THE WESTERN MORNING NEWS ARCHIVES

08/07/2008 10:46

The Western Morning News has one of the oldest chess columns in the country, having carried one, almost continuously, since the 1880s. The first columnist was Edward Winter-Wood, who wrote under the nom-de-plum 'Queen's Knight'. Over the past half century, there have been just three columnists; J. E. Jones, originally from Lichfield, Staffordshire, later of Totnes. He was followed by Ken Bloodworth, who wrote the column for 37 years. He was recently succeeded by Bob Jones, who runs Keverel Chess. The WMN management have kindly agreed to allow their columns to be posted on this site, as a source of news of westcountry chess. The column appears regularly in their Saturday issue.

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