Chess Pages of Mike Donnelly (Correspondence Chess International Master)

1. MONTHLY ARTICLE *
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File of games associated with monthly article. *

2.  ARCHIVE OF MONTHLY ARTICLES *

3. GAMES FOR DOWNLOADING
. Botvinnik one of the few greatest players ever.

Tony Miles the first British GM.

Joe Soesan. brilliancy prize games of the late, twice British Veterans Champion.

Vic Knox  one of the outstanding North of England players.

4. PC GIBBS TROPHY 2001 Completed games (2001).

Final score table (2001)

Final score table (2000)

5. WHOBERLEY CHESS CLUB (Coventry)
Contact details.  

Official site now expanded.

6. BOOK AND SOFTWARE REVIEWS  

7. DATABASE & TEACHING SERVICE

8. MY STUFF   Game collections : 1, 2,  3,  4, 5.  

Chess problems and studies

 Results summary*

9. LINKS  Chess sites*

Chess problem sites

10. NEWS AND NOTICES*

Whoberley do the double!!

 Whoberley Chess Club "A" team win the Coventry and District League Division 1 by winning the  last match of the season 3:2; and also win the final of the Knock-out team competition.*

11. OPENINGS REVIEWS AND OTHER ARTICLES  

12. MEMORABILIA CORNER bits and pieces from my chess past.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

DUE TO THE IMPENDING CLOSURE OF COMPUSERVE UK THIS SITE WILL APPEAR IN THE FUTURE (next 2-3 weeks) AT

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/DrMJDonnelly

new e-mail then will be:DrMJDonnelly@aol.com

I'm Mike Donnelly and I live in the historic city of Coventry, England with my wife Carol (pictured above), my son Paul and daughter Kate. Both are ardent musicians whilst my wife is equally passionate about dressmaking, ice-skating and fashion.  I am a research scientist by profession working in an area of biotechnology which develops new bio-adhesives for application as medical gels ( publication list ). In my spare time I enjoy chess, the history of the ancient Greeks and formerly rock climbing and pot-holing.

Over the last decade or so I have shifted from playing otb chess to playing both otb and postal chess. The last few years has seen an even greater concentration on correspondence chess (current rating of 2440; ICCF rating history )* but I occasionally still play some otb chess in the local league (at a now somewhat reduced level of about 2000; grading history ). I will attempt to offer a wide range of chess material on this site including articles, games for downloading, chess problems and some results. This will include both otb and postal play.

 * denotes new content since the last update.

MONTHLY ARTICLE SUMMARY *

Generally chess game are a complex mixture of positional elements and combinational ones. It is not often that one plays a game that is predominantly based on just one of these factors. This months game, against one of the highest rated players in the country at that time, is one of my postal games the planning of which relied almost exclusively on positional features with little sign of sacrifices or combinations. 

About  60 games featuring the Reti Opening (1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 Bg4 4. O-O c6 5. b3 Nbd7 6. Bb2 e6 7. d3 a5 8. a3 Be7 9. Nbd2 O-O 10.c4 ) are available in the "file of games associated with monthly article" section.

All material is zipped. Use Winzip or similar to extract. Monthly articles are in .pgn format (from May 2000, previously in .txt format) whilst games for downloading are in .pgn format (or .cbv occasionally ). 

Contributions, suggestions for articles and comments to improve this site are welcome.  mail me!

Chess Book, CD and games on disk sale All at bargain prices.*

Interested in postal chess games??  Then contact P.C.Robertson ( pcrob@lineone.net ) who is offering 959 correspondence games from 1999-2001 BFCC Information Circular, most with opening analysis, £4 post free.

  Next update due:  before May 20th 2002.