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SUMMARY:Birthday of Barry Barnes (01-viii-1937)
DESCRIPTION:BCN wishes happy birthday to Barry Barnes (01-viii-1937) \nBarry Peter Barnes was born in Brighton and his mother’s maiden name was Simpole. (Barry is a cousin of Julian Ivan Peter Simpole\, who was a Brighton school teacher and who taught Edward Gerard Winter to play chess). \nBarry now lives in Halling\, Rochester\, Kent with his wife Jean. \nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 & 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Master of FIDE for Chess Compositions (1967) and International Judge of FIDE for Chess Compositions (1967). \nBorn on 1st August 1937\, Barnes works in transport advertising. He has composed about 250 two-move problems. With Lipton and Rice\, he has contributed to the advance of the modern two-mover. Problem Editor of Two-Move and Twin sections of The Problemist. Co-author with M.Lipton and JM Rice of The Two-Move Chess Problem : Tradition and Development (Faber and Faber 1966). \nBarry Peter Barnes\n  \nBP Barnes\n2nd Prize Problem T.T. 1964 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nWhite to play and mate in two moves \n(a) Diagram\n(b) With black pawn at KN2 (g7) \n(a) Solution\n1. B-R3! \n(b) Solution 1. K-K2! \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon Press\, 1983) by GS Botterill\, DNL Levy\, JM Rice and MJ Richardson : \nBarry wrote about himself as follows : \n“A promising career as a county chess player came to an end when I was given Brian Harley’s classic book Mate in Two Moves in the belief that it would help my chess\, but it had quite the opposite effect. My interest in competitive chess waned\, and I was on the road to an an International Master title for problems!  \nEarly influences in my problem career were the weekly chess problem solving competition in The Observer (my first problem published there was in 1955)\, a teenage friendship with J. M. Rice and M. Lipton (both now lnternational Masters)\, Herbert Grasemann’s book Problem Schach / with its near revolutionary post-war German problem ideas\, and the expert British problemist\, A. R. Gooderson who had I but known it only a few years earlier was the officiating master when my Hove Grammar School played Steyning Grammar at chess. \nIn the late 1950s and early 1960s\, the genuinely original problems I was making in cooperation and in competition with Rice and Lipton were being published mostly abroad in such specialist problem magazines as Die Schwatbe (with its inspired two-move editor\, Hermann Albrecht) where I gained the epithet\,the English prize-snatcher’! It was also written that the work of the avant_garde composers\, Rice\, Lipton and Barnes\, was like a fresh two-move wind blowing from our island. It was sad but true at that time that the specialist magazine of the British Chess problem Society (founded 1918)\, The problemist\, was unreceptive to change and our often bizarre ideas. \nA milestone of sorts was reached when I won lst prize for problem I in 1958\, a prize for the best new problem by a member of the British Commonwealth aged under 21. In 1966\, I was invited by problemist Grandmaster Comins Mansfield\, who was President of the FIDE Problem Commission\, to act as Secretary at the Barcelona meeting. With Mr. Mansfield’s retirement\, I became the British Member to the Commission\, and at the Wiesbaden meeting\, 1974\, I was elected 2nd Vice-President. (1st Vice-President from 1982) \nThe FIDE Problem Commission meets annually to discuss matters relating to all branches of problem chess\, to organize the World Chess Composing Tournament (WCCT)\, the World Chess Solving Competition (WCSC)\, and to publish FIDE Album anthologies of the best problems. It was on the strength of my success in these FIDE Albums that the Commission granted me the titles in 1967 of ‘lnternational Master of the FIDE for Chess Composition’ and ‘lnternational Judge of the FIDE for Chess Composition’. Since 1974\, I have been Chairman of the Titles Sub-Committee of the Commission. \nSince 1965\, I have been the two-move editor of The Problemist and have served almost without break on the BCPS Committee. I have contributed to The Encyclopaedia of Chess by Anne Sunnucks (Robert Hale\, 1970)\, I am co-author\, with J. M. Rice and M. Lipton\, of The Two-Move Chess Problem: Tradition & Development‘ (Faber A Faber\, 1966)\, and I am the sole author of Comins Mansfield MBE: Chess Problems of a Grandmaster: (British Chess Problem Society\, 1976) and Pick of the Best Chess Problems (Elliot Right Way Books\, 1976) \nTo date I have made just over 300 two-movers and some helpmates.” \nThe Two Move Chess Problem : Tradition and Development\nPick of the best Chess Problems\nSource: The Problemist\, May 1996. Photo taken March 1996 at the Mansfield Centenary Meeting at Paisley\, when Barry Barnes delivered a lecture on Comins Mansfield. Left to right: Geoffrey Mansfield (son of Comins)\, Robert Gray and Barry Barnes\, International Master of Chess Composition.
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of John Driver (21-vii-1928 01-viii-1979)
DESCRIPTION:Death Anniversary of John Edward Driver (21-vii-1928 01-viii-1979) \nSee Sunnucks \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE\, John Rice writes: \n“British problemist. Output consists of two-movers\, helpmates and fairy problems. Inventor of the Edgehog\, a fairy piece which moves along Q-lines but always either to or from a square at the board-edge.”
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SUMMARY:Death Anniversary of Gerald Anderson MBE DFC (24-ii-1898 23-viii-1984)
DESCRIPTION:BCN remembers Gerald Frank Anderson MBE\, DFC (24-ii-1898 23-viii-1984) \nFrom British Chess (Pergamon\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson we have an article written by John Rice : \n“Gerald Frank Anderson was born in South Africa on 23 February 1898\, and has published nearly 500 problems of many different types. From the start he was a versatile composer\, and Weenink’s The Chess Problem (see introduction) contains two three-movers of his illustrating anticipatory half-pin (see Diagram I) a reflex-mate in two dating from 1920 and a selfmate in four from 5 years earlier\, when the composer was only seventeen. \nDiagram I \n1st prize \, Hampshire Telegraph & Post\, 1920 \nWhite mates in 3 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\n(All Solutions contained in scan at foot of article.) \nIt must have been exciting for a budding problemist to grow up in the period between 1913 and 1924 when the Good Companion Chess Problem Club of Philadelphia was publishing its Folders of original work containing outstanding examples of complex strategy such as half-pins and cross-checks. Diagram II\, with its intricate battery play\, won first prize for Anderson in the Folder of October 1917. \nDiagram II\n1st prize\, Good Companions\, October 1917 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nDiagram III is a justly famous two-mover\, with a perfect key and beautiful line-play: \nIL Secolo\, 1919 \nWhite mates in 2 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nBetween 1953 and 1961 Anderson was with the British Embassy in Washington and a close friendship developed with the American composer Vincent Eaton. \nIn the introduction to his published collection of Eaton’s best problems (Memorial to V. L. Eaton\, 1971) Anderson describes his visits to Eaton’s house where they would work for hours on joint compositions (nine of them altogether\, eight prize winners)- ‘blockbusters’\, as they themselves termed them. Diagram IV is one of these\, a highly complex check-prevention scheme. \nDiagram IV \n1st prize\, British Chess Magazine\, 1953 \n(with V.L. Eaton) \nWhite mates in 3 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nA glance through the anthologies shows how successful Anderson has always been with orthodox forms\, perhaps especially with three- and four- movers and with selfmates. Diagram V is a characteristic selfmate in two\, with a good deal more strategy than many composers achieve in selfmate form: \nDiagram V \n2nd prize\, British Chess Federation Tournament\, 1947 \nSelfmate in 2 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nSince his retirement Anderson has lived for much of the time in Italy\, where the air seems to be conducive to the composition of reflex-mates\, for that is the genre with which he has principally been occupied in recent years. Diagram VI is a good illustration of his style; a couple of changed continuations\, and subtle play centered on the two diagonals b5-f1 and c6-h1. (A reflex-mate is a selfmate in which both sides are under an obligation to mate on the move if possible). In this problem White has to keep his active line-pieces (Q and B) well out of the way of the potential mating diagonal. \nDiagram VI \n1st prize\, The Problemist\, 1975 \nReflex-mate in 2 \n\n\n \n\n\n    \n        \n            You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess diagram visualization.        \n    \n    \n    \n\n\n \n\nIn addition to the Eaton anthology mentioned above\, Anderson has published Adventures of my Chessmen \nAdventures of my Chessmen 1914 – 1923 \, GF Anderson\, Chess Amateur\, Stroud\, 1924\nand Are There Any?\, the latter being a fascinating collection of Kriegspiel problems. He was President of the British Chess Problem Society from 1962 to 1964\, and became a FIDE International Judge in 1960 and an International Master in 1975.” \nGerald Frank Anderson MBE DFC (24-ii-1898 23-viii-1984)\nFrom The Encyclopedia of Chess (Robert Hale\, 1970 and 1976) by Anne Sunnucks : \n“International Judge of FIDE for Compositions (1960). Born on 23rd February 1898. Won the DFC in 1914-18 war. Foreign Office (Retd.) First problem published in 1912\, since when he has composed nearly 500 problems\, mostly 3 and 4 movers. but has latterly switched to Fairy chess problems. He is one of the the great reflex and self-mate composers. Edited a section Chess Amateur 1921\, Nottinghamshire Weekly Guardian 1937-1938\, Anglo-Portuguese News 1945-1946\, and Self-Mate Section of The Problemist 1964-1966. Author of Are There Any? a book about Kriegspiel problems and A Memorial Volume of Chess Problems of VL Eaton.” \nHis MBE was awarded in the 1959 New Year Honours list. The citation reads : “Gerald Frank Anderson\, DFC\, Second Secretary\, Her Majesty’s Embassy\, Washington.” \nFrom The Encyclopaedia of Chess (Batsford\, 1977)\, Harry Golombek OBE we have this by John Rice: \n“British problem composer\, output about 550 problems.\, orthodox and fairy. Books : Adventures of My Chessmen; and Are there Any? (1959 – a fascinating collection of Kriegspiel problems); Vincent Eaton Memorial (1971 – an annotated anthology of Eaton’s work). President of British Chess Problem Society\, 1962-4. International Judge (1960)\, international master (1975).” \nFrom chessgames.com : \n“G. F. Anderson\, in 1946\, was working in the British Embassy in Lisbon\, and\, as a highly skilled chess player (he was also known for composing chess problems as early as 1919)\, was nominated to deliver the challenge from Botvinnik to Alekhine. He played a game with the World Champion in the Embassy and it became the last recorded game by Alekhine.” \n\nHere is the original article from British Chess (Pergamon\, 1983) by Botterill\, Levy\, Rice and Richardson by John Rice : \nBritish Chess\, Pergamon Press\, 1983. page 16\nBritish Chess\, Pergamon Press\, 1983. page 17\nBritish Chess\, Pergamon Press\, 1983. page 18\nHere is his Wikipedia entry
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