Biographic Archive
Below are links to our biographic entries for persons connected with British Chess. The criteria for inclusion are many and varied but include:
- A noted player (OTB and / or correspondence)
- A problemist
- A composer
- An organiser
- An arbiter (judge)
- A sponsor
- A writer and / or historian and / or journalist
Of course, this list is growing with time. Please let us know of persons who you believe should be included.
- A
- Jacob Aagaard
- Daniel Abbas
- Gerald Abrahams
- James Adair
- James Adams
- Jimmy Adams
- Michael Adams
- Frederick Alexander
- Hugh Alexander
- Nathan Alfred
- Rawlie Allicock
- Gerald Anderson MBE
- David Anderton OBE
- Simon Ansell
- Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
- Keith Arkell
- Adam Ashton
- Henry Atkins
- Rita Atkins
- B
- Alexander Baburin
- Edith Baird
- Chris Baker
- Leonard Barden
- Malcolm Barker
- Barry Barnes
- Michael Barnes
- Thomas Barnes
- John Barrow
- Michael Basman
- Peter Batchelor
- Richard Bates
- Chris Beaumont
- Jana Bellin
- Robert Bellin
- Mike Bent
- Steve Berry
- Simon Bibby
- Henry Bird
- Daniel Bisby
- Joseph Blackburne
- Joseph Blake
- Percy Blake
- Hugh Blandford
- Reginald Bonham MBE
- George Botterill
- Frank Boyd
- Neil Bradbury
- Richard Britton
- Reginald Broadbent
- Martin Brown
- Simon Brown
- Rowena Bruce
- Douglas Bryson
- Henry Buckle
- Graeme Buckley
- Graham Burgess
- Amos Burn
- Paul Byway
- C
- Bernard Cafferty
- Susan Caldwell
- Horatio Caro
- Neil Carr
- James Cavendish
- Guy Chandler
- Murray Chandler
- Terry Chapman
- Alexander Cherniaev
- Sabrina Chevannes
- Dagne Ciuksyte
- William Claridge-Hansen
- Brandon Clarke
- Peter Clarke
- Stuart Clarke
- Sir Richard Clarke OBE
- Charles Cobb
- James Cobb
- John Cochrane
- Sam Collins
- Adam Collinson
- Mark Condie
- Stuart Conquest
- Robert Combe
- Peter Copping
- Paul Cooksey
- John Cooper
- Lawrence Cooper
- Anya Corke
- Tony Corkett
- John Cox
- Gavin Crawley
- Alfred Crosskill
- Colin Crouch
- Gordon Crown
- Stephen Cullip
- David Cummings
- D
- Nigel Davies
- Thomas Dawson
- Lorin D’Costa
- Eddie Dearing
- Max Deveraux
- Cecil de Vere
- Neil Dickenson
- Anthony Dickins
- Geoffrey Diggle
- John Driver
- Julius du Mont
- Angus Dunnington
- E
- Richard Eales
- David Eggleston
- Nancy Elder MBE
- John Emms
- William Evans
- F
- William Fairhurst CBE
- Stuart Fancy
- Julian Farrand
- Dr. Stefan Fazekas
- Christopher Feather
- Mark Ferguson
- Daniel Fernandez
- Glenn Flear
- Tamas Fodor
- Cathy Forbes
- Charles Fox
- Michael Franklin
- Sam Franklin
- David Friedgood
- Nicholas Frost
- John Fuller
- Max Fuller
- G
- Joe Gallagher
- Christopher Gant
- Ameet Ghasi
- Norman Gibbins
- Steve Giddins
- Jessie Gilbert
- Alex Golding
- Harry Golombek OBE
- David Goodman
- Stephen Gordon
- Danny Gormally
- Andrew Greet
- Peter Griffiths
- Philip Guilian
- Isidor Gunsberg
- Richard Guy
- H
- Ben Hague
- Yichen Han
- Craig Hanley
- Alan Hanreck
- Ravi Haria
- Tim Harding
- Andrew Harley
- Brian Harley
- Bill Hartston
- Marcus Harvey
- Stewart Haslinger
- Demis Hassabis CBE
- Jonathan Hawkins
- John Hawksworth
- David Haydon
- Michael Haygarth
- Godfrey Heathcote
- Mark Hebden
- Michael Hennigan
- Mandy Hepworth
- Owen Hindle
- Tom Hinks-Edwards
- Julian Hodgson
- Adrian Hollis
- David Hooper
- Jeff Horner
- Andrew Horton
- Jovanka Houska
- Miroslav Houska
- David Howell
- James Howell
- Adam Hunt
- Harriet Hunt
- Stuart Hutchings
- I
- J
- Byron Jacobs
- James Jackson
- Oliver Jackson
- Sheila Jackson
- Brian Johnson
- Christopher Jones
- Gawain Jones
- K
- Koby Kalavannan
- John Keeble
- Ray Keene OBE
- Charles Kemp
- Gary Kenworthy
- Daniel King
- Andrew Kinsman
- Cyril Kipping
- Ezra Kirk
- Ernst Klein
- Simon Knott
- Vic Knox
- Imre Konig
- Tony Kosten
- Čeněk Kottnauer
- Dharshan Kumaran
- L
- Bogdan Lalic
- Susan Lalic
- Gary Lane
- Peter Large
- Ingrid Lauterbach
- Geoff Lawton
- Andrew Ledger
- David Ledger
- Graham Lee
- Peter N Lee
- Jonathan Levitt
- David Levy
- Andrew Lewis
- William Lewis
- Michael Lipton
- Paul List
- John Littlewood
- Norman Littlewood
- Paul Littlewood
- Richard Lobo
- Charles Locock
- Harold Lommer
- Alex Longson
- Sarah Longson
- Johann Löwenthal
- Mark Lyell
- Christopher Lytton
- M
- Andy Mack
- Paul Macklin
- Karl Mah
- Comins Mansfield MBE
- Peter Markland
- Andrew Martin
- Rafe Martyn
- Prof. Robin Matthews
- Neil McDonald
- Colin McNab
- Joseph McPhillips
- Luke McShane
- Vera Menchik
- Alan Merry
- Ken Messere
- Jonathan Mestel
- Jacques Mieses
- Tony Miles
- Helen Milligan
- Sir Stuart Milner-Barry OBE
- Graham Mitchell
- Augustus Mongredien
- Tyson Mordue
- Philip Morris
- Sir Jeremy Morse
- Ali Mortazavi
- Robin Moss
- Paul Motwani
- Harold Murray
- N
- Teresa Needham
- John Nicholson
- Dinah Norman
- David Norwood
- John Nunn
- O
- Kevin O’Connell
- Mark Orr
- Reverend John Owen
- P
- Richard Palliser
- Jonathan Parker
- Frank Parr
- Joseph Peckover
- Malcolm Pein
- Dr. Jonathan Penrose OBE
- Raaphy Persitz
- Nick Pert
- Richard Pert
- Alan Phillips
- John Pigott
- James Plaskett
- Alan Pollard
- William Potter
- Nigel Povah
- David Pritchard
- Elaine Pritchard
- Q
- R
- Michael Rahal
- Reverend Charles Ranken
- Vaidyanathan Ravikumar
- Manny Rayner
- Mike Read
- Christopher Reeves
- Natasha Regan
- Brian Reilly
- Tom Rendle
- Stewart Reuben
- Heather Richards
- John Rice
- Keith Richardson
- William Ritson Morry
- Peter Roberson
- Jonathan Rogers
- Philip Rossiter
- Jonathan Rowson
- Shreyas Royal
- John Roycroft
- Jack Rudd
- Mary Rudge
- Dave Rumens
- S
- Gulnara Sachs
- Matthew Sadler
- Jacob Sarratt
- John Saunders
- Roland Scott
- Edward Sergeant OBE
- Philip Sergeant
- John Shaw
- Ruth Sheldon
- David Shire
- Nigel Short MBE
- Kenny Shovel
- Jim Slater
- Andrew Smith
- Peter Sowray
- Jonathan Speelman
- Howard Staunton
- Michael Stean
- Anthony Stebbings
- Aaron Summerscale
- Anne Sunnucks
- Colin Sydenham
- T
- Desmond Tan
- Justin Tan
- Shaun Taulbut
- Adam Taylor
- Erik Teichmann
- Andrew Thomas
- Nicholas Thomas
- Ian Thomas
- Sir George Thomas
- Ian Thompson
- Charles Tomlinson
- Richard Tozer
- Matthew Turner
- Eileen Tranmer
- Lawrence Trent
- U
- V
- James Vigus
- W
- Mike Waddington
- Bob Wade OBE
- Matthew Wadsworth
- Gavin Wall
- Tim Wall
- George Walker
- Chris Ward
- William Watson
- Julian Way
- Laurence Webb
- Richard Webb
- Simon Webb
- Andrew Webster
- David Welch
- Peter Wells
- Andrew Whiteley
- Tim Whitworth
- Ken Whyld
- Theophilus Willcocks
- Elijah Williams
- Howard Williams
- Simon Williams
- Jonah Willow
- Edward Winter
- William Winter
- Baruch Wood OBE
- Christopher Wood
- David Wood
- Timothy Woodward
- Marmaduke Wyvill
- X
- Y
- Daniel Yanofsky
- Fred Yates
- Richard York-Weaving
- Z
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