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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of GM Harry Golombek OBE (01-iii-1911 07-i-1995)
DESCRIPTION:Signature of H Golombek from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Southsea 1951.\nWe remember Harry Golombek OBE who passed away on Saturday\, January 7th\, 1995. \nHarry Golombek was born on Wednesday\, March 1st\, 1911 in Lambeth\, London and his parents were Barnet (Berl) Golombek (Golabek) (1878-1943) and Emma Golombek (née  Sendak) (1883-1967). \nThe Polish word Golabek translates to “small dove” in English. \nBarnet was a “Dealer of gas fittings” and was 33 when Harry was born and Emma was 26. Both of his parents were born in Zambov which is in the Lomza Gubernia region of the Kingdom of Poland which existed from 1867 – 1917. Their nationalities are both recorded as Russian in the 1911 UK census.  we don’t know (as yet) when Barnet and Emma settled in the UK. \nHarry had a brother Abraham (born in 1906) and a sister Rosy born in 1908. The family lived in 200b\, Railton Road\, Herne Hill. Lambeth. \n200b\, Railton Road\, Herne Hill\, Lambeth\, SE24 0JT\nHe is a recorded with a service number of 992915 as being a member of The Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1939 and was discharged as having reached the age limit in 1956 aged 45 and one day. \nHarry Golombek’s record of discharge in 1956 from the Army.\nHarry married his long time nurse\, Noel Frances Judkins (1941 – 2011) in January 1988 and they had (born in 1992) one son : Oliver Golombek-Judkins  BVSc MRCVS who is a successful Somerset based veterinary surgeon. The marriage was recorded in the district of Kensington & Chelsea. \n37\, Albion Crescent\, Chalfont St Giles\, Buckinghamshire\, HP8 4ET : the home of Harry Golombek OBE\nThe date of probate was 22 Mar 1995 and the executor of HGs will was David Anderton OBE. \nIn 1966 Harry became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)\, Civil division awarded in the 1966 Queen’s Birthday (rather than New Years) Honours list. \nThe citation read simply : \nHarry Golombek. For services to Chess : He was the first UK person to be so honoured. \nHastings memorial bench for Harry Golombek OBE\, Courtesy of John Upham Photography\nThe Harry Golombek memorial bench at St Giles Churchyard\, Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire. Photograph courtesy of Geoff Chandler.The Harry Golombek memorial bench at St Giles Churchyard\, Chalfont St Giles in Buckinghamshire. Photograph courtesy of Geoff Chandler.In 1985 Harry was awarded the long overdue (but Honorary) title of Grandmaster by FIDE. \nHarry was Southern Counties (SCCU) Champion in the 1955-56 and 1963-64 seasons. \nHarry was in 1974-82 a FIDE Zonal President and from 1978-96 he was the FIDE Permanent Fund Administrator. \nSadly\, he never received the Presidents Award for Services to Chess from either the BCF or ECF : maybe a posthumous award is long overdue? \nHarry Golombek\, aged 20\, becomes the youngest winner of the Surrey Challenge Cup in 1931. British Chess Magazine 1931\, September\, page 419.\nHere (from British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXXXII (132)\, 2011\, Number 3 (March)\, pp.150-154 is an affectionate collection of memories from Bernard Cafferty : \n“In recalling four decades of knowing the GOM of 20th century English chess\, one has to stress the ‘English’ aspect. The ‘Harry’ part of his name was much more significant than the Polish surname\, and\, though he was the most cosmopolitan of men\, who fitted into any milieu\, my abiding memory of him always throws up the quirks that are the sign of an Englishman. I wonder how many of my readers recall the classic English actors Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford\, whose main preoccupation in their films was…. getting to know the latest cricket score from Lords or The Oval. \nHarry Golombek. Source : The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match\nIndeed\, Harry was a long-time member of Surrey Cricket Club\, and once\, when he came back from being an arbiter at an international tournament in Tenerife\, his main comment to me was not about the event or the players\, but rather that the volcanic rock of the Atlantic island made for brackish water\, so that one could not get…. a decent cup of tea! \nLeft to right Baruch H Wood\, Philip Stuart Milner-Barry\, Vera Menchik (playing in the women’s world championship (held concurrently with the 1939 Buenos Aires Olympiad) which she won with 17 wins and 2 draws)\, Sir George Thomas\, Conel Hugh O’Donel Alexander and Harry Golombek. England withdrew after their preliminary group due to the outbreak of war despite qualifying for the top final. Thanks to Leonard Barden\nI first met Harry in the early 1950s when I was a teenage student keen on chess and accordingly spent my meagre pocket money on a day out in Manchester to watch the Counties Final match between Lancashire and the all-conquering Middlesex side of those years. Harry and I were about the only spectators. He was there reporting for The Times. I recall that the top board game was between the veterans William Winter and WA Fairhurst. The game duly appeared in the BCM with Harry’s notes\, for he was the long-serving Games Editor of that august publication. \nPlayers at the 1946 British Championships in Nottingham : Back (from left to right): Gabriel Wood\, Reginald Broadbent\, Philip Milner-Barry\, Andrew RB Thomas\, Baruch H Wood. Front (from left to right): Bob Wade\, Frank Parr\, William Winter\, Robert Combe\, Hugh Alexander\, Harry Golombek\, Gerald Abrahams.. Photograph : BritBase\nPerhaps I may enter a belated correction to “Who’s Who” here. Some editions stated that he was editor of BCM after the Second World War. Not so. His stint in the editorial chair was 1938-40\, after which he was called up\, initially being assigned to the Royal Artillery. Perhaps that is a sign of the speciality of the Services – fitting a square peg in a round hole – but he was swiftly transferred to the Intelligence Corps\, perhaps at the behest of Hugh Alexander who knew that Harry had studied German at his London grammar school in Camberwell and then at London University. \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nThe Judges / Arbiters from the 1953 Zurich Candidates tournament : Harry Golombek\, Alois Nagler and Alex Crisovan\nClearly\, under the conditions of 1940\, a linguist was just what was needed to make up the team of mathematicians\, cryptographers and such like who were tasked with breaking the secrecy of German coded messages. \nThe BCF Team at the Amsterdam Olympiad 1954. Left to right : Barden\, Clarke\, Penrose\, Wade\, Golombek (board three) and Alexander\nI once mentioned the misunderstanding over the “Who’s Who” entry to Brian Reilly. He laughed it off\, saying that it was almost certainly the abiding fault of HG – not taking Brian’s repeated advice to fit a new typewriter ribbon! \nHarry Golombek and Gordon Crown in around 1946-47.\nI could relate to that since Harry’s handwritten game scores\, written in pencil and descriptive notation\, were very hard to decipher\, a real scribble that only the man himself could make sense of. When I asked him why he did not use algebraic notation\, he commented that he wrote for so many English-language outlets: The Times\, The Times Weekend Supplement\, Observer and chess book publishers like Bells and Penguin who knew their audiences of those years were supporters of the Pawn to King’s Knight Three school. In fact\, Harry commented\, he had made more money out of his Penguin book The Game of Chess than from all his other extensive book authorship and journalism. \nThe Game of Chess\, Harry Golombek\, 1954\, Penguin Books\nand the paperback version : \nThe Game of Chess\, Harry Golombek\, 1954\, Penguin Books\nMoreover\, it took him about three whole days to assemble the documents and papers to enable him to fill in his income tax form. \nHarry Golombek simultaneous display at Hull Chess Club. Year and photographer unknown\nThat reminds me that\, when he was in his final years\, and in an old person’s rest home\, he arranged for his extensive library to be transferred in many large tea chests from his house in Chalfont St Giles\, Bucks\, to the St Leonards address where I had worked for the BCM for the last 12 years and which had recently been vacated as a result of Murray Chandler deciding to transfer BCM operations to London. I had the task\, arranged with The Friends of Chess and the BCF\, to do a sort-out and preliminary catalogue of his books and magazines which Harry was bequeathing to the BCF to form the nucleus of a National Chess Library. That would be a pleasant enough task\, but it was prolonged into many weeks by having to decant the valuable chess material from the tea chests\, much of it covered in dust and even spiders’ webs\, from the many financial and other papers to do with his financial affairs. It was then that I first learned what a ‘tip sheet’ was\, and it was not until stockbroker David Jarrett\, BCF Hon Treasurer\, came down for a visit that the dross amongst the many papers was separated from the gold and passed to Harry’s executor David Anderton. \nHarry Golombek contemplates his options after White (JH Donner) played 9.a3 in the 1952 Anglo-Dutch Match. Donner won in 33 moves and the game was BCM #11\,074\nReverting to the cup of tea story\, the first time I got to know Harry well was at the British Championship at Leicester in 1960. Many of the participants were lodged in University accommodation near the venue. Every evening\, after play had finished\, a number of us got together for a chat over a cup of tea in the accommodation unit’s kitchen. There Harry would regale us with stories from his many visits abroad\, particularly to Moscow for the world title matches involving Botvinnik. Harry had formed many interesting views on Soviet society. Amongst the stories he told was of the all-pervasive dead hand of the bureaucracy. He was used to filing his reports on the match in English at the Central Post Office. One day\, a clerk behind the grille\, told him he could not accept it\, since the regulations stated that all outgoing material had to be in Russian. \nHarry Golombek\, Stanley Sedgwick\, Brian Reilly and DJ Morgan in the garden of Brian Reilly. Photo probably taken by Freddy Reilly.\nWith his logical mind\, and not appreciating the discipline and associated bureaucracy which the rulers tried to impose on Soviet society\, Harry commented that “Yesterday\, I submitted in English and it was accepted”\, at which the clerk drew herself up to her full height and stated firmly: “Yesterday was yesterday\, today is today”. Harry’s considered views included these: Communism would never be made to work properly in Russia\, since the Russians lack the requisite discipline. “They should have tried it on the Germans. They might have made it work”. He once commented that when he went to Germany in the decade or so after the war\, he was aware that some of those whom he met had been strong supporters of Nazism: “If they had had their way\, they would have turned me into a bar of soap!”. I got a benefit from Harry being in Moscow. I wanted to get a copy of Chigorin’s collected games by Grekov\, a very rare item. Harry duly promised to seek one out on his next visit to Moscow and a second-hand copy of this fine book came to me through the post some weeks later. No charge to me\, of course. \nHarry Golombek in play against Borislav Ivkov\, Hastings 1955/6.\nHarry played a big role in drawing up the Rules of Chess as they applied to post-1945 competitive play. He served on the appropriate FIDE commission for decades and always argued that too precise a codification limited the discretion of the arbiter to apply a common sense solution to a concrete set of circumstances. Alas\, that sensible approach has been moved away from in recent times\, especially with the introduction of quick-play finishes and associated fine points about time limits. \nKick Langeweg plays Hugh Alexander in the Anglo-Dutch Match of October 7th \, 1961. Peter Clarke (right) is playing Johan Teunis Barendregt and Harry Golombek observes\nA final shrewd comment from Harry\, based on his Moscow experience: “In 1917\, the new Bolshevik regime claimed that they were abolishing all titles\, privilege and so on. The result? Forty years later they have the most class-conscious society I have encountered.” One proof of this might be given – the Soviet internal passport system\, one point of which required the holder (and for a long time no peasant was allowed such an identity document – who\, then\, could claim that the Tsar had abolished serfdom in the middle of the 19th century?) to state his/her ethnic origin: Russian\, Ukrainian\, Kalmyk\, Armenian\, Jew and so on. The Western mind boggles… ” \nHarry Golombek during a team event\, Jonathan Penrose on the adjacent board.\nWe leave the final word in reminiscences of Golombek to his near-neighbour in Chalfont St Giles\, Barry Sandercock : \n” Harry was a very interesting man to talk to and liked to talk about the early days when he played against some of the great players. He was also very knowledgeable on many subjects\, the arts\, music etc. I played him when he gave a simul at Gerrards Cross in 1955 (Jan.21st} and managed a draw after 3 hours play. I remember\, the local paper once wrote an article about him\, calling him an ex-world champion. I got a letter published where I pointed out that he was an ex-British Champion not ex-world champion. I hope he didn’t see that!” \nHarry Golombek awaits the start of the game during an Anglo team match.\n“To finish\, a characteristic Golombek game\, with his own notes. I (Ed) have selected one of the games from his victorious British Championship playoff match against Broadbent in 1947. It is characteristic of him in many ways. The game features a typically smooth positional build-up\, from his beloved English Opening\, played with the Nh3 development plan\, which was a particular favourite of his. The notes are also very typically Golombek – concentrating in the main on verbal explanations\, with relatively few variations\, but also characterised by occasionally extreme dogmatism in his assessments\, such as the notes to moves 1\, 2 and 6\, for example. The game and notes were published in the December 1947 issue of The British Chess Magazine.” \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nFrom The Anglo-Soviet Radio Chess Match by Klein and Winter : \n“Harry Golombek is a Londoner\, He was born in 1911\, and learned chess when twelve years of age. He is another of those who went through the mill of the British Boys’ Championship\, winning it in 1926. He has played in most English international tournaments\, and has represented Great Britain in team tournaments. In the London International Tournament\, 1946\, he came fifth. \nA graduate of London University\, he served in the Foreign Office during the war\, but has since retired to the country (Chalfont St. Giles). His literary activities include 50 Great Games of Modern Chess \nFifty Great Games of Modern Chess\, Harry Golombek\,\nLegend\, according to James Pratt\, has it that HG wrote the book without the aid of a chess set! \nand Capablanca’s Hundred Best Games. \n\nCapablanca’s 100 Best Games of Chess\, H. Golombek\, Bell and Sons\, London\, 1947\nHe reports chess tournaments for The Times\, and edits The Times Weekly chess column. \nThe World Chess Championship 1954\nHis chess is perhaps not inspired and lacks the spark of enterprise\, but he is a solid player on the whole and is apt to hold the best to a draw.” \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nHere is HGs entry from Hooper & Whyld (The Oxford Companion to CHESS) : \n“English player and author. International Master (1950)\, International Arbiter (1954)\, honorary Grandmaster (1985). In 1945 Golombek became chess correspondent of The Times\, a position he held until 1989. Also in 1945 he decided to become a professional chess-player. \nThe World Chess Championship 1957\, Macgibbon & Kee\, H. Golombek\nHe won the British Championship three times (1947\, 1949\, 1955) and was equal first in 1959 but lost the play-off (to Jonathan Penrose) and played in nine Olympiads from 1935 to 1962. An experienced arbiter and a good linguist\, supervisor of many important tournaments and matches\, he served for 30 years on the FIDE Commission that makes\, amends\, and arbitrates upon The laws and rules of chess. \nHis many books include Capablanca’s Hundred Best Games (1947)\, \nThe World Chess Championship 1948 (1949)\, \nThe World Chess Championship by Harry Golombek\nRéti’s Best Games of Chess (1954)\, \nRéti’s Best Games of Chess\, Harry Golombek\, Bell\, 1954\nand A History of Chess (1976).” \nChess : A History\, H. Golombek\, Putnam\, London\, New York\, 1976\nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Robert Hale 1970 & 1976)\, Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master and International Chess Judge. British Champion in 1947\, 1949 and 1955. Captained the British Chess Federation team for many years in Chess Olympiads. In the 1972 Olympiad\, captained the BCF women’s team. Chess author and chess correspondent of The Times since 1945 and the Observer since 1955. British Chess Federation to FIDE. \nPost-banquet photograph – left to right : Harry Golombek\, Andras Adorjan\, Danny Wright\, Brian Eley\, Michael Stean\, D. Silk\, Robert Silk\, AK Henderson. The Robert Silk Fellowship Tournament\, Canterbury\, 1973. Source : British Chess Magazine\, Volume 93\, Number 5\, page 192\nBorn in London on 1st March 1911\, Golombek learned to play chess at the age of 12 and in 1929 won the London Boy’s Championship. Two years later he became the youngest player to win the Surrey Championships. After graduating in languages at London University\, Golombek devoted his full time to chess\, apart from the way years\, when served in the army and at the Foreign Office\, and was awarded the OBE for his services to the game in 1966. He was the editor of the British Chess Magazine from 1938 to 1939 and for many years served as its games editor. He is now its overseas news editor. In his capacity as International Chess Judge\, he has acted as judge in World Championship matches since 1954. \nTwo thirds of the BCF team for the 1964 Tel Aviv Olympiad. : Owen Hindle\, Michael Franklin\, Harry Golombek and Michael Haygarth\nHe has competed in a number of international tournaments\, his best results being 1st at Antwerp 1938\, 1st at Leeuwarden 1947\, 1st at Baarn 1948 and -4th with Barcza\, Foltys and Gliogoric at Venice 1949. in 1951\, he represented the British Chess Federation in the Zonal tournament at Bad Pyrmont and came 5th\, qualifying for the Interzonal. ” \nHarry Golombek\, Peter Wells\, Ray Keene\, Leonard Barden and Henry Mutkin take part in the obligatory “Staring at the board” posed picture during the 1985 Varsity Match\nHis publications include : Capablanca’s 100 Best Games of Chess (1947); World Chess Championship 1948 (1949); Pocket Guide to the Chess Openings (1949); \nA Pocket Guide to the Chess Openings\, RC Griffith and H Golombek Bell & Sons\, 1949\nHastings Tournament 1948-1949 (1949); \nHastings Tournament 1948-1949\, H Golombek and W Ritson Morry\, En Passant\, 1949\nSouthsea Tournament 1949 (1949); Prague 1946 (1950); \nPrague 1946\, H Golombek\, CHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\, 1950\nPrague 1946\, H Golombek\, CHESS\, Sutton Coldfield\, 1950\nBudapest 1952 (1952); \nBudapest 1952\, H. Golombek\, British Chess Magazine\, 1952\n50 Great Games of Modern Chess (1952); Reti’s Best Games of Chess (1954); 22nd USSR Championship (1956); \n22nd USSR Championship\, H. Golombek\, British Chess Magazine\, (1956)\nWorld Chess Championship 1957 (1957); Modern Opening Chess Strategy (1959); \nModern Opening Chess Strategy\, H\, Golombek\, Macgibbon & Kee\, London (1960)\nand a translation of The Art of the Middle Game by P. Keres and A. Kotov. \nHe enjoys classical music and has been known to be successful on the Stock Exchange.” \nA reasonable enquiry might be : “What did Harry write about himself?” Well\, according to \nThe Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977) \nThe Encyclopaedia of Chess\nwe have : \n“British international master\, three times British champion and the first person to figure in that country’s Honours List on account of his services to chess. Golombek was born in London and lived there till the Second World War. Educated as Wilson’s Grammar School and the University of London\, he became London Boy Champion in 1929 and London University Champion 1930-3. By this time he was part of a trio of the leading players in England\, the other two being Alexander and Milner-Barry. (Ed : It is curious that HG does not mention William Winter : maybe they were not like minded souls?) \nHarry Golombek OBE\nHis best result in the British championship before the Second World War was -2nd with EG Sergeant\, 1/2 a point below Alexander at Brighton 1938. In that year he won first prize in a small international tournament at Antwerp ahead of Koltanowski. In 1938 too he became editor of the British Chess Magazine and occupied this post till he entered the army in 1940. \nHarry Golombek OBE\nBefore the war he had already played in three International Team Tournaments (or Olympiads as they subsequently became called) at Warsaw 1935\, Stockholm 1937 and Buenos Aires 1939. \nMorris (Moses) Sobkowski\, Anatoly Karpov and Harry Golombek\nAfter the Buenos Aires event he went onto play in an international tournament at Montevideo where he came second to the World Champion\, Alexander Alekhine. \nBrian Reilly\, Ray Keene\, George Botterill\, Anatoly Karpov\, Harry Golombek and Viktor Korchnoi\nIn the war he served first in the Royal Artillery\, from 1940-1 and then\, for the rest of the war\, in the Foreign Office at Bletchley Park\, employed (like Alexander\, Milner-Barry and quite a number of other chess-players) in code breaking. \nJohn Nunn\, Adrian Hollis and Harry Golombek posing for the obligatory “staring at the board” picture for the 19?? Varsity Match sponsored by Lloyds Bank\nAfter the war he made chess and writing about the game his livelihood\, becoming Times Chess Correspondent in 1945 and Observer Chess Correspondent in 1955. As a player he had a consistently good record in the British Championship\, coming in the prize list on fourteen out of eighteen occasions he competed in the event. He was British Champion at Harrogate 1947\, Felixstowe 1949 and Aberystwyth 1955. \nHarry Golombek OBE\nHere is HGs win against his old friend PS Milner-Barry from Aberystwyth 1955 : \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nHarry Golombek OBE plays Sir Philip Stuart Milner-Barry OBE\nHe represented England in six more Olympiads\, Helsinki 1952\, Amsterdam 1954\, Moscow 1956\, Munich 1958\, Leipzig 1960 and Varna 1962. \nHarry Golombek OBE\nHis best individual international results were first prizes at small tournaments in Leeuwarden 1947\, Baarn 1948 and Paignton 1950 (above Euwe and Donner); =4th with O’Kelly at Beverwijk 1949\, =4th with Barcza\, Foltys and Gligoric at Venice 1949\, and 5th at the European Zonal tournament at Bad Pyrmont 1951\, thereby becoming the first British player to have qualified for the Interzonal. He was awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday List in 1966. \nHarry Golombek\, Norman Fishlock-Lomax and Denis Victor Mardle at the Hastings International Congress of 1965(?)\nA founding member of the FIDE Commission for the Rules of Chess\, he became a FIDE International Judge and as such officiated at six World Championship matches. He was also chief arbiter at a FIDE Candidates tournament\, at an Interzonal and two European Team Championship finals\, etc. When the FIDE President\, Dr Euwe\, had to return home from Reykjavik before the 1972 Spassky-Fischer match got started. Golombek represented FIDE in Iceland and did much to ensure that the match took place and that it continued to be played. \nHarry gave more than the average number of simultaneous displays in this career. For the photograph below Leonard Barden provided the following caption : \n“Harry was invited because it was the 50th anniversary of his victory in the London Boys 1929 a success which he often referred to in his Times column. There were seven 30-board simuls that day\, the top three being England Juniors v USSR (Spassky\, Vasyukov\, Kochiev) where Spassky had the worst simultaneous result of his career. No 4 was by Murray Chandler\, Harry was No5 and the others by Whiteley and Rumens. The juniors who played the Russians were personally invited.” \nHarry was invited because it was the 50th anniversary of his victory in the London Boys 1929 a success which he often referred to in his Times column. There were seven 30-board simuls that day\, the top three being England Juniors v USSR (Spassky\, Vasyukov\, Kochiev) where Spassky had the worst simultaneous result of his career. No 4 was by Murray Chandler\, Harry was No5 and the others by Whiteley and Rumens. The juniors who played the Russians were personally invited.\nA prolific writer and translator of books on the game\, he has had some thirty-five books published on various aspects of chess. Among them are : Capablanca’s Best Games of Chess\, London\, New York 1947; Reti’s Best Games of Chess\, London 1954; New York 1975;  The Game of Chess\, London 1954; Modern Opening Chess Strategy\, London 1959; A History of Chess\, London\, New York 1976.“ \nHarry Golombek OBE\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983)\,  Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson\,  we have this rather brief biography : \n“Thee times British Champion (Harrogate 1947\, Felixstowe 1949\, Aberystwyth 1955) and the first person to figure on the Honours List for services to Chess. He has represented England in 9 Olympiads. A FIDE International Judge and Arbiter has has officiated at 6 World Championship matches. He is chess correspondent of The Times and a prolific writer and translator” \nHere is his brief Wikipedia entry \nand here is a fascinating insight into HGs Bletchley Park days. \nBill Hartston wrote this excellent obituary published in The Independent. \nA recent article from Andre Schultz of Chessbase. \nEdward Winter has written this interesting article last updated in December 2020 despite announcing self-dormancy in March 2020. \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nHere we have  a selection of publications not already mentioned above : \nSouthsea Chess Tournament\, Harry Golombek\, En Passant\, 1949\nB.C.M. Quarterly\, number 3: 4th Candidates Tournament 1959\, H. Golombek\, 19??.\nB.C.M. Quarterly\, number 6: 1930 Scarborough International Tournament\, H. Golombek\,\, 1962.\nChess\, Harry Golombek and Hubert Phillips\, HG & G Witherby\, 1959\nInstructions to Young Chess Players\, Harry Golombek\, The Brompton Library\, 1966\nFischer v Spassky\, the World Chess Championship\, 1972\, Harry Golombek\, Times Newspapers\, 1973\nThe Laws of Chess and Their Interpretations\, H. Golombek\, Pitman Publishing\, 1976\nImprove Your Chess\, Harry Golombek\, Pitman\, 1976\nThe Best Games of C.H.O’D. Alexander\, 1976\nA Dataday Chess Diary for 1979 with a foreword from Harry Golombek\nB.C.M. Classic Reprints\, number 20: World Chess Championship 1948\, Golombek\, Harold\, 01-03-1982 (1949). ISBN 978-0-900846-35-9.
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of WIM Elaine Pritchard (née Saunders) (07-i-1926 07-i-2012)
DESCRIPTION:Signature of Elaine Saunders from a Brian Reilly “after dinner” postcard from Hastings Christmas Congress\, 1945-1946\nWe remember Elaine Pritchard who passed away on Saturday\, January 7th\, 2012. \nDorée Elaine Zelia Saunders was born on Thursday\, January 7th\, 1926. Her father was Henry de Beaufort Saunders (b. 7 Aug 1900\, Folkestone\, Kent d. Between Jul 1989 and Sep 1989) and her mother was Dorée Nellie Irene Dudley (b. 3 May 1900\, d. 9 Jun 1970) \nIn the 1939 register Henry is listed as a Garage proprietor who had “retired through incapacitation”. He is recorded as a Air Raid Precautions Warden who was also a first aider. His wife is listed as undertaking “unpaid domestic duties”. The record for Elaine is blanked out with “This Record Officially Closed” meaning that they believe that she might still be alive. They are listed as residing at The George & Dragon Hotel in High Wycombe\, Buckinghamshire. \nThe George and Dragon Hotel\, High Street\, West Wycombe\, Buckinghamshire \, HP14 3AB\nShe was taught chess by her father and then her early trainer was Charles Dealtry Locock who lived with the family in the hotel above. \nElaine aged 10 playing her father Henry de Beaufort Saunders\n\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nShe married David Pritchard on Friday March 7th 1952 in the Chelsea Registry Office. Elaine was living at Wylderne\, Bridge Street\, Great Kimble\, Aylesbury HP17 9TW. At the time of their marriage David was a Flight Lieutenant. \nElaine and David had a daughter\, Wanda H Zelia Pritchard on March 21st 1958. She became Wanda Dakin who was also a chess player. Wanda attended Guildford High School for Girls and then Royal Holloway College\, Egham. \nIn their later years Elaine and David lived at Badgers Wood\, Hascombe Road\, Godalming\, Surrey\, GU8 4AA : \nBadgers Wood\, Hascombe Road\, Godalming\, Surrey\, GU8 4AA\nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983)\, Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson : \n“Chesswise I seem already to have lived an alarmingly long time\, the era of Capablanca and Alekhine back across the war years was another world. The three games I have chosen belong to three distinctly different periods in these fifty years – the juvenile long-ago\, the most elderly present and the middle when I was playing tolerably well and was awarded the WIM title. \nMy father\, assisted by a 2d. (= almost 1p) book of rules from Smiths\, taught me the moves at somewhere round the age of five. We were rescued by the problemist CD Locock who noticed me playing in a girls’ tournament two years later. It was he who brought me up on a diet of the Scotch\, the Evans and any gambit that was going. We analysed them in some depth – for those days – and my severe task-master made me copy out long columns of dubious lines. He also made me his guinea-pig for his Imagination in Chess and it is small wonder that I still find it hard to resist a sacrifice\, and much of my undoing comes from premature sorties such as f4 and Qh5. \nMiss Elaine Saunders\, the girl chess champion playing in the annual WW White Memorial Tournament in Sevenoaks. on June 25th 1939. Source : https://www.chessmarginalia.com/miss-elaine-saunders/\nIn retrospect he must have been a brilliant teacher. Starting in 1936 a succession of girls’ titles came my way including the FIDE under-21\, and in 1939 the British Ladies at the age of 13. It is hard to assess how strong or weak one was at the time because there has been such a marked improvement in the standard of play among women over recent years. At all events\, those pre-war years were happy ones\, especially away from chess which took second place to horses and more physical pastimes. \nThirteen Years Old Chess Champion Elaine Saunders\, of Twickenham has entered for next months British Ladies’ Championship. Source : The People\, July 23rd\, 1939.\nThe incident which received the most publicity was the ‘affair Alekhine’. Most of the pre-war giants were kindly if a little condescending towards me but the new World Champion – he had just regained the title from Euwe – showed me no mercy. He took on 30 Kent players at the Charing Cross Hotel and after 5 hours demolished all except myself. The ending was equal. He stood over our board and glowered. ‘Give the child a draw’\, said someone in Russian in the audience\, which despite them mid-night hour were everywhere on chairs and even under tables. ‘I know what I am doing’ came the reply\, and of course he did. I lost. \nAt 13 the world changed. I almost gave up chess. There were no celebrations after that Ladies Championship. The foreign masters packed their bags for home; we packed them for exile in Buckinghamshire and filling sandbags. \nMy saddest personal loss of the war was Vera Menchik\, perhaps the strongest lady player of all time. \nLeaving university with a poor\, but lightning degree in French\, I was employed by the Foreign Office and spent the next few years in London. While at college I had won the Notts County Championship and like to remember my last game on top board for county against the great HE Atkins\, so many times British Champion\, making his final appearance for Leicestershire. \nI forsook women’s events and achieved probably my best results\, finishing equal 3rd in the London Championship final\, having beaten David Hooper with an Allgaier Gambit\, and qualifying for the British Championship at Buxton in a section which included L. Barden\, V. Berger and DB Pritchard. \nMarrying David in 1952\, we went to the Far East for three years and on our return I made a come-back to women’s chess and won the title at Blackpool in 1956. I was consequently despatched to the Western Zonal in Venice and finished equal 2nd with Lazaravic. This qualified me for the Interzonal\, but my daughter Wanda arrived (March 21st 1958) before I could get to the starting post. Meanwhile with Eileen Tranmer we represented the BCF in the first women’s Olympiad in Emmen in 1957 where we finished 7th. The Finals went well for me and included a draw against Rubtsova\, the then world champion. The results of the two tournaments were sufficient for me to be awarded the IWM title. My BCF grading at that time was 200 and has gone down ever since! \nFriedl Rinder (Germany) plays Elaine Pritchard at the Havering Women’s Tournament in Romford on August 25th 1967. Tournament was won by Nona GaprindashvilliMandatory Credit: Photo by ANL/Shutterstock (1876414a)\nAnd so some 20 years on and still a teacher\, we reach the final period\, that of comparative dotage. Notwithstanding\, I have been fortunate enough to have played in the last four Olympiads at Skopje\, Medellin\, Haifa and Buenos Aires\, twice as captain of the team. It was\, of course\, pleasurable to win a silver medal at Haifa\, despite the fact that the East European bloc was missing. The last of the three games comes from Haifa at a crucial stage. Playing for a team has always seemed more fun. \nAlso in my dotage belong two books\, Chess for Pleasure \nChess for Pleasure by Elaine Pritchard\nand The Young Chess Player (Faber) and organisation of girl’s chess\, particularly the Faber Cup” \nThe Young Chess Player by Elaine Pritchard\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Robert Hale 1970 & 1976)\, edited by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Woman Master (1957) and British Woman Champion in 1939\, 1946\, 1956 and 1965. \nRowena Bruce and Elaine Saunders at Nottingham 1946 where they tied for 1st place. Elaine won the play-off with 2.5/3. Courtesy of Keverel Chess.\nElaine Pritchard was\, as a child\, one of the few girl prodigies in the history of the game. She was taught the moves by her father when she was 5.5 and started to play in tournaments at the age of 7. When she was 10 years old\, she won an under-21 girls’ tournament sponsored by FIDE and at the age of 13 won the British Ladies Championship for the first time. \nShe is married to David Pritchard\, ex-Southern Counties Champion and Malayan Champion in 1955\, when she was stationed with the RAF in Singapore\, who tells of how when he first met her\, when she was about 7\, she was unable to reach the far side of the board. \nHer successes in more recent years include 2nd in the Western European Women’s Zonal Tournament of 1957 and 6th in the same event at Arenys de Mar in 1966; 3rd at Havering 1967 and 3rd at Paignton 1967. She played for the British Chess Federation team in the First Women’s Chess Olympiad at Emmen in 1957.” \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess\, Edited by Harry Golombek : \n“International Woman master and British Woman champion 1939\, 1946\, 1956 and 1965\, she was a girl prodigy with perhaps the most natural talent for the game of any British-born woman. She was playing competitive chess at the age of seven and was only ten when she won the FIDE Girls Open chess championship (under-21) in London in 1936\, winning eleven out of twelve games played. \nBritish Girl Champion (under-18) 1936-8 she won the British Women’s Championship in 1939 at the age of thirteen. Winning the title on three more occasions she hardly ever had a bad result in the event but\, by profession a teacher\, she did not always have the time to devote to the game. \nHer best international results were 2nd in the Western European Zonal Women’s tournament in 1957 (the year she gained the Woman master title)\, and two 3rd places in Paignton and Havering 1967. She represented the B.C.F. in Women’s Olympiads at Emmen 1957\, Skopje 1972\, Medellin in 1974 and Haifa 1976. (H.G.)” \nElaine did not merit mention by Hooper & Whyld it would appear. \nThe following obituary by James Pratt appeared in the February 2012 issue of British Chess Magazine : \n“Via Godalming Chess Club we learn of the death of International Woman Master\, Elaine Pritchard (née Dorée Elaine Zelia Saunders ) (7 i 1926 Brentford – 7 i 2012 Gloucester). British Lady Champion in 1939\, 1946\, 1956 and 1965\, she became an IWM in 1957. A child prodigy\, she won the World Girls Under 21s at the age of ten and first captured the British Ladies title at the outbreak of WWII. Mrs Pritchard wrote two books\, Chess for Pleasure and The Young Chess Player. She was an occasional BCM contributor. Her last published grade was in 2003. She was an Honorary Life Member of the ECF.” \nand here courtesy of Edward Winter is an excellent article on chess prodigies including many scanned photographs of Elaine. \nand here is an obituary for the ECF written by Stewart Reuben \nand here is her Wikipedia entry \nand some more photographs. \nand finally a discussion of Elaine on the English Chess Forum.
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SUMMARY:Birthday of IM George Botterill (08-i-1949)
DESCRIPTION:We send birthday wishes to IM George Steven Botterill born on this day (January 8th) in 1949. \nHere is his Wikipedia page \nBrian Reilly\, Ray Keene\, George Botterill\, Anatoly Karpov\, Harry Golombek and Viktor Korchnoi\nand here is his academic page \nCapa vs Corzo Rerun ? Nigel Short had 1977 British Champion George Botterill on the ropes at The National Bank of Dubai Open. In the photo Nigel is considering 42 Rh5 The champ just escaped with a draw.\n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nIM George Steven Botterill (08-I-1949)\nThe Modern Defence\, BT Batsford\, 1972\, GS Botterill and RD Keene\nThe Pirc Defence\, BT Batsford\, 1973\, GS Botterill and RD Keene\nBritish Chess\, Pergamon Press\, 1983. Editors : GS Botterill\, DNL Levy\, JM Rice and MJ Richardson
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of William Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994)
DESCRIPTION:We remember William Ritson Morry who passed away on Saturday\, January 8th\, 1994. \n(A point of detail : It is incorrect\, but many do\, to write WRM hyphenated. His first name was William\, his middle name was Ritson and his surname was Morry. He chose to use his middle name and was known by his friends as Ritson. Maybe this was because he father was also William Morry?) \nWRM was born in the Wirral on Monday\, September 5th 1910 and his parents were William D Morry (born 16th July 1877). William was a sub-postmaster and seller of fancy goods. His mother was Norah Morry who undertook “unpaid domestic duties”. \nIn the 1939 register he is recorded as being a solicitor with his own practice and was living at 294 Walmley Road\, Royal Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire with his parents : he was 29 years old. \n294 Walmley Road\, Royal Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire\, B76\, 2PL\nIn 1940 WRM married Nellie Cooper in Sutton Coldfield. \nIn 1943 WRM was mentioned in the London Gazette several times: \nWRM appears in the London Gazette in 1943.\nIt would appear that this was the start of his first bankruptcy proceedings.. \nWRM was\, by now\, living at “Lyndon”\, Coleshill Road\, Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire : \nLyndon\, Coleshill Road\, Sutton Coldfield\, Warwickshire\nand in the same year on September 30th he was officially made bankrupt as recorded in the London Gazette\, order number 195. This notice was repeated in the Edinburgh Gazette of the same year. \nOn the 8th of June 1944 he was recorded as being struck-off the list of solicitors under the Solicitors Acts of 1932 to 1941. It was determined that WRM had engaged in “fraudulent conversion of clients money” \nBirmingham Daily Post 30 October 1945\nFor more on this see the excellent Chess in the Courts by Edward Winter. \nIn 1954 WRM sued BH Wood for libel over a letter BHW sent to Henry Golding of the Monmouthshire County Chess Association warning him of WRMs financial history. Here is a summary of the action : \nThe Birmingham Post\, July 15th\, 1954\nIn 1983 WRM was living at Flat 2\, 53\, Mayfield Road\, Moseley\, Birmingham\, West Midlands and recorded as a Retired Chess Journalist. Elsewhere he was recorded as a freelance chess and cricket journalist. \n57\, Mayfield Road\, Moseley\, Birmingham\, B13 9HT\nand\, unfortunately\, in this year he made another appearance in the London Gazette (2nd September 1983) having been made bankrupt. \nLondon Gazette\, 2nd September 1983\nHowever\, despite these unfortunate life events WRMs contribution to chess goes above and beyond them as he won the BCF President’s Award in 1984. \nFrom British Chess Magazine\, Volume CXIV (114\, 1994)\, Number 2 (February)\, pp. 98 – 99 we have this obituary from Bernard Cafferty: \nW Ritson Morry – a Tribute \nThat great chess character\, known to everybody simply as Ritson\, has left us in the fullness of years\, coincidentally during the first Hastings Congress he missed for decades. \nWilliam Ritson Morry (5 ix 1910-8 i 1994) was a player\, organiser\, writer\, arbiter and occasional sponsor of tournaments whose life touched so many aspects of chess that it is hard to know where to begin. \nWilliam Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994)\nRitson was educated in North Wales at the same school as BH Wood. Both were at Birmingham University at the same time\, after which Ritson trained as a solicitor. As early as 1930 he founded the Birmingham Junior League\, and a little later wrote a chess column for a time for a local newspaper\, though Ritson is hardly the first person you think of as someone who would hit deadlines consistently. He was equal second in a rather unrepresentative British Championship of 1936 and equal third in 1951. An unfortunate incident in the mid-1940s led to him being struck off\, whereupon he became a chess professional\, who eked out a precarious living for the last 48 years of his life. Yet\, I never heard him complain\, for he was able to immerse himself in chess full time\, and what could be better than that? \nWilliam Ritson Morry playing Baruch Harold Wood at the British Championships in Blackpool from 1956\nHe ran a series of newsletters\, which hardly covered their expenses and produced and British Championship and Hastings bulletins for many years. 1951 was a significant year in his life\, for he gained the FIDE Arbiter title (he was always an expert on the rules and many of the conventions we all play to were codified by him\, or under his guidance). Later on Ritson\, a great raconteur\, was the life and soul of the show in Hastings which\, along with the Warwickshire chess team and Erdington CC\, was the great love of his life. \nAberystwyth Chess Congress 1955\, W Ritson Morry and KL Gardiner\, En Passant Chess Publications\, 1955\nAt times he seemed to run Hastings almost single-handed in the Frank Rhoden era. In fact GM Vasyukov went back to Moscow in 1966 and wrote that Ritson Morry was the only controller to be seen in the morning\, afternoon and evening sessions of play. I recall that Ritson was amused when I told him of this\, but did not demur. To show that there was life in the old dog\, he organised a series of Birmingham international tournaments in the 1970s at which Tony Miles got much of his early experience. \nTackle Chess by William Ritson-Morry & W Melville Mitchell\nOne such tournament was financed by him alone\, on the basis of the sale of a piece of land in Sutton Coldfield where a change of planning status had led to a windfall profit. \n  \nHastings Chess Congress 1955-56\, RG Wade & W. Ritson Morry\, En Passant Chess Publications\nHe also saved Hastings in late 1974\,by giving a partial guarantee when another sponsor reduced his contribution. A few years later the Inland Revenue made him bankrupt when they could not get their piece of the action out of the deal. Doubtless Ritson thought that the money had gone to a worthier cause. I must not fail to mention his love of gambling or his erudition. Many is the time when you could have an exposition from him of the law of England\, the practice of the courts and the police\, or the political news of the day. \nWilliam Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994)\nHe was deeply immersed in local Labour Party politics in Birmingham and was a friend of football referee\, ‘rainmaker’ Dennis Howell\, one-time Minister for Sport. Ritson also played a great deal of postal chess\, winning the British title in 1943. His book on the game written in conjunction with a Birmingham schoolmaster Mel Mitchell is a very instructive one\, and he also wrote many reports and amusing articles for BCM\, particularly one on of the failings of the Elo rating system regulations. \nHere is a game Ritson won against the veteran German GM at the London Easter congress of 1940: \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nBernard wrote about WRM a year later for the centenary edition of the programme for the Hastings International Congress : \n“‘Ritson’ as we all knew him was an institution in British Chess\, active as a player\, writer\,  organiser\, drafter of rules and well-known for his skill as a raconteur\, Educated in North Wales\, he spent the rest of his life\, from university days onwards\, in Birmingham\, but the Hastings Congress was very close to his heart.  He played in a number of pre-war events\, and also a few post-war\, but by the time of the Frank Rhoden revival of the mid-1950s he was firmly in the saddle organising the post-Christmas traditional event. In fact I recall how perturbed Frank Rhoden was when the news came that Ritson might emigrate to the West Indies.  It was not clear then how he could be replaced\, for he supervised the morning\, afternoon and evening sessions at the Sun Lounge (his favourite venue) and later at the Falaise Hall when the congress was still of such a size that we could all\, including the Premier\, be fitted into one room. \nWilliam Ritson Morry\nRitson also did game commentaries for some years and produced a bulletin for at least three decades. He was greatly encouraging of younger talent and the objective historian has to recall the indignation he felt when players like Tony Miles and Nigel Short were not happy with the restraints imposed by financial stringency. \nHastings bench memorial bench for William Ritson Morry\nIn his declining years Ritson was still a regular until his illness of late 1993\, and a fixture at the “gate” where the public paid their entrance money at the Cinque Ports Hotel. The choice of word is deliberate as a visit to the dogs and the bookmaker was one of his rare pleasures outside chess.  Best of all\, however\, one recalls him telling his fund of stories and reminisces to anyone who cared to listen. His voice\, alas\, has been stilled\, and we are left to recall his selfless devotion to chess and\, in particular\, to the Hastings Congress. \nHere is an obituary from the Midland Counties Chess Union \nHere is an in-depth article from William Hartston in The Independent \nWilliam Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994)\nHere is a biography from the Midland Counties  Chess Union newsletter from 1994. \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Harry Golombek : \nMidlands organiser and player who was a chess professional and journalist. As a player his best performances were an =2nd in the British Championship 1936 and an = 3rd in 1951. \nIn the international field his best results have been an =3rd with List in the Major Open A section of the Nottingham congress of 1936 and =1st with Milner-Barry in the Premier Reserves A at the Hastings congress 1946/7. He has played for England in international matches against the Netherlands (thrice) and against Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. \nWilliam Ritson Morry talking about Malik Mir Sultan Kahn\nA keen and accomplished correspondence player\, he had the title of British Postal Master on account of his winning the British Correspondence Championship in 1943. \nBut it is as tournament and congress organiser that he is best known. He founded the Birmingham Junior League in 1930 and has organised thirty-four Birmingham congresses. He conceived the idea of a junior world championship and in 1951 he held the first World Junior Championship tournament at Birmingham (won by Borislav Ivkov). In the same year he was awarded the title of FIDE judge. He has also had much to do with the organisation of the Hastings Christmas chess congresses in the 1970s. \nWilliam Ritson Morry (05-ix-1910 08-i-1994)\nHe has written much for British chess magazines and was the co-author along with the late W. R. Mitchell  of Tackle Chess\, London\, 1967.
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