Comments on: Remembering IM William Winter (11-ix-1897 18-xii-1955) http://britishchessnews.com/2020/12/18/remembering-william-winter-11-ix-1898-18-xii-1955/ We focus on the British Chess Scene Past & Present! Sun, 05 Feb 2023 14:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Remembering IM Hugh Alexander CMG CBE (19-iv-1909 15-ii-1974) - British Chess News http://britishchessnews.com/2020/12/18/remembering-william-winter-11-ix-1898-18-xii-1955/#comment-36715 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 09:42:25 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=2466#comment-36715 […] the March issue of CHESS for 1963, (Volume 28, Number 427, pp.147-155)  William Winter wrote […]

]]> By: Remembering Roland Scott (25-iii-1888 10-i-1953) - British Chess News http://britishchessnews.com/2020/12/18/remembering-william-winter-11-ix-1898-18-xii-1955/#comment-34217 Sun, 09 Jan 2022 22:33:21 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=2466#comment-34217 […] I. Estrin, a young Russian who was Hampstead Champion, 5-2 in a match. ln 1919 he lost a match with Winter at Hastings (2-4), and shared seventh to eighth positions with Dr. Olland (Holland) at the B.C.F. […]

]]> By: William Winter's Memoirs - British Chess News http://britishchessnews.com/2020/12/18/remembering-william-winter-11-ix-1898-18-xii-1955/#comment-30953 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 12:11:01 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=2466#comment-30953 […] (For our biography of WIlliam Winter see here) […]

]]> By: Jon D'Souza-Eva http://britishchessnews.com/2020/12/18/remembering-william-winter-11-ix-1898-18-xii-1955/#comment-23366 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:11:29 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=2466#comment-23366 The incorrect birth year of 1898 is given several times in the article – twice in the caption to a photo and in the paragraph beginning “Born in Medstead in Hampshire on 11th September 1898…”.

The date of 11th September 1897 (as concluded by John Townsend) is undoubtedly correct – it agrees with the quarter / year that his birth was registered (the GRO entry includes the correct mother’s maiden name) and also the date given by Winter himself in the 1939 register (I’ve attached a scan of that to his page on the excellent Family Search website).

]]> By: Remembering Sir Stuart Milner-Barry KCVO CB OBE (20-ix-1906 25-iii-1995) | British Chess News http://britishchessnews.com/2020/12/18/remembering-william-winter-11-ix-1898-18-xii-1955/#comment-15582 Fri, 19 Mar 2021 19:40:31 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=2466#comment-15582 […] score of 3.5 out of 11, equal with Sir George Thomas and above W. Winter and V. Buerger, was quite as good as I expected. After this came the Cambridge Tournament, which, […]

]]> By: Remembering Gerald Abrahams (15-iv-1907 15-iii-1980) | British Chess News http://britishchessnews.com/2020/12/18/remembering-william-winter-11-ix-1898-18-xii-1955/#comment-15446 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:03:37 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=2466#comment-15446 […] the Lancastrian County Championship in 1925. Abrahams played the variation against his countryman William Winter (1898-1955) in 1929 and in the same year Winter played it against Noteboom, after whom it is […]

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