Birthday of FM Stuart Hutchings (08-v-1951)
Birthday of FM Stuart James Hutchings (08-v-1951)
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 d5 7. exd5 Bxd5 8. O-O bxc3 9. bxc3 Nf6 10. Ne5 cxd4 11. Bb5+ Nbd7 12. c4 Bb7 13. Ndf3 Qc7 14. Bg5 a6 … 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 wide array of subjects, including chess, billiards and croquet." From The Oxford Companion to Chess by Hooper & Whyld : The Locock Gambit is in … 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."
Birthday of IM John Grantley Cooper (14-v-1954)
Birthday of GM Matthew D Sadler (15-v-1974)
BCN remembers Harold Murray who passed away on Monday, May 16th, 1955. Harold James Ruthven Murray was born on Wednesday, 24th June 1868 in Camberwell, London. He was the eldest son of Sir James Augustus Henry Murray 1837–1915 and Ada Agnes Ruthven 1845–1936. Sir James was famously the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. … Continue reading Death Anniversary of Harold Murray (24-vi-1868 16-v-1955)
Signature of ARB Thomas from a Brian Reilly "after dinner" postcard from Southsea 1951. Here is his Wikipedia entry ARB Thomas in play with FEA Kitto BCN remembers Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas (11-x-1904 16-v-1985) We cannot improve on this excellent article about ARBT on the Chess Devon web site David Hooper (seated right) in play … Continue reading Death Anniversary of Andrew Thomas (11-x-1904 16-v-1985)
Birthday of TWIC founder, Mark Crowther (16-v-1966) From Wikipedia : The Week in Chess (TWIC) is one of the first, if not the first, Internet-based chess news services. It is based in the United Kingdom. TWIC has been edited by Mark Crowther since its inception in 1994. It began as a weekly Usenet posting, with … Continue reading Birthday of Mark Crowther (16-v-1966)