Stuart Conquest

Stuart Conquest at the EU Championship in Liverpool in September 2008
Surname	Stuart Conquest
Association	England
Born	March 1, 1967 Ilford (London)
title	International Master (1986) Grand Master (1991)
Current  Elo rating	2510 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating	2601 (October 2001)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Stuart Conquest (born March 1, 1967 in Ilford (London) ) is an English chess player .

Career

Stuart Conquest won the U16 World Youth Championship in 1981 at the age of 14. In 1986 FIDE awarded him the title of International Master , and in 1991 the title of Grand Master . In 1997 he was British rapid chess champion , a year later he won the Kilkenny International Masters . In 1995 and 2000 he shared first place in Hastings. In 2001 he won a very busy grandmaster tournament in Clichy . In August 2008 he won the British Championship .

Since 2011 he has been the organizer of the annual Gibraltar Chess Festival .

Team chess

National team

Conquest took part with the English team in the 1996 , 2002 , 2006 and 2008 Chess Olympiads . At European Team Championships he was part of the English selection in 1999, 2001, 2007 and 2009.

Club chess

In the British Four Nations Chess League Conquest played in the 1993/94 season at the Barbican Chess Club , in the 1995/96 season at Bristol , in the 1997/98 season at Slough and from 1999 to 2013 at Guildford A&DC . Conquest has been playing at e2e4.org.uk since 2013 . He won the competition in 2004 , 2007 , 2008 and 2013 . In the German federal chess league Conquest played at SC Kreuzberg from 1986 to 1989 , from 1995 to 1997 at PSV / BSV Wuppertal , in the 1997/98 season at SV Castrop-Rauxel , from 1998 to 2000 at Delmenhorster Schachklub and from 2001 to 2003 at Lübeck Chess club from 1873 , with which he became German team champion in 2002 and 2003 . In the French team championship (until 2003 Nationale I , then Top 16 ) Conquest played until 2005 with Clichy Echecs , with whom he also participated seven times in the European Club Cup , in the 2005/06 and 2007/08 seasons at Montpellier Echecs . He won the Dutch master class in 1997 and 1998 with Panfox / De Variant Breda , and in the Spanish team championship in 2008 he played for Sestao Naturgas Energia XT .

Tournament successes

• Hastings 1985/86: 3rd / 4th space
• Hastings 1995/96: 1st - 3rd space
• Capablanca Memorial 1996: 4th place
• Hastings 2000/01: 1./2. space
• Clichy 2001: 1st place
• Liverpool 2008 (British Championship): 1st place

Web links

Commons : Stuart Conquest  - Collection of Images

• Playable chess games by Stuart Conquest on chessgames.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stuart Conquest's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
2. ↑ Stuart Conquest's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
3. ↑ Stuart Conquest's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)