Born in Birmingham on this day in 1955, which highly controversial chess player became Britain's first Grandmasterin 1976, aged 21 ?
David Pritchard (chess player) than 1400 different variants. In addition to authoring books on games, Pritchard was editor of "Games & Puzzles" magazine from 1972 to 1981. He was also a games director for the Mind Sports Organisation, and president of the British Chess Variants Society. During and after the Second World War Pritchard was an RAF pilot who served mainly in the Far East, obtaining the rank of squadron leader. During his RAF service he won the chess championships of Singapore (1954) and Malaysia (1955). As a chess player in Britain, Pritchard had some successes, beating British grandmasters Jonathan Penrose and Tony Miles,
Peter Lee (chess player) Peter Lee (chess player) Peter Nicholas Lee (born 21 November 1943) is an English chess player who won the British Chess Championship in 1965. Born in London and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, he represented Oxford University in the Varsity chess matches of 1963, 1964, 1965, and 1966, and represented England in the Chess Olympiads of 1966, 1968, and 1970. Later, he turned to contract bridge, at which he has also been highly successful. He has won the English Bridge Union's National Pairs title four times, the first time in 2003, and has also been a member of the team