chess-The Oxford Companion to Chess - First Edition by David Hooper & Kenneth Whyld

228 NUMERTCIALINOTATTON
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A study by RrN.(, D.,rr.rc ,t nachzeitunE, 1906,
shoNing Nowotny interference on Whitet third
move. I a7 Bg2 2 d? Rd2 3 8.6
3...Rrd5 aa8:O
3...Bxd5 4 ds:Q.
NUMERJCIAII NOTATION, a notation for which
the noves ar€ desribed bynumber. (See coRREs
Ior a specifrc exanple and
No rroN lor a general discu$ion.)
N[NN, JOHN DEMS MARTIN (1951 ),English
player, lnrern.tional Grandmasier (1978),
British champion 1980. He went ro Oxlord at the
unusually young a8e ol 15, gradualed in 19?3,
gained his B.Sc. the lollo*ing year and his
d6.t.rare in lCTa A Jnnior Research Fellos he
leclured ia marhematics ufltil 1981 whcn hc
bccame a plofessional player. By then he had
al.eady achieled sereral good results in idreina
rional lournaments: Budapest 1978. fistj Haslings
1979-80, 66t (+5=r0) equat with aNDERssoN;
Baden-bei-Wien 1980, category 12, thnd (+5:10)
,fier spAssR rnd nEryAvsn: Helsinki l93l 6rst
(+5:6) .qual wilh MAroLolrai and wiesbaden
1181, Inst (+6:3). In the caiesory 12 Wijk aan
z.e tournamenr 1982, Nunncame66t(+5=7 1)
eqnal Nilh BALAsxov ahead oI rAr, EasNrR, and
rleN and ar Helsinki 1981 he cane second
(+5=6) after GR6soN. Possessins a rcmarkably
quick sGHr or r.E BoARD, Nunn is an epe.t soiv€ri
he nade rhe second hiChest individual score in the
yorld lean solvi.g chmpionship.1978, aad *on
the solling championsbip of Great B.itain in l98l ,
Polqaycvsky-Nunn European tean chamlioiship
s6 7€48s7 3tse20{l 900Re8 10Nd2Nrd7 Q.2
Ne5 12bl Nh5 13 Bxh5 Erh5 14 Bb2 tsd7 15 Rael
oh4 l6f4 Nq.1 17 Nl] Bd4+ 13 Khr Nf2+ 19 RrD
App.€ntly Black\ quccn is tappcd bur he has piepaEd r
qving move 20 . Bhr 21 R8r Kf3 22 Nxdl .xd4 2:l
f5 dxc3 2,1 Oxc3 Rre4 25 sft3 KeB 26 Qdl Rel
27 Rxel+ Qxcl+ 23 Kg2 Rc3 29 f6 Kd7 30 QrIT
odr+ 31 Ker oxd5 r2 Kh4 Res Wlrire resens
NYIIOLM ATTACK, 435, vanadon i! the srNrsB
opENNc naned atter rbe swedisb player Gustav
Nvholm (1880 1957), bul known belore his time.