John Nunn, the former top-10 player and author of several instructional books, recovered the form of his best years at age 67 last week when the grandmaster from Bude in Conrwall won the world 65+ senior championship in Assisi, Italy. Nunn scored nine out of 11, and won all his six games with White, including a vital win in what had seemed a drawn final round queen and knight v queen and bishop ending.
The championship was a competitive event of 192 players, where Nunn’s only defeat, in round eight to Jens Kristiansen, could have proved costly. The Dane led by half a point going into the final round, and had the better tiebreak. Then Kristiansen failed to find a hidden drawing resource in his own endgame with bishops of opposite colours, was caught by the pack, and finished out of the medals. A Fide online report gives fuller details, plus photos from the award ceremony.
