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Posting it here as someone might recognise him.
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What would be a likely youth championship in London in January 1932?The young chess player S. Dell at a game at the youth championship in London, England, Photograph, Jan, 4th 1932
There is a game on BritBase between G.P.S. Coy (known as Philip) and someone named "Dell" in 1935 (it is a long shot, but possibly the same person, no real way to prove it though).
However, the Dell above might have been related to the more famous Edmund Dell (British politician, MP and businessman):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Dell
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 22292.html
Aha!
So the person in the Hulton-Getty image above is almost certainly Edmund's older brother Sidney Dell! (Who would have been aged 13-14 at the time, he was born in 1918 and died in 1990.)Edmund Dell was born in London in 1921, one of the three children of Polish immigrants who had come to England fleeing from the pogroms and found work in an umbrella factory. Dell respected his father, Reuben, still alert when he was over 90 years of age, as a scholar manque. His parents, passionate believers in self-improvement, saved to send their talented sons from elementary school to Owen's School, where Edmund rewarded them as a boy of 15 by winning the London Boys' Chess Championship and, like his brother Sidney Dell, later one of the most influential economists at the United Nations on the developing world, by gaining an open scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford.
No Wikipedia article on him (should be one day).
Not sure we can tell which Dell played Coy in 1935. Sidney would have been 16-17, while Edmund (1921-1999) would have been 14-15. Also no idea what sort of event Coy would have played Dell in. Philip Coy's dates are 1917-2019, so in 1935 Philip (who was older than the Dells) would have been aged 17-18. So maybe the game was at an U18 chess championship of some sort?
