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John K. Shaw
b. 16 October 1968
International Master title awarded 1999.
International Grandmaster title awarded 2006.
Scottish Champion 1995 (shared), 1998 and 2000 (shared).
West of Scotland Champion 1992, 1996, 1998, 1999 (shared), 2000, 2001 (shared).
Represented Scotland in 10 Olympiads between 1994 and 2014.
Played for Scotland in 4 European Team Championships: Debrecen 1992; León 2001; Plovdiv 2003
and Gothenburg 2005.
Scottish Player of the Year 1998 and 2006.
Member of Kilmarnock team that won the 1997 Spens Cup.
Member of Kilmarnock Burns team that won the 2013 Spens Cup.
Member of Paisley CC teams that won the Richardson Cup in 1992, 1993 and 1994.
Member of Paisley CC that won the British National Club Championship in 1994.
Member of Polytechnic team that won Richardson Cup in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006,
Member of Guildford team that won the Four Nations Chess League (4NCL) 2006-7 and 2007-8.
Managing Director and Chief Editor of chess book publisher Quality Chess, based in Glasgow.
Alan McGowan
Historian, Chess Scotland