Robert Wade (chess player)
Robert " Bob" Graham Wade OBE ( born April 10, 1921 in Dunedin, New Zealand, † November 29, 2008 in London, United Kingdom) was a British chess champion of New Zealand origin.
Life
Wade grew up as the oldest of seven children on a farm and learned to play chess from his father. In the city library of Dunedin, he deepened his knowledge by reading the British Chess Magazine and the works of Cecil Purdy. He also made the acquaintance of John Boyd Dunlop, who was 1920-1940 six times New Zealand champion.
Wade made rapid progress and won 1943/44, 1944/45 and 1947/48 the championship of New Zealand. In 1945 he also played in the Australian Championship and finished there in second place. From 1948, he traveled through Europe for four years. 1949 he lived for a time in Germany and played tournaments in Heidelberg and Oldenburg. He participated as a representative of Australia and New Zealand participate in the FIDE Congress in Paris in 1949 and was elected to the Rules Committee. In 1950 he played in Bamberg a contest over ten games against Lothar Schmid, who ended without drawn games 5:5. In the same year Wade died in an international tournament in Venice in 5th place and was one of the first players the title of International Master.
In 1952 he won in Chester for the first time the British national championship. In the same year he participated in the inter-zonal tournament in Saltsjöbaden, finished there but only the 18th place among 21 participants. He had in the following years a number of successes at the national level, so he won, among other smaller tournaments in Ilford 1957 and 1968, Paignton 1959, Dublin 1962, Southend -on-Sea in 1965. For international tournaments he usually could not, however, place it in the front of the field although he scored individual victories over grandmasters. 1963, 1964 and 1965, he participated in Havana at the Capablanca Memorial Tournament. In Coventry 1970 Wade was again British national champion, after he had become in 1961 and 1969 respectively second behind Jonathan Penrose.
He played in a total of seven Chess Olympiads: 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1972 for England, 1970 in Siegen for New Zealand. Overall, he scoring 48 points from 92 games. He also took part in 1973 for England at the European Team Championship.
Since the 1970s, Wade worked as a youth coach and contributed much to the promotion of chess in the UK at. In 1979 he was honored for his achievements with the title Order of the British Empire. He remained active into old age schachlich and took off in 1991 at several World and European Veterans Championships in part. Also in the 1993 Four Nations Chess League introduced Wade still played from 1993 to 1996 and from 1998 to 2001 in the top division, Division 1 since 1958 was also Wade International Chess referee. He was an honorary member ( Honorary Member) FIDE. His best historical Elo rating was 2499 in August 1972.
The Meran Semi-Slav defense system of the variant is 1 d2 -d4 d7 -d5 2 c4 c2 - c7 - c6 3.Sg1 -f3 - f6 Ng8 4.Sb1 - c3 e7 - e6 5.e2 -e3 Sb8 - d7 6. Lf1 -d3 b7 - b5 d5xc4 7.Ld3xc4 8.Lc4 -d3 Bc8 - b7 named after him.
Scripture Combinatorial activity
Wade wrote, some with co-authors, numerous chess books. His first book dealt with the world championship match in 1951 in Moscow Mikhail Botvinnik and David Bronstein between, was himself present at the Wade as Vice President of FIDE. He pursued interested in chess life in the Soviet Union and wrote about it in 1968, the book Soviet Chess. From 1968 to 1972 he published the magazine Chessman Quarterly. This opening theoretical analyzes have been published that were based on the systematic evaluation of the Russian press. Wade was at this time as one of the leading experts in the West and created the opening for Bobby Fischer several dossiers on the opening repertoire of his opponents on the way to the world title. Later, Wade worked as a consultant to the Batsford of chess publishing house in London, where also published several of his books.
Game example
At the very beginning of his chess career Wade managed in a correspondence game a nice combination, based on a fork motif.
In the diagram position, 19 Dc2xg6 followed h7xg6 20 Lc4xf7 Tf8xf7 21 Th3 - h8 Kg8xh8 22 Sg5xf7 Kh8 - h7 23 Sf7xd6 Ta8 -d8 - e6 24 Re1. White has achieved a winning position, Black was therefore on.
Chess composition
Wade was on March 19, 1965 one of the eleven founders of Chess Endgame Study Circle from which the EC magazine emerged. He often took part in meetings of the British Chess Problem Society.