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Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas
Number of games in database: 137
Years covered: 1920 to 1968

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (15)      B22 B20 B29 B74 B21  French Defense (9)      C18 C01 C12 C19 C15  Queen's Pawn Game (5)      A45 D01 A46  Caro-Kann (5)      B10 B18 B17  French Winawer (5)      C18 C16 C15 C19  Orthodox Defense (4)      D52 D50 D55	With the Black pieces:  Ruy Lopez (10)      C78 C89 C64 C85 C81  Queen's Pawn Game (7)      D02 D05 E10 D04  Orthodox Defense (5)      D68 D57 D55 D52  Petrov (4)      C42  King's Indian Attack (4)      A07 A08  Ruy Lopez, Closed (4)      C85 C89 C86 C99

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   A R B Thomas vs G Wood, 1946 1-0
   A R B Thomas vs J H Donner, 1952 1-0
   A R B Thomas vs P N Wallis, 1959 1-0
   A R B Thomas vs Unzicker, 1951 1/2-1/2
   A R B Thomas vs T J Schelfhout, 1947 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Paignton (1956)
   Hastings 1951/52 (1951)
   Bournemouth (1939)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Hastings 1950/51 by suenteus po 147

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ANDREW ROWLAND BENEDICK THOMAS (born Oct-11-1904, died May-16-1985, 80 years old) United Kingdom [what is this?] Son of William Rowland Thomas. https://mannchess.org.uk/People/Tho... Last updated: 2019-04-26 07:07:58

page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 137  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Alfred Dudley Barlow vs A R B Thomas   0-1 27 1920 BCF-ch 13th Second Class D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 2. A R B Thomas vs Rubinstein 0-1 27 1924 BCF Major Open D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 3. Herbert Gibson Rhodes vs A R B Thomas   1-0 41 1924 BCF-ch 17th Major Open D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 4. A R B Thomas vs O C Mueller   1-0 40 1924 BCF-ch 17th Major Open D52 Queen's Gambit Declined 5. G W Moses vs A R B Thomas   1-0 21 1924 BCF-ch 17th Major Open D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 6. A R B Thomas vs C Duffield   0-1 28 1924 BCF-ch 17th Major Open E91 King's Indian 7. F van Seters vs A R B Thomas   1-0 39 1935 Margate Reserve B D05 Queen's Pawn Game 8. A R B Thomas vs Flohr   0-1 23 1937 Hastings 1937/38 D18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch 9. A R B Thomas vs Keres 0-1 34 1937 Hastings 1937/38 E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 10. G A Thomas vs A R B Thomas 1-0 19 1937 Hastings 1937/38 C42 Petrov Defense 11. V Mikenas vs A R B Thomas   1-0 42 1937 Hastings 1937/38 C07 French, Tarrasch 12. A R B Thomas vs C H Alexander   0-1 29 1938 Hastings 1937/38 A46 Queen's Pawn Game 13. A R B Thomas vs W Fairhurst   ½-½ 33 1938 Hastings 1937/38 A15 English 14. Reshevsky vs A R B Thomas 1-0 53 1938 Hastings 1937/38 E01 Catalan, Closed 15. Fine vs A R B Thomas 1-0 20 1938 Hastings 1937/38 A20 English 16. Tylor vs A R B Thomas   ½-½ 18 1938 Hastings 1937/38 C42 Petrov Defense 17. P N Wallis vs A R B Thomas   1-0 34 1939 Bournemouth E22 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann Variation 18. A R B Thomas vs S Landau   1-0 31 1939 Bournemouth D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 19. A G Conde vs A R B Thomas   1-0 57 1939 Bournemouth E11 Bogo-Indian Defense 20. A R B Thomas vs Euwe 0-1 33 1939 Bournemouth B58 Sicilian 21. A R B Thomas vs E Klein ½-½ 48 1939 Bournemouth C41 Philidor Defense 22. J Mieses vs A R B Thomas   1-0 25 1939 Bournemouth A07 King's Indian Attack 23. A R B Thomas vs Flohr   0-1 51 1939 Bournemouth B74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical 24. I Koenig vs A R B Thomas   1-0 24 1939 Bournemouth B23 Sicilian, Closed 25. A R B Thomas vs Aitken 1-0 64 1939 Bournemouth E01 Catalan, Closed  page 1 of 6; games 1-25 of 137

Jun-14-04    weary willy: "ARB Thomas Andrew Thomas for many years taught mathematics at Blundell's School and after retiring continued to live in Tiverton until his death at the age of eighty in 1985. Beneath a calm and humorous exterior lay a fierce determination and a deep love of chess. Indeed in 1973 he published a book called just that — Chess for the love of it . It contains some of his best games, including wins against Penrose, Najdorf, and Unzicker, and a draw against Euwe. He hated routine play and was always ready with way-out moves in the opening. 'The English Tartakower' sums him up as well as anything. He belonged to Tiverton and Exeter chess clubs and only played for Exeter in the National Club Championship on board two after Kitto. They made a formidable spearhead to the team." From Exeter Univ CC site Nov-08-04    iron maiden: From looking at his name on the main page, did anyone else think for a second that they were having two Players of the Day? Lol. Nov-08-04    offramp: I thought it was a list of people who had signed the Declaration od Independence. Nov-08-04    aw1988: Oh, I can imagine him as a friend. "May I introduce you to Andrew Rowland Benedick Thomas?" "My name isn't Benedick Thomas you idiot." Nov-08-04    DanielBryant: <offramp> That too. Nov-08-04    who: <weary willy> can you submit some of those games (Najdorf, Penrose, Unzicker) please. Nov-08-04    Benzol: In a letter to Chess regarding this game Fischer vs Reshevsky, 1961 A. R. B. Thomas wrote "Why didn't White play 28.N-Q2. . . ? So far as I can see Black can then resign. Or am I missing something?". Fischer's comment in his notes in MSMG was "Right, Mr Thomas!". See MSMG Game 26 page 166. Nov-09-04    weary willy: Ending vs Najdorf is covered here: http://members.aol.com/brigosling/p... I'm interested in the discussion about Thomas's first names ... he was just known as ARB or Andrew Thomas ... is it very unusual for an American to have three "first" names?! May-10-05    offramp: <weary willy: I'm interested in the discussion about Thomas's first names ... he was just known as ARB or Andrew Thomas ... is it very unusual for an American to have three "first" names?!> A R B Thomas was British, not American - if you look at his games you'll see that most of them were played in England. He should have taken up cricket as the 3 initials are a sure sign of success. Aug-18-05    superbuk: For those who are really interested (?), he had three first names because his mother decided to throw the Benedick into the mix at the last minute on the way to his christening because she didn't want her son to have the initials ART. Don't ask me why. (And to the earlier entry, he was a Liverpudlian, not an American, although his wife is American). Sep-01-05    weary willy: <A R B Thomas was British, not American> Yes, I know - see initial entry. I was responding to the comments from Americans, such as Iron Maiden, who seemed to find the concept of 3 forenames a bit difficult to grasp Dec-11-07    Cibator: <Benzol:> Yes, but right WHAT? That Nd2 would have virtually forced Black's resignation, or that Mr Thomas had indeed overlooked something? The former looks far likelier, but it would be nice to have the ambiguity fully cleared up. Dec-11-07    Benzol: <Cibator> I'm not sure even now whether Fischer was bluffing or not. See my post of November 8th 2004 on this game Fischer vs Reshevsky, 1961 Dec-11-07    Cibator: Thanks, Benzol. Fischer seems to have confused many people with that gnomic comment of his (wonder why it wasn't picked up by his editor?), but consensus does appear to be that Nd2 wins outright. Apr-14-08    Tomlinsky: "Chess Techniques" by A.R.B Thomas was the book that truly set me on the road to ruin with this beautiful game many moons ago. A very comfortable entry point before hitting "Modern Chess Strategy" by Pachman alongside Nimzo's 'System' (which is worth digging into even if only to find out where you disagree imo) and haven't managed to quit smoking to this day. May-15-08    whiteshark: An extensive life story you can find here: : http://www.chessdevon.co.uk/HTML/Pi... Jan-09-10    Cibator: <weary willy>: Having three forenames is not unknown in the USA. Two that spring to mind are ex-President George Herbert Walker Bush, and Watergate conspirator George Gordon Battle Liddy. May-01-16    GrahamClayton: Thomas competed in 21 British championship tournaments, from his debut at Edinburgh in 1926 up to his final tournament, as Brighton in 1972.

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