Death Anniversary of Alfred Crosskill (05-v-1904) Here is excellent article from Yorkshire Chess History An interesting article within British Endgame Study News (BESN) by John Beasley 8/3R1K1k/2r5/8/8/4B3/8/8 w - - … Continue reading Death Anniversary of Alfred Crosskill (05-v-1904)
Birthday of FM Koby Kalavannan (05-v-2002)
IM Maxim Leo Devereaux is now known as IM Maxim Barth Stanford and is registered with the Norwegian Federation
From chessgames.com :"Timothy David Harding was born in London. He has been playing both over-the-board and correspondence chess since the 1960s. Harding played on the Irish team at the 1984 … Continue reading Birthday of Dr. Tim Harding (06-v-1948)
Birthday of FM Tyson A Mordue (07-v-1961)
Birthday of FM Stuart James Hutchings (08-v-1951)
Birthday of IM Neil H Bradbury (09-v-1964) {[%evp 0,77,19,31,116,116,103,100,97,87,81,109,115,69,130,111,79,102,113,108, 88,29,29,104,151,208,208,127,143,150,143,134,196,129,151,163,173,112,220,125, 130,26,26,-84,-84,-61,-61,-34,-49,-82,174,189,327,34,-3,-3,140,-85,-42,-98, -102,-42,-25,-24,193,190,203,203,252,237,242,138,132,167,160,153,198,202,29995, 29996]} 1. d4 b5 2. e4 Bb7 3. Nd2 b4 4. Ngf3 e6 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 … Continue reading Birthday of IM Neil Bradbury (09-v-1964)
Death Anniversary of Charles Dealtry Locock (27-ix-1872 13-v-1946) From < Wikipedia : "Charles Dealtry Locock (1862 – 1946) was a British literary scholar, editor and translator, who wrote on a … Continue reading Death Anniversary of Charles Locock (27-ix-1872 13-v-1946)
Birthday of IM Jack Rudd (13-v-1979)
Death Anniversary of John Hugh Barrow (12-xi-1890 14-v-1943) From chesscomposers.com : "John Barrow composed direct mates and helpmates."