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Only just catching up with this. I remember Graham from long long ago, back in the days of adjournments, drawing a game with Tony Miles where he had clearly worked very hard on the adjourned position - maybe even the British at Chester in 1979? Around then. I was impressed as a teenager by his inten...

A massive contribution to English chess, and someone I always enjoyed seeing. I'll miss him.

More generally, was I the only one who thought Peterborough a totally unacceptable venue? It's ridiculous for a hotel to hire out a venue for a mind sport and not to turn off the loudspeaker playing elevator musak outside the door. (I'm assuming the party which started next door during the fifth hou...

I was at Rethymnon and I vaguely recall that game. I met Luc at a junior tournament in Germany in 1980 or so; won by another future GM, Josef Horvath, ahead of a third, Olivier Renet. Luc was a notably friendly person, and made an impression on me by his passion for the games of Capablanca. I never ...

Sad news. I was a child when Ray was at his peak, but I remember him as a modest and gentle soul away from the board, but a ferocious and talented attacker on it (a surprisingly common combination). My favourite memory of Ray is him winning the Major at the Birmingham congress in 1973 or so, and dro...

Is this the same Jim Montgomery who was active in the Midlands in the 1970's, I wonder?

>making it clear that in his opinion they had something to be unsettled about. Obviously they have something to be unsettled about. In general, playing a player - any player - where the question of computer assistance has been raised is bound to be unsettling. >Second, the question this member of th...

>By the way, I have felt that Ramirez' simpering questions to other players of "you are playing Niemann in round x, this must be very unsettling for you and how are you handling it?" have been beyond disgusting Strange thing to say. Why? It obviously may be unsettling and it's interesting to know ho...

I was also in that 1980 Glorney Cup team, along with Julian Hodgson, Peter Wells, and presumably one or more others. I didn't know of Eley before, but it was obvious fairly quickly that he was a paedophile of a type well known to me from various boarding schools. I assessed him at the time as a fami...

A very good book too.

Really sad; not only did David contribute an enormous amount but he was a really nice man. And a strong player too - the game quoted against Tony Miles wouldn't have been an upset in 1971.

I'll be at the YC one; look forward to seeing anyone else who goes.

This is well out of date; the 'male establishment' has been making strenuous efforts to get more women on the bench for some time.

Yes! Sour Grapes is the one I remember. I was ten years old, but I could tell funny and self-deprecating when I saw it. Any chance of posting it?

Were there not others? I feel like I know he played the Najdorf, and that feels like the product of more than one article. Maybe not.

Really sorry to hear this. I didn't know him at all, but he was obviously someone who gave a lot to chess.