Luke McShane

Luke James McShane ( born January 7, 1984 in London ) is a British world-class player in chess.

McShane began his career as a chess prodigy. As a 5 - year-old he won his first youth tournament, as a 7- year-old he was British youth champion of the under 9 years of age, two years later masters of the under 11 year olds. In 1992 he won the World Championship of under 10 year olds in Duisburg. As a 11- year-old he took ( a record ) for the first time participated in the British national championship of adults. Age of 13, he became an International Master. He won grandmaster norms in tournaments of Lippstadt in 1998, Reykjavik in 2000 and Copenhagen in 2000, whereupon his FIDE awarded the Grandmaster title in the same year. When he was 16 he had become the youngest British Grandmaster so far.

In 2002, he first played for England at the Chess Olympiad in Bled, and was second at the World Junior Championship in Goa. In 2003, he won strong tournaments occupied in Esbjerg (together with Alexei Drejew and K. Sasikiran ) and in Malmo, also in 2003 and 2004, the Young Masters in Lausanne. At the turn of 2003/2004 he was in Pamplona tied for first ( with Emil Sutovsky and Miguel Illescas Córdoba). In 2005 he won in Igualada against Viktor Korchnoi, Alexander Beliavsky and Andrij Volokitin.

In the years 2009-2012 he participated in the London Chess Classic tournament part. In 2011 he won the Tata Steel Chess tournament in Group B along with David Navara. In 2012 he played with the Moscow Tal Memorial.

McShane studied at the University of Oxford philosophy and mathematics and worked for the investment bank Goldman Sachs in London.

Chess team

National

Luke McShane took part with the English team at the Chess Olympiads in 2002, 2004 and 2010. At the European Team Championships in 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013, he belonged to the English selection.

Chess club

McShane played for the first time nine years old in the 1993/94 season at Covent Garden in the Four Nations Chess League. Also in the 1994/95 season he played in Croydon, then from 1995 to 1998 in Richmond from 1998 to 2000 Bigwood, from 2000 to 2002 at Beeson Gregory, from 2003 to 2006 in Wood Green, in the 2008 /09 season at Guildford A & DC and, since 2009 at Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher. McShane became a British team champion 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2010 and 2012. In the German Chess Bundesliga Luke McShane 1996-1999 at SV Erfurt West (from 1998 Erfurt SK), and since 1999 he plays for SV Werder Bremen, he with the 2005 German team champion. In the French Top 16 ( up to 2003 National I) McShane played from 2001 to 2003 for the Club de Vandoeuvre - Echecs and from 2003 to 2006 for the Association Cannes Echecs.

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