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Great to hear about the coming bio on Thomas! Anybody here that also have a clue if he had something against C.O.H´D Alexander, not giving him a single point before Saltsjöbaden 1948?

Sad that there will, probably, be no bio on, Sir George Thomas. Anyway, I have a Q about him: Did he have something against C.O.H´D Alexander? In the qualification to the interzonal in Saltsjöbaden 1948, each member of the Qualification committee had 20 sets of points (from 20 to 1) to distribute am...

Thanks for the assistance so far: Mick, John, Gerald and Jon. In just a couple of hours I have found out plenty of new information.

I am just about to finalize a book on Folke Rogard the FIDE-president 1949-1970 at Thinkers Publishing and I have a Q that might get an answer in this forum! I have seen that Rogard communicated with an Alfred Milner in August 1949 efter he was appointed president of FIDE in Saltsjöbaden. Milner see...