John Grefe

John Alan Grefe ( born September 6, 1947 in Hoboken (New Jersey), † December 22, 2013 in San Francisco) was an American chess player and author.

His biggest success was the split of chess with Lubomir Kavalek first place in the United States Chess Championship 1973 in El Paso (Texas ). At this time he had no title and no international Elo rating. He was a devotee of Guru Maharaj Ji. The title of International Master received Grefe 1975. Thereafter stagnated his chess career. He was able to defeat many well-known players in each match and win but no major tournaments more.

Grefe was considered a good tactician and opening expert. For Walter Browne, he worked Interzonal in 1976 as Sekundant. Later Grefe also wrote several chess books.

At the age of 66 years Grefe died of kidney cancer.

Game example

At the Open of Lone Pine in 1979 Grefe won against Arnold Denker by opening unconventional treatment in just 22 moves.

Grefe - thinkers

1 e2- e4 c7 - c6 2 d2 -d3 d7 -d5 3 Nb1 -d2 Qd8 - c7 f2 - f4 Dc7xf4 4 5 Sg1 -f3 - f6 Ng8 6 Nd2 -b3 Df4 - c7 7 e4 e5 Nf6 - g4 8 d3- d4 - f5 Bc8 9 Nf3 - h4 Bf5 - d7 10 Lf1 - e2 Sg4 - h6 11 Lc1xh6 g7xh6 12 OO Sb8 - a6 13 Le2xa6 b7xa6 14 Sb3 c5 e7 - e6 15 Dd1 - h5 Bd7 - c8 16 Tf1 - f6 Lf8xc5 17 d4xc5 Ta8 - b8 18 Ta1 - T8 f1 -f8 19 Dh5xh6 Dc7xe5 20 Dh6xh7 Tb8xb2 21 Tf6xf7 Tf8xf7 22 dH7 - g8 Black resigned. 1-0

Works

  • Understanding the Queen 's Indian Defence (1981, with Andrew Soltis, Edmar Mednis and Raymond Keene )
  • The Best of Lone Pine: The Louis D. Statham Chess Tournaments 1971-1980 (1981, with Dennis Waterman )
  • Progressing through chess: The thirty -five best chess books and how to use them (1981 )
  • Center Counter (1983, with Jeremy Silman )
  • French Defense for Black (1984, with Jeremy Silman )
  • Modern Benoni for Black ( 1984)
  • Queen 's Indian defense: Recent developments in 4.a3 (1984 )
  • Winning with the French Defense (1985, with Jeremy Silman )
  • Offbeat Sicilian: Unorthodox Ways to Win With White ( 1987)
  • Mastering the Chess Openings (1992 )
  • The Chess Tactician 's Handbook (1993 )
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