Harry Golombek OBE (March 1, 1911–January 7, 1995), was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author. Events 86 BC - Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army enters in Athens, removing the Tyrant Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Chess is a recreational and competitive Game played between two players. The title International Master is awarded to outstanding Chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. This page explains commonly used terms in Chess in alphabetical order He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948. The British Chess Championship is organised by the English Chess Federation. He became a grandmaster in 1985. [1]
He was the chess correspondent of The Times newspaper from 1945 to 1989. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. He was an official of the FIDE, and served as Arbiter for several important events, including the Candidates' Tournament of 1959 in Yugoslavia, and the World Chess Championship match 1963 between Mikhail Botvinnik and Tigran Petrosian. Fédération Internationale des Échecs or World Chess Federation is an international organization that connects the various national Chess federations around the The Candidates Tournament was a triennial Chess tournament organized by the world chess federation FIDE as the final contest to determine the challenger for the See also Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia ( Serbo-Croatian Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik (mʲixaˈiɫ̺ mʌiˈs̺ʲɛjɛvʲiʧʲ bʌt̺ˈvʲin̺n̻ʲik Михаи́л Моисе́евич Ботви́нник) ( &ndash May Tigran Petrosian (Տիգրան Պետրոսյան ( June 17, 1929 &ndash August 13, 1984) was World Chess Champion from 1963 He was also editor of some well-known collections of games such as Capablanca's and Réti's, and was a well respected author. Richard Réti ( 28 May, 1889, Pezinok (now Slovakia) &ndash 6 June, 1929, Prague) was an Austrian He was editor of British Chess Magazine from 1938 to 1940, and its overseas editor throughout the 1960s and 1970s. British Chess Magazine is the world's oldest Chess Magazine in continuous publication Golombek also translated several chess books from Russian into English.
On the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Golombek was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, competing in the Chess Olympiad for Britain alongside C. H. O'D. Alexander and Stuart Milner-Barry. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. The Chess Olympiad is a Biennial Chess tournament in which teams from all over the world compete against each other Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, CMG, CBE ( 19 April 1909 &ndash 15 February 1974) was a Irish-born British Cryptanalyst Sir (Philip Stuart Milner-Barry OBE CB KCVO (20 September 1906 &ndash 25 March 1995 was a British Chess player chess writer World War [2] They immediately returned to the UK, and were soon recruited into Bletchley Park, the wartime codebreaking centre. Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, and (since 1967 part of Milton Keynes Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden" and analýein, "to loosen" or "to untie" is the study of methods for Golombek worked in Hut 8,[3] the section responsible for solving German Naval Enigma, moving to another section in October/November 1942. Hut 8 was a section at Bletchley Park (the British World War II Codebreaking station tasked with solving German naval Enigma messages The Enigma machine is any one of a family of related electro-mechanical Rotor machines used to generate Ciphers for the Encryption and decryption of [4] After the war he lived at 35 Albion Crescent Chalfont St Giles. Chalfont St Giles is a Village and Civil parish within Chiltern district in south east Buckinghamshire, England, on the edge
Golombek represented England nine times in chess Olympiads. He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and was made a GME (Grandmaster Emeritus) in 1985. The title International Master is awarded to outstanding Chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. The title Grandmaster is awarded to extremely strong Chess masters by the world chess organization FIDE. He was the first British player to qualify for an Interzonal tournament. Interzonal chess tournaments were tournaments organized by FIDE, the World Chess Federation
Golombek studied philology at King's College London,[5] having been a pupil at Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell. See Comparative linguistics for the narrower field of "comparative philology" King's College London is a British Higher education institution and co-founding constituent college of the federal University of London. Wilson's School is a boys' Grammar school in Wallington, in the London Borough of Sutton, UK [1] He was appointed OBE in 1966, the first to be so honoured for services to chess. [5]
Books
- Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess, edited by Golombek, 1977, Batsford/Crown, ISBN 0-517-53146-1
- Golombek, H. (1954). The Game of Chess. Penguin.
References
- ^ a b Allport, D. H. & Friskney, N. J. "A Short History of Wilson's School", Wilson's School Charitable Trust, 1987
- ^ Stuart Milner-Barry, "Hut 6: Early Days", p. Sir (Philip Stuart Milner-Barry OBE CB KCVO (20 September 1906 &ndash 25 March 1995 was a British Chess player chess writer World War 89 in F. H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp, eds. Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park, Oxford University Press, 1993
- ^ David Kahn, Seizing the Enigma, 1991, ISBN 0-395-42739-8, p. David Kahn (b February 7, 1930) is a US Historian, Journalist and Writer. 139
- ^ Ralph Erskine, "Breaking German Naval Enigma", p. 186 in Action this Day, edited by Ralph Erskine and Michael Smith, 2001
- ^ a b British Society for the History of Mathematics Gazetteer
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