Sep-30-19 | | Nosnibor: Victor Hextall Lovell was born in Leicester 1889 and died on the 23rd April 1940.His father Alderman Lovell founded a confectionary firm in Leicester of which Lovell junior became a partner.He became Secretary of the Leicestershire Chess Club in 1920 and retained the position until his death. During his chess career he defeated T.H.Tyler, A J Mackenzie,J W Broadbent,G Abrahams,H E Price,Rupert Cross and many of these more than once.He restricted his play to league and county matches and it was felt that he would have made a good account of himself in national tournaments.He won the Leicestershire Championship on a record 15 occasions. |
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Mar-26-20
 | | Tabanus: <(born Jun-31-1889> is solely based on the 1939 England and Wales Register, Leicester, where he is a "Wholesale Confectioner Sugar" living in Dovedale Road. The probate calendar of 1940 also has 42 Dovedale Road, Leicester. Birth index has however b. "Jan-Feb-Mar" 1889. |
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Mar-26-20
 | | MissScarlett: Hmmm, if he died at 50 he makes my list, 51, not. |
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Mar-26-20
 | | MissScarlett: It just occurred that June 31st isn’t a kosher date. |
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Mar-27-20
 | | Tabanus: I had to look again. It indeed says "31 June 89". In the 1891 Census for England, which was meant to be taken on the night of 5 April 1891, Victor was 2 years old. Perhaps 31 January... |
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Mar-27-20
 | | MissScarlett: Seems the most logical inference. Let's go with that, subject to the usual provisos. |
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Mar-27-20
 | | MissScarlett: <Nosnibor>, you posted a simul loss of Lovell's to Atkins here (Joseph Henry Blackburne (kibitz #236)), but there's a mistake in the notation with 21...Rf1. Could you correct this? |
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Mar-27-20 | | Nosnibor: <MissScarlett> 21...Rf7 is the correct move. I mentioned before that Atkins also played Lovell in an odds game conceding a Rook which appears to be the only game on record of Atkins giving an odds start. |
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Mar-27-20
 | | MissScarlett: Ok, submitted. As <Site>, I went with <Leicester ENG> in preference to <Leicestershire Chess Club>; is that right? |
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Mar-27-20 | | Nosnibor: <MissScarlett> That is correct.Thankyou. |
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Jun-01-22 | | Nosnibor: Here follows a quick and pretty win by Lovell. <Event:> Leicester v Birmingham, Club match. White: V.H.Lovell Black: A.J. Mackenzie Board 1 <Date: 8th February 1930> <Opening> Queens Pawn 4 Pawns Attack. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 e5 6.dxe5 dxe5 7.Qxd8+ Kxd8 8.Nc3 exf4 9.Bxf4 Nh5 10.Bg5+ f6 11.Be3 c4 12.Be2 Re8 13.0-0-0+ Kc7 14.Nd4 f5 15. Ndb5+ 1-0 |
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Aug-27-22 | | Nosnibor: The following game was played at board 1 in a County match between Northamptonshire and Leicestershire at Rugby on the 15th December1914. Lovell`s opponent was a real live peer of the realm ( of the "Haw by Jove, what, dammit! " type) who brought along his own ivory chessmen. The match had been in progress scarcely an hour when an impressive servitor appeared to announce with ceremony: "My Lord, dinner is ready at 7.30." "Damn my dinner!" said his Lordship ,not to be lured from the board by fleshpots; and dinner had to await the conclusion of his Lordship`s chess, as the Armada for Drake`s bowls.) White: Lord Henley Black: Victor Lovell <Opening> Vienna Game 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Nge2 Nxe4 5.Nxe4 d5 6.Bxd5 Qxd5 7.d3 Be7 8.Be3 0-0 9.Qd2 f5 10.Ne4c3 Qe6 11.f3 Bd7 12.0-0-0 a5 13.f4 a4 14.fxe5 Nxe5 15.Nf4 Qf7 16.a3 b5 17.Rdg1 b4 18.Ncd5 Bd6 19.c4 bxc3 20.Nxc3 Rfb8 21.Qd1 Bb4 22.Nfd5 Be6 23.Nxb4 Rxb4 24.a3 Rb3 25.g4 Rd8 26.d4 Nc4 27.Bh6 Qg6 28.Bf4 Nxg2 29.Qc2 fxg4 30.Qxg6 hxg6 31.Rg3 Rxd4 32.Bxc7 Nd3+ 33.Rxd3 Rxd3 34.Nb1 Rdc3+ 35.Nxc3 Rxc3+ 36.Kd2 Rxc7 White resigns 1-0 |
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Aug-27-22 | | Nosnibor: I should have posted 0-1 for the preceding game .Apologies. The game does appear to be a bit of a mismatch but I thought it was interesting from a historical point of view. Shortly after this game Lovell was called up to serve in the First World War. |
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Nov-17-23 | | Nosnibor: The following game was contested at the Turkey Cafe, Leicester on 15th November 1930 in a County Match between Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire at Board 1. <White: V.H.Lovell> <Black: J.W.Broadbent> <Queen`s Gambit Declined > 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 0-0 7.Qc2 a6 c5 8.a3 h6 9.Bh4 Re8 10.Rd1 c6 11.Bd3 dxc4 12.Bxc4 b5 13.Ba2 b4 14.axb4 Bxb4 15.0-0 Be7 16.Ne5 Qc7 17.f4 c5 18.Bxf6 Nxf6 19.Na4 Bd7 20.Nxc5 Bb5 21.Rf2 Rec8 22.b4 a5 23.f5 Bxc5 24.fxe6! Qxe5 25.exd5 Bxe3 26.Qf5 axb4 27.exf7+ Kf8 28.exf6 Bxf2+ 29.Qxf2 g6 30.Rd8+! Black Resigns 1-0 |
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Jun-08-25 | | Nosnibor: <Event> Leicestershire Chess League.
<Leicester v Leicester Y.M.CA.> <White: V.H.Lovell> <Black: A.O.Thomson> <Irregular Opening> 1.d4 b5 2.e4 e6 3.c4 Bb7 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Bd3 f5 6.exf5 Bxc3+ 7.Bxc3 Bxg2 8.Qh5+ g6 9.fxg6 Nf6 10.g7+ Nxh5 11.gxh8=Q Black Resigns. |
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