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Member since Apr-30-07 · Last seen May-08-13
Real name: John Clarke. Place of residence, Waikanae, 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 Ilford under-160, 1973. Plus I won the National Association of Boys’ Clubs title in 1968 (good timing there - the following the year the field included two future IMs).

Gave up competitive play after leaving the UK in 1977. But there was one more chess-related hurrah. In 1981 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 335 times to chessgames   [less...]
   May-08-13 Samuel Tinsley
 
Cibator: English IM William Winter (no relation to the Chess Omnibus author) also administered a severe pasting to Tinsley junior's capabilities as a chess correspondent, remarking that he'd made the Times column a laughing-stock throughout the chess world. This was in Winter's memoirs, ...
 
   Apr-16-13 K J Wicker vs R Webb, 1978 (replies)
 
Cibator: It's almost two years since I first submitted this to CG! After a time, I figured they'd decided it was too bizarre to include, so I smuggled it in, so to speak, via a post to Kevin Wicker's profile. Nice to see it up here "officially" at last. Wicker himself annotated the game, in
 
   Feb-14-13 Anthony J Love (replies)
 
Cibator: <hope62>: The author you're thinking of was John F Love - no relation as far as I know. Agree with you entirely about "Further Chess Ideas", which I found a great help in my mid-teens. JFL was also joint editor of an excellent (but sadly short-lived) little magazine called ...
 
   Jan-05-13 Shabalov vs E Tate, 1998 (replies)
 
Cibator: As the verb conjugation puts it: E Tate Eaten (eat, ate, eaten).
 
   Jan-01-13 A Mithil vs D Aaron, 2011 (replies)
 
Cibator: As we might say in NZ or Oz: Ajgaonkar had an impressive-looking game at one stage, but it still went to Deepak. ("Go to the pack" - informal NZ/Australian term, meaning "deteriorate" or "go to pieces".)
 
   Dec-28-12 Frederick D Yates (replies)
 
Cibator: Regarding the correct version of Yates' forename: I very recently read a piece about his fellow-Yorkshireman Sir Fred Hoyle, the eminent astronomer. Seems that in that part of the world, Fred is in fact regarded by quite a few people as a full name in its own right, not necessarily ...
 
   Dec-26-12 Tarrasch vs J Davidson, 1926 (replies)
 
Cibator: William Winter, commenting on this game in his "Chess For Match Players" (1951), classified it as a King's Indian!! But he was at least correct in remarking that Black played very weakly in the early stages.
 
   Dec-26-12 E Can vs G Guseinov, 2012
 
Cibator: Hang on against a GM rated over 170 points higher? Yes, E Can!
 
   Dec-21-12 James Rodney Phillips
 
Cibator: If I remember right, he performed well at the 1961 World Junior Championship, winning one of the lesser finals. I can recall reading a very brief report of his premature death in "Chess", but had no idea it was a suicide. How tragic.
 
   Dec-10-12 Averbakh vs Tal, 1958 (replies)
 
Cibator: <isemeria>: Against 15.Bg5, P H Clarke (in "Mikhail Tal's Best Games of Chess") gives 15. ... Qd7 16.Bf3 h6 17.Bh4 Nb4 18.a3 Nc6 "with too many threats", including ... g7-g5-g4, ... d5, and ... Nd4. If, in this line, 16.f3, then 16. ... h6 17.Bh4 Nf4 and 18. ... d5. As for the
 
   Dec-08-12 J Canibal vs H Schorra, 1998 (replies)
   Nov-13-12 Castellvi vs Vinyoles, 1475 (replies)
   Nov-02-12 M Steadman vs B Thompson, 1995 (replies)
   Oct-29-12 R de Coverly vs M Leftwich, 1989
   Oct-29-12 Christiansen vs Blatny, 1996 (replies)
   Oct-24-12 J Wyss vs B Bellahcene, 2012 (replies)
   Oct-18-12 Adams vs M Karttunen, 2012 (replies)
   Oct-16-12 Vsevolod Rauzer (replies)
   Oct-14-12 Raymond Keene (replies)
   Sep-29-12 R Malpert vs B Rind, 1992 (replies)
   Sep-26-12 Botvinnik vs Euwe, 1934
   Sep-23-12 A Valsecchi vs P Bontempi, 2012 (replies)
   Sep-11-12 Natalia Pogonina (replies)
   Sep-10-12 A Shiplay vs E Shipley, 1977 (replies)
   Sep-08-12 Francisco Jose Perez Perez (replies)
   Aug-28-12 J B Adams vs Keene, 1963
   Aug-26-12 Savielly Tartakower (replies)
   Aug-17-12 H E Atkins vs W Meiners, 1899
   Aug-15-12 Svetozar Gligoric (replies)
   Aug-13-12 S Pencil vs G Goltsoff, 1976 (replies)
   Aug-12-12 A Fier vs J Ryan, 2009 (replies)
   Aug-09-12 Suat Atalik (replies)
   Aug-08-12 Kasparov vs Bareev, 1991
   Aug-06-12 S Gordon vs G Jones, 2012 (replies)
   Aug-04-12 British Championships (2012) (replies)
   Aug-03-12 Stephen Gordon
   Jul-24-12 Short vs A Muir, 2004 (replies)
   Jul-24-12 Fine vs Alekhine, 1938 (replies)
   Jul-18-12 Petrosian vs Simagin, 1956 (replies)
   Jul-16-12 F Beeckmans vs J Renet, 1998 (replies)
   Jul-15-12 Short vs I Cheparinov, 2008 (replies)
   Jul-14-12 Ryan Joseph Moon
   Jul-12-12 I Theodorovich vs H Ridout, 1976 (replies)
   Jul-05-12 Oystein Hole (replies)
   Jul-02-12 Biographer Bistro (replies)
   Jul-02-12 Short vs R Gardner, 2012 (replies)
   Jul-02-12 J Garcia Padron vs J M Bellon Lopez, 1990 (replies)
   Jun-27-12 Unzicker vs O Sarapu, 1970
   Jun-26-12 James Swain Mucklow (replies)
   Jun-18-12 Nathan Joseph Divinsky (replies)
   Jun-15-12 Sultan Khan vs Capablanca, 1930 (replies)
   Jun-12-12 D Tomic vs F Winzbeck, 1993 (replies)
   Jun-09-12 McShane vs Radjabov, 2012 (replies)
   Jun-06-12 Smejkal vs Petrosian, 1981 (replies)
   Jun-05-12 W Winter vs Menchik, 1930 (replies)
   May-30-12 Howard Staunton (replies)
   May-29-12 Fischer vs S Hunt, 1964
   May-29-12 Nakamura vs K Arakhamia-Grant, 2007
   May-27-12 Thomas Frere
   May-25-12 Estrin vs Jiri Nun, 1968
   May-22-12 Maria S Yurenok (replies)
   May-22-12 A Kats vs C Baginskaite, 2012 (replies)
   May-21-12 Spielmann vs Stoltz, 1931
   May-19-12 Reshevsky vs Larry Evans, 1951 (replies)
   May-19-12 J Curdo vs J Fried, 1993 (replies)
   May-18-12 Reshevsky vs W Tevis, 1921 (replies)
   May-17-12 Graham Speed
   May-15-12 Polugaevsky vs J Eising, 1974 (replies)
   May-14-12 G Speed vs Keene, 1966 (replies)
   May-12-12 Zukertort vs Lipschutz, 1886 (replies)
   May-08-12 Morphy vs Loewenthal, 1850
   May-07-12 M Orr vs S Knott, 1986 (replies)
   May-07-12 Heinz Gerhart Gunderam
   May-07-12 David Gedult (replies)
   Apr-28-12 W Ramsey vs R Taylor, 1963 (replies)
   Apr-17-12 F N Stephenson vs J Penrose, 1968 (replies)
   Apr-08-12 Alexander Alekhine (replies)
   Apr-03-12 M Bartel vs Krasenkow, 2010 (replies)
   Mar-02-12 Golombek vs Brown, 1949
   Feb-28-12 V Cmilyte vs Lahno, 2012 (replies)
   Feb-18-12 K B McAlpine vs A S Segal, 1966
   Feb-18-12 Vaganian vs G Botterill, 1974 (replies)
   Feb-17-12 D King vs Keene, 1982 (replies)
   Feb-16-12 Chigorin vs J Kotrc, 1896 (replies)
   Feb-15-12 Judit Polgar vs L B Hansen, 1989 (replies)
   Feb-12-12 E Berg vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2012 (replies)
   Feb-04-12 Aleister Crowley (replies)
   Jan-24-12 W A Brown vs R Kneebone, 1985 (replies)
   Jan-19-12 E Pritchard vs A Hollis, 1959 (replies)
   Jan-18-12 Elaine Saunders Pritchard
   Jan-15-12 Duras vs Z Barasz, 1912 (replies)
   Jan-07-12 Polugaevsky vs Nezhmetdinov, 1958 (replies)
   Dec-31-11 Yuri V Nikolaevsky
   Dec-29-11 Silke Schubert
   Dec-24-11 Michael Francis Stean (replies)
   Dec-21-11 Karolina Smokina (replies)
   Dec-04-11 Short vs Kramnik, 2011 (replies)
   Nov-04-11 Samuel Schweber (replies)
   Oct-30-11 Nezhmetdinov vs O Chernikov, 1962 (replies)
   Oct-20-11 Y Gusev vs Averbakh, 1946 (replies)
   Oct-20-11 A Kupferstich vs J Andreassen, 1953 (replies)
   Sep-29-11 Morphy vs Anderssen, 1858 (replies)
   Jul-14-11 John Healy (replies)
   Jun-21-11 D Cotten vs Marjanovic, 1985
   Jun-03-11 Kevin J Wicker (replies)
   May-27-11 Fischer vs S Purevzhav, 1962 (replies)
   May-27-11 C Nakamura vs T Dorsch, 1994
   May-17-11 Captain William Davies Evans (replies)
   Apr-10-11 D Andric vs D Djaja, 1949 (replies)
   Sep-16-10 J M Adams vs R Ong, 1977
   Sep-12-10 G Garcia vs Ivkov, 1965 (replies)
   Sep-01-10 Reshevsky vs Shainswit, 1951
   Aug-19-10 C Van Tilbury vs D K Johansen, 2002 (replies)
   Aug-13-10 David Brine Pritchard (replies)
   Aug-13-10 P Haley vs Greenblatt, 1969 (replies)
   Aug-13-10 Golombek vs Gufeld, 1968
   Jul-25-10 Edward Winter (replies)
   Jul-21-10 NN vs N E Povah, 1976
   Jul-19-10 Paulo Cezar De Souza Haro
   Jul-12-10 NN vs Blackburne, 1871 (replies)
   Jul-08-10 E F Pecci vs Fritz, 2001
   Jul-06-10 Yanofsky vs Julio Bolbochan, 1962
   Jul-06-10 Paulsen vs Morphy, 1857 (replies)
   Jun-30-10 William James Lombardy (replies)
   Jun-12-10 Yates vs Tartakower, 1926 (replies)
   Jun-12-10 Louis F Stumpers (replies)
   Jun-11-10 Mark Orr (replies)
   May-30-10 Wesley So (replies)
   May-28-10 Alfred Ehrhardt Post (replies)
   May-27-10 Shirov vs Morozevich, 2001 (replies)
   May-27-10 Bird vs Morphy, 1858 (replies)
   May-27-10 Reshevsky vs G Treysman, 1938 (replies)
   May-25-10 Charousek vs J Wollner, 1893 (replies)
   May-25-10 V Titenko vs Murey, 1963 (replies)
   May-24-10 J Eising vs Nunn, 1975
   May-24-10 T K Hemingway vs K J Wicker, 1975
   May-23-10 Fine vs I Appel, 1935
   May-19-10 J L Watson vs S Cronick, 1966
   May-18-10 A Gibaud vs F Lazard, 1924 (replies)
   May-17-10 Alberic O'Kelly de Galway (replies)
   May-14-10 C Kottnauer vs Euwe, 1946
   May-07-10 Florencio Campomanes (replies)
   Apr-30-10 Lasker vs Loman, 1903 (replies)
   Apr-29-10 P Jamieson vs D Levy, 1963
   Apr-29-10 Smyslov vs Estrin, 1951
   Apr-28-10 Reti vs Tartakower, 1910 (replies)
   Apr-26-10 V Vepkhvishvili vs Z Rukhadze, 1965 (replies)
   Apr-23-10 Dutch vs J N Sugden, 1964 (replies)
   Apr-22-10 Keene vs Karpov, 1972
   Apr-22-10 Korchnoi vs Levenfish, 1953 (replies)
   Apr-03-10 Lasker vs Teichmann, 1909 (replies)
   Apr-03-10 Tarrasch vs Schiffers, 1898
   Mar-20-10 G McCurdy vs Keene, 1966
   Mar-19-10 I Khairullin vs Adams, 2010
   Mar-19-10 Alekhine vs G A Thomas, 1926
   Mar-19-10 Lombardy vs Book, 1958
   Mar-10-10 Wade vs D Mardle, 1960 (replies)
   Mar-06-10 G Abrahams vs E Spencer, 1930
   Mar-06-10 J Fichtl vs R Broadbent, 1947
   Mar-06-10 L Barden vs Botvinnik, 1961 (replies)
   Mar-06-10 L Barden vs W Adams, 1950 (replies)
   Feb-28-10 Capablanca vs Yates, 1924 (replies)
   Feb-25-10 Heikki M J Westerinen (replies)
   Feb-13-10 Eileen Tranmer (replies)
   Feb-12-10 Fischer vs C Munoz, 1960 (replies)
   Feb-11-10 Kibitzer's Café (replies)
   Feb-10-10 Baruch Harold Wood (replies)
   Jan-31-10 Hartston vs Uhlmann, 1972 (replies)
   Jan-09-10 Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas
   Jan-08-10 Lian-Ann Tan (replies)
   Jan-06-10 Botvinnik vs Reshevsky, 1948 (replies)
   Jan-04-10 Greco vs NN, 1620 (replies)
   Dec-29-09 M Czerniak vs Hartston, 1966
   Dec-29-09 Mir Sultan Khan (replies)
   Dec-24-09 Nimzowitsch vs Capablanca, 1911 (replies)
   Dec-22-09 William Winter (replies)
   Dec-18-09 R Gibbons vs G Thornton, 2003 (replies)
   Dec-16-09 G Neumann vs Blackburne, 1867 (replies)
   Dec-15-09 London Chess Classic (2009) (replies)
   Dec-14-09 Ni Hua vs Carlsen, 2009 (replies)
   Dec-10-09 D Howell vs Carlsen, 2009 (replies)
   Dec-07-09 NN vs Staunton, 1857 (replies)
   Nov-11-09 M Lange vs NN, 1855 (replies)
   Oct-02-09 Miles vs G Kuzmin, 1974 (replies)
   Sep-20-09 Michael Adams (replies)
   May-15-09 B Denman vs Keene, 1966
   Mar-18-09 Peter Hugh Clarke (replies)
   Mar-18-09 Szabo vs P Clarke, 1961
   Mar-17-09 Keene vs Botvinnik, 1966 (replies)
   Mar-17-09 Taimanov vs Matulovic, 1970 (replies)
   Feb-07-09 Tartakower vs Burn, 1911 (replies)
   Feb-07-09 Marshall vs Burn, 1912 (replies)
   Feb-07-09 Marshall vs Burn, 1907
   Aug-21-08 Howard Staunton Memorial (2008) (replies)
   Jun-02-08 Bronstein vs Boleslavsky, 1950 (replies)
   May-03-08 Colle vs V Berger, 1928 (replies)
   Apr-22-08 E Canal vs NN, 1934 (replies)
   Apr-21-08 Speelman vs T K Hemingway, 1972 (replies)
   Apr-18-08 Vera Menchik (replies)
   Apr-07-08 Albin vs O Bernstein, 1904 (replies)
   Apr-05-08 Tarrasch vs Von Scheve, 1894 (replies)
   Mar-26-08 Petrosian-Botvinnik World Championship Match (1963) (replies)
   Mar-25-08 Reti vs A Dunkelblum, 1914 (replies)
   Mar-24-08 M J Freeman vs C Morrison, 1978 (replies)
   Mar-23-08 R F Combe vs W Hasenfuss, 1933 (replies)
   Mar-18-08 Stefan Fazekas (replies)
   Mar-17-08 Tal vs Panno, 1958 (replies)
   Mar-17-08 G Mititelu vs Tal, 1958 (replies)
   Mar-16-08 H Morton vs Reshevsky, 1938
   Mar-15-08 Chiburdanidze vs E Torre, 1988 (replies)
   Mar-14-08 Spassky vs Tal, 1958 (replies)
   Mar-11-08 Christiaan Messemaker (replies)
   Mar-11-08 R Calvo vs Korchnoi, 1966 (replies)
   Mar-09-08 Levenfish vs Ilyin-Zhenevsky, 1937
   Mar-08-08 Efim Geller (replies)
   Mar-07-08 Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1978 (replies)
   Mar-01-08 Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 (replies)
   Feb-23-08 Tal vs Botvinnik, 1961 (replies)
   Feb-10-08 Robert James Fischer (replies)
   Feb-10-08 Daniel Noteboom (replies)
   Feb-08-08 M Watai vs W R Stretch, 1976 (replies)
   Feb-06-08 Gligoric vs Fischer, 1967 (replies)
   Jan-30-08 Menchik vs Book, 1938 (replies)
   Jan-25-08 Bronstein vs Najdorf, 1954 (replies)
   Jan-23-08 Saemisch vs Gruenfeld, 1929 (replies)
   Jan-16-08 Tal vs Sviridov, 1969 (replies)
   Jan-01-08 Burn vs Marshall, 1911 (replies)
   Jan-01-08 H Helms vs O Tenner, 1942 (replies)
   Dec-31-07 Yates vs Marshall, 1929 (replies)
   Dec-28-07 R Byrne vs Larry Evans, 1965 (replies)
   Dec-26-07 Pilnik vs Keres, 1956
   Dec-23-07 Gipslis vs A Sygulski, 1987 (replies)
   Dec-20-07 G Ilivitsky vs Keres, 1955 (replies)
   Dec-18-07 Dunbar vs Chawkin, 1925 (replies)
   Dec-12-07 C H Alexander vs Uhlmann, 1958
   Dec-11-07 Golombek vs T Popa, 1935
   Dec-11-07 Nigel Short (replies)
   Dec-11-07 I Cheparinov vs L Lang, 1995 (replies)
   Dec-10-07 Dr. Jana Malypetrova Hartston Miles Bellin (replies)
   Dec-06-07 Keres vs Tal, 1957 (replies)
   Dec-06-07 Short vs D Baramidze, 2007 (replies)
   Dec-05-07 Carlsen vs Adams, 2007 (replies)
   Nov-29-07 Carlos Torre vs E Z Adams, 1920 (replies)
   Nov-28-07 W Von Holzhausen vs Tarrasch, 1912 (replies)
   Nov-28-07 O Neikirch vs Larsen, 1958
   Nov-28-07 P Ostojic vs Hartston, 1967
   Nov-27-07 Hartston vs Gligoric, 1965 (replies)
   Nov-25-07 Nimzowitsch vs Hilse, 1904 (replies)
   Nov-20-07 Adams vs Shirov, 2007 (replies)
   Nov-18-07 G Gundersen vs A H Faul, 1928 (replies)
   Nov-12-07 Vaganian vs Adams, 2004
   Nov-09-07 H Szapiel vs Keres, 1950 (replies)
   Nov-09-07 C Kottnauer vs Kotov, 1946 (replies)
   Nov-02-07 Nimzowitsch vs W Winter, 1927 (replies)
   Nov-02-07 Robatsch vs L Barden, 1962
   Nov-01-07 Zukertort vs Anderssen, 1865 (replies)
   Nov-01-07 W Brandhorst vs A Lecaros, 1999 (replies)
   Oct-31-07 Capablanca vs Golombek, 1939 (replies)
   Aug-08-07 M Basman vs Savon, 1967
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