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by John Saunders
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Who was L. Alexander?
Replies: 46
Views: 3683

Re: Who was L. Alexander?

Bumping this old thread as I've come across a fourth game score from the match in the photo that started this thread... [Event "Lud-Eagle v Allied Forces"] [Site "London, Bryanston Square, W2"] [Date "1944.04.22"] [Round "1.4"] [White "Friedman, Otto"] [Black "Range, O (Lt)"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "A8...
by John Saunders
Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:14 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 245
Views: 36027

Re: Britbase Updates

Thanks, Richard. I've re-read your piece and concluded, like you, that the "A Beamish" active in London chess was Edmund Arthur Beamish, despite him being referred to as "A Beamish" in multiple contemporary references (at a time when forename initials seemed to be de rigueur ). I think I shall compr...
by John Saunders
Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 245
Views: 36027

Re: Britbase Updates

Thanks for the game, Gerard. Duly added to BritBase. The Beamish question... I read through the relevant thread a few days ago and still couldn't make up my mind. If Richard James is stumped, then I'm clean bowled, out LBW and caught behind all at the same time. It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery in...
by John Saunders
Sat Mar 02, 2024 3:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Varsity Chess Match, 2 March 2024
Replies: 1
Views: 404

Varsity Chess Match, 2 March 2024

The 142nd Varsity match between Oxford and Cambridge is currently in progress at the RAC, Pall Mall, London.

Live games: https://lichess.org/broadcast/varsity-m ... H2do#games

BritBase: https://www.saund.org.uk/britbase/pgn/2 ... iewer.html
by John Saunders
Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:52 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Bertie Cohen - 1925 Lancashire Champion
Replies: 11
Views: 1626

Re: Bertie Cohen - 1925 Lancashire Champion

Some interesting contributions since I started this thread - many thanks to all who have posted. There is no doubt in my mind now that that the "E" of "B. E. Cohen" was a typo by the Manchester Guardian (and not just because said newspaper is famous for them). Looking back at the quotation from that...
by John Saunders
Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:44 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Another reconstruction challenge
Replies: 3
Views: 274

Re: Another reconstruction challenge

Many thanks, Gerard. I have uploaded all of these games to BritBase... 1912 British Championship 1913 British Championship 1924 British Championship HE Atkins Games Collection Re the Atkins game vs Michell: I looked up the match report in BCM - November 1924, p443 - and was surprised to see that it ...
by John Saunders
Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:25 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Another reconstruction challenge
Replies: 3
Views: 274

Re: Another reconstruction challenge

I think I've got it. If you substitute 20...c6 for 20...c5, it makes some sort of sense... [Event "BCF-ch 9th First Class B"] [Site "Richmond"] [Date "1912.08.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Goulding Brown, Bertram"] [Black "MacAlister, John"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "B01"] [PlyCount "73"] [EventDate "1912.??....
by John Saunders
Tue Feb 13, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Malcolm Barker.
Replies: 82
Views: 13465

Re: Malcolm Barker.

The Barker-Morry game appeared in the second part of Neil Blackburn's article on Malcolm Barker.
by John Saunders
Fri Feb 09, 2024 12:45 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Ronnie Ives and the Yorkshire Evening Post Chess Column
Replies: 9
Views: 543

Ronnie Ives and the Yorkshire Evening Post Chess Column

Forum readers will already be aware of Ronnie Ives and his role as weekly chess columnist for the Yorkshire Evening Post between 1958 and 1964. His daughter Ingrid Ives shared a number of press cuttings of these columns here last year in this thread as well as providing some fascinating material abo...
by John Saunders
Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:59 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 245
Views: 36027

Re: Britbase Updates

Thanks, Gerard. Duly added to the BritBase collection: 1911 BCF Congress.
by John Saunders
Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:05 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 245
Views: 36027

Re: Britbase Updates

Many thanks, Gerard & David. I've added the game to the BritBase collection.
by John Saunders
Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:15 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 245
Views: 36027

Re: Britbase Updates

Thanks for the 1979 and 1985 games, Gerard, which I have added to the collection. You had previously sent me the game fragment from 1923 a year or so ago and it is already on BritBase. The version you have just posted is missing a pair of moves (69 Ke3 Ke7 and only then 70 g6, etc).
by John Saunders
Wed Jan 31, 2024 5:23 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 245
Views: 36027

Re: Britbase Updates

Can this off-topic RDK discussion be moved to a different place, please?
by John Saunders
Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:57 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 245
Views: 36027

Re: Britbase Updates

Here's a puzzle, this was one of four games left for adjudication. Somerset were losing 7-5 but tied the match and went through on board count, meaning they were awarded 3 wins and 1 draw or 2 wins and 2 draws. I can't find any report giving the result of the game below and assume it was given as a...
by John Saunders
Mon Jan 29, 2024 3:01 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 245
Views: 36027

Re: Britbase Updates

Gerard Killoran wrote:
Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:33 pm
Winner of best game prize in this section
Thanks for the game, Gerard, which I have added to the BritBase collection.

Hard to believe it was the best game in that section. Maybe it was the only entry...