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The first English player to achieve a 2500+ FIDE rating
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:22 pm
by John Upham
Who was the first English player to achieve a FIDE rating (either part or full) of > 2500?
I'm led to believe it was Peter R Markland...
Is this correct?
Re: The first English player to achieve a 2500+ FIDE rating
Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:59 pm
by James Pratt
yes and no. He was 2510 but based on few games, probably just the Hastings 1970-1 Premier.
Does anybody know what happened to him?
Re: The first English player to achieve a 2500+ FIDE rating
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:26 am
by Paul Buswell
James Pratt wrote:
Does anybody know what happened to him?
He was a long-standing member of Friends of Chess at least up until a couple or three years ago when I stepped down as Treasurer.
PB
Re: The first English player to achieve a 2500+ FIDE rating
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:04 pm
by Roger de Coverly
Olimpbase are now publishing historic lists which contains Peter Markland at 2510.
http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo197107e.html
Markland had been second equal in that year's Hastings Premier.
His rating might also have included the Student Olympiad at Haifa 1970.
Re: The first English player to achieve a 2500+ FIDE rating
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:11 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
Didn't he later become a noted correspondence player?