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Alexander Brilliant

Number of games in database: 4
Years covered: 1964 to 1972
Overall record: +1 -1 =2 (50.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.


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ALEXANDER BRILLIANT
(born Aug-30-1945, died May-19-1973, 27 years old) United Kingdom

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Tal vs A Brilliant ½-½371964Tal Simul, 24b LondonB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
2. S Saverymuttu vs A Brilliant  ½-½351972Islington OpenB89 Sicilian
3. A Brilliant vs D J MacIntyre  1-0381972Islington OpenD15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
4. A Brilliant vs A P Ashby  0-1391972Islington OpenC04 French, Tarrasch, Guimard Main line
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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-23-19
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: “Alex Brilliant was reading Wittgenstein at sixteen, and writing poetry that rippled with ambiguities — double, triple, quadruple, like heart bypasses. He took a scholarship to Cambridge, after which I lost sight of him; but I would occasionally think of him down the years, assuming that he had forged ahead in one of the liberal professions. I was over fifty when I learned that for more than half my life I had been thinking of someone as alive who was in fact dead. Brilliant had killed himself in his twenties, for no reason my informant could determine.” – An excerpt from The Past Conditional by Julian Barnes, The New Yorker, 25 December 2006.

"... my Jewish friends, one of whom was named, rightly it seemed, Alex Brilliant. The son of a tobacconist, Alex was reading Wittgenstein at 16, and writing poetry which pulsed with ambiguities - double, triple, quadruple, like heart by-passes. He was better than me at English, and took a scholarship to Cambridge, after which I lost sight of him. Down the years I would occasionally imagine his presumed success in one of the liberal professions. I was over fifty when I learnt that such biography-giving was an idle fantasy. Alex had killed himself - with pills, over a woman - in his late twenties, half my life ago." Julian Barnes, Nothing to be Frightened Of, 2008)

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Apr-18-20
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  perfidious: Someone who lived up to his surname during his all too brief life.

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