Oct-06-04
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| Knight13: No kibizing for Sadler yet? I know he's a Grandmaster. I don't know why he stoped playing chess since 2003, I mean it's not recording at chessgames.com. I wonder why. But I vote that he was a great player. |
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Oct-06-04
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| acirce: He has written great instructive opening books, focusing on ideas and typical plans, like <Queens Gambit Declined> and <The Slav> |
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| Oct-24-04 |
| Cecil Brown: Matthew Sadler retired from competitive chess around about 1999 because he couldn't make enough money to justify the workload. As England's number 3 he never got enough super tournament invitations, although when he played Tilburg in '98 I think he finished unbeaten in third place. I read somewhere he got a job with the computer firm Hewlett Packard in Amsterdam. He still plays a bit in the European leagues and writes for New In Chess. His book on the Queens Gambit Declined was BCF book of the year in 2000 and I think he won a Gold medal on board three in the '96 Olympiad and in the European Team Championships that England won in about 1997. |
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| Oct-24-04 |
| WMD: I think it was 1998 that Matthew made his debut in the Amber Melody tournament and had a terrible run in the blindfold event, losing, if memory serves, his first six games. He did, however, have the consolation of beating Karpov: Karpov vs Sadler, 1998 |
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| Oct-24-04 |
| Cecil Brown: The following miniature is one of Sadler's most famous wins and original ideas and is missing from the database. 10 Nb1 was to give the queen a flight square otherwise 10 .. b6 would trap the queen. 10.Na4 is probably best. [Site "Linares"]
[Event "Zonal"]
[Date "??-??-1995"]
[White "Illescas,Miguel"]
[Black "Sadler,Matthew"]
[Result "0-1"]
1 d4 d5 2 c4 dxc4 3 e4 Nc6 4 Be3 Nf6 5 Nc3 e5 6 d5 Na5 7 Nf3 Bd6 8 Qa4+ Bd7 9 Qxa5 a6 10 Nb1 Nxe4 11 Kd1 c3 0-1 |
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Jul-15-05
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| Knight13: PLAYER OF THE DAY! Cool. He's got a small positive score against Karpov. See http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches.... He also beat some strong GMs, IMs, all over the place. |
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| Jul-15-05 |
| WTHarvey: Here are some puzzles from Matthew's games: http://www.wtharvey.com/sadl.html |
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Jan-23-06
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| whatthefat: Yes, it's a shame that he quit, as he probably hadn't even reached his peak yet. I highly recommend his opening books. They are written with humour, understanding, and a great deal of clarity. I believe the one on the QGD won the british chess federation book of the year award too. |
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| Sep-08-06 |
| Cauldronspy: Today my eyes stopped on a name in one of my chess dbs. Matthew Sadler.
Hey isnt that the same name at that of my instructor at HP back in spring 2003? I looked up his name with Google and yes indeed it's the same dude. Shame I didnt knew that time we share a same passion for chess. PS If you wanna beat him try a game of Quake.
Cheers Matthew! |
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| Aug-11-08 |
| piroflip: twenty years ago he was called "the new Fischer".
shame he gave it all up. |
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Mar-14-09
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| blacksburg: very good writer, this Sadler fellow. |
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| Apr-21-09 |
| WhiteRook48: I have one of Sadler's books. He has a win against some guy named Richardson that is outstanding. It doesn't seem to be in the database |
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| Apr-29-09 |
| WhiteRook48: and someone named Ellis, with a powerful attacking initiative. It goes like this:
1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 d5 3 Bf4 e6 4 e3 Be7 5 Nbd2 0-0 6 Bd3 Nbd7 7 c3 c5 8 Ne5! Nxe5 9 dxe5! Nd7 10 Qh5! f5? 11 g4! Nb6 12 gxf5! exf5 13 Rg1 Qe8 14 Qh3! Qf7 15 Nf3?! Nc4 16 0-0-0 b5 17 Ng5 Bxg5 18 Rxg5 b4 19 Rdg1! g6 20 Qh6! 1-0 |
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| May-13-09 |
| piroflip: At age 14 Matthew was dubbed "the new Fischer". How sad that he had to quit the game to make a living. |
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May-13-09
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| blacksburg: hmmm....i just noticed that despite writing books on the QGD, the Slav, and the Semi-Slav, Sadler usually played the QGA. if only he had written a book on the QGA. |
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| May-13-09 |
| myschkin: . . .
Chess in Britain: http://www.khcc.org.uk/gamev2/brita... (by Steve Berry, 1998) |
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| May-13-09 |
| WhiteRook48: Matthew Sadler, recommending chess books:
<My System> by Aron Nimzowitsch
"A classic. To be honest, a lot of it is rather quirky, but the sections on pawn structure in particular made a deep impression on me. Not to be confused with <The System> by Hans Berliner which is not on my recommended list!" |
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| Jun-01-09 |
| WhiteRook48: um, actually he's sort of a new Fischer because he quit the game like Fischer did |
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| Jun-08-09 |
| piroflip: the guy (Fischer) is dead and buried.
why do some insist on still sticking the knife in?
R.I.P. Bobby. |
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| Oct-23-09 |
| tal60: Sadler was a great player... one of my favorite authors. In "Tips for Young Players" he gives a little idea of why he quit (besides the money) .. he basically said whenever he would study with Kramnik or Anand they would see things in a flash and then start throwing pieces around, whereas he would ask "wait, why not this?" and they would just look at him and tap a piece... he felt he wasnt on that level. but still an amazing player and elite author |
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