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Allan J Pleasants

Number of games in database: 130
Years covered: 1999 to 2022
Last FIDE rating: 1977 (2092 rapid)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2144
Overall record: +25 -65 =40 (34.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ALLAN J PLEASANTS
(born Apr-11-1960, 65 years old) United Kingdom

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Welsh Champion in 2017.

Last updated: 2017-12-28 05:34:05

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 page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 130  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Pleasants vs J Gilbert  1-0411999BCF-chT2 9900 (4NCL)D00 Queen's Pawn Game
2. A Pleasants vs A Greet  0-1362000British ChampionshipB21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4
3. J Rudd vs A Pleasants  1-0252000British ChampionshipA42 Modern Defense, Averbakh System
4. M Binks vs A Pleasants  0-1322000British ChampionshipB06 Robatsch
5. A Pleasants vs O Jackson  ½-½602000British ChampionshipA41 Queen's Pawn Game (with ...d6)
6. P D Kemp vs A Pleasants  1-0412000British ChampionshipA31 English, Symmetrical, Benoni Formation
7. A Pleasants vs G Lilley  0-1202000British ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
8. J McDonnell vs A Pleasants  ½-½512000British ChampionshipB06 Robatsch
9. A Pleasants vs A Ramaswamy  0-1602000British ChampionshipA48 King's Indian
10. T Hebbes vs A Pleasants  1-0402000British ChampionshipA00 Uncommon Opening
11. A Pleasants vs S Orton  ½-½652000British ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
12. D Howell vs A Pleasants  1-0372000British ChampionshipB01 Scandinavian
13. J Gallagher vs A Pleasants  1-0512002BCF-chT 0102 (4NCL)B06 Robatsch
14. A Pleasants vs R Tymrakiewicz  ½-½382009Uxbridge OpenA97 Dutch, Ilyin-Genevsky
15. M Smith vs A Pleasants  ½-½482009Uxbridge OpenB22 Sicilian, Alapin
16. A Pleasants vs M Burrows  0-1362009Uxbridge OpenA05 Reti Opening
17. J Syner vs A Pleasants  0-1452009Uxbridge OpenB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
18. A Pleasants vs M Webb  1-0472009Uxbridge OpenB08 Pirc, Classical
19. P A Williams vs A Pleasants  ½-½482010British ChampionshipA50 Queen's Pawn Game
20. A Pleasants vs R Maciol 1-0332010British ChampionshipA09 Reti Opening
21. A Summerscale vs A Pleasants  1-0592010British ChampionshipA16 English
22. A Pleasants vs J R Adair 0-1222010British ChampionshipA46 Queen's Pawn Game
23. B C Addison vs A Pleasants  1-0622010British ChampionshipA50 Queen's Pawn Game
24. A Pleasants vs A Mayhew  0-1402010British ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
25. S Dines vs A Pleasants  ½-½592010British ChampionshipB47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation
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Kibitzer's Corner
Aug-26-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <A PLUCKY Weymouth challenger defeated a chess grandmaster at a Dorchester tournament.

Allan Pleasants, a member of Weymouth Chess Club, beat Raymond Keene.

This is the second time Mr Pleasants has checkmated a grandmaster in a competition.

Mr Pleasants was one of 19 competitors who were competing at the same time against Mr Keene.> http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/98...

Aug-27-12  Tired Tim: Plucky!? For goodness sake, in newspaper-speak he'll be a "hero" next.
Aug-27-12  Shams: <Tired Tim> Hush, you. "Plucky" is a superb adjective.
Aug-27-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: The story is from a British newspaper. They speak English weirdly there.
Aug-27-12
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: I wonder if the plucky Pleasants actually "checkmated" Keene and the other GM. I doubt it.
Nov-16-12  MUG: Here is Pleasants win against Keene in full:

1. d4 d6 2. e4 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nc6 5. d5 Nb8 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Be2 Nbd7 8. Nf3 e5 9. h3 O-O 10. g4 Nc5 11. Nd2 a5 12. Qc2 c6 13. g5 Ne8 14. h4 f5 15. f3 Rf7 16. b3 Nc7 17. a3 cxd5 18. cxd5 Rb8 19. a4 N7a6 20. Nb5 fxe4 21. fxe4 Qe7 22. O-O-O Bd7 23. Kb2 Rc8 24. Qb1 Nb4 25. Rc1 Rf4 26. Bxc5 dxc5 27. d6 Qf8 28. Bc4 Kh8 29. h5 Rf2 30. hxg6 Rxd2 31. Kc3? h6 32. Kxd2 Qf2 33. Be2 Bxb5 34. axb5 Rd8 35. Rcd1 Qd4 36. Ke1 Qc3 37. Kf2 Rf8 38. Kg2 Qe3 39. Rhf1 Qxe2 40. Kg1 Qg4 41. Kh2 Qh4 42. Kg2 Qxg5 43. Kh2 Qh5 44. Kg1 Qxg6 45. Kh1 Qh5 46. Kg1 Qg4 47. Kh1 Qh3 48. Kg1 0-1

<FSR> Evidently, Keene resigned before he was actually 'mated'.

Pleasants recently won the Dorset (UK) congress, beating me in the first round.

Dec-28-17
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: Surprise winner of the 2017 Welsh Championship, having been seeded 12th out of a field of 28.

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