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Lionel Penrose

Number of games in database: 5
Years covered: 1915 to 1922
Overall record: +3 -2 =0 (60.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.


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LIONEL PENROSE
(born Jun-11-1898, died May-12-1972, 73 years old) United Kingdom

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He was a British psychiatrist, medical geneticist, mathematician and chess problemist, who carried out pioneering work on the genetics of mental retardation. His wife was Margaret Penrose. Their children include GM and ten-time British champion Jonathan Penrose, physicist Oliver Penrose, and Roger Penrose, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics.

References: (1) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/... , (2) Wikipedia article: Lionel Penrose

Last updated: 2020-10-10 20:33:53

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. L Penrose vs NN 1-0151915Casual gameC51 Evans Gambit
2. R Scott vs L Penrose 0-1221919SimulA02 Bird's Opening
3. L Penrose vs T Tylor  1-019192044th Oxford - Cambridge Varsity mC44 King's Pawn Game
4. T Tylor vs L Penrose  1-043192145th Oxford - Cambridge Varsity mC49 Four Knights
5. L Penrose vs T Staynes  0-130192246th Oxford - Cambridge Varsity mC12 French, McCutcheon
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Kibitzer's Corner
Feb-08-13  IndigoViolet: His grandfather was <Alexander Peckover, 1st Baron Peckover FRGS, FSA, FLS (16 August 1830 – 21 October 1919), was a British quaker banker, philanthropist and collector of ancient manuscripts.>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexan...

http://www.thepeerage.com/p24048.ht...

<He had only daughters and is said to have declined the offer a special remainder that would have allowed the title to descend through his daughter to his grandson, stating that "if my grandson want the title he should earn it".>

Pity, because this would have made Lionel, as the eldest grandson, a Baron, so he would have been Lord Lionel. In turn, that would have rendered Dr. Jonathan Penrose as The Honorable (Dr.) Jonathan Penrose.

For non-Brits who don't get this @#$%: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courte...

Feb-08-13  JonathanJ: "if my grandson want the title he should earn it" --> good statement. aristocracy should be abolished, there are enough titles left that can be earned through achievements.
Jul-01-15
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  MissScarlett: How was he a 'chess theorist'?
Jul-19-15
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  MissScarlett: The <American Chess Bulletin>, July-August 1919, p.197, records a victory on 3rd board by <S. Penrose>, of St. John's college, for Cambridge as they thrashed Oxford 7-0 in their traditional annual match.

Top board saw William Winter vs Theodore Tylor.

Jul-17-16  YuvalKenoll: Which lines he investigated on chess theory?
Jul-21-16
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  MissScarlett: <How was he a 'chess theorist'?>

I think it should read 'chess problemist'. Seems he specialised in two-movers.


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White to mate in 2.

Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, October 20th, 1928, p,10:

<The one above is a "changed mate" problem, which won first prize in a "London Observer" tourney some years ago. This kind of problem is the most modern - not counting the "Fairy Problems," which do not comply with the rules of the game. If we remember rightly, changed mates were not known before about 1910. Many noted composers have not tried to make any, or have failed to produce any good enough for publication. To produce a "change mate" first make a "block" problem — "a waiting move" problem — with, as usual in "blocks," a mate set for every move that Black can make. (If Black moved first, then White would mate in one move. Many thousands of such were composed before 1900). And there so arrange things that the keymove will destroy the possibility of these set mates, or of some of them, and will cause the substitution of other mates — sometimes with an additional mate. A clever idea very difficult to work out, except, perhaps, to a few with special aptitude for this kind of composition. The old stagers can't do it, and very few of the young ones.

In the above, if Black moved first, the mates would include (according to Black's play) B-B3, QxP, and Kt-Q2. But with White moving first, these three mates vanish, and three others take their places, There is also an added mate, and one other mate. B-B2, remains the same.>

Sep-03-17
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  MissScarlett: Longevity, as well as brains, seem to run in the family.

Jonathan Penrose is 83. Oliver Penrose is 88. Roger Penrose is 86. Shirley Hodgson is only 72.

Dec-29-17  patzerkiller: [Event "Offhand game"]
[Site "Reading"]
[Date "1915"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Penrose, Lionel Sharples"]
[Black "Anon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C51"]
[Opening "Evans gambit: normal variation"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. c3 Ba5 6. O-O d6 7. d4 exd4 8. cxd4 Bb6 9. Qb3 Qf6 10. Re1 Na5 11. e5 Qg6 12. exd6+ Kf8 13. Ba3 Nxb3 14. d7+ c5 15. Re8# ♖eading Observer - Saturday 30 January 1915 p.7 1-0

Apr-08-18
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  MissScarlett: Putting the sharp in <Sharples>: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

I learnt recently that Lionel was an inspiration for the work of <Maurits Escher>: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascen...

Apr-14-21  CivilDisobedience: the famous Penrose's triangle was invented first by the swedish artist Oskar Reutersvärd in 1934

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