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Brian Eley

Number of games in database: 138
Years covered: 1964 to 1982
Last FIDE rating: 2335
Highest rating achieved in database: 2340
Overall record: +40 -47 =51 (47.5%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (35) 
    B71 B49 B83 B61 B95
 French Defense (11) 
    C02 C18 C01
 Sicilian Richter-Rauser (9) 
    B61 B60 B67 B68 B62
 Sicilian Dragon (7) 
    B71 B39
 Sicilian Scheveningen (6) 
    B83 B85 B82
 Ruy Lopez (5) 
    C78 C69 C85 C72
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (15) 
    C69 C67 C65 C85 C62
 Nimzo Indian (10) 
    E46 E47 E49 E58 E39
 Queen's Pawn Game (8) 
    A46 E10 E00 D02 D01
 English, 1 c4 e5 (7) 
    A21 A27 A25 A28
 Ruy Lopez Exchange (5) 
    C69 C85
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (4) 
    C85 C89 C84
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   B Eley vs I Sinclair, 1975 1-0
   G Botterill vs B Eley, 1978 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   British Championship (1972)
   Birmingham International (1973)
   Slater Young Masters (1971)
   Islington Open (1970)
   British Championship (1970)
   British Championship (1975)
   British Championship (1974)
   British Championship (1978)
   British Championship (1973)
   Islington Open (1972)
   British Championship (1971)

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BRIAN ELEY
(born Jul-06-1946, died Apr-06-2022, 75 years old) United Kingdom

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Brian Ratcliffe Eley, born in Don Valley, was British champion in 1972. He was a fugitive from 1991 until his death, charged with numerous offenses relating to sexual abuse of minors. He died on April 6, 2022 in Amsterdam.

Wikipedia article: Brian Eley

Last updated: 2024-04-21 08:05:06

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 page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 138  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Keene vs B Eley 1-0461964British Junior ChampionshipA80 Dutch
2. B Eley vs Browne  0-1371968Northern OpenB95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6
3. H Smout vs B Eley  0-1211968Northern OpenC35 King's Gambit Accepted, Cunningham
4. B Eley vs P W Hempson  1-0341968Northern OpenC18 French, Winawer
5. H Juehe vs B Eley  1-0351968Northern OpenD02 Queen's Pawn Game
6. B Eley vs J N Sugden  0-1541969BCF-ch opB94 Sicilian, Najdorf
7. B Eley vs J Penrose  1-0301970British ChampionshipB83 Sicilian
8. B Eley vs J Littlewood  0-1471970British ChampionshipC31 King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit
9. S Reuben vs B Eley  0-1571970British ChampionshipA21 English
10. B Eley vs D J Sherman  ½-½441970British ChampionshipB08 Pirc, Classical
11. R Lemon vs B Eley 1-0311970British ChampionshipE47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3
12. V Knox vs B Eley  1-0121970British ChampionshipC47 Four Knights
13. B Eley vs D Lees ½-½201970British ChampionshipB39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation
14. M Corden vs B Eley  0-1291970British ChampionshipC56 Two Knights
15. B Eley vs P C Griffiths  1-0641970British ChampionshipB44 Sicilian
16. P H Clarke vs B Eley  ½-½341970British ChampionshipE39 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Pirc Variation
17. B Eley vs D B Pritchard ½-½191970British ChampionshipC72 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense, 5.O-O
18. B Eley vs H Johansson  1-0281970Islington OpenB02 Alekhine's Defense
19. B Eley vs E G Lea  1-0181970Islington OpenB95 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6...e6
20. Timman vs B Eley 1-0471970Islington OpenC41 Philidor Defense
21. M Stean vs B Eley  1-0281971Slater Young MastersC89 Ruy Lopez, Marshall
22. B Eley vs L Blackstock  ½-½441971Slater Young MastersB61 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer, Larsen Variation, 7.Qd2
23. V Knox vs B Eley  ½-½361971Slater Young MastersC28 Vienna Game
24. B Eley vs S Webb  0-1661971Slater Young MastersB17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
25. S Saverymuttu vs B Eley  0-1561971Slater Young MastersC56 Two Knights
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Jun-15-13  Everett: , it seems to me, If anyone "deserves" a picture on his page, it is he.
Jun-20-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Everett>: Sounds good to me-he can join this slimepot (Robert Snyder) in the rogues' gallery.
Jun-21-13  kingfu: How about total erasure of their pages from CG?

And renaming the B20 Sicilian after Moshe Czerniak and Tamaz Gelashvili? Gelahvili is +51 with the B20!

Jan-23-14  MarkFinan: <GrahamClayton: The Lord Lucan of English chess?>

He certainly is! He could be dead and I'm guessing that wouldn't bother many people if he were. I couldn't believe it when I saw him on crimewatch because I played him too. Not that he's the first person I know who's made crimewatch!?! Very strange and weirdly eccentric with a Bobby Charlton comb over if I'm remembering rightly. I can't believe that people knew what he was up to and he was still allowed around boys my age, because I must have been 11 when I played him.

Jan-23-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: <kingfu> As to the so-called "Snyder Sicilian," I agree with you. People played 2.b3 before, after, and with greater virtuosity than Snyder ever did. Naming it for him is ridiculous.

I totally disagree with your suggestion that Snyder and Eley's pages should be deleted. The purpose of this site is to record significant chess games, not to assess players' morality or lack thereof. Efim Bogoljubov and Emil Joseph Diemer were Nazis. Klaus Junge was killed while fighting in Hitler's army. Alexander Alekhine wrote anti-Semitic propaganda for the Nazis. Robert James Fischer was an anti-Semitic loon, applauded the September 11 attacks, and later became a fugitive from the United States government. George Hatfeild Gossip wrote a virulently anti-Semitic book. Norman Tweed Whitaker was a swindler. Vladimir Antoshin worked for the KGB. Should their pages be deleted as well?

Jan-23-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: Eley and Snyder are depraved scumbags of the first water and deserve lifelong incarceration at the very least. Doesn't mean their games should be deleted from existence, though.
Jan-23-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Yes, Gelashvili is a holy terror with 2.b3. If everyone were so successful with it, no one would ever play the Sicilian.
Jan-23-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: Yes, Gelashvili is a holy terror with 2.b3. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... If everyone were so successful with it, no one would ever play the Sicilian.
Feb-26-14  kingfu: Thanks, FSR

I over reacted. I just wish I could play the B20 as well as Gelashvili!

We need pages for all chess players, so we may discuss all issues for these so-called sapiens. How am I and Adolf part of the same species? Did Adolf play chess?

How does one make the "transition" from teaching a young person the beauty of chess to being the most monstrous of us all?

Sep-20-14  Pawn Slayer: I was one of Brian Eley's "acolytes"; he coached me in the early to middle 70s and I have played him innumerable times, winning a few games. He was an exceptionally good coach and produced a formidable Yorkshire junior team.

Strangely, I never witnessed any paedophile activity by him. Maybe I was just too innocent to realise what was going on or too old (15 -18) and too large to mess with.

I suspect he's probably dead by now. If the allegations are true - and they seem well founded - that's probably for the best.

Apr-14-20  johnfagg: He showed me how to play the marshall and gave me hints on the Winawer. As a "non-victim" I hold no personal grudge, I remember an incident in a Whitby "Chinese" that he didn't want us to revisit because of some complication over sauces. I think he was a vegetarian - but that proves nothing! Didn't the allegations start to emerge when there had been comments over money involving a third party? I was too young (and remote) to follow chess politics...
Feb-17-21  acolyte2: One brave soul reported him to Bradford police . Thank you for that , I’m glad you were braver than I . They told me it was you but don’t worry all anonymous here They told me there had been 69 allegations. Not a number one forgets He had many books about psychological manipulation in his house alongside the chess books . I actually think The Silence of the Lambs may have been based on his character. It was spookily similar He only targeted the ones who wouldn’t speak up , which is why the 1 who did is very brave indeed . He wasn’t alone . Although his apprentice wasn’t as evil . But even still Peter it’s not right I went to Amsterdam a number of times but never did see him . Still I had my moment . After winning a game at a tournament he informed me my opening choice was a forced loss after move 19 , so we set the pieces up and a large crowd gathered around . Wish I could remember the game but my memory was affected at the time .It was a Vienna game exchange sacrifice. What I do recall is I was black and had my Q on a8 in the middle game still . Guess he had a blind spot because Q(a8) to h8 is not a common move . But with the long diagonal open it was an instant resignation moment . Think I’ll pull up the position and see what AlphaZero thinks . I won all my games with that opening, I think because people just thought it was such a stupid opening that it put them off their thought pattern Here is Mr Nunn playing the same line
J Ost-Hansen vs Nunn, 1974
Jun-01-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: <acolyte2> I can't believe you told the police you'd missed Qa8-h8.
Jun-01-21  Nosnibor: <acolyte2> See my comment under his game against Pachman.
Jun-18-22  GBKnight: It has been reported in the Netherlands that Eley died in April 2022 and his grave is in Amsterdam.
Jun-18-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Reported where?
Jun-18-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Findagrave has:

https://nl.findagrave.com/memorial/...

Jun-21-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  FSR: https://www.kingpinchess.net/2022/0...
Jul-05-22  kereru: findagrave is a dubious source. Also of interest: https://www.patreon.com/posts/60769...
Jul-09-22  emily s: Wikipedia editors arguing about the findagrave image: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.ph...

hmmm...
https://images.findagrave.com/photo...

Jul-09-22  stone free or die: A very biting memoriam for Eley on Kingpin:

<You may have escaped justice

But not the Great Arbiter

In the sky.>

https://www.kingpinchess.net/2022/0...

Jul-23-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <The sole evidence for this appears to be an entry on the Find a Grave website, which says a person named Brian Russel / Ratcliffe “Ray” Eley’, born 06/07/1946 died in Amsterdam on 06/04/2022, and is buried in De Nieuwe Oosterbegraafplaats, i. e. The New Eastern Cemetery, in Amsterdam. The plot is given as “Vak 65, no 039 first level”. (Vak translates as “compartment” or presumably “space” or “plot”. Why is “first level” in English?)>

https://mannchess.org.uk/YNotices/2...

Who's going to volunteer to check this grave?

Jul-23-22  stone free or die: Are you planning to do an exhumation?

(Golombeck, Eley, and others in 1973 photo:

https://britishchessnews.com/wp-con...

Robert Silk Fellowship Tournament, Canterbury, 1973. BCM v93 N4 p192

Silk is 2nd from right.)

Apr-22-23  kereru: Wikipedia is reluctantly accepting thearticle.com as a source. Better than being a laughing stock and reporting him as still alive for the next 50 years I suppose.
Jul-23-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Davies, Plaskett and Keene spar: https://twitter.com/GMNigelDavies
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