English Chess Forum

There was one minute's silence for him at the recent Swindon Rapidplay. I think this is a good idea that could be adopted more widely. How about a silence for everyone remembered in this Forum? It should be possible to organize, in spite of the difficulties. Everyone wants to leave a trace.

I am very sad to hear this and can add a little to the Sutton Coldfield death notice. I know little of Keith's early life except that he was an alumnus of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. When we met in the 1990s he was living alone, I am not sure whether divorced or unmarried. That meeting was under th...

This is very sad news, and a lesson that cycling is not necessarily good for the health once the years start to tell. In fact, though, I was surprised to learn that Andrew was nearly 80, he carried his age very lightly. While I was active in (then BCF) national chess administration, Andrew was one o...

Stan Goodall was generally present whenever I attended Management Board or Council back in BCF days. Though I do not recall speaking with him (often I was just taking the minutes), I retain impressions of a decent, hard-working, urbane and intelligent man who did a lot of constructive and positive t...

Sad that he's gone, in spite of his great age. In fact I wasn't aware that he was a chess buff; it was through mathematics that I knew him. When I took this hobby up more seriously he was already in his 90's, yet gave great encouragement to a complete amateur. I was working on the prime density of q...

I remember Simon from my time playing for Trinity College 1st team. Captain and Board 1 was GM Ray Keene, Board 2 was another mathematician, NIgel Kalton, who also died from heart failure, Board 3 was Nigel Holloway and Board 5 David Wilkinson, whom I once met in later years playing at a congress in...