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| Mar-01-12 | | brankat: R.I.P. GM Golombek. |
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Mar-01-12
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Apr-16-12
 | | GrahamClayton: Here is a Golombek victory that I have uploaded to the database: [Event "1935 BCF-ch"]
[Site "Great Yarmouth"]
[Date "1935.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Harry Golombek"]
[Black "Gerald Abrahams"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. c4 c5 2. ♘c3 b6 3. ♘f3 ♗b7 4. e4 g6 5. d4 ♗g7 6. d5 d6 7. ♗d3 ♘d7 8. O-O ♘gf6 9. h3 h6 10. ♕e2 g5 
click for larger view11. e5 dxe5 12. ♘xe5 ♘xe5 13. ♕xe5 O-O 14. ♕e2 e6 15. dxe6 ♖e8 16. exf7+ ♔xf7 17. ♕c2 ♔g8 18. ♗e3 g4 19. ♖ad1 ♕c7 20. ♗f5 gxh3 21. ♗xh3 ♘e4 22. ♖d7 ♕b8 23. ♘xe4 ♗xe4 24. ♕d2 ♗c6 25. ♗f4 ♖e2 26. ♖xg7+ ♔xg7 27. ♕c3+ 1-0 Source: CHESS, Vol 1, No 1, 14 September 1935 |
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Mar-01-15
 | | offramp: < GrahamClayton: Here is a Golombek victory that I have uploaded to the database:
[Event "1935 BCF-ch"]
[Site "Great Yarmouth"]
[Date "1935.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Harry Golombek"]
[Black "Gerald Abrahams"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. c4 c5 2. ♘c3 b6 3. ♘f3 ♗b7 4. e4 g6 5. d4 ♗g7 6. d5 d6 7. ♗d3 ♘d7 8. O-O ♘gf6 9. h3 h6 10. ♕e2 g5 11. e5 dxe5 12. ♘xe5 ♘xe5 13. ♕xe5 O-O 14. ♕e2 e6 15. dxe6 ♖e8 16. exf7+ ♔xf7 17. ♕c2 ♔g8 18. ♗e3 g4 19. ♖ad1 ♕c7 20. ♗f5 gxh3 21. ♗xh3 ♘e4 22. ♖d7 ♕b8 23. ♘xe4 ♗xe4 24. ♕d2 ♗c6 25. ♗f4 ♖e2 26. ♖xg7+ ♔xg7 27. ♕c3+ 1-0 Source: CHESS, Vol 1, No 1, 14 September 1935> It looks great to use the {}s to make pictures instead of letters, but it can be a bit of a pain if someone wants to c+p that game into a pgn-reading program. It can't be read. It will come out like this:
[Event "1935 BCF-ch"]
[Site "Great Yarmouth"]
[Date "1935.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Harry Golombek"]
[Black "Gerald Abrahams"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "11"]
[EventDate "1935.??.??"]
1. c4 c5 ?c3 b6 ?f3 ?b7 2. e4 g6 3. d4 ?g7 d5 d6 ?d3 ?d7 O-O ?gf6 4. h3
h6 ?e2 g5 5. e5 dxe5 ?xe5 ?xe5 ?xe5 O-O ?e2 e6 dxe6
?e8 exf7+ ?xf7 ?c2 ?g8 ?e3 6. g4 ?ad1 ?c7 ?f5 gxh3 ?xh3 ?e4 ?d7 ?b8 ?xe4
?xe4 ?d2 ?c6 ?f4 ?e2 ?xg7+ ?xg7 ?c3+ 1-0
So the game would have to be entered again "manually". |
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Mar-01-15
 | | Ron: This first post on this page was by me. I wrote
May-01-0 Ron: Harry Golombek served the cause of freedom: during the Second World War, he was one of those code breakers working on the German ENIGMA codes. The second post is a factually incorrect and asshoeish post by WMD: Feb-15-04 WMD: The only thing Golombek ever served at Bletchley Park was tea and biscuits. |
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Mar-01-15
 | | eternaloptimist: I didn't know that Golombek worked on cracking the enigma codes until I read his profile. I've only skimmed over his books in bookstores in the past, but I'm thinking about buying 1 of his books in the near future. |
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Mar-01-15
| | offramp: If you think his books will help your play you are being a bit too optimistic. |
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Mar-01-15
| | eternaloptimist: :D Nice pun...well then I won't buy 1 of his books. Thanks for the forewarning. |
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Mar-01-15
 | | gezafan: Golombek wrote a pretty good book called "The Game of Chess." It's a general overview of chess. It would be good for novice players or average non-tournament players who want to improve their game. It could help a player to develop as a well rounded player. I recommend it. |
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Mar-02-15
| | offramp: <gezafan: Golombek wrote a pretty good book called "The Game of Chess." It's a general overview of chess.
It would be good for novice players or average non-tournament players who want to improve their game. It could help a player to develop as a well rounded player. I recommend it.>
I also made my first steps with that book. It is in descriptive notation and ends with a game by the potential world champion Bobby Fischer. I remember it was very good at explaining the basic mates. How much good would it be to a talented 12-year-old nowadays, I wonder? Have any better didactic books been written about chess since 1970? |
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| Apr-19-15 | | kamagong24: the code breaker! |
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| May-10-15 | | TheFocus: <Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand> - Harry Golombek. |
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| Jan-07-16 | | TheFocus: Rest in peace, Harry Golombek. |
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| Mar-01-16 | | TheFocus: Happy birthday, Harry Golombek. |
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| May-08-16 | | wrap99: Reading bio of Turing by Hodges in which it is mentioned that Golombek could give Turing queen odds or more remarkably to me, turn the board around in the position in which the great mathematician had resigned in and beat him from that side. I have to say, I would bet that I could beat a world champion pretty consistently if I were allowed to resign in any position I wanted and my opponent would then have to beat me with my pieces against his. Never heard of this before. Just how weak of a player does that make Turing? |
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| May-09-16 | | zanzibar: Returning to <offramp>'s question about didatic books... I'm not sure I'm qualified to comment about anything involving those $5 words anymore, but I've seen several Russian players comment on Averbakh and Beilin's <Journey to the Chess Kingdom> and I've wondered if it truly measured up - partly because it took so long to be translated: https://www.chess.com/blog/Natalia_... http://chess-evolution.com/index.ph... And here's a sample pdf:
http://chess-evolution.com/download... So didactical qualifiers can diligently debate empirical epistemologies. Hope I don't get my bell rung for shilling, or buncombe. |
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| May-09-16 | | zanzibar: Here's the book on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Puteshestvie-... (In Russian, 1972 ed, only $280)
http://www.amazon.com/Journey-kingd... (2006 Russian?, unavailable) |
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Jul-13-17
 | | Sally Simpson: On Sunday January 26th 1964 Harry teamed up with Tal in a BBC radio game. Their opponents were Penrose and Gligoric. http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedule... Gligoric and Penrose opened with 1.e4.
"I asked Tal what reply we should make."
"You choose", he said "You've written chess books. I haven't" 'The Chess Player's Bedside Book' by Edwards and Keene. |
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Jun-03-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
There are two commerative benches to Harry. One at Hastings alongside one to Ritson Morry. And one at St Giles Churchyard, Chalfont St Giles, Bucks, UK. This one mentions he was a code breakers and chess writer. https://www.waymarking.com/gallery/... *** |
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Jun-03-20
 | | MissScarlett: If any tramp sleeps on one of these benches, he's spiritually required to cover himself with a copy of the Times (non-digital version). I confess, I've never actually seen someone asleep under a newspaper, but I'm assured it's a thing. |
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Jun-03-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Was there not an urban myth going about that tramps froze to death during a newspaper strike because they had no newspapers to sleep under. --- BTW ---
Brother decided not to drive me to Linares so I had internet tournament in my garden. Could not be bothered doing cut outs, used pictures from CHESS. Here is Wes So v Ding Liren.
https://www.redhotpawn.com/imgu/blo... Grandaughter, who lives 20 miles away, ran Chess Stall. https://www.redhotpawn.com/imgu/blo... whole thing here: https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl... *** |
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| Jun-04-20 | | spingo: <MissScarlett: ...I confess, I've never actually seen someone asleep under a newspaper, but I'm assured it's a thing.> I believe the method is to stuff, or line, one's clothes with the dreaded material. Lying under it is impractical, owing to newsprint's renowned slitheriness, as well as distracting: interesting stories can make sleep elusive. One must remember to remove the impromptu insulation next morning otherwise one's movements may appear somewhat robotic. |
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Nov-13-20
| | MissScarlett: C.N. 11823 : <Golombek’s English-language Wikipedia entry currently gives Lambeth as his place of birth and death. In the Oxford National Dictionary of Biography (an entry written two decades ago by Professor William D. Rubinstein) a precise address in the London Borough of Lambeth was supplied for his birth: 200 Railton Road, Brixton.> Railton Road was frontline during the Brixton Riots. If memory serves, 200 is the end nearer to Herne Hill. |
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| Oct-15-24 | | cameosis: real name is harold:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage...
top left:
https://timarit.is/page/3212738#pag... https://books.google.de/books/about... scroll to bottom:
https://britishchessnews.com/event/... https://britishnewspaperarchive.co.... https://books.google.de/books/about... |
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Feb-17-25
| | gezafan: Golombek didn't play the black side of the Nimzo-Indian very well. |
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