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Isle of Wight won in 1979
Shetland won 1981

Between c1977 and C1984 there was a British Islands Chess Championship. I have found very little about it on BNA and am wondering if there are any records elsewhere eg BCM. I am particularly interested in the matches concerning Anglesey - who played for them and how they got on. I'm surprised that t...

This is another name that has been puzzling me for a long time now. In the 1890s he was one of the strongest players in Swansea, playing on one of the top boards and taking on all-comers in the club in simuls or giving away handicaps. He disappears about 1898. I can't find him on a census or any oth...

That's very good! He played his last county match in 1908 and teh family emigrated to Canada that year. I'll try you with a harder one!

I am trying to find the first name of the above. He was a player with close links both sides of the Channel near the end of the nineteenth century being a member of the Clifton and Cardiff clubs. At Clifton and had many tussles with Nelson Feddon and he won the club championship of Bristol ahead of ...

Dr W. Mansergh Varley was Principal at Swansea Technical College from 1910 to 1919 and was one of the club's leading players.

Many thanks. Don Curtis now traced and spoken to on the phone. He is that rarity of a strong player who did not go to a chess playing school. He learnt his chess by watching others and under the tutelage of Mr. George Moore of the North Cardiff Club who himself became the oldest winner of the Welsh ...

Gordon discovered that Donald Curtis lived in 40 Chiltern Gardens, Leighton Buzzard 40 years ago but played for Bletchley.

I am putting together albums of Welsh chess history prior to 1970 (when WCU broke off from BCF). I intend depositing these albums at a county archive so that they are not lost and can be used by generations to come. Anyone in possession of photos pre 1970 with Welsh themes are invited to send them t...