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I've been told that the Maidenhead equipment is branded as from BR Eley Chess Supplies.Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:16 pmDon't be in too much of a hurry to throw away those old BHB clocks, no matter how embarrassing the branding.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1226619551 ... hess-clock
I have one of those Brian Eley clocks but will sell for much less than the price in the linkRoger de Coverly wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:16 pmDon't be in too much of a hurry to throw away those old BHB clocks, no matter how embarrassing the branding.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1226619551 ... hess-clock
More Eley merchandise still extant: in the late '70s at one of his congress bookstalls I bought fifty Brian Eley and Co. chess scorebooks (50 games). Can't remember if I got a discount. I intended to resell or give them as prizes at the school chess club I ran. Any extra I would use for myself, even now still copying my games from scoresheets by hand. I am glad to say an English GM told me he still does the same.LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 7:59 pmI have one of those Brian Eley clocks but will sell for much less than the price in the linkRoger de Coverly wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:16 pmDon't be in too much of a hurry to throw away those old BHB clocks, no matter how embarrassing the branding.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1226619551 ... hess-clock
You're a good enough player that you must have played in some events where John Saunders would publish the game scores on BritBase.Paul Habershon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:27 pmI am still wondering what advice to give my heirs about my personal game collection.
Paul, have you considered publishing a games collection? There must be some gems, or at least flawed masterpieces, amongst the games of players of your ilk. You might not sell many copies or make any money, but at least the games would not be lost to posterity in the great house clearance that we will all one day face.Paul Habershon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:27 pm
I am on my 57th book overall (starting in 196O) and still have 15 of the Eley books to use. I don't think I am likely to fill them all in my lifetime. I am still wondering what advice to give my heirs about my personal game collection. The books will probably remain in an offspring's loft for decades, be buried with me or, more likely, be sent for recycling.
By a weird, almost Plaskettian coincidence, I was browsing a 1970s CHESS magazine only this afternoon and, as is my wont, inputting a handful of game scores as I went along, one of which was this one...Paul Habershon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:27 pm
I am on my 57th book overall (starting in 196O) and still have 15 of the Eley books to use. I don't think I am likely to fill them all in my lifetime. I am still wondering what advice to give my heirs about my personal game collection. The books will probably remain in an offspring's loft for decades, be buried with me or, more likely, be sent for recycling.
Thanks for your interest, John. Your scholarly attention to detail may like to know that the July date of that game was the 28th and it was Round 3 of 5. I see I was back in the game just before my 31st then should have gone Rxc7 and Rc8. No doubt I was managing the clock badly.John Saunders wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:33 pmBy a weird, almost Plaskettian coincidence, I was browsing a 1970s CHESS magazine only this afternoon and, as is my wont, inputting a handful of game scores as I went along, one of which was this one...Paul Habershon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:27 pm
I am on my 57th book overall (starting in 196O) and still have 15 of the Eley books to use. I don't think I am likely to fill them all in my lifetime. I am still wondering what advice to give my heirs about my personal game collection. The books will probably remain in an offspring's loft for decades, be buried with me or, more likely, be sent for recycling.
If we can find enough volunteers to do the necessary inputting work there will always be a home for the Habershon oeuvre at BritBase.info.
Me too: for most of that time I had no choice if I wanted to preserve the games, not so much from the convenience of having the games in one place as from the catastrophe which constitutes my handwriting. Absolutely necessary to get them written out again in some kind of legible form, and as quickly as possible too while I could still remember (or work out) what had been played when the scoresheet made no sense. Even then there's the occasional asterisk and footnote about.Paul Habershon wrote: ↑Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:27 pmAny extra I would use for myself, even now still copying my games from scoresheets by hand. I am glad to say an English GM told me he still does the same.
Indeed. It seems that the games are somehow ‘safer’ in scorebooks than on a Chessbase database, and the version I have will not run on my latest pc. I am seriously considering copying them all (45+ years) out again, as some of the old scorebooks are getting very worn, and the handwriting very faded, but that will take more than a summer to do.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 4:14 pmHeh, I have made similar pledges in the past and boy did the summers and the scoresheets pile up