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by Brian Denman
Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:49 am
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Phil Sorensen
Replies: 3
Views: 811

Re: Phil Sorensen

Thanks for this, Christopher. It probably is the same person, whom I knew at school, though it is difficult to tell from the sideways picture. He had a brother, who also played chess with the initial of 'B'. I see that by the late 1970s he had become a member of Tunbridge Wells CC.
by Brian Denman
Sat Apr 22, 2023 10:26 am
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Phil Sorensen
Replies: 3
Views: 811

Re: Phil Sorensen

I cannot seem to find the photograph. I am wondering if this is the same Philip Sorensen, whom I went to school with. We played in the Hove Grammar School team, which won the Sunday Times National Schools competition in 1963. I know that he later moved from Hove to Kent, but I have not been in touch...
by Brian Denman
Sat Mar 25, 2023 10:30 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: The Sussex Chess Journal
Replies: 8
Views: 939

Re: The Sussex Chess Journal

I have photocopies of the Sussex Chess Journal (1889-92) and its successor Southern Counties' Chess Journal (1892-96). There used to be copies of the former at Hastings Chess Club and in the Sussex chess archives, but the first of these may have been sold on and the Sussex archives went missing. Per...
by Brian Denman
Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:39 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Mr. N.O. Body in Liverpool 1923
Replies: 13
Views: 1179

Re: Mr. N.O. Body in Liverpool 1923

Brian Hare became Ben Shannon in the 1980s. I wrote his obituary in the English Chess Forum a few years ago.
by Brian Denman
Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:58 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Ronald (Ronnie) Wilson Ives, Yorkshire Chess
Replies: 136
Views: 13960

Re: Ronald (Ronnie) Wilson Ives

W Ives played correspondence chess for Yorkshire against Sussex in 1886. Perhaps he was a relative.
by Brian Denman
Thu Nov 24, 2022 10:28 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Game reconstruction, help needed
Replies: 3
Views: 1173

Re: Game reconstruction, help needed

Gerard, The problem is with Black's 18th and 19th moves. I had 18...Rd8 and 19...Bf8. If the rook had moved to e8, White could have just won a piece by exchanging rooks on move 20 and capturing the bishop. However, if 18...Rd8 and 19...Bf8 was played, neither move looks like the faint printed score....
by Brian Denman
Thu Sep 01, 2022 9:58 pm
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Mike Nicholas
Replies: 1
Views: 1034

Re: Mike Nicholas

Mike won the Sussex Lightning Championship outright in 1973 and was joint winner in 1990. He was Brighton CC champion in 1984. He also won the Sussex competitions called the West Sussex Queen in 1969 and the East Sussex Queen in 1984. The Brighton CC was in a difficult position during his presidency...
by Brian Denman
Wed Jul 20, 2022 10:33 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Hastings 1957/8
Replies: 10
Views: 1605

Re: Hastings 1957/8

According to the Hastings and St Leonards Observer of 4.1.1958 the congress was opened by Ivo Vejvoda, the Yugoslavian ambassador.
by Brian Denman
Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:02 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 269
Views: 37368

Re: Britbase Updates

The Centre Gambit was played as early as 1830 by De Labourdonnais and occasionally in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s, after which it seems to have appeared only rarely. I do not possess Staunton's Chess Player's Handbook, though I suspect that the title of Centre Gambit might be given there.
by Brian Denman
Fri Apr 22, 2022 10:51 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 269
Views: 37368

Re: Britbase Updates

Alfred Emery, born Holborn, London 30.3.1865, died Pitsea, Essex 29.1.1947. Sussex champion 1895.
by Brian Denman
Wed Apr 20, 2022 2:43 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 269
Views: 37368

Re: Britbase Updates

If people are looking for games by Rev A P Lacy-Hulbert, I believe that he wrote a chess column for a while in the Kington Times, The column started in the early 1930s and with a probable break for the war may have gone well into the 1950s. The trouble is that I cannot remember what years the vicar ...
by Brian Denman
Sun Mar 20, 2022 10:58 am
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Len Skinner
Replies: 3
Views: 1150

Re: Len Skinner

A Horsham Chess Club player in the 1960s.
by Brian Denman
Mon Nov 29, 2021 10:39 am
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Chris Orchard
Replies: 1
Views: 855

Re: Chris Orchard

Does anyone know if he was the same person, who played for Eastbourne in the early 1960s and took part in the British Championship at Whitby in 1964? If so, his second initial was 'R'.
by Brian Denman
Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:19 am
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Tom Guy
Replies: 2
Views: 2082

Re: Tom Guy

He was probably at his peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when he won the Brighton CC Championship in 1957 and 1960. I believe that he moved to Tunbridge Wells for the last years of his life.
by Brian Denman
Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:01 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Hastings Chess Club European Tour 1911
Replies: 18
Views: 5824

Re: Hastings Chess Club European Tour 1911

The column in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer came to an end in 1910 and the 1911 tour was reported in various scattered British columns. There was probably limited local interest as a number of the players came from outside Sussex. Also the players were probably not accompanied by several loc...