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F.D. Yates
Fred Dewhirst Yates, many times British Champion, visited Scotland on several occasions.
1921 Glasgow
Yates carried out a week's engagement at the Glasgow Chess Club. This included simultaneous exhibitions, consultation games and two lectures.
On Thursday 15 December he played 16 boards simultaneously, scoring 11 wins, 2 losses (A. Murray and H. Paulet), and 3 draws.
On Friday 23 December he played 17 boards simultaneously, winning 11, losing 3 (W. Gibson, HNJ Walsworth, DM MacIsaac), and drawing 3, one of these being against Mrs Young.
Four consultation games were played during the visit; three of them were unfinished, likely due to pressure of time, with Yates winning the only one completed against Borthwick, Martin and Walsworth.
Sources: Glasgow Herald 17 December 1921, p 5; 24 December, p 9; 31 December, p 5.
1922 Edinburgh - Dundee - Glasgow
On Friday 17 November 1922 he was at Dundee. He conducted two consultation games in the afternoon, losing to Heath, Spankie and Forbes and drawing the other game.
In the evening he played 14 games simultaneously, scoring 11 wins, 2 losses (Thoms, Schwarz) and 1 draw. Here is the game Yates lost. According the Glasgow Herald, the opening was pre-arranged so that Heath could try 4. b4, a line that had been featured in an article by Heath in the November 1922 BCM.
CB Heath, D. Spankie, CS Forbes - Yates [C30]
Consultation Game, 17.11.1922, Dundee1.e4 e5 2.f4 Bc5 3.Nf3 d6 4.b4 Bxb4 5.Bb2 Nc6 6.fxe5 dxe5 7.Bb5 Bd6 8.0-0 Nf6 9.Nxe5 Bxe5 10.Bxc6+ bxc6 11.Bxe5 Ng4 12.Bc3 Qe7 13.h3 Ne5 14.Qh5 Ng6 15.Bxg7 Ba6 16.d3 Rg8 17.Bf6 Qe6 18.Nc3 Kd7 19.Na4 Ke8 20.Nc5 Qc8 21.Rf5 Kf8 22.Raf1 Rb8 23.Be7+ Ke8 24.Rxf7 Rb1 25.Qxh7 1-0
Yates was engaged at Glasgow CC between 22-24 November. On Wednesday evening [22 November] the time was devoted to offhand games and explanatory criticisms of interesting positions. On Thursday a simultaneous exhibition was given against 16 members of Glasgow CC, Yates winning 12, drawing 3 (WG Crum, A. Murray, C. Wardhaugh), and losing one only, to the strong William Gibson.
There was a second simultaneous performance on the Friday [24 November] which, according to the final figures, must have featured 12 boards, Yates winning all games.
There were two exhibitions in Edinburgh, one at the main club, and one at Edinbugh Central. Here is the table of results for all simultaneous displays.
Edinburgh Central CC played 19: Yates won all games.
Dundee played 14: +11, =1, -2.
Edinburgh CC played 30: Yates won all games.
Glasgow CC 24W 3D 1L 28 playedSources: Glasgow Herald 18 November 1922, p 4; 25 November, p 6; The Story of Dundee Chess Club, by Peter W. Walsh (1984).
Compiled by
Alan McGowanrevised 23/9/2021
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