Colin Crouch (chess player)

Colin Stamford Crouch was an English chess player and author.
Crouch was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's and read Geography at Christ's College, Cambridge. He later finished a PhD at Durham University in 1989, the subject of which was the roots of unemployment in mining communities.
A highly talented junior player, he won the British Under-16 Championship in 1972 and the Under-18 Championship in 1974. He received his first international rating of 2300 in 1977, and following years of play in national and international tournaments, was awarded the International Master title in 1991. Close to Grandmaster strength, his 'finest hour' as a chess player was his score of 7/9 in the Hastings Challengers of 1991-92, which included a 'highly original win' over Valeriy Neverov.
He achieved a peak rating of 2448.
Despite suffering a stroke that damaged his sight in December 2004, he continued to compete against blind, near-sighted, and sighted players. He won silver medals in
both the 2008 and 2012 editions of the Chess Olympiad for the Blind.