I saw Diggle just the once, a figure from a forgotten age, white faced and clutching Willie Winter’s ‘Chess for Match Players’, something to read, I suppose, on his return trip down to Sussex. WWII may have afforded him, as it did so many, a sense of perspective where chess figured scarcely at all; he retired as a player long before he lay down his quill as a bank official. Hugh Alexander called him ‘Badmaster’ a label that stuck and I hope to his liking. History to this chronicler was a fairground and a pure delight! He wrote the chapter on Anderssen in Winter’s book ‘World Chess Champions’ and so much besides, never taking himself – or the game – too seriously. A great character.