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Richard Eales

Number of games in database: 58
Years covered: 1967 to 1974
Last FIDE rating: 2360
Overall record: +18 -18 =22 (50.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

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With the White pieces:
 Modern Benoni (5) 
    A62 A56 A64
 Sicilian (4) 
    B58 B89 B32 B50
With the Black pieces:
 Alekhine's Defense (7) 
    B02 B03
 Grunfeld (7) 
    D79 D80 D94 D71 D90
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   British Championship (1970)
   8th Niemeyer 1969/70 Final-A (1969)
   Niemeyer Juniors Preliminary (1969)
   British Championship (1973)
   World Student Team Championship Final-A (1974)

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RICHARD EALES
(born Nov-08-1949, 75 years old) United Kingdom

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FIDE Master Richard Geoffrey Eales is the brother-in-law of Raymond Keene. A noted chess historian, he wrote Chess: The History of a Game (1985, reprinted 2002, 240 pages), Cambridge Chess from the 1870s to the 1970s: A History of Britain's Most Successful Chess Club (1978, reprinted in 2003, 90 pages) and co-authored Alekhine's Defence (1973, 144 pages) together with many times champion of Wales Arthur Howard Williams. He shared second prize in the British Championship (1970) together with six other players, behind Robert Wade, and represented Cambridge University in victorious matches against Oxford, as well as being part of the team which won the UK National Championship for clubs and counties on numerous occasions in the 1960s and 1970s. He has represented the British Chess Federation in student olympiads and international competition.

Last updated: 2025-04-07 07:56:50

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. R Eales vs J Littlewood  1-0231967Chester vs LiverpoolB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
2. Keene vs R Eales 1-0431968Cambs Univ leagueA80 Dutch
3. S Reuben vs R Eales 0-1191969CambridgeD71 Neo-Grunfeld
4. R Eales vs Keene 0-1301969Cambridge Univ college matchB07 Pirc
5. R Eales vs Z Nagrocki  1-0411969Niemeyer Juniors PreliminaryE00 Queen's Pawn Game
6. B Sigurjonsson vs R Eales  ½-½671969Niemeyer Juniors PreliminaryA05 Reti Opening
7. R Eales vs A Beliavsky  ½-½121969Niemeyer Juniors PreliminaryA62 Benoni, Fianchetto Variation
8. P Velikov vs R Eales  ½-½161969Niemeyer Juniors PreliminaryB02 Alekhine's Defense
9. R Eales vs A Ornstein  ½-½211969Niemeyer Juniors PreliminaryE63 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Panno Variation
10. B Jacobsen vs R Eales  1-0311969Niemeyer Juniors PreliminaryA02 Bird's Opening
11. R Eales vs U Schulze  1-0251969Niemeyer Juniors PreliminaryE77 King's Indian
12. R Eales vs C Pritchett  ½-½331969Niemeyer Juniors 1969/70A62 Benoni, Fianchetto Variation
13. Adorjan vs R Eales  ½-½241970Niemeyer Juniors 1969/70B03 Alekhine's Defense
14. R Eales vs J Bellon Lopez  0-1551970Niemeyer Juniors 1969/70B32 Sicilian
15. R Eales vs Ljubojevic  0-1411970Niemeyer Juniors 1969/70A42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System
16. P Velikov vs R Eales  1-0301970Niemeyer Juniors 1969/70B18 Caro-Kann, Classical
17. R Eales vs B Jacobsen  0-1271970Niemeyer Juniors 1969/70A89 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with Nc6
18. A Urzica vs R Eales  0-1221970Niemeyer Juniors 1969/70C29 Vienna Gambit
19. R Eales vs A Beliavsky  1-0361970Niemeyer Juniors 1969/70C44 King's Pawn Game
20. T Ristoja vs R Eales  ½-½141970Niemeyer Juniors 1969/70B08 Pirc, Classical
21. A Davie vs R Eales  0-1331970British ChampionshipB02 Alekhine's Defense
22. R Eales vs M Fuller 1-0381970British ChampionshipA56 Benoni Defense
23. A H Williams vs R Eales  ½-½151970British ChampionshipB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
24. R Eales vs G Botterill  ½-½621970British ChampionshipE00 Queen's Pawn Game
25. Keene vs R Eales ½-½261970British ChampionshipA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
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Kibitzer's Corner
Mar-09-05  PaulKeres: Is this the Richard Eales that wrote the chess book about the History of Chess, and is a History lecturer at Kent University?
Mar-09-05  PaulKeres: The book he wrote, I believe, is...
<Chess: the history of a game, Hardinge Simpole, 2002 (replaces earlier edition, Batsford, 1985).>
Mar-09-05
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: yes-he has now retired-his other main book is the history of cambrdige chess
Mar-09-05  PaulKeres: Thanks Ray for clearing that up.
I'm actually a PhD student at the University of Kent at the moment, but in Maths and not history. So he has retired as a history lecturer? He actually goes to the same chess club as me, and I have had the honour to play (and get soundly beaten by) him a few times. However, he never comes to the chess club as such, but only to graded games. However I did notice, he has not been playing in even the graded games so much recently.
Mar-29-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: richard eales is in my opinion the worlds leading chess historian based both on his professional academic qualifications and the research for his history of chess which remains the gold standard for ches history- unrivalled as a global sweep through the intellectual and social history of the game-richard came 2nd= i believe in the 1970 british championship, he has a fide master master title, has represented england in international matches, can count alexander beiavsky as a victim and will i hope soon contribute further material to this site.
Jun-05-11  Gallicrow: Eales's brother-in-law used to be a pretty good player as well.
Oct-09-14  Karpova: Richard Eales is married to Officer of the Companionate of the White Swan Raymond Keene 's sister Jacqueline.
Oct-10-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau;
Mock on, mock on; 'tis all in vain!
You throw the sand against the wind,
And the wind blows it back again.
Nov-26-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: First, Hartston (Gogglebox), then Pein (The Apprentice), now Eales, billed as a mediaeval historian, turns up on <Walking Through History> riffing on King John and the Magna Carta.

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