John Nunn

John Denis Martin Nunn ( born April 25, 1955 in London ) is an English chess player and chess theorist.

Tournament Players

John Nunn was 1975/1976 Youth European Champion in 1978 and was awarded the Grandmaster title. In 1980 he became British Champion.

His strongest time he had when he scored in the 1980s and early 1990s for a long time to advanced world class. He won in 1982, 1990 and 1991 respectively, the traditional tournament at Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands).

Since the NH tournament in August 2006 Nunn has not played a game more -evaluated so that his Elo rating is unchanged since October 2006 2602. He would thus in eighth place of the English ranking (as of March 2014), but is considered inactive. His previous best Elo rating was 2630 in January 1995.

Chess team

National

John Nunn took in the years 1976 to 1994 participated in all the chess Olympiads for England. During this time the English team won two bronze and three silver medal. He received gold for his individual result at the Chess Olympiad 1984 in Thessaloniki and in 1988 a silver medal. In 1984, he also reached the best Elo performance of all participants. At the European Team Championships in 1977, 1980, 1983, 1989 and 1992 Nunn was part of the England team. 1980 and 1992 the team reached the third place in 1980, which also succeeded Nunn, the highest individual score on the third board. Nunn took part with the English selection at the World Team Championships in 1985, 1989 and 1997. In the second match USSR vs. the World, which was held in London in 1984, Nunn was part of the world selection. In his three games he ever achieved a draw against Mikhail Tal and Oleh Romani Shin, a second game against the valley he lost.

Chess club

In the British Four Nations Chess League Nunn played from 1996 to 1999 for the Invicta Knights Maidstone, in the season 1999/2000 for index - IT, which resulted from the merger of the Invicta Knights Maidstone Home with House, and from 2000 to 2002 Beeson Gregory, the result of the merger of index -IT with The ADs. He won the competition in 2001 and 2002.

In the German Chess Bundesliga Nunn played from 1983 to 1988 and again in 1993/ 94 for the Hamburger SK from 1988 to 1992 Solinger SG 1868, in the 1992/93 season for the Munich SC 1836, 1994-1997 for PSV Duisburg and from 1999 to 2003 for the Lübeck chess club in 1873, with whom he was in 2001, 2002 and 2003 German team champion.

Game example

Nunn called his victory with Black against Alexander Beliavsky from the second round of Wijk aan Zee in 1985 as one of the best games he ever played. She was chosen by the jury of Schachinformators the best game of the first half of 1985.

Beliavsky - Nunn, King's Indian (ECO code E81 )

1 d2 -d4 Ng8 - f6 2 c2 - c4 g7- g6 3 Nb1 - c3 Bf8 - g7 4 e2- e4 d7 - d6 5 f2 -f3 0-0 6 Lc1 -e3 Sb8 - d7 7 Dd1 - c7 - c5 d2 8 d4 -d5 Nd7 - e5 9 h3 Nf6 - h5 - h2 10 Be3 - f2 - f7 f5 11 12 g2 - g4 e4xf5 Tf8xf5 Tf5xf3 13 g4xh5 Qd8 -f8 14 Sc3 e4 Bg7 - h6 15 Dd2 -c2 DF8 f4 16 Sg1 - e2 Tf3xf2 17 Se4xf2 Ne5 -f3 18 Ke1 -d1 Df4 - h4 19 Sf2 -d3 Bc8 - f5 20 Se2 -c1 Nf3 -d2 21 h5xg6 h7xg6 22 Lf1 - g2 Sd2xc4 23 Dc2 - f2 Sc4 e3 24 Kd1 - e2 Dh4 - c4 25 Lg2 -f3 -f8 26 Ta8 Th1 g1 Se3 -c2 -d1 27 Ke2 Lf5xd3 White gave up, 0:1.

Chess composition

In 2004, Nunn won in Chalkidiki, the 28th World Cup in solving chess problems and studies. At the same time he filled the final norm for the title of Grand Master in solving chess compositions. He repeated this success with the release of 31 World Cup 2007 in Rhodes, and the 34th release 2010 World Cup in Crete.

He is the third man to whom both a tournament chess grandmaster title and a grandmaster title was awarded in solving. Before him this succeeded his British compatriot Jonathan Mestel and the Israeli Ram Soffer.

Seduction:

Immediate figure Fang 1 Kf6? b3 2 b2 3 KG7 Kxh8 B1d 4.Kg7 leads to the loss, because after Dg1 5 Kf7 Dd4 6 Kg8 dG4 7 8 Kf7 Qf5 KG7 DG5 9.Kf7 dh6 10 Kg8 Qg6 Kh8 11 Black picks up the stalemate, eg with Kc5 12 b6 b7 DF7 13 DF8 matt.

Therefore, first, the superfluous white mass to eliminate. This is done by entering the square of the black farmer with the threat of his conquest.

Solution:

1 Kd4! Kxb5 now return 2 KE5! b3 and now is the main plan nothing in the way. 3 Kf6 b2 4 KG7 B1d 5 Kxh8 with theoretical draw, for now, after the appearance of the black queen on g6 the stalemate no longer be canceled as in the seduction.

Author

Nunn is a prolific chess author. He has rendered outstanding by numerous publications in the use of new knowledge to the endgame databases in the endgame theory and in chess composition.

Private

Nunn studied from 1970 at the University of Oxford mathematics and was only 15 years, the youngest " Undergraduate ", which was accepted in Oxford for about 500 years. In 1978 he received his PhD in algebraic topology, in the same year in which he was Grand Master.

Since October 1995 Nunn is married to the German FIDE champion Petra Fink, who previously played in the 2nd Bundesliga Women.

Works (selection)

  • Tactical Chess Endings. Niedernhausen 1985, ISBN 3-8068-0752-3, (orig. Tactical chess endings )
  • Solving in Style. George Allen and Unwin 1985/Gambit 2002, ISBN 1-901983-66-8
  • Najdorf for tournament players. Niedernhausen 1990, ISBN 3-8068-1121-0, (orig. The Najdorf for the tournament player ).
  • Secrets of Rook Endings. BT Batsford Ltd., London 1992, ISBN 0-7134-7164-6
  • Secrets of Pawnless Endings. BT Batsford Ltd., London 1994, ISBN 0-7134-7508-0
  • Secrets of Minor Piece Endings. BT Batsford Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-7134-7727- X
  • Secrets of Practical Chess, Gambit Publications, 1998. ISBN 1-901983-01-3. ( German title: Chess Secrets)
  • Secrets of grandmaster chess. Hollfeld 2001, ISBN 3-88805-269-6, (orig. Secrets of Grandmaster Chess )
  • Endgame challenge, Gambit Publications 2002, ISBN 1-901983-83-8
  • Understanding Chess train to train, Gambit Publications 2002, ISBN 1-901983-76-5, (orig. Understanding chess move by move)
  • Introduction to chess tactics, Gambit Publications 2004, ISBN 1-904600-11-5, (orig. Learn chess tactics )
  • Grandmaster Chess train to train, Gambit Publications 2006, ISBN 978-1-904600-51-0, (orig. Grandmaster chess move by move)
  • Understanding chess endgames, Gambit Publications, 2009 ISBN 978-1-906454-11-1
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