BritBase Player Collections

[John Saunders]

As well as putting in new links to Edwardian British Championships, I've tidied up the handful of player collections on Britbase and grouped them together here:

http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/players.html

This page features sizeable game collections of Bernard Cafferty and Peter C Griffiths (now with an updated viewer facility), plus the recent small collection of games played by the late Ian Duncan Wells, kindly sent to me by Sean Parker. I've also persuaded one of the forum's more senior members, Barry Sandercock, to let us see some of his games. He sent me a few of his games played in simuls, going back to 1955. Many thanks, Barry.

I'd very much like to feature more British player collections, particularly from those whose chess career goes back several decades and who have crossed swords with some well-known players. Any offers?

[Barry Sandercock]

Thanks John, for putting my games on BritBase so efficiently. The Penrose simul. was also at Gerrards Cross club.

[Tim Harding]

Just downloaded the interesting Cafferty gamefile and am checking the correspondence games against what I already have. Many of them were new to me, much thanks, but the details of others can be adjusted.

The games you have designated BCCA Championship from the 1950s should be designated British CC Championship. This event was for all CC players not just the BCCA members. See my history of British CC which has all the crosstables from the 1940s onwards and history of the event up to the mid-1980s.

Bernard's games with H-W. May, Gastaldi, Doerner, and Roethgen were from the Eberhardt WIlhelm Cup team tournament B final (board 5). (As well as the Brat, Sidlo and Dobsa which you have as such.) Some years ago I was able to borrow the circulating score book of the BCCA team from the late John Allain so I am certain of this.

I also many years ago checked numerous ICCF event designations against Fernschach and the ICCF Eloquery ratings database.

The game with Ozsvath was from CC Olympiad 7 final board 6.
The games against Kryukov, Mueller, Costea, Gunnar Nielsen, Bjarni Magnusson, Prokopp, and Serebriskiy were from World Championship 8 semifinal 4.