English Chess Forum

I've just seen a post from Andrew Muir on Facebook with the sad news that Peter Jamieson has died.

Peter McKeich Jamieson played for Scotland at five Olympiads (1970-1978), won the Scottish Championship in 1965 (shared with JM Aitken) and 1983 and was awarded the FM title in 1989. Only the other day I was looking at games he played against Mike Basman - he scored an impressive +3=1-0 against Mike, including two Scotland v England wins in the 1964 Glorney Cup and the 1967 World Student Olympiad.

My only close encounter with Peter was at the 2nd White Rose International in York in 2000. During the evenings of this 10-player a.p.a. I enjoyed several chats with Peter during that tournament and I remember him telling me stories about his younger days when William Fairhurst ruled the roost in Scottish chess.

In his Facebook post Andrew Muir mentions that Peter drew with Tal. He was Glorney Cup manager 1973-1976, and trained Andrew in his junior playing days, and was his Paisley and Hamilton team-mate. Andrew passes on details of the funeral arrangements and tells us that anyone from the chess community who wishes to pay their respects is welcome to attend:

Monday 10th of November at 12pm
South Lanarkshire Crematorium
31 Sydes Brae
Blantyre G72 0TL

[Event "Nice Olympiad Preliminary A"] [Site "Nice"] [Date "1974.06.07"] [Round "1"] [White "Jamieson, Peter McKeich"] [Black "Tal, Mikhail"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "B16"] [PlyCount "79"] [EventDate "1974.06.07"] [EventType "team-tourn"] [EventRounds "9"] [EventCountry "FRA"] [WhiteTeam "Scotland"] [BlackTeam "Soviet Union"] [WhiteTeamCountry "SCO"] [BlackTeamCountry "URS"] 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6 6. Bc4 Qc7 7. Qh5 e6 8. Ne2 Na6 9. Bf4 Qb6 10. Bb3 Nb4 11. O-O Bd7 12. Bg3 Qb5 13. Qf3 Qg5 14. a3 Na6 15. Nc3 f5 16. Bf4 Qg6 17. Nb5 Rg8 18. Nd6+ Bxd6 19. Bxd6 O-O-O 20. Bf4 Be8 21. Rad1 Nc7 22. c4 Qg7 23. Qg3 Qxg3 24. hxg3 b5 25. f3 bxc4 26. Bxc4 Nd5 27. Bxd5 Rxd5 28. Kf2 f6 29. Rh1 Bg6 30. Rc1 Kb7 31. Rc4 Rgd8 32. Rhc1 Be8 33. Rb4+ Ka8 34. Re1 Bf7 35. Rc1 a5 36. Rbc4 e5 37. dxe5 fxe5 38. Bg5 Rb8 39. R1c2 Be8 40. b4 1/2-1/2

P.S. His middle name was definitely 'McKeich' despite often being given in error as 'Michael'. Peter himself pointed this out a few years.

Google 'Chess Scotland' and enter 'Forum' directly from the link to the CS website, where you will find 'Obituaries' for much more, including some brief words from me. [NB: going into chessscotland.com directly at present, perhaps due to a recent admin glitch, doesn't seem to provide a ready link to the Forum.]

Many English seniors will know Peter quite well as he played in many senior international team events. Less well-known may be his considerable achievements and high international regard in the field of wind technology, in which he was still academically very active right to the end. Info on that too at the CS link. A sad loss to very many both in chess and even more so beyond.

Craig Pritchett wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 31, 2025 11:26 am

Google 'Chess Scotland' and enter 'Forum' directly from the link to the CS website, where you will find 'Obituaries' for much more, including some brief words from me. [NB: going into chessscotland.com directly at present, perhaps due to a recent admin glitch, doesn't seem to provide a ready link to the Forum.]

Direct link
https://www.chessscotland.com/forum/for ... php?fid=25

Peter won the British U-18 Championship at Bath, 1963, ahead of such notables as Bill Hartston and Andrew Whiteley. I lost to him in the first round.
Scroll down this for details:
https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/19 ... iewer.html

IIRC he was based in the NE (England, that is) for a while in the late 1980s/early 90s after being largely inactive in chess for a bit before that.