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Here's a photo of Adrian Jackson from the 2001 Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International...

BritBase* has moved to https://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/ This is a new URL (the old one was 'co' rather than 'org') and I'm running it on a new host, as recommended by John Upham last year... John, My ISP (Zen Internet) provided a free SSL certificate for each and every web site I manage. It happen...

Evidently Chessgames.com works for some people but not others. Leonard is one of the lucky ones, I am not. I used this site to check - https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/chessgames.com - and it confirms that the site is up, just not for me (and hasn't been for a long time now). Can some helpful tec...

John Upham wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 03, 2020 7:16 pm

John Saunders probably knows.

Haven’t the foggiest. Sorry.

A second apology for confusing the issue here (my pathetic, Cummingsesque excuse being that I was dealing with an elderly relative's health crisis and not properly focused at the time). Well done to Gerard for digging out that 1982 reference showing that more moves of the game in question are availa...

Sorry, I got my wires crossed somewhere. The Golmayo ref I found in the Guardian was to an Olympic contest in July 1924, not July 1930. I'll edit what I wrote above.

The source of the part-game Golmayo-Sultan Khan is given on BritBase: "Source: Mir Sultan Khan by Coles (2nd ed., 1977), note on p62" And there is a further text note: ""... M. Golmayo, Spain's top board, could not arrive till the eighth round." (BCM, Oct 1930, p358)" Daniel King's new book about Su...

To elaborate slightly, the census wanted to collect data on who lived where, and what they did. As married women rarely went out to paid work, (though obviously keeping a house running and looking after children is time-consuming and hard work), but the census had to say something. Why not just say...

We've discussed a Menchik blue plaque before...

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Two more videos have been added to this series: Mark Page (current joint British Over-65 Champion): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAictoSmGh4 FM Simon Bibby (long resident in Japan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ahMfqP6fY After the interviews, both of them give wins against GMs - Mark's win a...

No need to guess about the match on 15 October 1938 as it was reported in the November 1938 BCM, page 505. The Civil Service defeated Cambridge University by 12½-7½. Coy-Hoad was played on board three. The top two boards (Civil S names first): 1 BHN Stronach 1-0 FEA Kitto; 2 GJ Webb ½-½ ME Wise. The...

A few days ago I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Natasha Regan and Matthew Sadler for their YouTube video series entitled 'Chess for Life in the Time of Corona'. Link to the interview with me here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4phbZ3YwtM&t=22s This is the sixth video in the series so fa...

Further research on JAF by Richard James, Leonard Barden and BCN has allowed us to publish https://britishchessnews.com/2020/03/23/remembering-john-arthur-fuller-12-v-1928-08-xii-2004/ with the correct DoD and a photograph not seen previously. :D Beware fake news: the two novelty claims made in the...

A reminder that Mark Page is delivering regular reports on the England Over-65 team's progress in Prague at the Kenilworth Chess Blog.

It strikes me a being roughly normal for a Varsity match these days. Plus Daniel Gallagher withdrew due to illness, and I don't know whether he was replaced by a non-UK student. The Cambridge reserve player who stepped into the breach, Declan Shafi, is Scottish. Full results and photo-report are av...