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David Howell
D Howell 
Pic: Przemysław Jahr / Wikimedia Commons  

Number of games in database: 1,500
Years covered: 1998 to 2025
Last FIDE rating: 2668 (2613 rapid, 2574 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2712
Overall record: +520 -247 =459 (61.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 274 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (153) 
    B22 B40 B52 B90 B51
 French Defense (65) 
    C05 C07 C02 C03 C10
 English (59) 
    A13 A15 A14 A10 A16
 Ruy Lopez (57) 
    C65 C67 C69 C84 C89
 French Tarrasch (45) 
    C05 C07 C03 C09 C04
 Reti System (41) 
    A06 A04 A05
With the Black pieces:
 Ruy Lopez (162) 
    C67 C65 C96 C77 C84
 Grunfeld (116) 
    D85 D78 D86 D80 D90
 Caro-Kann (56) 
    B12 B10 B15 B13 B18
 English (55) 
    A15 A10 A16 A13 A18
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (45) 
    C96 C84 C99 C91 C85
 Giuoco Piano (30) 
    C50 C53 C54
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   D Howell vs T Ringoir, 2008 1-0
   D Howell vs A Bitalzadeh, 2009 1-0
   D Howell vs M Roiz, 2015 1-0
   R Palliser vs D Howell, 2005 0-1
   C Storey vs D Howell, 2015 0-1
   D Howell vs A Jansson, 2006 1-0
   D Howell vs Carlsen, 2009 1/2-1/2
   D Howell vs R Pruijssers, 2008 1-0
   D Howell vs M Meinhardt, 2007 1-0
   D Howell vs R Jumabayev, 2016 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   British Championship (2009)
   Hastings 2009/10 (2009)
   British Championship (2014)
   British Championship (2013)
   Hastings Online All-Play-All (2021)
   Rilton Cup (2007)
   British Championship (2016)
   British Championship (2012)
   Corus Group C (2009)
   British Championship (2011)
   British Championship (2007)
   World Junior Championship (2008)
   World Junior Championship (2006)
   European Union Championship (2005)
   Chennai Olympiad (2022)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   England at the Dresden Olympiad by capybara
   B22 by blohmoremoney

RECENT GAMES:
   🏆 Bundesliga 2024/25
   D Howell vs Kamsky (Mar-23-25) 1-0
   Keymer vs D Howell (Mar-22-25) 1-0
   Giri vs D Howell (Jan-12-25) 1/2-1/2
   D Howell vs L'Ami (Jan-11-25) 0-1
   F Haring vs D Howell (Sep-22-24) 0-1

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DAVID HOWELL
(born Nov-14-1990, 34 years old) United Kingdom

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FIDE Master (2001); International Master (2004); Grandmaster (2007); British U8 champion (1998); British U9 Champion (1999); British U10 Champion (1999); IAPS U13 Champion (1999); British Champion (2009 & 2013), British co-Champion (2014).

Early days (1)

David Wei Lang Howell learned the moves from his father in July 1996 when he was five years old. He played his first tournament, the Sussex U11 Open, two months later, winning three games out of six. He studied under the guidance of GM Glenn C Flear. (2) His initial rating at the age of 10 was 2193, above which it has always remained. Since that time he has steadily progressed through the ranks such that by 2015, he is the second rated player in the United Kingdom, second only to Michael Adams.

Master qualifications and norms

<FIDE Master> Howell won his FM title when he placed =1st in the European U12 Championship which ended 9 September 2001. (1) He gained his FM title at the age of 10 years 9 months and 26 days.

<International Master> He gained his three IM norms at the First Saturday IM Tournament in Budapest in April 2003, which he won; the British Championship, Edinburgh, in 2003; and at the Gibraltar Masters (2004) which finished 5 February 2004. (1) Howell thereby gained his IM title at the age of 13 years 2 months and 22 days.

<Grandmaster norms> He obtained the three necessary GM norms between 2004 and 2007 at the 4NCL team tournament (season 2004/5); the CCA-ICC International at New York in 2005 and at Stockholm's Rilton Cup (2007). (2) Thus on 5 January 2007, he earned his GM title aged 16 years and 1 month and 22 days.

Championships

<Youth> Howell was the British Under-8 Champion in 1998 and the British Under-9 and Under-10 champion in 1999. He won the London Junior Under-14 Chess Congress in 1999, while he was nine years old, breaking the record set by Nigel Short. He was second at the European U10 Championship staged in Halkidiki, Greece in October 2000 and =1st (3rd on tiebreak) at the European U12 Championship 2001 that was staged in Oropesa del Mar in Spain. In November 2002, he won bronze at the World U12 Championship played in Crete.(1) In October 2008, he scored 7.5/11 at the World U18 Championship staged in Vietnam, half a point behind the five co-leaders Ivan Saric (the winner on tiebreak), Ngoc Truongson Nguyen, Sam Shankland, Ioan-Cristian Chirila and Samvel Ter-Sahakyan.

<School> Howell won the Independent Association of Prep Schools U13 Championship in April 1999 a the age of eight, the youngest player to do so. (1)

<Junior (U20)> He first participated in the World arena in this division when he was 15 years old at the World Junior Championship (2006), scoring a solid 8/13. The following year he improved with 7.5/11 at the World Junior Championship (2007), placing =5th. Further improvement followed at the World Junior Championship (2008) where scored 9/13 to place =3rd behind Abhijeet Gupta and Parimarjan Negi. He lost momentum at the 48th World Junior Championship (2009) where his 8/13 was sufficient for =9th, 2.5 points off the lead.

<National> He first played in the British Championship in early 2000 at the age of nine, the youngest person ever to qualify for that event. (1) He has regularly participated in this event, placing 3rd at the British Championship (2012) and winning twice outright: at the British Championship (2009) with 9/11 and at the British Championship (2013) with a round to spare. He was co-winner, with Jonathan Hawkins, of the British Championship (2014), and then a runner-up alongside Nicholas Pert and Daniel Gormally behind Hawkins the following year at the British Championship (2015).

<Continental> David's first tilt at a continental championship was at the European Championship (2007) where he scored a par-for-rating 6/11. He improved with his next effort, that being at the European Union Championship (2008), where he scored 7/10 and placing =5th, a point behind the winner Jan Werle, and half a point behind joint second place getters Nigel Short, Viktor Laznicka and Michael Adams. The following year at the European Championship (2010), he scored 7.5/11, placing =11th. Unfortunately, his placement on tiebreak meant that he missed the cut for the World Cup 2011. His 7/11 at the European Championship (2012) and 6.5/11 at the European Championship (2015) were below his usual standard and again he failed to qualify for the next World Cup.

Standard Tournaments

<2001-2006> The most significant tournament David played in during this early stage of his career was the Hastings Challenger Tournament played over the 2001-02 New Year period when he defeated Colin McNab (see below). In April 2003 he won first prize at the First Saturday IM Tournament, Budapest also gaining his first IM norm. He gained his third IM norm at the Gibtelecom Masters tournament in early 2004 (see above) and in February 2005, he won the Jersey Festival Open with 6/7 and two months later placed 2nd to veteran IM Ralf Akesson at the category 7 Gausdal Classics GM B in Norway.

<2007-2009> He placed =2nd at the 2006-7 Rilton Cup, scoring 7/9 - this was the event in which he won his final GM norm. In March 2008, he won the category 10 round robin Jack Speigel Memorial at Southend in England with 6/7, well clear of Peter K Wells (4.5/7) and Lawrence Trent (4/7). In July 2008, he was clear first at the 26th Andorran International Open with 8/9, half a point ahead of outright 2nd placed Romain Edouard. In October 2008, he won the Master Open at the 8th Winterthurer Chess Week (in Switzerland) with 7.5/9 on tiebreak ahead of Axel Bachmann. 2009 started with his initiation into the major events at Wijk aan Zee, where he was invited to play in the Corus Group C (2009). There he scored =4th with 7.5/13 behind Wesley So, Tiger Hillarp Persson and Anish Giri. David's introduction to supertournaments was as the bottom seed at the category 18 London Chess Classic (2009) where he was undefeated with 4/7 (+1 =6) to place =3rd behind the winner Magnus Carlsen, runner-up Vladimir Kramnik, alongside compatriot Michael Adams and ahead of Hikaru Nakamura, Nigel Short, Luke McShane and Ni Hua.

<2010-2011> David saw in 2010 by sharing first prize with Romain Edouard, Mark Hebden and Andrei Istratescu at the Hastings (2009/10) scoring 7/9. His success at the Corus C event in 2009 saw him invited to the Corus Group B (2010), where he scored a par-for-rating 6/13 to place =8th. In April 2010, he won the Southend Open outright with 6/7. 2010 finished with a mediocre 2/7 at the category London Chess Classic (2010), although he only lost 3 rating points highlighting that the event was the most powerful ever staged in Britain. 2011 started with =2nd at the Hastings Masters, scoring 6.5/9, half a point behind the winner Deep Sengupta. There followed =2nd behind Sergei Tiviakov at Leiden in July 2011 and he finished 2011 with 2/11 at the category 20 London Chess Classic (2011), again losing only a few rating points.

<2012-2014> Following a mediocre performance at the Hastings Masters tournament at the beginning of the year, Howell scored a strong 7/10 at the powerful Gibraltar Masters (2012), enough to place =7th. In May he was =1st alongside Vitaly Teterev with 6/7 in the Masters section of the 6th International Chess Festival staged in Wunsiedel in Germany. Two months later he won clear first at Leiden with 7.5/9. He started 2013 with another win at the Southend Open in March, scoring 6/7. There followed a series of championships and team events (see other sections) before he scored =2nd behind Nigel Short at the powerful Isle of Man Masters (2014) in October 2014.

<2015> The year started with =2nd behind Zhao Xue at the New Zealand Open. He placed outright second at the Gibraltar Masters (2015) with 8/10 (+6 =4), half a point behind the winner Hikaru Nakamura for one of the best performances of his career. He followed this in April with =1st from 7/9 at the Dubai Chess Open (2015) and in July 2015 with clear first place at Leiden in Netherlands, scoring an outstanding 8.5/9 (TPR of 2895) to propel him into the 2700 club for the first time

Team Events (3)

<National representation> Howell represented England on board 3 at the U16 Olympiad staged in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in 2002, his team placing 13th. He also represented his country at the Dresden Olympiad (2008) held in Dresden, Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad (2010) in Khanty-Mansiysk, Istanbul Olympiad (2012) in Istanbul and Tromso Olympiad (2014) in Troms, usually on board 4. During those Olympiads, he played 38 games for a percentage result of 65.8% (+18 =14 -6). He also represented England at the European Team Championship (2011) and European Team Championship (2013), playing board 3 in the former and reserve in the latter for a +2 =2 -7 result (27.3%).At Astana in 2019, Howell was part of the England Team that won the silver medal at the World Team Chess Championship. His performance on board 3 also earned him an individual bronze medal

<City> Howell played board 2 for London in the World Cities Team Championship (2012), his team placing 9th upon elimination in the Round of 16.

<National Leagues> David played in every 4NCL season from 2002 until 2013 inclusive. From 2002 to 2004 he played with the Slough Chess Club, and for the Guildford 2 team from 2005 to 2008 winning team silver in 2007 and 2008. He also played for the Guildford 1 team from 2006 to 2009 winning team silver, gold, gold and silver respectively. In 2010 and 2011 he played for the Pride and Prejudice team winning team silver and gold respectively, and in 2012 and 2013 he played for the Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher 1 team, winning gold and silver respectively.

He played in the French Top 16 League in 2006 (4), in the French Nationale I in the 2006-7 season and in the Catalan League in 2008. (5) He also played in the Greek Team Championship of 2009 (6) and the Dutch Team Championship in 2013. (7) He has played in the Bundesliga since the 2010-11 season (8)

<Recent>
At Astana in 2019, Howell was part of the England Team that won the silver medal at the World Team Chess Championship. His performance on board 3 also earned him an individual bronze medal. Howell went undefeated in the 2021 Hastings online tournament, cruising to victory and eclipsing the pack by 1.5 points. Also in 2021, he qualified and participated in the 54 player FIDE Grand Swiss 2021 where he tied for 4th through 16th, with seven points out of eleven rounds.

In the Nov 2021 FIDE list of top 100 active players, Howell is ranked 100th. He is expected to go up on the rankings in the next FIDE ratings list.

Other (1)

In August 1999 at the age of eight, Howell became internationally famous when he broke the world record for the youngest player to have defeated a Grandmaster in an official game, when he defeated John Nunn at blitz chess. At the beginning of 2001, a few weeks after his 10th birthday, he became the youngest Briton to defeat a Grandmaster when he defeated Colin McNab at the Hastings International 2000-01. In 2002, David had a draw in blitz against Vladimir Kramnik, becoming the youngest player ever to have scored against a reigning world chess champion in an official game.

References and sources

Note: the primary source of information in this bio was derived from the FIDE database, and is not explicitly footnoted except in those passages where it was necessary to distinguish the information it provided from other sources.

<Sources> (1) Biography: http://davidhowellchess.com/frames....; (2) Wikipedia article: David Howell (chess player); (3) http://www.olimpbase.org/playersfn/...; (4) https://ratings.fide.com/individual...; (5) https://ratings.fide.com/individual...; (6) https://ratings.fide.com/individual...; (7) https://ratings.fide.com/individual...; (8) https://ratings.fide.com/individual...; (9) [ http://chess-results.com/tnr153950....; (10) https://ratings.fide.com/id.phtml?e...; (11) https://ratings.fide.com/top_files....

<References> David's chess blog has been at http://davidhowellchess.blogspot.com/ and Live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/

Last updated: 2021-11-14 00:26:58

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 page 1 of 60; games 1-25 of 1,500  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Kasparov vs D Howell 1-0501998BT Wireplay challengeA49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4
2. Nunn vs D Howell 0-1661999MSO BlitzC77 Ruy Lopez
3. D Howell vs J Dodgson  0-1392000Jersey OpenB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
4. G Keeling vs D Howell  1-0382000Jersey OpenC45 Scotch Game
5. D Howell vs J Ebner  1-0712000Jersey OpenC02 French, Advance
6. H Westerman vs D Howell  ½-½312000Jersey OpenA25 English
7. D Howell vs T Nixon  0-1602000Jersey OpenC69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation
8. M Ruston vs D Howell  0-1452000Jersey OpenC45 Scotch Game
9. D Howell vs A Farley  ½-½212000Jersey OpenB01 Scandinavian
10. D Howell vs R J McMichael  0-1602000British ChampionshipC41 Philidor Defense
11. S Collins vs D Howell  1-0552000British ChampionshipC67 Ruy Lopez
12. M Buckley vs D Howell  0-1222000British ChampionshipC24 Bishop's Opening
13. D Howell vs D Wise  ½-½502000British ChampionshipB22 Sicilian, Alapin
14. D Tan vs D Howell  1-0682000British ChampionshipC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
15. D Howell vs M Binks  0-1302000British ChampionshipC41 Philidor Defense
16. D Evans vs D Howell  1-0452000British ChampionshipC68 Ruy Lopez, Exchange
17. D Howell vs T Hebbes  0-1372000British ChampionshipC10 French
18. S Orton vs D Howell  ½-½242000British ChampionshipC77 Ruy Lopez
19. D Howell vs P Obiamiwe  0-1362000British ChampionshipC69 Ruy Lopez, Exchange, Gligoric Variation
20. D Howell vs A Pleasants  1-0372000British ChampionshipB01 Scandinavian
21. D Howell vs P Potapov  ½-½392000EU-ch U10B22 Sicilian, Alapin
22. Vachier-Lagrave vs D Howell 1-0262000Wch U10C29 Vienna Gambit
23. D Howell vs J Tomczak  1-0442000Wch U10B01 Scandinavian
24. D Howell vs Vachier-Lagrave  ½-½302000Rapid MatchB22 Sicilian, Alapin
25. Vachier-Lagrave vs D Howell 1-0542000Rapid MatchC29 Vienna Gambit
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Oct-08-07  pawnofdoom: Poor Howell. After being one of the only three people to start the World JUnior Championship in 2007 with a perfect 3/3 score, he went on the next three rounds to score only 0.5/3, drawing the first game and losing the next two. Too bad for him. From first down to like right above all those 50% people
Oct-22-07  Koni: <Howell was trained by the same tutor who taught Luke McShane - Julian Simpole.>

I'm not sure how big a role Simpole had in either of these juniors' success. I know that Howell's primary coach from when very young (7 or 8) was Jonathan Tuck whilst McShane was already being coached by GM Danny King at age 9.

Nov-19-07  jamesmaskell: Howell has won his first game in the Under-18s World Youth Championships in Antalya, defeating Schwarhofer (2186) with Black in a Kings Gambit. His next game is against Blomqvist (2334) of Sweden with White.

Howell is the second highest rated player in this section.

Jan-19-08  Koni: Today he won 1st place in the Lexmark 20 Seconds Chess tournament beating GM Keith Arkell 2-1 in the final. (He beat top seed GM Gawain Jones in the quarter-finals)
Jan-19-08  MichAdams: <Lexmark 20 Seconds Chess tournament>

What kind of piffling event is this? British chess must be even more moribund than I thought.

Jan-19-08  Tomlinsky: <MichAdams> I believe that the time control was derived from an average working lifespan of goods supplied by the sponsor.
Mar-11-08  mikeddot: a nice pictoral chessbase article

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

May-12-08  ahmadov: Here is a little tricky position once Howell found himself in:


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Howell plans a5 and Qxb4, so Black went for the tactic 1...Bxa4 2.bxa4 b3 expecting 3.Bxb3 Qxb3.

However, there is a flaw in Black's plan: 1...Bxa4 2.bxa4 b3 3.a5! bxa2 (Qa6 4.Bxb3) 4.axb6 a1Q+ 5.Rc1 and Black resigned in this game since 5...Nb1 6.Qd1 traps his knight...

Unfortunately, this game is not in this database and the source I took this position from does not publish the entire game so that I could add it here...

Jul-26-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  roberts partner: Howell leads the Andorra Open with 6.5/7, two rounds left. www.escacsandorra.com
Jul-26-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  roberts partner: Howell wins again in round 8, nice king's side attack against a 2500, and with 7.5/8 will be at least half a point clear of Granda Zuniga (still in play with a small edge) going into Sunday's final round.
Jul-27-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  roberts partner: Howell draws Granda Zuniga in round 9 to win the Andorra Open outright with 8/9. So Howell is in good form going into the world junior (U-20) championship at Gaziantes, Turkey, starting 3 August. Longer term, his Fide rating of 2561 will improve by another 15-20 points from Andorra. This puts him within immediate range of England No3 (though inactive) Luke McShane on 2596. Judging from the rating charts on www.fide.com, Howell is currently improving around 40 points a year while Nigel Short (2655) is dropping around 20 a year. So Howell may overtake Short as England No2 in 2009 or 2010.
Aug-07-08  Squares: Well played the Howeller.
Aug-14-08
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  roberts partner: One game away from gold tomorrow morning (8 am BST start for the final round) and from becoming England's second junior world champion after Tony Miles. A title that Short and Adams couldn't win, though Short did take silver behind Kasparov. The likely pairings are Howell v Gupta and Negi v Braun. Braun has the best tiebreak, Howell the next. So a win will do it, but a draw would be only the silver medal if Negi v Braun is decisive either way. Well, David has 100 per cent so far with White....
Aug-15-08  Squares: Well played, tremendous play and always on the edge.
Nov-20-08  AdrianP: 2746 performance rating so far in the Olympiad. Very impressive.
Dec-13-08
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  roberts partner: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/200...
Jan-22-09  AdrianP: Today's game (Corus Round 5) completes a hat-trick for Howell. He's having the sort of tournament start that Tal habitually experienced 0 - 0 - 1 - 1 - 1.
Apr-30-09  Ladolcevita: GM David Howell ¨C actually David Wei Liang Howell. ¡°Wei¡± means ¡°great¡±, and ¡°liang¡± means ¡°kind¡±, in Mandarin Chinese. The whole middle name is pronounced like ¡°William¡± (¡°Guillermo¡± in Spanish, ¡°Guillem¡± in Catalan)

I think the mandarin name is ¡°Î°Á¼¡±according to the meanings!Anyway,this name is not very unique....

May-03-09  timhortons: [Event "4NCL 2008/2009"]
[Site "ENG"]
[Date "2009.05.02"]
[Round "9"]
[White "BA1 IM Ferguson, M 2408."]
[Black "Howell, David W L"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "2408"]
[BlackElo "2613"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2009.??.??"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O d5 9. exd5 cxd5 10. Bg5 c6 11. Na4 Be6 12. Qf3 Rb8 13. Bf5 h6 14. Bh4 Bd6 15. c3 Qd7 16. Bxf6 Bxf5 17. Bd4 Rfe8 18. Rfe1 Be4 19. Qh5 Re6 20. f3 Bc2 21. b3 Rbe8 22. Qh4 Re2 23. Bf2 Kh7 24. Qd4 Qf5 25. Rxe2 Rxe2 26. Re1 Rxe1+ 27. Bxe1 Bf4 28. Bd2 Be5 29. Qxa7 d4 30. cxd4 Bf6 31. h3 Qd3 32. Bc3 Qe3+ 33. Kh1 Bg5 34. Qxf7 Bf4 ♗lack wins 0-1 0-1

BA1 IM Ferguson,M - Howell,D, 4NCL 2008/2009 2009


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1. (-5.74): 35.Qxf4 Qxf4[]
2. (-11.19): 35.Bd2 Qxd2

May-03-09  timhortons: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/

David Howell is currently playing in 4 nations chess league.

Jul-07-09  percyblakeney: Nice win for Howell in the Greek League today, Tiviakov must be one of the strongest players he has beaten:

[Event "A' Ethniki 2009"]
[Site "Halkidiki"]
[Date "2009.07.07"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Howell, D."]
[Black "Tiviakov, S."]
[Result "1-0"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 c6 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. Nc4 Qc7 8. a4 g6 9. g3 Bg7 10. Bg2 Nb6 11. Ne5 Be6 12. a5 Nbd5 13. Ne2 Nd7 14. c4 Nb4 15. Nxd7 Qxd7 16. Qb3 Na6 17. Be3 O-O 18. O-O Rfd8 19. Rfe1 Qc8 20. Rad1 Bg4 21. h3 Bd7 22. Bg5 Re8 23. Nc3 Kf8 24. Kh2 h6 25. Be3 Kg8 26. Re2 g5 27. d5 Qc7 28. Red2 Bf5 29. Qa3 Kh7 30. b4 cxd5 31. Nxd5 Qxc4 32. Rc1 Qb5 33. Bf1 Qd7 34. Nf6+ Bxf6 35. Rxd7 Bxd7 36. Qd3+ Kg7 37. Qxd7 1-0

Jul-10-09  timhortons: i cant find the official website of this tournament but probably its a greek tourney.

check this out.

http://www.chess.com/groups/forumvi...

[Event "A' Ethniki 2009"]
[Site "Halkidiki"]
[Date "2009.07.09"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "Howell, D."]
[Black "Miroshnichenko, E."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[Annotator "Robot 3"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2009.??.??"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nf3 d6 5. Bc4 Nb6 6. Bb3 d5 7. d4 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Nc6 9. Bf4 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 e6 11. h4 Bd7 12. h5 Rc8 13. Nd2 Bc5 14. Qd3 f5 15. Be3 O-O 16. f4 Bb5 17. Qxb5 Bxe3 18. g3 Bxd2+ 19. Kxd2 Nc4+ 20. Kc2 Rf7 21. Bxc4 a6 22. Qb4 Rxc4 23. Qb3 b5 24. Rad1 Qb6 25. Kb1 h6 26. Rd3 Rfc7 27. Rhd1 Re4 28. Qc2 a5 29. Rd4 Rc4 30. b3 Rc8 31. g4 Rxd4 32. Rxd4 Qxd4 33. cxd4 Rxc2 34. Kxc2 fxg4 35. Kd3 g6 0-1


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Jul-30-09  JG27Pyth: Is David's highest rating correct? It shows here as 2614, but on his website his current rating is given as 2416 ... hmmm?
Jul-30-09  JG27Pyth: Well, I just checked the fide site and 2614 is correct. The kid's a good chessplayer but he doesn't update his website very well... :P
Aug-07-09  wordfunph: By drawing your last round game against IM Gary Lane, let me be the 1st to congratulate you as the Champ of the 2009 British Championship!

Hope you win the 2010 British Championship GM David Howell!

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