Cliff Bridle

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Roland Kensdale
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Re: C. Bridle : who?

Post by Roland Kensdale » Wed Aug 18, 2021 5:38 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Tue Aug 17, 2021 12:13 pm
Bruce Hayden, author of Cabbage Heads And Chess Kings which i'm not sure I have ever seen.
'Cabbage Heads And Chess Kings' was quite highly thought of in the past. Light reading, reminiscences etc. enjoyable but dated.

The game is annotated in A Treasury of British Chess Masterpieces p.241 ( listed https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/ ... edir_esc=y ). Many readers of the forum will have this (I don't).

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Re: Cliff Bridle

Post by Richard James » Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:47 pm

https://britishchessnews.com/2021/08/26 ... ff-bridle/

I've written a Minor Pieces article about Cliff Bridle.

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Christopher Kreuzer
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Re: Cliff Bridle

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:13 pm

Richard James wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:47 pm
https://britishchessnews.com/2021/08/26 ... ff-bridle/

I've written a Minor Pieces article about Cliff Bridle.
Nice analysis of the game, Richard. Felt a bit sorry for Freddy, though... "Stocky v Freddy: let battle commence"! :lol:

You do wonder how many lovely combinations such as the one you (and Stocky?) found on move 29 (in the note to move 28) can be found in old analysis? Might be worth putting that position up on its own and seeing how easy it is for people to spot the winning move?

Amazing the traces that can be found in later chess history. You would have hoped more could be found in Dorset. You wonder whether he played chess at all in his later years, and at what point he moved to Dorset. 2001 (when he died) is still relatively recent, so there might be some living memories of him there or (less likely) in Wimbledon.

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Re: Cliff Bridle

Post by Richard James » Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:54 am

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
Thu Aug 26, 2021 6:13 pm


You do wonder how many lovely combinations such as the one you (and Stocky?) found on move 29 (in the note to move 28) can be found in old analysis? Might be worth putting that position up on its own and seeing how easy it is for people to spot the winning move?

I've put the position up as the Puzzle of the Week on the Richmond & Twickenham Chess Club blog. No answers yet, though. I suspect Be7 would be very difficult for a human to spot (it was Stocky who found it: I'd never have seen it in a million years) but stronger tacticians like me might disagree.

I've now updated the article with another Bridle game from Brian Denman and some more information about Karen from Jon D'Souza-Eva.

Thanks to everyone for their interest in this and other Minor Pieces.

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