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Could this be your relative?

Vera Menchik

Isidor Gunsberg?

Here's the press report for 1924

The following game is not so exciting but the loser was from an interesting family. Lucien Serraillier (1886–1919) died in the 'Spanish Flu' epidemic and was the son of political refugees from the Paris Commune. His father, Auguste Serraillier was a leading Communard who became a close ally and frie...

From The Standard (London, England) Date: Monday, Jan. 27, 1896 ...and a second game, played in the correspondence match "Men of Kent v Kentish Men," Mr. H. E. Atkins, of Canterbury, the second prize winner in the Amateur Tournament at Hastings, being defeated in a highly interesting game by Mr. H. ...

Here's another one where 38.B-B1 and 45... Q-K2 make no sense... Atkins Yates 1912.png My solution: [Event "Woodhouse Cup"] [Site "Leeds"] [Date "1912.11.02"] [Round "?"] [White "Atkins, Henry Ernest"] [Black "Yates, Fred Dewhirst"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "D05"] [Opening "Queen's pawn game, Rubinst...

The score for the following game becomes rather garbled after 12.d4. Can any reader with access to The Field for 1915 provide the original, or can it be reconstructed? Atkins Wahltuch 1915.png [Event "NCCU Championship"] [Site "Leeds"] [Date "1915.03.27"] [Round "?"] [White "Atkins, Henry Ernest"] [...

328 is a considerable improvement over MegaBase 2020 which has 230. I've attempted to add games and make corrections for ChessBase but I have failed miserably. I have a tranche of Keith Richardson games from one of his scorebooks but CB are not interested. Excellent newspaper clipping Gerard ! Did ...

John Saunders has begun the necessary and overdue task of assembling the games of H. E. Atkins. http://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/pgn/atkins-viewer.html So far he has 328 of them, but surely there must be many more out there. Here's one which might make the list. I wonder what happened to Georgie Hah...

Gladly - "... By the time Solomon Lalor Cambie inherited the former Lalor estate at Killoran in the following century he must also have been a Catholic (since he was educated by the Jesuits at Clongowes Wood College)... https://theirishaesthete.com/2020/11/16/killoran/ (I hope this detour is now ov...

Gerard, it's no big deal... Something I read about the history of Killoran House. There's a tenuous connection to the Jesuits. Nothing personal was meant really just a little bit of word association of my own. Best... John I have no idea what or where 'Killoran House' is, or what connection - howev...

Could John McKenna explain his 'Jesuit' comment in reference to me.

John McKenna wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:52 pm

I thought you might have been educated by Jesuits.

What an interesting remark, I wonder what provoked it.