Glenn Flear

Glenn Flear, 2017
Surname	Glenn Curtis Flear
Association	England
Born	February 12, 1959 Leicester , United Kingdom
title	International Master (1983) Grand Master (1987)
Current  Elo rating	2429 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2555 (July 1999)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Glenn Curtis Flear (born February 12, 1959 in Leicester ) is an English chess player and author of various chess books , mainly on the opening and endgame theory.

Career

In 1983 Flear was awarded the international master's title by the world chess federation FIDE and in 1987 the title of grand master . One of his greatest tournament successes was the victory at the "GLC tournament" in London in 1986, in which he was the only participating non-grandmaster to play world-class players such as Murray Chandler , Nigel Short , John Nunn , Zoltán Ribli , Lev Polugajewski , Lajos Portisch and Boris Spasski , Rafael Vaganian , Jonathan Speelman , and Bent Larsen left behind and achieved his first grandmaster norm. During the tournament Flear married the French chess player Christine Leroy (* 1967, meanwhile international champion of women and five-time winner of the French women's championships). 1986 Flear qualified with the second place in the zone tournament of Bath for the interzonal tournament in Szirák in the same year. There he finished 15th out of 18 participants.

Flear lives in France with Christine and their two sons.

Team chess

National team

Flear was part of the English squad in three team competitions: in 1986 he won the silver medal with England at the Chess Olympiad in Dubai , in 2003 he played at the European team championship , and in 1985 he came third at the team world championship .

Club chess

In the British Four Nations Chess League , Flear played in the 1993/94 season at the Barbican Chess Club , from 1997 to 1999 at the Invicta Knights Maidstone , from 2000 to 2002 at Beeson Gregory , from 2002 to 2009 and again since 2011 at Guildford A&DC as well from 2009 to 2011 at Pride and Prejudice . He won the competition in 2001 , 2002 , 2004 , 2007 , 2008 , 2011 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018 . In the top division of the French team championship ( Nationale I until 2003 , then Top 16 ), Flear played for Montpellier Echecs until 2009 and again from the 2013/14 season to 2017 , and has played for Nice Alekhine since 2018 . In the German federal chess league he played in the 1983/84 season at Königsspringer Frankfurt , but the club was withdrawn from playing after five rounds (all of which Flear played). He took part in the European Club Cup in 1986 with Streatham & Brixton London , in 1994 with Clichy Echecs and in 1999 with the Invicta Knights Maidstone .

Works (selection)

• Starting Out: Pawn Endings . Everyman Chess, London 2004, ISBN 1-85744-362-4 .
• Test Your Endgame Thinking . Everyman Chess, London 2002 ISBN 1-85744-305-5 .
• Mastering the endgame . Everyman Chess, London 2001, ISBN 1-85744-233-4 .
• Improve Your Endgame Play . Everyman Chess, London 2000, ISBN 1-85744-246-6 .

Web links

Commons : Glenn Flear  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Replayable chess games by Glenn Flear on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Glenn Flears results at Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Glenn Flears results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Glenn Flears results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Glenn Flears results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)