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October 2020
Happy Birthday Susan Linda Caldwell (02-x-1958)
Susan Caldwell Happy Birthday Susan Linda Caldwell (02-x-1958) Susan is / was a director of the Hallas Foundation Ltd. and Larkham Printers and Publishers Ltd. and is married to former Scottish international Les SF Blackstock. Susan Caldwell playing board two in the London - Belgrade Telex Match on April 3rd, 1976 from the St. James Hotel, Buckingham Gate. Sourced from BCM, Volume XCVI (96), Number 5, page 192. Photographer probably Freddy Reilly. A few (11) of her games may be…
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Birthday of FM Richard Geoffrey Eales (08-xi-1949)
FM Richard Eales talks about Malik Mir Sultan Khan Birthday of FM Richard Geoffrey Eales (08-xi-1949)
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Death Anniversary of David Brine Pritchard (19-x-1919 12-xii-2005)
David Brine Pritchard (rhs) Death Anniversary of David Brine Pritchard (19-x-1919 12-xii-2005) Remembering David Brine Pritchard (19-x-1919 12-xii-2005) David was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1958-59 and 1965-66 seasons. He was a leading member of Godalming Chess Club and played in the Surrey Border League. He was a keen student and advocate of chess variants and wrote many books on the subject. He married Elaine Saunders in 1952 and they had a daughter, Wanda. At the time of his…
Find out more »Death Anniversary of David Brine Pritchard (19-x-1919 12-xii-2005)
David Brine Pritchard (rhs) Death Anniversary of David Brine Pritchard (19-x-1919 12-xii-2005) Remembering David Brine Pritchard (19-x-1919 12-xii-2005) David was Southern Counties (SCCU) champion for the 1958-59 and 1965-66 seasons. He was a leading member of Godalming Chess Club and played in the Surrey Border League. He was a keen student and advocate of chess variants and wrote many books on the subject. He married Elaine Saunders in 1952 and they had a daughter, Wanda. At the time of his…
Find out more »Birthday for IM Vaidyanathan Ravikumar (26-xii-1959)
Birthday for IM Vaidyanathan Ravikumar (26-xii-1959)
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Birthday of GM Alexander Sergeevich Cherniaev (26-viii-1969)
Birthday of GM Alexander Sergeevich Cherniaev (26-viii-1969) Alexander Sergeevich Cherniaev was born on Tuesday, August 26th 1969 in Arkhangelsk, Western Russia. He became an International Master in 1993 and a Grandmaster in 2004. He became a FIDE Senior Trainer in 2016. His peak FIDE rating (according to Megabase 2020 and Felice) was 2509 in July 2002, aged 33. (Gaige is silent on Alexander). Alex is registered with the Russian Federation and plays for Hackney, Wood Green, Russia (unsurprisingly!) and 4NCL…
Find out more »Birthday of GM Raymond Dennis Keene OBE (29-i-1948)
Raymond Dennis Keene Birthday of GM Raymond Dennis Keene (29-i-1948) Raymond Dennis Keene
Find out more »Birthday of FM Stephen William Giddins (29-01-1961)
FM Steve Giddins Birthday of FM Stephen William Giddins (29-01-1961) Here are his games from chessgames.com We reviewed his most recent book, co-authored with IM Gerard Welling : Side-Stepping Mainline Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6403hEafJI Side-Stepping Mainline Theory
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Birthday of WIM Cathy Forbes (06-ii-1968)
WIM Cathy Warwick (née Forbes) Birthday of WIM Cathy Forbes (06-ii-1968) WIM Cathy Warwick (née Forbes) The Polgar Sisters : Training or Genius ?
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Jimmy Adams and Stewart Reuben Birthday of FM James Bernard Adams (07-ii-1947) Jimmy gained his FM title in 2014 and was a staunch member of London Central YMCA (CentYMCA) chess club. Jimmy giving a simultaneous display Jimmy records a game between David Howell and Andrew Whiteley The Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov The Complete Games of World Champion Anatoly Karpov
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