Kevin Thurlow wrote: One player reported that he went to watch the panto and one of the cast invited the audience to stamp their feet so that the players could hear them. !
Oh no he didn't!
Kevin Thurlow wrote: One player reported that he went to watch the panto and one of the cast invited the audience to stamp their feet so that the players could hear them. !
Ray Keene and Dinah Norman (Dobson as she then was) can be observed. I think one of the other "young men with glasses" is David Levy. You could reverse engineer the visually handicapped player from the entry lists.Gerard Killoran wrote:I Can someone name any of the faces in ''ap archive chess churchill' which is a Bognor Regis tournament from the 1960s?
Where you see close ups of players making moves, it's obviously staged or just filming analysis, as the players never press the clocks or write the moves down. Still the idea of videoing the game evidently goes back fifty years although low cost recording devices were in the future. Puzzling that using demo boards wasn't employed by Bognor.Gerard Killoran wrote: http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//RTV/ ... 4/?s=chess
It was one of the earlier examples of the model now frequently used outside the UK of taking over a holiday venue out of season for a chess event. I never played in it, the last one I think was in 1969, but magazines of the era reported it in depth as befitted a major event. Yes it was held in the Butlins camp. The format of holding a week or longer tournament over the Easter period has never been copied in Britain since. The timing of it made it suitable for those of school and university age and in its heyday was also able to invite foreign participants.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:J I wonder if Butlins has always been on the same site in Bognor and how much the buildings have changed there?
I visited Lady Herbert's home many times in the 1960s to give her fortnightly chess training. The Herberts had a palatial mansion close to the Thames with an excellent view of the river in the room where we met. She was a very keen player although, alas, not able to improve much from my coaching. 107 sounds about right. I don't recall Sir Alan ever being present or having any indication that he played chess.John Saunders wrote:The elderly lady with the king-size cigarette is, I'm pretty sure, Lady Herbert, wife of the well-known writer A.P. (Sir Alan) Herbert. She was a regular congress-goer until the late 1960s as I recall. Her maiden name was Gwendolyn Harriet Quilter and she lived a long life, from 1892 to 1988.
In fact, I am now certain it is her, having discovered this photo of her, wearing the same top at Bognor. She was always known as "Lady Herbert" in chess circles and you can just make out this name on her badge in the photo. There is a trophy named after her, given for the British Women's Correspondence Championship.
I recall her playing at various congresses; definitely Hammersmith, in 1969, and possibly Marlow (Berks & Bucks), thereabouts. I'm pretty sure she played regularly at Hastings. She was a fairly modest performer: the 1970 SCCU grading list gives her as 107. I don't recall her husband playing as well, but it's possible. I'll leave the pleasure of following that up to someone else.
I rather think so. Invitations to international events were at a premium, so the better known a player, the more likely the invite.Gerard Killoran wrote: Am I asking questions with obvious answers?