Sally Simpson: This lad was the 2015 World Amateur Chess Champion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World...
The 2016 winner Zhuban Bigabylov (Kazakhstan) does not even warrant a page here which is yet another example of this site's woeful neglect and it's elitist attitude.
Zhuban Bigabylov is missing out on all the 'Happy Birthdays' from Focus.
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My dear friend, Ian C. Robertson (another player who is missing from here) played in the 2016 event and finished 19th (Ha-Ha-Ha).
I say 'dear friend', actually I hate his guts. When I was swanning about getting lost positions and beating everyone I was always losing to him from good and bad positions.
The score was (and still is) 5-0 to him.
I recall one game where I followed a game of John Nunn's in BCM. (Nunn of course has a page here...John Nunn ...and yet he has never been the World Amateur Chess Champion!)
Ian too had seen the game and played Nunn's suggested improvement for his opponent. I lost and I'm laying that one firmly at the feet of Doctor John Nunn....he's an idiot. (and he's not a real doctor.)
I once travelled to Dunfermline on their club night, a round trip of 35 miles, because I heard Ian attends and plays blitz there. I was going to whack him 10-0 at blitz. The fool did not turn up.
True.