Harry Golombek

Harry Golombek

Harry Golombek OBE (March 11911January 7 1995), was a British chess International Master and honorary grandmaster, chess arbiter, and chess author. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948. He became a grandmaster in 1985.Allport, D.H. & Friskney, N.J. "A Short History of Wilson's School", Wilson's School Charitable Trust, 1987]

He was the chess correspondent of The Times newspaper from 1945 to 1989. He was an official of the FIDE, and served as Arbiter for several important events, including the Candidates' Tournament of 1959 in Yugoslavia, and the World Chess Championship match 1963 between Mikhail Botvinnik and Tigran Petrosian. He was also editor of some well-known collections of games such as Capablanca's and Réti's, and was a well respected author. He was editor of "British Chess Magazine" from 1938 to 1940, and its overseas editor throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Golombek also translated several chess books from Russian into English.

On the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Golombek was in Buenos Aires, Argentina, competing in the Chess Olympiad for Britain alongside C. H. O'D. Alexander and Stuart Milner-Barry. [Stuart Milner-Barry, "Hut 6: Early Days", p. 89 in F. H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp, eds. Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park, Oxford University Press, 1993] They immediately returned to the UK, and were soon recruited into Bletchley Park, the wartime codebreaking centre. Golombek worked in Hut 8, [David Kahn, "Seizing the Enigma", 1991, ISBN 0-395-42739-8, p. 139 ] the section responsible for solving German Naval Enigma, moving to another section in October/November 1942. [Ralph Erskine, "Breaking German Naval Enigma", p. 186 in "Action this Day", edited by Ralph Erskine and Michael Smith, 2001] After the war he lived at 35 Albion Crescent Chalfont St Giles.

Golombek represented England nine times in chess Olympiads. He earned the title of International Master in 1950 and was made a GME (Grandmaster Emeritus) in 1985. He was the first British player to qualify for an Interzonal tournament.

Golombek studied philology at King's College London, [http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/zingaz/LondonPeopleD.html#gol British Society for the History of Mathematics Gazetteer] ] having been a pupil at Wilson's Grammar School, Camberwell. He was appointed OBE in 1966, the first to be so honoured for services to chess.

Books

* "Golombek's Encyclopedia of Chess", edited by Golombek, 1977, Batsford/Crown, ISBN 0-517-53146-1
* cite book
title=The Game of Chess
author=Golombek, H.
publisher=Penguin
date=1954

* "A History of Chess", by Harry Golombek, 1976, Routledge & Kegan Paul, ISBN 0 7100 8266 5

References

External links

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* [http://www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/statistics_pgn_rating_chart.asp?username=Golombek,Harry Statistics at ChessWorld.net]


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