Russell Dive

Russell Dive

Russell Dive at the 38th Chess Olympiad in Dresden, Germany 2008
Country New Zealand
Born (1966-05-21) 21 May 1966
Wellington, New Zealand
Title International Master (1995)
Peak rating 2448 (July 1999)[1]

Russell John Dive (born 21 May 1966 in Wellington) is a New Zealand chess International Master (IM).

Chess career

Dive represented New Zealand in ten Chess Olympiads between 1998 and 2014. His best result was in 1994 when he scored 7.5/11 and finished in 10th place for his individual board result.[2]

Dive has won or jointly won the New Zealand Chess Championship four times in 1986/87, 1995/96, 1998/99 and 2014/15.[3] Dive has also won the New Zealand Rapid Chess Championship eight times and the New Zealand Correspondence Chess Championship twice.

He won the London SCCU Open in 1995, scoring 7/9, and defeating GM Eduard Gufeld along the way.[4]

Dive finished =2nd, with 6/9, in the 1999 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship, behind Vladimir Feldman.[5] He also competed in the 2000 Oceania Zonal Chess Championship.[6]

Notable games

References

  1. ↑ Russell Dive FIDE rating history, 1987-2001 at OlimpBase.org
  2. ↑ Chess Olympiads: Russell Dive. Olimpbase.
  3. ↑ The New Zealand Championships: A Brief History by Peter Stuart
  4. ↑ 1995 London SCCU Open at 365Chess.com
  5. ↑ The Week in Chess 233, 26 April 1999 Mark Crowther
  6. ↑ The Week in Chess 290, 29 May 2000 Mark Crowther

External links

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