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June 27, 2014
Bernard Cafferty is 80 years old today.
He is the author of several chess books notably Spassky’s 100 Best Games, Batsford (1972) and Tal’s 100 Best Games, Batsford (1975) and The Soviet Chess Championships (1998).
A teacher of Russian, he translated two of Botvinnik’s books (Best Games 1947-1970) and Achieving the Aim, 1981) and was responsible for up-to-date chess news from Russia appearing in the BCM.
There was a tournament being held at the University in Manchester in the summer of 1971. Cafferty was playing in it. I think at the time he was still teaching in Birmingham. I walked over the see the games.
The Fischer-Taimanov Match was recently over and I asked Bernard what news there was in Russia about it and he said, “They are as quiet as the grave!”
We talked for a bit and he said that when the tourney was over, he was going to nip by the Church of the Holy Name down Oxford Road and renew acquaintance. It was a church built in the medieval style in 1871 but blackened by years of pollution and looked rather unprepossessing to me as a student.
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John Saunders gives a brief tribute to Cafferty in the English Chess Forum today. Might I recommend the YouTube speech at the Hastings Club as worthy of attention?
JS:
One of the most cherished characters in British chess, FM Bernard Cafferty, celebrates his 80th birthday today. It was my privilege to work closely with Bernard between 1999 and 2010, when I was editor of BCM, and I still regularly discuss various aspects of chess with him. My predecessor as BCM editor, Murray Chandler, told me that "you ignore Bernard's advice at your peril" and he was so right.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Cafferty
Bernard making a short speech at Hastings CC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzI7b9fuEvM
Collection of Bernard's games: http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/...yb-viewer.html
Bernard Cafferty is 80 years old today.
He is the author of several chess books notably Spassky’s 100 Best Games, Batsford (1972) and Tal’s 100 Best Games, Batsford (1975) and The Soviet Chess Championships (1998).
A teacher of Russian, he translated two of Botvinnik’s books (Best Games 1947-1970) and Achieving the Aim, 1981) and was responsible for up-to-date chess news from Russia appearing in the BCM.
There was a tournament being held at the University in Manchester in the summer of 1971. Cafferty was playing in it. I think at the time he was still teaching in Birmingham. I walked over the see the games.
The Fischer-Taimanov Match was recently over and I asked Bernard what news there was in Russia about it and he said, “They are as quiet as the grave!”
We talked for a bit and he said that when the tourney was over, he was going to nip by the Church of the Holy Name down Oxford Road and renew acquaintance. It was a church built in the medieval style in 1871 but blackened by years of pollution and looked rather unprepossessing to me as a student.
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John Saunders gives a brief tribute to Cafferty in the English Chess Forum today. Might I recommend the YouTube speech at the Hastings Club as worthy of attention?
JS:
One of the most cherished characters in British chess, FM Bernard Cafferty, celebrates his 80th birthday today. It was my privilege to work closely with Bernard between 1999 and 2010, when I was editor of BCM, and I still regularly discuss various aspects of chess with him. My predecessor as BCM editor, Murray Chandler, told me that "you ignore Bernard's advice at your peril" and he was so right.
Biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Cafferty
Bernard making a short speech at Hastings CC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzI7b9fuEvM
Collection of Bernard's games: http://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/...yb-viewer.html
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