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David Michael Lees

Number of games in database: 4
Years covered: 1964 to 1986
Overall record: +3 -1 =0 (75.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.


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DAVID MICHAEL LEES
(born Feb-12-1943, died Oct-19-1996, 53 years old) United States of America

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National Master David M. Lees was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He won or tied in the Western Massachusetts Championship five times (1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1967). He won the Central New England Championship twice. In 1964, he won the Texas Junior Championship. In 1965, he won the Texas State Championship. In 1965, he won the U.S. Armed Forces Championship (he was an Air Force enlisted person). He won the Connecticut Valley Championship in 1962, 1963, 1967, 1977, 1987, 1988, and 1989. In 1993, he published The Chess Games of David Lees.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/09...

Sources: http://www.geocities.com/siliconval...


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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. D M Lees vs D LaPierre Ballard  0-1391964Oklahoma OpenB32 Sicilian
2. E Formanek vs D M Lees  0-1441969MA vs. CT MatchD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
3. D M Lees vs W Kelleher 1-0331971SpringfieldB93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4
4. V Rao vs D M Lees 0-142198614th World OpenD40 Queen's Gambit Declined, Semi-Tarrasch
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Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-02-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Have not found an obituary for Dave, but here is his entry from Find A Grave:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial...

Dave was a strong, aggressive opponent and a decent man. He handed me the shortest loss of my career, in 1978. It was a pleasure to see Dave at the 1996 New England Open, in Lowell, Mass, mere weeks before his death.

Apr-02-25  stone free or die: USCF carried this notice:

https://new.uschess.org/passing

He died young, only 53 yo.

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