Wednesday 18 July 2007

A Veteran for 33 Years

While doing some research on past Australian Championships, I flicked through a copy of "Australian Chess Championship 1974 - 100 Best Games". Inside was a picture of Lloyd Fell, with the caption "Sydney Veteran Lloyd Fell concentrates on his game". Given that Lloyd Fell is still an active player, this means he has been a "veteran" for at least 33 years. In fact this is longer than the length of time between 1974 and the first game of his I have in my database (1944).
As well as being a veteran for more than half his chess career, Lloyd is also unique in being the only player to have played in every Doeberl Cup since its inception (as seen in a picture from this years event).

Here is game by Lloyd from the 1974 Australian Championship. (It is worth noting that although this event was held in Cooma, it still attracted 120 players across 3 tournaments).

Fell,L - Ozols,K [C18] AUS-ch Cooma (5), 01.01.1974

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 f5 7.a4 Qa5 8.Qd2 Nc6 9.Nf3 Nge7 10.Be2 Bd7 11.0-0 0-0 12.Qd3 c4 13.Qd2 b5 14.Ba3 bxa4 15.Bd6 Rfe8 16.h4 Nc8 17.Ba3 Qd8 18.g3 Rb8 19.Ng5 Rb7 20.Bh5 g6 21.Be2 Nb6 22.Nh3 Bc8 23.h5 Rg7 24.Kg2 Qc7 25.hxg6 hxg6 26.Ng5 Nd8 27.Rh1 Nf7 28.Rh2 Qd8 29.Rah1 Nxg5 30.Rh8+ Kf7 31.Rxe8 Qxe8 32.Qxg5 Nd7 33.Rh6 Bb7 34.Bh5 Kg8 35.Bxg6 Nf8 36.Bxf8 Qxf8 37.Qh5 1-0

1 comment:

TrueFiendish said...

Is that photo of Lloyd from 1974? Boy, he hasn't aged a bit! And still the charmer I bet.