Jonathan Simon Speelman (born October 2, 1956) is a British chess player of Jewish ethnicity. October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Chess is an abstract strategy board game and mind sport for two players. ...

Winner of the British Chess Championship in 1978, 1985 and 1986, Speelman is a regular member of the English Chess Olympiad team. His third place in the 1987 Subotica Interzonal tournament qualified him for the World Chess Championship candidates matches (which determine who will challenge the reigning champion). After beating Yasser Seirawan in his first match 4-1, and overcoming Nigel Short in the next 3.5-1.5, he lost to Jan Timman at the semi-final stage 4.5-3.5. In the following championship cycle he lost to Short, the eventual challenger for Garry Kasparov's crown, 5.5-4.5. The British Chess Championship is organised by the British Chess Federation. ... The Chess Olympiad is a chess event which has been officially organised by FIDE since 1927 and takes place in even years. ... Subotica city hall Subotica (Serbian: Суботица or Subotica, Hungarian: Szabadka, Croatian: Subotica, German: Maria-Theresiopel or Theresiopel, Slovak: Subotica, Rusin: Суботица, Romanian: Subotica or Subotita) is a city and municipality in northern Serbia and Montenegro, in the North Bačka District of Vojvodina, Serbia. ... Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation. ... Current World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. ... Yasser Seirawan Yasser Seirawan (born March 24, 1960) is a chess grandmaster and 4-time US-champion. ... Nigel Short MBE (born June 1, 1965 in Leigh, Lancashire) is widely regarded as the strongest British chess player of the 20th century. ... Jan Timman Jan Timman (born December 14, 1951) is a famous Dutch chessplayer who had his greatest successes in the 1970s and 1980s. ... Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (Russian: ; IPA: ) (born April 13, 1963, in Baku, Azerbaijan) is a chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion. ...

Speelman is noted for his imaginative style, often choosing unobvious ways to carry on his games. He has written a number of books on chess, including several on the endgame, among them Analysing the Endgame (Batsford, 1981), Endgame Preparation (Batsford, 1981) and Batsford Chess Endings (Batsford, 1993, co-author with Jon Tisdall and Robert Wade). Among his other books is the critically acclaimed Jon Speelman's Best Games (Batsford, 1997). In chess, the endgame (or end game or ending) refers to the stage of the game when there are few pieces left on the board. ... Jonathan D. Tisdall (b. ... Robert Wade, Chess player and author, (born April 10, 1921 Dunedin New Zealand) After winning the New Zealand Chess Championship in 1948, Bob Wade travelled to Europe to further his chess career. ... Anova Books is a UK-based publishing company founded in 2005 with the acquisition of the Chrysalis Books Group from the Chrysalis Group. ...

Once in the top five in the world, in the April 2005 FIDE list Speelman had an Elo rating of 2545, making him England's seventh highest rated active player. The Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national chess federations around the world. ... The ELO rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess and Go. ...

He is also known as "Spess", short for "specimen", one of the many misspellings of his name in the press over the years.

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• Jonathan Speelman download 1171 of his games in pgn format.