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Ian Rex Mitchell

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Years covered: 1976


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IAN REX MITCHELL
(born 1926, died May-22-1979, 52 years old) New Zealand

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1. P Clemance vs I Mitchell  1-0171976North Island ChC77 Ruy Lopez

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Sep-22-20
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  Richard Taylor: I.R.Mictchell, born in Scotland, was affected by Polio when young and walked with limp he was keen on chess, the showing movies, and he was in Communist Party in NZ. He was feisty argumentative fellow. (But he had a sense of humour). He was often the Secretary of say the Auckland Chess Club then later the Auckland Chess Centre. He died of emphyrsema. He was not an unlikeable man and argued the toss with Sarapu, O'Hanlon (Rationalist Society), Belton (Capitalist versus Communist!) -- Belton was in Real Estate and such as Adrian Lenz (Dutchman -- good sense of humour, passionate, ex Dutch army, seemed to regret parachuting into Dutch Indonesia -- talked about his time in WWII when as a boy Holland was overrun by the Germans).

I used to meet up with him (Adrian Lentz) for a coffee and a toast in about 1986. He I and Graham Mears would talk crap and have coffee for hours....

Mitchell also helped junior chess, and he and my father saw me off on my trip as a 10 year old (?) to the National Schools Champs. I met up with Chris Evans (who won that year I think 1961 or so and the next). He was passionate about social issues of concern, was in the movie club where people could hire movies ("left wing" or informative on issues of history etc), and had an interest in chess all his life and played quite well. I think I lost a game to him, I played him a few times. He was one of the great characters of NZ Chess. His last 'situation' was as Secretary of the Auckland Chess Centre.

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