Andrew David Martin

Andrew David Martin, Torquay 2009
Association	England
Born	May 18, 1957 West Ham , London , United Kingdom
title	International Master (1984)
Current  Elo rating	2357 (August 2019)
Best Elo rating	2449 (July 2001)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Andrew David Martin (born May 18, 1957 in West Ham , London ) is an English chess player with the title of International Master .

Life

Martin is the winner of various international and national tournaments. In the British Four Nations Chess League Andrew Martin played in the 1993/94 season for Covent Garden , in the 1995/96 season for Guildford and from 1997 to 2013 for Wood Green (from 2008 Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher ), with whom he in 2003 , 2005 , 2006 , 2009 and 2010 British team champion. Martin has been registered with Guildford A&DC since the 2013/14 season .

Martin received his title as International Master in 1984. He won his first grandmaster norm at the British Championship in Brighton in 1997.

Martin was a commentator of the 2000 World Chess Championship between Kasparov and Kramnik .

On February 21, 2004, Martin set a new world record in simultaneous chess . He played against 321 chess players at the same time. His result was: 294 wins, 26 draws and only one losing game.

Martin is known as a professional chess teacher and head coach of the English youth team. He trains in eight schools (Yateley Manor, Aldro, Millfield, Sunningdale, Waverley School, St Michael's Sandhurst, Wellington College, Salesian College). Since 2009 he has held the title of FIDE Senior Trainer.

Martin is a chess columnist, chess author and author of various instructional videos. He was the publisher of the Trends Publications series .

Martin lives in Sandhurst , England , is married and has two daughters and two sons.

Works

• Trends King's Indian Sami . Trends Publications, London January 1990
• Trends Slav . Trends Publications, London March 1990
• Trends Queen's Gambit Accepted . Trends Publications, London February 1991
• Trends Scandinavian Defense . Trends Publications, London May 1991
• Trends in the Alekhine, Volume 2 . Trends Publications, London April 1994
• Foxy Openings: Annoying d-Pawn Openings . Grandmaster Video Ltd 1995, VHS
• The Scheming Scandinavian with 2 ... Qxd5 . Bad Bishop Ltd, London 2002, VHS
• The essential center counter . Thinkers Press, Davenport 2004
• King's Indian battle plans . Thinkers Press, Davenport 2004
• The ABC of the King's Indian . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2004, DVD
• The Hippopotamus rises: the re-emergence of a chess opening . Batsford, London 2005
• The basics of winning chess . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2005, DVD
• The Trompowsky - The Easy Way . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2005, DVD
• Starting Out: The Sicilian Dragon . Everyman Chess, London 2005, ISBN 1-85744-398-5
• The ABC of Alekhine . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2007, DVD
• The ABC of the Modern Benoni . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2008, DVD
• The ABC of Evans gambit . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2008, DVD
• The ABC of the Anti-Dutch . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2008, DVD
• The ABC of the Leningrad Dutch . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2008, DVD
• The ABC of the Sicilian Dragon . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2009, DVD
• The ABC of Ruy Lopez . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2009, DVD
• The ABC of chess openings . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2009, DVD
• The ABC of the Vienna . Chessbase GmbH, Hamburg 2009, DVD

Web links

• Literature by and about Andrew David Martin in the catalog of the German National Library
• The Andrew Martin Chess Academy ( Memento from May 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )