Whilst researching Stuart Milner-Barry I learnt that he played hundreds of friendly serious games with Bertram Goulding Brown.
Allegedly BGB wrote a book entitled (according to Google Books)
The Critical Period of Cambridge Chess published in 1917.
and he collaborated with HJR Murray.
Does anyone have a copy or indeed, have they ever seen a copy?
Maybe the word "book" is an exaggeration?
Any help would, as usual, be most appreciated.
The Critical Period of Cambridge Chess
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Re: The critical period of Cambridge chess
Interesting question. John, have you seen this blog post?
https://chessbookchats.blogspot.com/201 ... phlet.html
It sounds like BGB's writings were articles.
https://chessbookchats.blogspot.com/201 ... phlet.html
It sounds like BGB's writings were articles.
But there is an even more interesting and very rare pamphlet:The British Chess Magazine, Chess Annual 1916, included an essay, on pages 5 to 13, written jointly by Philip W. Sergeant and B. Goulding Brown entitled Early Oxford and Cambridge Chess. Goulding Brown followed this up with a further article: The Critical Period of Cambridge Chess in the September 1917 issue of The British Chess Magazine, on pages 265 to 273, in which he enlarged and corrected the Cambridge portion of the first essay.
Both of these items included a footnote, on the first page of each, giving details of an 8 page pamphlet entitled Particulars of a Match at Chess, played in Cambridge, in March 1831, published in Hatfield in 1831.
How strange!Goulding Brown then revealed that a copy had been discovered hidden in a volume from the Rimington Wilson library bound up between William Lewis's two Series of Progressive Lessons on the Game of Chess, published in 1831 and 1832.
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Re: The Critical Period of Cambridge Chess
Many thanks Christopher!
Interesting stuff indeed.
Interesting stuff indeed.
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Re: The Critical Period of Cambridge Chess
This is in the Bodleian and listed as part of the Bodleian catalogue of Murray's papers - although it may just be the BCM issue referred to below.John Upham wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 3:27 pmWhilst researching Stuart Milner-Barry I learnt that he played hundreds of friendly serious games with Bertram Goulding Brown.
Allegedly BGB wrote a book entitled (according to Google Books)
The Critical Period of Cambridge Chess published in 1917.
and he collaborated with HJR Murray.
Does anyone have a copy or indeed, have they ever seen a copy?
Maybe the word "book" is an exaggeration?
Any help would, as usual, be most appreciated.
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Re: The Critical Period of Cambridge Chess
Yes it is just an article in the BCM Annual not a book.
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