Feb-08-25
 | | Sally Simpson: I submitted after being sent a link mentioning Spens;
https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/202... "The following game was played in a match against a player about whom I could not locate any information. [Here the article is talking about H.J. Thomas] The game, which won Spens a Brilliancy Prize, does not appear in any databases of his games, but it was published in the September 1900 issue of the British Chess Magazine. While hardly brilliant, we get to see the tactical side of Spens’ play and the game is entertaining. " I too was a bit surprised that it did not appear anywhere so did a bit of digging and it was played in the 1900 Scottish Championship https://www.chessscotland.com/docum... and the opponent was Henry James Macthomas Thoms and this game is there (Thank You Alan - I should have gone there before I submitted the game) I'll send a correction slip - do not know if BCM call it a match and Thomas instead of Thoms. |
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| Feb-08-25 | | Alan McGowan: You're welcome <Sally>! |
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Feb-08-25
 | | MissScarlett: <do not know if BCM call it a match and Thomas instead of Thoms.> The <BCM> identifies Thoms and the occasion as the <S.C.A. meeting at Dundee, April, 1900.> What confused <Tartajubow> was evidently the reference to Spens's <last match game.> |
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Feb-08-25
| | Sally Simpson: Confused me as well.
An interesting site, could be worth raiding when I'm stuck for an idea. I'm often getting emailed with items I might use from my crowd of helpers. (my 'Baker Street Irregulars' ) After I submitted the game something was nagging, possibly this; Henry James Macthomas Thoms (kibitz #1) so I checked it out. |
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Feb-08-25
| | MissScarlett: Do you know or have an idea where Cochrane is buried? |
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Feb-08-25
| | Sally Simpson: <Miss Scarlett> Rather than rely on memory (though I was close with Bromley) this time I did check Alan McGowan; John Cochrane, who never married, died on 2 March 1878 at 12 Bryanston Street, London. He was buried in Brompton Cemetery. Lots more here; https://www.chessscotland.com/docum... |
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Feb-08-25
| | MissScarlett: Thanks. Seems we've been here before:
Raymond Keene (kibitz #10264) Then you didn't answer. I've see the Chess Scotland page on Cochrane before, so I should've bothered to look for it. I must get back to Brompton Cemetery in the spring. |
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Feb-09-25
| | Sally Simpson: <MissScarlett> Sorry, I missed your original question.
I've thought about going there but my visits to London these days are restricted to day trips. First to the CHESS shop on Baker Street, dump what I've haggled for in the left luggage at Kings Cross. If time lay a flower at the Bethnal Green 'Stairway to Heaven' memorial and then off to watch Leyton Orient. Catch the last train home. |
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Feb-09-25
| | MissScarlett: Looking at the cemetery map of where Cochrane is buried, reminded me that I did actually look for a gravestone, a couple of years ago, albeit without any real expectation of success. https://portal.royalparks.org.uk/LA... It had slipped my mind, because my main focus on that occasion was the grave of the Frailings - the mother and two sisters of Mary Frailing, proposed by Townsend to be Staunton's wife/partner and mother to two children. Mary Frailing herself was buried in the grounds of the Holy Trinity church in nearby Brompton. |
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Feb-09-25
| | Sally Simpson: This might help. From https://www.chesshistory.com/winter... and John Townsend. ‘The Royal Parks website makes it possible to search the burial register of Brompton Cemetery, and an image of the burial entry of John Cochrane shows that he was buried there on 8 March 1878. The address recorded was 12 Bryanston Street, Bryanston Square, and his age was given as 77, whereas 78 was specified in the death indexes of the General Register Office. The website also provides a link to an aerial view showing the location of the grave. |
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Feb-09-25
| | MissScarlett: <an image of the burial entry of John Cochrane shows that he was buried there on 8 March 1878> Those images are too small, for my eyes, at least. But you can access the cemetery registers on Ancestry. Cochrane's entry has the note: <Extra depth to 10 ft.> |
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Feb-09-25
| | Sally Simpson: Be good to find the exact spot. We can raise funds and put up a plaque. If we cannot raise the funds I'll pop down with a can of red paint and spray 'John Cochrane is here...somewhere.' on the north wall of the cemetery. (I'll sign it 'Banksy' it will become a national treasure.) |
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