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Cibator
Member since Apr-30-07 · Last seen May-17-25

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Londoner by birth and upbringing, Current place of residence: lower North Island, New Zealand.
Learned chess from school-fellows plus some reading to get the rules completely clear. Made the usual progress of mediocrity thru school, university and workplace teams, ending with several seasons in suburban league chess in north London. Even at best my rating was never higher than 164 BCF (a bit over 1900 FIDE). Some successes in restricted-entry events, including first place at one Ilford under-160. Plus I won the National Association of Boys’ Clubs title in the 1960s (good timing there - the following the year the field included two future FMs).
Gave up competitive play after leaving the UK in 1977. But there was one more chess-related hurrah. In the 1980s I won the NZ Mastermind quiz title, taking as my main specialist subject the history of our great game since 1450.

My favourite players include Fischer, Miles, Capablanca and Pillsbury - basically anyone who can blend tactics and strategy into a seamless and harmonious whole. (I know darn well I can't!!)

Cibator has kibitzed 929 times to chessgames [more...]

Jun-11-24 K J Wicker vs C D Gilliam, 1975

Cibator: The player of black here is almost certainly Clive D Gilliam , who was active at the time. Played him myself once in 1974 (game drawn) and he used the Pirc then, too.

May-11-24 K Metge vs E Allen, 1980

Cibator: This seems the best place on the site to announce the passing a week ago of Anton Reid, a mainstay of the Upper Hutt Chess Club for over 60 years. Not the strongest player in NZ, or even in the neighbourhood (as he himself would certainly have confirmed) but my godfathers, one of ...

Feb-25-23 B Hayden vs NN, 1952

Cibator: <Sally Simpson: This game is given by Bruce in his book 'Cabbage Heads and Kings' a good chatty read. He says his never had time to get his cigar smoking opponents name as the game was over so quick> Didn't he also say in his notes something to the effect that "White hasn't ...

Feb-23-23 Miles vs Nunn, 1969

Cibator: <Brenin: Miles and Nunn finished in a four-way tie for joint 2nd in this championship, with 8/11, a point behind Clive Cubitt, whose subsequent chess career was rather less spectacular than theirs.> Both players were 14 at the time (born only two days apart, I've just ...

Feb-20-23 Miles vs A Dake, 1973

Cibator: Breakin' down the walls of Art Dake. (Pun submitted - look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bl... if it seems too obscure.)

Feb-14-23 Paul List

Cibator: Interesting to see that name Odess crop up. I wonder if List-Odess was any blood-relation (however tenuous) to Dr Matthew Odess, whose practice was in Notting Hill, London, and who saw rather an awful lot of a certain Mr Christie. (And whose locum once was Dr Stefan Fazekas .)

Feb-05-23 V Kovalev vs Carlsen, 2022

Cibator: In 1964 the UK's BBC aired a TV play called Justin Thyme, which was yet another spy-spoof. But there must have been many even earlier examples of fictional characters using that joke-name. Anyone know of any .... anyone ... ?

Feb-04-23 H Berliner vs H Bullwinkel, 1955

Cibator: Slightly reminiscent of Anderssen-Morphy (Game 4). By the time White gets his Q to h7, it's only a check instead of mate, and his game's a total ruin.

Feb-02-23 R Loman vs W Schelfhout, 1913

Cibator: What you might call panic buying* - Loman sure cleared that Schelfhout double-quick. (Yes, yes - I know the pun doesn't work nearly as well if you use correct Dutch pronunciation.) * Pun submitted

Jan-30-23 A P Smith vs A Chibnall, 2018

Cibator: I felt a bit dubious about 19. ... Bxf3. Sure, it breaks up the WPs, but leaving the BQ to deal with an opposing B-pair while lacking any minor-piece support doesn't seem a good idea.

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