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| Jun-21-11 | | deputy1: I shared a room at Spalding with Eley playing in the Spalding open, in 1972 and I wa atounded to hear that he wa sexualy abusing young boys.
I only found out yesterday that he was wanted by the British police. |
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| Mar-16-12 | | deputy1: Any News of Eley anywhere ? |
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Jul-03-12
 | | GrahamClayton: The Lord Lucan of English chess? |
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| Jul-03-12 | | Nosnibor: Jusr after Eley had won the British Championship in 1972 I played him in the last round of the inaugural Atkins Memorial tournament and drew with him as black where we both finished in the prize list.The strange thing was that in the first round I beat Jonathan Kinlay whom I have just discovered was Eley`s second in the British Championship! |
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| Jun-15-13 | | Everett: , it seems to me, If anyone "deserves" a picture on his page, it is he. |
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Jun-20-13
 | | perfidious: <Everett>: Sounds good to me-he can join this slimepot (Robert Snyder) in the rogues' gallery. |
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| Jun-21-13 | | kingfu: How about total erasure of their pages from CG?
And renaming the B20 Sicilian after Moshe Czerniak and Tamaz Gelashvili? Gelahvili is +51 with the B20! |
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| Jan-23-14 | | MarkFinan: <GrahamClayton: The Lord Lucan of English chess?> He certainly is! He could be dead and I'm guessing that wouldn't bother many people if he were. I couldn't believe it when I saw him on crimewatch because I played him too. Not that he's the first person I know who's made crimewatch!?! Very strange and weirdly eccentric with a Bobby Charlton comb over if I'm remembering rightly. I can't believe that people knew what he was up to and he was still allowed around boys my age, because I must have been 11 when I played him. |
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Jan-23-14
 | | FSR: <kingfu> As to the so-called "Snyder Sicilian," I agree with you. People played 2.b3 before, after, and with greater virtuosity than Snyder ever did. Naming it for him is ridiculous. I totally disagree with your suggestion that Snyder and Eley's pages should be deleted. The purpose of this site is to record significant chess games, not to assess players' morality or lack thereof. Efim Bogoljubov and Emil Joseph Diemer were Nazis. Klaus Junge was killed while fighting in Hitler's army. Alexander Alekhine wrote anti-Semitic propaganda for the Nazis. Robert James Fischer was an anti-Semitic loon, applauded the September 11 attacks, and later became a fugitive from the United States government. George Hatfeild Gossip wrote a virulently anti-Semitic book. Norman Tweed Whitaker was a swindler. Vladimir Antoshin worked for the KGB. Should their pages be deleted as well? |
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Jan-23-14
| | perfidious: Eley and Snyder are depraved scumbags of the first water and deserve lifelong incarceration at the very least. Doesn't mean their games should be deleted from existence, though. |
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Jan-23-14
| | FSR: Yes, Gelashvili is a holy terror with 2.b3. If everyone were so successful with it, no one would ever play the Sicilian. |
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Jan-23-14
| | FSR: Yes, Gelashvili is a holy terror with 2.b3. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... If everyone were so successful with it, no one would ever play the Sicilian. |
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| Feb-26-14 | | kingfu: Thanks, FSR
I over reacted. I just wish I could play the B20 as well as Gelashvili! We need pages for all chess players, so we may discuss all issues for these so-called sapiens. How am I and Adolf part of the same species? Did Adolf play chess? How does one make the "transition" from teaching a young person the beauty of chess to being the most monstrous of us all? |
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| Sep-20-14 | | Pawn Slayer: I was one of Brian Eley's "acolytes"; he coached me in the early to middle 70s and I have played him innumerable times, winning a few games. He was an exceptionally good coach and produced a formidable Yorkshire junior team. Strangely, I never witnessed any paedophile activity by him. Maybe I was just too innocent to realise what was going on or too old (15 -18) and too large to mess with. I suspect he's probably dead by now. If the allegations are true - and they seem well founded - that's probably for the best. |
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| Apr-14-20 | | johnfagg: He showed me how to play the marshall and gave me hints on the Winawer. As a "non-victim" I hold no personal grudge, I remember an incident in a Whitby "Chinese" that he didn't want us to revisit because of some complication over sauces. I think he was a vegetarian - but that proves nothing! Didn't the allegations start to emerge when there had been comments over money involving a third party? I was too young (and remote) to follow chess politics... |
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| Feb-17-21 | | acolyte2: One brave soul reported him to Bradford police . Thank you for that , I’m glad you were braver than I . They told me it was you but don’t worry all anonymous here
They told me there had been 69 allegations. Not a number one forgets
He had many books about psychological manipulation in his house alongside the chess books . I actually think The Silence of the Lambs may have been based on his character. It was spookily similar
He only targeted the ones who wouldn’t speak up , which is why the 1 who did is very brave indeed .
He wasn’t alone . Although his apprentice wasn’t as evil . But even still Peter it’s not right
I went to Amsterdam a number of times but never did see him . Still I had my moment . After winning a game at a tournament he informed me my opening choice was a forced loss after move 19 , so we set the pieces up and a large crowd gathered around . Wish I could remember the game but my memory was affected at the time .It was a Vienna game exchange sacrifice. What I do recall is I was black and had my Q on a8 in the middle game still . Guess he had a blind spot because Q(a8) to h8 is not a common move . But with the long diagonal open it was an instant resignation moment .
Think I’ll pull up the position and see what AlphaZero thinks . I won all my games with that opening, I think because people just thought it was such a stupid opening that it put them off their thought pattern
Here is Mr Nunn playing the same line
J Ost-Hansen vs Nunn, 1974 |
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Jun-01-21
 | | offramp: <acolyte2> I can't believe you told the police you'd missed Qa8-h8. |
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| Jun-01-21 | | Nosnibor: <acolyte2> See my comment under his game against Pachman. |
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| Jun-18-22 | | GBKnight: It has been reported in the Netherlands that Eley died in April 2022 and his grave is in Amsterdam. |
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Jun-18-22
 | | MissScarlett: Reported where? |
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Jun-18-22
 | | Stonehenge: Findagrave has:
https://nl.findagrave.com/memorial/... |
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Jun-21-22
| | FSR: https://www.kingpinchess.net/2022/0... |
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| Jul-05-22 | | kereru: findagrave is a dubious source. Also of interest: https://www.patreon.com/posts/60769... |
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| Jul-09-22 | | emily s: Wikipedia editors arguing about the findagrave image: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.ph... hmmm...
https://images.findagrave.com/photo... |
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| Jul-09-22 | | stone free or die: A very biting memoriam for Eley on Kingpin:
<You may have escaped justiceBut not the Great Arbiter
In the sky.>
https://www.kingpinchess.net/2022/0... |
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