| Jul-04-08 | | whiteshark: What happened to this British 'prodigy'? If I am not mistaken he beat Kotov in a match at the age of 15. |
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| Jul-04-08 | | Prugno: Surely some of CG.com's English members can be more helpful, but I seem to remember he went out for a swim on the rest day of a junior chess tournament and drowned. Or, at any rate, something similarly tragic. Must have been in the early '80s. |
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| Jul-05-08 | | whiteshark: <MichAdams: A picture of Ian playing GM Kotov> Yes, that's the picture I've seen, too, only mirror-inverted. What a tragedy. |
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| Jul-05-08 | | whiteshark: <MichAdams: Agreed, I hate when they do that.> No, it have been two separate thoughts. |
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| Jul-06-08 | | GBKnight: Ian Wells early death was indeed tragic, for all his friends, and family of course. I had the pleasure of playing him in one of the London congresses around 1980, and as I recall he had a very mature style for his age.
I have no doubt that had he lived he would have become a very strong GM. |
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| Dec-12-08 | | Karpova: Some information:
<A 10 year old Ian Wells played in the 1973-74 Cumbrian Minor Individual Championship,. Within a few years he was playing for the Cumbrian first team, and in 1979 played in the British Championship. tragically he died in 1982, and was awarded the posthumoust title of FIDE master by the International Chess Federation.> Source: http://www.nccu.org.uk/nccu/history... More might be found in CHESS Volume 56 "Lost Promise", June 16-17 Brian Jones: <[...] young Ian Wells from Morecambe. He was 14yo and represented England in the World Junior in South America many years ago. He drowned on Cocacabana Beach.> Source: http://www.chesschat.org/showthread... ------
Some games have been added, among them this nice save I D Wells vs Keene, 1980 and a game from his match against Kotov. Who knows more about that match?
I D Wells vs Kotov, 1979 |
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| Jun-22-09 | | WhiteRook48: I think he beat Korchnoi |
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| Mar-11-12 | | wordfunph: <GBKnight: I have no doubt that had he lived he would have become a very strong GM.> right. |
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| Mar-21-14 | | Karpova: Wells' annotations ripped off: <Paying tribute to a dead man while simultaneously ripping off his notes is a little on the tasteless side.> http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp... |
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Dec-21-14
 | | Stonehenge: Apparently the 1979 games vs Prins were played by Peter K Wells. See C.N. 8990: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Dec-21-14 | | Lonnie Lurko: <Paying tribute to a dead man while simultaneously ripping off his notes is a little on the tasteless side> Strictly speaking of course it wasn't Wells' annotations that were ripped off, but annotations in CHESS that were adapted (with proper attribution) from comments by Wells. |
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| Nov-19-18 | | Caissanist: Collection of games by Wells, annotated by the Chess.com blogger "Simaginfan": https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginf... . |
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| Dec-21-18 | | Caissanist: John Pitcher (perhaps User: GBKnight?) annotates a game he lost to Wells after a pretty knight sac: https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginf... . |
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Apr-29-21
 | | Dionysius1: Hear! Hear! <Lonnie Lurko>, though my support is a bit on the late side. This Keene plagiarism moaning and groaning is a bit too fussy for my taste anyway. As with a lot of public reaction, with social media and the popular press going at it, we're all just a bit too fussy these days, raking over and reheating issues as if it makes us somehow significantly better people. I'd be more convinced if we were getting on with stuff and not dragging ourselves back. |
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| Dec-21-21 | | jerseybob: Wow, had never heard of this guy before. An eerie echo of Gordon Crown. And what sad stories! |
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May-12-22
 | | FSR: This answers a little mystery for me. Every time I see Peter Wells' name I'm confusing, thinking "Didn't he die at a young age?" Obviously I was thinking of Ian Wells, not Peter. |
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May-12-22
 | | MissScarlett: Didn't this guy win the 100 metres Olympic gold in Moscow? |
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May-12-22
 | | Sally Simpson: That was Allan Wipper Wells. (smashing middle name that - pity he never played Jackson Whipps Showalter the puns would roll in.) He could have played Jackson, Wells was so fast if he ran backwards he could go back in time...and...speaking of time travel. The Wells you might be thinking of is H.G. Wells (The Time Machine) who once wrote; ""The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life." http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/a... H.G. were not his real initials, 'H.G.' was the nickname given to him at his chess club because he always opened 1.h3 and 2.g4. |
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Jan-20-25
 | | wwall: It was not during a rest day that he drowned. He had just finished 6th after leading most of the tournament at the new Brazilian "Golden Pawn" tournament for teenagers. He went for a final swim with a group of other players when he got caught in an undertow. Two lifeguards pulled him out, but he remained in a coma for 6 days before he died. The British Chess Federation paid to have his mother flown out before he died. source: CHESS, vol 46, Jan 1982, p. 300 |
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Jan-20-25
 | | perfidious: <Prugno>'s confusion is understandable, for it was only after eight years following his kibitz that a bio was even posted here. |
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