• Harry Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995) was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. He was three times British chess...
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  • and director Harry Golombek (1911-1995), British chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime codebreaker 6456 Golombek, see List of minor...
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  • Herbert White (1880–1920). The fifteenth edition was published in 2008. Harry Golombek called it "the first scientific study of the openings in the twentieth...
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  • senior colleagues included Stuart Milner-Barry, Gordon Welchman, and Harry Golombek. In October 1944, Alexander was transferred to work on the Japanese...
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  • several strong masters, including Gerald Abrahams, William Winter, Harry Golombek and Stuart Milner-Barry. He was the last Scottish player to win the...
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    Lorenz ciphers. The GC&CS team of codebreakers included Alan Turing, Harry Golombek, Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, Bill Tutte and Stuart Milner-Barry...
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    Grandmaster of Chess: The Complete Games of Paul Keres, ed. and trans. by Harry Golombek, Arco, New York, 1977. "Paul Keres". Zone.ee. Archived from the original...
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  • Konstantinopolsky, Erik Lundin 1984 – Eero Böök, Stojan Puc 1985 – Harry Golombek, Mario Monticelli, Jaroslav Šajtar 1986 – Arthur Dake, Theodor Ghițescu...
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    Gilbreath. Notable residents of the village have included Ozzy Osbourne, Harry Golombek, Brian Connolly, Brian Cant, Chicane, Armando Iannucci, Noel Gallagher...
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    "was, in contemporary terms, the first bestseller of the modern game." Harry Golombek writes that it "ran through eight editions in the sixteenth century...
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    O'Donel Alexander Michael Arbuthnot Ashcroft Joan Clarke Joseph Gillis Harry Golombek I. J. Good Peter Hilton, January 1942 to late 1942 Rosalind Hudson Charlie...
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  • article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. According to Harry Golombek, "Odds-giving reached its heyday in the eighteenth century and the early...
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  • Martin's Press, 1970, p. 443. Raymond Keene, writing in Harry Golombek (editor), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishing, 1977, p. 313. ISBN 0-517-53146-1...
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  • positional blunder for Black to allow the Maróczy Bind. For example, Harry Golombek, in Capablanca's 100 Best Games of Chess (1947), gave a question mark...
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    regarded as one of the most notable chess personalities of his time. Harry Golombek translated Tartakower's book of his best games, and in the foreword...
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    also won by Capablanca, and Lasker resigned the match. Reuben Fine and Harry Golombek attributed this to Lasker's being in mysteriously poor form. On the...
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    (1938). Harry Golombek writes that, "Without any pretensions to mastership, he represented Oxford University in the years 1892-5". Golombek considers...
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    resigned it after 14 games, having lost four and won none. Reuben Fine and Harry Golombek attributed the one-sided result to Lasker's mysteriously poor form....
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    Tartakower. In 1952/1953 he shared the first place at Hastings with Harry Golombek, Antonio Medina García and Daniel Yanofsky. This section uses algebraic...
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  • 0-0-0. List of chess openings List of chess openings named after places Harry Golombek, Chess: A History, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1976, pp. 117–18. Matanović (1997)...
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  • Solkoff Cumulative Cumulative opponent's score Tiebreaker Golombek, Harry (1977), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown, ISBN 0-517-53146-1 Harkness...
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  • sister [12] Joshua David Goldberg, Japanese codebreaker, solicitor Harry Golombek (chess player) I. J. (Jack) Good Raymond Goodman, head of one shift...
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    ahead of Edward Jackson. Two of her seven wins came against Jackson and Harry Golombek. The year after Menchik defended the Women's World Championship title...
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    1947 Harrogate Harry Golombek Eileen Betsy Tranmer 1948 London Reginald Broadbent Edith Charlotte Price 1949 Felixstowe Harry Golombek Eileen Betsy Tranmer...
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  • he was the chess correspondent for The Times, succeeded in 1945 by Harry Golombek. He made his debut in international-class chess at the strong London...
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  • fourth board for Bletchley Park, with Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Harry Golombek and James Macrae Aitken in the top three spots. He won his game against...
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    to Enjoy, Stein and Day, 1978, p. 55. ISBN 0-8128-6059-4. Harry Golombek (editor), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, Crown Publishers, 1977, p. 148. ISBN 0-517-53146-1...
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    M. 1994. Quoted in Plisetsky & Voronkov 2005, pp. 120–21. Harry Golombek (1977). Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess. Crown Publishers. pp. 236–37. ISBN 978-0-517-53146-4...
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  • June 2011). New Ideas in Chess. Cardoza. p. 173. ISBN 9781580422741. Harry Golombek, Chess: A History, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976, pp. 117–18. As of 2016-11-23...
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    Alekhine's attacking play was based on solid positional foundations, and Harry Golombek went further, saying that "Alekhine was the most versatile of all chess...
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