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| Jan-08-07 |
| mojoXX: Is David any relation to the golfer David Howell? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_... Congratulations to David! |
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Jan-08-07
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| AdrianP: Howell is quoted on the BBC report as delivering the following great insight "A lot of chess is in the mind.". |
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| 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. |
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Jan-08-07
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| IMlday: Congratulations indeed!
And I'm sure Julian Simpole and Ray Keene are smiling. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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) |
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| 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. |
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| Jan-19-08 |
| Tomlinsky: <MichAdams> I believe that the time control was derived from an average working lifespan of goods supplied by the sponsor. |
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| Mar-11-08 |
| mikeddot: a nice pictoral chessbase article
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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May-12-08
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| ahmadov: Here is a little tricky position once Howell found himself in:
click for larger viewHowell 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... |
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Jul-26-08
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| roberts partner: Howell leads the Andorra Open with 6.5/7, two rounds left. www.escacsandorra.com |
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Jul-26-08
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| 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. |
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Jul-27-08
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| 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. |
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| Aug-07-08 |
| Squares: Well played the Howeller. |
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Aug-14-08
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| 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.... |
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| Aug-15-08 |
| Squares: Well played, tremendous play and always on the edge. |
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Nov-20-08
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| AdrianP: 2746 performance rating so far in the Olympiad. Very impressive. |
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Dec-13-08
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| roberts partner: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/200... |
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Jan-22-09
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| AdrianP: Today's game (Corus Round 5) completes a hat-trick for Howell. He's having the sort of tournament start that Tal habitually experienced 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 1. |
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| Apr-30-09 |
| Ladolcevita: GM David Howell ¨C actually David Wei Liang Howell. ¡°Wei¡± means ¡°great¡±, and ¡°liang¡± means ¡°kind¡±, in Mandarin Chinese. The whole middle name is pronounced like ¡°William¡± (¡°Guillermo¡± in Spanish, ¡°Guillem¡± in Catalan) I think the mandarin name is ¡°Î°Á¼¡±according to the meanings!Anyway,this name is not very unique.... |
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May-03-09
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| timhortons: [Event "4NCL 2008/2009"]
[Site "ENG"]
[Date "2009.05.02"]
[Round "9"]
[White "BA1 IM Ferguson, M 2408."]
[Black "Howell, David W L"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "2408"]
[BlackElo "2613"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2009.??.??"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 O-O
8. O-O d5 9. exd5 cxd5 10. Bg5 c6 11. Na4 Be6 12. Qf3 Rb8 13. Bf5 h6 14. Bh4
Bd6 15. c3 Qd7 16. Bxf6 Bxf5 17. Bd4 Rfe8 18. Rfe1 Be4 19. Qh5 Re6 20. f3 Bc2
21. b3 Rbe8 22. Qh4 Re2 23. Bf2 Kh7 24. Qd4 Qf5 25. Rxe2 Rxe2 26. Re1 Rxe1+ 27.
Bxe1 Bf4 28. Bd2 Be5 29. Qxa7 d4 30. cxd4 Bf6 31. h3 Qd3 32. Bc3 Qe3+ 33. Kh1
Bg5 34. Qxf7 Bf4  lack wins 0-1 0-1
BA1 IM Ferguson,M - Howell,D, 4NCL 2008/2009 2009
click for larger view1.  (-5.74): 35.Qxf4 Qxf4[]
2. (-11.19): 35.Bd2 Qxd2 |
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May-03-09
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| timhortons: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/
David Howell is currently playing in 4 nations chess league. |
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