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Country
  
England

FIDE rating
  
2647

Role
  
Author


Name
  
Gawain Jones

Title
  
Grandmaster

Peak rating
  
2671

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Full name
  
Gawain Christopher B. Jones

Born
  
11 December 1987 (age 36) Keighley, West Yorkshire, England (
1987-12-11
)

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Gawain Christopher B. Jones (born 11 December 1987) is an English chess grandmaster and chess author. He won the British Chess Championship in 2012 and 2017. Jones competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013 and 2017.

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Career

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Jones began playing chess at the age of four, competing in his first tournaments at six. In early 1997 he hit the headlines and was featured on the front page of The Guardian newspaper when he became the youngest player in the world ever to beat an International Master in an official tournament game. He has represented England in the World Junior and World Youth Championships on many occasions and since 2008 has been one of England's highest rated players.

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An active player on the tournament circuit, he secured his Grandmaster title with successful results at the 2nd EU Individual Open Championship in Liverpool in 2006, 2006 European Club Cup in Fügen and 4NCL 2006/7 season. Elsewhere in Europe, he took first place at Porto San Giorgio and La Laguna (both 2007). During his stay in Australasia, there were many more tournament successes, including a first place at the Sydney International 2008 and creditable second places at the Doeberl Cup 2008 and Queenstown Classic 2009.

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Jones shared first place with Simon Williams at the London Chess Classic FIDE Open 2010. In 2011, he won the Bunratty Masters, ahead of Nigel Short, whom he defeated in their individual encounter, and the Commonwealth Chess Championship in Ekurhuleni. Jones won the 2012/13 Hastings International Chess Congress. In December 2014, he won the Challenge Match against Romain Édouard by 4–2; it was a six-game match held concurrently with the London Chess Classic. In 2016, Jones won the New Zealand Open in January, and the Dubai Open in April edging out Vladimir Akopian on tiebreak.

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In team competitions, Jones has played for England in the Chess Olympiad, the European Team Chess Championship and the World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad.

Books

  • Jones, Gawain (2008). Starting Out: Sicilian Grand Prix Attack. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857445473. 
  • Palliser, Richard; Emms, John; Ward, Chris; Jones, Gawain (2008). Dangerous Weapons: the Benoni and Benko - Dazzle Your Opponents!. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857445718. 
  • Jones, Gawain (2011). How to Beat the Sicilian Defence - An Anti-Sicilian Repertoire for White. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857446630. 
  • Jones, Gawain (2015). The Dragon. Volume One. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1784830076. 
  • Jones, Gawain (2015). The Dragon. Volume Two. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1784830090. 

    • Personal life

    Born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, Jones has lived in Italy, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. In 2010, he returned to the United Kingdom to live in London in order to focus on his chess career and related projects.

    Jones is married to WIM Sue Maroroa.

    References

    Gawain Jones Wikipedia
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