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George Bellingham
G Bellingham 
Credit: British Chess Magazine, February 1897, p.60  

Number of games in database: 84
Years covered: 1889 to 1907
Overall record: +39 -27 =18 (57.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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GEORGE BELLINGHAM
(born Sep-26-1874, died 1949, 74 years old) United Kingdom

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George Edward Horton Bellingham's talent for chess became apparent at an early age. In 1889 he joined the Dudley Chess Club, and lost only one game for them in his first year of his membership.

By the time he was 21, he already had an impressive record. He had won some small tournaments (being Champion of Worcestershire 1895-96), had successfully played 8 games blindfold simultaneously, achieved second prize in the correspondence tourney of the Dublin Mail and conducted his own chess column in the Dudley Herald for three years.

source: The Chess Bouquet by F.R. Gittins, London 1897.

About 1896 he joined the City of London Chess Club, and between 1897 and 1903 he has been selected seven times to play in the Anglo-American cable matches, where he scored +1, -2, =4.

In preparation for the cable match in 1900 he contested a 9-game match with Amos Burn, which was suspended after 8 games, when Bellingham led 4,5:3,5. The final game was played in January 1901, ended drawn, and hence Bellingham won 5:4 (there are other reports stating that the whole match was drawn, but their authors wrongly added a game from a team event to that match).

source: Several reports in chess magazine and in particular Amos Burn: A Chess Biography by Richard Forster, MacFarland 2004, p 509.

Bellingham was a frequent contributor to the game department of the British Chess Magazine.

source: E.g., the British Chess Magazine of 1906.

He was admitted as a solicitor in 1898 and practised mainly in Wimbledon, where he was also a Town Councillor. He occasionally appeared in connection with legal cases in the press, but two of them are quite unusual. In October 1923 he was the victim of one of his clients, who forced him to execute a cheque for £200 and hit him with a walking-stick (resulting in 4 years' penal servitude).

The second case from 1938 shows that Bellingham's later years were not lucky ones. He was arrested at Tadcaster, near Leeds, where he had been living in a caravan under the name of "Smith". Afterwards he was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, where he was accused of the fraudulent conversion of clients' money in 1932. It turned out that the death of his wife and an illness made him retire from his duties, and he was found Not Guilty.

source: The Times of November 17, 1923.

source: The Times of July 29, August 19 and September 8, 1938.

Last updated: 2025-03-29 20:45:27

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 page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 84  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Blackburne vs G Bellingham  0-1441889Blackburne Simul 30bC21 Center Game
2. C H Sherrard vs G Bellingham  1-0411894Off hand gameC13 French
3. G Bellingham vs C Ranken  ½-½361895WorcesterC82 Ruy Lopez, Open
4. G Bellingham vs Jones  1-0231897Worcestershire CA chC67 Ruy Lopez
5. W Palmer vs G Bellingham  ½-½391897Southern Counties Chess Union Class I tC49 Four Knights
6. H Le Patourel vs G Bellingham  ½-½311897Worcestershire CA chD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
7. A L Stevenson vs G Bellingham  0-1361897Southern Counties Chess Union Class I tC26 Vienna
8. F G Jones vs G Bellingham  0-1311897Worcestershire CA chC11 French
9. G Bellingham vs F Brown  1-0191897Worcestershire CA chC45 Scotch Game
10. F Brown vs G Bellingham  0-1311897Worcestershire CA chA80 Dutch
11. G Bellingham vs F Elwell  1-0231897Southern Counties Chess Union Class I tD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
12. G Bellingham vs F G Jones 1-0281897Worcestershire CA chC45 Scotch Game
13. G Bellingham vs C H Sherrard  1-0241897Craigside Amateur CongressC67 Ruy Lopez
14. E MacDonald vs G Bellingham  0-1201897Craigside Amateur CongressC84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
15. Burn vs G Bellingham  1-0581897Craigside Handicap tC71 Ruy Lopez
16. G Bellingham vs E Jones-Bateman  1-0561897Craigside Amateur CongressD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
17. A B Skipworth vs G Bellingham  0-1501897Craigside Amateur CongressA17 English
18. G Bellingham vs Burn  ½-½381897Craigside Amateur CongressD55 Queen's Gambit Declined
19. G Bellingham vs A Rutherford 1-0291897Craigside Amateur CongressD35 Queen's Gambit Declined
20. A B Hodges vs G Bellingham  ½-½6918972nd Anglo-American Cable MatchC73 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defense
21. C J Lambert vs G Bellingham  0-1551897Southern Counties Chess Union Class I tA81 Dutch
22. G Bellingham vs W Gunston  1-0551897Southern Counties Chess Union Class I tD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
23. H Atkins vs G Bellingham  1-0281897Southern Counties Chess Union Class I tC00 French Defense
24. G Bellingham vs F J Lee  1-0201897Casual gameC45 Scotch Game
25. G Bellingham vs F Jelf  0-1211897Bellingham Simul, 18bD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-24-10
Premium Chessgames Member
  GrahamClayton: George Bellingham.

Photo: http://tinyurl.com/26tv62d

Nov-16-12  Eastfrisian: The above url doesnt work. You can find a photo here: http://cplorg.cdmhost.com/cdm/singl... und it shows tht he was still living in 1905.
Aug-24-13
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: George Edward Horton Bellingham according to family trees.
Jan-30-16  zanzibar: <... Mr. Bellingham has recently joined the City of London Club, for whom he has played most successfully in their first-team matches.

He is also good sans voir performer, having successfully con ducted eight games without sight of board or men. In correspondence play Mr. Bellingham has made his mark. In the Dublin Mail tourney, concluded some two years ago, he secured second prize, half point below the redoubtable J. H. Blake, of Southampton.

For some three years he conducted neat little column in the Dudley Herald problem, solution, and correspondence tourneys being ably dealt with.

Mr. James Mason is reported to have said that he has more real chess in him than some of our masters!>

"The Chess Bouquet (1897)" p135

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<Bellingham--Hollins D50 57 (1-0)>

Jan-30-16  zanzibar: I forgot to mention that Bellingham helped contribute several of the biographies in <The Chess Bouquet>, as mentioned by its author, F.R. Gittins
Apr-06-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Born 26 Sep according to 1939 England & Wales Register. I tried to find his dod but nigh impossible.
Apr-06-20  Nosnibor: Was Bellingham not involved with a revised edition of Staunton`s Handbook?
Aug-07-23
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Illustrated London News, November 16th 1889, p.631:

<On Thursday, Oct. 31, Mr. J. H. Blackburne gave an exhibition of simultaneous play at Dudley Mechanics' Institution, when he encountered twenty-nine opponents. He won 20 games, drew 8, and lost 1, his solitary victor being Mr. George Bellingham, a young gentleman of fifteen years of age.>

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