Owen Hindle
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Owen Hindle
I believe today is FM Owen Hindle's 80th birthday. A real gent, and an inspiration to those of us who played in Norfolk when he was active. I think I'm right in saying that he was Norfolk champion in six different decades.
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Re: Owen Hindle
Congratulations to my old friend, one of the very best English players and writers of his generation and a truly friendly and genuine person of whom I have only pleasant memories.
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Re: Owen Hindle
Owen Hindle was once a Member of Sutton Coldfield Chess Club, so three years ago I wrote (with his help on a couple of details) a micro-biog for the Club's website http://www.suttonchess.org.uk/
Owen Hindle (b. 1940), author of Further Steps in Chess (1968), and co-author of The English Morphy? (2001), worked on CHESS magazine for the three years between March 1960 and May 1963 throughout which time he was a Club member and sometime Club Champion. Thereafter possibly his best result was when he beat the strong Yugoslav GM, Svetozar Gligoric, at Hastings 1964-65 having drawn with him the year previously. At the British Championships in 1975 at Morecambe he scored 6½/11. He holds the FM title, and his last FIDE rating was 2355, equivalent to an ECF grade nowadays of 221.
Owen Hindle (b. 1940), author of Further Steps in Chess (1968), and co-author of The English Morphy? (2001), worked on CHESS magazine for the three years between March 1960 and May 1963 throughout which time he was a Club member and sometime Club Champion. Thereafter possibly his best result was when he beat the strong Yugoslav GM, Svetozar Gligoric, at Hastings 1964-65 having drawn with him the year previously. At the British Championships in 1975 at Morecambe he scored 6½/11. He holds the FM title, and his last FIDE rating was 2355, equivalent to an ECF grade nowadays of 221.