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Alan has entered two tournaments at Torquay (Paignton) - 1st Week of September

Looking at Torquay/Paignton entries for Sept Alan has entered two tournaments . Glad to see his return to playing chess again

Hope to see Alan in September at Torquay (Paignton) Congress.

Alan was due hip operation in Feb /March so I imagine if this happened he will be back at the chess board May / June. He was in a lot of pain hence non playing chess before operation. When fully fit plays over 300 games a season which is amazing for someone in Mid 80's.

Dates for your diary Roger.

DCCA Congress - formerly the Paignton Congress - 2- 9th September 2018 from Chess Devon Website.

You are correct Keith - Starts Sunday 2nd Sept with last round on Saturday 8th Sept. Not seen entry form yet.

Starts Sunday 3 Sept to Saturday 9th Sept.

From Keverel Chess Site Robert Everson RIP. Since receiving a couple of e-mails regarding Bob Everson, I’ve take the liberty of melding them together, adding some of my own material. Robert Everson had been a regular attendee at the Royal Beacon Seniors Congress in Exmouth, and Paignton, for a numbe...

We played at Paignton in 1973 and confirm true Gentleman. From memory played every year up to 10 years ago

RIP Stan

Well deserve honour His speech at farewell dinner at Guernsey Chess each year rounds off a very good week for the tournament.

From Chess Devon Web Site. It is with great sadness that we report the death of Simon Bartlett. Simon was known at club, county and congress chess and will be sorely missed. Knew Simon for over 30 years and always enjoyed our games and having a few drinks afterwards. We both retired in 2016 and were...

Perhaps the best-known statistical model is that devised by Arpad Elo in 1960 and further elaborated on in his 1978 book The Rating of Chessplayers, Past and Present,[1] he gave ratings to players corresponding to their performance over the best five-year span of their career. According to this syst...

Perhaps the best-known statistical model is that devised by Arpad Elo in 1960 and further elaborated on in his 1978 book The Rating of Chessplayers, Past and Present,[1] he gave ratings to players corresponding to their performance over the best five-year span of their career. According to this syst...

You have to Paul Morphy in the list ! His play over the board and blindfold games clearly show he was ahead of his time and certainly could hold his own with players from 1860 to 1900 when world championship matches were played. Bobby Fisher rated him one of the greatest player ever to play Chess

Paul Morphy. Sadly no World Championship around his time of playing. Would have won it and probably would have kept him playing longer.