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I am interested in a game score J Penrose against Willie Winter. BCM gives a Nimzo-Indian from Buxton, 1950 p 408. They also played at the British in 1951 at Swansea. The trouble is Purdy's 'Chess World' quotes an entirely different game, a Queen's Gambit, attributing it to the British similarly, same guys. They must have played a fair bit in that era so I am a bit stuck.
Who can help? Thanks as always.
James

chessgames.com has the Queen's Gambit game:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1793393

I wonder if there was a mistake in the BCM and they got the name of Penrose's opponent wrong? He won this Nimzo game against Broadbent in round 1:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2011125

James Pratt wrote: ↑

Mon May 11, 2026 1:03 pm

I am interested in a game score J Penrose against Willie Winter. BCM gives a Nimzo-Indian from Buxton, 1950 p 408. They also played at the British in 1951 at Swansea. The trouble is Purdy's 'Chess World' quotes an entirely different game, a Queen's Gambit, attributing it to the British similarly, same guys. They must have played a fair bit in that era so I am a bit stuck.
Who can help? Thanks as always.
James

(a) The Nimzo-Indian game on page 408 of BCM 1950 was Penrose vs Broadbent (not Winter). The Penrose-Winter game was on page 316.
(b) Penrose did not play Winter at Swansea in 1951
(c) Tell us more about the game quoted by Purdy from Chess World. Better still, if you have the score, digitise it and put it here.
(d) Jon has posted a link to the 1950 Penrose v Winter game, which is the only game between J Penrose and W Winter which has made it to BritBase+ so far. Here it is with the sources quoted...

[Event "GBR-ch 37th"] [Site "Buxton"] [Date "1950.08.25"] [Round "5"] [White "Penrose, Jonathan"] [Black "Winter, William"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "D51"] [PlyCount "81"] [EventDate "1950.08.21"] [EventType "swiss"] [EventRounds "11"] [EventCountry "GBR"] [SourceTitle "BritBase"] [Source "John Saunders"] [SourceDate "2026.04.03"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2026.04.03"] [SourceQuality "1"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 c6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. cxd5 cxd5 7. e3 Be7 8. Bd3 O-O 9. O-O a6 10. Rc1 b5 11. Bb1 Bb7 12. Qd3 Ne4 13. Bxe7 Qxe7 14. Ne5 f5 15. f3 Nxe5 16. dxe5 Nxc3 17. Rxc3 Rfc8 18. Rfc1 Qb4 19. Qd2 Rxc3 20. Qxc3 Qxc3 21. Rxc3 Rc8 22. Rxc8+ Bxc8 23. b4 Kf7 24. Kf2 Bb7 25. Bc2 Ke7 26. Bb3 Kd7 27. Ke2 Bc8 28. Kd3 Kc7 29. Kd4 Kb6 30. h3 h5 31. g3 g5 32. h4 gxh4 33. gxh4 Bd7 34. Bc2 Bc6 35. Bd1 Be8 36. e4 dxe4 37. fxe4 fxe4 38. Kxe4 Kc6 39. Bf3 Kc7 40. Kf4 Bc6 41. Bxc6 {Sources: Manchester Guardian, 7 September 1950; BCM, October 1950, p316; Glasgow Herald, 20 October 1950} 1-0

A reminder that BritBase+ games can now be looked up via the Chess Pub site... https://www.chesspublishing.com/databas ... d=explorer

The game Chess World quotes is the one above. Goldstein wrote the article which picks up pace at move 23, a discussion on Bad Bishops. Thanks again John and Jon.
James