Daniel Gormally
Full nameDaniel William Gormally
CountryEngland
Born (1976-05-04) 4 May 1976
South Shields, England
TitleGrandmaster (2005)
FIDE rating2442 (January 2024)
Peak rating2573 (January 2006)

Daniel William Gormally (born 4 May 1976) is an English chess Grandmaster. His peak rating is 2573, achieved in the January 2006 rating list.

Chess career

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 won the Challengers tournament of the 78th Hastings International Chess Congress in 2003.[1][2]

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.[3] In November 2006 Gormally was joint winner of the British Rapidplay Chess Championship.[4]

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.[5] 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.

Gormally played for the English national team in the 2005 European Team Chess Championship and 2006 Chess Olympiad.[6]

Bibliography

  • 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.
  • Gormally, Daniel (2016). Insanity, Passion and Addiction - A Year Inside the Chess World. Chess Evolution. ISBN 978-83-934656-9-9.

References

  1. ↑ Crowther, Mark (13 January 2003). "TWIC: 78th Hastings Congress". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Pein, Malcolm (9 January 2003). "Gormally's glory". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Crowther, Mark (18 September 2006). "TWIC 619: European Union Individual Championships". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  4. ↑ Crowther, Mark (6 November 2006). "TWIC 626: British Rapidplay". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  5. ↑ Crowther, Mark (7 August 2015). "102nd British Chess Championship 2015". The Week in Chess. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Daniel Gormally team chess record at Olimpbase.org


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