English Chess Forum

The confusion surrounding the start-up of the English Chess Association was described on page 545 of the December 1987 British Chess Magazine , which also said: "We rather agree with the viewpoint we heard from Stewart Reuben, that any new body would be better named something like 'Chess Force' or '...

Geoff Chandler writes: "I've never seen anybody make an excuse for his [Raymond Keene's] copying and pasting and lifting actions." Please refer to http://www.kingpinchess.net/2012/04/plagiarism-watch Concerning the 1948 world championship match-tournament, Tryfon Gavriel gives a link to a piece by a...

I'd like to make some points about various issues in this discussion: 1. The Lasker vs Thomas game is in K. Whyld's 1998 book on Lasker, with a slightly different date: 17, not 18, April 1896. 2. On 5 January Tryfon Gavriel referred to Capablanca's "3rd wife". He was married twice. 3. It's good to s...

There is no evidence that Stalin personally cared about or played chess. As for his friendship with Krylenko, that didn't prevent K being purged and shot in 1938. The Stalin hiding behind a curtain to watch the games story remains a fiction of Olga Capablanca, for whom Winter seems to have a soft s...

I've now managed to get hold of an English Chess Association brochure from the late 1980s:

I can add that two of Edward Winter's "Chess Notes" items (1765 and 1867, written in the late 1980s) were included on page 168 of his book "Chess Explorations" (Cadogan Chess):

Ian Kingston's two postings have been about "Not the British Chess Magazine," but that publication is not relevant to the discussion. It was dated 1984, three years before the "English Chess Association" was formed. The (excellent) spoof advertisement for the "Antarctic Chess Association" first appe...

Thanks to Roger de Coverly and Martin Regan for their comments. I was aware of some details about how the "English Chess Association" came about in 1987 from the final part of Edward Winter's article at http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/relief.html. As to whether the Association intended to c...

Greetings from Singapore. May I enquire whether anyone knows anything about the "English Chess Association"? Who are its officers and members, and what are its activities? In his book on Tony Buzan published this year Raymond Keene describes himself as "the Chairman of the English Chess Association"...