| Profession: Technical Manager of a company called First Water Ltd that
researches and manufactures biomedical electrodes and woundcare products. Formerly worked at Manchester University with 30+ scientific
publications. Chess details: Former serious otb player winning many different club championships and at various times Champion of Durham, Cleveland and Cheshire Counties as well as runner-up in North of England Championship. Former Fellow of the British Chess Problem Society retaining an interest in solving but not now composing chess problems. Have always played the occasional postal game but since about 1995 have made a switch to occasional otb games, mostly in local leagues, together with a more serious commitment to postal chess following winning the North of England Individual Postal Championship and my first representation on an England team in the North Atlantic Team Tournament. Since then further England representations in team and individual events lead to securing the CC-IM title in the Reg Gillman Memorial Invitation Event which was ratified at the ICCF Rimini Congress in Sept. 2001. |