Sir Jeremy Morse

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Sir Jeremy Morse

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Gordon Cadden » Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:00 pm

Who would have guessed that the Television Series: Inspector Morse, was named after Sir Jeremy Morse.

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Fri Feb 05, 2016 5:15 pm

I very much enjoyed his problems and his Chess Problems: Tasks and Records.
Never knew he was a poet or a classicist (nor that his first name was Christopher!). :D
Pity the obituary doesn't mention the Lloyds Bank sponsorship of chess. That is worth remembering as well.

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Richard Bates » Sat Feb 06, 2016 10:57 am

Gordon Cadden wrote:Who would have guessed that the Television Series: Inspector Morse, was named after Sir Jeremy Morse.
Thought it was named after the books ;)

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Mick Norris » Sat Feb 06, 2016 4:56 pm

Richard Bates wrote:
Gordon Cadden wrote:Who would have guessed that the Television Series: Inspector Morse, was named after Sir Jeremy Morse.
Thought it was named after the books ;)
:lol:
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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Stewart Reuben » Sat Feb 06, 2016 7:59 pm

Sir Christopher Jeremy Morse

Born 10 December 1928. Passed away peacefully Thursday 4 February 2016.
He was a banker, highly expert in cryptic crosswords and a chess problemist, specialising particularly in those with very long solutions. He was author of 'Chess Problems, Tasks and Records'. He was also Chancellor of the University of Bristol 1989-2003. The fictional detective working in Oxford was named after him by the author Colin Dexter.

He became Chairman of Lloyds Bank in 1977 and remained in office until 1993. At that time the bank started supporting junior chess. The Lloyds Bank Masters started in 1977 and ran until 1994. It was the first event in the world to demonstrate that it was possible to gain title norms in open Swisses. There are now events all over the world organised in this format. He presented the prizes there every year and many chessplayers will remember him. It is apposite that he died on the last day of the Tradewise 14th Gibraltar Chess Festival.

Our condolences to his family.

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Jon Mahony » Tue Feb 09, 2016 12:59 pm

Morse (the detective) always had a Chess set on stand-by in his front room, and in one episode he was seen duffing up an old lady OTB, at the end of the story - When Lewis said "You could have let her win the Chess sir!" Morse responded scornfully "That's the worst form of deception Lewis".

There was crossword composer character in "The silent world of Nicholas Quinn" who was based on sir Jeremy.

RIP, I have his book of Chess problems and always enjoy bringing it with me for long train rides etc.
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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Joey Stewart » Tue Feb 09, 2016 1:01 pm

How good a player was he - looks like he gave up over the board chess a long time ago.
Lose one queen and it is a disaster, Lose 1000 queens and it is just a statistic.

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Jon Mahony » Tue Feb 09, 2016 2:30 pm

Joey Stewart wrote:How good a player was he - looks like he gave up over the board chess a long time ago.
Haven’t seen a single one of his games, can anyone enlighten us? My guess is not overly, strong it looks like he enjoyed puzzles more than playing, probably an after effect of the crossword composers brain. I wonder if he ever entered problem solving completions?
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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Mick Norris » Tue Feb 09, 2016 2:49 pm

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Clive Blackburn » Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:54 am

I found a few games played in the Somerset Open in 1992 (presumably it is the same Jeremy Morse)

http://www.365chess.com/players/Jeremy_Morse

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Wed Feb 10, 2016 9:27 am

My parents attended some of the Ximenes dinners. I still have the menus somewhere. Not only was Ximenes a difficult crossword, but the tie-break for prize-winners was that you had to produce a clue for a selected word!

Sir Jeremy was responsible for a lot of sponsorship of chess, apart from the obvious Lloyds Bank Masters, Guernsey was sponsored by Lloyds at one stage, although that might have been a local arrangement.

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Roger de Coverly » Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:13 am

Clive Blackburn wrote:I found a few games played in the Somerset Open in 1992 (presumably it is the same Jeremy Morse)
I rather suspect this was a tournament in the USA's Somerset and therefore not Sir Jeremy.

http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Som ... 1992/17733

There's a long standing Frome Congress, but that's never been known as the "Somerset Open" and I cannot recall even a short-lived UK event of that name.

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Clive Blackburn » Wed Feb 10, 2016 10:38 am

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Clive Blackburn wrote:I found a few games played in the Somerset Open in 1992 (presumably it is the same Jeremy Morse)
I rather suspect this was a tournament in the USA's Somerset and therefore not Sir Jeremy.

http://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Som ... 1992/17733

There's a long standing Frome Congress, but that's never been known as the "Somerset Open" and I cannot recall even a short-lived UK event of that name.
Ah that explains it, thank you Roger.

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Re: Sir Jeremy Morse

Post by Leonard Barden » Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:28 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Sir Jeremy was responsible for a lot of sponsorship of chess, apart from the obvious Lloyds Bank Masters, Guernsey was sponsored by Lloyds at one stage, although that might have been a local arrangement.
Guernsey was part of the overall Lloyds Bank programme, which annually for most of 16 years included the SCCU junior championships, the Lloyds Bank junior invitation, grandmaster simuls, the Oxford v Cambridge match, the British Solving Championship, the England solving team, the Lloyds Bank City Trophy (GM simul v City workers) and an England v Wales women's match with a one-day women's rapidplay. There were one-off events,too, eg Nigel Short v a computer and help for the England squad which successfully competed at Lone Pine 1978. There was also an Islands Trophy, played by telephone, in which Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, and Shetlands all competed.