ENGLISH

London 1980: Phillips and Drew Kings Chess Tournament

By W. R. Hartson , S. Reuben , William Hartston

Book information

Publisher
Pergamon
Year
1981
ISBN
0080241409
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7101711 bytes)
Series
Pergamon Chess Series
Edition
1st
Pages
119\119
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

Phillips & Drew/GLC Kings 1980 was one of the great chess events. London was a desert for international tournament chess from 1948-1973. In 1975 there was the Evening Standard London Chess Fortnight. Although these were fine events and very valuable to English chess; they could not be compared with the events in Hastings and Teesside. Really the photo from the Daily Mail says it all. The game between 14 year old Nigel Short and Viktor Korchnoi attracted immense interest. I had feared there wouldn't be many spectators. How foolish! So a large number of children were hired to fill up the hall. Of course they couldn't see what was going on, so they came to the front in order to have a better view. Harry Golombek muttered, 'We can't have a mess like that again.' Leonard Barden said, 'We'll have to wait another 20 years anyway.'

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