Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess, tagged G.H.Diggle Luton on July 26, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream; the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.
Emile Cioran
Diggle lives on; that aside, when did Vauxhall gain their very own chess club? Answers on a postcard only please… .
I am not yet sure who wrote this yet sure it was either Sweby or Diggle. It ends with the adverbial clause ‘Luton had the move on the odd-numbered boards’. That is more like Diggle than Sweby but could be either, I suppose… .
Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess, tagged Fleming Trophy Bedfordshire Trophy on July 25, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The ideally lucid, hence ideally normal, man should have no recourse beyond the nothing that is in him.
Emile Cioran
In The Luton News dated:
An account of the Fleming Trophy appears. I am assuming it was written by Sweby rather than Diggle, given that the latter is referred to in the third person. You would assume that Diggle would also refrain from dropping the ‘h’ that his middle name begins with in written English and probably spoken English too for that matter. A strong Bedfordshire team won the day!
Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess on December 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess, tagged Dennis Mardle, Luton chess player on December 7, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Sweby adds details about Mardle’s award of a C.B.E. Assigning a home to William Ward is dubious. Himself aside, Mardle is the best chess player Luton has ever produced, and professionally, the most accomplished.
Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess on November 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess, tagged bedfordshire chess on November 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess, tagged Nicholas McBride amazing chess player on November 14, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The printer is confirmed as down and out for the remainder of the year. So once again, images are captured by phone.
Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess on November 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess, tagged bedfordshire chess 1983 on November 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Printer down, down, down. Sorry. Many images today are quite readable though.
Confirmed here, whilst I was on holiday with my wife and daughter at the beautiful ski resort Bakuriani, Georgia, near scumbag Stalin’s home town. Click on the link but go to the pictures at the bottom for Edward Winter’s confirmation.
https://mccreadyandchess.com/2015/01/13/what-the-dickens/
Posted in History of Bedfordshire Chess on November 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Printer is out and unlikely to be resurrected. Not a huge problem as the quality of the images is improving but it is much harder than expected.
A side note on how to read old Tom Sweby's columns
Not perhaps, but quintessentially, Old Tom Sweby is best thought of as a passionate devotee to the newspapers he wrote for. He was well read and knowledgeable of the Bedfordshire chess scene and well beyond, given that he was the president of the S.C.C.U. once upon a time. He was generally well-respected and rubbed shoulders with many, if not all, of those eminent within British chess circles. It would, however, be a critical mistake to see his column is primary source material entirely. That it is not. You will also find secondary source material quoted too, and the reliability of that is not quite as Tom hoped. Given that he wrote for decades, this is to some degree inevitable, and after all we are all prone to error whether we realize it or not. Thankfully, with regards to old Tom Sweby, they are infrequent and for the most part old Tom continued to document events and developments in the Bedfordshire league from the get go as best he could but, of course, everything lies open to interpretation. Despite this, and generally speaking. this does indeed make him informative and thus worth reading. Dare I say his columns constitute a narrative describing the latest developments, match reports and changing nature of the Beds league...he knew his audience and wrote according. This manifested itself over decades but brevity was always in play courtesy of the restictions imposed by writing a column. Should you wish to read a in instrumental figure of the Beds' league post WW2, you are quite welcome to peruse what has been posted here... . :-) I should, however, point out that as the decades wore on he gradually moved on away from narratives concerning the Bedfordshire league towards affairs both historical and international. The reasons for this are multifarous, old age was a predominante factor presumably, however, the bottom line is with regards to how the Bedfordshire chess scene developed post WW2: old Tom Sweby is your go to guy. He wrote more about chess in Bedforshire than anyone else did but given he was a Lutonian and writing for a Luton newspaper there is both bias and greater coverage of his hometown than the rest of the county.
To add comments, please see the bell at the top of the page.
McCreadyandChess 