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Last modified:
16 June 2010
My next chess book, Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1987: A History,
is due to be published by McFarland at the end of this year.
The cover has now been designed.
More details about the book will be added here soon.
We begin with some photographs which were sadly of insufficient quality to be used in print. Nearer the time of publication, additional information will be posted.
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| Railway clerk Joseph Henry Blake, the leading English correspondence player of the 1890s; also a strong OTB amateur player. He was a regular contributor to British Chess Magazine from the 1880s to the late 1930s. | Frideswide Fanny Beechey (later Mrs Rowland) from the frontispiece to her 1883 book Chess Blossoms. She became a leading Dublin chess journalist and organiser of numerous correspondence tournaments. |
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| Many English correspondence players and organisers attended the 1903 Southern Counties Union congress in Plymouth where this picture was taken by a local photographer called Heath. Front left, with a hat and stick, is Exeter solicitor Charles James Lambert, a very active and successful postal player for many years. Master-strength amateur George Bellingham is seated on the floor, left, at the feet of R. F. B. Jones, a Dover newspaper proprietor, and Mrs Rhoda Bowles (Womanhood chess editor and postaltournament organiser). Her husband. Henry Bowles is the shorter man behind Jones while chess writer C. T. Blanshard is on Jones’s left. Rev John Francis Welsh (later Bishop of Trinidad) is second right in the middle row; his relative F. J. Welsh is rear left. In the middle of the back row is W. P. MacBean, who started the Referee chess column in the early 1920s, and on his left is prominent London amateur W. H. Watts. Most of these people are discussed in my book. | |