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Shaun Taulbut
S Taulbut 
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Number of games in database: 223
Years covered: 1977 to 2011
Last FIDE rating: 2371
Highest rating achieved in database: 2405
Overall record: +83 -47 =91 (58.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 2 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (41) 
    B52 B51 B80 B30 B46
 Caro-Kann (11) 
    B17 B12 B10 B13
 Ruy Lopez (8) 
    C75 C91 C84 C74 C87
 French Defense (7) 
    C03 C15 C04 C05 C11
 Sicilian Scheveningen (6) 
    B80
 Pirc (5) 
    B08 B07
With the Black pieces:
 Pirc (20) 
    B08 B09
 King's Indian (16) 
    E91 E92 E77 E80 E61
 Robatsch (13) 
    B06
 Queen's Pawn Game (9) 
    A40 A41 D02 A46 E00
 Scandinavian (6) 
    B01
 French Defense (6) 
    C07 C02 C11 C03 C15
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   L Christiansen vs S Taulbut, 1978 1/2-1/2
   Jansa vs S Taulbut, 1981 0-1
   D J Findlay vs S Taulbut, 1978 0-1
   S Taulbut vs Smyslov, 1982 1/2-1/2

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   7th European Junior Championship 1977/78 (1977)
   Copenhagen Open (1981)
   British Championship (1977)
   World Youth U26 Team Championship Final-A (1978)
   Robert Silk Young Masters (1982)
   Brighton (1981)
   British Championship (1980)
   British Championship (1978)
   World Youth U26 Team Championship Final-A (1980)
   Amsterdam IBM-B (1978)
   Regency Masters (1981)
   British Championship (1981)
   1st Lloyds Bank Masters Open (1977)
   Politiken Cup (1982)
   Lone Pine (1978)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Hastings (1981/82) by Chessical

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SHAUN TAULBUT
(born Jan-11-1958, 67 years old) United Kingdom

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Shaun Mark Taulbut was born in Portsmouth, England. Taulbut won the European Junior Championship in 1977-78 at Groningen, thus earning the IM title. He has authored books on how to play the French Defence, the Ruy Lopez and the Nimzoindian.

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 page 1 of 9; games 1-25 of 225  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Chandler vs S Taulbut  1-0461976Guernsey op 2ndB06 Robatsch
2. S Taulbut vs Chandler  0-1361977North London Junior op 2ndB47 Sicilian, Taimanov (Bastrikov) Variation
3. S Taulbut vs D Lees  1-0321977British ChampionshipB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
4. S Webb vs S Taulbut  ½-½261977British ChampionshipE62 King's Indian, Fianchetto
5. S Taulbut vs G Flear  1-0571977British ChampionshipC78 Ruy Lopez
6. C Shephard vs S Taulbut  0-1401977British ChampionshipB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
7. S Taulbut vs C Pritchett  ½-½331977British ChampionshipB80 Sicilian, Scheveningen
8. Plaskett vs S Taulbut  0-1501977British ChampionshipA07 King's Indian Attack
9. G Botterill vs S Taulbut  ½-½371977British ChampionshipB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
10. S Taulbut vs R Bellin  ½-½431977British ChampionshipB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
11. O M Hindle vs S Taulbut  ½-½281977British ChampionshipB08 Pirc, Classical
12. S Taulbut vs M Fuller  1-0711977British ChampionshipC03 French, Tarrasch
13. S Taulbut vs A H Williams  ½-½101977British ChampionshipC75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
14. S Taulbut vs M Marlow  ½-½3419771st Lloyds Bank Masters OpenB52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
15. S Taulbut vs T B Bennett  0-13219771st Lloyds Bank Masters OpenC15 French, Winawer
16. S Taulbut vs S Spivack  1-03519771st Lloyds Bank Masters OpenB31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation
17. S Knott vs S Taulbut  0-14219771st Lloyds Bank Masters OpenE91 King's Indian
18. K J Wicker vs S Taulbut  ½-½2819771st Lloyds Bank Masters OpenA01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack
19. S Taulbut vs D E Rumens  1-06619771st Lloyds Bank Masters OpenA00 Uncommon Opening
20. S Taulbut vs Z Vranesic  ½-½4619771st Lloyds Bank Masters OpenB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
21. S Taulbut vs P Busuttil  1-0301977European Junior Championship 1977/78B70 Sicilian, Dragon Variation
22. H Janssen vs S Taulbut  0-1571977European Junior Championship 1977/78B08 Pirc, Classical
23. S Taulbut vs T Upton  1-0271977European Junior Championship 1977/78C74 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
24. K Mokry vs S Taulbut  1-0541977European Junior Championship 1977/78B06 Robatsch
25. S Taulbut vs A Groszpeter  1-0841977European Junior Championship 1977/78B10 Caro-Kann
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Kibitzer's Corner
Mar-31-06  GBKnight: Anyone in England know what Shaun is up to now? Last I heard he gave up chess to become an accountant, and that was in the early 1980s.
Mar-31-06
Premium Chessgames Member
  ray keene: shaun still plays chess in the london gentlemens clubs league representing the athenaeum-he is also a part owner of the british chess magazine
Apr-02-06  GBKnight: Many thanks for that Ray. Amongst other things, this site is useful for finding out what became of people, some of them friends. Shaun could probably have become even stronger but like many I believe chose financial security.
Dec-19-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  eternaloptimist: it's kind of odd that he wrote books on the French Defense, the Ruy Lopez and the Nimzo Indian, but none of these openings r listed in his most played openings section...things that make u go hmm :-/
Jul-03-13  Sem: Taulbut also wrote a small book on positional play in chess.
Jun-17-14  alekhinescat: How to play the French Defence is an exceptionally well written primer for the French.
Dec-21-18
Premium Chessgames Member
  Dionysius1: I've really enjoyed reading French Defence: Tarrasch Variation by Raymond Keene and Shaun Taulbut. It's written with lots of narrative and exposition as well as analysis and reminds me very much how I felt about chess then (early 1980s).

Maybe there is still a way through to the poetry of chess via the remorseless analysis of the engines. But if not, and just in case, I'll keep reading books like this.

Sorry, Ray and Shaun if that undervalues the analysis that you had to do, but it's the literyness of the book that still grabs me

Among the absolutes that Plato drew attention to, there's probably one with a better name than "literyness", but you know what I mean, eh?

Jan-10-21  BIDMONFA: Shaun M Taulbut

TAULBUT, Shaun M.
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