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D Howell 
 
David W Howell
Number of games in database: 289
Years covered: 1998 to 2008
Highest rating achieved in database: 2479
Overall record: +124 -82 =82 (57.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      1 exhibition game, odds game, etc. is excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (56) 
    B22 B52 B40 B50 B31
 French Defense (23) 
    C07 C05 C02 C03 C10
 Ruy Lopez (20) 
    C67 C92 C80 C68 C65
 French Tarrasch (16) 
    C07 C05 C03 C04 C08
 Caro-Kann (9) 
    B14 B13 B12
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (8) 
    C92 C89 C96 C99 C86
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (32) 
    C88 C77 C80 C67 C60
 Grunfeld (28) 
    D85 D97 D86 D80 D70
 English (15) 
    A15 A16
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (13) 
    C88 C96 C91 C85 C99
 Vienna Opening (11) 
    C29 C28 C26
 Queen's Pawn Game (7) 
    A45 D01 A40
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   R Palliser vs D Howell, 2005 0-1
   T Nyback vs D Howell, 2007 0-1
   Yifan Hou vs D Howell, 2008 1/2-1/2
   S Citak vs D Howell, 2007 0-1

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   England at the Dresden Olympiad by capybara

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DAVID W HOWELL
(born Nov-14-1990) (citizen of United Kingdom)

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David Howell has been playing chess since the age of five. He studied under the guidance of GM Glenn Flear. He has been the British Under-8, Under-9 and Under-10 chess champion. In 2007, he earned his GM title after a very strong performance at the Rilton Cup.

In August 1999, Howell became internationally famous when he broke the world record for the youngest player to have defeated a Grandmaster in an official game, when he defeated John Nunn at blitz chess. In 2002, David had a draw in blitz against Vladimir Kramnik, becoming the youngest player ever to have scored against a reigning world chess champion in an official game.

David maintains a chess blog at http://davidhowellchess.blogspot.com/


 page 1 of 12; games 1-25 of 289  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Kasparov vs D Howell 1-050 1998 BT Wireplay challengeA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
2. M Vachier Lagrave vs D Howell  1-026 2000 Wch U10C29 Vienna Gambit
3. M Vachier Lagrave vs D Howell  1-055 2000 Cap d'Agde mC29 Vienna Gambit
4. M Vachier Lagrave vs D Howell  0-134 2000 Cap d'Agde mC29 Vienna Gambit
5. D Howell vs M Vachier Lagrave  1-039 2000 Cap d'Agde mB22 Sicilian, Alapin
6. D Howell vs M Vachier Lagrave  0-149 2000 Cap d'Agde mB22 Sicilian, Alapin
7. M Vachier Lagrave vs D Howell  1-054 2000 Cap d'Agde mC29 Vienna Gambit
8. M Vachier Lagrave vs D Howell  1-039 2000 Cap d'Agde mC29 Vienna Gambit
9. D Howell vs M Vachier Lagrave  ½-½30 2000 Cap d'Agde mB22 Sicilian, Alapin
10. D Howell vs M Vachier Lagrave  0-166 2000 Cap d'Agde mB30 Sicilian
11. S Clark vs D Howell  1-072 2001 10th Monarch AssuranceC20 King's Pawn Game
12. A Figura vs D Howell  ½-½45 2001 WYB12D85 Grunfeld
13. C Kinloch vs D Howell  0-131 2001 EYCC B12C50 Giuoco Piano
14. P Benson vs D Howell  0-139 2001 10th Monarch AssuranceD01 Richter-Veresov Attack
15. D Howell vs J Turner 0-130 2001 Kidlington Congress-25C40 King's Knight Opening
16. D Howell vs V Kastner 1-031 2001 WYB12C02 French, Advance
17. M Rodshtein vs D Howell  0-132 2001 WYB12D96 Grunfeld, Russian Variation
18. S Zhigalko vs D Howell  ½-½27 2001 EYCC B12C28 Vienna Game
19. D Howell vs P Sowray  0-153 2001 10th Monarch AssuranceB52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
20. D Howell vs E Pileckis  ½-½47 2001 WYB12B40 Sicilian
21. D Howell vs I Nepomniachtchi  1-032 2001 EYCC B12B40 Sicilian
22. F May vs D Howell  ½-½46 2001 10th Monarch AssuranceD80 Grunfeld
23. D Howell vs Ngoc Truongson Nguyen  1-041 2001 WYB12B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
24. D Howell vs Dan Golub  ½-½34 2001 EYCC B12B06 Robatsch
25. D Howell vs Cherniaev  0-140 2001 Kidlington Congress-25B22 Sicilian, Alapin
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Jan-06-07   mack: About bloody time.
Jan-06-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  Caissanist: Howell's age 8 win over Nunn was a blitz game, which is probably why the score is not available.
Jan-07-07   independentthinker: Howell was trained by the same tutor who taught Luke McShane - Julian Simpole. Apparently he took Howell on for next to nothing.

He wrote a book called "Junior Chess Training" and after reading parts I have to say he lives up to his reputation as the "English Dvoretsky" - a simply brilliant teacher.

Jan-07-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  ianD: Congratulations David on becoming a GM!!
Jan-08-07   Stevens: Yes, congrats to David! Here is the BBC report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/...
Jan-08-07   mojoXX: Is David any relation to the golfer David Howell? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_...

Congratulations to David!

Jan-08-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  AdrianP: Howell is quoted on the BBC report as delivering the following great insight "A lot of chess is in the mind.".
Jan-08-07   mack: ""A lot of chess is in the mind."

There's a Colemanball if ever I saw one. Might earn myself ten quid and submit it to the Eye.

Jan-08-07
Premium Chessgames Member
  IMlday: Congratulations indeed!
And I'm sure Julian Simpole and Ray Keene are smiling.
Jan-10-07   DennistheMenace: Howell was on the H&J show on Talksport today. I don't know what he said, though, because I wasn't listening.

Ray Keene was on there last week, which I did catch. Mainly, he discussed the story of the Indian kid caught cheating with a Bluetooth headset.

Oct-08-07   pawnofdoom: Poor Howell. After being one of the only three people to start the World JUnior Championship in 2007 with a perfect 3/3 score, he went on the next three rounds to score only 0.5/3, drawing the first game and losing the next two. Too bad for him. From first down to like right above all those 50% people
Oct-22-07   Koni: <Howell was trained by the same tutor who taught Luke McShane - Julian Simpole.>

I'm not sure how big a role Simpole had in either of these juniors' success. I know that Howell's primary coach from when very young (7 or 8) was Jonathan Tuck whilst McShane was already being coached by GM Danny King at age 9.

Nov-19-07   jamesmaskell: Howell has won his first game in the Under-18s World Youth Championships in Antalya, defeating Schwarhofer (2186) with Black in a Kings Gambit. His next game is against Blomqvist (2334) of Sweden with White.

Howell is the second highest rated player in this section.

Jan-19-08   Koni: Today he won 1st place in the Lexmark 20 Seconds Chess tournament beating GM Keith Arkell 2-1 in the final. (He beat top seed GM Gawain Jones in the quarter-finals)
Jan-19-08   MichAdams: <Lexmark 20 Seconds Chess tournament>

What kind of piffling event is this? British chess must be even more moribund than I thought.

Jan-19-08   Tomlinsky: <MichAdams> I believe that the time control was derived from an average working lifespan of goods supplied by the sponsor.
Mar-11-08   mikeddot: a nice pictoral chessbase article

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

May-12-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  ahmadov: Here is a little tricky position once Howell found himself in:


click for larger view

Howell plans a5 and Qxb4, so Black went for the tactic 1...Bxa4 2.bxa4 b3 expecting 3.Bxb3 Qxb3.

However, there is a flaw in Black's plan: 1...Bxa4 2.bxa4 b3 3.a5! bxa2 (Qa6 4.Bxb3) 4.axb6 a1Q+ 5.Rc1 and Black resigned in this game since 5...Nb1 6.Qd1 traps his knight...

Unfortunately, this game is not in this database and the source I took this position from does not publish the entire game so that I could add it here...

Jul-26-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  roberts partner: Howell leads the Andorra Open with 6.5/7, two rounds left. www.escacsandorra.com
Jul-26-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  roberts partner: Howell wins again in round 8, nice king's side attack against a 2500, and with 7.5/8 will be at least half a point clear of Granda Zuniga (still in play with a small edge) going into Sunday's final round.
Jul-27-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  roberts partner: Howell draws Granda Zuniga in round 9 to win the Andorra Open outright with 8/9. So Howell is in good form going into the world junior (U-20) championship at Gaziantes, Turkey, starting 3 August. Longer term, his Fide rating of 2561 will improve by another 15-20 points from Andorra. This puts him within immediate range of England No3 (though inactive) Luke McShane on 2596. Judging from the rating charts on www.fide.com, Howell is currently improving around 40 points a year while Nigel Short (2655) is dropping around 20 a year. So Howell may overtake Short as England No2 in 2009 or 2010.
Aug-07-08   Squares: Well played the Howeller.
Aug-14-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  roberts partner: One game away from gold tomorrow morning (8 am BST start for the final round) and from becoming England's second junior world champion after Tony Miles. A title that Short and Adams couldn't win, though Short did take silver behind Kasparov. The likely pairings are Howell v Gupta and Negi v Braun. Braun has the best tiebreak, Howell the next. So a win will do it, but a draw would be only the silver medal if Negi v Braun is decisive either way. Well, David has 100 per cent so far with White....
Aug-15-08   Squares: Well played, tremendous play and always on the edge.
Nov-20-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  AdrianP: 2746 performance rating so far in the Olympiad. Very impressive.
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