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George H Stephens (Richmond & Twickenham) later Plessey Radar (Addlestone), and even later Cobham

Bracknell Times - Thursday 26 September 1974 Chess is booming CHESS seems to be the booming pastime in and around Wokingham. Last week, Winnersh started to expand its own club and now a new club is to be started in Crowthorne, at Wellington College. The Crowthorne Chess Club will start on October 7 ...

I am reconstructing the history of the Surrey Congress and would be interested in hearing from former competitors. 1. Which years did you play? 2. Which venue(s) did you attend? 3. What made you choose the Surrey Congress rather than another event? 4. Which venue did you prefer and why? 5. What is y...

The two 1970's Opens, the pairings were copied from the bulletins (without board numbers printed), and the 1990's Opens, the pairings were generated from the cross tables by AI, so board numbers totally guessed, based on rules I gave it. Retrospective seedings in both cases unfortunately, as no accu...

Sorry, forgot to mention these 2 from the 1970's
1975 - https://www.surreyrapidchess.org.uk/eve ... ble01.html
1976 - https://www.surreyrapidchess.org.uk/eve ... ble01.html

Thanks for all your replies, but I'm actually after this :- "Full tournament charts will shortly be available on the CCF website." No longer available, unfortunately. Gone forever, maybe. I've just put these on my website, the Open cross tables from 1994 & 1995. With cross tables for 1991, 1992, 199...

Has anyone seen any reports of the results from this congress.

They seem to have been obliterated from existence.

https://www.surreyrapidchess.org.uk/scca/archive/1880s/1883-84/comps_index.html I'm having trouble completing the identification of 6 players:- J. A. Birdsall ("Endeavour") - possibly James J. B. Macdonald ("Endeavour") F. Holmes ("Endeavour") G. Hutchins ("Endeavour") - last minute substitute F. W...

H S Hope of Croydon - first name given as Harold on https://www.surreyrapidchess.org.uk/ (won Slater-Kennington in 1953). I'm pretty confident he was Harold Stephen Hope, 5th October 1908 – 27th February 1967: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GRKS-LYP Jon, Just to be clear there wer...

At the latest Finance and League Composition Meetings of the Surrey County Chess Association held on Tuesday 20 August a mystery shield appeared at the front and on inspection it was the Thorpe Trophy. So, now I'm going to ask that it's name be changed to Thorpe Shield. Anyway, mystery solved cash f...

Gudmundur Gislason is the previous photo in this album on smugmug that John also didn't know (obviously he guessed it was IM Gavin Wall). So if we can work out what board he was on.

Well done Nick
This guy is playing black

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Sat Feb 01, 2025 7:07 pm

All I have found today was that he played in the Wernick Cup in 1932 and was a member of Clapham Common at that time.

Which makes sense as he died at 1 Badminton Road, Balham, next to Clapham Common.

All I have found today was that he played in the Wernick Cup in 1932 and was a member of Clapham Common at that time.

Hi Guys, The SCCA (Surrey) has just decided to bring back the Thorp Trophy. It's a rapid play 4-player team tournament held on a Saturday for clubs in Surrey. However, we appear to have lost the trophy. Has anyone seen it lately? As you all know Martin Cath died in 2023, and he was curator of the tr...