The chess games of Leonard Illingworth

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Leonard Illingworth

Number of games in database: 15
Years covered: 1907 to 1950
Overall record: +5 -6 =4 (46.7%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.

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LEONARD ILLINGWORTH
(born Jul-16-1882, died Jul-22-1954, 72 years old) United Kingdom
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Game		Result	Moves	Year	Event/Locale	Opening
1. L J Wolff vs L Illingworth		1-0	48	1907	7th Anglo-American universities cable m	C87 Ruy Lopez
2. L Illingworth vs H J Rose		½-½	51	1907	35th Oxford - Cambridge Varsity m	C63 Ruy Lopez, Schliemann Defense
3. L J Wolff vs L Illingworth		1-0	37	1908	8th Anglo-American universities cable m	C84 Ruy Lopez, Closed
4. F van Seters vs L Illingworth		1-0	23	1936	Margate Reserve A	D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
5. L Dewing vs L Illingworth		1-0	13	1938	Margate-B	E15 Queen's Indian
6. L Illingworth vs C Welch		½-½	34	1946	Nottingham-B4	E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
7. W Ritson-Morry vs L Illingworth		1-0	41	1946	Nottingham-B4	C58 Two Knights
8. L Illingworth vs R M Bruce		1-0	60	1946	Nottingham-B4	E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
9. H Wright vs L Illingworth		0-1	30	1946	Nottingham-B4	E23 Nimzo-Indian, Spielmann
10. C Chapman vs L Illingworth		0-1	49	1946	Nottingham-B4	A15 English
11. L Illingworth vs H Saunders		½-½	35	1946	Nottingham-B4	A15 English
12. P E Collier vs L Illingworth		0-1	44	1946	Nottingham-B4	B45 Sicilian, Taimanov
13. L Illingworth vs R H Newman		1-0	39	1950	British Championship	C12 French, McCutcheon
14. W Winter vs L Illingworth		1-0	28	1950	British Championship	E24 Nimzo-Indian, Samisch
15. L Illingworth vs W Fairhurst		½-½	40	1950	British Championship	C66 Ruy Lopez

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Jun-22-19		GrahamClayton: "Leonard Illingworth, musician, linguist, bee-keeper, and chess-player, died in hospital at Cambridge, aged seventy-two, on July 22nd [1954], after a long illness. He was a Yorkshire man, born at Bradford. His musical studies resulted in an open scholarship at the Royal College of Music. Later he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and took his degree in modern languages. He played on Board 1 against Oxford in 1907 and 1908, drawing against H. J. Rose and N. J. Roughton. He was a regular competitor at chess congresses, appearing once in the British Championship, and on one occasion winning his section of the Major Open. He had been President of the Cambridgeshire County Chess Association, of the Cambridge Chess League, and of the Deaf Chess Club. He did much to spread a knowledge of chess among the deaf and dumb and among the young. In 1922 he settled at Foxton, a village near Cambridge, and started and developed a large apiary. He became Secretary of the Apis Club, and attended bee-keepers' congresses abroad. A keen churchman, he was for many years churchwarden of Foxton parish, and at times emergency organist. R.I.P. - B. G[oulding]. B[rown]. To the foregoing tribute, may we add a few words on Mr. Illingworth's services to correspondence chess. As a correspondence player he was in the first flight, as past victories in the B.C.C.A. Championship will testify. But he was also that rara avis who put back into the game much of what he took out. An active President of the British Correspondence Chess Championship for nine years, he also acted as Best Games Secretary; his services were also in constant demand as an adjudicator. Yet it was in a unique way that he left his mark, for on his own initiative he devised a correspondence course of instruction in chess. Pupils were also encouraged to send in their games for annotation and those who have experience in annotating games for weaker players will know the amount of work involved. From his work in this connection the Association profited by entry fees; the pupils profited by gaining an insight into the theory of the game; and we feel sure the instructor profited by the knowledge that he was helping others the better to enjoy and appreciate the game he loved so well himself." http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn...

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