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Glenn Flear
Glenn Flear, 2006
Full name	Glenn Curtis Flear
Country	England
Born	(1959-02-12) 12 February 1959 (age 65) Leicester, England
Title	Grandmaster (1987)
Peak rating	2555 (July 1999)
Peak ranking	No. 94 (July 1986)

Glenn Curtis Flear (born 12 February 1959 in Leicester, England) is a British chess grandmaster now living in Montpellier, France. He is the author of several books, some on chess openings and some on the endgame.

He was awarded the International Master title in 1983 and Grandmaster title in 1987.

Flear created one of the greatest-ever chess tournament upsets when, as a last minute substitute, he won the very strong London 1986 event (ahead of Chandler, Short, Nunn, Ribli, Polugaevsky, Portisch, Spassky, Vaganian, Speelman, and Larsen, amongst others). To round off the happy occasion, he married five-time French Women's Champion Christine Leroy during the event. They have two sons, James and Nathan.

He also represented England at the 1986 Dubai Olympiad (earning a team silver medal) and at the European Team Chess Championship at Plovdiv in 2003.

Selected writings

Improve Your Endgame Play, 2000, Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-246-6.
Open Ruy Lopez, 2000, Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1857442618.
Mastering the Endgame, 2001, Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-233-4.
Test Your Endgame Thinking, 2002, Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-305-5.
The ...a6 Slav: The Tricky and Dynamic Lines with...a6. 2005, Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857443209.
Starting Out: Pawn Endings, 2004, Everyman Chess. ISBN 1-85744-362-4.
Starting Out: Slav & Semi-Slav, 2005, Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857443934.
Practical Endgame Play – Beyond the Basics: the Definitive Guide to the Endgames that Really Matter, 2007, Everyman Chess. ISBN 978-1-85744-555-8
Starting Out: Open Games, 2010, Everyman Chess. ISBN 1857446305.
Tactimania: Find the Winning Combination, 2011, Quality Chess. ISBN 1-90655-298-3.

v t e English Grandmasters
Chess players for England with the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM)
1970s	Tony Miles Raymond Keene Michael Stean John Nunn
1980s	Jon Speelman Jonathan Mestel Nigel Short Harry Golombek James Plaskett Glenn Flear Julian Hodgson Michael Adams Daniel King David Norwood Mihai Suba
1990s	Joseph Gallagher Anthony Kosten William Watson Stuart Conquest Mark Hebden Nigel Davies Jonathan Penrose Matthew Sadler Jonathan Levitt Peter Wells Keith Arkell John Emms James Howell Neil McDonald Chris Ward Dharshan Kumaran Aaron Summerscale
2000s	Luke McShane Jonathan Parker Nicholas Pert Matthew Turner Alexander Cherniaev Daniel Gormally David Howell Gawain Jones Stewart Haslinger Simon Williams Stephen J. Gordon
2010s	Jonathan Hawkins Daniel Fernandez
2020s	Ravi Haria Nikita Vitiugov Shreyas Royal Ameet Ghasi
See also: List of chess grandmasters Category:English chess players

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