Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima
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Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima
Interesting video including his son and players who remember him, and an interview with 'Miss Fatima':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYCwOpjKab0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYCwOpjKab0
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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima
Clearly the ECF should aim to send selected top juniors to Pakistan to serve in Sir Umar's household and England will be a force again in world chess in short order.
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.
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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima
Great stuff. Appears to be cut down from a 1990 TV film which I'm sure I remember seeing.
"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
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"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima
Amazing video, the last days of the British Empire, not to mention Milner Barry, and Ritson-Morry. Sultan Khan, and the Household of Sir Umar defies logic. It is not enough to have a natural talent for playing chess. To develop your game, you have to play against stronger players than yourself. Did Sir Umar secretly hire a chess master, to train Fatima and Sultan Khan ? One of the great chess mysteries.
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Gordon Cadden wrote:Amazing video, the last days of the British Empire, not to mention Milner Barry, and Ritson-Morry. Sultan Khan, and the Household of Sir Umar defies logic. It is not enough to have a natural talent for playing chess. To develop your game, you have to play against stronger players than yourself. Did Sir Umar secretly hire a chess master, to train Fatima and Sultan Khan ? One of the great chess mysteries.
Sultan Khan had some training from William Winter when he first arrived. I thought that was well-known.
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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima
Which is interesting given that SK had a much poorer score against W Winter than nearly all other English players he encountered?
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Re: Sultan Khan / Miss Fatima
Edward Winter has just updated his feature article on Sultan Khan with two portraits of Miss Fatima, forwarded by Olimpiu G. Urcan, from the Edwin Smith photographic archive:
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/ext ... nkhan.html
https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/ext ... nkhan.html