| Aug-12-06 | | weary willy: A proud son of Warrington, Cheshire UK. Wrote an interesting book ("My Chess Adventures") which demonstrated his dedication and powers of analysis - and his almost total lack of any sense of humour! |
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| Mar-17-09 | | whiteshark: "An example [of powerplay] was the late <<Charles W. Warburton>, undoubtedly one of England’s strongest CC players in the 1950s and 1960s.> A regular contributor to the BCCA’s magazine, many of his liveliest articles have been collected in the book <My Chess Adventures>, published some years ago in the USA by Thinkers’ Press and based on Warburton’s many articles for the British Correspondence Chess Association magazine." T. Harding @ chesscafe.com |
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Feb-19-14
 | | GrahamClayton: A review of "My Chess Adventures" can be found here:
http://www.correspondencechess.com/... |
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Feb-08-17
 | | Sally Simpson: The lad also had a draw with Capa in a simultaneous display in 1928. https://chess.gallery/game/TWYIh55A... If anybody has C.W's book then any idea who his opponent was in this game. C.W. is Black (to play), it is a correspondence game. 
click for larger viewNice finish.
Position 139 in Leonard Baarden's 'Chess Puzzle Book' published 1977. |
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Feb-09-17
 | | MissScarlett: <The lad also had a draw with Capa in a simultaneous display in 1928.> Never heard of him. I see that Caparros has three games, including Warburton's, from Capa's Manchester simul of November 21st (http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...), but I haven't found any of these scores in the contemporary papers I have access to. Perhaps they appeared in the <BCM>. |
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Feb-10-17
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Miss Scarlett,
Everything is pointing to him being the same lad. I have a D.O.B. for his bio. (1908-1994) they have a postal Charles Warburton memorial. He played both Capa and Karpov in simuls, cannot be too many of those about. One of his quotes made Q.O.D. here on the 4/25/05 "Chess is an egotistical game, and all its protagonists hold conceits of some kind or other, else there would be no point in playing." Charles Warburton
Trying to get a copy of his book. |
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| Feb-10-17 | | Gejewe: <Sally Simpson> I have his book "My Chess Adventures" published by Thinkers Press back in 1984. The diagram that you gave on Feb-08-17 is from a game A.E.C.Wells-C.W.Warburton, BCF County Correspondence Championship , though there is a small difference. His second correspondence game, on board 30 in the league. Unfortunately he can not give an exact date. From the pages 10 and 12 in his book it can be deduced to have played between 1927 and 1933, probably somewhere in between.
By the way the game seems to have started as a French defence, Exchange variation and Warburton gives the position with K on g2 and Q on e6, and White playing :
27.Qc5 Qg6+ 28.Kh1 (which annoyed him, so he tried the trick again) 28..Qh5 29.Kg2 Qg5+ 30.Kh2 and "in a state bordering on ecstasy I sent of a declared mate in three by 30..Qg1.." It is perhaps interesting to note that Charles Warburton was an admirer of Franklin K. Young. There are also chapters on different opening themes such as the Petroff with 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Qe2 following Lasker's and Capablanca's footsteps, the Ruy Lopez 3..a6 4.Bxc6 recommending the study of Lasker's games, and more. |
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Feb-10-17
| | MissScarlett: Does <My Chess Adventures> have the scores of the Capablanca and/or Karpov games? |
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Feb-10-17
| | Sally Simpson: Hi Gejewe,
Thank you.
More from C.W. playing Capa in simul from Edward Winter. http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... [Edward Winter is discussing 'passing' in a simultaneous display and who allows it.] "In the mid-June 1964 issue of CHESS (page 306) C.W. Warburton of Warrington wrote" "... in the same situation against Sir G. Thomas in 1936 I reacted rather differently. I indicated that I was not ready and he could pass on, but he would not and stood fidgeting until I was ready to move, for I had determined I would not be rushed. After all I had attended to play a game of chess not skittles. In contrast, Capablanca was always prepared to move on to the next board if a player were not ready." |
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| Feb-11-17 | | Gejewe: <MissScarlett>
No, unfortunately after flipping through the book twice yesterday evening, I found nothing related to to these Capablanca or Karpov simul games. |
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| Feb-03-18 | | grandson: I have just written a lengthy post about this and it has inexplicably vanished-I am rather peeved to say the least and I'm loathe to write again just now but I am Charles Warburton's Grandson - I have lots to say but rather than risk it disappearing again, please give me a nudge and I can fill you in on some finer details. |
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Feb-03-18
 | | moronovich: <grandson: I have just written a lengthy post about this and it has inexplicably vanished-I am rather peeved to say the least and I'm loathe to write again just now but I am Charles Warburton's Grandson - I have lots to say but rather than risk it disappearing again, please give me a> nudge and I can fill you in on some finer details.> When you type/write there is a second window that follows the original script which appears with thicker writing.Dont click on the first/original window ! That is what happened to me yesterday.(And at least one time before ):. But you can correct it all in window 2.
Hope that clarifies. |
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| Feb-03-18 | | zanzibar: <grandson> if you want to be absolutely safe - use your favorite editor on your PC to type out your post, then save it on your local filesystem. Next, copy the text and paste it into the <Kibitz!>, and post it on <CG>. This guarantees you never lose content due to a <CG> glitch. (Even those of us who use <CG> all the time sometimes use this trick for important lengthy posts. Speaking of lengthy, beware that <CG> will truncate super long posts - but if you save it locally it's easy enough to post the 2nd half from where the 1st half ends.) |
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