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Originally Posted by Victoria
fantasyfan I was curious about your question, so did a little searching, and found an article about chess at Bletchley. Apparently, they had a very impressive club, that won achampionship.
From http://billwall.phpwebhosting.com/ar...debreakers.htm
”On December 2, 1944, there was a 12-board chess match between the Oxford University Chess Club and the Bletchley Chess Club. The Bletchley team won, scoring 8-4. For Bletchley, board 1 was Alexander, board 2 was Golombek, board 3 was Aitken, board 4 was Good, board 5 was Perkins, board 6 was Sgt Jacobs, board 7 was Sgt Gilbert, board 8 was Arthur Chamberlain, board 9 was Peter Hilton, board 10 was W.R. Cox, board 11 was D. Rees, and board 12 was Lt. Art Levenson.”
It’s an interesting article. I knew the British actively recruited chess players, but didn’t realize they had the crème de la crème.
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Thank you for that article.
Clearly it answers my question—in Spades! I recognised Golombek in the list. I have his annotations of the famous Spassky—Fischer match in Iceland. He also wrote a good book on opening play among others. I didn’t realise he was involved In Bletchley. From the article it would appear that the team was incredibly high-powered.