# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-lane
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:50:03.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-lane"
name: "Gary Lane"
slug: "gary-lane"
description: "Gary William Lane is a British-Australian chess player and author. He became an International Master in 1987 and won the Commonwealth Chess Championship in 1988. He has written over thirty books on chess, including Find the Winning Move, Improve Your Chess in 7 Days and Prepare to Attack. There have been translations in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. In the 1980s the ITV documentary \"To Kill a King\" was screened nationwide in Great Britain. It featured a young Michael Adams and Lane. This feature is shown regularly at chess film festivals."
tagline: "Australian chess player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gary_Lane_201210c.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1964-11-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.71
  momentum:             2.142857142857143
  historical:           5.270626666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Гари Лейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "غاري لان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "جارى لان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8D%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%93%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Лэйн, Гэри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Lane"
    title: "Gary Lane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Lane_(chess_player)"
    title: "Gary Lane (chess player)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3658176"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump