Category Archives: Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to Peter Leko
International Grandmaster Peter Leko (b. 8th September, 1979) is 33. Happy Birthday to Hungary’s top board in the Olympiad which concludes today. EG Winter called him ‘a gentleman’; high praise indeed. We did hear a …
Happy Birthday: Nigel Povah
Nigel Edward Povah was born in London a mere sixty years ago. Today is his birthday and we send our best wishes. In 1983 he became both correspondence and otb IM! A GM title at …
Happy Birthday: Matthew Sadler
International Grandmaster Matthew Sadler, joint British Champion, 1997, is thirty-eight today. Sadler was bronze medallist in the 1989 World Under 16s and at Senior level played in many English teams with impressive results. His powers …
Happy Birthday, Ed!
Happy Birthday to Edward W. Formanek, International Master from the USA, born this day in 1942 and still, happily, a BCM subscriber! EWF has visited England on a number of occasions, often playing at Hastings. …
Happy Birthday: Slim Bouaziz
Many Happy Returns of the Day to Slim Holy Bouaziz (Bou-Aziz), the GM from Tunisia, for many years Africa’s strongest – and certainly best known – player. Born in 1950, he became an IM in …
