Daniel Gormally
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| Full name | Daniel W. Gormally |
| Country | England |
| Born | 4 May 1976 |
| Title | Grandmaster (2005) |
| FIDE rating | 2484 (February 2016) |
| Peak rating | 2573 (January 2006) |
Daniel W. Gormally (born 4 May 1976) is an English chess Grandmaster. His peak rating was 2573 on the January 2006 rating list.
He was a member of the English team competing in the 37th Chess Olympiad and prematurely left the Olympiad after punching Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian over the Australian Woman International Master Arianne Caoili at one of the evening social events while Aronian and Caoili were dancing and Gormally had consumed too much alcohol.[1]
In September 2006, he tied for 2nd-9th with Luke McShane, Stephen J. Gordon, Gawain Jones, Šarūnas Šulskis, Luís Galego, Klaus Bischoff and Karel van der Weide in the 2nd EU Individual Open Chess Championship in Liverpool.[2]
In November 2006 Gormally was joint winner of the British Rapidplay Chess Championship.[3]
In 2015 he tied for the second place with David Howell and Nicholas Pert in the 102nd British Championship and eventually finished fourth on tiebreak.[4] Also in 2015, he appeared as a contestant in three episodes of the television quiz Fifteen To One and in one episode of The Chase.
He is a former member of Charlton Chess Club and currently plays for Wood Green.
Bibliography
- Kosten, Tony; Gormally, Danny (1999). Easy Guide to the Najdorf. Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857445295.
- Gormally, Danny (2010). Play Chess Like the PROs. Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857446272.
- Gormally, Danny (2010). Calculate Like a Grandmaster. Batsford. ISBN 9781906388690.
- Gormally, Danny (2014). Mating the Castled King. Quality Chess. ISBN 978-1-907982-71-2.
References
- ↑ Crabb, Annabel (11 June 2006). "I fell in love, says chess brawl man". The Age (Melbourne). Retrieved 2006-09-25.
- ↑ Crowther, Mark (18 September 2006). "TWIC 619: European Union Individual Championships". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ↑ Crowther, Mark (6 November 2006). "TWIC 626: British Rapidplay". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ↑ Crowther, Mark (7 August 2015). "102nd British Chess Championship 2015". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
External links
- Daniel Gormally chess games at 365Chess.com
- Daniel Gormally player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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