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Quick question for the chess historians out there, is it generally known that there is a collection of chess-related materials in the L S (Lionel Sharples) Penrose Papers digitised at the Wellcome Library (though the originals are in the UCL Special Collections)?

See the following summary page:

https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b20212859

"Notebooks and records of chess games, correspondence on chess problems, correspondence, manuscript and typescript of 'The history of the world's chess championship', newspaper cuttings of chess games, photograph."

(The photograph is from a press cutting on his son Jonathan.)

Might be of interest to some here (including some of the photographs in other parts of the collections).

Thank you, not all of us were aware.

That was news to me too. I have only taken a quick look.

The World Chess Championship item is a book about the 1951 Botvinnik-Bronstein match by R. G. Wade and William Winter which was published (number 27-51 in the Betts bibliography).

Useful to know for sure. JP is definitely someone to merit a biography (along with BH Wood) and of course, an autobiography from Leonard.

Is there a market for any of these? I suspect private publication is the way forward.

Years ago BCM (under Brian Reilly) would have been keen.

I think there is definitely a market for a biographical series titled "Best of Briish" featuring players like JP and Harry Golombek.

John Upham wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 24, 2020 1:06 pm

Useful to know for sure. JP is definitely someone to merit a biography (along with BH Wood) and of course, an autobiography from Leonard.

Is there a market for any of these? I suspect private publication is the way forward.

Years ago BCM (under Brian Reilly) would have been keen.

I believe that Frank Wood and his brother wrote a small volume 'The Chess Playing Woods', but I have never seen a copy.

A rare game by L. S. Penrose:

[Event "Herts vs Hants"] [Site "?"] [Date "1929.??.??"] [White "Penrose, Lionel Sharples"] [Black "Coe, Arthur Bernard"] [Result "0-1"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 d6 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Bd7 7. O-O Nxd4 8. Qxd4 Bxb5 9. Nxb5 Be7 10. b3 O-O 11. Bb2 c6 12. Nc3 Qc7 13. Rad1 Rfe8 14. Rfe1 Bf8 15. Rd3 Re6 16. Rde3 Ng4 17. Rg3 f5 18. Rd1 Nh6 19. Qc4 Qf7 20. f3 Rae8 21. Bc1 f4 22. Rg5 Kh8 23. Ne2 d5 24. Qd4 b6 25. Qd3 dxe4 26. fxe4 Rxe4 27. Nxf4 Bc5+ 28. Kf1 Rxf4+ 29. Bxf4 Qxf4+ { Hampshire Advertiser - Saturday 09 March 1929 p12} 0-1

Coincidentally, Richmond & Twickenham Chess Club's puzzle of the week is a problem by LS Penrose.

https://rtchessclub.com/2021/08/02/ches ... -week-142/