Hugh Blandford
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| Hugh Blandford | |
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| Full name | Hugh Francis Blandford |
| Country | International Judge for Chess Composition |
Hugh Francis Blandford (24 January 1917 – 20 September 1981) was a
Biography
Blandford spent several years of his childhood in Jamaica with his father, Albert Francis (Frank) Blandford, a minister in the
He played chess from his schooldays and as well as playing, also started to compose original chess endings. He became known in the field of chess endgame studies for a small but elegant body of compositions, expertly edited and published after Hugh's death by his long-standing chess endings colleague, John Roycroft.[2]
Blandford was co-inventor with
A
Sample composition
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | ||
| 8 |       | 8 | |||||||
| 7 | 7 | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | ||
This example of the excelsior theme might be his best-known composition.[4] Solution:
6.Kxc6? stalemate; 6.c8=Q+? Nb8+ 7.K-any stalemate.
Winning.
References
- ISBN 0-7864-2353-6
- ^ Hugh Blandford: Published Works and Notebooks, edited by A. John Roycroft, Russell Enterprises, 1998
- ^ Autobiography Archived 2012-04-16 at the Wayback Machine by A. J. Roycroft
- ^ LCCN 78106371
- ^ Roycroft, Test Tube Chess, p. 58
- ^ WFCC International Judges of Chess Compositions
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-8117-1734-8
Further reading
- British Chess Magazine, 1981, p. 532
- The Times, 25 September 1981, p. 25, c. 1
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