Exeter Chess Club: 100years\100y_72.htm

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The writing of a formal history of the club is already well advanced in the hands of Richard Hitchcock and Alan Maynard, so this is more of an informal history. Our hundredth anniversary coincides with a moment in computing history when it is relatively easy for lay people to produce their own literature, so Bill Gates has a lot to answer for. I intend this book as a celebration of our club, its champions and its grassroots, its games and stories, as seen through the eyes of its "ordinary" members, who are all in their own ways as vivid and interesting to me as any yarns about the World Champions. Who cannot identify with the joy of a humble member who becomes giantkiller for a day, or recall with a smile the day the car carrying the Exeter team, travelling to play away against Teignmouth, passed the Teignmouth team car coming towards Exeter...

I have taken some liberties with the older material, converting to algebraic and making some minor stylistic changes to keep the book as a whole consistent. More abrupt editorial interruptions are marked by my initials (DR).

Many thanks are due to everyone that contributed a game or notes; thanks also to Chris Bellers, Mark Blackmore, Dan Hill, Peter Lane, Bob Lee, Alan Maynard and Tom Stephenson for editing and proofreading; and thanks to Bob Jones, Dave Beckwith and Alan Maynard for searching the local archives. I would particularly like to thank all those folk who have never been members of the club but who generously contributed and who helped in numerous ways: Ken Bloodworth, Rowena Bruce, Mike Conroy, Brian Denman, Stephen Jackson (who is writing a biography of Sir George Thomas), "jcl", Nick Pope, Chris Ravilious, John Saunders (custodian of "BritBase"), Trefor Thynne, Philip Trussler and Ken Whyld.

— Dave Regis

 

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