Harold Saunders (born 1875 - died 13 July 1950) was a British chess master and bridge player.
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]