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Charles Henderson

Number of games in database: 6
Years covered: 1938 to 1955
Overall record: +1 -5 =0 (16.7%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.


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CHARLES HENDERSON
United States of America

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. S Cross vs C Henderson 0-1251938USA Continental Jubilee corrB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
2. S Geller vs C Henderson  1-02719542nd Pan-American Chess CongressD14 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
3. G K Fielding vs C Henderson  1-01819542nd Pan-American Chess CongressD18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch
4. C Henderson vs S Greene  0-14619542nd Pan-American Chess CongressE22 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann Variation
5. C Henderson vs C Pilnick  0-151195556th US OpenB74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical
6. M Radojcic vs C Henderson  1-035195556th US OpenB56 Sicilian
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Kibitzer's Corner
Dec-08-14  zanzibar: There was a <Charles Henderson> from Beverly Hills who played the <2nd PanAm Open (1954)> in Hollywood.

There's a note about him on chessdryad.com:

<THE CALIFORNIA CHESS REPORTER (Vol. V, No. 9) May, 1956

BEVERLY HILLS Music-maker Charles Henderson, Captain of the South team, has sold a short musical comedy to UPA, the cartooners who scored so well with the off-beat Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoingBoing, entitled The First Game of Chess. Charlie reports that the UPA people are real gone on the idea and are having a ball making the first musical cartoon on chess. >

http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/...

His picture can be found here:

http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/...

Dec-08-14  zanzibar: <Charles Henderson> was married to <Lyn Henderson> aka <Mitzi Mayfair>.

The latter was somewhat of a chess-playing celebrity, who exploits should be documented on her own page:

Lyn Henderson

http://www.chess.com/blog/batgirl/h...

Dec-08-14  zanzibar: <The Herman Steiner Chess Group, of Los Angeles, has elected a well known motion picture and television producer, Charles Henderson, as their new president.>

http://www.nwchess.com/articles/his... (Sept 1956)

Dec-08-14  zanzibar: <The Herman Steiner Chess Group, of Los Angeles, has elected a well known motion picture and television producer, Charles Henderson, as their new president. He has finally made chess pay, by writing a minature musical comedy, book and music, called the "First Game of Chess". It has been purchased by the company that created the famous cartoon characters Mr. Magoo and Gerald McBoing Boing, and it is now in production. It is the story of a little King who gets tired of going away to battle and decides to invent a game to replace war. It will be released on TV sometime in September. The story, with illustrated cartoons, will later be published by Simon & Schuster, and recordings are also in process.">

http://www.nwchess.com/articles/his... (Sept 1956)

News item just above - Fischer's win of US Jr. ch (1956)

<Bobby Fischer, the 13-year-old prodigy, who won the US Jr earlier in the month, captured a lion share of the publicity. He was on two television programs and his portrait was featured in the OK City press, with interviews searching out his opinion of Elvis Presley, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and bubble gum>

Dec-08-14  zanzibar: This is perhaps one of Henderson's songs, <Three Faces>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt1...

He was involved as Musical Director at 20th Century Fox. One of his credits is the 1945 movie, <State Fair>:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Vc...

(together with the better known Alfred Newman)

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