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Hello all,

I'm looking for any information or memories anybody might have about Eric Holt.


Eric was Scottish champion in 1971, played in the British that year finishing 7th=, did well in a variety of junior tournaments including making the A-Final of the European u-20 (other competitors included Beliavsky and Ribli) but then seems to have disappeared from the chess world completely. I gather he has moved to America, possibly Tarrytown, New York.

If anybody has any memories of Eric or any idea how I might contact him now I'd be really interested in hearing from you.


Many thanks



J

PS: Today's post on the S&BC Blog is about Eric. It seems he was quite a player.

Ernie Lazenby wrote:I have googled the name and theres a lot of information about various Eric Holts including photographs. If you know what he looks like maybe thats a starting point

Thanks for the reply Ernie.

At the bottom of my Blog post today
http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.c ... -holt.html

there's a picture of a guy who I *think* might well be the Chess playing Eric Holt.


I googled a lot too (the story behind that is on the blog) but have yet to turn up an email address for him.

Jonathan,

I've taken the liberty of posting your request on the Chess Scotland (official) forum. Hopefully tthat might get you a few more answers.

http://scotchess.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopi ... hess#10451

Good luck

Alex McFarlane wrote:Jonathan,

I've taken the liberty of posting your request on the Chess Scotland (official) forum. Hopefully tthat might get you a few more answers.

http://scotchess.s4.bizhat.com/viewtopi ... hess#10451

Good luck

Thanks v. much Alex. I was going to do that myself but I'm currently waiting for my registration to be approved.

I wonder if you might do me another favour and post the direct link to the Eric Holt article (see me post in this thread immediately above yours). The www.streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.com address will be fine until Friday but then something else will appear on the top of the pile which might be confusing.



Thanks again for helping out.

J

Jonathan,

I approved it days ago. If you are still having problems let me know

Andy Howie wrote:Jonathan,

I approved it days ago. If you are still having problems let me know

Thanks Andy - yes I'm in now.

Last night I got an email from ... Eric Holt! I'd sent a message to a website that mentioned him but didn't give any contact details. They passed it on to somebody who passed it on. The photo on the blog article is the right Eric I'm pleased to say.

J