I'm researching the life and chess career of the Leicester player Alfred Lenton (1911-2004). Lenton shared 3rd place and 2nd place in the 1935 and 1936 British Championships.
After the war he ran an antiquarian bookshop which still exists, and had a long career, until almost the end of his life, in club and county chess.
I've trawled the usual sources for games: MegaBase, BritBase, British Newspaper archives, but would welcome any previously unpublished games, particularly from after WW2.
Perhaps you played him yourself and still have the score.
Alfred Lenton
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Re: Alfred Lenton
I might have a few more than appear on BritBase. I'll send you a file.
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Re: Alfred Lenton
Driff's Guide to All the Secondhand & Antiquarian Bookshops, B. C. M. Driffield, 1985, Page 74:
"... ALFRED LENTON , 27 ST. NICHOLAS PLACE , LEICESTER. LE1 5LB ... Believed to be the KGB's man in Leicester: playing Chess and saying 'Nyet'."
"... ALFRED LENTON , 27 ST. NICHOLAS PLACE , LEICESTER. LE1 5LB ... Believed to be the KGB's man in Leicester: playing Chess and saying 'Nyet'."