Luke McShane

Luke McShane (2013)
Association	United Kingdom
Born	7th January 1984 London
title	International Master (1997) Grand Master (2000)
Current  Elo rating	2680 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2713 (Jul-Dec 2012)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Luke James McShane (born January 7, 1984 in London ) is a British world class player in chess .

biography

Luke McShane, Duisburg 1992

McShane started his chess career as a child prodigy . At the age of five he won his first youth tournament, at the age of seven he became the British youth champion of the under nine, two years later the champion of the under eleven. In 1992 he won the world championship for under ten year olds in Duisburg . At the age of eleven he took part (a record) for the first time in the British National Championship for adults. At the age of 13 he became an international champion . He achieved grandmaster standards in the tournaments of Lippstadt 1998, Reykjavík 2000 and Copenhagen 2000, whereupon FIDE awarded him the title of grandmaster in the same year . As a 16-year-old, he was the youngest British grandmaster to date.

In 1998 he won the Masters at the Bunratty International Chess Festival , two years later he won the Kilkenny International Masters . In 2002 he played for England for the first time at the Chess Olympiad in Bled and came second at the World Youth Championship in Goa . In 2003 he won strong tournaments in Esbjerg (together with Alexei Drejew and K. Sasikiran ) and in Malmö , and in 2003 and 2004 the Young Masters in Lausanne . At the turn of 2003/2004 he was shared first in Pamplona (with Emil Sutovsky and Miguel Illescas Córdoba ). In 2005 he won in Igualada in front of Viktor Korchnoi , Alexander Beliavsky and Andrij Wolokitin .

From 2009 to 2012 he took part in the London Chess Classic tournament. In 2011 he won the Tata Steel chess tournament in Group B with David Navara . In 2012 he played in the Moscow Valley Memorial .

McShane studied philosophy and mathematics at the University of Oxford and worked for the investment bank Goldman Sachs in London. He has been responsible for The Spectator's chess column since October 2019 .

Team chess

National team

Luke McShane took part with the English team in the 2002 , 2004 and 2010 Chess Olympiads . At the European Team Championships in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2015 he was part of the English selection.

Club chess

McShane first played as a nine-year-old in the 1993/94 season at Covent Garden in the Four Nations Chess League . He also played for Croydon in the 1994/95 season , then from 1995 to 1998 for Richmond , from 1998 to 2000 for Bigwood , from 2000 to 2002 for Beeson Gregory , from 2003 to 2006 for Wood Green , in the season 2008/09 and again in the 2018/19 season with Guildford A&DC and since 2009 with Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher . McShane became British team champions in 2001 , 2002 , 2005 , 2006 , 2010 , 2012 and 2019 . In the German federal chess league Luke McShane played from 1996 to 1999 at SV Erfurt West (from 1998 Erfurter SK ), since 1999 he has played at SV Werder Bremen , with whom he became German team champion in 2005 . In the French Top 16 (until 2003 Nationale I ) McShane played from 2001 to 2003 for the Club de Vandœuvre-Echecs and from 2003 to 2006 for the Association Cannes-Echecs .

Web links

Commons : Luke McShane  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Replayable chess games by Luke McShane on 365Chess.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 111.
2. ↑ Willy Iclicki: FIDE Golden book 1924-2002 . Euroadria, Slovenia, 2002, p. 85.
3. ↑ MEN'S CHESS OLYMPIADS - McShane, Luke (England) on OlimpBase (English)
4. ↑ Tata Steel (Group B) Tournament - Chessgames.com (English)
5. ↑ Tal Memorial (2012) - Chessgames.com (English)
6. ^ The Spectator
7. ↑ Luke McShanes results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
8. ↑ Luke McShanes results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)