Hi All,
Sad piece of news regarding Francis Tims-Collins daughter being born a few months after he was K.I.A.
Yes it's Peter Reid I also knew about his tragic accident. Did not recall he was buried at Portree.
I was there last year. Hired a boat to spot the whales, did not see any but an Eagle took a fish
about 5 feet away from me starboard side. (note nautical term, one day in a skiff and I'm a sailor.)
I know there would be more J.du Mont games just expressing a surprise that chessgames.com have only one.
Brian, you could try offering them to chessgames.com but they currently seem to be more interested in cluttering
up their entire site with blitz/rapid games and those online game. That could be one of the best sites on the net,
it has a lot of well meaning people working on it and still the first place I go to looking for games (and then have
to dismiss the blitz/rapid junk.) but uncorrected known errors sit there for years...yes years.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1947650
Here is the Aitken - Reid game. Picture seems to have been taken with white to make their 16th move 16.Be3.
A moment captured in in time and we get to see a PGN video of the ensuing tense struggle.
Reid sacs the exchange to set up mating threats. Aitken easily defends and gives the exchange back
to pull off the Queens to go into a won ending. However it does appear he missed two Knight forks moves 28 and 41.
The game cools down to a draw. Cambridge (Reid) win the match 4-3.
Hi John,
Soon will hit known games so work load will be down (did I call it work...I'm enjoying it.)
In some cases I will send you photo copies of some of the actual score sheets, especially
the 'Bletchley Games.' which do have historical interest.
A very good site you have going there, happy to play a very tiny part of it.
Will have have copy for CHESS for years after this. Aitken got himself involved in some lovely games.
I like his wee comment on one game: "my shortest ever win." and he has scored it out in pencil.
So in a later book I will no doubt hit a shorter win.
(What did you think of the 'Roy of the Rovers' piece? That is one off my bucket list.
Getting a picture of Roy Race scoring a goal in a chess magazine! )
Another off my bucket list. Valid reason to post picture of Roy Race scoring a goal in a chess forum