David Howell (chess player)

David Wei Liang Howell ( born November 14, 1990 in Eastbourne ) is an English grandmaster in chess.

Howell is 16 years old the youngest British chess player ever, who could win the title of Grand Master. In January 2007, Howell met with the second place in the " Rilton Cup" in Stockholm the third Grandmaster norm and thus sparked his compatriot Luke McShane from as the youngest ever British, which was bestowed this title.

Howell learned to play chess at age five and quickly made ​​progress, he was master of each of British youth under 8 -, 9 - and 10 -year-olds. In 2001 he was sent to tiebreaker third at the U12 European Championship in Kallithea (Chalkidiki ) and second in the U12 World Cup.

Caused a stir Howell early in blitz chess, in 1999 at the age of eight, he could defeat the English Grandmaster John Nunn; In 2001 he played as a 11 -year-old a competition in speed chess against the World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik. In the match over four games he succeeded in the fourth fight a draw.

2008 Howell won the 26th International Open of Andorra with 8 points from 9 games ( 7 -0 = 2). At the Chess Olympiad 2008 he played on board 3 of the English team and scored 7.5 points from 11 games, at the Chess Olympiad in 2010 he came to board 4 to 4.5 points from 8 games. In 2009 he won the British Championship in Torquay with 9 points from 11 games. 2008, 2009 ( shared with Mark Hebden ) and 2010 he won the British Championship in rapid chess.

At the London Chess Classic 2009, a tournament of Category 18 and got behind Magnus Carlsen and Vladimir Kramnik at No. 3, scoring an Elo performance of 2760th

In the Four Nations Chess League, he plays for the London team Pride and Prejudice. In the chess Bundesliga since the 2010/2011 season playing for the SG Trier.

His Elo rating is 2640 (as of May 2013), so he is # 4 on the British rankings.

Howell studied folklore, mythology and medieval literature at Cardiff University.

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