Ronald (Ronnie) Wilson Ives, Yorkshire Chess

[Ingrid Ives]

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[Ingrid Ives]

A fitting tribute to my father when he sadly died aged 40 in 1964. I think Stanley Wilkinson took over from him as chess correspondent at the Yorkshire Evening Post.

[John Saunders]

More excellent material, Ingrid - many thanks. One of the press cuttings you've posted is particularly valuable: a missing game from the 1960 British Championship in which the well-known player and author Gerald Abrahams blundered horribly against future British Champion Michael Haygarth.

[Event "GBR-ch 47th"] [Site "Leicester"] [Date "1960.08.20"] [Round "6.7"] [White "Abrahams, Gerald"] [Black "Haygarth, Michael John"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "E18"] [PlyCount "32"] [EventDate "1960.08.15"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "11"] [EventCountry "GBR"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O Nbd7 7. Nc3 b6 8. cxd5 exd5 9. Ne5 Bb7 10. Qb3 c6 11. Bg5 Nxe5 12. dxe5 Ng4 13. Bf4 g5 14. h3 gxf4 15. hxg4 fxg3 16. f4 Bc5+ {Source: RW Ives press cutting (1960, undated)} 0-1

[Ingrid Ives]

Delighted to be of assistance, John and thank you for your fascinating insight. I’m sure I have more of these press cuttings with missing games and will post them as I find them.

[Ingrid Ives]

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[Gerard Killoran]

Wonderful! Please keep posting from this goldmine.

Here's one that a contributor to this forum probably wishes had remained undiscovered.

[Event "GBR-ch 48th"] [Site "Aberystwyth"] [Date "1961.08.19"] [Round "6.3"] [White "Reuben, Stewart"] [Black "Edwards, Raymond Brunton"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A34"] [Opening "English: symmetrical, Rubinstein system"] 1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg2 Nc7 6. d3 e5 7. f4 exf4 8. Bxf4 Bd6 9. Qa4+ Kf8 10. Bxd6+ Qxd6 11. Ne4 Qe7 12. Rc1 b6 13. Nf2 Bd7 14. Qc2 Nc6 15. Nf3 Re8 16. O-O g6 17. Ne4 Kg7 18. Nfd2 f5 19. Nc3 Nd4 20. Qb1 Qe3+ 0-1

[Ian Thompson]

Lightning chess games being adjudicated. I'd never have guessed that. The cutting with Problem No. 85 in it says

Games were adjudicated after 20 minutes, and only Beaty's game with Edwards could not be decided quickly.

You'd think it would usually be quicker to let games be played to a finish and it's difficult to think of a less appropriate way of finishing a game than adjudicating a lightning chess game.

[Roger de Coverly]

You'd think it would usually be quicker to let games be played to a finish and it's difficult to think of a less appropriate way of finishing a game than adjudicating a lightning chess game.

I can recall playimg in a team event in Richmond in the early 1970s where they accelerated the buzzer to five seconds after about twenty minutes. It's the similar problem to games of extreme length discussed recently in the context of weekend tournaments.

[John Saunders]

Here's another game from a press cutting upthread. I've been able to find the date of the game from a BCF Yearbook...

[Event "County m Durham-Yorks"] [Site "Stockton"] [Date "1961.02.11"] [Round "1.12"] [White "Winscom, William Sidney"] [Black "Goldberg, I."] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "A52"] [PlyCount "22"] [EventDate "1961.02.11"] [EventType "team-match"] [EventRounds "1"] [EventCountry "ENG"] [WhiteTeam "Durham"] [BlackTeam "Yorkshire"] [WhiteTeamCountry "ENG"] [BlackTeamCountry "ENG"] 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Nc3 Ngxe5 6. Nxe5 Nxe5 7. b3 Bb4 8. Bb2 Qf6 9. e4 $2 Ng4 $2 (9... Nxc4 $1) 10. Qd2 Nxf2 $2 11. Bd3 $4 (11. e5 $1 Qxe5+ 12. Kxf2 Bc5+ {when} 13. Kf3 {is an only move which looks scary, but turns out to be quite safe.}) 11... Nxh1 {"and White soon resigned." Source: R W Ives column, Feb 1961.} 0-1

Turns out that Black's 9...Ng4 and 10...Nxf2 plan was not as good as it looked.

[Kevin Thurlow]

"Wonderful! Please keep posting from this goldmine."

Absolutely!

In position 109, it refers to A Footner (presumably Andrew, who now plays for Yeovil and refuses to lose to me in the league), but Britbase has his brother John Kenneth as the player...

I'm beginning to feel old as I have played a lot of the people mentioned in these reports!