Comments on: Remembering Alan Phillips (28-x-1923 24-vi-2009)

By: Mike Adams

Mike Adams — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 17:47:26 +0000

I arrived at Dartington music summer school in 2007, having driven straight from the British at Great Yarmouth, where I had come joint second in one of the minor sections. In the café I found an elderly chap with a chess set. I offered him a game, thinking this wouldn’t take much time. I was right, but not as I had anticipated. After about a dozen moves he announced I was completely lost, which he went on to briefly demonstrate. It was only at that point he casually mentioned he had jointly won the British in 1954 ( two years before I was born). Suitably humbled, I then bought a copy of his book on post war British chess, which he produced from his bag. My only meeting with Alan Phillips.

By: Remembering David Hooper (31-viii-1915 03-v-1998) | British Chess News

Remembering David Hooper (31-viii-1915 03-v-1998) | British Chess News — Tue, 04 May 2021 09:23:58 +0000

[…] His highest place there was at Nottingham 1954, when, after leading in the early stages, he finished half a point behind the joint champions, Leonard Barden and Alan Phillips. […]

By: Remembering Gerald Abrahams (15-iv-1907 15-iii-1980) | British Chess News

Remembering Gerald Abrahams (15-iv-1907 15-iii-1980) | British Chess News — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:31:40 +0000

[…] the end of Nottingham 1954 Gerald claimed that Alan Phillips had accepted his draw offer so tieing Gerald for the British championship with some rabbit whose […]

By: Happy Birthday Leonard Barden (20-viii-1929) | British Chess News

Happy Birthday Leonard Barden (20-viii-1929) | British Chess News — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:16:14 +0000

[…] de Galway at Bognor, he tied for for first place in the British Championship at Nottingham with A. Phillips. The play-off was drawn and so the players became joint […]