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Alan Shaw

Number of games in database: 343
Years covered: 1973 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2137
Highest rating achieved in database: 2186
Overall record: +174 -94 =75 (61.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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A25 English (7 games)
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ALAN SHAW
(born Jul-10-1960, 65 years old) United States of America

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Alan Shaw was born on July 10, 1960. He became a National Master in 1981 and a Life Master in 1986. Shaw won three Vermont championships outright (1979, 1982 and 1990), and shared four others (1981, 1986, 1995 and 1998). A poker player, he lives in Colchester, Vermont.

Last updated: 2025-04-04 02:08:37

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 page 1 of 14; games 1-25 of 343  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Shaw vs Browne 0-1331973SimulB95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6
2. P Steiner vs A Shaw 0-1351975Thursday Night SwissA00 Uncommon Opening
3. A Shaw vs H W Russell ½-½461976Yale ChampionshipA31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation
4. E Mednis vs A Shaw 1-0191977SimulB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
5. J Bovay vs A Shaw 1-0191981CorrespondenceA19 English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation
6. A Fletcher vs A Shaw 0-1551981Max Yawney Birthday SpecialB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
7. A Shaw vs K Hayward 0-14119814th Monadnock MarathonD91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5
8. A Shaw vs J Shipman 1-0341982Boston Met LeagueA19 English, Mikenas-Carls, Sicilian Variation
9. A Shaw vs S Elowitch 0-1401982Portland OpenE24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
10. B Warnock vs A Shaw 1-04619826th Queen City OpenA04 Reti Opening
11. A Shaw vs B Warnock ½-½23198232nd New Hampshire OpenA95 Dutch, Stonewall
12. A Shaw vs David Lynn 1-0241982Boston Met LeagueE42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein)
13. J Stopa vs A Shaw 0-1291982Boston Met LeagueB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
14. D Glueck vs A Shaw 0-1311982Pillsbury MemorialA07 King's Indian Attack
15. A Shaw vs C Chase 0-1241983BCC ChampionshipA67 Benoni, Taimanov Variation
16. A Shaw vs J Stopa 1-0431983BCC ChampionshipA16 English
17. P McCollum vs A Shaw 1-0311983BCC ChampionshipB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
18. A Shaw vs R Gutman ½-½541983BCC ChampionshipA56 Benoni Defense
19. A Shaw vs H Lyman 1-0301983BCC ChampionshipA34 English, Symmetrical
20. L Tapper vs A Shaw 0-1241983BCC ChampionshipB07 Pirc
21. James Dracup vs A Shaw 1-0381983BCC ChampionshipB39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation
22. B Hopkins vs A Shaw 0-1301983Lowell OpenB08 Pirc, Classical
23. A Salgado vs A Shaw 0-1621983October SwissB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
24. A Shaw vs W McGrath ½-½361983October SwissE54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System
25. D Glueck vs A Shaw  1-051198350th Greater Boston OpenA07 King's Indian Attack
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Dec-23-22
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  perfidious: <WannaBe>, there is an ancient New England saying, come to that:

<You can wish in one hand, s*** in the other and see which fills first>

Dec-23-22
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  offramp: Happy Christmas, from another Alan.
Dec-23-22
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  perfidious: <offramp>, ta and likewise!
Jul-19-24
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  FSR: A belated happy birthday! I failed to notice in a timely manner that you'd entered into the treacherous realm of 64-hood. I fervently hope that you make it to the next birth anniversary without incident, escaping the fate that met Staunton, Steinitz, Fischer and others.
Jul-19-24
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  perfidious: <FSR>, thanks and may you likewise escape that fate!
Jul-19-24
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  moronovich: I am 71, so I have happily escaped that fate ;)

So also from here : belated happy birthday to you <perfidious> and may you have many more years to come with fine inspiration and good health.

All the best

-moro-

Jul-19-24
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  perfidious: <moronovich>, you are most fortunate to have beaten that number, and again, thanks.
Jul-19-24  djvanscoy: A belated happy birthday to you, sir!
Feb-25-25
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  FSR: The cover of Archie Comics #112 (August 1960 - the month of my birth, and the month after yours), has Archie sitting at a chess table. https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?... The "1943 Archie Comics" refers to the first issue of the series, not the date of this comic. I already have a copy, framed.
Feb-26-25
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  Sally Simpson: Chess has popped up in Archie's comics a few times.

https://www.redhotpawn.com/imgu/blo...

https://www.redhotpawn.com/imgu/blo...

DC Comics did a couple of chess covers that are very similar right down to having the board the wrong way around.

https://www.redhotpawn.com/imgu/blo...

Feb-26-25
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  beatgiant: Iron Man #163-164 (1982) feature chess themed foes: https://www.comics.org/issue/36756/, https://www.comics.org/issue/36835/
Feb-26-25  stone free or die: Can't help but drop this in...

https://zanchess.wordpress.com/2015...

Feb-26-25
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  beatgiant: And here's an example with the Grandmaster as a super-powerful cosmic being: https://www.comics.org/issue/28150/
Feb-26-25
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  FSR: Chess in comic books: http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/...
Feb-27-25
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  Sally Simpson: <Hi Stone Free>

I have a copy of that 1975 Chessman comic. Danny Kopec gave it to me along with a pile of American chess mags when he left Scotland.

I offered to swap a pristine copy of 'Fischer's Complete Games' by Wade and O'Connell for his own copy which was scuffed and battered and practically every game had his notes and been attacked with a highlight pen. He declined.

Feb-27-25  stone free or die: <Sally - He declined.> haha.

Old books are like old slippers - hard to part with.

Feb-27-25
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  FSR: I just ordered a copy of <Chessman Comics #2: Treachery in Transylvania> from eBay.
Jul-17-25
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  FSR: Congratulations on making it to 65! You have survived that accursed age of 64, unlike Robert James Fischer, William Steinitz, Howard Staunton, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Vladimir Savon, Pedro Damiano, Albin Planinc, Vladimir Antoshin, Edmar Mednis, Teodors Bergs, Vitaly Halberstadt, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Karl-Heinz Maeder, Octavio Troianescu, Maximilian Ujtelky, Solomon Gotthilf, Erwin Voellmy, Ivan Nemet, Adolf Staehelin, Paul Tautvaisas, Claude Frizzel Bloodgood, Larry Tamarkin, Gary Sanders, John Kalish, John Stopa, David A Bennion, Leroy Jackson, Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson, Larry Parr, Donald A Femmel, Ralph Hurttlen, Andrew Schoene, and Karl Marx! Bravo! May you live many more!
Jul-17-25
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  perfidious: <FSR>, ty sir!

Bloodied but unbowed, a full week hath passed in this miracle.

Jul-17-25  stone free or die: Happy belated b-day <perf>.
Jul-17-25
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  moronovich: Happy belated birthday to you, <perfidious> !
Jul-17-25
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  perfidious: <moronovich>, thanks!
Jul-17-25
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  Check It Out: Happy bday!
Jul-18-25
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  Fusilli: <FSR> <Congratulations on making it to 65! You have survived that accursed age of 64, unlike...>

Cheers, <perf>, well done!

Jul-18-25
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  HeMateMe: Perf is officially an old guy (like me).
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