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Britbase Chess Archive : Material from the 1920s - Part 1
British Empire Club Masters, London - October 1927
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 1 Nimzowitsch,Aron * 1 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 1 8 2 Tartakower,Saviely 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 8 3 Marshall,Frank James 1 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 7½ 4 Vidmar,Milan Sr ½ ½ ½ * 1 0 0 1 ½ 1 1 1 7 5 Bogoljubow,Efim 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 6½ 6 Winter,William 1 0 ½ 1 0 * 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 5½ 7 Reti,Richard ½ 0 ½ 1 0 1 * ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 5½ 8 Colle,Edgar 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 1 4½ 9 Thomas,George Alan 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 1 * 0 1 0 3½ 10 Berger,Victor 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 * 0 1 3½ 11 Yates,Fred Dewhirst 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 * 1 3½ 12 Fairhurst,William Albert 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 0 1 0 0 * 3
Middlesex County Team - English Champions
1925
(Winners 30 times between 1908 and 1989)
English County Trophy -
The Lowenthal Cup
Some of the players: Maurice Edward Goldstein,
born 6 April 1901 Kingston-upon-Thames, died 12 October 1966 Sydney
AUS, was New Zealand Champion 1932-3; Victor B(u)erger, born 1904
Russia, died March 1996, defeated Alekhine in a game at Margate 1937;
George William Richmond, born June 1877 Manchester, died November 1941
London, Scottish Champion 1910; Edward Guthlac Sergeant (1881-1961),
London Champion 1951, Richard Clewin Griffith (1872-1955), British
Champion 1912, Editor of BCM 1920-40; Bruno Edgar Siegheim, born
24 May 1875 Berlin, died 5 November 1952 Johannesburg, South
African Champion 1906, 1912; Harold Meek (died 16 November 1954, aged 69)
had been the chess columnist in the Evening Standard and the Evening News, as
well as the BCF Hon.Sec. and organiser; Arthur Emerson Mercer (1873-12 June 1964, who played in the 1906 British Championship).
Middlesex v Yorkshire 12.12.1925
1 BE Siegheim 0-1 HE Atkins
2 EG Sergeant 1-0 CR Gurnhill
3 H Saunders ½-½ TA Staynes
4 GW Richmond 1-0 P Wenman
5 V Buerger 0-1 GW Moses
6 ME Goldstein 1-0 F Schofield
7 J Birnberg 0-1 G Barron
8 AE Mercer 1-0 HW Hodgkinson
9 RC Griffith ½-½ E Dale
10 JH Morrison 1-0 WH Sparkes
11 Dr. FS Duncan 0-1 A Schofield
12 RF Goldstein ½-½ CE Wenyon
6½-5½
London Girls' Championship 1927 - was held at the Imperial Chess Club, London, in January 1927.
Full names of players where known - Rita Gregory, from Kent, (was world women's junior champion in 1928, 1929 and 1930); (Hazelden); Miss Muriel Brown (of Belvedere, Kent); Miss Aileen Isobel Green; Mrs Agnes Stevenson (née Lawson - see Archive 1930s for details of her tragic death in 1935); Mrs Arthur Rawson (a.k.a. Mrs Ella Frances Rawson).
Miss Olga Menchik (1908-1944); Miss Vera Menchik (1906-1944), became the second Mrs RHS Stevenson in 1937, women's world champion 1927-1944. Both the Menchik sisters, along with their mother Olga, were killed in an air raid, 26 June 1944. All three were cremated on 4 July 1944 at Streatham Park Crematorium, London SW16 (n.b. this extra info added in case anyone should be misled by the entirely spurious and misleading information given about Vera's 'grave' on the Findagrave website).
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 V Menchik x 1 1 1 1 1 5/5 2 O Menchik 0 x 1 ½ 1 1 3½ 3 R Gregory 0 0 x 1 1 1 3 4 Hazelden 0 ½ 0 x ½ 1 2 5 M Brown 0 0 0 ½ x 1 1½ 6 A Green 0 0 0 0 0 x 0
Hyères 1926 (18-23 January), 2nd annual tournament - Scores: A Baratz 8½, D Janowski 7, Max Romih 6, AJ Maas 5½, V Halberstadt 5, Hans Müller 5, Colonel Prince 3, RHV Scott 3, Mrs Agnes Stevenson 2, N de Fridman 0. J Keeble scored 6½ in the Minor Tourney. Abraham Baratz was a 31-year-old student of scupture in Paris at the time of the tournament. From Bessarabia (ROM), he represented Romania in the Olympiads of 1929 and 1930. He died in Paris in 1975. Dawid Janowski, world title challenger 1910, born 7 June 1868 and died at the Hyeres event of the following year, 15 January 1927. Roland Henry Vaughan Scott, born 25 March 1888 Barnes, died 10 January 1953 Monte Carlo, was British Champion 1920. Isidor Gunsberg, born 2 November 1854 Budapest, died 2 May 1930 London, did not take part in the tournament. He challenged Steinitz for the world title in 1890/1. Vitaly Halberstadt died 25 October 1968 Paris, aged 64; he was a player, problemist and above all a noted endgame study composer.
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Reginald Pryce Michell, born 9 April 1873 Penzance, died 19 May 1938 Kingston-upon-Thames. British Champion (amateur) 1902. Played in the 1927 Olympiad for England, scoring +4, =4, -5, and in the 1933 Folkestone Olympiad of 1933 scoring +0, =5, -4. He played in eight England v USA cable matches between 1901 and 1911. He was a frequent competitor in the Hastings Premier over 20 years, defeating Sultan Khan and Menchik in 1932/3. He finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the British Championship proper, defeating HE Atkins on several occasions. He worked in the Admiralty, and his wife Edith (maiden name Edith Mary Ann Tapsell) (July-Sep? 1872 Croydon, Surrey - 18 October 1951 Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex) was British Women's Champion in 1931 (jointly), 1932 and 1935. Michell,R - Colle,E |