The chess games of George Steven Botterill

George Steven Botterill
Number of games in database: 156
Years covered: 1968 to 1997
Last FIDE rating: 2360
Highest rating achieved in database: 2410
Overall record: +47 -57 =52 (46.8%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS

With the White pieces:

Sicilian (23)
    B30 B52 B40 B31 B44
Modern Benoni (6)
    A56 A71 A61
Nimzo Indian (6)
    E20 E46 E41 E44 E32
Grunfeld (5)
    D94 D91 D86
Pirc (5)
    B09 B08
Queen's Pawn Game (4)
    A50 A40 A46 E10

With the Black pieces:

Pirc (15)
    B08 B09 B07
Robatsch (9)
    B06
French Defense (7)
    C07 C17 C05 C16 C09
French Tarrasch (5)
    C07 C05 C09 C08
Queen's Pawn Game (5)
    E10 A45 A46 E00
Nimzo Indian (5)
    E45 E36 E25

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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   G Botterill vs Thomas, 1974 1-0
   M Basman vs G Botterill, 1979 0-1

GAMES ANNOTATED BY BOTTERILL: [what is this?]
   J L Arnason vs Keene, 1981

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GEORGE STEVEN BOTTERILL
(born Jan-08-1949) United Kingdom

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George Steven Botterill was born in Bradford, England. He was awarded the IM title in 1978.
He learned to play chess at age seven and played for Oxford University from 1969 to 1972. He won the Welsh title (jointly) in 1973, figured in a seven-way tie for the British Championship and in the subsequent play-off he finished half a point ahead of William Hartston and therefore took the title (1974). He also won the title outright in 1977. He's best known for his collaboration with Raymond Keene in two works on the Modern and Pirc Defences.

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Game	Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. G Botterill vs N Littlewood	0-1	34	1968	BCF-ch	B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
2. G Botterill vs J T Farrand	0-1	29	1968	BCF-ch	B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
3. G Botterill vs N J Patterson	½-½	38	1968	Oxford-Cambridge m	A56 Benoni Defense
4. G Botterill vs B Cafferty	½-½	24	1968	BCF-ch	E11 Bogo-Indian Defense
5. S Webb vs G Botterill	1-0	36	1968	BCF-ch	D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted
6. B H Wood vs G Botterill	0-1	59	1968	BCF-ch	E36 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
7. P Clarke vs G Botterill	1-0	49	1968	BCF-ch	B06 Robatsch
8. G Botterill vs A Hollis	½-½	18	1968	BCF-ch	B35 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Modern Variation with Bc4
9. G Botterill vs G Bonner	1-0	40	1968	BCF-ch	B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
10. G Botterill vs M V Lambshire	1-0	34	1968	BCF-ch	B81 Sicilian, Scheveningen, Keres Attack
11. C Hilton vs G Botterill	½-½	45	1968	BCF-ch	B06 Robatsch
12. G Speed vs G Botterill	0-1	28	1968	BCF-ch	B09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
13. G Botterill vs Hartston	1-0	78	1970	BCF-ch	A25 English
14. P C Griffiths vs G Botterill	½-½	55	1970	BCF-ch	E45 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Bronstein (Byrne) Variation
15. G Botterill vs J Littlewood	½-½	36	1970	BCF-ch	B33 Sicilian
16. G Botterill vs Wade	½-½	15	1970	BCF-ch	A04 Reti Opening
17. G Botterill vs J M Ripley	1-0	40	1970	BCF-ch	D94 Grunfeld
18. D B Pritchard vs G Botterill	0-1	42	1970	BCF-ch	E45 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Bronstein (Byrne) Variation
19. A H Williams vs G Botterill	0-1	41	1970	BCF-ch	B08 Pirc, Classical
20. Keene vs G Botterill	1-0	40	1970	National Club Championship	A09 Reti Opening
21. Timman vs G Botterill	1-0	41	1970	Vlissingen NLD-ENG	A23 English, Bremen System, Keres Variation
22. G Botterill vs V W Knox	0-1	33	1970	BCF-ch	A00 Uncommon Opening
23. Keene vs G Botterill	1-0	42	1970	Oxford-Cambridge Match	E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3
24. R G Eales vs G Botterill	½-½	62	1970	BCF-ch	E00 Queen's Pawn Game
25. M Fuller vs G Botterill	1-0	31	1970	BCF-ch	B20 Sicilian


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Dec-01-03		raylopez99: Botterill wrote a series of books that I enjoyed on chess, and is well known in UK chess circles--RL "One of the things that appeals to me about competitive chess (I mean over-the-board chess, though presumably the same goes for correspondence chess if there is not too much collusion) is that it is, as games go, very fair. There is quite a lot of luck in chess over the short term. But on the whole it tends to cancel out. Certainly chess compares very favourably with all the things that go under the designation 'real life' ,with all the stacked decks, silver spoons, nepotism, favouritism and disastrous misfortunes that attend. In comparison with the crazy unpredictability and uncontrollability of most of human existence, playing chess (even in a time-scramble!) is like a paradise of rationality. I really do mean that..." -George Botterill International Master

Dec-23-04		Benzol: George Steven Botterill Born 8th January 1949 in Bradford IM in 1978 Joint Welsh Champion in 1973 he became British Champion in 1974 (after playoff) and 1977.

Jan-07-06		BIDMONFA: George Steven Botterill BOTTERILL, George Steven http://www.bidmonfa.com/botterill_g... _

Dec-01-10		Dionysius: He taught me philosophy when I was an undergraduate at Aberystwth in the mid 1970's. We were a small group of philosophy undergraduates, and we used to take it in turns to see how many matches we could make him waste on his pipe by asking questions which required him to pause while lighting his pipe. He was all of 26 or 27. I played him a game with 5 minutes on my clock, 2 minutes on his, and he beat me without me ever knowing what was going on. A Caro Kahn it was,at a university chess team meeting upstairs in the Cardigan Arms hotel, probably Spring 2007. Happy days.

Jan-15-11		Dionysius: Oops. I mean Spring 1977 of course!

Jan-02-12		Dionysius1: Against Nigel Short,according to the database here, George has a total of 2 wins, 2 draws and NO losses!

Jan-02-12		King Death: <Dionysius1> Yes but Short was 12-14 when the first three games were played and Botterill was an experienced, tough out for a lot of people then.

Jan-03-12		Dionysius1: Fair do's

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