Aug-02-25 Gavin Wall 
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| John Saunders: Thank you for uploading that eminently more recognisable photo of Gavin Wall. After a bit of digging, and with help from fellow members of the English Chess Forum, I would suggest the face shown previously here was a Czech player called Stanislav Gschwendtner, who was playing ... |
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Aug-02-25 Paul Durrant
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| John Saunders: Full name Paul Eric Olaf Durrant, born 1943 (2nd qtr), Durham. Died 31 July/1 August 2025, Kingston-upon-Thames. Paul was a much-admired chess organiser in Surrey, being an official of Surbiton Chess Club for 60+ years and earlier the Mushrooms CC. English Chess Forum ... |
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Jul-31-25 Vicente Portilla
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| John Saunders: Gaige's Chess Personalia gives his full name as Vicente Maria Norberto Portilla, born 6 June 1849, Jalapa, Mexico, died 5 August 1874, New York. Admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on 8 July 1869 and matriculated there in the following Michaelmas (October) term as a ... |
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Jul-31-25 J Watkinson vs Burn, 1871
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| John Saunders: This game currently shows an incorrect source reference ("Illustrated London News, 1871.06.24, p.619"). It should be "Illustrated London News, 1871.07.01, p.651". |
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Jul-30-25 Arthur Jackman
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| John Saunders: Gerard Killoran and Jon D'Souza-Eva at the English Chess Forum have identified this player as Arthur Croome Jackman (9 March 1859 - 6 April 1900) https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopi... |
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Jul-29-25 Blackburne / Chapman
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| John Saunders: Brian Denman's biography of Horace Chapman (1842-1907) can still be found here: http://www.hastingschess.club/horac... |
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Jul-29-25 Blackburne vs F Young, 1898
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| John Saunders: The Evesham Standard & West Midland Observer for 1 October 1898 identifies Black in this game as Mr Young. Other reports of the 1898 SCCU congress refer to a Mr Young (Salisbury), and other reports of the activities of Salisbury CC around this time identify F E Young as a club |
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Jul-28-25 Henry Middleton Blackett
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| John Saunders: Henry Middleton Blackett (18 July 1888 - 30 January 1967) From Nottingham Evening Post, 5 February 1964:
Radford's 'sporting parson' will be back.
"They still talk of the 'sporting parson,' the Rev. H. M. ("Jim"), Blackett, in New Radford, though it is nearly a ... |
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Jul-22-25 Ralph Herbert Newman
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| John Saunders: The Tolush game was played by Richard Hilary Newman (1908-1992), not Ralph Herbert Thomas Newman, and already appears under the other player's heading. The subject of this page, full name Ralph Herbert Thomas Newman, was a former president of the West of England Chess Union. ... |
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Jul-22-25 Ronald Augustus Slade
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| John Saunders: The ChessDevon site is sadly no more but that page may still be accessed here... https://web.archive.org/web/2012110... |
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