Edward Winter's Chess Explorations (53)

Chess Explorations (53)

By Edward Winter

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Prizes for the best entries will be a number of items inscribed by participants in the London Chess Classic tournament.

The deadline for entering the quiz is Saturday, 18 December 2010, and each entry must use the "Submit information" link below, which requires the contestant’s full name and postal address. When the winners are announced we shall add some comments about the photographs, including their sources.

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Edward Winter is the editor of Chess Notes, which was founded in January 1982 as "a forum for aficionados to discuss all matters relating to the Royal Pastime". Since then, about 6,860 items have been published, and the series has resulted in four books by Winter: Chess Explorations (1996), Kings, Commoners and Knaves (1999), A Chess Omnibus (2003) and Chess Facts and Fables (2006). He is also the author of a monograph on Capablanca (1989).

Chess Notes is well known for its historical research, and anyone browsing in its archives will find a wealth of unknown games, accounts of historical mysteries, quotes and quips, and other material of every kind imaginable. Correspondents from around the world contribute items, and they include not only "ordinary readers" but also some eminent historians – and, indeed, some eminent masters. Chess Notes is located at the Chess History Center. Signed copies of Edward Winter's publications are currently available.