John Littlewood (chess player) John Littlewood (chess player) John Eric Littlewood (25 May 1931 – 16 September 2009) was for many years a leading British chess player and took the title of national senior champion in 2006. Perhaps his most famous game was the one he lost against the world champion Mikhail Botvinnik at the Hastings International Chess Congress 1961/2. Littlewood launched a fearsome attack which Botvinnik was able to defend only by means of a tactical finesse. Botvinnik chose to include the game in his autobiographical "Best Games 1947–1970". John Littlewood was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1931, the fourth of his eleven
George Walker (chess player) George Walker (chess player) George Walker (13 March 1803 – 23 April 1879) was an English chess player and author of "The Celebrated Analysis of A D Philidor" (London, 1832), "The Art of Chess-Play: A New Treatise on the Game of Chess" (London, 1832), "A Selection of Games at Chess played by Philidor" (London, 1835), "Chess Made Easy" (London, 1836), and "Chess Studies" (London, 1844). In 1839 visited Paris and the Café de la Régence, where he lost (+1-2) a short match to Boncourt . In 1845, he teamed up with Henry Thomas Buckle, William Davies Evans, George Perigal, and