Chris Ward (chess player)

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Christopher Geoffrey Ward (born March 26, 1968 ) is an English chess player .

He won the British Championship in Nottingham in 1996.

He played club chess in the German Chess League in 1996/97 for PSV / BSV Wuppertal . He won the Four Nations Chess League in 2002/03 , 2004/05 and 2005/06 with Wood Green and 2010/11 with Pride and Prejudice . In the 1990s he played Maidstone for Invicta Knights in England . In France, he played for the Club de Vandœuvre-Echecs in the 2001/02 and 2002/03 seasons .

In 1990 he was awarded the title of International Master (IM) and in 1996 the title of Grand Master (GM).

Elo development

Publications

  • Endgame Play, Batsford, 1996, ISBN 0-7134-7920-5
  • The Queen's Gambit Accepted, Batsford, 1999 ISBN 0-7134-8467-5
  • The Genius of Paul Morphy, 1997
  • Improve your Opening Play, (2000)
  • Winning With the Sicilian Dragon 2 (2001)
  • Starting Out: The Nimzo-Indian (2002)
  • It's Your Move: Improvers, (2002)
  • Unusual Queen's Gambit Declined (2002)
  • Winning with the Dragon, (2003)
  • It's Your Move: Tough Puzzles, (2004)
  • Starting Out: Rook Endgames, Everyman Chess, 2004, ISBN 1-85744-374-8
  • The Controversial Sami King's Indian, Batsford, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7134-8872-2
  • Play the Queen's Gambit, 2006, ISBN 1857444116
  • Starting Out: Chess Tactics and Checkmates, 2006, ISBN 1-857444-18-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
personal data
SURNAME Ward, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ward, Christopher Geoffrey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English chess player
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1968