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Re: Victorian and Edwardian chess in the UK
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:10 pm
by Tim Harding
Interesting,Martin. I hope you can find the moves of the correspondence game between Jacobs and the Manchester Jewish Working Men's Club Chess Society. Moves 1-8 were in the Jewish Chronicle on 4 Jan 1901; I didn't have time to search the whole year.
I just sent you an email about what I discovered many years ago regarding his wife.
Re: Victorian and Edwardian chess in the UK
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 5:46 pm
by Martin Smith
Interesting,Martin. I hope you can find the moves of the correspondence game between Jacobs and the Manchester Jewish Working Men's Club Chess Society. Moves 1-8 were in the Jewish Chronicle on 4 Jan 1901; I didn't have time to search the whole year.
Tim, didn't manage to find the rest of the game in the Jewish Chronicle; only some other bits and pieces. All told in
http://lostontime.blogspot.co.uk/2017/0 ... inale.html (with a little help from Gerard).
Re: Victorian and Edwardian chess in the UK
Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2017 1:33 pm
by Geoff Chandler
David Shepherd wrote:I noticed some is selling an old chess cup on ebay 1899 - 1939 FEDERATION OF LONDON WORKING BOYS CLUBS CHESS PRIZE CUP
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1899-FEDERATI ... SwZJBX~TqC
Given it is currently listed at 99p though it might be of interest to someone
The cup was finally sold for £215.