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That Mason was married seems to be confirmed by the reference to a Mrs Mason in the following snippet from the Morning Post of 23 January 1905... 1905-01-23-Morning-Post.jpg I suppose there is an outside chance that Mrs Mason could be his mother or sister-in-law but wife must be infinitely more like...

Addressing the various points raised about databases in this thread: I guess this is my specialist subject so I might usefully comment. Regarding the 1967 World Students Championship games: these were played abroad so doesn't fall within my self-imposed remit for BritBase, which is based on geograph...

Since publishing the article on BritBase, I've just come across a very long Kingpin article by Jimmy Adams which has further background information on Keres' simul tour.

I have collected together some games and information from a simul tour made by Paul Keres in November/December 1962... http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/196211keres-viewer.html There are 16 games and part-games in total, from the nine simuls given by Keres (seven in England, one in Ireland and one...

Does anyone know if its possible to view a complete list of results, including them smaller events, from the 1980 British Chess Champs held at Brighton in 1980? John Yes, it is. A mere nine years after you asked the question. As those telephone answering systems always say, "thank you for being pat...

At Last, The 1958 Show... the much sought-after Rumens-Mabbs game score, in all its glory. Stewart Reuben sent me the image of the chess column published in the 14 February 1958 edition of the Glasgow Herald. Stewart didn't tell me who sent it to him but I've a feeling it may have been Alan McGowan ...

A Century of British Chess by Philip W Sergeant is an excellent source of information for all sorts of things, for example cross-tables of early British Championships, results of Varsity matches, etc (though there are a few typos and errors). However, as Roger says, the BCF was still quite a new en...

Perhaps I should have explained that the 1979 article is effectively an early draft of what later became the more detailed 100-year history of the federation written by John Poole and Stewart Reuben to be found on the ECF website here: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/100-year-history-of-the-british-...

Thanks to James, who lent me the 1979 BCF congress programme, I have now been able to append a great deal more information about this tournament at BritBase... http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/197908bcf-viewer.html As we suspected, the congress programme did indeed have a reference to tie-breaks ...

Many thanks, James. I’ll drop you a line.

(Did Speelman set any sort of record for age when representing England, at least in the modern era?) Interesting question! The answer appears to be 'yes'. In 1935 at the Warsaw Olympiad, England board four HE Atkins celebrated his 68th birthday four days into the tournament. But, from a quick check...

James is right about Robert Bellin's middle name. Quite a number of well-known chess players have middle names or initials which never seem to get used in the reporting of chess results or in entries on grading/rating lists, etc. Jeremy Gaige's Chess Personalia shows the above player name as Bellin,...

At chessgames they have Anne listed under Mothersill, John Saunders: has recently posted that the surname should be Sunnocks. I have too have just sent them a correction slip. I hope not Geoff since the correct surname is Sunnucks Shall I send them a correction slip ? In the entry at chessgames.com...

1964 U14 TJ Gluckman Timothy J. Gluckman; I played him in postal in 1984. 1978 U21 D Shuttleworth, J Hall The late Tom Clarke (Thomas M. Clarke) from Belfast was also involved in the tie in Ayr; he beat Julian Hodgson in a key game. Unfortunately he lost out in the play-off some weeks later in Engl...

The slight mystery is as to how or where he got a grade of 177 in the August 1969 list. His name doesn't pop up in obvious places like being a prize winner at the London Junior or taking part in the U-18 or U-16 at the BCF Congress. I suppose he might have played club chess somewhere whilst at Eton...