OBE • Grandmaster • British Champion • International Organizer • Author

Organizer

Major events organised:

• World chess championships of 1986, 1993, 2000
• Involving Kasparov, Karpov, Short , Kramnik.
• Thirty two world memory championships from 1991 to 2023.
• Two world checkers championships London 1992 and Boston 1994 the former of these being the first ever world title contest between a human and a computer/ Dr Tinsley v Chinook.