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...2024, England is the No1 nation in senior chess for over-50s and over-65s, with several gold and silver medals in recent world team championships, plus individual world titles for John Nunn and Michael Adams...
...The eight-time British champion Michael Adams had a peak of 2761 back in 2013, but is currently 2671 at age 52....
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...In their prime years, both Adams and Nunn were close to the world’s best....
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...Hopes of a top-three finish were encouraged by last week’s world seniors gold medals for Michael Adams and John Nunn....
...Michael Adams, 51, is top seeded in the over-50s, and shares the lead with three others on 5/6; while John Nunn, 68, is top seeded in the over-65s and leads on 5.5/6, half a point ahead of five pursuers...
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...In 2022, England won a tight race with the United States that was decided only when Michael Adams scored against Gregory Kaidanov in a delicately played knight ending....
...However, this success masks the fact that there are just four active grandmasters — Michael Adams, Howell, Luke McShane and Gawain Jones — rated over 2600, the level of the world top 250, and all four are...
...And I hate to say it, but with the other R, redundancy, coming up in the answers, we don’t know how this year is gonna play out....
...Michael Adams was the top seed and clear favourite, and the Cornish grandmaster, 51, duly took the £1,500 first prize with 6/7, half a point ahead of IMs Marcus Harvey, 26, and Matthew Wadsworth, 22....
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...It was a bold move to give his rivals a half-point start, but events proved that Adams was right....
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