Peter Lee (chess player)

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Peter Nicholas Lee (born November 21, 1943) is an English chess player who won the British Chess Championship in 1965. Educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he represented Oxford University in the Varsity chess matches of 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966, and represented England in the Chess Olympiads of 1966, 1968 and 1970. Later he turned to contract bridge, at which he has also been highly successful, winning the English Bridge Union's National Pairs title in 2003. It is said that it was contracting mumps that caused Lee to abandon chess.