This article is about the English chess player. For the English footballer, see Luke McShane (footballer).
Luke McShane
McShane at the 2013 European Chess Team Championship
Full name
Luke James McShane
Country
England
Born
(1984-01-07) 7 January 1984 (age 40) London, England
Title
Grandmaster (2000)
FIDE rating
2617 (May 2024)
Peak rating
2713 (July 2012)
Peak ranking
No. 29 (November 2012)
Luke James McShane (born 7 January 1984) is an English chess player. A chess prodigy, he was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2000, at the age of 16. McShane has become one of England's leading players and a member of the national team. He also worked as a trader in London's financial sector, and has previously been described as the world's strongest amateur chess player.[1][2][3]
^Barden, Leonard (14 August 2015). "Luke McShane finds balance to cement his place as world's top amateur". The Guardian.
^Barden, Leonard (11 December 2018). "Chess: can you do better than the speed expert Hikaru Nakamura?". Financial Times.
Luke James McShane (born 7 January 1984) is an English chess player. A chess prodigy, he was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2000, at the age...
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Bloodline. McShane will also have a recurring role in CSI: Vegas. McShane's film work includes Gone Girl and Argo. In October 2016, McShane was given the...
Individual Women’s Chess Championship. Early in 2018, Belenkaya defeated LukeMcShane, an English Grandmaster, at the Bunratty Masters, a six-round unrated...
Anand, Carlsen, Kramnik, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, David Howell, and LukeMcShane. This included a win with Black against Kramnik, evening their career...
LukeMcShane, Vladislav Tkachiev, Zahar Efimenko, and others. Navara tied for first place with LukeMcShane by finishing with 8½/13. While McShane finished...
players Adams, Nigel Short, David Howell, and LukeMcShane. Carlsen had a rocky start, losing his games to McShane and Anand in rounds 1 and 3, but winning...
Hort, Igor Glek, Mihai Suba, Tony Miles, Gata Kamsky, Pavel Blatny and LukeMcShane. Meanwhile, Kiril Georgiev has used the system as an anti-computer line...
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(scoring his 5 wins against the 3 British grandmasters—Adams, Jones, and LukeMcShane—and against Aronian and Judit Polgár). Anand participated in several...
drew against world class players such as Fabiano Caruana, Gata Kamsky, LukeMcShane, and Alexey Dreev. "The chess games of Ruifeng Li". www.chessgames.com...
Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich, Evgeny Tomashevsky and LukeMcShane. This tournament was a Category 22 event (average Elo rating of 2776...
from the original on 31 May 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2015. "Chess with LukeMcShane". Daily Express. 17 May 2009. Retrieved 12 April 2014. "Azerbaijan's...
norm in the process. In the same year, Tan was joint winner with GM LukeMcShane at the DeMontford Bell Kings Place Rapidplay. In 2018, Tan won the Paracin...
grandmaster and author. In September 2006, he tied for 2nd–9th with LukeMcShane, Stephen J. Gordon, Gawain Jones, Luis Galego, Daniel Gormally, Klaus...
joint 5th place. In December 2017, Michalik finished joint second with LukeMcShane behind winner Sergei Zhigalko in the European Blitz Chess Championship...
Musgraves, Sam Hunt, Kenny Chesney, Walker Hayes, Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, Luke Bryan, Lady A, Keith Urban, Thomas Rhett, Brothers Osborne, Old Dominion...
£533,901 in 2023) to two British-based Americans, James McHenry and Benjamin Moran. While McHenry was a businessman, Moran was an assistant secretary...
scoring 10/13 and finishing ahead of Surya Ganguly, Artyom Timofeev, LukeMcShane, Bu Xiangzhi, Pentala Harikrishna, and others. Aronian made his debut...
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