Glenn Flear

Glenn Curtis Flear ( born February 12, 1959 in Leicester ) is an English chess player and author of several chess books, primarily for opening and endgame theory.

Flear was in 1983 awarded by the World Chess Federation FIDE International Master and in 1987 the Grand Master title. Among his greatest tournament successes include winning the " GLC Tournament" in London in 1986, in which he and the only participating non- Grandmaster players in the world at that time class as Chandler, Short, Nunn, Ribli, Polugajewski, Portisch, Spassky, Vaganian, Speelman, Larsen left behind, scoring his first Grandmaster norm. During the tournament Flear married the French chess player Christine Leroy (1967, now "International Women's Champion " and five -time winner of the French Women's Championships ). 1986 Flear qualified with the second place in the zone tournament of Bath for the Interzonal in Szirák in the same year. There he finished in 15th place at 18 participants.

Flear lives with Christine and his two sons in France.

His current Elo rating is 2490 (as of March 2014), in July 1999, he reached his highest ever Elo rating of 2555th

Chess team

National

Flear belonged to three team competitions with the English squad: In 1986, he won with England, the silver medal at the Chess Olympiad in Dubai, in 2003 he played in the European Team Championship in 1985 at the World Team Championship.

Chess club

In the British Four Nations Chess League played Flear in the 1993/94 season at the Barbican Chess Club from 1997 to 1999 under Invicta Knights Maidstone from 2000 to 2002 Beeson Gregory, from 2002 to 2009 and again since 2011 in Guildford A & DC as well as 2009-2011 in Pride and Prejudice. He won the competition in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2013. In the top division of the French team championship (until 2003 National I, then Top 16 ) played Flear to 2009 Montpellier Echecs. In the German Chess Bundesliga he played in the 1983/84 season at King Knight Frankfurt, but the club after five rounds was ( the Flear all starred ) withdrawn from the league.

Works (selection)

  • Starting Out: Pawn Endings. Everyman Chess, London 2004, ISBN 1-85744-362-4
  • Test Your Endgame Thinking. Everyman Chess, London 2002 ISBN 1-85744-305-5
  • Mastering the Endgame. Everyman Chess, London 2001, ISBN 1-85744-233-4
  • Improve Your Endgame Play. Everyman Chess, London 2000, ISBN 1-85744-246-6
Chess endgame Murray Chandler Nigel Short John Nunn Lev Polugaevsky Lajos Portisch Rafael Vaganian Jon Speelman Bent Larsen 27th Chess Olympiad World Team Chess Championship Michael Adams (chess player) Keith Arkell Stuart Conquest Nigel Davies (chess player) Stephen J. Gordon Stewart Haslinger Julian Hodgson David Howell (chess player) Gawain Jones Daniel J. King Anthony Kosten Luke McShane Jonathan Mestel Jonathan Penrose Michael Stean William Watson (chess player) Harry Golombek Jacques Mieses Integrated Authority File
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