Vernon Small
| File:Vernon Small 2007.jpg Vernon Small at the "Journalism Matters" EPMU Summit Meeting, Wellington 2007. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 18 July 1954 |
| Chess career | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Title | International Master (1988) |
| FIDE rating | 2313 (April 2005) |
| Peak rating | 2390 (January 1989)[1] |
Vernon Albert Small (born 18 July 1954, England) is a New Zealand journalist and chess International Master (IM).[2] He represented New Zealand in eight Chess Olympiads from 1976 to 1992. Previously a journalist for Fairfax Media, Small worked as a press secretary to Cabinet minister David Parker from 2017 to 2023.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Small moved to New Zealand at the age of 9 in 1964 from England. Small was educated at Shirley Boys' High School in Christchurch, New Zealand.[citation needed] He was awarded a PhD in English Literature from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) in 1985. His doctoral thesis was titled The authorial persona: A truth conditional account.[3]
Small worked as a business and political journalist for The New Zealand Herald and The Dominion Post as deputy political editor and, also at the Post, national affairs editor. For more than two decades he was based in the press gallery at Parliament and was made a life member.[4] During the period of the Sixth Labour Government, from 2017 to 2023, he worked as a senior press secretary to Cabinet minister David Parker.[5][6]
He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Chess career
[edit | edit source]He represented New Zealand in eight Chess Olympiads from 1976 to 1992, playing on board 1 in 1982, 1984 and 1988.[7] His best result was his Olympiad debut at the 22nd Chess Olympiad, Haifa 1976, when he scored 7/9, and finished equal third with Grandmaster Larry Evans for the bronze medal on board 3.[7][8]
Small won or jointly won the New Zealand Chess Championship on four occasions; 1979/80 (shared with Ortvin Sarapu and Ewen Green), 1980/81 (shared with Ortvin Sarapu and Roger Nokes), 1981/82, and 1984/85.[9][10]
He has defeated a number of strong players, including Jonathan Mestel, Eugenio Torre and Oscar Panno.[11]
Notable games
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Vernon Small FIDE rating history, www.olimpbase.org
- ^ Vernon Small FIDE player profile, www.fide.com
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- ^ a b Vernon Small Archived 19 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine Chess Olympiad Statistics, www.olimpbase.org
- ^ 22nd Chess Olympiad, Haifa 1976 Individual Medals, www.olimpbase.org
- ^ The New Zealand Championships: A Brief History by Peter Stuart
- ^ Vernon Small player profile, www.chessgames.com
- ^ Mestel-Small Haifa Olympiad 1976,Small-Torre, Wellington 1978, Small-Panno, Thessaloniki Olympiad 1988, chessgames.com
External links
[edit | edit source]- Vernon Small on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).