Len Skinner

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Simon Rogers
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Len Skinner

Post by Simon Rogers » Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:33 pm

I am sorry to inform you that Len Skinner of Bridgend Chess Club, East Glamorgan passed away over the weekend of 6th-7th March 2022.
Len was a long serving member of Bridgend Chess Club.
RIP
Apologies, but I am not sure if this is the same Leonard Skinner that wrote the chess book "Alexander Alekhine's Chess Games, 1902-1946" with the Dutch person, Robert G.P. Verhoeven.
Perhaps someone can help with this.

Roland Kensdale
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Re: Len Skinner

Post by Roland Kensdale » Thu Mar 17, 2022 5:24 pm

I couldn't find anything in my copy, but it seems this must be the same person.

From https://chess.co.uk/collections/biograp ... -verhoeven

About the Author
Leonard M. Skinner is a marine scientist who lives in South Glamorgan, Wales

Roland Kensdale
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Re: Len Skinner

Post by Roland Kensdale » Sat Mar 19, 2022 5:56 pm

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/ext ... hine2.html

On 8 March 2022 Richard Forster (Winterthur, Switzerland) reported to us that Leonard Skinner had died at home in Llandow, Wales on 7 March 2022. His family has also provided the information that Leonard Skinner was born in Cardiff on 29 October 1928.

Brian Denman
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Re: Len Skinner

Post by Brian Denman » Sun Mar 20, 2022 10:58 am

A Horsham Chess Club player in the 1960s.