Daniel William Gormally (born 4 May 1976) is an
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chess
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Grandmaster. His peak rating is 2573, achieved in the January 2006 rating list.
He was born in South Shields and was brought into the game of chess by his father at the age of 7. Both being members of the South Shields Chess Club.
He shared first place at the
Politiken Cup in 1998 and in 2003, won the Challengers tournament of the 78th
Hastings International Chess Congress
The Hastings International Chess Congress is an annual chess tournament which takes place in Hastings, England, around the turn of the year. The main event is the Hastings Premier tournament, which was traditionally a 10 to 16 player round-robin t ...
.
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 Championship in
Liverpool
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. In November 2006 Gormally was joint winner of the
British Rapidplay Chess Championship.
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. Also in 2015, he appeared as a contestant in three episodes of the television quiz ''
Fifteen To One
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'' and in one episode of ''
The Chase''.
Gormally played for the English national team in the 2005
European Team Chess Championship
The European Team Championship (often abbreviated in texts and games databases as ''ETC'') is an international team chess event, eligible for the participation of European nations whose chess federations are located in zones 1.1 to 1.9. This more ...
and
2006 Chess Olympiad
The 37th Chess Olympiad ( it, Le 37° Olimpiadi degli scacchi), organized by FIDE and comprising an openAlthough commonly referred to as the ''men's division'', this section is open to both male and female players. and a women's tournament, as w ...
.
Daniel Gormally
team chess record at Olimpbase.org
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External links
Daniel Gormally
chess games at 365Chess.com
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1976 births
Living people
Chess grandmasters
English chess players
British chess writers
Chess Olympiad competitors
Place of birth missing (living people)
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