07-12-2013, 05:56 AM
Craig, how can John Glendinning be on the bench ? He played above you in the 1965 winning Glorney team.
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As a lifelong employee of Scottish Amicable, he didn't play top level chess after the late 1960s as the actuarial exams were very demanding. (My form dipped in the early 1980s for a similar reason).However he was a prolific organiser, organising plenty of junior chess in the 1970s and also the Karpov simul in 1984.
Did AG have a regular chess club at lunch time or coaching ?
At St Aloysius we had our chess club after school on a friday and played other schools midweek in the evening. A teacher always accompanied us to matches. Primary players in P6 & P7 were compulsory encouraged to play in the school chess tournament with time given off lessons and the late Gerry Wilson of Polytechnic picked me for the secondary school team when I was still in short trousers at the primary. I don't remember much coaching, just lots of games, I played about 100 match games in 1974 and about 150 in 1975
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As a lifelong employee of Scottish Amicable, he didn't play top level chess after the late 1960s as the actuarial exams were very demanding. (My form dipped in the early 1980s for a similar reason).However he was a prolific organiser, organising plenty of junior chess in the 1970s and also the Karpov simul in 1984.
Did AG have a regular chess club at lunch time or coaching ?
At St Aloysius we had our chess club after school on a friday and played other schools midweek in the evening. A teacher always accompanied us to matches. Primary players in P6 & P7 were compulsory encouraged to play in the school chess tournament with time given off lessons and the late Gerry Wilson of Polytechnic picked me for the secondary school team when I was still in short trousers at the primary. I don't remember much coaching, just lots of games, I played about 100 match games in 1974 and about 150 in 1975