Nigel Povah and Guildford AD&C friends
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 postal play followed. Today he may lay claim to being one of our strongest ever postal players (part from Penrose?-Ed); OK apart from Jonathan Penrose.
He was one of the four authors of the great Batsford Lasker/Pelikan wayback in 1978. He penned the excellent primer, like Fischer’s Sixty Memorable Games, an early Faber ‘Chess Training’. A former President of Streatham & Brixton CC, Nigel will be pleased to be reminded that they won the First Division of the London League in 1976/7. (Under his leadership such players as Danny King, the late Danny Feinstein and Julian Hodgson were blooded.). His articles on 1.e4 g6 2.Bc4 Bg7 3.Qf3! are still fondly remembered by our generation.
He would be the last person to want this to slide into a part obituary, so here are four bright games, all short and lively. Enjoy!
NE Povah-AJ Walton
4NCL, 2004/5
1 d4 e6 2 Nf3 f5 3 e4 fxe4 4 Ng5 Nf6 5 f3 exf3 6 Qxf3 c5 7 Bd3 Qe7 8 0–0 Nc6 9 Bxh7 Nxd4 10 Bg6+ Kd8 11 Qd3 Kc7 12 Nf7 Rh4 13 Qg3+ d6 14 Qxh4 1–0
NE Povah-B Brinck-Claussen
Anglo Danish Match, 1979
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 d4 exd4 6 0–0 Be7 7 Re1 0–0 8 e5 Ne8 9 Bf4 d6 10 Bxc6 bxc6 11 Nxd4 Bd7 12 Qf3 d5 13 Nc3 c5 14 Nxd5 cxd4 15 Nxe7+ Kh8 16 Nc6 Bxc6 17 Qxc6 Rb8 18 Qxa6 Rxb2 19 Qa3 1–0
NE Povah-TD Harding
Lloyds Bank Masters, 1977
1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 Bg5 Bb4 5 e5 h6 6 Be3 Ne4 7 Qg4 g5 8 Bd3 h5 9 Qf3 Bd7 10 Nge2 c5 11 Bxe4 g4 12 Qf4 dxe4 13 0–0–0 cxd4 14 Rxd4 Nc6 15 Rxb4 Nxb4 16 Nxe4 Nxa2+ 17 Kb1 Kf8 18 Bc5+ Kg7 19 Nf6 Kg6 20 h4 1–0
NE Povah-MA Pagden
Lloyds Bank Masters, 1979
1 e4 d6 2 d4 Nf6 3 Nc3 g6 4 Bc4 Bg7 5 Nf3 0–0 6 Qe2 c6 7 e5 Ne8 8 Bf4 b5 9 Bd3 Nc7 10 Qd2 Bg4 11 Bh6 Ne6 12 Bxg7 Kxg7 13 Ng5 dxe5 14 h3 Nxg5 15 hxg4 f6 16 dxe5 Qd4 17 f4 Ne6 18 exf6+ exf6 19 g3 Kg8 20 0–0–0 Nc5 21 Qh2 Qe3+ 22 Kb1 Qe7 23 Bxg6 hxg6 24 Qh8+ 1–0
