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My post was prompted by

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/inde ... ad_bishops

Scroll down to Item 11050. "Tom Driberg and John Rety"

A rare photo of John Rety as a young man.

A rare game played by one of the editors of Modern Chess Openings - and champion of Chester Chess Club. Cheshire Observer - Saturday 31 July 1943a.png [Event "Club game"] [Site "Chester"] [Date "1943.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Korn, Walter"] [Black "Tillson, P"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B03"] [Opening ...

When chess set an example, of sorts...

Lew Grade was the producer, and when the film bombed he said, "Raise the Titanic? It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic!"

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.