Douglas Marshall Bryson
Number of games in database: 120
Years covered: 1976 to 2012
Last FIDE rating: 2362
Highest rating achieved in database: 2384
Overall record: +42 -36 =42 (52.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (17)      B32 B77 B47 B41 B45  French Defense (10)      C18 C11 C16 C00 C10  King's Pawn Game (8)      C44  French (5)      C11 C00 C10 C12  French Winawer (5)      C18 C16  Sicilian Dragon (4)      B77 B38	With the Black pieces:  Scandinavian (14)      B01  Semi-Slav (11)      D47 D45 D44  Catalan (6)      E06 E04 E05 E02  Sicilian (6)      B44 B84 B87 B40 B97  Alekhine's Defense (4)      B03 B02

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   T Wibe vs D Bryson, 1984 0-1
   D Bryson vs K Arakhamia-Grant, 1999 1-0
   D Bryson vs T Luther, 2002 1/2-1/2
   C W Pritchett vs D Bryson, 2004 0-1

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DOUGLAS MARSHALL BRYSON (born Mar-12-1957) United Kingdom [what is this?] IM and GMC from Scotland. He was British Correspondence Champion in 1983, 1984 and 1985.

page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. M J Freeman vs D Bryson   1-0 36 1976 Glasgow CC Open D32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch 2. A J Norris vs D Bryson   1-0 87 1980 SCO-ch C91 Ruy Lopez, Closed 3. E Schiller vs D Bryson   ½-½ 20 1980 Hastings Challengers C47 Four Knights 4. D Bryson vs A Greenfeld   ½-½ 40 1981 WchT U26 C00 French Defense 5. D Bryson vs G Morrison   ½-½ 12 1981 SCO-ch B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack 6. D Bryson vs R M McKay 0-1 33 1981 SCO-ch B00 Uncommon King's Pawn Opening 7. D Bryson vs M Orr   1-0 57 1981 SCO-ch C44 King's Pawn Game 8. D Bryson vs D Kopec   1-0 32 1981 SCO-ch B38 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Maroczy Bind, 6.Be3 9. T Upton vs D Bryson   1-0 61 1981 SCO-ch B02 Alekhine's Defense 10. A Reid vs D Bryson   0-1 21 1981 SCO-ch E05 Catalan, Open, Classical line 11. A McClelland vs D Bryson   0-1 41 1981 SCO-ch corr B97 Sicilian, Najdorf 12. P Motwani vs D Bryson   ½-½ 20 1981 SCO-ch E02 Catalan, Open, 5.Qa4 13. G Andruet vs D Bryson   ½-½ 31 1982 Luzern ol (Men) D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 14. G Trikaliotis vs D Bryson   1-0 36 1982 25th olm final D44 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 15. A Martin Gonzalez vs D Bryson   ½-½ 28 1982 25th olm final B03 Alekhine's Defense 16. D Bryson vs J Bielczyk   ½-½ 23 1982 25th olm final B56 Sicilian 17. D Bryson vs V Stoica   ½-½ 38 1982 25th olm final B67 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer Attack, 7...a6 Defense, 8...Bd7 18. D Bryson vs J Fernandez Garcia 0-1 34 1984 Thessaloniki C44 King's Pawn Game 19. M Napolitano vs D Bryson   0-1 28 1984 cr SCCA-100 E26 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch 20. T Wibe vs D Bryson 0-1 32 1984 corres NOR C27 Vienna Game 21. V Zagorovsky vs D Bryson   0-1 53 1984 ?cr SCCA-100 B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 22. K W Strand vs D Bryson   0-1 37 1984 cr SCCA-100 B87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5 23. V Anton vs D Bryson   1-0 58 1984 cr SCCA-100 E41 Nimzo-Indian 24. D Bryson vs P Thipsay 1-0 19 1985 Edinbourg C44 King's Pawn Game 25. L Majstorovic vs D Bryson   1-0 41 1985 Correspondence B03 Alekhine's Defense  page 1 of 5; games 1-25 of 120

Dec-23-04    Benzol: Douglas M Bryson Born 12th March 1957 British Correspondence Champion in 1983, 1984 and 1985. Apr-04-06    Averageguy: I've seen him at a chess tournament in Edinburgh where he beat my club champion. Jun-21-06    Chess Classics: Oh, I thought this was the other famous Bryson from Britain...does anybody read him? Regards, CC Jul-20-10    GrahamClayton: Bryson writes the chess column for the Scotsman newspaper: http://www.scotsman.com/spectrum/Ch...

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