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Mike J Surtees

Number of games in database: 135
Years covered: 1973 to 2023
Last FIDE rating: 2083 (2002 rapid, 2045 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2239
Overall record: +45 -66 =24 (42.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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Most played openings
B22 Sicilian, Alapin (27 games)
A40 Queen's Pawn Game (21 games)
C20 King's Pawn Game (15 games)
B12 Caro-Kann Defense (11 games)
B10 Caro-Kann (10 games)
B15 Caro-Kann (8 games)
A04 Reti Opening (4 games)
C00 French Defense (4 games)
A00 Uncommon Opening (4 games)
B06 Robatsch (4 games)

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 British Rapidplay Championship
   M Surtees vs P K Wells (Apr-15-23) 1/2-1/2, rapid
   M Surtees vs R Deepak Ambattu (Apr-15-23) 1-0, rapid
   M Surtees vs L Fava (Apr-15-23) 1-0, rapid
   A Smith vs M Surtees (Apr-15-23) 0-1, rapid
   D McCarthy vs M Surtees (Apr-15-23) 1-0, rapid

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MIKE J SURTEES
(born 1950) United Kingdom

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 page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 135  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. H Hecht vs M Surtees  1-0481973GRE Islington OpenB12 Caro-Kann Defense
2. J Cooper vs M Surtees  1-0351989British ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
3. G Burgess vs M Surtees  1-0221989British ChampionshipB82 Sicilian, Scheveningen
4. M Surtees vs A Kosten  0-1301989British ChampionshipB06 Robatsch
5. M Surtees vs M Piper  0-1151989British ChampionshipC44 King's Pawn Game
6. D Hulmes vs M Surtees  1-0502003Preston OpenB12 Caro-Kann Defense
7. M Peacock vs M Surtees  ½-½512003Preston OpenA11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System
8. M Surtees vs N Davies  1-0482003Preston OpenB22 Sicilian, Alapin
9. D Gormally vs M Surtees 1-0272004British ChampionshipA40 Queen's Pawn Game
10. M Surtees vs P Almond ½-½512004British ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
11. R Westwood vs M Surtees 1-0402004British ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
12. M Surtees vs G Kafka 1-0262004British ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
13. S Haslinger vs M Surtees  1-0602004British ChampionshipB15 Caro-Kann
14. M Surtees vs T Nixon  0-1502004British ChampionshipC20 King's Pawn Game
15. S Gregory vs M Surtees  1-0342004British ChampionshipB15 Caro-Kann
16. M Surtees vs R Bryant  1-0322004British ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
17. M Surtees vs C Briscoe  0-1462004British ChampionshipC20 King's Pawn Game
18. G Smith vs M Surtees 0-1462004British ChampionshipB10 Caro-Kann
19. M Surtees vs R Pert  0-1442005British ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
20. P Chaplin vs M Surtees  0-1552005British ChampionshipA04 Reti Opening
21. A Greet vs M Surtees  1-0352005British ChampionshipA40 Queen's Pawn Game
22. M Surtees vs D Hall  1-0262005British ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
23. M Surtees vs G Morrison  0-1412005British ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
24. M White vs M Surtees 1-0242005British ChampionshipA40 Queen's Pawn Game
25. L Varnam vs M Surtees  0-1412005British ChampionshipB15 Caro-Kann
 page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 135  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Mar-06-06  pawn to QB4: Fans of Basman, Suttles and the great Gerard Welling should appreciate Mike as an original analyst in the openings. He calls his stuff ROT (revised openings theory) and personally I've found it very hard to handle. In one of our games he had all his pieces still on the back rank after move 10, except a knight on f3. He told me this was standard stuff and that "after some months thought" he'd realised this knight was better placed on f4 so he proposed to play N(f3)-g1-e2-f4 as the next 3 moves. As an experienced hacker and swindler I've scored 50% in our games but have never left the opening with an advantage.
May-05-06  SNAFFLEVICH: My Revolutionary Opening Theory website is now set-up at:--

www.shop-hop.com/chessrot

May-05-06  dakgootje: How do you pronouce the name? Sure tease?

Maybe an other way, depending on the country he's from...

May-06-06  pawn to QB4: "Sir-tease" is near enough, dakgootje. Two brief corrections to my previous post: ROT obviously short for Mike's version as above. Also, after a recent game where he kicked off 1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.f3! I can't claim 50% until I get revenge, dammit.
May-09-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  xenophon: played Mike once and beat him despite a hugh rating gap mainly due to his appalling position from one of his ROT opennings.After move 18 Fritz thought I was +4;even I would have struggled to mess it up-though after saying that I did my best
May-15-06  SNAFFLEVICH: [SNAFFLEVICH is Mike Surtees
May-15-06  GBKnight: Used to play in Berkshire if I remember correctly? Still playing the same rubbish! With the same success !
Aug-05-08  Flatfish: Congratulations on a beautiful win against Houska from Round 7 of the British Championships. It can be viewed here:

http://www.britishchess08.com/
downloads/gotdall/
dgt_chesstheatre.htm

Aug-05-08  pawn to QB4: Yep, no knocking that one. Picked as Game of the Day ahead of the efforts of the assembled masters. Well done Mike.
Jun-23-21  Nosnibor: Here is a game from 20 years ago where the "ROT" tactics do not quite work for Mike.[Event] Kenilworth Open (Round 6) [Date] 10th June 2001. [Opening] ? White: M Surtees Black: J K Robinson 1.e4 e5 2.a3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d3 Be7 5.g4 h6 6.Bg2 d6 7.h3 a5 8.Nfe2 Rb8 9.Nb5 Bd7 10.c4 Ne7 11.Be3 Bg5 12.Qd2 Bxe3 13.Qxe3 Ne7 14.Nbc3 Ng6 15.0-0 0-0 16.f4 exf4 17.Nxf4 Ne5 18.b4 Qh4 19.Nce2 Nf6 20.Nd5 Nxd5 21.cxd5 axb4 22.axb4 Bb5 23.Nf4 Qg5 24.Qg3 h5 25.Nxh5 Bxd3 26.Rf4 Ra8 27.Rd1 Be2 28.Rd2 Ra1+ 29.Kh2 Bd1 30.Rdf2 Rfa8 31.Rf1 R8a3 32.Rxd1 Rxg3 33.Rxa1 Rb3 34.Rc1 Qe7 35.Ng3 Rxb4 36.Nf5 Qd8 37.Rf2 Qb8 38.Rfc2 Nd3 39.Rd1 Rg2 40.Rc3 Ne5 41.Rdc1 c5 42.dxc6 bxc6 43.Rd1 Qb4 44.Re3 Nc5 45.Red3 Qc5 46.Rd4 Qe5+ 47.Kh1 Rc2 48.R4d3 g6 49.Nd4 Rxg2 50. Kxg2 Qxe4+ 51.Nf3 Nb2 52.Rxd6 Nxd1 53.Kg3 Ne6 and won after a few more moves 0-1

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