Danny Gormally
Chess Player
1976 –
Who is Danny Gormally?
Danny Gormally, is a British chess Grandmaster. On the April 2014 FIDE rating list his Elo rating was 2492. His peak rating was 2573 on the January 2006 rating list. Nationally he is ranked 15th, and is the 14th strongest of England's 26 grandmasters. He was a member of the English team competing in the 37th Chess Olympiad and prematurely left the Olympiad after punching Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian over the Australian Woman International Master Arianne Caoili at one of the evening social events while Aronian and Caoili were dancing and Gormally had consumed too much alcohol.
In 2006, he tied for 2nd-9th with Luke McShane, Stephen J. Gordon, Gawain Jones, Šarūnas Šulskis, Luís Galego, Klaus Bischoff and Karel van der Weide in the 2nd EU Individual Open Chess Championship in Liverpool.
He is a former member of Charlton Chess Club and currently plays for Wood Green.
In November 2006 Gormally was joint winner of the British Rapidplay Chess Championship.
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