Harold Saunders

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Harold Saunders (born 1875 - died July 13, 1950) was a British chess master.


He took 2nd, behind George Alan Thomas, at London 1913, took 4th at Cheltenham 1913 (Frederick Yates won), tied for 7-8th at Hastings 1919 (Minor, E.G. Seargent won), tied for 5-7th at Hastings 1924/25 (Section B ), took 5th at Edinburgh 1926 (Yates won), and shared 3rd, behind Victor Buerger and Yates, at London 1926.[1]

His best results had place in Scarborough, where he tied for first with Edgard Colle in Section B but lost their individual game, and then lost a play-off match to Thomas (0 : 2) for the 3rd prize. So, finally he took 4th place there. The event was won by Alexander Alekhine.[2] He took 9th in 1927 (Colle won),[3] tied for 4-6th in 1928 (William Winter won),[4] and shared 1st with Savielly Tartakower in 1929.[5]

In 1932, he took 12th in British Chess Championship in London (Mir Sultan Khan won).[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.anders.thulin.name/SUBJECTS/CHESS/CTCIndex.pdf Name Index to Jeremy Gaige's Chess Tournament Crosstables, An Electronic Edition, Anders Thulin, Malmö, 2004-09-01
  2. ^ scarboro
  3. ^ scarboro
  4. ^ scarboro
  5. ^ scarboro
  6. ^ Altona 1932
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