Ewen Green (chess player)

Ewen McGowen Green is a freelance chess teacher in Auckland, New Zealand.

Ewen Green
Full nameEwen McGowen Green
Country New Zealand
Born (1950-04-04) 4 April 1950
TitleFIDE Master
FIDE rating2216 (May 2019)

Green attained FIDE Master status in 1992.[1] In 1979-80 he won the New Zealand Chess Championship along with Vernon A. Small and Ortvin Sarapu[1] and has also been an Olympiad player (1970, 1974, 1976).[2]

In 2013, he was equal second in New Zealand Chess Championship.[3]

He is regarded as one of New Zealand's best chess coaches; he coached Cliff Curtis and other cast members of the New Zealand film The Dark Horse.[4]

Green has been recognised as third place nationwide and 11th place internationally in blindfold chess. A notable game played by Green in blindfold chess was a game against 13 of the Waikato region's best players, which he won.

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