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County match results (24.01.2015.)
Devon's Inter-Area Jamboree took place on Sunday at the Isca Centre in Exeter. Four teams of 12 players representing the North, South, East and West of the county were paired in such a way that each team had 6 whites and blacks and met 4 players from each of the opposing teams. The teams were very evenly matched in overall playing strength, which showed in the final result. North were 1st with 6½/12 points; 2nd= were East and North (6 pts) while South finished on 5½.
This entertaining and instructive game on Bd. 4, featured a well-known former TV presenter against a former British U-16 contender.
White: Adam Hart-Davis (161). Black: Chris Scott (157).
Sicilian Defence [B50]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bc4 Usual here is 3.d4, but White delays this move, and it later costs him a central pawn, which one can rarely afford to do in such double-edged openings as the Sicilian Defence. 3…Nf6 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.h3 a6 6.a4 e6 7.d4 Nxe4! 8.Nxe4 d5 In this opening Black is usually looking to get in …d5 as soon as possible in order to free up his position, as long as it doesn't incur disadvantage elsewhere. Here it wins his piece back. 9.Nxc5 dxc4 10.Be3 Qd5 11.b3 b6 12.bxc4 Qxc4 13.Nd3 Bb4+ 14.Bd2 Bxd2+ 15.Qxd2 Nxd4 16.Nxd4 Qxd4 17.0–0 Bb7 securing the long diagonal. 18.Qg5 0–0 19.Nf4 h6 20.Qg3 Qf6 21.Rab1 Be4 22.Rxb6 Bxc2 23.a5 Rfd8 24.Rc6 Ba4 25.Rc5 Rac8 26.Rfc1 Rxc5 27.Rxc5 And now the position has really opened up, but Black retains the extra pawn and the BvN. 27…Rd4 28.Nh5 Rd1+ 29.Kh2 Qd4 30.Rc4 Qa1 Defending and attacking. 31.Rc8+ Kh7 32.Qb8 Rh1+ 33.Kg3 Re1 34.Nf4 g5 35.Nh5 Qe5+ Forcing off queens to maximise his small advantages. 36.Qxe5 Rxe5 37.Nf6+ Kg7 38.Nh5+ Kg6 39.Kg4 f5+ 40.Kf3 Bd1+ 0–1 The knight is lost. If 41.Kg3 Kxh5 from where the Black king is safe from all attack and is free to shepherd his pawns forward.
The loser's consolation was that his team won the trophy anyway. Full details are available on keverelchess.com and all games are on the chessdevon site.
On Saturday, Somerset and Gloucestershire met at Stone, in the West of England Inter-County Championship, ending in a 10-6 victory for Somerset, and at Ilchester Devon beat Hants 12½-3½. More details next week.
In last week's position, Richard Smith won after a rook sacrifice and this series of forcing checks. 1…Rxg4+! 2.hxg4 (2.Kh2 is no better) Qh2+ 3.Kf1 Qh1+ 4.Ke2 Rh2+ 5.Kd3 Qxd1+ 6.Ke4 Qxg4+ 7.Kd3 Qxf5+ 0-1
Here is a new 2-mover by Dave Howard, that he describes as "really easy".
Devon's Inter-Area Jamboree 2015 Results
Four teams of 12 players from the four corners of the county contested Devon's annual Inter-Area Jamboree, hosted this year by the East, at the Isca Centre in Exeter. There is a total grading limit of 1,650 for each team, which means the county's middle strength players feature most. The formula for pairing means that each team has 6 Whites and 6 Blacks, and that 3 X 4 players from any team will face other other teams (complicated to explain, but, if unsure, check the charts below).
The playing room was large, with well-spaced individual tables for each game, and was warm, well-lit and totally quiet. The teams were so closely matched that every game would clearly have a bearing on the final result.
Even though they lost their top 3 games, it was the West team (Plymouth) that edged out as winners, a point ahead of East and North. Ben Wilkinson, as Captain of the West team, received the trophy from DCCA President, Paul Brooks.
The games will appear on the chessdevon website in due course.
Team A | Team B | Team C | Team D | ||||||||
East | North | South | West | ||||||||
1 | T. Paulden | 185 | B. Hewson | 174 | A. W. Brusey | 176 | M. Brownbridge | 164 | |||
2 | C. J. Scott | 157 | S. Bartlett | 169 | P. Brooks | 154 | A. Hart-Davis | 161 | |||
3 | B. G. Gosling | 149 | I. Annetts | 162 | A. Kinder | 147 | B. Medhurst | 157 | |||
4 | O. Wensley | 149 | K. P. Atkins | 157 | W. Taylor | 142 | N. Butland | 154 | |||
5 | S. Pope | 144 | J. Duckham | 152 | N. F. Tidy | 137 | S. Levy | 145 | |||
6 | W. Marjoram | 132 | S. Clarke | 133 | J. E. Allen | 132 | M. Quinn | 143 | |||
7 | E. Palmer | 131 | K. Hunter | 120 | N. Mills | 132 | R. G. Wilby | 140 | |||
8 | D. Thomson | 130 | R. Dooley | 120 | M. Hussey | 113 | N. Hodge | 130 | |||
9 | R. H. Jones | 129 | M. Dow | 115 | J. Knott | 109 | B. Wilkinson | 129 | |||
10 | R. Whittington | 123 | S. T-Tracey | 104 | N. Narayanan | 101 | C. B. Peach | 110 | |||
11 | G. J. Jenkins | 111 | J. Flanagan | 100 | M. Cockerton | 100 | A. Tatam | 107 | |||
12 | S. Blake | 102 | G. Jones | 100 | J. Blackmore | 100 | P. McConnell | 102 | |||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Tot. | ||
A | East | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 6 |
B | North | 0 | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 6 |
C | South | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 5 |
D | West | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Bd |
White |
Grd |
Black |
Grd |
1 |
T. Paulden |
185 |
1 |
0 |
B. W. R. Hewson |
174 |
2 |
A. W. Brusey |
176 |
1 |
0 |
M. S-Brownbridge |
164 |
3 |
S. Bartlett |
169 |
½ |
½ |
P. Brooks |
154 |
4 |
A. Hart-Davis |
161 |
0 |
1 |
C. J. Scott |
157 |
5 |
B. Gosling |
149 |
½ |
½ |
A. Kinder |
146 |
6 |
I. S. Annetts |
162 |
1 |
0 |
B. Medhurst |
157 |
7 |
N. Butland |
154 |
1 |
0 |
K. P. Atkins |
157 |
8 |
W. Taylor |
142 |
½ |
½ |
O. E. Wensley |
149 |
9 |
N. F. Tidy |
137 |
0 |
1 |
J. Duckham |
152 |
10 |
S. Pope |
144 |
½ |
½ |
S. Levy |
145 |
11 |
S. Clarke |
133 |
½ |
½ |
W. Marjoram |
132 |
12 |
M. Quinn |
143 |
1 |
0 |
J. E. Allen |
132 |
13 |
E. Palmer |
131 |
0 |
1 |
K. Hunter |
120 |
14 |
N. Mills |
132 |
0 |
1 |
R. G. Wilby |
140 |
15 |
R. Dooley |
120 |
1 |
0 |
M. Hussey |
113 |
16 |
N. Hodge |
130 |
½ |
½ |
D. Thomson |
130 |
17 |
R. H. Jones |
129 |
1 |
0 |
J. Knott |
109 |
18 |
M. Dow |
115 |
0 |
1 |
B. R. Wilkinson |
129 |
19 |
C. B. Peach |
110 |
1 |
0 |
S. Thorpe-Tracey |
104 |
20 |
N. Narayanan |
101 |
1 |
0 |
R. Whittington |
123 |
21 |
M. Cockerton |
100* |
½ |
½ |
J. Flanagan |
100* |
22 |
J. Maloney |
113 |
0 |
1 |
A. Tatam |
107 |
23 |
G. Jones |
100* |
½ |
½ |
S. Blake |
102 |
24 |
P. McConnell |
102 |
0 |
1 |
J. Blackmore |
100* |
Death of Peter Clarke. (17.01.2015.)
The Western Morning News chess column was suspended at the end of October last year, with a promise that the situation would be reviewed in January. Such has been the reaction of readers, via letters to the Editor, that he has been persuaded to re-introduce it without delay. A phrase used by a spokesman for the paper was "Back by popular demand", so many thanks to all those who conveyed their views through the right channels, and brought about this change of heart.
If you cancelled your order for the paper's Saturday edition, you can now renew it. If you are outside the delivery area, here follows the text of the first column of the new era…..
The noted chess player and author of chess books, Peter Clarke, died on 11th December, aged 81, after a long illness, bravely borne.
He was taught to play chess at the age of 6 by his father, and won the London Boys' Championship in 1950 and 1951, and the SCCU Boys' Championship in 1950. He attended the university on his doorstep, Queen Mary College, in the Mile End Road. But the call for a career in science was nowhere as strong as his love of chess, and that is the road he chose to go down. But first, National Service could not be avoided and he spent this 2 year interlude in Bodmin training as a Russian linguist. This re-ignited his love for north Cornwall, as he had spent family holidays there.
By 1959 he was a regular writer for the British Chess Magazine, reporting at length on prestigious events and analysing games and openings. He played in 8 Olympiads between 1954 and 1968, losing only 15 of the 96 games played.
After marriage to Peggy Wood in 1966, he returned to the westcountry, eventually settling at Chapel House in the hamlet of Shop near Morwenstow. In 1971, he and a group of 5 local friends, calling themselves the Hexagon put on the 1st Barnstaple Congress. The group functioned for about 10 years until Peter suffered a stroke in 1983, forcing him to give up such intensive activity.
He found that postal chess was better suited to a slower life-style, eventually winning the Grandmaster title. He also became a leading expert at solving chess problems.
He was the most modest of men, with no vanities or conceits. A much fuller account of his career may be found in the blog section of this site.
Here is one of his wins from the 1957 British Championship in York. This Rd. 5 game against Cheltonian, Denis Mardle, shows Peter at his sharpest.
White: D. V. Mardle. Black: P. H. Clarke. Sicilian Defence – Paulsen Variation [B42].
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Ne2 Nf6 7.Nbc3 b5 8.0–0 Bb7 9.b3 Bc5 10.Bb2 0–0 11.Qd2 Qc7 12.Rae1 Rac8 Adding potential pressure down the c-file 13.Kh1 Nb4 14.Qg5 Be7 15.f4 d6 16.e5 dxe5 17.fxe5 Ne4 18.Qg4 Nxd3 19.cxd3 Nxc3 20.Nxc3 Rfd8 21.Re3 Bf8 22.Ne4 Threatening to join the attack. 22…Bxe4 23.Qxe4 Qc2 24.Bd4 Rd7 25.Rh3 h6 26.Qg4 Qd2 27.a4 Rc1 28.Kg1 Rxf1+ 29.Kxf1 Rc7 30.Qe2 Rc1+ 31.Kf2 Qf4+ Forking king and bishop. 0–1.
This position, which also featured in this month's copy of Chess magazine, arose during the last Exmouth Seniors Congress in November. Former Hexagon member Richard Smith (Black) found a winning move against Peter Lucas. Can you spot it?
WMN Chess Column to Return by Popular Demand
I heard officially today that the Western Morning News's chess column is to be re-started, according to the Editor, "by popular demand". He says he's "been inundated with inquiries about the whereabouts of the column".
So thanks to everyone who so "demanded" its return. It will continue to be on a Saturday but will be on a different page, as the Westcountry Life supplement has had to be radically restructured. The first column will appear this Saturday, the 17th January 2015.
A Shaft of Light on DCCA's Early History.
Out of the blue, this week, shone a shaft of light on the earliest history of the Devon County Chess Association. It came in the shape of an innocent enquiry from Howard Stead from York, who was sorting out his late father's belongings when he came across a very nice, boxed Jaques chess set, and was curious as to its origins.
As can be seen, the label gives away most of the story, but perhaps some context is required…
In the beginning, the Devon County Chess Association was founded on September 24th 1901, in a blaze of publicity and enthusiasm, in an effort to formalise and foster inter-club chess throughout the county. Its very first congress was a week-long affair held in Barnfield Hall, Exeter, starting on Monday April 21st. At this time the Association had 212 members belonging to 13 affiliated clubs. They make a strange-sounding list to our 21st century ears: Broadclyst, Dartmouth, Devonport YMCA, Exeter, Hatherleigh, Newton Abbot, Plymouth, Teignmouth, Tiverton YMCA, Torridge, Torquay, Totnes and Winkleigh.
The star attraction throughout the week was the American super-star, Harry Pillsbury, who put on a series of demonstrations of his mental powers; standard simultaneous displays, one match against 14 chessplayers and 5 draughts players, followed by demonstrations of "knights' tours".
There were two main sections for Devon players – the Championship Tourney and the Second Tourney. There were 16 entries in this lower section, namely, Miss Hunt and Miss M. Hunt (Barstaple); Miss Pigg (Exeter); Rev. G. P. Blomefield (Bickington); Major Rawlins (Bath); Major Sherwell (Honiton); A. Phillips (Appledore); J. Cottle Green (Exeter); Spencer Cox (Honiton); G. F. Pollard (Totnes); G. W. Cutler (Exeter); H. Taylor (Exeter); F. J. Backhouse (Taunton); L. Illingworth; H. E. Bell and W. H. Gundry (both Exeter).
As we can see, Pollard won the section, dropping only a point in the process, half a point ahead of Illingworth.
George Frederick Pollard was born in 1879 to Frederick (33) and Katherine (25) nee Haig, an Edinburgh Scot. At that time they lived at 1, Richmond Terrace, Everton, and George was christened at St. Saviour's Church, Everton. His father had been born in Taunton and was listed as a physician. By 1881, the family had moved to 52, Rodney St, Liverpool. The 1901 Census records that the family had moved to 21, St. Nicholas Rd, Streathan in London where the father listed as a "medical practitioner". But George was not with them as by this time he had qualified as a teacher, and had moved to a hostel attached to Totnes Grammar School, at 36 Fore Street. The housemaster was Charles Rea (37) and George Pollard was his assistant, looking after a collection of 14 & 15 year old boarders.
After this, he rather falls off the radar. There is no evidence that he ever married. There is a death of a George Frederick Pollard recorded in Rotherham in March in 1965 aged 84. It would be easy to conclude that this was our George, but there was another person with the same name and age, but that one was a coal miner and married with several children. I can't tell which one this death refers to.
Mr. Stead didn't know his father owned this set or how he came by it. There were both arm chair players, playing en famille but not belonging to any club. So how the set came to end up in York may remain a mystery for some time yet. More work necessary.
Peter Hugh Clarke (1933 – 2014) Obituary now complete.
The noted chess player, organiser and author of chess books, Peter Clarke, died on 11th December in hospital after a long illness, bravely borne. He was 81.
This obituary has been put together from several sources, notably, Keith Jones, Geoff Martin, close family members and my own archives and on-line resources. It will continue to expand as new material comes to hand.
Peter was an only child, born on 18th March 1933 to Olive Gertrude (nee Ekblom) and Hugh Clarke, who had married the previous year. Olive was of Swedish stock while Hugh's father was William Ferrier Clarke, born in Linlithgow, near the Firth of Forth opposite Dunfermline. But Hugh and Olive's roots were firmly in London's East End, Plaistow, West Ham.
He was taught to play chess at the age of 6 by his father, and won the London Boys' Championship in 1950 and 1951, and the SCCU Boys' Championship in 1950. At this time he was also playing in the Ilford Congress and playing Correspondence chess for Essex, a form of chess in which he would eventually gain the Grandmaster title. In 1953, now aged 20, he was runner-up to Dr. Fazekas in the Essex Championship, was playing Bd. 2 in the Essex Correspondence team. In the Ilford Congress he was 2nd to P. J. Oakley in the Premier Reserves, where the top section comprised Alexander, Hooper, Wade, Fazekas and Alan Philips, all except Hooper to become British Champions. This was his first appearance at the British Championship at Hastings where he came 18th= on 5/11 points, behind Yanovsky. Perhaps more impressive was leading his Ilford team on Bd. 1 to the National Club Championship that year.
He attended the university on his doorstep, Queen Mary College, in the Mile End Road, where he read for a BSc. Part of London University its alumni include such diverse figures as W. G. Grace, Sir Roy Strong and Lord Robert Winston. But the call for a career in science was nowhere as strong as his love of chess, and that is the road he chose to go down. But first, National Service could not be avoided. He spent part of this 2 year interude in Bodmin in the Intelligence Corps, training as a Russian linguist and translator, and at the Joint Services School for Linguists. This re-ignited his love for north Cornwall, as he had frequently spent holidays there as a child with his parents.
By 1959 he was a regular writer for the British Chess Magazine, reporting at length on prestigious events and analysing games and openings. He and his great friend, Jonathan Penrose, were the two highest graded players in the UK, the only two in the 1b category. He played in 8 Olympiads between 1954 and 1968, and his and England's record for those years was as follows:- to have lost only 15 of 96 games played at this level is remarkable.
Yr | venue | Pos | p | w | d | l | % | |
1 | 1954 | Amsterdam | 9th / 26 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 43 |
2 | 1956 | Moscow | 8th / 34 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 80 |
3 | 1958 | Munich | 11th / 36 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 47 |
4 | 1960 | Leipzig | 12th / 40 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 54 |
5 | 1962 | Varna | 14th / 37 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 53 |
6 | 1964 | Tel-Aviv | 18th / 48 | 12 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 50 |
7 | 1966 | Havana | 21st / 52 | 13 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 54 |
8 | 1968 | Lugano | 16th / 54 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 44 |
totals | 96 | 22 | 59 | 15 |
He first came to prominence as a player at the Ilford Club, and while his best performace was at Moscow his playing summit was probably captaining the England team at the 1966 Olympiad in Havana. His record there tells us something of his strengths and weakness as a top player: Played 13: Won 2: Drawn 10: Lost 1. Hartston at the time felt "Clarke's score on top board is creditable. He is often criticised for his drawish tendencies, but a solid score such as this is a fine achievement against such opposition. It is remarkably difficult to score wins without suffering losses as well, as Lee and Littlewood found to their cost!" It's easy to forget that his performance at the board must have been affected by (a) playing 13 tiring games (b) being captain for all matches and (c) reporting at length and in great detail for BCM.
This solidity as a player helped him to a splendid record in the British Championship, without ever actually winning the ultimate title, having to be content with being, uniquely, runner-up five times. But he didn't seem to mind this at all, as he was often edged out by his best friend, Jonathan Penrose.
During the late 50's / early 60s Peter had several times dated B. H. Wood's daughter, Margaret, universally known as Peggy. They married 6 months later at Holy Trinity Church, Sutton Coldfield, Jonathan Penrose being Peter's Best Man.
It would be easy to think that his book-writing days took over as his playing activities decreased, but this was not the case – he was doing it all at the same time! His reputation as a writer came to equal, if not overtake, that of a player, with titles that were not only highly-regarded at the time of publication, but have stood the test of time. His subjects included Tal (1961) and Petrosian (1964) two more different players one can cannot imagine. He translated and edited Smyslov's Best Games (1958) and 100 Soviet Chess Miniatures (1963). First editions of these books published by Bell in their distinctive dustwrappers, can still take pride of place in anyone's chess library. Another title he worked on was Foldeak's Chess Olympiads (2nd enlarged ed. 1969). Two interesting points here: (a) he seemed to hate dustwrappers on books and would quickly get rid of them if they were in any way slightly imperfect, and (b) in spite of his facility in Russian, constantly translating it into English, none of his daughters ever heard him speak a word of Russian in the house.
After marriage and the birth of their first daughter, Salli, in 1966, he felt the urge to move to the westcountry, and they moved to a small house in Milton Dameral, where a second daughter, Penelope, was born. Peter started a chess club in the village which eventaully reached a membership of over 20, almost unheard of for such a small place.
They then moved to the village of Bush, near Stratton, where in 1977 their 3rd daughter, Susie, was born. He also became British Correspondence Champion that year. In 1979, he found his dream home, called Chapel House, in the hamlet of Shop near Morwenstow. Built c. 1800 it has the appearance of an expansive rectory, with large high-ceilinged rooms. The adjacent farm buildings are Grade II listed. In his 1855 novel Westward Ho! Charles Kingsley borrowed the name Chapel House, but applied it to another house in the story.
In 1971 the world in general was agog at the prospect of the Fischer-Spassky match, and Britain in particular was on the brink of a chess explosion. An expression of this was the response to his first organised event, the 1st Barnstaple Congress. It had been put on by Clarke and a group of 5 local friends, who called themselves The Hexagon. There were 70 entries, all lumped together in one large Swiss, 22 of whom were graded between 180 – 226. Grandees like Golombek and Wood were joined by young Turks like Botterill, Bellin, Gerald Bennett and Danny Wright. In the event it was won by an almost unknown local schoolboy, Peter Waters, who played none of the above, except Golombek. The following year the entry rocketed to 164, and its continuing success was assured. The Hexagon functioned as a group for about 10 years until Peter suffered a cerebral haemmorrhage in 1983, forcing him to give up such intensive activity.
For a time, he ran bookstalls at local congresses, notably Paignton, Exeter and Frome and was happy to chat to grassroots players. He found that postal chess was better suited to a slower life-style and he competed at the highest level, winning the Grandmaster title for postal chess, as did his friend, Jonathan Penrose.
After his stroke he had more time for his other interests. Sports he followed included golf, cycling, F1, tennis, darts, snooker, athletics et. al. He collected books, not only on chess, but on his other interests including science, astronomy and philosophy. His study had floor-to-ceiling shelves on all free walls, all stacked with books.
He was the most modest of men, with no discernible vanities or conceits, and a most hospitable host when entertaining visitors to his vast collection of chess books.
He leaves his wife, Peggy, 3 daughters and 8 grandchildren: Isaac, Reuben, George, Madelaine, Heidi, Gemima, Grace and Frank.
The funeral took place in Poughill Cemetery, near Bude, and was attended by a good number of relatives, local friends and chess acquaintances.
The secular ceremony was led by the Celebrant, Alison Timms. Firstly his mother's ashes were interred, followed by Peter's coffin.
Then five of the grandchildren each read out a verse from Peter's favourite poem, that he had had read to him by his father. Its philosophy is sometimes summarised by the saying "Eat, Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die", but there is also an element of the Latin maxim Carpe diem – sieze the day, and in this repect that is exactly what Peter did.
There were a number of written tributes, some read out at the gathering at Morwenstow, other sent later.
The following was sent by Peter's great friend, Dr. Jonathan Penrose, who was unable to attend due to transport problems, and is probably the one that deserves most attention, as it reveals his own personal slant on Peter's career. Perhaps the last word should go to him…
In Memoriam: Peter Hugh Clarke 1933 – 2014:
Peter Clarke was a very good friend of mine for over 60 years. Amazingly, over that long period of time I cannot recall a single cross word between us. We first met in the early 1950s as members of the same chess teams, particularly the Essex county team, but also the London University team for a short period of time.
In those days (the early to mid 1950s) there seemed to be a comparative paucity of ambitious young chess players in England, so it was our good fortune that we were often selected to play for England in the prestigious chess Olympiads, played in different countries every two years. It was a wonderful experience for both of us.
I think it was the Olympiad held in Moscow in 1956 which stood out as Peter's most successful tournament of this kind. The English team reached 8th place overall at the end, a fine performance for its time. Peter's contribution was a magnificent 79% (scoring 7 wins, 5 draws and no losses).
The other members of the team including myself thought that the standard of Peter's play had progressed very well, and that future selection of Peter's place on the English team was likely to be assured for many years to come.
In retrospect, it would become clear that Peter's standard of play had just about reached its peak at this time, and that he performed well back in England in tournaments in 1957 and 1958.
I was personally impressed by a game he played and won against Alexander in the 1957 British Championship. Hugh Alexander was widely regarded as England's strongest chess player since the end of the Second World War, and this game was somehow symbolic that a younger generation of players might be beginning to supersede the older ones.
However, at about this time, Peter also started to display a budding talent for writing books on chess, and eventually wrote some classic works in the genre. This was fine, but I felt that in so doing, he might have made himself less prepared to play chess as aggressively as he had done formerly. As a result, he tended to become more "drawish" in his play, and therefore began to relinquish the chance to win a big chess tournament.
In later years, Peter began to show a great interest in solving chess problems. This is an area of chess where the supreme subtleties of the game can best be explored. Peter was a good solver and played in a few problem solving competitions, I believe just for fun.
On personal visits to Chapel House over the years, I remember the great pleasure of discussing with Peter the beauty of some modern and classical chess problems – and such memories in turn will remind me of how much I will miss him in the future.
Jonathan Penrose
Somerset beat Hants (29.11.2014.)
The Somerset captain reports on their match against Hampshire at Mere on Saturday. The final score of 12 – 4 to Somerset looks like a crushing defeat for Hants, but it was far from that, apparently, as many games were keenly contested until late on. However, the fact that Somerset out-graded their opponents by, on average, 11 points on every board, made it likely that the stronger team on paper would pull through.
The details were as follows:
Brd | SOMERSET | Grd | HAMPSHIRE | Grd | ||
1 | Jack Rudd | 224 | 1 | 0 | Tunks, Dominic R | 197 |
2 | Peter E Chaplin | 189 | ½ | ½ | McDougall, William M | 189 |
3 | Andrew F Footner | 187 | ½ | ½ | Bellers, Chris J | 185 |
4 | Matthew J Payne | 186 | 1 | 0 | Marsh, Roger DW | 176 |
5 | Mike Richardt | 184 | 1 | 0 | Fowler, David W | 173 |
6 | Patryk Krzyzanowski | 182 | ½ | ½ | Knox, Stuart W | 170 |
7 | David P Littlejohns | 178 | 1 | 0 | Davis, Timothy | 167 |
8 | David Painter-Kooiman | 178 | 0 | 1 | McLeod, Fraser N | 166 |
9 | Barry Morris | 175 | 1 | 0 | Jones, Gareth Aneurin | 158 |
10 | James Byrne | 165 | 1 | 0 | Priest, Christopher PA | 158 |
11 | David Peters | 164 | 0 | 1 | Thompson, David F | 156 |
12 | Gerry N Jepps | 163 | 1 | 0 | Ashmore, Roy E | 147 |
13 | Andrew M Gregory | 158 | ½ | ½ | Chapman, Timothy J | 144 |
14 | Darren Freeman | 158 | 1 | 0 | Chilton, James I | 143 |
15 | Chris S Purry | 152 | 1 | 0 | Moore, Gillian A | 142 |
16 | Maciej Blocinski | U/G | 1 | 0 | LeFevre, Stephen D | 142 |
totals | 2785 | 12 | 4 | 2613 |
Exmouth March On In Division 2
Exmouth had their first home match of the season when they entertained old rivals Teignmouth to the town. It was not quite a home match as the Club's new base, the Royal Beacon Hotel, had a Christmas party booked. But the Manor Hotel, just down the road, on the Beacon, came to the rescue and offered their small "Writing Room" as a suitable area. They also had a function booked, the annual meeting of the local Euchre League (don't ask – it's a strange American card game that has survived in Exmouth for generations). But both activities were 'low maintenance' and didn't interfere with each other. It must be said that over the past 2 decades the managements of both hotels have been very good to the chess community, both local and national, and it is hoped will continue as it's of mutual benefit.
After c. 90 minutes play, the match seemed to be going the visitors' way, as Boards 1 and 4 were definitely looking bad for Exmouth, but two blunders in those games came to the rescue and turned what could have been a 3-1 defeat into a 3-1 victory.
Mamhead Cup | Div 2 | 29.11.2014 | ||||
Exmouth | Grd | Teignmouth | Grd | |||
1 | John Stephens | 194 | 1 | 0 | Bill Ingham | 176 |
2 | Jon Underwood | 179 | ½ | ½ | Alan Brusey | 176 |
3 | Oliver Wensley | 149 | ½ | ½ | Kevin Hindom | 145 |
4 | Simon Blake | 102 | 1 | 0 | Norman Tidy | 137 |
totals | 624 | 3 | 1 | 634 |
Two turning points from the match:
Above: Black has just played …h5, possibly expecting the g-pawn to move, but f5! wins immediately as Black can't prevent a passed pawn being created.
Below: White has been asking all the questions so far in the game, and has just played Rd7, threatening Black's f-pawn and possibly with thoughts of doubling his rooks on the open file at some point. But …Bc8 wins a piece and Black's bishop pair boss the game from then on.
Exmouth now have to face Tiverton (A) and Newton Abbot (H) in this league in the New Year.
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The Chipping Sodbury RapidPlay was held recently at the Old Grammar School. The winners were as follows:
Open Section: 1st James Cobb (228) Bristol& Clifton 5/6 pts. 2nd= Chris Beaumont (214) Bristol & Clifton & Jerry Humphries Downend & Fishponds 4½.
Major Section (U-155): 1st= Andrew Munn (150) & David Tipper (143) both Downend & Fishponds, and David Dugdale (151) Thornbury all 4½.
Minor Section: Dorota Pacion (117) S. Bristol 5½. 2nd= Jack Walpole (90) & Richard Port (113) both University and Kevin Langmaid (112) Yate & Sodbury all 4 pts. Dorota Pacian was the only female player in the tournament.
While the 15th Beacon Seniors tournament was played out during the week, the World Seniors Championship was due to finish on Wednesday at Katerini, Greece. Millionaire chess player, Terry Chapman, had organised a team of four English players, himself incuded, to have a concerted effort for one of them to win the title.
This was the 8th round game between two of the contingent.
White: Keith Arkell (2450). Black: Mark Hebden (2540).
King's Indian Defence [E62]
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.d4 0–0 5.g3 d6 6.Bg2 Nc6 7.0–0 Rb8 8.b3 a6 9.Nd5 Nh5 10.Bb2 e6 11.Nc3 b5 12.d5 Ne7 13.dxe6 fxe6 14.c5 dxc5 15.Qc2 Nc6 16.Rad1 Nd4 17.Nxd4 cxd4 18.e3 e5 19.exd4 exd4 20.Nd5 d3 21.Qc1 Bf5 22.Bxg7 Nxg7 23.Qxc7 Qxc7 24.Nxc7 White has now won a pawn and has a distinct advantage considering Black's isolated pawn and inferior piece placement. 24…a5 25.Nd5 Rf7 26.Ne3 Rd7 27.Rd2 a4 28.Nxf5 Nxf5 29.Rfd1 axb3 30.axb3 Black must lose at least one of his 2 queenside pawns. 30…Rbd8 31.Bc6 Rd4 32.Bxb5 Now the other must fall as well. 32…g5 33.Rxd3 Kg7 34.Kg2 R8d6 35.Rxd4 Nxd4 36.Bc4 Kf6 37.b4 Ke5 38.Re1+ Kf6 39.b5 Nf5 40.Rb1 Rb6 41.Bd3 Nd6 42.Rb4 h6 43.h4 Nf7 44.Ra4 Ke5 45.hxg5 hxg5 46.Ra6 Rb8 47.Rg6 Kd4 48.Be2 Ke5 49.Bc4 1–0. Now Black's last pawn must go, leaving him in a hopeless position. Arkell won again in the next round, putting him in the joint lead with 2 games to play, and Hebden and Nunn just behind. The chances of having an English World Seniors Champion look good.
In last week's miniature problem White wins by 1.Qg7! from where it can go to either a7 or a1 to give mate, depending on which way the Black king goes.
This position comes at the end of a blitz game earlier this year. White is 2 pawns down but might have winning chances; if only he had more than a few seconds to think about it…
Not the Western Morning News! 1st Nov. 2014 (812)
As you might have realised by now, Western Morning News has, as from 1st November 2014, been forced to cut in half the Westcountry Life supplement in its Saturday edition, and with it has gone the chess column. They are due to monitor the situation in January, when further decisions will be made on future developments. In the meantime, the editorial staff will welcome views on the future of the column. Letters should be addressed to:- The Editor, Western Morning News, 3rd Floor, Studio 5-11. Millbay Road, Plymouth PL1 3LF. During that interim period, I'll be posting a weekly column in the WMN slot on this website, even though it will not appear in the paper itself. The code number (812) refers to the number of columns I've written since starting about 17 years ago. If the WMN column is not restored in January, I may have to reconsider.
So, here goes……
The new President of the English Chess Federation is Dominic Lawson, former Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, son of former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson and brother to Nigella. He is a strong and active player who is likely to use his professional contacts to raise the profile of the game in the national consciousness. To this end he has, all this week, been involved in a second series on Radio 4 in which, while playing a game with them, he talks to a number of diverse public figures for whom chess has played a part in their lives. On Monday it was the World Champion Magnus Carlsen and on Thursday it was Sol Campbell, former Arsenal and England footballer. He did a 1st series earlier this year which included boxing champion Lennox Lewis. All ten broadcasts will remain available on the BBC website for at least a year.
By way of introduction, writing in the Radio Times, Lawson links this with the film The Imitation Game, shortly due for UK release, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the part of the mathematician Alan Turing. It concentrates on Turing's work at Bletchley Park cracking the "unbreakable" Nazi codes, where his line managers included British Chess Champion Hugh Alexander and Sir Stuart Milner-Barry.
Turing was not in their league as a player but left an even greater legacy to the chess world when, in 1952, he developed the first chess program, which he called "Turochamp". It took half an hour to execute the instructions for each move but it worked, and 45 years later its direct descendant "Deeper Blue" defeated Kasparov himself.
This begs the question as to whether the silicon algorithms have taken over and are killing human creativity. While there is no substitute for human vs human competition, the best players will always be those that harness the computer to help develop their innate skills; to be its master rather than its slave.
Here is the 1997 game in which a computer defeats a world champion in a match for the first time.
White: Deeper Blue. Black G. Kasparov Caro-Kann Defence – Steinitz Var. [B17]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3 h6?? The blunder that sealed the human's fate as it allows a known winning sacrifice 8.Nxe6! Qe7 9.0–0 fxe6 10.Bg6+ Kd8 11.Bf4 b5 12.a4 Bb7 13.Re1 Nd5 14.Bg3 Kc8 15.axb5 cxb5 16.Qd3 Bc6 17.Bf5 exf5 18.Rxe7 Bxe7 19.c4 1–0
Last week's short game ended with 1.Bxf7+ Should Black take the bishop and try to hang on – or not? Black chooses the former 1…Kxf7?? 2.Ng5+ Ke8 and 3.Ne6 traps the queen, a move that Black clearly overlooked. But even if 1…Kf8 2.Ng5 Ndf6 3.Bb3 Nh6 etc. his position is a mess.
In this position from 1882, how does White win in two moves?

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Remember the glittering parties in elegant hotels? The passed hors d'oeuvres? The flowing drinks? The lavish schwag? The fancy lighting, the entertainment, and complimentary shuttles to get you from Here to There?
No more. Ad:tech San Francisco this week was decidedly recessionary in tone. The crowds were smaller, the exhibit hall thinned out (Where's Yahoo? What happened to Microsoft?). And the endless procession of parties? Sure, there were parties. But you were more likely to find yourself walking down the wrong end of Market Street to a slightly seedy bar where you were expected to pony up for your own drinks (no nibbles), shoulder to shoulder with the regular clientele along with members of the industry.
In that sense, one of online advertising's biggest events of the year resembled more a massive meet-up than the self-congratulatory and definitively tony conferences of the past. Unlike previous years, when agencies in New York all but closed up shop to make the pilgrimage out to the West Coast for the event, San Francisco was local in tone this year. The out-of-towners were more likely to be from LA or San Diego than Chicago, New York, and Washington. Budgets are tight and personnel rolls have been slashed. It's hard to get out of the office these days.
But for those who did show up (reportedly, 12,000 of us), there was something affirming about the conference. Times are tough, but we're here, we're working and somehow making it. There's a sense of survival out there, and even a sense of relief and of bonding. San Francisco may have been one of the most collegial ad:techs ever. Conversation was deep and real, without scanning the room at the same time to see if someone more important had perhaps come in, or trash-talking competitors. Competitors are seeking avenues of cooperation. Just as there are no atheists in foxholes, rivalries and jealousies were put aside this year in favor of a sense of community and unity.
Online advertising has been hit by hard times before, but also before the channel had achieved the firm foothold it's achieved in the marketing and advertising landscape. Both CBS Interactive President Neil Ashe and Jeff Berman, MySpace's president of sales and marketing, emphasized the digital channel is now the one driving innovation, promotion, advertising, and product development across the major media companies they work for (in MySpace's case that would be Fox, of course). We may be down, but we're still in the lead.
Carol Kruse, Coca-Cola's VP of global interactive marketing, said she's telling her agencies, "Don't bring us a core creative idea that's a storyboard. That goes straight to TV." Instead, Coke wants ideas that can be translated into other media and other channels.
But not necessarily advertising channels. As with other recent talkfests, all indications point to the fact that the industry is moving away from advertising in the classic sense. Paid search is hardly waning, but media buys are in favor of social, social, and more social messaging (only Barack Obama has more online "friends" than Coke does).
That social media are growing is hardly headline news. Close on its heels seems to be mobile marketing, however, but this time may be for real. And maybe social is what's finally going to get this channel into the fore. MySpace alone has seen a fivefold increase in mobile traffic over the past year.
Sure, this could pique advertiser interest in mobile display ads. But what they probably should be thinking more about is combining social and utilitarian functionality into mobile marketing campaigns. Somebody should just come right out and say it: no one wants or needs ads on their handheld devices. But brand models, sponsorship models, and applications that allow them to connect with brands and products in meaningful and timely ways have a great deal of potential -- this is something we'll be seeing more of in the coming year.
Hopefully, the other thing we can look forward to in the coming year, in addition to economic recovery, is innovation and advancement on both the creative and the technological sides of the interactive advertising spectrum. The road ahead is challenging, to be sure, but full of potential -- unlike plenty of other economic sectors.
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make an application connected to a database
database contains one table - with name of the connected computers..
when the app is run, add the computername in a table with computer-names..
the app should present all logged-in computers with boxes to click
if you click a computer-name then ask for confirmation - do you want to kill digora on selected computer? Yes/No
and the program should with 1sec intervals check the database for if digora should be killed.
if should be killed then run cmd -->
taskkill /f /im Digora.exe
the database should be in a shared folder so all my computers can connect to the base..
its a .exe file that will be hidden down to the taskbar.
Executable to be in the startup-folder of the computer/user.
when running continously checking the shared database if the program should execute a commandline..
the commandline is:
taskkill /f /im digora.exe
remove the pending item from the database to confirm and that execution is not run several times..
user interface just a window with buttons and scrollbar.
Buttons is created from a list of computer-names that is running the application (from database that is shared on a shared path in the network..)
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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2014, 15(9), 15146-15160; doi:10.3390/ijms150915146
The Three Integrated Phases of Left Atrial Macrophysiology and Their Interactions
Received: 26 June 2014 / Revised: 17 August 2014 / Accepted: 21 August 2014 / Published: 27 August 2014
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pathogenesis of Cardiac Arrhythmias and Heart Failure)
Abstract: Our understanding of the left atrium is growing, although there are many aspects that are still poorly understood. The left atrium size as an imaging biomarker has been consistently shown to be a powerful predictor of outcomes and of different cardiovascular disorders, such as, but not limited to, atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, mitral regurgitation and stroke. Left atrial function has been conventionally divided into three integrated phases: reservoir, conduit and booster-pump. The highly dynamic left atrium and its response to the stretch and secretion of atrial neuropeptides leaves the left atrium far from being a simple transport chamber. The aim of this review is to provide an understanding of the left atrial physiology and its relation to disorders within the heart.
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AMA StyleMehrzad R, Rajab M, Spodick DH. The Three Integrated Phases of Left Atrial Macrophysiology and Their Interactions. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2014; 15(9):15146-15160.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMehrzad, Raman; Rajab, Mohammad; Spodick, David H. 2014. "The Three Integrated Phases of Left Atrial Macrophysiology and Their Interactions." Int. J. Mol. Sci. 15, no. 9: 15146-15160.
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Well for the first time since 1993 the Redcliffe first grade side isn?t in the semi finals and I?d be lying if I said it didn?t hurt but we?ll bounce back make no bones about that. The first grade and colts may be out of contention but Bertie Campbell?s A graders are still in there flying the flag, so all you supporters get along and cheer the boys home. Injuries haven?t been kind to us but we won?t use that for an excuse we just were not good enough when it mattered. Losing Daniel Green and Andrew Wynyard was a negative but on the positive side we saw the emergence of the Texas Ranger Nick Walker who more than held his own in top company. An interesting comment was heard from the doctor that Wynny was carrying a few too many kilos around the mid rift so it looks like I?ll have to get on to Wally and get him to cut down Wynny?s muffin intake at smoko. Words cannot describe the admiration I have for Troy Lindsay. Seeing him cart it in to the Burleigh pack time after time made we wish I could put a jersey on just to help him out. Cowboy is the first to training and last to leave and leaves no stone unturned in his preparation if he has an injury he gives himself every chance to play. And his form well I think the old bloke is playing as well as he ever has. I just wish he was 21 not 31. When we were up in Rockhampton CEO James Hinchey and myself to catch up for chardonnay with our old mate Ross O?Reilly who popped into our hotel for chat to catch up on old times. A funny story happened at the Club the other Friday Daley White was working in the garden when a patron come to reception and said there was a strange looking fella hanging about in the garden after three police cars and a motor bike turned up it was worked out that it was actually Daley who was the sus looking bloke. As most of us oldies would remember Bob Geldoff?s band the Boomtown Rats who had a big hit with the song I don?t like Mondays well the Dolphins (And I think cruelly) have a group of players nicknamed the Boomtown Rats because they never train the first session of week. I?m sure it?s just coincidence that these guys are hurt or sick every Tuesday night of the season. Quite a few of the Queensland Cup side have played their last game for the club with Ben Jones, Charles Vis and Gavin Cooper heading to the NRL while Brian Jellick and Matty Anderton head off to the land of red wine and crossoints for the next part of their careers, we wish the boys all the best and if something doesn?t work they?ll always have a home with the Red and White. I have also heard a strong rumour that a future superstar of the game has been signed to long term deal with the Dolphins. He has signed a 16year deal lucrative contract with the Fins, 5 month old Angus Hinchey and strong as an ox already has a strong passing game which he must?ve learned from his mum because we all know he wouldn?t have got it from his dad. Next month I will have the annual Robbo Reckons awards for the year and let me tell you there is no more prestigious award in the game than the Robbo. I?ll have to love you and leave you I?m sure as you all know it?s Mad Monday. Until next month Cheers Robbo.
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