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Arthur Reynolds
A Reynolds 
Chess, September 1944, p193.  

Number of games in database: 29
Years covered: 1936 to 1939
Overall record: +10 -14 =5 (43.1%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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ARTHUR REYNOLDS
(born Apr-30-1910, died Nov-29-1943, 33 years old) United Kingdom

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Arthur Reynolds was born in Solihull, England. At the 1936 BCF Congress, he tied for first with Joseph Cukierman in Section B of the Major Open Tournament. This earned him an invitation to the Hastings Premier tournament, but he was unable to play. At Ostend 1937, his only international tournament, he finished last but defeated the co-winner Reuben Fine. He died in a massacre while a prisoner of war in the Pacific Theatre during World War II.

The Reynolds Variation (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4 Nf3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 a6 9.e4 c5 10.d5), an important line in the Meran Variation of the Semi-Slav, is named for him.

https://tartajubow.blogspot.com/201...

Last updated: 2024-01-26 11:44:46

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 page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 29  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Reynolds vs K Opocensky  1-0341936BCF-ch 29th Major Open BE61 King's Indian
2. G Abrahams vs A Reynolds  0-1481936BCF-ch 29th Major Open BD55 Queen's Gambit Declined
3. J Cukierman vs A Reynolds  0-1371936BCF-ch 29th Major Open BD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. J M Craddock vs A Reynolds  ½-½511936BCF-ch 29th Major Open BB02 Alekhine's Defense
5. A Reynolds vs Eliskases  0-1461937BirminghamE33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
6. Koltanowski vs A Reynolds  ½-½291937BirminghamD05 Queen's Pawn Game
7. W Winter vs A Reynolds  1-0241937BirminghamE37 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
8. P List vs A Reynolds 1-0271937OstendD26 Queen's Gambit Accepted
9. A Reynolds vs H Grob  0-1671937OstendA30 English, Symmetrical
10. A Reynolds vs A Dunkelblum  ½-½361937OstendA34 English, Symmetrical
11. I Dyner vs A Reynolds  ½-½341937OstendD20 Queen's Gambit Accepted
12. Tartakower vs A Reynolds 1-0441937OstendD23 Queen's Gambit Accepted
13. A Reynolds vs Koltanowski 0-1211937OstendA15 English
14. S Landau vs A Reynolds 1-0441937OstendD28 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
15. Fine vs A Reynolds 0-1511937OstendE33 Nimzo-Indian, Classical
16. A Reynolds vs Keres 0-1241937OstendA22 English
17. A Reynolds vs E G Sergeant  0-1341938British ChampionshipD63 Queen's Gambit Declined, Orthodox Defense
18. J M Aitken vs A Reynolds  1-0471938British ChampionshipB05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
19. C H Alexander vs A Reynolds  ½-½531938British ChampionshipB05 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
20. A Reynolds vs A Lenton  0-1321938British ChampionshipB10 Caro-Kann
21. H Mallison vs A Reynolds  0-1361938British ChampionshipB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
22. Golombek vs A Reynolds  1-0271938British ChampionshipE15 Queen's Indian
23. A Reynolds vs Menchik 1-0301938British ChampionshipE60 King's Indian Defense
24. T Tylor vs A Reynolds 0-1501938British ChampionshipB29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein
25. A Reynolds vs C G Butcher  1-0361939BirminghamE17 Queen's Indian
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Kibitzer's Corner
Jul-13-05  Benzol: Is this English player Arthur Reynolds?
Apr-19-09  JaneEyre: Died in Asian waters makes it sound like an accidental drowning. He was torpedoed by the Americans.

<‘The War Graves Photographic Project gives details regarding Arthur Reynolds, who died on the Suez Maru, a Japanese cargo ship sunk on 29 November 1943. His name appears on a website providing an account of the event.>

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Apr-19-09  WhiteRook48: Bad Americans! (well, they were at war besides)
Sep-06-09  technical draw: < Died in Asian waters makes it sound like an accidental drowning. He was torpedoed by the Americans.>

"He" was not torpedoed by the Americans. He was a POW on the Japanese cargo ship Suez Maru (an enemy ship) when it was torpedoed by the US submarine "Bonefish". After the Suez Maru sank there were 200 to 250 POW's in the water. A Japanese minesweeper that was with the Suez Maru then was ordered to execute the POW's in the water. Some historians believe Reynolds perished in the massacre.

The Suez Maru was a legitimate target. The POW's in the water were not.

Jul-28-10
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  GrahamClayton: Here is an interesting article on Reynolds, after who a sharp variation in the Slav Defence is named:

http://kindredspiritks.wordpress.co...

http://kindredspiritks.wordpress.co...

Sep-12-10  whiteshark: Here is a photo of the participants at <Ostend 1937> Reynolds among them: http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/histori...
Sep-12-10
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  Phony Benoni: I've never been good at identifying faces, but the person labelled as "Koltanowski: (third from the left) doesn't look like Koltanowski to me. My impression is that he's the person standing to the left of Tartakower, and labelled "Landau".
May-17-11
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  GrahamClayton: Details of Reynolds' military details can be seen here:

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/He...

Aug-27-16
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  MissScarlett: <Some historians believe Reynolds perished in the massacre.>

Which historians? If, as I suspect, it's unclear whether he died due to the torpedo attack, went down with the ship or was shot in the water, the bio should read something like 'died whilst a POW as a consequence of an American submarine attack on a Japanese ship.' There could also be something in there about his chess career.

Aug-27-16
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  HeMateMe: That's a horrible way to die, to survive being a POW and a torpedoing, only to be shot in the water. Animals.
Aug-27-16  zanzibar: Here's more of the story...

<In 1943, the Japanese decided to ship the sick back to Java. A total of 640 men, including a number of Japanese sick patients, were taken on board the 4,645-ton passenger-cargo ship Suez Maru. In two holds, 422 sick British (including 221 RAF servicemen) and 127 sick Dutch prisoners, including up to twenty stretcher cases, were accommodated. The Japanese patients filled the other two holds.

Escorted by a minesweeper W-12, the Suez Maru set sail from Port Amboina but while entering the Java Sea and about 327 kilometers east of Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies, the vessel was torpedoed by the American submarine USS Bonefish commanded by Cdr. Tom Hogan. The ship started to list as water poured into the holds drowning hundreds, many managed to escape the holds and swam away from the sinking ship. The Japanese mine sweeper W-12 picked up the Japanese survivors, leaving between 200 and 250 men in the sea. At 14.50, the minesweeper, W-12, under orders from Captain Kawano, opened fire, using a machine gun and rifles. Rafts and lifeboats were then rammed and sunk by the W-12. The firing did not cease till all the prisoners were killed, the minesweeper then picked up speed and sped off towards Batavia (Jakarta) at 16.30 hours.

Sixty-nine Japanese had died during the attack, 93 Japanese soldiers and 205 Japanese sick patients were rescued by the Japanese. Of the 547 British and Dutch prisoners, there is reported to be one survivor, a British soldier, Kenneth Thomas, who was picked up twenty-four hours later by the Australian minesweeper HMAS Ballarat, this has not been confirmed.>

http://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/He...

The site then lists all the British casualties, but not the Dutch.

Nov-01-16  diagonal: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... (scroll down, No. 6069, <Arthur Reynolds>, Chess Notes by Edward Winter), offers two group photographs of the participants at Ostende International Tournament 1937.

<1937 Ostende> (10 players): Henry Grob took first on tie-break (1st-3rd shared with Fine and Keres, both already absolute elite players and joint winners of the legendary AVRO tournament in 1938, and both, Fine and Keres, were beaten by Grob at Ostende in 1937): http://www.belgianchesshistory.be/t...

<Ostende> (english: Ostend, french: Ostende) is a Belgian North Sea resort which hosted three all-time legendary chess tournaments in a row in <1905, 1906, 1907>, plus further strong international invitation tournaments in <1936, 1937>, and finally in <1956>, as well as a series of Open Festivals in the 1980/90s.

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