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Fernand Gobet
F Gobet 
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Number of games in database: 178
Years covered: 1981 to 1993
Last FIDE rating: 2386
Highest rating achieved in database: 2401
Overall record: +50 -75 =53 (43.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (43) 
    B47 B53 B30 B80 B81
 Ruy Lopez (9) 
    C69 C68 C61 C65 C77
 Caro-Kann (9) 
    B13 B14 B15
 Sicilian Taimanov (7) 
    B47 B45
 Sicilian Scheveningen (7) 
    B80 B81
 Scotch Game (6) 
    C45
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (30) 
    B47 B44 B21 B23 B40
 Sicilian Taimanov (14) 
    B47 B48 B49
 Queen's Pawn Game (11) 
    D02 A46 E10
 English (9) 
    A15 A17 A18 A13
 Grunfeld (8) 
    D87 D85 D79
 Modern Benoni (7) 
    A61 A77 A76 A63 A70
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   J Bellin vs F Gobet, 1987 0-1
   F Gobet vs Keene, 1981 1/2-1/2
   F Gobet vs J Eslon, 1984 1-0
   F Gobet vs Ftacnik, 1984 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Rome-B (1983)
   Biel-B (1988)
   Biel Mix (1987)
   Biel (1982)
   Bern (1988)
   Bern (1989)
   Biel (1983)
   Biel (1984)
   European Junior Championship 1981/82 (1981)
   Laszlo Toth Memorial GM Open (1987)
   Thessaloniki Olympiad (1984)

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FERNAND GOBET
(born Feb-12-1962, 63 years old) Switzerland

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Dr. Fernand Gobet is a Professor of Psychology at Brunel University in London. He has written several professional articles on chess, memory, and visual imagery. His PhD dissertation was entitled "The memories of a chessplayer." He is a former Swiss Junior Champion (1981). From 1981 to 1989, he was co-editor of the Swiss Chess Review. He was awarded the title of International Master in 1985.

https://www.chessprogramming.org/Fe...

Wikipedia article: Fernand Gobet

Last updated: 2018-12-04 04:12:43

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 page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 178  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. F Gobet vs Keene ½-½4519815th Lloyds Bank Masters OpenB06 Robatsch
2. S Knott vs F Gobet  1-03419815th Lloyds Bank Masters OpenA17 English
3. A Greenfeld vs F Gobet  1-0311981European Junior Championship 1981/82B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3
4. F Berend vs F Gobet  0-1201981European Junior Championship 1981/82B40 Sicilian
5. F Gobet vs J A Corral Blanco  0-1531981European Junior Championship 1981/82B58 Sicilian
6. D Barbulescu vs F Gobet  1-0451981European Junior Championship 1981/82B44 Sicilian
7. F Gobet vs J Delaney  1-0491981European Junior Championship 1981/82B86 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin Attack
8. A Frois vs F Gobet  ½-½841981European Junior Championship 1981/82A07 King's Indian Attack
9. F Gobet vs M Kivisto  1-0391981European Junior Championship 1981/82B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
10. F Gobet vs Salov  0-1621981European Junior Championship 1981/82B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen
11. G Borg vs F Gobet  0-1311981European Junior Championship 1981/82A62 Benoni, Fianchetto Variation
12. F Gobet vs J Aulin-Jansson  1-0391982European Junior Championship 1981/82B06 Robatsch
13. F Gobet vs H Kuijf  ½-½481982European Junior Championship 1981/82B80 Sicilian, Scheveningen
14. T Karolyi vs F Gobet 1-0391982European Junior Championship 1981/82E39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation
15. F Gobet vs P Pandavos  1-0381982European Junior Championship 1981/82C02 French, Advance
16. B Toth vs F Gobet  1-0271982BielE39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation
17. C Cuartas vs F Gobet 0-1301982BielA25 English
18. S Mariotti vs F Gobet  ½-½801982BielE09 Catalan, Closed
19. Lobron vs F Gobet  1-0531982BielB47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation
20. F Gobet vs E Meduna  ½-½301982BielB14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack
21. F Gobet vs N Birnboim  1-0411982BielB30 Sicilian
22. F Gobet vs Hort  1-0391982BielB57 Sicilian
23. Gheorghiu vs F Gobet  ½-½571982BielD32 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tarrasch
24. F Gobet vs R Szmetan  0-1431982BielB06 Robatsch
25. F Gobet vs H Wirthensohn  1-0401982BielB89 Sicilian
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Kibitzer's Corner
Sep-22-14  wordfunph: IM Fernand Gobet co-authored Moves in Mind..

http://www.amazon.com/Moves-Mind-Ps...

Oct-17-14  diagonal: Prof. of Cognitive Psychology, University of Liverpool (2013): http://chrest.info/fg/home.htm
Survey of scientific papers: http://chessprogramming.wikispaces....

Gobet was winner of Rome ("Banco di Roma") B-tournament in 1983 (amongst others ahead of greek Spyridon Skembris, austrian Georg Danner and a lot of local italian player), earning a spot in the next-year A-tournament (won by Sax and Tatai, ahead of Pinter, Toth, Inkiov, Mednis) where he was coming in second-to-last in a field of ten players.

Apr-01-16  diagonal: Sometimes the Chess Festival at Biel offered also of a strong Invitation "B-Group", called "World Mixed Group" (rising and female stars mixed with some swiss players).

In the edition of 1988, IM Gobet beat the eventual sole winner GM Zapata in their individual game and drew top-seeded GM Anand (already on position 49= of the world in the ELO list II July to December of 1988 and 150 ELO points higher rated than the swiss IM). Fernand Gobet finished shared third behind Alonso Zapata and runner-up Joerg Hickl: http://www.365chess.com/tournaments...

At Berne GM 1988, Fernand Gobet beat veteran Efim Geller.

Apr-01-16  diagonal: <Fernand Gobet is Professor of Decision Making and Expertise at the University of Liverpool. He spent his first career as a chess player, playing for the Swiss national team and earning the title of an International Master. He then moved to a scientific career, receiving his PhD in psychology in 1992 from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He held research and academic positions at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh), the University of Nottingham and Brunel University (London) before taking a chair at the University of Liverpool. His numerous collaborators include Nobel Prize winning Herbert Simon (one of the founders of Artificial Intelligence) and Adriaan De Groot (the father of chess psychology). Gobet has extensively written on expertise, the acquisition of language and computer modelling. His latest book Understanding Expertise (2015, Palgrave/Macmillan), provides a multi-disciplinary study of the psychology, sociology, neuroscience and philosophy of expertise, with extensive references to chess research.>

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