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Sounds good, will see if I can get the sent to Wokingham

I have about 100 back copies of New In Chess magazine

A treasure trove of top players annotating and interviews.

Any offers considered, can deliver to British or 4NCL

I've found the chess report of the 8 rounds St Albans won to get to the final in the school magazine for that year.

https://www.st-albans-sch-archives.co.u ... 978dec.pdf

Pages 80 - 82.

I found the game, not familiar with the PGN on here and not looked at the game for 47 years.! Adjudicated a win for Black HW Murphy v WN Watson Sunday Time Schools 1978 e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Be3 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 O-O 8. Bb3 d6 9. f3 Bd7 10. Qd2 Rc8 11. O-O-O Ne5 12. Kb1 Nc4 1...

Alastair had black against Julian Hodgson, I was in school uniform, the sixth formers wore suits.

Alastair Simpson went to Oxford and was friends with William Watson there, then he had a career in IT in the City. He sadly died in his thirties.

Gilchrist (can't remember first name), Howard Slater, John Nellist, Alastair Simpson, Hugh Murphy, Robert Rickard. We were older than St Paul's and had to win by a large margin to win the match due to the age rules. I remember Alastair was better against Julian Hodgson and I was better against Willi...

80 books and many (100) BCM magazines. Some classics including Capablanca Alekhine and Tarrasch

Any offers considered for the lot

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Hugh

Box of over 100 NiC magazines including 2021.

Offers in the region of £100. Can bring to main 4NCL.

Does anyone know where I can find Paul Keres' early correspondence games. There are a few in his games collection, but I would like to find more.

I do remember the Spassky-Short game London 1982 where Spassky had 8 pawns and Short 4 pawns at the adjournment. I watched the post-mortem where someone asked why Boris didn't play move and his response was "But then I would lose once of my beautiful pawns". The game is worth looking at https://www....

Tony Miles told me he has a low offer from Oxford, but kept this in reserve in case he did not get his A level grades required for Sheffield. Suffice to say the relevant Oxford college were not happy...

Books now sold

Classic advanced training books for sale: Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual Secrets of Chess Training - Dvoretsky Secrets of Chess Tactics - Dvoretsky Training for the Tournament Player- Dvoretsky/Yusupov Technique for the Tournament Player Dvoretsky/Yusupov Opening Preparatio...

All 12 Kasparov My great predecessors series £100

7 Dvoretsky classic training books £100

Gelfand new books £20

Any reasonable offers considered. All proceeds to Harefield hospital.

Buyer could collect from 4NCL. Contact for further information.

The funeral is on Monday December 16, 11am, at Woodvale Crematorium BN2 3QB. All are welcome.