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I received the following request from Olimpbase:

Paul,

please find below list of missing English records in the historical European Club Championships.
Can you please try to find at lease some of these board results/gamescored. Possilby BCM is best source. Sadly I cannot access it online nor in the library. Or maybe you can forward my request to anybody that could help and find some time for search. Thank you in advance.

http://www.olimpbase.org/1976c/1976camb.html
http://www.olimpbase.org/1979c/1979engx.html
http://www.olimpbase.org/1984c/1984rgby.html
http://www.olimpbase.org/1990c/1990wglo.html
http://www.olimpbase.org/1992c/1992wglo.html
http://www.olimpbase.org/1993c/1993brbc.html
http://www.olimpbase.org/1995c/1995slgh.html
http://www.olimpbase.org/1998c/1998ilfr.html

Regards
Wojtek

Is anyone able to help?

Paul McKeown wrote: Is anyone able to help?

BCM will be pleased to help (unless a keener soul gets there first!)

Perhaps Mark Howitt will beat me to it?

http://www.olimpbase.org/1976c/1976camb.html

I would have thought that result complete, except that it's Johann P Sommerville.

It was a straight knock-out in those days, so Cambridge University had been eliminated. There's a report in the Richard Eales book "Cambridge Chess".

There is an interesting account of the Rugby match in Arkell's Odyssey (pp 19-20)

Keith mentions 2 juniors in the Rugby team - one of whom is Nick Thomas, so the reference to Nicola would be wrong

The other junior, Andy Talbot got the draw in match 2 (against Salov), Keith having beaten Psakhis in match 1, his first victory over a GM

20/21 October 1983, played at Moscow Central Chess Club

Mick Norris wrote:There is an interesting account of the Rugby match in Arkell's Odyssey (pp 19-20)

Keith mentions 2 juniors in the Rugby team - one of whom is Nick Thomas, so the reference to Nicola would be wrong

The other junior, Andy Talbot got the draw in match 2 (against Salov), Keith having beaten Psakhis in match 1, his first victory over a GM

20/21 October 1983, played at Moscow Central Chess Club

Legend has it that Salov thought he was taking a quick draw with black against IM Sean Taulbut

As John is hopefully checking out BCM, I thought I’d see what CHESS magazine had. The sources I found were …

Vol 54 – Jun p.26, Oct p.4, Dec p.4
Vol 56 – Sep p.4, Jan p.3, 16-18, 27
Vol 57 – Apr p.6
Vol 58 – Sep p.42
Vol 64 – Feb p.3, 17-18

Round of 32, 1989/90 – Skolernes Aarhus vs Wood Green [as Olimpbase report except – 1. Aarhus player J Christensen is given as J Christiansen – 2. In the Day 2 game played by A Martin, his opponent was T Sorensen NOT K Rasmussen. The report was written by A Martin, so likely that his opponent is correctly named].

Round of 16, 1989/90 – Wood Green vs Vektor Novosibirsk – held 15-16 July, 1989:

Day 1 - A Martin 0.5 v 0.5 A Vaiser; M Pein 0 v 1 E Pigusov; A Law 0.5 v 0.5 A Khalifman; D Friedgood 0 v 1 V Ruban; boards 5 and 6 were wins for Wood Green by default, due to visa problems incurred by the visiting team. Result = 3-3

Day 2 – P Littlewood 0.5 v 0.5 A Vaiser; A Martin 0 v 1 E Pigusov; M Pein 0 v 1 Timoshenko [presumably Gennady Timoschenko]; P Sowray 0 v 1 A Khalifman; A Law 0.5 v 0.5 A Goldin; G Lee 0 v 1 A Khasin. Result = 1-5

Round of 16, 1991/92 – Wood Green vs GOSA Smederevska Palanka – held 19-20 November, 1991:

Day 1 – A Martin 1 v 0 D Rajkovic; P Littlewood 1 v 0 S Martinovic; M Pein 0 v 1 Nen Ristic; A Law 0 v 1 I Markovic; G Lee 0 v 1 Neb Ristic; P Sowray 0.5 v 0.5 M Despotovic. Result = 2.5-3.5

Day 2 – A Martin 1 v 0 D Rajkovic; P Littlewood 0 v 1 S Martinovic; M Pein 1 v 0 Nen Ristic; A Law 0.5 v 0.5 I Markovic; G Lee 0 v 1 Neb Ristic; P Sowray 1 v 0 M Despotovic. Result = 3.5-2.5. Overall result 6-6. Wood Green win on board count.

Quarter final, 1991/92 – Hapoel Tel-Aviv vs Wood Green

[As Olimpbase report except: Results are given as Day 1 = 5.5-0.5 and Day 2 = 4-2; these are therefore in the reverse order to those currently displayed]

That was all I could find ... unfortunately, still many gaps.