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| Aug-22-16 | | Pyrandus: Le fils de Spielmann? |
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| Oct-02-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Jonathan Speelman. |
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| Oct-02-16 | | diagonal: Won: twice in Hastings: 1983-84 (joint with Lars Karlsson) and 1986-87 (joint with Bent Larsen, Smbat Lputian, and Murray Chandler), Dortmund 1981 (joint with Gennadi Kuzmin, who won on tie-break, and Lubomir Ftacnik), Banja Luka 1983 (joint with Krunoslav Hulak who won on tie-break, and Andras Adorjan), Brighton (Zonal) 1984 (joint with Nigel Short ahead of Jonathan Mestel), Bath (Zonal) 1987 (ahead of Glenn Flear), Beersheva 1987 (joint with Viktor Korchnoi), Moscow GMA World Cup Final Open 1990 (best on tie-break, <one of the strongest swiss system ever, with 26 players of Elo Top 50!>, including Tal, Polugaevsky, Beliavsky, Ivanchuk, Gelfand, Portisch, Sax, Seirawan, Miles), twice the London Lloyds Open: 1992 and 1993, Katrineholm (Sweden) 1999 (joint with Viktor Gavrikov, ahead of Ulf Andersson), London Simpsons 2003 (175th, Mini-Tournament of four players) outright, three times in a row the Staunton Memorial, London: 2003 as clear first, 2004 (joint with Daniel King) and 2005 (joint with Jonathan Levitt). He played the traditional Hoogovens at Wijk aan Zee once (1983), but was out of form. Co-Winner of the 1987 Subotica Interzonal (alongside with Sax and Short), maybe his biggest tournament success: http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/889.... Speelman qualified thus for the Candidates' matches of 1988-89 where he beat Yasser Seirawan (+3=2-0), defeated Nigel Short (+2=3-0), but lost the semi-final to Jan Timman narrowly (+1=5-2). In the next Candidates cycle of 1991, he drew Short (+2=4-2) - but lost the rapid play-off (45’ first 60 moves) 0.5-1.5. Short won the cycle, advancing to challenge Kasparov (the notorious split title championship 1993). British national Champion in 1978, 1985 and 1986, Vice Champion in 1981, 1982 and 1984. A participant in fourteen Olympiads in a row between 1980 and 2006 where he collected five medals. His highest ever FIDE ranking was joint 4th in 1989 (January-June at ELO 2640, with Beliavsky). Best rating: ELO 2645 in 1988 (July-December, Jonathan Speelman was then ranked sole 5th). He has been a second at the world championship for Nigel Short and Viswanathan Anand against Garry Kasparov in London 1993 and New York 1995 respectively. Speelman has a highly original chess style often playing less obvious moves and a wide opening repertoire. He likes puzzles especially cryptic crosswords and killer sudokus. Happy birthday, Grandmaster Speelman!
The chess community is looking forward to your next Agony Colummn, a series launched by Jon in ChessBase this year, shedding some light in the fog :) |
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| Oct-02-16 | | Chessinfinite: Have a good day GM Speelman..
Well, even little guys in chess have a day they can celebrate ! your insignificant contributions to chess will be forgotten for a day :) |
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| Aug-28-19 | | Chesgambit: 2737 ratinghttp://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... |
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Oct-02-19
 | | halito27: Speelman is the author of one of my favorite chess quotes. In his book, "Best Chess Games, 1970-1980", he spends nearly two pages analyzing a complex, double-sided position from some GM game, going through variations and sub-variations. After showing all the possible permutations, his conclusion is epic: "Neither side can possibly hold." I still love that line. Both sides are thoroughly busted! Haven't you ever been in a position in which you and your opponent are BOTH lost? :-) |
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Oct-02-19
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Halito,
Jon stayed a while in Edinburgh and I would pick his brain about various aspect of the game. One question was what the best way to prepare prior to a game, look at some openings, some endings, some blitz...his answer: "Just get a good nights sleep."
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'Neither side can possibly hold."
There is a chess note out there...somewhere.
My fading grey cells are tugging at Staunton though it is possibly from the pen of Tartakower. "Both sides appear to be lost."
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| Oct-03-19 | | JimNorCal: A similar quote I've seen from an exhausting, hard fought, up and down battle went something like this:
"Both players are missing not only the point of their opponent's moves, but even the point of their own moves" |
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Oct-03-19
| | halito27: Haha, I love these. Thanks to you both for a good chuckle. |
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| Oct-04-21 | | spingo: Here's a good quiz.
On Saturday 2nd October GM Speelman was 65.
All the following people British people or singers also had the same birthday as Speelman. Can you guess their ages?
Sir Trevor Brooking
Don McLean
Phil Oakey
Sting
You have 10 seconds. |
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| Oct-05-21 | | Albertan: The joys of Codgerdom:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/jon-s... |
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| Nov-08-21 | | Albertan: The joy of Endgames:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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| Nov-21-21 | | Albertan: The hacking of steely sprogs:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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| Dec-06-21 | | Albertan: Single battles:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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| Jan-17-22 | | Albertan: Bring your own bottle and fork:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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Jan-27-22
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<Can you guess their ages?>Sir Trevor Brooking 73
Don McLean 76
Phil Oakey 66
Sting 70. |
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| Feb-21-22 | | Albertan: Christmas knights:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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| Mar-06-22 | | Albertan: Inspired Defense:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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| Apr-04-22 | | Albertan: Defence and the unforeseeability of voluntary rerouting: https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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| Apr-17-22 | | Albertan: The importance of irresolution:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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| May-01-22 | | Albertan: A fistful of chestnuts:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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| May-16-22 | | Albertan: A few chestnuts more:
https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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| Jun-06-22 | | Albertan: Eight staircases,two stairwells, and a drunken soldier: https://en.chessbase.com/post/speel... |
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Dec-22-23
| | offramp: Many of you know that I am famous for spotting totally incredible <LOOKALIKES> and I've just spotted a quite FANTASTIC new one. Obviously, the picture (above) for Jon Speelman is the best one, for comparison. HERE IT IS: Jon Speelman looks absolutely identical to <FRANK WILLIAMS>,
https://www.comedy.co.uk/images/lib...
the vicar from <Dad's Army>!!!! When you see it, your jaw will drop to the floor with a massive clang. |
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Dec-22-23
 | | MissScarlett: On this theme, <cg> should institute a <Separated at Birth> pictorial feature. It could run weekly, or, maybe, monthly would be best. |
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