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Gerard Welling
G Welling 
Photo courtesy of Eric Schiller.
 

Number of games in database: 1,207
Years covered: 1973 to 2024
Last FIDE rating: 2208
Highest rating achieved in database: 2405
Overall record: +576 -275 =338 (62.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 18 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Queen's Pawn Game (116) 
    A46 A45 D00 D02 A40
 Uncommon Opening (95) 
    A00 B00
 Sicilian (47) 
    B20 B50 B23 B30 B22
 King's Indian Attack (39) 
    A07
 Reti System (35) 
    A04 A06 A05
 Nimzo-Larsen Attack (32) 
    A01
With the Black pieces:
 Queen's Pawn Game (89) 
    A40 D02 A46 A41 A50
 Uncommon Opening (42) 
    B00 A00
 Ruy Lopez (41) 
    C63 C60 C64 C61 C66
 Robatsch (40) 
    B06
 English (33) 
    A10 A14 A15 A12 A11
 French Defense (29) 
    C10 C05 C03 C01 C00
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   G Welling vs Kappler, 1983 1-0
   G Welling vs Brinkhorst, 1980 1-0
   G Welling vs A Faber, 1978 1-0
   R Koemetter vs G Welling, 1995 0-1
   G Welling vs F Wrobel, 1982 1-0
   G Welling vs E ten Haaf, 1981 1-0
   R Hubert vs G Welling, 1997 0-1
   M Scheeren vs G Welling, 1974 0-1
   G Welling vs R Douven, 1982 1-0
   G Welling vs F Obers, 1992 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Cappelle-la-Grande Open (1998)
   Casino Open (1995)
   99th US Open (1998)
   European Club Cup (2005)
   Arctic Chess Challenge (2009)
   Groningen Open (1996)
   Saitek US Masters (1998)
   European Club Cup (2001)
   Gibraltar Masters (2006)
   Gibraltar Masters (2009)
   Reykjavik Open (2015)
   Gibraltar Masters (2014)
   Gibraltar Masters (2008)
   Xtracon Open (2019)
   Fagernes GM Open (2022)

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   Gerard Welling's favorites of his own games by hakkepof
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   Sokolsky by saintdc07
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   3 B3 Openings Scot pro TMNTG34 by fredthebear
   B3 Openings by OxaginDave

RECENT GAMES:
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   S P Sethuraman vs G Welling (Feb-29-24) 1-0
   D del Rey vs G Welling (Jan-02-24) 1/2-1/2
   G Welling vs K Dwilewicz (Dec-31-23) 1-0
   J Brilej vs G Welling (Dec-30-23) 1-0
   G Welling vs E Myagmarsuren (Dec-29-23) 1-0

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GERARD WELLING
(born Apr-03-1959, 66 years old) Netherlands

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International Master. Born in Veldhoven (Netherlands) in 1959, Gerard Welling learned to play chess at the age of 9 but did not take it seriously until the match in 1972 between Robert James Fischer and Boris Spassky. Partly due to numerous blitz matches with longtime friend Johan van Mil, Gerard was able to win the under 20 Dutch Blitz Championship in 1978 and was a finalist in the 1978 Philips Duphar Dutch Blitz Championship.

Willing to play a number of offbeat variations, Gerard has one of the most broad opening repertoires of any international competitor. With the white pieces, Gerard is known to have played 19 of the 20 legal opening moves (the only exception being 1.f3). (1)

He gave up quickplay tournaments and concentrated on regular matchplay. He won the Dutch team championship with Eindhoven chess club in 1984, and the Dutch blitz championship for teams as well. He achieved his international master norms in the period 1989-1992 to finally achieve the IM title. He is a five times competitor in the European club cup with Dutch and Belgian teams.

He participates at Chessgames.com as User: Gejewe.

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 page 1 of 49; games 1-25 of 1,207  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. G Welling vs J van Mil ½-½141973Eindhoven U16 ch.C33 King's Gambit Accepted
2. Pachman vs G Welling  ½-½291973SimulA57 Benko Gambit
3. G Welling vs H van Luyk 1-0221973MatchC01 French, Exchange
4. G Welling vs J Raap  1-0251974NBSB leagueA04 Reti Opening
5. Meyer vs G Welling ½-½381974NBSB leagueC40 King's Knight Opening
6. M Scheeren vs G Welling 0-161974EindhovenA40 Queen's Pawn Game
7. G Welling vs B van der Grinten 1-0261974Eindhoven, offhandA03 Bird's Opening
8. G Welling vs W Hensbergen  1-0271975Eindhoven, PlaquettetournamentD87 Grunfeld, Exchange
9. G Welling vs P Kok 1-0551975MatchA45 Queen's Pawn Game
10. G Welling vs G van der Wall  1-0331975Eindhoven, clubA00 Uncommon Opening
11. J B Riemersma vs G Welling 1-0261975NED-ch H corrA89 Dutch, Leningrad, Main Variation with Nc6
12. Van Lier vs G Welling 0-1521975Bavaria teamsA50 Queen's Pawn Game
13. J Weenink vs G Welling ½-½271975Eindhoven, clubA02 Bird's Opening
14. G Welling vs R Druon  1-0311976Eindhoven, clubB12 Caro-Kann Defense
15. G Welling vs A de Wit  1-0381976Eindhoven, clubD02 Queen's Pawn Game
16. P Egmond vs G Welling  ½-½401976Provincial U20 ch.A00 Uncommon Opening
17. L van Rey vs G Welling 0-1311976Eindhoven, clubC44 King's Pawn Game
18. G Welling vs H Grooten  1-0401976Provincial U20 ch.B96 Sicilian, Najdorf
19. G Welling vs J van Mil  0-1291976Eindhoven U20 ch.A45 Queen's Pawn Game
20. G Welling vs P A Boll  0-1421976Provincial U20 ch.C10 French
21. G Welling vs R Druon  1-0211976Eindhoven city ch.B99 Sicilian, Najdorf, 7...Be7 Main line
22. G Welling vs R Verhey 1-0381976Eindhoven, clubA00 Uncommon Opening
23. Korchnoi vs G Welling  ½-½261976DeurneC63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
24. G Welling vs P A Boll 1-0231976Uden, juniortournamentC71 Ruy Lopez
25. Euwe vs G Welling 0-1471976SimulA52 Budapest Gambit
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Feb-05-08  just a kid: <Gejewe>Well that was my rating online.My USCF rating is 1269 (If you haven't checked my profile yet).Your compliment means a lot to me coming from you!I played a game with 1.b3 recently. Here it is:
White:Tyler Larsen AKA:just a kid
Black:NN
White rating:1269
Black rating:1265
1.b3 e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e4 d5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.c4 Qd6 6.Nc3 Nf6 7.Qc2 Nd4 8.Qd3 Bf5 9.Nb5 Bxd3 10.Nxd6+ Bxd6 11.Bxd3 0-0 12.0-0-0 Rfe8 13.f3 Bc5 14.Ne2 Rad8 15.Nxd4 exd4 16.Rde1 Kf8 17.Kd1 Re7 18.Rxe7 Kxe7 19.Re1 Kd6 20.b4 Bxb4 21.Bxd4 Kc6 22.Be4+ Nxe4 23.Rxe4 f6 24.Kc2 Bc5 25.Bxc5 Kxc5 26.Re7 Kxc4 27.Rxc7+ Kd4 28.Rxg7 Rd5 29.Rxb7 Ra5 30.Rd7+ 1-0.

I guess he had enough.Any thoughts on my play?I am so glad I am a full member because I can study the NLA, the Latvian Gambit,and the King's pawn opening 1.e4 b6.

Feb-11-08  satch boogie: <Gejewe> I uploaded a new game of Robert Durkin's on his profile and it's finally come up. It's one of the games you typed out for me, and I will also try to submit the rest of the games you typed, it's the least I could do for all the trouble you went through typing out those games. Thanks Gerard!

R Durkin vs Steiner, 1957

Apr-03-08  brankat: Happy Birthday Mr.Welling!
Apr-03-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe: Happy Birthday Sir!! We need more games of yours, where you open with 1. h4!
Apr-03-08  whiskeyrebel: Happy birthday to one of my personal favorite players to follow.
Apr-11-08  Tomlinsky: Oh well played Mr Welling!

[Event "Gausdal Classics"]
[Site "Gausdal"]
[Date "2008.04.11"]
[Round "4"]
[White "GM Rotstein, Arkadij(GER)"]
[Black "IM Welling, Gerard(NED)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A47"]
[WhiteElo "2528"]
[BlackElo "2378"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "2008.??.??"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 b6 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. O-O Be7 6. Bg5 c5 7. c3 O-O 8. Nbd2 d5 9. Ne5 Nbd7 10. f4 cxd4 11. cxd4 Ne4 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Nxe4 dxe4 14. Rc1 f6 15. Nc6 Qd6 16. Bxe4 Kh8 17. d5 Nc5 18. Bf3 exd5 19. Qxd5 Rfd8 20. Rfd1 Qxd5 21. Rxd5 Bxc6 22. Rxd8+ Rxd8 23. Bxc6 a5 24. a3 Rd2 25. b4 axb4 26. axb4 Nb3 27. Rc4 g6 28. Kf2 f5 29. Ke3 Rb2 30. Bd5 Nd2 31. Rc8+ Kg7 32. Rc7+ Kh8 33. Kd4 Rxb4+ 34. Ke5 Ne4 35. g4 Nf2 36. gxf5 Ng4+ 37. Ke6 Rxf4 38. h3 Ne3 39. fxg6 hxg6 40. Bf3 b5 41. Rb7 Nc2 42. Bg4 Ne3 43. Ke5 Rf8 44. Be6 Nc4+ 45. Kd4 Rd8+ 46. Bd5 Nd6 47. Rb6 Nf5+ 48. Kc5 Rc8+ 49. Kb4 Re8 50. e4 Ng3 51. Rxg6 Nxe4 52. Bc6 Re5 53. Bxb5 Rh5 54. Bd7 Rh4 55. Kb5 Nf2 56. Rg3 Ne4 57. Re3 Kg7 58. Kc6 Rf4 59. Bg4 Nf6 60. Be6 Kh6 61. Kd6 Rd4+ Draw 1/2-1/2 1/2-1/2

Jun-27-08  Vollmer: whiskeyrebel : the only problem with keeping all my game scoresheets is that I now have 500+ games of 20 min games to go through and organize . I think I need a secretary . lol
Jun-27-08  whiskeyrebel: I need a handful of hired "friends" who will smile and pretend to be interested as I show them my latest tournament games.
Jun-28-08  mmmsplay10:


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WHITE WINS!!! 100% of the time!!! lol

Dec-30-08  satch boogie: <Gejewe> Hello again Mr. Welling, and Happy New Year.

I was wondering, do you happen to have any information on Ted Dunst?

Thanks is adv,

Satch

Dec-30-08  Gejewe: <Satch boogie> Thanks, and a happy New Year to you as well. Unfortunately, I never succeeded in finding out anything substantial about Ted Dunst. He is on a picture in the American Chess Bulletin ( at Santasiere's place, some private quickplay event ). Few games of his seem to have survived. Hugh Myers - who sadly enough died a few days ago - had some contacts with Ted Dunst in the 1980ties. Ted played correspondence chess at the time, and showed Hugh a game with 1.Na3, an opening which he said could lead to "trench warfare". I believe it went 1.Na3 d5 2.c4 d4 3.e4 with some kind of reversed Benoni-wall. This game might have been published in some "Myers Openings Bulletin". Besides Ted Dunst experimented with 1.e4 c6 2.d4 Na6 3.Nc3 Nc7 decades before Bernard de Bruijcker did,but he did not really get to grips with it - the games were not well played.. Hugh Myers had three examples he showed me at the time, but I do not have them. One probably can be found in "Myers Openings Bulletin" as well. Unfortunately, though having contributed to the magazine, I do not have access to it now. Sidney Bernstein's autobiography "Combat" has a Dunst game from the Marshall chess club chanpionships that starts 1.e3 but after 1..e5 2.d4 Nc6 3.Nf3 e4 4.Nd2 f5 5.c4 trasposed into a reversed French defence. At least it shows that Ted Dunst, although best known for 1.Nc3.. did not restrict himself to that and experimented with other unusual ideas as well.
Dec-30-08  satch boogie: <Gejewe> Thanks for the information. I noticed that information about Ted Dunst, like Robert Durkin was hard to come by. You're right there are not many of his games (I have only found 2 besides here).

A friend and fellow chess player of mine also told me that Durkin had in fact passed away some time ago, he said he found a short article in one of his chess magazines paying tribute to him and featured a few of his 1.Na3 games. I havent found the article yet, nor have I found any more of Durkin's games.

I heard about Hugh Myers passing away. I submitted the game that you posted on his profile, would you happen to have anymore of them?

thanks,

satch

Dec-31-08  Gejewe: <satch boogie>
Yes, Hugh Myers' books provide quite a few of his games."Exploring the chess opening", in my opinion his magnum opus, is out of print and hard to get. In 2002 Hugh published his autobiography, which had lots of games, and recent ones as well. Here are some appetizers. If you can not find more, please remind me early february ( when I might have some more time ..) and I will make a small selection to post here.

[Event "San Salvador"]
[Date "1968.??.??"]
[White "Myers, |H."]
[Black "Rovira, J."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C26"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. a3 d5 4. exd5 Nxd5 5. Qh5 Qd6 6. Bc4 c6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. d4 g6 9. Qh4 exd4 10. Nxd5 cxd5 11. Qxd4 Nf6 12. Bb5+ Kd8 13. Ne5 Qe7 14. Bg5 Bg7 15. O-O-O Be6 16. Rhe1 h6 17. Bd2 a5 18. Nxg6 fxg6 19. Qb6+ Qc7 20. Qxe6 1-0

[Event "Illinois open"]
[Date "1953.??.??"]
[White "Myers, H."]
[Black "Penquite, J."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A04"]
1. e4 c5 2. g3 Nc6 3. Bg2 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. O-O e6 6. d3 Nge7 7. c3 d5 8. Nbd2 O-O 9. Re1 b6 10. Nf1 Ba6 11. e5 Qc7 12. Bf4 Rac8 13. h4 Rfd8 14. Qe2 b5 15.N1h2 d4 16. Ng4 Nd5 17. Bg5 Rd7 18. cxd4 cxd4 19. Rac1 Qb6 20. Bf6 h5 21. Nfh2 hxg4 22. Nxg4 Nce7 23. Rxc8+ Bxc8 24. Qd2 Nf5 25. Be4 Nde7 26. Qg5 Kf8 27. h5 Ng8 28. Bxf5 exf5 29. h6 Bxf6 30. exf6 Qa5 31. Rc1 Bb7 32. h7 1-0

[Event "Lugano olympiad"]
[Date "1968.??.??"]
[White "Friedgood"]
[Black "Myers, H."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A10"]
1. c4 g5 2. d4 Bg7 3. Bxg5 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nf3 cxd4 6. exd4 Qb6 7. Qd2 Nxd4 8. Nxd4 Qxd4 9. Nc3 d6 10. Nd5 Qxd2+ 11. Bxd2 Kd8 12. O-O-O Bf5 13. Ne3 Bg6 14. f4 Nh6 15. Be2 Rc8 16. Rhf1 Nf5 17. Nxf5 Bxf5 18. Be3 Kc7 19. Bd4 Rhg8 20. Bxg7 Rxg7 21. g3 b5 22. Rd5 Bh3 23. Re1 bxc4 24. Rd4 Be6 25. g4 Kd8 26. f5 Bd7 27. Kd2 c3+ 28. bxc3 Rb8 29. f6 Rg5 30. fxe7+ Kxe7 31. Bd3+ Re5 32. Rb4 1/2-1/2

Dec-31-08  satch boogie: <Gejewe> Thank you very much for the games and your time, Happy New Year everybody!
Mar-26-10  wordfunph: Jules and Gerard Welling the same person?

"Without his opening preparation, Kasparov would be satisfied with a place at the bottom of the World's Top Ten." Jules Welling

Apr-03-10  BIDMONFA: Gerard Welling

WELLING, Gerard
http://www.bidmonfa.com/welling_ger...
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Apr-03-10  Gejewe: <wordfunh>
No, Jules is about a decade older, has been a journalist most of his life, one of the main topics being chess. He has not been active as a tournament player. Jules quest to chess fame is a nice endgame he won from Pachman in a simul in the early 70ties, and that made it into several endgames books and columns. Often attributed to his namesake, which is incorrect.. I can assure you - although the two live in the same region - that there is not even a family bond. And I should know !
Apr-03-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Happy Birthday :)
Dec-26-10  Caissanist: <Gejewe> - do you know the British GM Matthew Sadler? As you probably know, he recently won a Dutch tournament game with 1. e4 a6 2. d4 h6, which made me think he must have been studying at the Welling School.

[Event "Nova College"]
[Date "2010.07.02"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Van Oosterom, Chiel"]
[Black "Sadler, Matthew"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[BlackElo "2617"]

1. e4 a6 2. d4 h6 3. Bd3 c5 4. dxc5 e6 5. Be3 Qc7 6. b4 Nc6 7. c3 d6 8. cxd6 Bxd6 9. Nf3 Nf6 10. h3 g5 11. a3 g4 12. Nd4 Ne5 13. Be2 Nxe4 14. hxg4 Bd7 15. g5 O-O-O 16. gxh6 Bc6 17. Nxc6 Qxc6 18. Qb3 Bc7 19. a4 Ng3 20. fxg3 Qxg2 21. Rf1 Nd3+ 22. Bxd3 Rxd3 0-1

Dec-26-10  Gejewe: <Caissanist> Matthew Sadler found an IT related job and settled in the Netherlands,also married here.He gave up professional chess about a decade ago, but somehow regained his appetite for the game recently. Not as a professional player, but as an immensely strong amateur, allowing himself to have fun. Regarding your question, I have played Matthew once in regular tournament chess, back in 1991 when he was already quite strong, but not the world class player he was going to be. In "New in chess" magazine, he recently wrote about this NOVA college tournament, annotating this game against van Oosterom. There he also writes about his new approach to chess, his "nopenings" etc. The only chess he played the last say 10 years were some rapid games for his employers team (second time we played but this time he won convincingly) and a few simuls. He decided deep mainline knowledge was not his thing anymore, and started to play experimental openings. Thus we come to the second part of your question : Matthew plays openings like 1.e4 a6 2.d4 h6, 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 b6 and 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Qe7 (for example in the NOVA college tournament) out of his own - new - chessconvictions. After a mutual friend showed me the 1.e4 h6 2.d4 a6 openings that Matthew played in a rapidtournament earlier this year, I provided him with a selection of Basman games for further inspiration. Look at the game Basman-Jansen, Amsterdam 1996, which he mentions as a trigger to the pawnsacrifice in the game with IM Chiel van Oosterom.
Dec-27-10  Caissanist: Thanks as always! Glad to hear that Sadler is enjoying chess again, so many GMs give up the game completely after they've stopped trying to be pros.
Jun-25-11  parisattack: <Gejewe:>

Hello. I am preparing a revised edition of the North Sea Variation of the Modern Defense to which you so kindly provided a History.

I am wondering if you would have new information and or games to contribute to the 2nd edition?

Aug-27-11  Gejewe: It took some time for me to reply, because I have not been around on this site for quite a while. Sometimes there is not much time for chess, other priorities can intervene etc. :-( Answering your question, I am not aware of new information or games, except for the Olympiad game between Michael Adams and Magnus Carlsen in 2010 which has been discussed on Chessgames.com It seems that Carlsen was quite ok. after the opening but got careless. You can check this on the page of that particular game. And yes, I remember to have provided the history part for the first edition of the book a few years ago, mutual chess friend John Donaldson acting as an intermediate. Unfortunately, after having submitted this text I never heard anything - nor did I get a (more or less promised) copy of the new book. Forgotten in the euphoria of having the book finished and published ? ;-)
Sep-15-11  parisattack: Hello <Gejewe>

The primary author passed away soon after the North Sea was published. It was a bit chaotic and - long story - most of the copies of the book vanished.

I have a few here and will email John D for your address and dispatch a copy to you ASAP; my apologies.

And, yes, Carlsen was OK in that game!

Sep-19-11  parisattack: <Gejewe> Email that John D had for you bounced. Perhaps you could send him current, ask to FWD to me, please?
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