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Tony demonstrating the sac, sac, mate approach to the Dragon as described by Fischer. A few years later in his career, Tony, along with Jon Mestel, demonstrated how Black should try to defend such positions. Among other players of that era, Whiteley and Levy also attempted to defend the Dragon, without much success against top level opposition.Gerard Killoran wrote: Here's an example:
Doesn't it also say in the article that RFT is one of BH's children?Geoff Chandler wrote: He is R.F.T Wood but they call him Frank (wonder if it is the same Frank Wood
whose daughter, Margaret, married Jonathan Penrose. Just curious.)
Jonathan Penrose did marry a Margaret Wood. Her father, Frank Wood, was Hon. Secretary of Oxfordshire Chess Association.Roger de Coverly wrote:Doesn't it also say in the article that RFT is one of BH's children?Geoff Chandler wrote: He is R.F.T Wood but they call him Frank (wonder if it is the same Frank Wood
whose daughter, Margaret, married Jonathan Penrose. Just curious.)
His name is given in online birth records as Rex Frank T Wood, born Q1 1943 in Sutton Coldfield.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
Does anyone know R. F. T. Wood's full name?
Same here! I seem to recall I played an Andrew Stoker in the the Chess magazine's (Junior) Postal Chess Club. - would have been late 60s maybe just into the 70s. Would I be right?Andy Stoker wrote:Thank you for posting this - a fine slice of nostalgia for me - a near-contemporary of Tony Miles.
Christopher's information is correct. Jonathan Penrose's father in law, Frank Wood, ran several Oxfordshire junior championships in the 1960s and I met him on many occasions. I believe I also met his daughter a few times but then she gave up chess, I think, whereas B.H.'s daughter (M. E. E. or Peggy Clarke) continued to play by correspondence until the early Noughties and earned the LIM title from ICCF.Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Jonathan Penrose did marry a Margaret Wood. Her father, Frank Wood, was Hon. Secretary of Oxfordshire Chess Association.Roger de Coverly wrote:Doesn't it also say in the article that RFT is one of BH's children?Geoff Chandler wrote: He is R.F.T Wood but they call him Frank (wonder if it is the same Frank Wood
whose daughter, Margaret, married Jonathan Penrose. Just curious.)
The R. F. T. Wood in this article appears to be Frank, the son of B. H. Wood (as Roger pointed out).
The Margaret (known as Peggy) that was the daughter of B. H. Wood married Peter Hugh Clarke.
Spot on Michael - I played a few seasons in the Junior Postal Chess Club ... did you beat me? I have records of only one game from then - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1233501 - I made heavy use of Mr Barden's Guardian Book of Chess - still on my shelvesPostby Michael Farthing ยป Thu Oct 12, 2017 3:44 pm
Andy Stoker wrote:
Thank you for posting this - a fine slice of nostalgia for me - a near-contemporary of Tony Miles.
Same here! I seem to recall I played an Andrew Stoker in the the Chess magazine's (Junior) Postal Chess Club. - would have been late 60s maybe just into the 70s. Would I be right?
Delighted to see that the now outmoded Goring Gambit did the business for you. It still works for me in online blitz. I wanted to include it in a revision to Guide to Chess Openings, but my Forumite co-author Tim Harding vetoed it on the grounds that it was refuted by taking on c3 and b2 and then d7-d6.Andy Stoker wrote: Spot on Michael - I played a few seasons in the Junior Postal Chess Club ... did you beat me? I have records of only one game from then - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1233501 - I made heavy use of Mr Barden's Guardian Book of Chess - still on my shelves
Which seems to be pretty much correct, unfortunately for the more romantic minded.Leonard Barden wrote:Delighted to see that the now outmoded Goring Gambit did the business for you. It still works for me in online blitz. I wanted to include it in a revision to Guide to Chess Openings, but my Forumite co-author Tim Harding vetoed it on the grounds that it was refuted by taking on c3 and b2 and then d7-d6.Andy Stoker wrote: Spot on Michael - I played a few seasons in the Junior Postal Chess Club ... did you beat me? I have records of only one game from then - http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1233501 - I made heavy use of Mr Barden's Guardian Book of Chess - still on my shelves
Keene also gave it a go for a time, rather uncharacteristically. (In addition, he analysed it extensively in 2 articles for Chess late in 1966.) He seems to have abandoned it, at least for serious purposes, after this flop at Hastings early in 1968.Roger de Coverly wrote:Among other players of that era, Whiteley and Levy also attempted to defend the Dragon, without much success against top level opposition.
That was the notorious Hastings where the 4 invited GMs decided to share first place. This meant that every so often they had to draw with one of four British players without it being too obvious. This evidently wasn't a game that Suetin needed to draw. The game Keene-Stein from that tournament is also a masterclass in how to cut up the English with a reverse Sicilian treatment.John Clarke wrote: He seems to have abandoned it, at least for serious purposes, after this flop at Hastings early in 1968.