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Richard, Yes sorry, Daniel Abraham Yanofsky! But "Dave" is what BHW seems to have given him. But you have "Chess the Hard Way!" - fantabulastic! I really need to read that. I know Bob put in a lot of effort in Canada in 1947 to help Yanofsky with the book. Is there any further mention of Bob in the...

*Yanofsky was David Abraham Yanofsky. He generally called himself Abe. According to Gaige, Hooper & Whyld, Golombek etc. he was Daniel Abraham Yanofsky. No idea where BHW got Dave from. I looked up Chess the Hard Way! but that only gives D.A. Yanofsky. I note that he acknowledges the collaboration ...

Paul

I have grading lists from the mid 70s onwards, also BCM & Chess from the years you are interested in. I'll try to look them up when I have time if no one else beats me to it.

You're welcome to come and look round my library if it helps.


Richard

Paul

I think I have the Barden endgame book somewhere - will look this evening.

I have the relevant Kingpins and a complete run of grading lists from the mid 70s.

My BCF yearbooks don't go back to the 1960s though.


Richard

Andrew

I have received no contract. The book is almost complete but I'm not intending to release it until I see a contract.

The use of the word 'vocational' suggests to me they were thinking about secondary schools, but of course the vast majority of junior chess is currently played in primary schools. How would 'vocational' be applied to primary school children? Of course, a book or course aimed at 7-year-olds should be...

Charles W Wood wrote: 2. The coaching part was not the problem, testing was. If we are dealing with schools in the way we do now the DoE would not be interested in getting involved in how things work (thats down to the individual school) but if we are dealing with, at the time, all schools the DoE ...

Perhaps I may be permitted to explain what was supposed to be my part in the Chess for Schools project. By the way, Matthew, many thanks for your continued kind remarks about chessKIDS academy. On 18 December 2006 I had a meeting with Robert Richmond, at which the following was agreed (as per email ...

Paul

You're welcome to come round and consult my library whenever you want (as long as I'm in at the time). I also have the NiC years you were after, although I couldn't find anything on the incidents concerning RGW.


Richard

Paul I have a copy of Chess Pieces, a Anthology in Prose and Verse Compiled with Commentary by Norman Knight With a Foreward by Sir George Thomas, Bart, Decorations by the (wonderfully named) Glades Gibberd, published by Sampson Low (whose descendant and namesake was a member of Richmond Juniors man...

Paul

I found nothing in my copy of the 1997 edition (there's nothing in the index, anyway. I haven't reread every word).

It was Justin who said he'd found a reference in his copy of the 2006 edition.

Happy New Year


Richard

Paul

I think you meant Justin. I haven't found anything in my copy of the 1997 edition.

Sean Hewitt wrote:Is the book overdue?!

Quite possibly, Sean, but I wasn't planning to visit Penang to return it.

Which reminds me. I must return my copy of Basic Chess Endings to the library before it incurs a Fine.

No more about exchange/quality yet, but just discovered that RAF Butterworth (where my copy of Clarke's book came from) is in Malaysia! RMAF Butterworth (Malay: TUDM Butterworth, formerly the RAF Butterworth & RAAF Butterworth) (IATA: BWH, ICAO: WMKB) is an air force base near the town of Butterwort...

Justin From 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures (Clarke) p131 (my copy came from the RAF Butterworth Reference Library): This exchange of Rook for minor piece has given us the peculiar term 'exchange' to denote the difference in value involved. One can win the exchange, although in a tangible form no such t...