Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima

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Roland Kensdale
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Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima

Post by Roland Kensdale » Sat May 16, 2015 12:29 pm

Interesting video including his son and players who remember him, and an interview with 'Miss Fatima':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYCwOpjKab0

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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima

Post by Brian Towers » Sat May 16, 2015 4:04 pm

Clearly the ECF should aim to send selected top juniors to Pakistan to serve in Sir Umar's household and England will be a force again in world chess in short order.
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.

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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima

Post by JustinHorton » Sat May 16, 2015 7:56 pm

Great stuff. Appears to be cut down from a 1990 TV film which I'm sure I remember seeing.
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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima

Post by Gordon Cadden » Sun May 17, 2015 11:16 am

Amazing video, the last days of the British Empire, not to mention Milner Barry, and Ritson-Morry. Sultan Khan, and the Household of Sir Umar defies logic. It is not enough to have a natural talent for playing chess. To develop your game, you have to play against stronger players than yourself. Did Sir Umar secretly hire a chess master, to train Fatima and Sultan Khan ? One of the great chess mysteries.

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Post by Leonard Barden » Sun May 17, 2015 11:23 am

Gordon Cadden wrote:Amazing video, the last days of the British Empire, not to mention Milner Barry, and Ritson-Morry. Sultan Khan, and the Household of Sir Umar defies logic. It is not enough to have a natural talent for playing chess. To develop your game, you have to play against stronger players than yourself. Did Sir Umar secretly hire a chess master, to train Fatima and Sultan Khan ? One of the great chess mysteries.

Sultan Khan had some training from William Winter when he first arrived. I thought that was well-known.

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Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sun May 17, 2015 2:32 pm

Which is interesting given that SK had a much poorer score against W Winter than nearly all other English players he encountered?
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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima

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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima

Post by John Townsend » Fri Sep 24, 2021 12:16 pm

Edward Winter has just updated his feature article on Sultan Khan with two portraits of Miss Fatima, forwarded by Olimpiu G. Urcan, from the Edwin Smith photographic archive:

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/ext ... nkhan.html

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