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	Jon Speelman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jonathan Speelman (born October 2, 1956) is an English chess player.
		Winner of the British Chess Championship in 1978, 1985 and 1986, Speelman is a regular member of the English Chess Olympiad team.
		Speelman is noted for his imaginative style, often choosing unobvious ways to carry on his games.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jon_Speelman (249 words)

	Jon Speelman's Best Games (Jonathan Gm Speelman) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		When Speelman gets unhappy with his position almost anything can happen, and his opponents are chronically aware of the "swindling hazard" they incur by gaining an advantage against him.
		Speelman is one of the game's great fighters, as witness his wins against players like John Nunn, Nigel Short, Tony Miles and Viktor Korchnoy.
		Speelman is breathtakingly candid about his thought processes and the sometimes apparently random factors that make the difference.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/1879479605.htm (427 words)

	Stratford Chess Club - Fat Boy Board 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		This is a well known position in the Four Knights Variation and GM Jon Speelman had presumably been there many times before, but at that time Jonathan had little theory and was gazing at the position with the same blank stare that must have crossed Cortes' face when he first stumbled upon the Aztec civilisation.
		Jonathan feels retrospective embarrassment at not holding what he even now sees as "a winning position", but he has in my view nothing to chide himself with.
		Jonathan has subsequently reflected on the regulatory rules under which simuls are played and makes some interesting observations about how the conditions affected him.
	www.stratfordchess.com /members/fat2.htm (818 words)

	Brit 98
		There was no such luck for Scotland's Jonathan Rowson, needed a win against GM Praveen Thipsay, from India, to secure a nine round GM norm, which would have been his third and final.
		And, it was the simplest of all tactics in the notoriously solid Tartakower variation that took top seed Nigel Short onto 3/3 in the Smith and Williamson British championships in Torquay after his opponent, GM Keith Arkell, lost two pawns and was forced to resign in just 26 moves.
		Speelman arrived in Torquay just hours before the first round after being delayed by a combination of planes, trains and automobiles in Copenhagen.
	www.chessscotland.com /archives/brit98.htm (3490 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Sports -> Ramesh, Barua among joint leaders at end of 5th round (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Sharing the lead with the Indians on 4 points were GM Jonathan Speelman, GM Peter Wells and IM Pert Nicholas.
		It was an English opening by Speelman, who played white, and though Sandipan put up stiff resistance, he was caught unawares in the complexities of the middle game.
		As the game progressed, Speelman pocketed a pawn and the resulting end game of bishops of opposite colours held no chance for Sandipan, who resigned on the 41st move.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/08/03/03chess2.html (513 words)

	The chess games of Jonathan Speelman
		Jonathan Simon Speelman was born on the 2nd of October 1956 in London, England.
		: Speelman made it through to the Candidates stage of the 1987-1990 WC cycle, and eliminated Seirawan and Short before being beaten in the semi-final by Timman.
		A match in which Speelman was one of Short's seconds.
	www.chessgames.com /player/jonathan_speelman.html (516 words)

	Jon Speelman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Winner of the British Chess Championship in1978, 1985 and 1986, Speelman is a regular member of the English ChessOlympiad team.
		His third place in the 1987 Subotica Interzonal tournamentqualified him for the World Chess Championship candidates matches (which determine who will challenge the reigning champion).
		He has written a number ofbooks on chess, including several on the endgame, among them Analysing theEndgame (Batsford, 1981), Endgame Preparation (Batsford, 1981) and Batsford Chess Endings (Batsford, 1993,co-author with Jon Tisdall and Bob Wade).
	www.therfcc.org /jon-speelman-256819.html (209 words)

	The Daily Dirt Chess Blog: Comment on Chess in Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		I was so taken by the beauty of the position that I stayed for the credits after the movie, saw that the chess consultant was Jonathan Speelman, and later messaged him on ICC.
		He told me the source of the position (the problem by the composer whose name I forget) and explained that he (Speelman) worked backwards from the position to create a game that would lead to it.
		Speelman did a great job, as did the director for insisting on a high-level of technical authenticity.
	www.chessninja.com /cgi-bin/mt-commentator.cgi?entry_id=620 (1477 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Sports -> Double delight for Indians at British Open Chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		They are GM Jonathan Speelman, GM Peter Wells, Stewart Haslinger (all from England) GM Joseph Gallaghar (Switzerland) GM Jonathan Rowson (Scotland), Harikrishna and Ramesh.
		Speelman gave a brilliant display of attacking chess to outclass World Juniors Girls Champion Koneru Humpy.
		Speelman employed the Reti opening and got the game transposed to a reverse Benoni wherein Humpy failed to find the right plan.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/08/08/08chess.html (513 words)

	CHESS IRELAND
		John Nunn is also returning for a third shot at the title which he has so far tied for twice, but not yet won.
		The four grandmasters (John Nunn, Tony Miles, Mark Hebden and Jonathan Levitt) won with varying degrees of ease, but on board five the 1998 champion Luke McShane IM fell victim to an unexpected combination in the Sveshnikov Sicilian, which was unleashed by top Irish junior player Sam Collins.
		Three of the GM contingent maintained their winning ways, but Jonathan Levitt could only draw against Joe Ryan.
	www.iol.ie /~jghurley/bun2000.htm (1430 words)

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		At the hearing were present the five members of the FIDE Doping Hearing Panel Arthur Schuering, Dewperkash Gajadin, Klaus Deventer, Jonathan Speelman and Sergey Dolmatov, and the player Bobby Miller, accompanied by his counsel Nigel Freeman.
		The competence of the FIDE Doping Hearing Panel The player Bobby Miller has been notified that according to article 5 of the FIDE Anti-Doping Regulations the members of the FIDE Doping Hearing Panel should be appointed by the FIDE Executive Board.
		This decision is given by Arthur Schuering, Dewperkash Gajadin, Klaus Deventer, Jonathan Speelman and Sergey Dolmatov, and is orally communicated to Bobby Miller on october 30th 2004 and is sent to him in written form on november 4th 2004.
	www.fide.com /news/download/Miller_Panel.doc (767 words)

	Chess - More FIDE Madness
		Deventer, Jonathan Speelman and Sergey Dolmatov, and is orally communicated to
		Jonathan Speelman and Sergey Dolmatov, and is orally communicated to Bobby
		Deventer, Jonathan Speelman and Sergey Dolmatov, and is orally
	www.chessbanter.com /printthread.php?t=11698 (3739 words)

	Body
		In round 9 Nigel Short reclaimed his share of the lead as it was Matthew Sadler's turn to drop half a point to Sasikiran, in a similar fashion to the way Short had done in round 7.
		The Indian had to withstand considerable pressure from both the Englishmen, but after their attacks had broken down it was he who gained the initiative and both Short and Sadler found ways to neutralise his advantage and draw the endings after exchanges.
		Short, meanwhile, had beaten Jonathan Speelman, and it was a surprise that Speelman, acknowledged as Britain's leading endgame expert, played on for so long while two pawns down.
	home.freeuk.net /chesscoach/recorder/1998/art0813.html (1042 words)

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		Dutch Treat by Hans Ree ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CHESSPLAYER During a recent tournament in Leeuwarden, capital of the Dutch province Friesland, I had a conversation with Jonathan Speelman about our ways of earning money and he told me that recently he had found a nice little sideline.
		Speelman said that to his shame he had to confess that he had never read the book till the end.
		The players who had the best reason to be satisfied with their performance were Gleizerov and Ivan Sokolov, who tied for first, and the Dutch player Manuel Bosboom, who shared third place with Lobron, Speelman and Van Wely and made his first GM norm.
	www.chesscafe.com /text/hans18.txt (692 words)

	The Week in Chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		This match will demonstrate that, not only is it a serious chess festival, but there is also something for everybody.' The time limit was five minutes each with a ten second increment.
		Moves were made in the following order: Shirov (white), Speelman (fl), Andreev (white), Harding (fl) so as you play through the moves bear in mind the two grandmasters played the odd-numbered moves.
		Jonathan Rowson visited the London Chess Centre Thursday 3rd November 2005.
	www.chesscenter.com /twic/twic/event/chgbr02/kasvas14mar.html (4616 words)

	Welcome to UK Chess Challenge
		David, the 12 year old prodigy from Sussex, had already established his credentials earlier in the week by disposing of Grandmaster Jonathan Speelman in a match sponsored by British Land at Regents Place in Euston, also played on a giant chess set.
		On the edges of the courtyard two large demonstration boards had been erected and Grandmasters Jonathan Levitt and Daniel King were regaling the spectators on the intricacies of the game as it progressed.
		After the exhibition match, the two young players plus Grandmaster Daniel King took part in simultaneous chess displays against members of the public and UK Chess Challenge Supremi (the UK Chess Challenge, sponsored by British Land, is the largest chess tournament in the world involving 66,000 children from 2,000 schools).
	www.ukchesschallenge.com /howell_karjakin_press_release.shtml (738 words)

	Welcome to UK Chess Challenge
		David Howell, 12 years old, was facing 47 year old Jonathan Speelman, three times British Champion, World Championship semi-finalist with a victory over Gary Kasparov to his credit.
		Few gave David much chance in this encounter, as Speelman, although not as strong a player as he was 10 years ago, still commands a regular place in the powerful English Olympic team.
		After an equal opening, Speelman played a natural looking move which turned out to be a tactical blunder.
	www.ukchesschallenge.com /speelmanVhowell.shtml (285 words)

	Harikrishna outsmarts Chanda
		The only loser was Chanda who went down after an intense battle against Harikrishna, while Bakre moved within striking distance of his final GM norm after beating GM Ernesto Inarkiev of Russia with fl pieces.
		Ganguly was back in form as he crushed highly rated GM Jonathan Speelman of England.
		It was a Caro Kann defence where the Englishman could not really solve his opening problems in one of the main variations.
	inhome.rediff.com /sports/2004/feb/03chess.htm (587 words)

	Chessmetrics Ratings: Speelman, Jonathan S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		These ratings, calculated for Speelman, Jonathan S, incorporate all games (against rated opponents) played in the year before the "Date of rating", along with the ratings that were already calculated one year previously.
		If a player has an insufficient number of games in recent years, there may be gaps in the list, even though you may see ratings listed on previous and/or subsequent dates.
		Click on the link to see the sorted list of all players' ratings on their birthdays when turning that same age.
	www.chessmetrics.com /PL/PL38358.htm (331 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Watch top GMs play blitz
		After six rounds Alexey Dreev was unbeaten and in the lead, followed by Mikhail Golubev, Andrei Volokitin, Mateusz Bartel, Peter Heine Nielsen and Jonathan Speelman.
		After round 17 Dreev was once again in the lead, half a point ahead of Heine and Speelman.
		Since there were two players tied for third — Speelman and Dreev — a tiebreak match was played to decide who would get a place in the finals on Saturday.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1679 (416 words)

	ChessMoves - September 1998
		This year's Smith and Williamson British Championship culminated in "the toughest chess for almost a decade," in the words of Jonathan Speelman.
		He gave a speech at the prize-giving ceremony instead of the British Champion - because the holder of the title was still to be decided.
		The first prize of £10,000 and several other generous prizes provided the incentive for players to go for the kill.
	www.bcfchess.demon.co.uk /chessmoves/9809.html (710 words)

	Chessmetrics Ratings: Speelman, Jonathan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		These ratings for Speelman, Jonathan are calculated yearly, as of January 1st of the indicated year.
		Each yearly rating incorporates all rated games played in the preceding year, along with the ratings that were already calculated at the start of that year.
		Each year, everyone's rating on the January 1st list has been increased/decreased by an identical amount, so that the average rating of the #8 through #12 players is aligned at 2600.
	www.chessmetrics.com /player_lists/Player3375.html (95 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Gibraltar: GM P. Harikrishna beat GM Jonathan Rowson of Scotland to join the leaders after the sixth round of the Gibraltar chess meet on Monday.
		Second seed Alexei Dreev of Russia, Jonathan Speelman of England and GM Abhijit Kunte are also on 4.5.
		The middle-game had all the ingredients of an exciting battle after Sandipan had sacrificed a pawn on the king-side to launch an attack.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040203/asp/sports/story_2854588.asp (346 words)

	H.Y.D.R.A C.H.E.S.S . com
		This year it was extended to six players playing a double-cycle all-play-all: Jonathan Speelman (ENG, 2549g), David Howell (ENG, 2471m), Colin McNab (SCO, 2451g), Jonathan Levitt (ENG, 2441g), Jovanka Houska (ENG, 2342m), Lawrence Day (CAN, 2270m).
		Final: Colin McNab was ousted from joint first place and replaced by Jonathan Levitt, who beat the Scottish GM in 58 moves to share first place with Jonathan Speelman.
		This was a remarkable turnaround for Levitt, who had been in last place at the end of the first cycle but then reeled off 4½/5 (including four straight wins in his final four games) to share first.
	www.hydrachess.com /main.cfm?middle=cfm/news_show.cfm&id=824 (248 words)

	British Chess Magazine: The Art of Chess Exhibition, Gilbert Collection, 28 June to 30 November 2003
		To kick off the Gilbert Collection's Art of Chess exhibition, an open-air match on a giant-sized chessboard in the courtyard of Somerset House was played on 28 June, featuring 13-year-old Ukrainian grandmaster Sergey Karyakin, and the 12-year-old English FIDE Master and young player of the year, David Howell, from Seaford.
		Karyakin, who has been tipped by many (including himself!) as a future World Champion, drew the fl pieces, and the game began with the spectators crowded round four or five deep, trying to get a glimpse of the moves.
		On the edges of the courtyard two large demonstration boards had been erected and Grandmasters Jonathan Levitt and Daniel King were keeping the spectators informed on the game as it progressed.
	www.bcmchess.co.uk /news/exhibition2003.html (2923 words)

	Garri Kasparow, Jonathan Speelman, Robert G. Wade - Garry Kasparov’s Fighting Chess - 320 Seiten, 300 Diagramme, ...
		This thoroughly updated new edition covers Kasparov's recent career in detail, and looks to the future as he battles to retain his supremacy against a horde of hungry young players.
		The notes to the games are either Kasparov's own, based on Kasparov's notes, or are by Jon Speelman, who was Nigel Short's second when he had the awesome task of fighting Kasparov for the world title.
		Jon Speelman is a World Championship semi-finalist, who has formed part of the backbone of the England team which has won the Olympic silver medals on three occasions.
	www.niggemann.com /detail/buecher/2523.html (391 words)

	rediff.com sports: Ramesh wins British Chess Championship
		Flear beat GM Jonathan Speelman of England in the last round.
		The 15-year-old played against top seeded GM Sasikikran, third seeded GM Pendyala Harikrishna, sixth seeded GM Jonathan Rowson, eighth seeded GM Bogdan lalic and drew with them all.
		The game she lost was against second seeded GM Jonathan Speelman, in the ninth round.
	www.rediff.com /sports/2002/aug/10chess.htm (617 words)

	The Observer \| Magazine \| The man who would be king
		Even 'normal' professionals, like our own Nigel Short and Jonathan Speelman, tend to betray curious eccentricities.
		Short speaks English as though it were a foreign language and Speelman looks, in his clothes and grooming, like a mad professor plotting to blow up the world.
		It should be said in his defence that Kasparov, though a genius at the game, has never particularly looked the part.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,1553046,00.html (3035 words)

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