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| Nov-11-20 | | offramp: <Nosnibor: Times Report continued. "Mr. Atkins, like Dr. Tarrasch in his prime, is proof against the allurement of beauty...> Message understood: Atkins was fugly. |
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Nov-11-20
 | | keypusher: < offramp: <Nosnibor: Times Report continued. "Mr. Atkins, like Dr. Tarrasch in his prime, is proof against the allurement of beauty...>> That is certainly unjust as to Tarrasch; I suspect it is unjust as to Atkins as well. Also I have no patience for “X loses to Y because he’s just too darn aesthetic.” |
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| Nov-12-20 | | Nosnibor: [Times Report continued] The last game of the late congress displayed this characteristic, invaluable to a chess player. Blackburne, Yates and Atkins were 7.5 each, Atkins having one game to play, with Dr. Smith. A draw was all the champion required and accordingly, he played a drawing game. Now, as Dr. Smith scored only 3, he had nothing to lose, and he therefore went for Atkins "bald-headed", obtaining what looked like a won game. A win for Dr. Smith would have meant the playing- off of an interesting tie, and excitement was intense. But Dr. Smith apparently lost his head, a not uncommon occurrence when obtaining a great advantage over a superior player. We remember a game between Mr. Schott-another mathematician -- and Mr. Burn, in which, the former saw a singular brilliant win, a few moves deep, beginning with a sacrifice. The sacrifice was was made, but in the sequence the coming glory shook the players nerve, so that he made one move out of it`s due order, and so lost the game, which would have ranked with the immortals. So, no doubt with Dr. Smith . He played weakly, and at last blundered irretrievably, and the champion , remaining cool and lynx-eyed to seize the smallest chance, won easily. Long may he hold the championship, so fairly earned and so firmly held. We wish him long life and increasing chess power, with a thought more of the romantic in his play. |
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Nov-12-20
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Just looked at the H E Atkins vs S F Smith, 1910 game Nosnibor mentioned in the above post, Yes Smith was cruising to a win but blew it. However it does appear Atkins (white) missed winning a piece here. 
click for larger view34.Qd4+ and Qxa7.
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| Nov-15-20 | | Nosnibor: Although Atkins had a marvellous record in playing for Leicestershire in county matches when he was unbeaten over a period of more than fifty years his record in playing for Northamptonshire does not appear so good. He certainly lost one game to E J Wood whilst playing against Essex in his second match for Northants. In his first match for them he beat Doctor Finch in the local derby against Leicestershire (18/11/1899) and in another appearance against Leicestershire (27/10/2020) he beat his former mentor E.H.Collier. I am unable to trace these last two games and wonder if there are more games that he played for Northamptonshire between 1899 and 1901. |
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Nov-29-20
 | | MissScarlett: Leicester Evening Mail, November 6th 1940, p.6: <Christmas Gifts For War PrisonersPARCELS of Christmas fare are being dispatched to prisoners of war from the Red Cross centre at the Bishop's House, Leicester. where 3,000 packages a week are now handled (See World of Women in Page Four). On the right is Mr. H. E. Atkins, several times British chess champion, taking a trolley load of parcels to a van.> Wow, Hitler didn't stand a bloody chance, did he? |
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| Dec-12-20 | | Nosnibor: <jessicafischerqueen> Hereunder is a game played by Atkins in a simultaneous where he lost to his former protege . In this event which was played at the Turkey Cafe, Granby Street Leicester on the 29th March 1930, Atkins encountered 19 players, won 17 and lost two to R.A.Wale and V.H.Lovell.
White: H.E.Atkins Black: V. H. Lovell
Opening: Ruy Lopez, Bird`s Defence
1e4,e5.2Nf3,Nc6.3Bb5,Nd4.4Nxd4,exd4.50-0,g6.6c3,-
Bg7.7d3,Ne7.8Bg5,h6.9Bh4,c6.
10Bc4,0-0.11cxd4,g5.12Bg3,d5.13Bb3,Bxd4.14Nc3,f5-
.15exd4,f4.16dxc6,Kh7.17c7,Qxc7.
18Rc1,fxg3.19hxg3,Qxg3.20Ne4,Qe5.21Kh1,Bf5.22Re1-
,Qf4.23g3,Qg4.24Qxg4,Bxg4.
25Nxg5+,hxg5.26Rxe7+Kg6.27Rd5,Rxf2.28 White Resigns 1-020Ne4,Qe5.21Kh1,Bf5.22Re1,Qf4.23g3,Qg4.24Qxg4,Bx-
g4.25Nxg5+,hxg5.26Rxe7+Kg6. |
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| Dec-12-20 | | Nosnibor: Ignore the last two lines. Something lost in translation. |
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| Jan-14-21 | | Jean Defuse: ...
H E Atkins vs V H Lovell, 1930 Blackburne vs V H Lovell, 1910 ... |
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| Jan-25-21 | | Nosnibor: Games 66 and 69 between Atkins and Marriott are duplicated. From the records I hold Edward Marriott was known as T Marriott. |
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Jan-25-21
| | MissScarlett: You mean Draycott. Games 6 & 7 against Trenchard are duplicates. <Jess> needs to STFD. |
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| Jan-25-21 | | Nosnibor: The game against Trenchard is also duplicated. So therefore there are two duplicated games within the collection. |
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Jan-25-21
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<Nosnibor> Thank you I have deleted both duplicate games now. ==================
<MissScarlett> Thank you, and as usual you are correct. I will follow your advice on <needs to STFD>. |
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| Jan-31-21 | | Nosnibor: In 1940 Atkins became President of the Leicestershire Chess Club for the first time and Don Gould in his 100 year history of the club wrote " The A.G.M. of 7th September 1940 (23 present) very fittingly elected to the Presidency H. E. Atkins, who ( it was reported ) had been successful in the Club handicap tournament, giving odds to all comers and not losing a game. ( He gave me Pawn and move, I remember, took it quite seriously, recorded the game, and when I took longer than a minute over a move, made a note of the time also: this, it seemed, had been his normal practice for years. I soon lost the initiative, and every bright idea I produced seemed to bring forth some horrid reply. Playing Atkins could be a chastening experience!) Has I am writing these lines today it is 66 years to the day when Atkins passed away. |
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Jan-31-21
| | MissScarlett: Next year will be the 150th anniversary of Atkins's birth. Time for the ECF to get off its backside and organise a special event to mark the occasion. |
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| Feb-01-21 | | Nosnibor: <MissScarlett> I fully agree with your sentiment. However, until last year Leicester has run an annual event since 1972 commemorating the great Master. Although in recent years it was held under quick play regulations which is something I do not participate in. In the inaugural event of 1972 I managed to be the highest ranked Midlands and Leicester player with 4.5/6 comprising 3 wins and 3 draws. A share of fourth place with three others secured me the princely sum of £2.50 ! This result came about after a last round draw with then the reigning British Champion Brian Eley where perhaps he was lucky to escape with a draw but has also escaped justice in this country. |
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| Feb-25-21 | | Nosnibor: Games 205 and 206 are duplicated between Yates and Atkins. |
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Feb-25-21
| | MissScarlett: Not that I can see. I think there’s a foible on <cg.com> which sometimes shows a game twice. Load both games and see if the gid in the address bar matches. Not sure if you can do this on a tablet, but you can on a PC. |
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| Feb-25-21 | | Nosnibor: <MissScarlett. I can now see that the duplicated game is no longer there. So the total amount of games in the db is now 301 and not 302. |
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Feb-25-21
| | MissScarlett: You probably dreamt it. It might be back tonight. |
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| Feb-25-21 | | Z 000000010: I wonder if this quirk is due to editing updates to the games? Not sure how robust the db updating is, code-wise or other-wise. |
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Feb-25-21
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Nosnibor> I saw your notice yesterday, and deleted one of the two games. One of them had no annotations, and the one that's there now has extensive annotations. So I deleted the one with no annotations.
I think maybe the software does not recognize a duplicate if it contains a set of annotations that are absent from the original? I submitted the game with annotations a few weeks ago. <MissScarlett> I have experienced that foible before as well. A related foible is a game that appears in the database but does not appear in the list of players. |
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| Mar-22-21 | | Nosnibor: "Leicester Mercury" report 6/10/1897. "CHESS- The winter season of the Leicestershire Chess Club was inaugurated on Tuesday evening at the Clarendon Park Restaurant by an exhibition of simultaneous chess play by our talented townsman, Mr. H. E .Atkins, the amateur champion of England. The following gentlemen took boards:- Rev. J. Elgood, Dr. Mason,Messrs. E.H.Collier, A.A.Allnutt, A.V.Hopcroft Ald. Bumpus, A.W.Stavely, F.Moore, A.Garratt, F.S.Ashby, T.W.Jeays,C.Greig, A.F.Atkins, J.E.Saunders, W. Bailey, and F. Snow. Mr. H.E.Atkins won all 16 games in the most masterly style, though it will be noticed several of his opponents are well known strong exponents of the game." |
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Oct-13-21
| | MissScarlett: Leicester Evening Mail, October 26th 1946, p.3: <MR. H. E. ATKINS, Leicester's internationally - famous exponent of the art of chess, who has been playing in top-class chess for 50 years, is planning to spread the benefit of his long experience by writing a book under the title of "My Best Games of Chess."Associated with the Leicestershire Chess Club since he first played for the county at the age of 15, Mr. Atkins recently accepted an invitation from the committee to edit a selection of his games for the club library. Now, however, a firm of publishers have suggested that a book of his games is worthy of a wider public. In order to keep faith with the Leicestershire club, Mr. Atkins has decided that he has enough material for both purposes, so is now busy on two manuscripts - one for the benefit of his fellow-members and the other for the public at large.> Needless to say, no book ever appeared. Atkins, otherwise, wrote next to nothing on chess. The <Oxford Companion> mentions a 1952 book, <H. E. Atkins, Doyen of British Chess Champions> by Richard Nevil Coles, which must be pretty rare. It's possible that Atkins had some input into it. What are the Leicester CC hiding? |
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| Oct-31-21 | | Nosnibor: The Leicester Chess Club has been defunct for nearly 20 years now. However it would appear that Atkins was somewhat lazy in snippets that I have been able to pick up from Donald Gould the chess historian of Leicester. A conversation between Atkins and Gould (22/04/1939) on a train journey following a County match in Nottingham began when Don asked Atkins whether the standard of Leicestershire chess had improved since he played for his county at the age of 15,over 50 years ago."Mr. Atkins stroked his moustache and was non-committal. He agreed ,however ,that the vast increase in the number of really good text books gave the modern youngster, with an aptitude for the game, a big advantage. Fifty years ago, natural ability and reference to the sprinkling of masters` games published in the press were all the average player had to rely on. Niemzowitsch and the "hyper-moderns" have had little effect on the master`s style,which remains, if I may coin an expression, "Scientifically aggressive". "I have made three attempts to read Niemzowisch`s book ("My System"), but have been too lazy to finish it." |
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