http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/ We focus on the British Chess Scene Past & Present ! Mon, 27 Dec 2021 11:55:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-32681 Sat, 18 Dec 2021 18:47:56 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-32681 […] Obituary by John Upham at British Chess News… […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-30474 Sat, 20 Nov 2021 11:24:55 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-30474 […] of either 2A or 2B. In 1964 a numeric system had him at 225 ranking Michael 4th in England behind Penrose 244, Kottnauer 238 and Clarke […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-25527 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 12:19:58 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-25527 […] in 1969 in Rhyl John was unfortunate not to share the title with Dr. Jonathan Penrose after losing to Frank Parr in the final round […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-24028 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 11:48:41 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-24028 […] in 1960 and broadcast in 1961, where he partnered Bobby Fischer against the English masters Jonathan Penrose and Peter Clarke. This was the only recorded consultation game of Fischer’s career. The game, […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-17246 Mon, 03 May 2021 14:28:53 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-17246 […] In 1939 Dr. Fazekas brought his family to England and established himself as a successful and much loved G.P. at Buckhurst Hill, Essex. He soon took a dominating part in county chess and went on to win the championship eleven times. In national events his inconsistency seemed too great a handicap, but at Plymouth in 1957, after so many tries, he astounded everyone by winning the British Championship in front of, among others, Alexander and Penrose. […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-14307 Sat, 13 Feb 2021 17:00:00 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-14307 […] established anything like the superiority over his contemporaries that Atkins in a former age and Penrose in a later achieved. He won the championship again, in 1956, but that was a weak year when the […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-13759 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 14:02:01 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-13759 […] of either 2A or 2B. In 1964 a numeric system had him at 225 ranking Michael 4th in England behind Penrose 244, Kottnauer 238 and Clarke […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-10309 Fri, 06 Nov 2020 19:30:07 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-10309 Are the notes inter alia really by Hugh Myers?

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-10206 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:09:49 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-10206 […] six championships, second only to Atkin’s record of nine (ed : in 1969 at the Rhyl Congress Jonathan Penrose OBE was to surpass Atkin’s record by […]

]]> http://britishchessnews.com/2021/11/30/remembering-dr-jonathan-penrose-obe/#comment-9982 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:19:05 +0000 http://britishchessnews.com/?p=1477#comment-9982 […] content he actually won his last six games in a row to reach a score of 8.5 points, ahead of Klein, Penrose and Milner-Barry. He was often spoken of as “playing himself into form” in the first […]

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