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More worryingly Trowman-Rose appears here http://www.vitezirend.com/rovatok/hirek/investiture_into_the_vitezi_rend_in_liverpool/ Following this Attila Babenyecz, Miklos Bartha, Dr Zsolt Bodnar, Csaba Horvath de Csapod, Eva Szakaly, Prof marques Frederick Trowman-Rose and Ilana Zsigmond de Lemheny we...

'Professor' Frederick Trowman-Rose has a Linkedin page stating he is Chairman at the Commonwealth Development Trust. Chairman Commonwealth Development Trust May 2008 – Present 10 years 5 months The Commonwealth Development Trust aims to offer practical aid programmes to the smaller countries in the ...

A couple of items from the Liverpool Echo

Whatever happened to the rock and roll craze? It didn't last long - did it?


An early photo of Les Blackstock

Thanks for this. I took the information from Reg Cload's book 'Battles of Hastings' written with Ray Keene (1991). In it he states (page 31): "Beginning in 1934, the Congress was recognised as a national event, re-named the 'British Boys Championship.'" However, this is clearly wrong as other infor...

This indicates that this was a BCF title from the beginning.

From the Falkirk Herald - Wednesday 18 April 1923.

From the Oxfordshire Weekly News of July 18, 1923. [Event "British Boys' Championship"] [Site "Hastings"] [Date "1923.04.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Milner-Barry, Philip Stuart"] [Black "Court, William Ernest Francis"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C41"] [Opening "Philidor: exchange variation"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 ...

Here's another reason why the Russian fans will be cheering for England on Wednesday night.

It seems they were never out of the newspapers.

Can you spot another friend of the forum in this one?

Unfortunately there’s no hidden message in this one...

Angela and Maria Eagle with what looks like a Queen's Gambit on the board.

Here's an indication, but did the saintly Leonard really stoop to hypnotism to win the Varsity Match - and if so, did it work? In which case I might give it a try.

http://www.edochess.ca/batgirl/Jones.html Illustrated London News - Saturday 12 November 1955 CHESS NOTES. By BARUCH H. WOOD. M.Sc. ALL the world knows that Paul Morphy came and took Europe by storm ; that he beat Germany’s greatest player Anderssen, but that Staunton disparaged him, avoided a matc...

I came across this in the Cumberland &Westmorland Herald Saturday 14 August 1880. It seems to be a precursor of Nelson Algren's "three rules of life": "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." I prefe...

Here's the ending where I managed to avoid embarrassing myself... [Event "Bradford League"] [Site "?"] [Date "????.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Killoran, Gerard"] [Black "My opponent"] [Result "1-0"] [FEN "8/5k2/3n1p2/B1N3pp/2p1P2P/6P1/5K2/8 w - - 0 43"] 43. Ke3 Nb5 44. Bd8 gxh4 45. gxh4 c3 46. Kd3 c...