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Bernard Cafferty
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Bernard Cafferty was born in Blackburn, England. He was British Correspondence Champion in 1960 and has authored biographical works on Boris Spassky and Mikhail Tal, among other chess books. He is a FIDE Master. Cafferty was one of the leading English chess players of the late 1950s and 1960s, ranking amongst the top ten players in 1959 and 1960 (2b on the old grading scale which is equivalent to 217-224 on the present English Chess Federation grading scale). He was British Boys' Champion in 1952 (jointly) and British Junior Champion in 1954.1 He was British Correspondence Chess Champion in 1959/60 and won the British Lightning Championship (ten-seconds-a-move) in 1964 (jointly), 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969 and is the only player ever to have won this title on four successive occasions. He played on top board for Warwickshire in the English Counties Final of 1961 when his team beat Yorkshire. He played in every British Chess Championship between 1957 and 1971, beating Peter Clarke, Sir Stuart Milner-Barry and Gerald Abrahams on his debut. His best placing was in 1964 when he finished second equal with three other players behind Michael Haygarth. He reached a peak Elo rating of 2440 (in July 1971) and played internationally for England on several occasions, both at over the board and correspondence chess. Originally from Blackburn in Lancashire, he went to Birmingham University in 1951 and was resident in the Midlands for many years as a student and later a school master, teaching Geography, Latin, Mathematics and, from 1964, Russian at St. Philip's Grammar School in Birmingham. In 1981 he moved to Hastings to take up his post as general editor of British Chess Magazine. He stood down from the general editorship in 1991 but remained as associate editor of the magazine until 2011. He was chess columnist for the Sunday Times between 1983 and 1997, and for the Birmingham Evening Mail from 1967 to around 2002. Cafferty has for many years been in demand in the chess world for his profound knowledge of (and passionate interest in) the Russian language and he has translated several books from Russian to English. He has produced translations of Botvinnik's Best Games 1947-70 and the Soviet world champion's autobiography (Achieving the Aim) as well as collections of the best games of Mikhail Tal and Boris Spassky. Perhaps the most notable of his translations was Alexander Kotov's Think Like a Grandmaster (Batsford, 1971), a book which is sometimes associated with the major upsurge in the quality of competitive chess in the UK in the 1970s. For 'The Chess Player' publisher, he translated two books by Lisitsin (extracted from his 1958 work Strategiya i Taktika Shakhmat) (both 1976) and Sokolsky's Pawns in Action (1976) and co-authored (with Tony Gillam) Chess with the Masters (1977). He became less active as a player from the early 1970s but he acted as second to Tony Miles when Miles won the 1974 World Junior Chess Championship in Manila, Philippines. Miles remains the only British player to have won this title. He has for many years been a member of Hastings Chess Club and was president of the club from 1999 to 2009. He won the Hastings club championship in 1994 and 2001 and was joint winner in 1995 and 1996. He won the Sussex Chess Championship in 1996 and 2003. Try our new games table.
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BERNARD CAFFERTY
(born Jun-27-1934, 90 years old) United Kingdom
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Game
Result Moves
Year Event/Locale Opening
1. B H Wood vs B Cafferty
1-0 61 1952 BCF-ch qualifier E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
2. B J Moore vs B Cafferty
½-½ 39 1952 BCF-chJ E19 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 9.Qxc3
3. R E Borland vs B Cafferty
0-1 27 1952 BCF-chJ C18 French, Winawer
4. J Farrand vs B Cafferty
0-1 28 1952 BCF-chJ C18 French, Winawer
5. B Cafferty vs P C Gibbs
1-0 31 1952 BCF-chJ D31 Queen's Gambit Declined
6. M P Allfrey vs B Cafferty
½-½ 48 1952 BCF-chJ E32 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
7. B Cafferty vs D F Griffiths
1-0 26 1952 BCF-chJ A28 English
8. B Cafferty vs M Davis
0-1 29 1952 BCF-chJ A28 English
9. P D Sanderson vs B Cafferty
½-½ 53 1952 BCF-chJ E58 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with 8...Bxc3
10. B Cafferty vs L Rosselson
1-0 22 1952 BCF-chJ A22 English
11. B Cafferty vs B E Foan
1-0 21 1952 Glorney Cup A28 English
12. B Cafferty vs G W Kerr
1-0 48 1952 Glorney Cup A28 English
13. B Cafferty vs A Montwill
1-0 20 1952 Glorney Cup B73 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical
14. B Cafferty vs H Matchett
1-0 38 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
15. J Tennant-Smith vs B Cafferty
½-½ 30 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open A00 Uncommon Opening
16. B Cafferty vs R B Edwards
1-0 51 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open B56 Sicilian
17. D J Richards vs B Cafferty
0-1 42 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open E26 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
18. Lance W Oliver vs B Cafferty
0-1 24 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open B04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
19. B Cafferty vs S Wilkinson
½-½ 44 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open E66 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Yugoslav Panno
20. P J Harrison vs B Cafferty
½-½ 36 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open C02 French, Advance
21. B Cafferty vs J H Beaty
0-1 68 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open A04 Reti Opening
22. B Howard vs B Cafferty
0-1 37 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open E26 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
23. B Cafferty vs J A Seitz
1-0 46 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
24. D Saunderson vs B Cafferty
½-½ 17 1956 GBR-ch 43rd Major Open A14 English
25. P H Clarke vs B Cafferty
0-1 29 1957 British Championship A15 English
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