Colin McNab

Colin McNab ( born July 3, 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish chess champion.

Life

McNab is a staff member of the magazine " The Scottish Chess" and author of chess books. He is also a PhD in mathematics. He completed his studies at the University of Oxford.

Achievements

OTB

McNab has been one of the early 1980s to the top players in Scotland. He won four times (1983, 1991, 1993 and 1995), the Scottish Cup. Between 1980 and 2012 he was sixteen times the Scottish national team at the Chess Olympiad ( 1998, he not only took part ), which he is Scottish record player. Three times (1989, 1992 and 2005) he took for Scotland at the European Team Championships in part, each time on the first board with ease. In 1992, he became the second Scot in history, the FIDE awarded the title of Grand Master by Paul Motwani. In 2003, he shared second place in Klaksvík, for the year 2003/ 04 he scored a significant success in Hastings, when he shared second place behind Sachar Jefymenko with Bartosz Socko and Bogdan Lalic. He was third at the Howard Staunton Memorial in London in 2005 and won in Coulsdon. The following year, he shared in the same place number one.

In the Four Nations Chess League McNab played in the 1996/97 season at Northumbria from 1998 to 2006, Slough, with whom he was in 1999 and 2000 British Team Champion; Since 2008 he plays at White Rose.

His current Elo rating in OTB chess is 2449 (as of March 2014), its highest ever Elo rating of 2500, he reached in January 1998.

Solving chess problems

At the 28th World Championship in solving chess problems and studies, he finished 2004 on Chalkidiki 31st place, at the 30th World Cup 2006 in Wageningen, he was 10 and was part of the victorious British national, and in 2008 he was ranked 40th on Rhodes He wears the title of International Master in solving chess spending.

Works (selection)

• The Fianchetto King's Indian, 1996
• English with c5
• Pirc without Classical
• The Ultimate Pirc, 1998 ( with John Nunn )