Books on English Chess.

[MJMcCready]

I should add that 'Lewsey' is a suburb of Luton.

[MJMcCready]

Here he is described as an old 'Lutonian'.

[MJMcCready]

It is from the Bedfordshire Advertiser and Luton Times Friday 18th Nov 1904

[MJMcCready]

F.Dickens was a school master from Kensworth (between Luton and Dunstable) and a co-author of Chess in Bedfordshire (1933). I have linked a game between himself and a certain Emanuel Lasker in Luton below

https://mccreadyandchess.wordpress.com/ ... -to-luton/

[Richard James]

Another one: Luton Times and Advertiser 19 January 1912

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[MJMcCready]

Cheers Richard. That's great.

[MJMcCready]

There is a picture of W.Ward in action in the following link.

http://ilkleychess.blogspot.com/2012/09 ... ouble.html

[Gordon Cadden]

For information on the Anglo-American Cables Matches, you require the Year Book for 1908. All the teams and results are listed, from 1896 to 1907.

[Richard James]

For information on the Anglo-American Cables Matches, you require the Year Book for 1908. All the teams and results are listed, from 1896 to 1907.

They're also listed here, from 1896 to 1911.

[Gordon Cadden]

Brilliant - but the internet is killing off libraries; not least the National Chess Library.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

The best libraries use digitisation and the internet to reach wider audiences. It does need funding and training for the librarians, though.

[Stewart Reuben]

Although not what Mr McCready is looking for, there is 'The English Chess Explosion' by Chandler and Keene. That chronicles the rise of English chess in the 1970s and 1980s.
England 1 in the World 50+ Team Championship in Dresden 24 February to 4 March are strong favourites to win. Their name was originally to have been 'The English Chess Explosion'.

[MJMcCready]

Although not what Mr McCready is looking for, there is 'The English Chess Explosion' by Chandler and Keene. That chronicles the rise of English chess in the 1970s and 1980s.
England 1 in the World 50+ Team Championship in Dresden 24 February to 4 March are strong favourites to win. Their name was originally to have been 'The English Chess Explosion'.

Does that book describe chess at the club and county level at all? Or it is concerned with the progress of a select number of players on the international scene? It's more the development of local chess I am interested in.

[Stewart Reuben]

I just looked and the English Chess Explosion is indeed solely concerned with the international scene. That is why I wrote that it was not what Mr McCready was looking for.

[MJMcCready]

I just looked and the English Chess Explosion is indeed solely concerned with the international scene. That is why I wrote that it was not what Mr McCready was looking for.

Ok, thank you for your participation in the topic. that's one book less I need to buy.