Chess history trivia

[MJMcCready]

Okay, new question. How many of the four players (the two on the left and the two on the right) can you name sitting either side of B. H. Wood on the bottom/front row in this photo? B. H. Wood sits exactly in the middle of the 9 players in that row.

[NickFaulks]

During a British championship, a player with a lone king against bishop and rook pawn of the wrong colour spoke loudly to his opponent: " You can keep on trying to win this, ****** *******, until the cows come home. I'm off to the pub."

I don't know the answer, but exactly the same thing happened to me when playing an unrated American visitor in a Bermuda Open. Unlike the player above, it occurred to me that this "idiot" had evidently outplayed me to the point of reaching an ending a piece up, so if he wished to check at the board that the ending could not be won, he had every right to do so.

[Leonard Barden]

Ron Powis, David Youston, John Sykes? Oliver Penrose, me, Denis Mardle, Parbrook??, Roger Taylor

[MJMcCready]

Good memory Leonard but Sykes isn't correct its M. J. Egginton (Birmingham).

[Leonard Barden]

This group photograph is taken from
http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/wint ... ml#CN_9169
Shouldn't you acknowledge the source?

[MJMcCready]

It was taken from here (pg. 6)
http://www.saund.co.uk/rgs/pdfs/viewer. ... annual.pdf

Under normal circumstances I would acknowledge the source but in this thread it gives the answer away to easily if you do that and I wasn't expecting anyone to guess so quickly.

[John Townsend]

Could we have the sources of the photographs of J.N. Derbyshire and Grace Alekhine, please?

[MJMcCready]

http://america.pink/grace-alekhine_1779201.html
https://www.google.co.th/search?q=j.n+ ... 1vOqcwM%3A

[John Townsend]

It should be added that Edward Winter's article (noted by me above) was the actual source of the photograph of J.N. Derbyshire. It is important also not to lose sight of the original source cited in the article, which was CHESS, 14 September 1936, page 9.

[MJMcCready]

Indeed, point noted.

[MJMcCready]

Okay, another picture question (less easily googled). Who is this fellow?

[John Townsend]

W.E. Napier.

[MJMcCready]

Yes, well according to the following link anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ewart_Napier

[Tim Harding]

Yes, well according to the following link anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ewart_Napier

It seems to be a L to R reflection of the frontispiece in John Hilbert's book about Napier.

New question. As usual please do not Google in the first 48 hours to give a chance to others who may know the answer without such assistance!
(I found this quote years ago but nowadays there is so much Victorian material online.)

Who wrote to her husband about a Sunday spent as follows:

'We drove as usual in the evening and also as usual played the game at chess—“decidedly improper”—but I could not well refuse.'

Date of the letter, the place she was visiting, and name of the opponent also required (the latter perhaps not easy to find by googling).

[MJMcCready]

'Drove' so they had cars, so probably not before 1910, that's the best I can do.