Murray Chandler

Murray Chandler at the 2008 Chess Olympiad
Surname	Murray Graham Chandler
Association	New Zealand (until 1982 and since 2007) England (1982 to 2007)
Born	April 4, 1960 Wellington , New Zealand
title	International Master (1977) Grand Master (1983)
Current  Elo rating	2518 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2605 (July 1988 and July 1991)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Murray Graham Chandler , MNZM (born April 4, 1960 in Wellington , New Zealand ) is a British chess master with New Zealand roots.

Life

Murray Chandler, 1979 at the Rio interzonal tournaments

Murray Chandler won the championship of New Zealand for the first time at the turn of 1975/76 when he was 15 (together with Lev Aptekar and Ortvin Sarapu ). In 1976 he was runner-up at the U17 World Cup and in 1977 he was named International Champion .

Jonathan Speelman , John Nunn , Murray Chandler, Jonathan Mestel , William Watson and Nigel Short won the silver medal at the 1988 Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki .

He represented his home country at the 1976 to 1980 Chess Olympiads and at the Asian team championships in 1974 and 1977.

Chandler settled in England in the 1980s . He played in the Olympics 1982 bis 1992 under the English colors and reached with the team in 1984 , 1986 and 1988 the second, 1,990 for third place. In the individual ranking he achieved the second best result on the fourth board in 1986 and the third best Elo performance of all participants, in 1990 both the second best result on the first reserve board and the second best Elo performance of all participants.

With the English team he played at the European Team Championships in 1983 and 1999, where he achieved the third-best result of the reserve players. He also took part in the team world championships in 1985 and 1989, in which he reached third place with the team.

In October 2007 Chandler moved back to the New Zealand Chess Federation. He competed with the New Zealand team at the 2008 Chess Olympiad in Dresden .

In 1981 Chandler took third place behind Lubomir Kavalek and Vlastimil Hort at the International German Championship in Bochum . In 1983 he became a grandmaster . In 1984 he came to London in the match between the USSR and the rest of the world as a reserve player in the world selection and achieved a draw against both Michail Tal and Oleh Romanyschyn .

Chandler's most significant tournament successes include victories in London ( Lloyds ) 1979, Brighton 1981, Hastings 1986/87 (shared with Jonathan Speelman , Bent Larsen and Smbat Lputjan ), Blackpool ( zone tournament ) 1990 and Queenstown (New Zealand) 2006 (this international tournament determined also the Master of New Zealand). After 1976 and 2006 he became New Zealand champion for the third time in Auckland in 2008 .

Chandler played in the German Federal Chess League from 1980 to 1989 for the Hamburger SK (with which he was still registered in the 1989/90 season, but did not play a competition) and from 1990 to 2003 for the Solingen SG 1868 , with which he was German in 1997 Team champion was.

In the British Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) Chandler played in the 1993/94 season for the Barbican Chess Club , from 1994 to 1999 for the team of British Chess Magazine , of which he was editor from 1991 to 1999, and from 1999 to 2009 for The ADs (2000 to 2002 Beeson Gregory ), which was created through the merger of the British Chess Magazine and Index-IT teams . He won the 4NCL in 2001 and 2002 . At the European Club Cup Chandler took in 1992 with the Solingen SG 1868 and 1996 with the Barbican Chess Club part.

After the 2008 Chess Olympiad, Murray Chandler did not play an Elo-rated game and is therefore listed as inactive at FIDE (as of May 2016).

Publications

• How To Beat Your Dad At Chess , 1998 ISBN 1-901983-05-6
• Chess Tactics For Kids , 2003 ISBN 1-901983-99-4
• Chess For Children , 2004 ISBN 1-904600-06-9

Web links

Commons : Murray Chandler  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} History of New Zealand Championships (until 2013) on poisonpawn.co.nz (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Murray Chandler's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Murray Chandler's results at the Asian team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
4. ↑ Murray Chandler's results at the European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
5. ↑ Murray Chandler's results at team world championships on olimpbase.org (English)
6. ↑ Change of association in 2007 at FIDE (English)
7. ↑ International German individual chess championship 1981 in Bochum on TeleSchach (photos, cross table and games)
8. ↑ Murray Chandler's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)