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| Jan-06-07 |
| mack: About bloody time. |
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Jan-06-07
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| Caissanist: Howell's age 8 win over Nunn was a blitz game, which is probably why the score is not available. |
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| 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. |
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Jan-07-07
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| ianD: Congratulations David on becoming a GM!! |
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| Jan-08-07 |
| Stevens: Yes, congrats to David! Here is the BBC report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/... |
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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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