Mar-18-12
 | | joegalby: i played oliver about 10 years ago in the Edinburgh premier leauge unfortunately ive lost the score of the game it ended in a draw after i missed a win in a pawn ending as oliver pointed out to me after the game. It was a nimzo sicilian which i had prepared for the game and we followed theory for about a dozen moves. |
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| Feb-24-15 | | Nosnibor: Oliver won the British Universities Chess Championship of 1950 held in Cambridge with 9/11 ahead of a strong field which included Barden,J E Littlewood,Mardle,etc. Many Happy returns of the day Mr. Penrose. |
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Jul-19-15
 | | Sally Simpson: Oliver played John Littlewood at the Edinburgh Congress in 2002. The only time they had played each other before was at the Cambridge Open in 1952! A gap of 50 years. (Oliver won both games.) |
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| Feb-24-19 | | Nosnibor: Why is Oliver Penrose shown in the birthday list today when he was born in June? |
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| Jun-04-20 | | jerseybob: <Sally Simpson: Oliver played John Littlewood at the Edinburgh Congress in 2002.
The only time they had played each other before was at the Cambridge Open in 1952! A gap of 50 years. (Oliver won both games.)>
Why aren't these games posted here? |
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Jun-05-20
| | roberts partner: There wasn't any 'Cambridge Open 1952'. The game was played at Cambridge BUCA 1950. |
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Jun-05-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Thanks for correction on that, I was looking for the game (and the Cambridge Open.) The 1952 came from a report on the Edinburgh Congress in 2002. So it is actually 52 years! The game is here:
https://www.365chess.com/game.php?g...
I'll submit it. |
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Oct-07-20
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Oliver played in the Edinburgh League during the late 1990's early 2000's and is responsible for a lot of Edinburgh players having 'gratefully' a loose Morphy number of four (me included. P.2 one loss, one draw.) The path can be traced. Morphy v Mortimer. Mortimer v Tartakower. (J Mortimer vs Tartakower, 1907) Tartakower v O.Penrose (1948) None of the Morphy-Mortimer games survive however: ""In 1853, he [Mortimer] was appointed attaché of the United States Legation in Paris, where he had an opportunity of renewing his acquaintance with Paul Morphy. The two countrymen thus became intimate friends. Both being passionately fond of chess, many hundreds of games were played by the master and pupil . . . ." Chess Monthly, Sept. 1892, p. 66." See also http://chicagochess.blogspot.com/20... where our own kibitzer FSR makes some contributions. I say 'loose' because the Mortimer-Morphy games were not official OTB games, all the others including the league games were. (and of course none have surfaced, though I believe they played.) *** |
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Oct-09-20
 | | FSR: The blog post of mine on the Chicago Chess Blog a decade ago, to which <Sally Simpson> refers, was the first place that the Morphy-Mortimer route was laid out. It is unfortunate that we have no games between the two of them, but there is no doubt that they played. I see that since whenever it was I revised that post that a lot of MN3s have died (no surprise), including Pal Benko, Arthur Bisguier, Dennis Horne, Erik Karklins, Arturo Pomar, and Peter Swinnerton-Dyer. Happily, Leonard Barden, Melvin Chernev, Borislav Ivkov, Aleksandar Matanović, Fridrik Olafsson, Jonathan Penrose, and Oliver Penrose are still with us. |
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May-22-22
| | louispaulsen88888888: When I am 92 I am going to enter a tournament just for the Hail Columbia of it. |
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