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ANSWERS IN BOLD
ALSO EXPLANATIONS WHERE APPROPRIATE
Joint winners: Martin Bush, James Hanley each with 5½/10
Prize: Free entry to the section in Liverpool 2008 of the player’s choice for which s/he is eligible. Where a player enters more than one section, the prize will
be applied to the highest entry fee section entered. Where players have already entered, the fee will be returned to the player. The prize is non-transferable. Only one entry per player is permitted.
1. Where was the first British Championships in 1904 held? Hastings
2. Who was the British Champion first to be awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE? Abe Yanofsky. He
was Canadian and won the British in 1953. He was appointed GM in 1964. (That fooled everybody.)
3. Who is the British organiser who has organised the biggest chess event, possibly in the world? Michael Basman.
The UK Chess challenge has had over 70,000 players spread over many months.
4. Who is the organiser who has organised the biggest chess event in Britain, which took place over a short period?
David Welch. The Liverpool Junior in about 1972 had 2000 players in a week. John Saunders has pointed out that I organised the British Rail Championship of 1985 London to Edinburgh. That would be a good,
really nasty question, if phrased the longest event.
5. Who is the English person who was a main organiser of a Chess Olympiad? Gerry Walsh. The 1980 Malta
event. James Hanley suggested David Jarrett. As FIDE Treasurer he was certainly involved in a number of Olympiads. But he was not a main organiser. Still ½ a mark seems fair. You should note, it has to be somebody alive.
Two Olympiads have been held in England.
6. Who is the only pre-Second World War winner of a British Championship title still living today? Elaine Pritchard (née Saunders)
British Ladies Champion 1939. There may be other Under 18 Champions I don’t know about.
7. Jonathan Penrose won how many British Championships titles? 11. 10 British championships and 1 British Boys. (I caught everybody
there.)
8. Stewart Reuben has written a number of books on chess. What is the subject of his other books? Poker.
9. What is the maximum number of games in which a player could play in the whole congress Sunday 27th July to Friday 8th August? This does not include the evening events, or
any simultaneous displays. 38. 2 rapidplays 12; U-11 6; U-8 6; U-10 7; Major Open 7 (the child would have to take 4 byes in the MO and 1 in the U-11). Most realistically 2
rapidplays, 5-day mornings and afternoons comes to 32 and I gave this ½ point. I have thought there should be a GCSE in understanding the entry form, but now realise it should perhaps be an A Level. Much of it is based on
the form I designed in the 1990s. An examiners’ exam would give this question a very low mark.
10. Only one British Championship was held in 1944. Who won that title? Lorna Judge won the British Girls. I would be grateful if
anybody knows, or finds out, how this came about.
Stewart Reuben
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