http://www.central.edu/homepages/li...

Or, you might post a small note over on the Paul Morphy message board (she frequents this board).

(I believe she may also have an email contact posted at her own (excellent) Paul Morphy site: http://batgirl.atspace.com/index.html )

On the subject of the Beatles, I was surprised to learn that all four of the original Ed Sullivan shows on which the Beatles appeared in the U.S. are available on DVD, complete, unedited, with all the other guests that appeared and all the original commercials, too:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...

From one online reviewer:

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Included are the entire shows - all of Ed's other guests [among others, I believe, Frank Gorshen playing Frank Sinatra as President of the United States, and Soupy Sales also] as well as some hilarious TV commercials for Lipton tea, Anacin, and Pillsbury cakes and breads! Not only is this DVD collection a treasure trove for Beatles fans, but also for vintage advertising buffs!

I found that watching the entire shows offered an excellent vantage point into American society in the mid-1960's... and how The Beatles fit into the whole panorama of what was going on here during that era....

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(: ♗ Bishop Berkeley ♗ :)

I had found these games on a Portuguese site about 6 years ago. I wouldn't have remembered that, except that in the notepad file in which I had pasted the games, I had made myself a key with which to interpret the Portugese pgns:

Portuguese
C=Knight
A=Bishop
D=Queen
T=Rook

I did save the URL, but it's a dead link now.

Although I admit my naïveté back then concerning the accuracy (or lack thereof) of published information, it's worthwhile to note that the games do have opponents' names listed and at least a year date. This gives them a bit more credibility. So, as a result, I would say these games could at the least be considered "alleged" or "likely" even, though by no means positively ascribable.

[Event "casual"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1979.??.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Berger Deloras"]
[Black "John Lennon"]
[ECO "C83"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Ne4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3 d5 8.de5 Be6 9.c3 Be7 10.Re1 0-0 11.Bc2 Nc5 12.b4 Na4 13.Qd3 f5 14.ef6 Bf6 15.Qh7 Kf7 16.Ng5 Bg5 17.Bg6 Kf6 18.Bg5 Kg5 19.Re6 Rh8 20.h4 Kf4 21.g3 Kg4 22.Bh5 Kh3 23.Qf5 1-0*

[Event "casual"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1979.??.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "De Vathaire"]
[Black "John Lennon"]
[ECO "A04"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.Nf3 f5 2.g3 b6 3.Bg2 Bb7 4.0-0 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.e4 fe4 7.Ng5 e5 8.Nc3 h6 9.Nce4 d5 10.Ne6 Qc8 11.Nf6 gf6 12.Qh5 Ke7 13.f4 Kd6 14.fe5 fe5 15.Nf8 resultado 1-0*

[Event "casual"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1980.??.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "John Lennon"]
[Black "Alozy"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.e4 d5 2.ed5 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.dc6 Nc6 5.Nf3 e5 6.d3 e4 7.de4 Qd1 8.Kd1 Ne4 9.Be3 Bg4 10.Nbd2 0-0-0 11.Kc1 Nc5 12.Be2 Nd3 13.Bd3 Rd3 14.a3 Be7 15.Kb1 Bf5 16.Ka2 Rhd8 17.Rac1 Bf6 18.h3 R8d6 19.g4 Nb4 0-1*

[Event "casual"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "1980.??.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "John Lennon"]
[Black "Alozy"]
[ECO "B01"]
[Result "0-1"]

1.e4 d5 2.ed5 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.dc6 Nc6 5.Nf3 e5 6.d3 e4 7.de4 Qd1 8.Kd1 Ne4 9.Be3 Bg4 10.Nbd2 0-0-0 11.Kc1 Nc5 12.Be2 Nd3 13.Bd3 Rd3 14.a3 Be7 15.Kb1 Bf5 16.Ka2 Rhd8 17.Rac1 Bf6 18.h3 R8d6 19.g4 Nb4 20.ab4 Ra6 21.Kb1 Rd2 22.Rc2 Bc2 23.Kc1 Re2 0-1*

[Event "casual"]
[Site "San Francisco"]
[Date "1987.??.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "M Link"]
[Black "Ringo Starr"]
[ECO "D00"]
[Result "1-0"]

1.d4 d5 2.e4 de4 3.Nc3 f5 4.f3 Nf6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bf6 ef6 7.fe4 Bb4 8.Bc4 h5 9.Nge2 Nc6 10.0-0 fe4 11.Ne4 Bg4 12.c3 Be7 13.Qb3 Be2 14.Be2 Na5 15.Qe6 Qd7 16.Bh5 Rh5 17.Qg8 Bf8 18.Nf6 gf6 19.Rae1 Re5 20.Re5 fe5 21.Qf8 1-0*

[Event "casual"]
[Site "America"]
[Date "1989.??.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Ramos"]
[Black "Ringo Starr"]
[ECO "A40"]
[Result "1-0"]

LTJ

But as far as I know Lennon never played chess, Ringo yes, but Lennon no??

Iv'e read so many books on that man and not one of them mentions a game of chess! I would have thought If there were any, they would have been in his art school years with Stuart Sutcliffe? He played!

I know I am VERY late to comment, and I do not expect a reply anytime soon, but I do want to ask SBC if she remembers the name of the URL that she briefly mentioned on May 3rd, 2006.

<SBC> rarely posts on this site anymore, only once in the last year.

But she is much more active over on chess.com, under the moniker of <batgirl>:

https://www.chess.com/member/batgirl
https://www.chess.com/article/membe...

If you do manage to contact her there could you please let me know if she's in contact with <Leo Hovestadt> anymore?