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...At the London Classic in December, he finished third behind England’s Michael Adams....
...The eight-time British champion Michael Adams is currently on a remarkable run....
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...The eight-time British champion Michael Adams had a peak of 2761 back in 2013, but is currently 2671 at age 52....
...In 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...
...The 13th year of the London Chess Classic ended on Sunday with a double home success....
...Hans Niemann, the most controversial player in international chess, is competing in England at the London Classic, this week....
...David Howell, Michael Adams and Luke McShane also did well, but the reserve, Ravi Haria, suffered two costly defeats....
...Michael Adams and John Nunn scored a golden double for England at the world senior championships for over-50s and over-65s, which ended at Terrasini, Sicily, on Sunday evening....
...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...
...Hopes of a top-three finish were encouraged by last week’s world seniors gold medals for Michael Adams and John Nunn....
...Michael Adams has been a leading English player for more than three decades....
...Michael Adams totalled an impressive 8/9 on top board with a performance rating of 2761....
...The prospect of an iconic moment of an AI maths system taking on and beating a human rival, as the chess computer Deep Blue did with world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997, remains elusive....
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...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...
...With his Fide international rating of 2719, Vitiugov ranks ahead of David Howell (2676), Michael Adams (2662) and the currently inactive Matthew Sadler (2694)....
...“a complicated game of athletic chess”....
...Nigel Povah, the English Chess Federation’s manager of senior chess, invites any over-50 FT readers who are current or former strong players (1800+ rating or 150 grade) and interested in a place in one of...
...Like not playing chess, though he’s very good at chess. Not great....
...An eight-game Solidarity Match that started this week between England No 1 Michael Adams and two-time Ukraine champion Andrei Volokitin will take on a wider significance....
...Michael Adams, the England No 1, was the convincing winner of last week’s Cambridge’s international open and its £1,500 first prize at the University Arms Hotel — but only after a scare at the start....
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...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....
...However, in the boom years of the 1970s to 1990s the very best talents Nigel Short and Michael Adams both preferred to bypass university....
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