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Terrific result. Gawain on Twitter: "Well I didn't make it easy for myself. Thought I'd blown it when I squandered a 2-0 lead against David, such elite players don't tend to give you second chances. Got my luck in the Armageddon. Then a Dragon punt and Scotch Gambit opening trap sees me over the lin...

1948 ---- Battle of Britain. London ENG – RF Boxall 4/5, DB Pritchard 3.5, G Wood 3, NT Honan 2, HI Woolverton 1.5, Ms E Saunders 1 (6) 1954 Sep. Battle of Britain. Final. London ENG – GJ Martin, MJ Franklin 2.5/3, EC Hughes, GC Nurse 0.5 (4). Martin won the playoff to make it two wins in succession...

1964 Sep. Battle of Britain. London ENG – MJ Basman 3/3, NA Perkins 2, WF Coles 1, A Bernfield 0 (4). A fundraiser for the RAF Benevolent Fund. Qualifying events were held at monthly intervals to arrive at the four finalists. The winner’s trophy is held for a year.

(from CHESS magazine)

1955 Sep. Battle of Britain. London ENG – LW Barden, JB Hawson, M Rogan 2/3, A Lukowicz 0 (4). It was fitting that Rogan (USA) and Lukowicz (a Polish airman) could represent two of Britain’s strongest wartime allies. Barden won out in the three-way play-off for first place.

(from CHESS magazine)

Reminds me of a friend of mine who would regularly play 1.a3 if his opponent hadn't turned up for the start of play. He would cunningly set the pawn only half onto the a3 square, leave the remaining pieces in a messy arrangement, start the clock, push his chair in and walk away. Arriving late, many ...

Anderson's wiki page has him as an OBE, DFC though.

Right, thanks.

Three entries in Pergamon's British Chess (1983):

Gerald Frank Anderson, MBE - an IM in chess composition.
Robin Charles Oliver Matthews, CBE, FBA - IM in chess composition, Master of Clare College, Cambridge.
Sir Jeremy Morse - FIDE Int. Judge for Chess Composition.

I think I recall William Fairhurst being made a CBE, but whether it was for chess or structural engineering, I couldn't say.

Hah! Nice one.

'Chess For Tigers' is maybe the one cover replication that shouldn't be attempted.

Over the years I did manage to locate a couple of articles about Penrose: One is in the archives of spraggettonchess.com. I guess this link should work - http://www.spraggettonchess.com/saturdays-chess-puzzle-3/ but if not, I used the archive box, right hand side of the homepage, where I selected Ma...

Playing chess may have had a direct bearing on Harry surviving the war: “Without chess I would almost certainly be dead. My artillery battery was about to leave for Singapore during WWII. My commanding officer arranged for me to be transferred to Intelligence a week before they left because he knew ...

This reminds me of a (possibly apocryphal) tale featuring John Nunn. In essence, it was told to me as follows ... "John's mother picked him up from his first day of elementary school and was called over by the teacher. She warned Mrs Nunn that they suspected John may be a slow learner, as he had sho...

Am I the only non-recipient curious to see what this 'badge' looks like?
Can someone post a photo of it?

I'll need to know what I'm looking out for on my future eBay searches

Thanks for the correction Lawrence.

I read a tweet from Ramesh that was congratulating Sohum, and somehow deduced that they were working together.

Ten-year-old Sohum Lohia (ENG) wins Group 3b of the Wijk Amateurs with a TPR of 2200. Won by a full point. Another promising surge from him.

Being coached by former British Champion RB Ramesh by the look of it.