Comments on: Remembering CGM Adrian Hollis (02-viii-1940 26-ii-2013) http://britishchessnews.com/2021/02/26/remembering-cgm-adrian-hollis-02-viii-1940-26-ii-2013/ We focus on the British Chess Scene Past & Present ! Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:42:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Daily Rome Shot 675 | Fr. Z's Blog http://britishchessnews.com/2021/02/26/remembering-cgm-adrian-hollis-02-viii-1940-26-ii-2013/#comment-57131 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:42:36 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=14492#comment-57131 […] fellow, who was a great Classics scholar, fine player and, it seems, a true gentleman.  HERE  This is the type of fellow whom I’d like to have as a coach and perhaps fellow live […]

]]> By: Andy Stoker http://britishchessnews.com/2021/02/26/remembering-cgm-adrian-hollis-02-viii-1940-26-ii-2013/#comment-24362 Sat, 28 Aug 2021 09:23:00 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=14492#comment-24362 Keene in the Spectator – rather lame anecdote about “How many moves / trains?” Why would anyone ask that?

]]> By: John Clarke http://britishchessnews.com/2021/02/26/remembering-cgm-adrian-hollis-02-viii-1940-26-ii-2013/#comment-14825 Fri, 26 Feb 2021 22:33:01 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=14492#comment-14825 “I learned the moves at the advanced age of thirteen from a cousin who himself could have made a good chess player had he not been seduced by Philosophy and brain-teasers …. ”

That would have been Martin Hollis, who contributed the “Tantaliser” column to the New Scientist for many years. I always enjoyed his puzzles, which for me at any rate were at just the right level of difficulty – neither trivial nor totally impossible.

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