- Harold Saunders
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, behindVictor Buerger and Yates, at London 1926. [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]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 byAlexander Alekhine . [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1926scarborough.htm scarboro ] ] He took 9th in 1927 (Colle won), [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1927scarborough.htm scarboro ] ] tied for 4-6th in 1928 (William Winter won), [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1928scarborough.htm scarboro ] ] and shared 1st withSavielly Tartakower in 1929. [ [http://xoomer.alice.it/cserica/scacchi/storiascacchi/tornei/1900-49/1929scarborough.htm scarboro ] ]In 1932, he took 12th in
British Chess Championship in London (Mir Sultan Khan won). [ [http://www.rogerpaige.me.uk/tables3.htm Altona 1932 ] ]References
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