Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Harry Golombek

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Harry Golombek OBE was a British chess player, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. He was three times British chess champion, in 1947, 1949, and 1955 and finished second in 1948.

British - Chess Player | March 1, 1911 - January 7, 1995

Source: Wikipedia

Barcza is the most versatile player in the opening. He sometimes plays P-KKt3 on the first, sometimes on the second, sometimes on the third, and sometimes only on the fourth move.

Harry Golombek

Books on the openings abound; nor are works on the end game wanting; but those on the middle game can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

Harry Golombek

I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.

Harry Golombek

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Harry Golombek

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