Mark Lesland Hebden (born 15 February 1958 in Leicester) is an English chess player who holds the title Grandmaster. Hebden is known for chess openings such as the

Grand Prix Attack The Sicilian Defence is a chess opening that begins with the following moves: :1. e4 c5 The Sicilian is the most popular and best-scoring response to White's first move 1.e4. Opening 1.d4 is a statistically more successful opening for White b ...

, the Barry Attack, and the 150 Attack. Hebden was British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 1990, 1994, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2015 . He played for

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

in the

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 ...

s of 1983, 1989 and 2007. He was equal first in four editions of the very strong

Cappelle-la-Grande Open The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985. It is usually played in the second half of February with an accelerated Swiss-system format in nine rounds. It is organized by the chess c ...

: 1989, 1990, 1995 and 1997. In 2001 he tied for 1st-4th with

Yannick Pelletier Yannick Pelletier (born September 22, 1976, in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) is a Swiss chess Grandmaster and a six-time Swiss Champion currently living in Luxembourg. Career He completed his final Grandmaster norm at the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Is ...

, Tamaz Gelashvili and

Vladimir Tukmakov Vladimir Borisovich Tukmakov (, born March 5, 1946 in Odessa) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster. He gained the Grandmaster title in 1972. Career His career first blossomed when he helped and then led the USSR to consecutive wins of the World St ...

in the 9th Neuchâtel Open and in 2009–10 tied for 1st-4th with Andrei Istrățescu, Romain Edouard and David Howell in the

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 ...

. Hebden is a regular participant at the

4NCL {{Unreferenced, date=November 2022 The 4NCL, or Four Nations Chess League, is a chess league in the United Kingdom and named after its four nations: England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. However, the league is truly international, with pl ...

, Britain's premier chess league and in 2013, won the 4NCL Individual Championship, held at Daventry. He also plays in local leagues for Sutton Coldfield Chess Club, Syston Chess Club, and online on Internet Chess Club ICC as 'mhebden'. ICC is a commercial site where many titled players gather.

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