelman
Country
England
Born
(1956-10-02) 2 October 1956 (age 67) Marylebone, London, England
Title
Grandmaster (1980)
FIDE rating
2499 (June 2024)
Peak rating
2645 (July 1988)
Peak ranking
No. 5 (July 1988)
Jonathan Simon Speelman (born 2 October 1956 in Marylebone, London)[1] is a British chess player and author. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1980.
Speelman (born 2 October 1956 in Marylebone, London) is a British chess player and author. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1980. Speelman was...
Hermann Speelmans (1906–1960), German stage and film actor JonSpeelman (born 1956), English chess player, mathematician and chess writer Speelman baronets...
Tukmakov, Artur Yusupov, Andrei Sokolov England 37 Tony Miles, John Nunn, JonSpeelman, Murray Chandler, Jonathan Mestel, Nigel Short United States 35 Roman...
each qualifying. In the first tournament in Subotica, Sax, Short, and Speelman qualified. Lubomir Kavalek withdrew after six rounds; his results are not...
Grandmasters such as Joel Benjamin, Yasser Seirawan, Andy Soltis, John Nunn, JonSpeelman, Sergey Karjakin, Michael Adams, Emil Sutovsky and Michael Rohde have...
Miller, theatre and opera director Jon Moss, drummer Adam Raphael, journalist and author James Rhodes, pianist JonSpeelman, chess player David Say, former...
Richard Rapport. The most frequent high-level practitioners have been JonSpeelman, Edvins Kengis and, more recently, Georg Meier. After 1.d4 e6 2.c4 b6...
Kasparov on the King's Indian (1993, B.T. Batsford Ltd) Kasparov, Garry. JonSpeelman and Bob Wade. 1995. Garry Kasparov's Fighting Chess. Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-4221-0...
response." Carlsen's endgame prowess has been singled out for praise. JonSpeelman, analysing several of Carlsen's endgames from the 2012 London Classic...
[19] Independent Pursuits: Chess, The Independent, 3 September 1998, JonSpeelman, [20] retrieved 31 July 2009 Robert Nurden. Mental athletes tune up for...
tournament in St John, a knockout tournament, he was knocked out by JonSpeelman in the preliminary round. In 1990, he won a match against Jan Timman...
1983/84, when he shared third place (after joint winners Karlsson and JonSpeelman). Aside from his academic and chess activities, he wrote the mainframe...
the Grob to defeat John Nunn in 1978 and the Borg Defence to defeat JonSpeelman in 1980. Possibly his greatest tournament success was when he tied for...
players from the 1988–90 Candidates tournament—Karpov, Timman, Yusupov and Speelman—were seeded directly into the Candidates. They were joined by the top 11...
In 2005, Levitt won the Howard Staunton Memorial Tournament, beating JonSpeelman in the tiebreaks. He won Morris Sobkowski's chess set through his victory...
Ólafsson and independently JonSpeelman say that Fischer could have forced a draw after 36.a4? with 37...a6 or with 39...e5. Speelman analyzed the position...
Donner 2006, p. 151 (originally published in Het Parool, 31 August 1972). JonSpeelman, Best Chess Games 1970-80, Unwin Paperbacks, 1983, p. 261. ISBN 0-04-794016-6...
cycle, he again qualified by winning the 1987 Subotica Interzonal with JonSpeelman. The Candidates stage had by this time reverted to its traditional match...
grandmaster Gennady Sosonko (born 1943), Russian-born Dutch grandmaster JonSpeelman (born 1956), English grandmaster Rudolf Spielmann (1883–1942), Austrian-born...
regularly leapfrogging each other in the world rankings. Nigel Short and JonSpeelman soon added to the competition, as the English national squad entered...
British Online Chess Championships, and included strong grandmaster JonSpeelman. In January 2024, he provided commentary for the Caplin Hastings International...
Gelfand Mikhail Gurevich Igor Ivanov Rustam Kasimdzhanov Vladimir Kramnik Joël Lautier Péter Lékó Karsten Müller Levy Rozman JonSpeelman Artur Yusupov...
to play for the position as first reserve in the Candidates Tournament. Speelman won with 4½ points, ahead of Gavrikov (4) and van der Wiel (3½). No reserve...
hosted by Rob Curling and featured grandmaster JonSpeelman. In the groundbreaking one-off episode, Speelman was pitted against the audience, who would use...
Kasparov, Garri; Wade, Bob; Speelman, Jon (9 December 2002). EL AJEDREZ COMBATIVO DE KASPAROV – Garri Kasparov, Bob Wade, JonSpeelman – Google Libros. ISBN 9788480194167...
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