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Capt H A Kennedy died in 1878, but he was quite pleased to read the nice comments made about him when The Field published details of his death about three years before his eventual passing.

Robert V Elliston (also known as Bob) died on 29 December 2024, but I have not seen a chess obituary written about him. He was born at Dartford in 1938 and while at Eltham College was a member of the Kent junior team. In 1955 he became a student at Brighton and showed real potential by coming close ...

Graham,

One other scoresheet Hants v Somerset, see Somerset Guardian and Radstock Observer of 30.1.1948. For the other three missing matches, BCM, Chess or BCF yearbook would seem to be the best chances.

Brian

Graham,

I see in your notes that you are missing the individual results for a Hampshire v Wiltshire friendly in 1913. If that is still the case, please refer to the Wiltshire News of 1.8.1913 page 9.
Regards,

Brian

Thanks for this, Gerard. I'll give it a go when I next need to reproduce a game in this format.

Many thanks for reproducing this game, Gerard. I cannot remember seeing Jon's extract from BritBase before, but it seems to suggest that the game could have been played by other Henry Wards!

Henry Thomas Ward does not seem to have used his second initial for chess games. There is a game of his published in the Reading Observer of 24.12.1897 in which he beat the famous Henry Bird, though the latter did not play up to his normal standard. Unfortunately I cannot remember how to adopt the p...

When the Hastings Chess Club moved into its present premises in Cornwallis Terrace in 1954, he wrote a little jingle to mark the event. This was reported in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer of 3.4.1954 and was picked up by Reg Cload in his book 'Battles of Hastings' co-written with Ray Keene (1...

Regarding the Craddock v Watson game (1931) the Newcastle Evening Chronicle version of 19.8.1931 tells us that this game was played in the second round. Given that the First Class 'A' event was of eleven rounds, I take this to mean that the game was played on 11th August.

I am interested in the information about Noel Instone Brewer supplied by Alan and Gerard. I played him as a junior in Brighton in 1962. He died in 1965 at the age of 69.

'Chess Columns A List' by Ken Whyld is an excellent book and in a way before its time. In 2002 chess research usually involved visiting a library and not sitting at home using the British Newspaper Library. Nowadays it is much easier to locate chess columns, but one becomes aware of just how many of...

I previously commented on D Armstrong listed as 4b grade and resident of West Ham. I am now fairly sure that he was the David Armstrong, who was connected with Worthing CC and whose family lived at Storrington. He was born in 1932 and played on a high board for Sussex. Looking through my notes, I ca...

I was pleased to receive a reply from Michael Sharpe of Canada, which has provided me with an answer to this query. The relevant page in 'Chess' gives all of the results for the Glorney Cup in 1959 and proves that Michael Warner did not take part in the event. His daughter, Sue, will probably be dis...

Tim/Jon, you are quite correct in assuming that the R D Hirsch was the same person as was born in Berlin. He did not use his first two Christian names. He was always very keen on correspondence chess. His son was Robin, who helped me to write his obituary. Daniel was a likeable academic with a good ...

I wrote an obituary for Daniel Hirsch a few years ago. His father, Kurt, was a well known player, but I do not know of any family connection with the Finchley player. Daniel was born Julius Heinrich Robert Daniel Hirsch in Berlin on 6.9.1929 and his family emigrated from Germany in 1934 to escape th...