• Harold "Harry" Golombek OBE (1 March 1911 – 7 January 1995) was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. He was three times British...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    team of codebreakers included John Tiltman, Dilwyn Knox, Alan Turing, Harry Golombek, Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, Donald Michie, Bill Tutte and Stuart...
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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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    "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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  • 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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  • Konstantinopolsky, Erik Lundin 1984 – Eero Böök, Stojan Puc 1985 – Harry Golombek, Mario Monticelli, Jaroslav Šajtar 1986 – Arthur Dake, Theodor Ghițescu...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Helena. 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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  • 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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     Paul Vaitonis (Canada) 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 ½ x ½ 0 5 20  Harry Golombek (England) 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ x 0 4½ 39.25 21  Lodewijk...
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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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    to Chess (2d ed. 1992), pp. 350–51. ISBN 0-19-866164-9. Harry Golombek (editor), Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, pp. 283–84. ISBN 0-517-53146-1. Philip...
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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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    champion Efim Geller (1925–1998), Ukrainian-born Soviet grandmaster Harry Golombek (1911–1995), English Eduard Gufeld (1936–2002), Ukrainian grandmaster...
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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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  • Retrieved July 20, 2020. The game appears in "The Game of Chess" by Harry Golombek, Penguin Books, first published 1954, on page 119. The game is only...
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  • Kh6. This position and sequence of moves came up in a game between Harry Golombek and Arturo Pomar. It is actually much older, having first appeared in...
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    by Paul Keres and Alexander Kotov (translated from the Russian by Harry Golombek), London, Dover 1962, ISBN 0-486-26154-9 Think Like a Grandmaster, by...
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