Julian Simpole

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Julian Simpole is a chess player, trainer, teacher, author and book publisher. Simpole and Lord Hardinge of Penshurst formed Hardinge Simpole Publishers.

Julian Simpole, Life Vice-President of the Commonwealth Chess Association, has devoted much of his life to organising chess events. These include seven Brighton Internationals, four Watson Farley Williams GM tournaments in London and a GM tournament in Preston.

Julian Simpole is former editor and artistic director of Synapsia magazine. Julian, an art prodigy from pre-teenage years, has had one man shows in Brighton and London. Having majored in Book Design, he went on to become a Guest Lecturer at the Brighton College of Art. His work in particular explores the themes of fantasy and the grotesque.

Unusually for an artist, Marcel Duchamp being the chief exception, Julian has attained Master strength in chess and can successfully play in excess of twenty games simultaneously against club class opposition. His publications include Junior Chess Training and True Dreams.

Hardinge Simpole publishes books by Pillsbury, Fine, Marshall, Reshevsky, Evans, Watson, Denker, Dr. Eric Schiller, Larsen, Reti, Nimzowitsch, Capablanca, and Alekhine, as well as the tournament books of the 1963 and 1966 Piatigorsky tournaments.