Michael Stean

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Stean
Occupation	Chess Player
Date Of Birth	Sep 4, 1953(1953-09-04)
Age	71
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Virgo

Michael Stean Biography

Michael Stean is one of the most popular and richest Chess Player who was born on September 4, 1953 in London, England, United Kingdom. Stean was born in London on 4 September 1953. Stean began playing chess at the young age of five and developed a promising talent that led him to junior honours including the British under-14 title and the London under-14 title.

In 1975 and 1977, the International Master and International Grandmaster titles respectively were given.

In international tournaments, he competed successfully at Montilla 1976 (2nd= with Kavalek and Calvo after Karpov), Montilla 1977 (3rd after Gligorić and Kavalek), London 1977 (2nd= with Mestel and Quinteros after Hort), Vršac 1979 (1st), Smederevska Palanka 1980 (1st) and Beersheba 1982 (1st).

During this period, Stean frequently had to put aside his own playing ambitions, as he was engaged as one of Viktor Korchnoi’s team of seconds for world championship campaigns in 1977-78 and 1980-81. In many respects, the partnerships that developed were reasonably successful; Korchnoi brushed aside some powerful rival Candidates like Boris Spassky, Robert Hübner and Lev Polugaevsky en route to his two finals with Karpov. Stean’s role was mostly involved with opening preparation and he and Korchnoi became good friends.

He was the domestic winner of the British Chess Championship 1974. However, he lost the play-off against George Botterill. He won the prize for the best game at the Olympiad for his performance against Walter Browne in the first of five Chess Olympiads he held at Nice, 1974. His next Olympiad was even better: he won individual and team gold medals at Haifa 1976. These events saw him score no less than half of his potential.

Michael Stean Net Worth

Michael Stean is one of the richest Chess Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Stean 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michael Francis Stean, born 4 September 1953, is an English chess grandmaster and author of chess books. He is also a tax accountant.

He made more progress in 1971 when he finished third in a junior event at Norwich, behind Tarjan and Sax, who were both young players with bright futures. He was able to win a tournament in Canterbury in 1973 (behind Adorjan), and it became clear that England had another contender for the title of first grandmaster. Ray Keene, a friend of Stean from Cambridge University, and Tony Miles were also contenders for the title. Stean also entered the 1973 (Teesside World Junior Chess Championship) and finished third behind Miles (ahead Larry Christiansen). Curiously, Stean and Miles both defeated Beliavsky but couldn’t match his brutality in defeating inferior opponents.

While playing chess, he wrote two books – Sicilian Najdorf (Batsford, 1976) and Simple Chess (Faber, 1978). Both books were well received and the latter has become known as a chess classic, remaining in print many years later (reprinted algebraic edition – Dover, 2003). Simple Chess concentrates on simple positional ideas and strategies and shows how they might be developed with the aid of sample games. He also contributed a lengthy introduction to Bent Larsen’s book about the 1978 World Championship.

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Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Chess Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Michael Stean celebrates birthday on September 4 of every year.