John Saunders

@johnchess.bsky.social

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Chess archivist http://BritBase.info & freelance chess photo-journalist. Associate Editor, CHESS Magazine, press officer GibChess and IoMchess tournaments.

Left to right: Connor Clarke (Oxford captain), Henry McWatters (RAC), Remy Rushbrooke (Cambridge captain)
Mary Rudge (1842-1919), chess player
Sir George Thomas (1881-1972), playing at the Margate tournament, 1936. Colourised by John Saunders.
Reserve board between Baptiste Alloui-Cros (Oxford University) and Lukasz Domanski (Cambridge University), Varsity chess match, 8 March 2025, RAC Clubhouse, Pall Mall, London
A young player at the 1963 British Chess Championship was drenched with rain on his way to the tournament. Rather than play in wet trousers, he took them off and left them to dry, wrapped himself in a towel and went into the tournament and played his game. Three hours later he put them back on again.
1992 Oakham Young Masters chess tournament crosstable, including Shirov, Kramnik, Adams, Svidler, etc
Crosstable of the 1991/92 Hastings Challengers
The Mayor of Cambridge, Stewart Todd Bull (1900-1970), makes the first move for Bertram Goulding Brown (1881-1965), watched by club president Horace Bernard Coulson (1907-1979) (photo Cambridge Daily News, 7 April 1954) The occasion was a telephone match between the Cambridge City and Oxford City clubs, won by Cambridge 5-3.
XTX London Chess Classic winner Gawain Jones poised to make a move against table 17, including Supratit Banerjee and Bodhana Sivanandan
Arsenal FC's Emirates Stadium by night
Tawny Owl, Richmond Park