Born in 1956, Terry has one unique claim to fame - the only amateur player ever to have defeated Garry Kasparov in a one-to-one. What's the catch, you ask? Well, it was a handicap game (Garry had two fewer pawns than his opponent) - but it was still a remarkable achievement for all that. It came in game three of a four-game charity handicap match in London which Kasparov won 2½-1½.
    Even apart from this match, Terry has had an excellent career to date, both in chess and in business. He won the British Under-14 Championship in 1970 and in 1968 his schoolmaster sent in one of his games which was published in "Chess" magazine when he was even younger than that. He won a number of other junior titles, including the London Junior Under-18 Championship, which would have indicated a likely trajectory of at least IM and possibly GM, but shortly after playing two Varsity matches for Cambridge University in 1976 and 1977 he gave up competition chess to concentrate on a business career. He was highly successful, heading up his own company, Terence Chapman Group plc, which sponsored the English Chess Federation's Grand Prix competition for a number of years as well as the charity match with Kasparov.
    In recent years Terry has returned to competition chess with some success, being a regular at Hastings, Coulsdon and other events including the 2007 British Championship where he scored an excellent 6½/11, beating IM Simon Knott in the last round. He plays for the Oxford and Cambridge club in London and has a current ECF grade of 193. In 2009 he played in a massively strong Staunton Memorial tournament (with people like Timman and Korchnoi in the line-up) where he was conceding 200+ rating points in every game and there was a very real danger of him finishing with zero. He averted this by beating IM Lawrence Trent.